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 2 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 144 140
Rank change year-on-year -77 -4 +5
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 263 276 304
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.29% 2.05% 1.88%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.39% 5.27% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 122 157
10th Percentile £213 £289 £208
25th Percentile £325 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £613
90th Percentile £675 £675 £738
England median daily rate £425 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile - - £35.40
25th Percentile £25.00 - £46.73
Median hourly rate £28.00 - £68.75
75th Percentile £33.31 - £71.88
90th Percentile £33.49 - -
England median hourly rate £18.00 £15.25 £27.84
% change year-on-year +18.03% -45.22% -17.27%

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 7,769 5,236 5,453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.17% 38.85% 33.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,920 3,374 3,538
10th Percentile £352 £340 £325
25th Percentile £450 £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £731
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 123 69
10th Percentile £16.96 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.98 £23.80
Median hourly rate £34.62 £26.50 £31.62
Median % change year-on-year +30.62% -16.19% +14.98%
75th Percentile £56.88 £46.88 £53.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £76.50 £71.38
England median hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +16.67% -47.69% +24.59%

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 2 October 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
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 2 October 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
Central London -25 6 £625 +4.17% 10
South London -11 4 £350 -41.67%
West London -24 3 £300 -5.51% 3
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 6 (2.28%) SAS
2 5 (1.90%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.14%) Confluence
4 2 (0.76%) CICS
4 2 (0.76%) CMS
4 2 (0.76%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.38%) Apache
5 1 (0.38%) IIS
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (4.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.14%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.38%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.90%) Aladdin
2 3 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.76%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.38%) Actimize
4 1 (0.38%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.38%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.38%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.38%) Endur
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle BRM
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.38%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (0.38%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.38%) SAP FI-CA
4 1 (0.38%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 39 (14.83%) AWS
2 27 (10.27%) Azure
3 13 (4.94%) GCP
4 11 (4.18%) SaaS
5 10 (3.80%) GitHub
5 10 (3.80%) Power Platform
6 8 (3.04%) Snowflake
7 6 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.28%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (1.90%) Serverless
9 4 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (1.52%) OneDrive
9 4 (1.52%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 3 (1.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.14%) IaaS
10 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.04%) Firewall
2 7 (2.66%) LAN
3 6 (2.28%) MPLS
3 6 (2.28%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (1.90%) Cisco IPT
5 4 (1.52%) DHCP
5 4 (1.52%) DNS
5 4 (1.52%) SDH
5 4 (1.52%) WAN
6 3 (1.14%) BGP
6 3 (1.14%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (1.14%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (1.14%) EIGRP
6 3 (1.14%) HSRP
6 3 (1.14%) Network Security
6 3 (1.14%) OSPF
7 2 (0.76%) BIG-IP
7 2 (0.76%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.76%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (0.76%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (3.42%) Power BI
2 6 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (2.28%) Oracle Database
2 6 (2.28%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.14%) BigQuery
4 3 (1.14%) Db2
4 3 (1.14%) Metadata
4 3 (1.14%) MySQL
4 3 (1.14%) Pinecone
4 3 (1.14%) Tableau
4 3 (1.14%) Weaviate
5 2 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.76%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.76%) Data Vault
5 2 (0.76%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.76%) KDB
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (0.38%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 12 (4.56%) Git
1 12 (4.56%) JIRA
2 4 (1.52%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.14%) Selenium
4 2 (0.76%) CMake
4 2 (0.76%) ER Studio
4 2 (0.76%) ERwin
4 2 (0.76%) Gradle
4 2 (0.76%) JUnit
4 2 (0.76%) Maven
4 2 (0.76%) SpecFlow
4 2 (0.76%) XCUITest
5 1 (0.38%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.38%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.38%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.38%) Mocha
5 1 (0.38%) Mockito
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.38%) Storybook
5 1 (0.38%) XCTest
General
1 98 (37.26%) Social Skills
2 74 (28.14%) Finance
3 46 (17.49%) Banking
4 43 (16.35%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (7.98%) Front Office
6 17 (6.46%) Legal
7 16 (6.08%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (5.32%) Public Sector
9 11 (4.18%) Investment Banking
10 9 (3.42%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (3.42%) Telecoms
11 8 (3.04%) Retail
12 6 (2.28%) Marketing
13 4 (1.52%) Billing
13 4 (1.52%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.14%) Publishing
15 2 (0.76%) Back Office
15 2 (0.76%) French Language
Job Titles
1 36 (13.69%) Analyst
2 31 (11.79%) Architect
3 22 (8.37%) Business Analyst
3 22 (8.37%) Developer
4 20 (7.60%) Senior
5 14 (5.32%) Lead
6 13 (4.94%) Consultant
7 12 (4.56%) Project Manager
8 7 (2.66%) Product Manager
9 6 (2.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 6 (2.28%) Java Developer
9 6 (2.28%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.90%) Android Engineer
10 5 (1.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 5 (1.90%) Data Protection Officer
10 5 (1.90%) Designer
10 5 (1.90%) Enterprise Architect
10 5 (1.90%) Senior Manager
11 4 (1.52%) Senior Analyst
11 4 (1.52%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.32%) REST
2 10 (3.80%) Terraform
3 9 (3.42%) Pandas
4 7 (2.66%) GraphQL
4 7 (2.66%) Middleware
4 7 (2.66%) React
5 5 (1.90%) OAuth
5 5 (1.90%) Spring
6 4 (1.52%) .NET
6 4 (1.52%) Faiss
6 4 (1.52%) OAuth2
6 4 (1.52%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.14%) Android Jetpack
7 3 (1.14%) Flask
7 3 (1.14%) gRPC
7 3 (1.14%) Kafka
7 3 (1.14%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (1.14%) Model Context Protocol
7 3 (1.14%) NumPy
7 3 (1.14%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.32%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (4.94%) Product Ownership
2 13 (4.94%) Virtual Team
3 12 (4.56%) Cloud Native
4 11 (4.18%) Derivative
5 10 (3.80%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (3.04%) Fixed Income
8 7 (2.66%) Data Centre
8 7 (2.66%) Mobile App
9 6 (2.28%) Reference Data
10 5 (1.90%) Credit Risk
10 5 (1.90%) Mainframe
10 5 (1.90%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.52%) Security Posture
12 3 (1.14%) AI Agents
12 3 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.56%) Linux
1 12 (4.56%) Windows
2 10 (3.80%) Android
3 7 (2.66%) Unix
4 6 (2.28%) Apple iOS
4 6 (2.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.14%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.76%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.76%) zOS
7 1 (0.38%) MVS
7 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 80 (30.42%) Stakeholder Management
3 50 (19.01%) Agile
3 50 (19.01%) AI
4 45 (17.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 44 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (15.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 38 (14.45%) Migration
8 33 (12.55%) Analytics
9 32 (12.17%) CI/CD
10 29 (11.03%) Data Modelling
10 29 (11.03%) Decision-Making
11 28 (10.65%) Risk Management
12 25 (9.51%) Project Management
13 24 (9.13%) Impact Assessments
13 24 (9.13%) Roadmaps
13 24 (9.13%) User Acceptance Testing
14 22 (8.37%) Data Governance
15 20 (7.60%) Validation
16 19 (7.22%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 39 (14.83%) Python
2 29 (11.03%) SQL
3 20 (7.60%) Java
4 11 (4.18%) TypeScript
5 7 (2.66%) JavaScript
5 7 (2.66%) Kotlin
6 6 (2.28%) C#
6 6 (2.28%) C++
7 4 (1.52%) C
7 4 (1.52%) Perl
8 3 (1.14%) Apex Code
8 3 (1.14%) Go
8 3 (1.14%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.76%) Bash
9 2 (0.76%) COBOL
9 2 (0.76%) R
9 2 (0.76%) REXX
9 2 (0.76%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.38%) PHP
10 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (5.32%) Degree
1 14 (5.32%) Security Cleared
2 12 (4.56%) SC Cleared
3 5 (1.90%) AWS Certification
4 4 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (1.52%) PMI Certification
4 4 (1.52%) PMP
5 3 (1.14%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.14%) CISSP
6 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.76%) CCNP
6 2 (0.76%) CISA
6 2 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.76%) CRISC
6 2 (0.76%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.76%) FFIEC
7 1 (0.38%) CISM
7 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.38%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.13%) GDPR
2 18 (6.84%) QA
3 15 (5.70%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.90%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.90%) PMO
5 4 (1.52%) NIST
5 4 (1.52%) PERC
6 3 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.14%) EMIR
6 3 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.14%) MiFID
7 2 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.76%) COBIT
7 2 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.38%) GRC
8 1 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.38%) NCSC
8 1 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 7 (2.66%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.52%) Docker
3 1 (0.38%) NFS
3 1 (0.38%) Varnish
3 1 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (3.80%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.28%) Ansible
3 2 (0.76%) Grafana
3 2 (0.76%) Packer
3 2 (0.76%) Progress Chef
3 2 (0.76%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.76%) Puppet
3 2 (0.76%) QRadar
3 2 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.38%) Argo
4 1 (0.38%) CA Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.38%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 24 (9.13%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.56%) Cisco
3 9 (3.42%) Oracle
4 8 (3.04%) Databricks
5 7 (2.66%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.28%) Google
6 6 (2.28%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.28%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.90%) Murex
8 3 (1.14%) F5
8 3 (1.14%) ION Trading
8 3 (1.14%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.14%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.14%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.14%) Workday
9 2 (0.76%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.76%) Guidewire
9 2 (0.76%) Okta
9 2 (0.76%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.76%) SAP