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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 178 158
Rank change year-on-year +24 -20 +11
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 312 180 283
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.76% 1.43% 1.59%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.95% 3.97% 4.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 76 153
10th Percentile £213 £255 £225
25th Percentile £323 £313 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -19.05% -10.64%
75th Percentile £610 £575 £663
90th Percentile £714 £664 £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 £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 6,303 4,536 5,917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.53% 36.05% 33.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,043 3,070 4,185
10th Percentile £350 £325 £302
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 -6.39% -0.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 73 160
10th Percentile £18.07 £15.84 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.17 £22.27 £18.93
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +32.69% -25.71%
75th Percentile £61.31 £50.50 £47.81
90th Percentile £88.75 £80.28 £66.78
England median hourly rate £47.00 £33.96 £30.16
% change year-on-year +38.42% +12.58% +34.13%

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 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 2 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 2 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 -14 5 £599 -
Central London -19 2 £519 +3.75% 1
West London -27 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 (2.56%) Confluence
2 5 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (1.28%) 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 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.28%) 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 (3.85%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.96%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.64%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.64%) ION MarketView
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%) 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 Payables
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.32%) Veritas eDiscovery
4 1 (0.32%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 38 (12.18%) Azure
2 30 (9.62%) AWS
3 18 (5.77%) Snowflake
4 13 (4.17%) GCP
5 12 (3.85%) Power Platform
6 10 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (2.88%) GitHub
7 9 (2.88%) SaaS
8 7 (2.24%) Figma
9 5 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.60%) Serverless
10 4 (1.28%) Adobe Analytics
10 4 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (1.28%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.28%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (1.28%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.28%) IaaS
10 4 (1.28%) PaaS
10 4 (1.28%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.49%) MPLS
2 13 (4.17%) Firewall
3 7 (2.24%) Network Security
4 6 (1.92%) LAN
4 6 (1.92%) WAN
4 6 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (1.60%) Ethernet
6 4 (1.28%) NetScaler
6 4 (1.28%) 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 GTM
9 1 (0.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.53%) Power BI
2 9 (2.88%) Relational Database
3 8 (2.56%) Metadata
4 7 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.24%) Tableau
5 5 (1.60%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.28%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.28%) Pinecone
6 4 (1.28%) 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%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.64%) KDB
8 2 (0.64%) MySQL
8 2 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.64%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 22 (7.05%) JIRA
2 11 (3.53%) SpecFlow
3 9 (2.88%) Git
4 4 (1.28%) 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%) Mockito
7 1 (0.32%) NUnit
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.32%) Selenium
7 1 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.32%) TestNG
7 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 82 (26.28%) Social Skills
2 80 (25.64%) Finance
3 48 (15.38%) Banking
4 27 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (8.65%) Front Office
5 19 (6.09%) Telecoms
6 16 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (3.21%) Marketing
8 8 (2.56%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.56%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.92%) Private Banking
11 5 (1.60%) Legal
11 5 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.28%) Billing
13 3 (0.96%) French Language
13 3 (0.96%) International Banking
13 3 (0.96%) Publishing
13 3 (0.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (13.78%) Analyst
2 42 (13.46%) Developer
3 32 (10.26%) Senior
4 31 (9.94%) Architect
5 27 (8.65%) Business Analyst
6 19 (6.09%) Lead
7 16 (5.13%) Consultant
7 16 (5.13%) Network Engineer
8 15 (4.81%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (4.17%) Java Developer
10 12 (3.85%) Project Manager
10 12 (3.85%) Tester
11 11 (3.53%) Automation Tester
11 11 (3.53%) Product Manager
12 7 (2.24%) Data Engineer
12 7 (2.24%) Java Engineer
12 7 (2.24%) Python Developer
12 7 (2.24%) Senior Analyst
13 6 (1.92%) Senior Manager
14 5 (1.60%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.49%) React
2 12 (3.85%) REST
3 11 (3.53%) Playwright
4 10 (3.21%) Spring
5 8 (2.56%) .NET
6 6 (1.92%) Oracle Fusion
6 6 (1.92%) RESTful
6 6 (1.92%) Spring Boot
7 5 (1.60%) FIX Protocol
7 5 (1.60%) GraphQL
7 5 (1.60%) JSON
7 5 (1.60%) Kafka
7 5 (1.60%) Vue
8 4 (1.28%) HTML
8 4 (1.28%) Middleware
8 4 (1.28%) OAuth
8 4 (1.28%) XML
9 3 (0.96%) ADO
9 3 (0.96%) HTML5
9 3 (0.96%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 15 (4.81%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.81%) Derivative
2 15 (4.81%) Product Ownership
3 13 (4.17%) Virtual Team
4 12 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.21%) Equities
5 10 (3.21%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.24%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.92%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.92%) Equity Derivative
7 6 (1.92%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.60%) Credit Risk
8 5 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.60%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.28%) BYOD
9 4 (1.28%) Freedom of Information
10 3 (0.96%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.21%) Windows
2 7 (2.24%) Android
2 7 (2.24%) Linux
3 6 (1.92%) Unix
4 5 (1.60%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.32%) Rocky
6 1 (0.32%) Solaris
6 1 (0.32%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 72 (23.08%) Agile
3 59 (18.91%) Stakeholder Management
4 57 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (12.82%) AI
6 37 (11.86%) Analytics
7 35 (11.22%) Migration
8 31 (9.94%) Roadmaps
9 29 (9.29%) DevOps
10 28 (8.97%) Continuous Improvement
11 27 (8.65%) CI/CD
11 27 (8.65%) Decision-Making
11 27 (8.65%) Project Management
12 26 (8.33%) Test Automation
13 21 (6.73%) Project Delivery
13 21 (6.73%) User Acceptance Testing
14 19 (6.09%) Risk Management
15 18 (5.77%) Validation
16 17 (5.45%) Asset Management
16 17 (5.45%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 60 (19.23%) Python
2 42 (13.46%) SQL
3 41 (13.14%) Java
4 24 (7.69%) C#
5 18 (5.77%) TypeScript
6 17 (5.45%) JavaScript
7 10 (3.21%) C++
8 6 (1.92%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.60%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.60%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.28%) Bash
11 3 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.96%) Scala
12 2 (0.64%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.64%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.64%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.64%) R
Qualifications
1 30 (9.62%) Security Cleared
2 28 (8.97%) SC Cleared
3 25 (8.01%) Degree
4 8 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.60%) PMI Certification
5 5 (1.60%) PMP
6 4 (1.28%) 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%) CISSP
9 1 (0.32%) Citrix Certification
9 1 (0.32%) ISEB
9 1 (0.32%) MCSA
9 1 (0.32%) MCSE
9 1 (0.32%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.41%) QA
2 11 (3.53%) GDPR
3 10 (3.21%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.88%) SLA
5 7 (2.24%) PMO
6 5 (1.60%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.28%) 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 (3.53%) Docker
2 7 (2.24%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.60%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (4.49%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.88%) Terraform
3 8 (2.56%) Ansible
4 5 (1.60%) 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 (9.29%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.45%) Oracle
3 12 (3.85%) Cisco
3 12 (3.85%) Databricks
4 9 (2.88%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.56%) Nokia
6 7 (2.24%) Adobe
6 7 (2.24%) ADVA
6 7 (2.24%) Citrix
6 7 (2.24%) Workday
7 5 (1.60%) F5
7 5 (1.60%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.28%) CheckPoint
8 4 (1.28%) Informatica
8 4 (1.28%) Murex
8 4 (1.28%) SAP
9 3 (0.96%) Aruba
9 3 (0.96%) Avaloq
9 3 (0.96%) Google
9 3 (0.96%) ServiceNow