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 14 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 166 148
Rank change year-on-year -18 -18 +9
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 300 227 291
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.49% 1.68% 1.80%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.00% 4.45% 5.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 98 147
10th Percentile £216 £244 £210
25th Percentile £350 £368 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £458 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -8.35% -14.71%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £631
90th Percentile £700 £675 £750
England median daily rate £431 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -4.17% -10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £22.75 - £35.40
25th Percentile £28.00 - £46.73
Median hourly rate £32.63 - £68.75
75th Percentile £33.31 - £71.88
90th Percentile £36.58 - -
England median hourly rate £30.31 £15.25 £27.50
% change year-on-year +98.77% -44.55% -47.62%

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 7,501 5,099 5,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.34% 37.69% 33.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,682 3,353 3,804
10th Percentile £356 £332 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £720 £750
90th Percentile £788 £825 £863
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 120 83
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £16.37
25th Percentile £21.04 £22.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £32.87 £27.50 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +19.54% -8.70% -13.94%
75th Percentile £56.25 £46.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.06 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.53 £31.50 £48.00
% change year-on-year +38.21% -34.39% +12.28%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -21 3 £625 - 5
South London -12 2 £525 - 4
West London -19 2 £200 -44.64% 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 4 (1.33%) Confluence
1 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (1.33%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (1.00%) SAS
3 2 (0.67%) Apache
3 2 (0.67%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.33%) CICS
4 1 (0.33%) CMS
4 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.33%) Aladdin
2 3 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.67%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.33%) Actimize
4 1 (0.33%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.33%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.33%) Endur
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle BRM
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.33%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (0.33%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.33%) SAP FI-CA
4 1 (0.33%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 39 (13.00%) Azure
2 38 (12.67%) AWS
3 14 (4.67%) Power Platform
4 13 (4.33%) GCP
5 11 (3.67%) GitHub
6 10 (3.33%) SaaS
7 9 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (2.67%) Serverless
8 8 (2.67%) Snowflake
9 6 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (1.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 4 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.33%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.33%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (1.33%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.00%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.00%) IaaS
12 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.67%) Firewall
2 7 (2.33%) LAN
2 7 (2.33%) Network Security
3 6 (2.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 6 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (1.67%) DHCP
4 5 (1.67%) DNS
4 5 (1.67%) MPLS
5 4 (1.33%) Cisco IPT
5 4 (1.33%) WAN
6 3 (1.00%) BGP
6 3 (1.00%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (1.00%) EIGRP
6 3 (1.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 3 (1.00%) HSRP
6 3 (1.00%) OSPF
6 3 (1.00%) VoIP
7 2 (0.67%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.67%) SAN
7 2 (0.67%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.00%) Power BI
2 10 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (2.67%) Relational Database
4 6 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.00%) Metadata
4 6 (2.00%) Tableau
5 4 (1.33%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.33%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.33%) MySQL
6 3 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.00%) Db2
6 3 (1.00%) KDB
6 3 (1.00%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.00%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.00%) Pinecone
6 3 (1.00%) Weaviate
7 2 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.67%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.67%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (5.67%) JIRA
2 12 (4.00%) Git
3 4 (1.33%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.33%) Selenium
4 3 (1.00%) Gradle
4 3 (1.00%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.67%) CMake
5 2 (0.67%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.67%) ERwin
5 2 (0.67%) Postman
5 2 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.67%) XCUITest
6 1 (0.33%) Appium
6 1 (0.33%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.33%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.33%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (0.33%) Storybook
6 1 (0.33%) Vite
6 1 (0.33%) XCTest
6 1 (0.33%) Zephyr
General
1 103 (34.33%) Social Skills
2 76 (25.33%) Finance
3 47 (15.67%) Banking
4 38 (12.67%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (8.00%) Front Office
6 18 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (4.67%) Legal
8 9 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (3.00%) Investment Banking
8 9 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (3.00%) Public Sector
8 9 (3.00%) Telecoms
9 8 (2.67%) Marketing
10 7 (2.33%) Retail
11 6 (2.00%) Billing
11 6 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.67%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.33%) Back Office
13 4 (1.33%) Private Banking
14 3 (1.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 45 (15.00%) Analyst
2 39 (13.00%) Architect
3 30 (10.00%) Senior
4 29 (9.67%) Developer
5 28 (9.33%) Business Analyst
6 12 (4.00%) Lead
7 11 (3.67%) Consultant
7 11 (3.67%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (3.33%) Java Developer
8 10 (3.33%) Project Manager
9 9 (3.00%) Product Manager
10 8 (2.67%) Java Engineer
10 8 (2.67%) Senior Manager
11 7 (2.33%) Designer
12 6 (2.00%) Data Engineer
13 5 (1.67%) Android Engineer
13 5 (1.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 5 (1.67%) Data Analyst
13 5 (1.67%) Data Protection Officer
13 5 (1.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.00%) REST
2 11 (3.67%) React
3 10 (3.33%) Spring
4 9 (3.00%) GraphQL
5 7 (2.33%) .NET
5 7 (2.33%) Spring Boot
6 6 (2.00%) Middleware
7 5 (1.67%) Kafka
7 5 (1.67%) Pandas
7 5 (1.67%) Vue
8 4 (1.33%) CSS
8 4 (1.33%) Faiss
8 4 (1.33%) Model Context Protocol
8 4 (1.33%) OAuth
8 4 (1.33%) Playwright
8 4 (1.33%) RESTful
9 3 (1.00%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (1.00%) HTML
9 3 (1.00%) JSON
9 3 (1.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.67%) Virtual Team
2 16 (5.33%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 13 (4.33%) Derivative
5 12 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (3.33%) Data Centre
6 10 (3.33%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.67%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.00%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.67%) Reference Data
9 5 (1.67%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.33%) Credit Risk
10 4 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.33%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.33%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.00%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.67%) Windows
2 12 (4.00%) Linux
3 11 (3.67%) Android
4 8 (2.67%) Unix
5 7 (2.33%) Apple iOS
6 6 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.67%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.67%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.67%) zOS
8 1 (0.33%) MVS
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.33%) Rocky
8 1 (0.33%) Solaris
8 1 (0.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 66 (22.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 60 (20.00%) Agile
4 49 (16.33%) AI
4 49 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (15.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 39 (13.00%) Analytics
6 39 (13.00%) CI/CD
7 33 (11.00%) Migration
8 30 (10.00%) Roadmaps
8 30 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 29 (9.67%) DevOps
10 28 (9.33%) Decision-Making
11 27 (9.00%) Test Automation
12 23 (7.67%) Data Governance
12 23 (7.67%) Data Modelling
12 23 (7.67%) Project Management
12 23 (7.67%) User Acceptance Testing
13 20 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
13 20 (6.67%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (15.33%) Python
2 36 (12.00%) Java
3 31 (10.33%) SQL
4 13 (4.33%) TypeScript
5 9 (3.00%) JavaScript
5 9 (3.00%) Kotlin
6 7 (2.33%) C#
6 7 (2.33%) C++
7 6 (2.00%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.33%) Apex Code
8 4 (1.33%) Perl
9 3 (1.00%) Bash
9 3 (1.00%) C
9 3 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.67%) ActionScript
10 2 (0.67%) R
10 2 (0.67%) REXX
10 2 (0.67%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.33%) COBOL
11 1 (0.33%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 18 (6.00%) Degree
1 18 (6.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (5.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (1.67%) Azure Certification
4 4 (1.33%) AWS Certification
4 4 (1.33%) CISSP
4 4 (1.33%) PMI Certification
4 4 (1.33%) PMP
5 3 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.67%) CCNP
6 2 (0.67%) CISA
6 2 (0.67%) CISM
6 2 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.67%) CRISC
6 2 (0.67%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.67%) FFIEC
7 1 (0.33%) ISEB
7 1 (0.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.33%) GDPR
2 21 (7.00%) QA
3 12 (4.00%) Data Quality
4 9 (3.00%) PMO
5 7 (2.33%) SLA
6 6 (2.00%) Accessibility
7 5 (1.67%) NIST
8 4 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (1.00%) PERC
10 2 (0.67%) COBIT
10 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.67%) NCSC
11 1 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.33%) GRC
11 1 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 9 (3.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.33%) Docker
3 3 (1.00%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.33%) NFS
4 1 (0.33%) Varnish
4 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (3.33%) Kubernetes
1 10 (3.33%) Terraform
2 8 (2.67%) Ansible
3 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.67%) Grafana
4 2 (0.67%) Packer
4 2 (0.67%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.67%) Puppet
4 2 (0.67%) QRadar
5 1 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.33%) CA Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.33%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.33%) Kibana
5 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.33%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 32 (10.67%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.33%) Cisco
3 12 (4.00%) Oracle
4 9 (3.00%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.33%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.00%) Databricks
6 6 (2.00%) F5
6 6 (2.00%) Murex
6 6 (2.00%) Palo Alto
6 6 (2.00%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.67%) Google
7 5 (1.67%) Workday
8 4 (1.33%) Infoblox
9 3 (1.00%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.00%) CheckPoint
9 3 (1.00%) ION Trading
9 3 (1.00%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.67%) Avaya
10 2 (0.67%) Genesys
10 2 (0.67%) IBM