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 26 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 179 155
Rank change year-on-year +26 -24 +16
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 309 178 280
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.76% 1.40% 1.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.92% 3.91% 4.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 74 151
10th Percentile £213 £254 £225
25th Percentile £325 £313 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £442 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.47% -15.81% -10.64%
75th Percentile £613 £575 £663
90th Percentile £720 £674 £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 11
10th Percentile £23.06 - -
25th Percentile £28.77 £28.21 £11.95
Median hourly rate £32.87 £30.81 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +6.71% +10.65% -55.46%
75th Percentile £34.67 £33.40 £53.00
90th Percentile £37.12 - £62.50
England median hourly rate £28.00 £28.32 £27.50
% change year-on-year -1.13% +2.98% -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 6,286 4,552 5,925
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.79% 35.91% 33.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,031 3,085 4,188
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
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 £512 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.93% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 75 163
10th Percentile £18.07 £15.84 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.20 £22.93 £18.93
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +32.69% -25.71%
75th Percentile £60.75 £50.50 £47.18
90th Percentile £78.55 £79.81 £66.95
England median hourly rate £45.46 £34.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +33.71% +13.33% +33.33%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -8 5 £599 -
Central London -21 2 £519 +3.75% 1
West London -26 2 £200 -41.18%
East London - 1 £638 -
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 (2.59%) Confluence
2 6 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (1.29%) SAS
5 3 (0.97%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.65%) Apache
6 2 (0.65%) CMS
6 2 (0.65%) Drupal
6 2 (0.65%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.65%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.32%) Camunda
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.32%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.65%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.32%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (3.88%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.97%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.65%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.65%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.65%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.65%) 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%) 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 36 (11.65%) Azure
2 28 (9.06%) AWS
3 18 (5.83%) Snowflake
4 13 (4.21%) GCP
4 13 (4.21%) Power Platform
5 9 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (2.91%) SaaS
6 7 (2.27%) Figma
6 7 (2.27%) GitHub
7 5 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (1.62%) Serverless
8 4 (1.29%) Adobe Analytics
8 4 (1.29%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.29%) IaaS
8 4 (1.29%) PaaS
8 4 (1.29%) PowerApps
9 3 (0.97%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (0.97%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (0.97%) Collibra
9 3 (0.97%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.53%) MPLS
2 12 (3.88%) Firewall
3 7 (2.27%) LAN
3 7 (2.27%) Network Security
3 7 (2.27%) WAN
4 6 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (1.62%) Ethernet
6 4 (1.29%) NetScaler
6 4 (1.29%) VLAN
7 3 (0.97%) BGP
7 3 (0.97%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (0.97%) SAN
7 3 (0.97%) VPN
8 2 (0.65%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.65%) SDH
8 2 (0.65%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.65%) SNMP
8 2 (0.65%) Wireless
9 1 (0.32%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 1 (0.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.88%) Power BI
2 9 (2.91%) Relational Database
3 8 (2.59%) Metadata
4 7 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.94%) Tableau
6 5 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.62%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.29%) Pinecone
7 4 (1.29%) Weaviate
8 3 (0.97%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.97%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.97%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.97%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.65%) Big Data
9 2 (0.65%) KDB
9 2 (0.65%) MySQL
9 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.65%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 22 (7.12%) JIRA
2 11 (3.56%) SpecFlow
3 8 (2.59%) Git
4 4 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.97%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.97%) Katalon Studio
5 3 (0.97%) Maven
6 2 (0.65%) GitLab
6 2 (0.65%) Gradle
6 2 (0.65%) IntelliJ
6 2 (0.65%) JUnit
6 2 (0.65%) Postman
6 2 (0.65%) Storybook
7 1 (0.32%) NUnit
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.32%) Selenium
7 1 (0.32%) TestNG
7 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.32%) webpack
7 1 (0.32%) XCUITest
General
1 79 (25.57%) Social Skills
2 78 (25.24%) Finance
3 47 (15.21%) Banking
4 27 (8.74%) Front Office
5 26 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (6.15%) Telecoms
7 15 (4.85%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (2.91%) Marketing
8 9 (2.91%) Public Sector
9 8 (2.59%) Investment Banking
10 7 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.94%) Legal
11 6 (1.94%) Private Banking
12 5 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.29%) Billing
14 3 (0.97%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.97%) French Language
14 3 (0.97%) International Banking
14 3 (0.97%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 44 (14.24%) Analyst
2 43 (13.92%) Developer
3 31 (10.03%) Architect
3 31 (10.03%) Senior
4 26 (8.41%) Business Analyst
5 20 (6.47%) Lead
6 16 (5.18%) Network Engineer
7 15 (4.85%) Consultant
7 15 (4.85%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (4.21%) Java Developer
9 11 (3.56%) Automation Tester
9 11 (3.56%) Project Manager
9 11 (3.56%) Tester
10 10 (3.24%) Product Manager
11 7 (2.27%) Java Engineer
11 7 (2.27%) Python Developer
11 7 (2.27%) Senior Analyst
12 5 (1.62%) Data Analyst
12 5 (1.62%) Designer
12 5 (1.62%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.53%) React
2 12 (3.88%) REST
3 11 (3.56%) Playwright
4 10 (3.24%) Spring
5 9 (2.91%) .NET
6 6 (1.94%) Oracle Fusion
6 6 (1.94%) RESTful
6 6 (1.94%) Spring Boot
7 5 (1.62%) FIX Protocol
7 5 (1.62%) GraphQL
7 5 (1.62%) HTML
7 5 (1.62%) Kafka
7 5 (1.62%) Vue
8 4 (1.29%) JSON
8 4 (1.29%) Middleware
8 4 (1.29%) XML
9 3 (0.97%) ADO
9 3 (0.97%) HTML5
9 3 (0.97%) OAuth
9 3 (0.97%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 15 (4.85%) Derivative
3 14 (4.53%) Product Ownership
4 13 (4.21%) Cloud Native
4 13 (4.21%) Virtual Team
5 12 (3.88%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.24%) Equities
6 10 (3.24%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.27%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.94%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.94%) Equity Derivative
8 6 (1.94%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.62%) Credit Risk
9 5 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.62%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.29%) BYOD
10 4 (1.29%) Freedom of Information
11 3 (0.97%) Hedge funds
12 2 (0.65%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.24%) Windows
2 7 (2.27%) Linux
3 6 (1.94%) Unix
4 5 (1.62%) Android
5 4 (1.29%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.32%) Rocky
7 1 (0.32%) Solaris
7 1 (0.32%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 68 (22.01%) Agile
3 58 (18.77%) Stakeholder Management
4 54 (17.48%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (12.62%) AI
6 37 (11.97%) Migration
7 36 (11.65%) Analytics
8 30 (9.71%) Roadmaps
9 26 (8.41%) Decision-Making
9 26 (8.41%) DevOps
9 26 (8.41%) Project Management
10 25 (8.09%) CI/CD
10 25 (8.09%) Test Automation
11 24 (7.77%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (6.80%) User Acceptance Testing
13 20 (6.47%) Project Delivery
13 20 (6.47%) Risk Management
14 19 (6.15%) Business Intelligence
15 16 (5.18%) Asset Management
15 16 (5.18%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 58 (18.77%) Python
2 40 (12.94%) Java
2 40 (12.94%) SQL
3 25 (8.09%) C#
4 19 (6.15%) TypeScript
5 17 (5.50%) JavaScript
6 9 (2.91%) C++
7 6 (1.94%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.62%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.29%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.97%) Scala
11 2 (0.65%) ActionScript
11 2 (0.65%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.65%) Bash
11 2 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.65%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.65%) R
Qualifications
1 29 (9.39%) Security Cleared
2 27 (8.74%) SC Cleared
3 25 (8.09%) Degree
4 8 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.62%) PMI Certification
5 5 (1.62%) PMP
6 4 (1.29%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.97%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (0.97%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.65%) CCNP
8 2 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.32%) MCSA
9 1 (0.32%) MCSE
9 1 (0.32%) OCP
9 1 (0.32%) PhD
9 1 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.47%) QA
2 12 (3.88%) GDPR
3 9 (2.91%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.91%) SLA
4 7 (2.27%) PMO
5 5 (1.62%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.97%) IFRS
6 3 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.97%) NIST
7 2 (0.65%) Basel III
7 2 (0.65%) GAAP
7 2 (0.65%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.65%) IFRS 9
7 2 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.32%) GRC
8 1 (0.32%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.32%) NCSC
8 1 (0.32%) PSD2
8 1 (0.32%) TARGET2
System Software
1 11 (3.56%) Docker
2 7 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (1.94%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (3.88%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.94%) Ansible
2 6 (1.94%) Terraform
3 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.65%) Control-M
4 2 (0.65%) Grafana
4 2 (0.65%) QRadar
4 2 (0.65%) SCCM
5 1 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.32%) Kibana
5 1 (0.32%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.32%) Puppet
5 1 (0.32%) SCOM
5 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (8.74%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.50%) Oracle
3 12 (3.88%) Cisco
3 12 (3.88%) Databricks
4 10 (3.24%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.59%) Nokia
6 7 (2.27%) Adobe
6 7 (2.27%) ADVA
6 7 (2.27%) Citrix
7 6 (1.94%) Workday
8 5 (1.62%) F5
8 5 (1.62%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.29%) Avaloq
9 4 (1.29%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.29%) Informatica
9 4 (1.29%) Murex
9 4 (1.29%) SAP
10 3 (0.97%) Aruba
10 3 (0.97%) Google
10 3 (0.97%) ServiceNow