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 5 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 186 152
Rank change year-on-year +36 -34 +16
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 311 179 285
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.75% 1.42% 1.61%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.94% 3.95% 4.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 77 152
10th Percentile £213 £255 £225
25th Percentile £322 £313 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £531
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -20.00% -9.57%
75th Percentile £611 £575 £675
90th Percentile £717 £659 £750
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 12
10th Percentile £23.06 - -
25th Percentile £28.77 £28.21 £11.95
Median hourly rate £32.87 £30.81 £33.92
Median % change year-on-year +6.71% -9.18% -45.73%
75th Percentile £34.67 £33.40 £62.50
90th Percentile £37.12 - £70.94
England median hourly rate £27.75 £28.32 £27.50
% change year-on-year -2.01% +2.98% -26.67%

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 6,297 4,528 5,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.37% 36.03% 33.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,032 3,065 4,168
10th Percentile £350 £325 £312
25th Percentile £440 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £725
90th Percentile £800 £850 £850
England median daily rate £513 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -6.48% -0.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 76 156
10th Percentile £18.18 £15.84 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.18 £23.42 £18.90
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.45 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% +36.33% -25.71%
75th Percentile £61.44 £49.94 £47.81
90th Percentile £88.75 £79.58 £67.88
England median hourly rate £47.00 £33.96 £31.50
% change year-on-year +38.42% +7.79% +40.00%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 5 May 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 -11 5 £599 -
Central London -18 2 £519 +3.75% 1
West London -28 2 £200 -41.18%
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 8 (2.57%) Confluence
2 5 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (1.29%) SAS
4 3 (0.96%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.64%) Apache
5 2 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.64%) CMS
5 2 (0.64%) Drupal
5 2 (0.64%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.64%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.32%) Camunda
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.64%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.32%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (3.86%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.96%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.64%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.64%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.32%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.32%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.32%) Endur
4 1 (0.32%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.32%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.32%) Veritas eDiscovery
4 1 (0.32%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 38 (12.22%) Azure
2 30 (9.65%) AWS
3 18 (5.79%) Snowflake
4 13 (4.18%) GCP
5 12 (3.86%) Power Platform
6 10 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (2.89%) GitHub
7 9 (2.89%) SaaS
8 7 (2.25%) Figma
9 5 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.61%) Serverless
10 4 (1.29%) Adobe Analytics
10 4 (1.29%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (1.29%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.29%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (1.29%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.29%) IaaS
10 4 (1.29%) PaaS
10 4 (1.29%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.50%) MPLS
2 13 (4.18%) Firewall
3 7 (2.25%) Network Security
4 6 (1.93%) LAN
4 6 (1.93%) WAN
4 6 (1.93%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (1.61%) Ethernet
6 4 (1.29%) NetScaler
6 4 (1.29%) VLAN
7 3 (0.96%) BGP
7 3 (0.96%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.64%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.64%) SAN
8 2 (0.64%) SDH
8 2 (0.64%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.64%) SNMP
8 2 (0.64%) VPN
8 2 (0.64%) Wireless
9 1 (0.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 1 (0.32%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.54%) Power BI
2 9 (2.89%) Relational Database
3 8 (2.57%) Metadata
4 7 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.25%) Tableau
5 5 (1.61%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.29%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.29%) Pinecone
6 4 (1.29%) Weaviate
7 3 (0.96%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.96%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.96%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.64%) Big Data
8 2 (0.64%) KDB
8 2 (0.64%) MySQL
8 2 (0.64%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 22 (7.07%) JIRA
2 11 (3.54%) SpecFlow
3 9 (2.89%) Git
4 4 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.96%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.96%) Katalon Studio
5 3 (0.96%) Maven
6 2 (0.64%) Gradle
6 2 (0.64%) IntelliJ
6 2 (0.64%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.64%) JUnit
6 2 (0.64%) Postman
6 2 (0.64%) Storybook
7 1 (0.32%) GitLab
7 1 (0.32%) NUnit
7 1 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.32%) TestNG
7 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.32%) webpack
7 1 (0.32%) XCUITest
General
1 82 (26.37%) Social Skills
2 79 (25.40%) Finance
3 48 (15.43%) Banking
4 27 (8.68%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (8.36%) Front Office
6 19 (6.11%) Telecoms
7 16 (5.14%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (3.22%) Marketing
9 8 (2.57%) Investment Banking
9 8 (2.57%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.93%) Private Banking
12 5 (1.61%) Legal
12 5 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.29%) Billing
14 3 (0.96%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.96%) International Banking
14 3 (0.96%) Publishing
14 3 (0.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (13.50%) Analyst
1 42 (13.50%) Developer
2 32 (10.29%) Senior
3 31 (9.97%) Architect
4 27 (8.68%) Business Analyst
5 19 (6.11%) Lead
6 16 (5.14%) Consultant
6 16 (5.14%) Network Engineer
7 15 (4.82%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (4.18%) Java Developer
9 12 (3.86%) Project Manager
9 12 (3.86%) Tester
10 11 (3.54%) Automation Tester
10 11 (3.54%) Product Manager
11 7 (2.25%) Data Engineer
11 7 (2.25%) Java Engineer
11 7 (2.25%) Python Developer
11 7 (2.25%) Senior Analyst
12 6 (1.93%) Senior Manager
13 5 (1.61%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.50%) React
2 12 (3.86%) REST
3 11 (3.54%) Playwright
4 10 (3.22%) Spring
5 8 (2.57%) .NET
6 6 (1.93%) Oracle Fusion
6 6 (1.93%) RESTful
6 6 (1.93%) Spring Boot
7 5 (1.61%) FIX Protocol
7 5 (1.61%) GraphQL
7 5 (1.61%) JSON
7 5 (1.61%) Kafka
7 5 (1.61%) Vue
8 4 (1.29%) HTML
8 4 (1.29%) Middleware
8 4 (1.29%) OAuth
8 4 (1.29%) XML
9 3 (0.96%) ADO
9 3 (0.96%) HTML5
9 3 (0.96%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 15 (4.82%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.82%) Derivative
2 15 (4.82%) Product Ownership
3 13 (4.18%) Virtual Team
4 12 (3.86%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.22%) Equities
5 10 (3.22%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.25%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.93%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.93%) Equity Derivative
8 5 (1.61%) Credit Risk
8 5 (1.61%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.61%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.29%) BYOD
9 4 (1.29%) Freedom of Information
10 3 (0.96%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.22%) Windows
2 7 (2.25%) Android
2 7 (2.25%) Linux
3 5 (1.61%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.61%) Unix
4 2 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.32%) Rocky
5 1 (0.32%) Solaris
5 1 (0.32%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 72 (23.15%) Agile
3 59 (18.97%) Stakeholder Management
4 56 (18.01%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (12.86%) AI
6 37 (11.90%) Analytics
7 35 (11.25%) Migration
8 31 (9.97%) Roadmaps
9 29 (9.32%) DevOps
10 28 (9.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 27 (8.68%) CI/CD
11 27 (8.68%) Decision-Making
11 27 (8.68%) Project Management
12 26 (8.36%) Test Automation
13 21 (6.75%) Project Delivery
13 21 (6.75%) User Acceptance Testing
14 19 (6.11%) Risk Management
15 18 (5.79%) Validation
16 17 (5.47%) Asset Management
16 17 (5.47%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 60 (19.29%) Python
2 41 (13.18%) Java
2 41 (13.18%) SQL
3 24 (7.72%) C#
4 18 (5.79%) TypeScript
5 17 (5.47%) JavaScript
6 10 (3.22%) C++
7 6 (1.93%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.61%) Kotlin
8 5 (1.61%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.29%) Bash
10 3 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.96%) Scala
11 2 (0.64%) ActionScript
11 2 (0.64%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.64%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.64%) R
Qualifications
1 30 (9.65%) Security Cleared
2 28 (9.00%) SC Cleared
3 25 (8.04%) Degree
4 8 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.61%) PMI Certification
5 5 (1.61%) PMP
6 4 (1.29%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.96%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (0.96%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.64%) CCNP
8 2 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.32%) ISEB
9 1 (0.32%) MCSA
9 1 (0.32%) MCSE
9 1 (0.32%) OCP
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.32%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.43%) QA
2 11 (3.54%) GDPR
3 10 (3.22%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.89%) SLA
5 7 (2.25%) PMO
6 5 (1.61%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.29%) NIST
8 3 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.96%) IFRS
8 3 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.64%) Basel III
9 2 (0.64%) GAAP
9 2 (0.64%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.64%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.32%) GRC
10 1 (0.32%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.32%) NCSC
10 1 (0.32%) PSD2
10 1 (0.32%) TARGET2
System Software
1 11 (3.54%) Docker
2 7 (2.25%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (4.50%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.89%) Terraform
3 8 (2.57%) Ansible
4 5 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.96%) Grafana
6 2 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.64%) Control-M
6 2 (0.64%) Packer
6 2 (0.64%) QRadar
7 1 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.32%) Kibana
7 1 (0.32%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.32%) Puppet
7 1 (0.32%) SCCM
7 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (9.32%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.47%) Oracle
3 12 (3.86%) Cisco
3 12 (3.86%) Databricks
4 9 (2.89%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.57%) Nokia
6 7 (2.25%) Adobe
6 7 (2.25%) ADVA
6 7 (2.25%) Citrix
6 7 (2.25%) Workday
7 5 (1.61%) F5
7 5 (1.61%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.29%) CheckPoint
8 4 (1.29%) Informatica
8 4 (1.29%) Murex
8 4 (1.29%) SAP
9 3 (0.96%) Aruba
9 3 (0.96%) Avaloq
9 3 (0.96%) Google
9 3 (0.96%) ServiceNow