Data Protection Act Contract Job Trends in London

Data Protection Act (DPA)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 154 149
Rank change year-on-year -50 -5 -5
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 284 252 300
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.40% 1.87% 1.84%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.70% 4.86% 5.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 105 151
10th Percentile £226 £281 £205
25th Percentile £331 £375 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £619
90th Percentile £675 £675 £738
England median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 3
10th Percentile £22.70 - £35.40
25th Percentile £26.50 - £46.73
Median hourly rate £32.63 - £68.75
75th Percentile £33.46 - £71.88
90th Percentile £35.66 - -
England median hourly rate £26.50 £15.25 £21.00
% change year-on-year +73.77% -27.38% -50.23%

All Generic Skills
London

Data Protection Act falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 7,683 5,189 5,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.78% 38.43% 33.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,811 3,369 3,684
10th Percentile £350 £335 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -2.61% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £738
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 122 73
10th Percentile £18.25 £15.91 £17.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.71 £22.00
Median hourly rate £33.60 £27.81 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +20.81% -7.66% -13.94%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.55 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.31 £71.25
England median hourly rate £37.50 £33.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +13.64% -42.46% +25.16%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Protection Act relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Data Protection Act job vacancy trend in London

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Protection Act.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Protection Act

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in London over the 6 months to 11 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in London

Data Protection Act
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Protection Act.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Protection Act

Data Protection Act
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Protection Act in London over the 6 months to 11 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Protection Act in London

Data Protection Act
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Protection Act within the London region over the 6 months to 11 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South London -5 5 £350 - 2
Central London -23 4 £625 +4.17% 7
West London -22 2 £300 -11.11% 2
Data Protection Act
England

Data Protection Act
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (1.76%) SAS
2 4 (1.41%) Confluence
2 4 (1.41%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.06%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.70%) Apache
4 2 (0.70%) CICS
4 2 (0.70%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.35%) CMS
5 1 (0.35%) IIS
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (2.46%) Aladdin
2 3 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.70%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.35%) Actimize
4 1 (0.35%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.35%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.35%) Endur
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle BRM
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.35%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (0.35%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.35%) SAP FI-CA
4 1 (0.35%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 39 (13.73%) AWS
2 32 (11.27%) Azure
3 13 (4.58%) GCP
4 11 (3.87%) Power Platform
5 10 (3.52%) GitHub
5 10 (3.52%) SaaS
6 8 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (2.82%) Snowflake
7 7 (2.46%) Serverless
8 6 (2.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 5 (1.76%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (1.76%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.06%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.06%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.06%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.87%) Firewall
2 7 (2.46%) LAN
3 6 (2.11%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (1.76%) Cisco IPT
4 5 (1.76%) DHCP
4 5 (1.76%) DNS
4 5 (1.76%) MPLS
5 4 (1.41%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (1.41%) Network Security
5 4 (1.41%) WAN
6 3 (1.06%) BGP
6 3 (1.06%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (1.06%) EIGRP
6 3 (1.06%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 3 (1.06%) HSRP
6 3 (1.06%) OSPF
6 3 (1.06%) VoIP
7 2 (0.70%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.70%) SAN
7 2 (0.70%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.52%) Power BI
2 8 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (2.82%) Relational Database
3 7 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.11%) Oracle Database
5 5 (1.76%) Tableau
6 4 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.41%) Metadata
6 4 (1.41%) MySQL
7 3 (1.06%) Db2
7 3 (1.06%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.06%) KDB
7 3 (1.06%) Pinecone
7 3 (1.06%) Weaviate
8 2 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.70%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.70%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.70%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (5.99%) JIRA
2 12 (4.23%) Git
3 4 (1.41%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.06%) Selenium
5 2 (0.70%) CMake
5 2 (0.70%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.70%) ERwin
5 2 (0.70%) Gradle
5 2 (0.70%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.70%) XCUITest
6 1 (0.35%) Appium
6 1 (0.35%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.35%) JUnit
6 1 (0.35%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.35%) Maven
6 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.35%) Storybook
6 1 (0.35%) Vite
6 1 (0.35%) XCTest
6 1 (0.35%) Zephyr
General
1 103 (36.27%) Social Skills
2 79 (27.82%) Finance
3 50 (17.61%) Banking
4 40 (14.08%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (8.80%) Front Office
6 20 (7.04%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (5.28%) Legal
8 11 (3.87%) Public Sector
9 10 (3.52%) Investment Banking
10 9 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (2.82%) Marketing
11 8 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (2.46%) Retail
12 7 (2.46%) Telecoms
13 6 (2.11%) Billing
14 4 (1.41%) Back Office
14 4 (1.41%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.41%) Private Banking
15 3 (1.06%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 41 (14.44%) Analyst
2 34 (11.97%) Architect
3 30 (10.56%) Developer
4 25 (8.80%) Senior
5 24 (8.45%) Business Analyst
6 14 (4.93%) Consultant
7 13 (4.58%) Lead
8 10 (3.52%) Java Developer
8 10 (3.52%) Product Manager
8 10 (3.52%) Project Manager
9 9 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (2.82%) Senior Manager
11 6 (2.11%) Designer
12 5 (1.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 5 (1.76%) Data Analyst
12 5 (1.76%) Data Engineer
12 5 (1.76%) Enterprise Architect
12 5 (1.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 5 (1.76%) Python Developer
12 5 (1.76%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.99%) REST
2 10 (3.52%) Terraform
3 9 (3.17%) React
4 8 (2.82%) GraphQL
4 8 (2.82%) Pandas
4 8 (2.82%) Spring
5 7 (2.46%) Middleware
5 7 (2.46%) Spring Boot
6 5 (1.76%) RESTful
7 4 (1.41%) .NET
7 4 (1.41%) Faiss
7 4 (1.41%) FIX Protocol
7 4 (1.41%) Model Context Protocol
7 4 (1.41%) OAuth
7 4 (1.41%) Vue
8 3 (1.06%) Android Jetpack
8 3 (1.06%) Flask
8 3 (1.06%) gRPC
8 3 (1.06%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.06%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.28%) Distributed Systems
1 15 (5.28%) Virtual Team
2 14 (4.93%) Cloud Native
2 14 (4.93%) Product Ownership
3 13 (4.58%) Derivative
4 10 (3.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 9 (3.17%) Data Centre
5 9 (3.17%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.82%) Fixed Income
7 6 (2.11%) Mainframe
7 6 (2.11%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.76%) Credit Risk
8 5 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.76%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.76%) Reference Data
9 4 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.41%) Equities
9 4 (1.41%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.06%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.58%) Linux
1 13 (4.58%) Windows
2 10 (3.52%) Android
3 8 (2.82%) Unix
4 7 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.11%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.06%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.70%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.70%) zOS
8 1 (0.35%) MVS
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.35%) Rocky
8 1 (0.35%) Solaris
8 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 78 (27.46%) Stakeholder Management
3 57 (20.07%) Agile
4 47 (16.55%) Continuous Improvement
5 46 (16.20%) AI
5 46 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (13.38%) Analytics
7 37 (13.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 36 (12.68%) Migration
9 35 (12.32%) CI/CD
10 29 (10.21%) Decision-Making
11 26 (9.15%) Project Management
11 26 (9.15%) Risk Management
11 26 (9.15%) Roadmaps
12 25 (8.80%) Data Modelling
12 25 (8.80%) Test Automation
12 25 (8.80%) User Acceptance Testing
13 24 (8.45%) DevOps
14 23 (8.10%) Project Delivery
15 21 (7.39%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 42 (14.79%) Python
2 30 (10.56%) SQL
3 26 (9.15%) Java
4 11 (3.87%) TypeScript
5 7 (2.46%) C++
5 7 (2.46%) JavaScript
5 7 (2.46%) Kotlin
6 5 (1.76%) Apex Code
6 5 (1.76%) C#
7 4 (1.41%) C
7 4 (1.41%) Perl
8 3 (1.06%) Bash
8 3 (1.06%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.06%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.70%) COBOL
9 2 (0.70%) Go
9 2 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.70%) R
9 2 (0.70%) REXX
10 1 (0.35%) Swift
Qualifications
1 17 (5.99%) Degree
1 17 (5.99%) Security Cleared
2 15 (5.28%) SC Cleared
3 4 (1.41%) AWS Certification
3 4 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (1.41%) PMI Certification
3 4 (1.41%) PMP
4 3 (1.06%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (1.06%) CISSP
5 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (0.70%) CCNP
5 2 (0.70%) CISA
5 2 (0.70%) CRISC
5 2 (0.70%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.70%) FFIEC
6 1 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (0.35%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.10%) GDPR
2 20 (7.04%) QA
3 15 (5.28%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.82%) PMO
5 5 (1.76%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.41%) NIST
6 4 (1.41%) PERC
6 4 (1.41%) SLA
7 3 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.06%) EMIR
7 3 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.06%) MiFID
8 2 (0.70%) COBIT
8 2 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.35%) Basel III
9 1 (0.35%) NCSC
9 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (2.11%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.76%) Docker
3 1 (0.35%) NFS
3 1 (0.35%) Varnish
3 1 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (3.17%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.46%) Ansible
3 2 (0.70%) Packer
3 2 (0.70%) Progress Chef
3 2 (0.70%) Puppet
3 2 (0.70%) QRadar
4 1 (0.35%) CA Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.35%) Grafana
4 1 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.35%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 24 (8.45%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.93%) Cisco
3 12 (4.23%) Oracle
4 10 (3.52%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.46%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.11%) Databricks
6 6 (2.11%) Google
6 6 (2.11%) Murex
6 6 (2.11%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.41%) F5
7 4 (1.41%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.41%) Workday
8 3 (1.06%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.06%) ION Trading
8 3 (1.06%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.06%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.70%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.70%) Guidewire
9 2 (0.70%) Okta
9 2 (0.70%) SaltStack