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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 136 139
Rank change year-on-year -95 +3 +7
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 250 275 303
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.24% 2.05% 1.87%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.23% 5.28% 5.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 128 155
10th Percentile £213 £287 £207
25th Percentile £350 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £619
90th Percentile £665 £675 £738
England median daily rate £438 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile - - £22.88
25th Percentile £25.00 - £26.07
Median hourly rate £26.50 - £48.30
75th Percentile £29.40 - £71.88
90th Percentile £31.92 - -
England median hourly rate £16.13 £15.25 £24.67
% change year-on-year +5.77% -38.18% -26.69%

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 7,733 5,212 5,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.27% 38.79% 33.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,919 3,355 3,522
10th Percentile £356 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £442 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £541
% change year-on-year - -3.00% -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 123 71
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.02 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.49 £23.23 £23.80
Median hourly rate £36.00 £26.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.85% -18.46% +15.56%
75th Percentile £60.25 £46.88 £55.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £77.50 £78.40
England median hourly rate £33.99 £30.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year +13.30% -44.44% +17.31%

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 9 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 9 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 -14 6 £625 +4.17% 14
South London -13 4 £350 -41.67% 1
West London -17 3 £300 -5.51% 1
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 (2.00%) SAS
1 5 (2.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.20%) Confluence
3 2 (0.80%) Apache
3 2 (0.80%) CICS
3 2 (0.80%) CMS
4 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.40%) IIS
4 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.40%) nginx
4 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (4.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.20%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.40%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.00%) Aladdin
2 3 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.80%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.40%) Actimize
4 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.40%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle BRM
4 1 (0.40%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (0.40%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.40%) SAP FI-CA
4 1 (0.40%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 35 (14.00%) AWS
2 26 (10.40%) Azure
3 11 (4.40%) GCP
3 11 (4.40%) Power Platform
4 9 (3.60%) GitHub
4 9 (3.60%) SaaS
5 7 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (2.80%) Snowflake
6 6 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (2.40%) Serverless
7 5 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (1.60%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (1.60%) OneDrive
8 4 (1.60%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 3 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.20%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.60%) Firewall
2 7 (2.80%) LAN
3 6 (2.40%) MPLS
3 6 (2.40%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (2.00%) Cisco IPT
4 5 (2.00%) DNS
5 4 (1.60%) DHCP
5 4 (1.60%) Network Security
5 4 (1.60%) SDH
5 4 (1.60%) WAN
6 3 (1.20%) BGP
6 3 (1.20%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (1.20%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (1.20%) EIGRP
6 3 (1.20%) HSRP
6 3 (1.20%) OSPF
7 2 (0.80%) BIG-IP
7 2 (0.80%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.80%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (0.80%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.00%) Power BI
2 7 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (2.00%) Oracle Database
4 4 (1.60%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.20%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.20%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.20%) Db2
5 3 (1.20%) Metadata
5 3 (1.20%) MySQL
5 3 (1.20%) Tableau
6 2 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.80%) Big Data
6 2 (0.80%) Data Vault
6 2 (0.80%) KDB
6 2 (0.80%) Power Query
7 1 (0.40%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.40%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.40%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 12 (4.80%) Git
2 11 (4.40%) JIRA
3 4 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.20%) Selenium
5 2 (0.80%) CMake
5 2 (0.80%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.80%) ERwin
5 2 (0.80%) Gradle
5 2 (0.80%) JUnit
5 2 (0.80%) Maven
5 2 (0.80%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.40%) Appium
6 1 (0.40%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.40%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.40%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.40%) Vite
6 1 (0.40%) XCTest
6 1 (0.40%) XCUITest
6 1 (0.40%) Zephyr
General
1 98 (39.20%) Social Skills
2 71 (28.40%) Finance
3 43 (17.20%) Banking
4 42 (16.80%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (7.20%) Front Office
6 16 (6.40%) Legal
7 15 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (5.60%) Public Sector
9 11 (4.40%) Investment Banking
10 9 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (3.60%) Telecoms
11 8 (3.20%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (3.20%) Retail
12 4 (1.60%) Billing
12 4 (1.60%) Marketing
13 3 (1.20%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.80%) Back Office
14 2 (0.80%) Local Government
14 2 (0.80%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 33 (13.20%) Analyst
2 30 (12.00%) Architect
3 21 (8.40%) Developer
4 20 (8.00%) Business Analyst
5 14 (5.60%) Senior
6 13 (5.20%) Lead
6 13 (5.20%) Project Manager
7 12 (4.80%) Consultant
8 6 (2.40%) Java Developer
9 5 (2.00%) Data Engineer
9 5 (2.00%) Data Protection Officer
9 5 (2.00%) Designer
9 5 (2.00%) Enterprise Architect
9 5 (2.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (2.00%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.60%) Android Engineer
10 4 (1.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 4 (1.60%) Mobile Engineer
10 4 (1.60%) Senior Manager
10 4 (1.60%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.80%) REST
2 11 (4.40%) Terraform
3 8 (3.20%) Pandas
4 7 (2.80%) Middleware
5 6 (2.40%) React
6 5 (2.00%) GraphQL
6 5 (2.00%) OAuth
6 5 (2.00%) Spring
7 4 (1.60%) Kafka
7 4 (1.60%) OAuth2
7 4 (1.60%) Spring Boot
8 3 (1.20%) .NET
8 3 (1.20%) CSS
8 3 (1.20%) Flask
8 3 (1.20%) gRPC
8 3 (1.20%) HTML
8 3 (1.20%) Lightning Web Components
8 3 (1.20%) Playwright
8 3 (1.20%) RESTful
8 3 (1.20%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.60%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (4.40%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.40%) Derivative
2 11 (4.40%) Product Ownership
3 9 (3.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (3.60%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.60%) Virtual Team
4 8 (3.20%) Fixed Income
5 7 (2.80%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.40%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.40%) Reference Data
7 5 (2.00%) Credit Risk
7 5 (2.00%) Mainframe
8 4 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.60%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.60%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.20%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.60%) Linux
1 14 (5.60%) Windows
2 8 (3.20%) Android
3 7 (2.80%) Unix
4 6 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.00%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.20%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.80%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.80%) zOS
8 1 (0.40%) MVS
8 1 (0.40%) SUSE
8 1 (0.40%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 77 (30.80%) Stakeholder Management
3 46 (18.40%) AI
4 45 (18.00%) Agile
5 44 (17.60%) Continuous Improvement
5 44 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (17.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 40 (16.00%) Migration
8 31 (12.40%) CI/CD
9 30 (12.00%) Analytics
10 29 (11.60%) Risk Management
11 28 (11.20%) Decision-Making
12 27 (10.80%) Data Modelling
13 24 (9.60%) Impact Assessments
14 23 (9.20%) Data Governance
14 23 (9.20%) Project Management
14 23 (9.20%) User Acceptance Testing
15 21 (8.40%) Roadmaps
16 20 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
17 18 (7.20%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 36 (14.40%) Python
2 31 (12.40%) SQL
3 20 (8.00%) Java
4 9 (3.60%) TypeScript
5 7 (2.80%) C#
5 7 (2.80%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.40%) C++
7 5 (2.00%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.60%) C
8 4 (1.60%) Perl
8 4 (1.60%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.20%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.20%) Bash
9 3 (1.20%) Go
9 3 (1.20%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.80%) COBOL
10 2 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.80%) REXX
11 1 (0.40%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 15 (6.00%) Degree
2 14 (5.60%) Security Cleared
3 12 (4.80%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.00%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.60%) PMI Certification
5 4 (1.60%) PMP
6 3 (1.20%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.20%) CISSP
6 3 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.20%) FFIEC
7 2 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.80%) CCNP
7 2 (0.80%) CISA
7 2 (0.80%) CRISC
7 2 (0.80%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.40%) CISM
8 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.40%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.60%) GDPR
2 16 (6.40%) Data Quality
2 16 (6.40%) QA
3 5 (2.00%) NIST
3 5 (2.00%) PMO
4 4 (1.60%) PERC
5 3 (1.20%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.20%) EMIR
5 3 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.20%) MiFID
6 2 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.80%) COBIT
6 2 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.80%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.40%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.40%) GRC
7 1 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.40%) NCSC
7 1 (0.40%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 9 (3.60%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.60%) Docker
3 2 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.40%) NFS
4 1 (0.40%) Varnish
4 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (4.40%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.80%) Ansible
3 3 (1.20%) Grafana
3 3 (1.20%) Progress Chef
3 3 (1.20%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.80%) Packer
4 2 (0.80%) Puppet
4 2 (0.80%) QRadar
4 2 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.40%) Argo
5 1 (0.40%) CA Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.40%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 25 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.80%) Cisco
3 9 (3.60%) Databricks
4 8 (3.20%) Oracle
5 7 (2.80%) Google
5 7 (2.80%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.40%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.00%) Murex
7 5 (2.00%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.20%) F5
8 3 (1.20%) ION Trading
8 3 (1.20%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.20%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.20%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.80%) Avaya
9 2 (0.80%) BigPanda
9 2 (0.80%) Okta
9 2 (0.80%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.80%) VMware
9 2 (0.80%) Workday