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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 149 136
Rank change year-on-year -63 -13 +10
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 265 255 304
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.31% 1.89% 1.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.46% 4.94% 5.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 107 155
10th Percentile £223 £283 £209
25th Percentile £322 £393 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% -13.04%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £613
90th Percentile £663 £675 £738
England median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £25.90 - £35.40
25th Percentile £27.25 - £46.73
Median hourly rate £30.31 - £68.75
75th Percentile £33.38 - £71.88
90th Percentile £33.51 - -
England median hourly rate £21.50 £15.25 £27.84
% change year-on-year +40.98% -45.22% -17.27%

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 7,665 5,167 5,515
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.95% 38.37% 33.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,830 3,347 3,648
10th Percentile £350 £335 £325
25th Percentile £450 £441 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -3.48% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £738
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 118 68
10th Percentile £17.38 £16.30 £17.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.71 £23.80
Median hourly rate £34.62 £27.50 £31.31
Median % change year-on-year +25.87% -12.17% +4.37%
75th Percentile £56.88 £46.55 £54.06
90th Percentile £88.50 £70.88 £71.44
England median hourly rate £37.50 £33.03 £57.35
% change year-on-year +13.55% -42.41% +25.00%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -9 4 £350 -
Central London -21 4 £625 +4.17% 10
West London -23 2 £300 -5.51% 3
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 6 (2.26%) SAS
2 5 (1.89%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.13%) Confluence
3 3 (1.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.75%) CICS
4 2 (0.75%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.38%) Apache
5 1 (0.38%) CMS
5 1 (0.38%) IIS
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.38%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.89%) Aladdin
2 3 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.75%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.38%) Actimize
4 1 (0.38%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.38%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.38%) Endur
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle BRM
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.38%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (0.38%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.38%) SAP FI-CA
4 1 (0.38%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 37 (13.96%) AWS
2 27 (10.19%) Azure
3 11 (4.15%) GCP
4 10 (3.77%) GitHub
4 10 (3.77%) Power Platform
4 10 (3.77%) SaaS
5 7 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (2.64%) Serverless
5 7 (2.64%) Snowflake
6 5 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (1.89%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 4 (1.51%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (1.51%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.13%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.13%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (1.13%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.13%) IaaS
8 3 (1.13%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.40%) Firewall
2 7 (2.64%) LAN
3 6 (2.26%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (1.89%) Cisco IPT
4 5 (1.89%) MPLS
5 4 (1.51%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (1.51%) DHCP
5 4 (1.51%) DNS
5 4 (1.51%) Network Security
5 4 (1.51%) WAN
6 3 (1.13%) BGP
6 3 (1.13%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (1.13%) EIGRP
6 3 (1.13%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 3 (1.13%) HSRP
6 3 (1.13%) OSPF
6 3 (1.13%) VoIP
7 2 (0.75%) BIG-IP
7 2 (0.75%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.75%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.40%) Power BI
2 8 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (3.02%) Relational Database
3 6 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.26%) Oracle Database
4 4 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.51%) MySQL
4 4 (1.51%) Tableau
5 3 (1.13%) Db2
5 3 (1.13%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.13%) KDB
5 3 (1.13%) Pinecone
5 3 (1.13%) Weaviate
6 2 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.75%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.75%) Data Vault
6 2 (0.75%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.75%) Metadata
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (0.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (4.91%) JIRA
2 10 (3.77%) Git
3 4 (1.51%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.13%) Selenium
5 2 (0.75%) CMake
5 2 (0.75%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.75%) ERwin
5 2 (0.75%) Gradle
5 2 (0.75%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.75%) XCUITest
6 1 (0.38%) Appium
6 1 (0.38%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.38%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.38%) JUnit
6 1 (0.38%) Maven
6 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.38%) Storybook
6 1 (0.38%) Vite
6 1 (0.38%) XCTest
6 1 (0.38%) Zephyr
General
1 98 (36.98%) Social Skills
2 73 (27.55%) Finance
3 48 (18.11%) Banking
4 38 (14.34%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (7.92%) Front Office
6 19 (7.17%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (5.66%) Legal
8 11 (4.15%) Public Sector
9 10 (3.77%) Investment Banking
10 9 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (3.02%) Marketing
11 8 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (2.64%) Retail
12 7 (2.64%) Telecoms
13 6 (2.26%) Billing
14 4 (1.51%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.51%) Private Banking
15 3 (1.13%) French Language
15 3 (1.13%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (13.96%) Analyst
2 33 (12.45%) Architect
3 25 (9.43%) Developer
4 23 (8.68%) Senior
5 22 (8.30%) Business Analyst
6 14 (5.28%) Lead
7 13 (4.91%) Consultant
8 11 (4.15%) Project Manager
9 10 (3.77%) Product Manager
10 9 (3.40%) Java Developer
11 8 (3.02%) Senior Manager
11 8 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (2.26%) Designer
13 5 (1.89%) Android Engineer
13 5 (1.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 5 (1.89%) Data Protection Officer
13 5 (1.89%) Enterprise Architect
13 5 (1.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 5 (1.89%) Senior Product Manager
14 4 (1.51%) Senior Strategy Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.66%) REST
2 9 (3.40%) Terraform
3 8 (3.02%) Pandas
3 8 (3.02%) Spring
4 7 (2.64%) GraphQL
4 7 (2.64%) Middleware
4 7 (2.64%) React
4 7 (2.64%) Spring Boot
5 5 (1.89%) RESTful
6 4 (1.51%) Faiss
6 4 (1.51%) OAuth
7 3 (1.13%) Android Jetpack
7 3 (1.13%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (1.13%) Flask
7 3 (1.13%) gRPC
7 3 (1.13%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (1.13%) Model Context Protocol
7 3 (1.13%) NumPy
7 3 (1.13%) Playwright
7 3 (1.13%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.28%) Distributed Systems
1 14 (5.28%) Product Ownership
1 14 (5.28%) Virtual Team
2 12 (4.53%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.15%) Derivative
4 10 (3.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (3.77%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.64%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.64%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.26%) Mainframe
6 6 (2.26%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.89%) Credit Risk
7 5 (1.89%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.89%) Reference Data
8 4 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.51%) Equities
8 4 (1.51%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.13%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.13%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.91%) Windows
2 12 (4.53%) Linux
3 10 (3.77%) Android
4 7 (2.64%) Unix
5 6 (2.26%) Apple iOS
5 6 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.13%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.75%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.75%) zOS
8 1 (0.38%) MVS
8 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 77 (29.06%) Stakeholder Management
3 54 (20.38%) Agile
4 44 (16.60%) AI
4 44 (16.60%) Continuous Improvement
4 44 (16.60%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (13.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 36 (13.58%) Migration
7 35 (13.21%) Analytics
8 31 (11.70%) CI/CD
9 29 (10.94%) Decision-Making
10 26 (9.81%) Risk Management
11 25 (9.43%) Roadmaps
12 24 (9.06%) Data Modelling
13 23 (8.68%) Project Management
14 22 (8.30%) Test Automation
14 22 (8.30%) User Acceptance Testing
15 21 (7.92%) Project Delivery
16 20 (7.55%) Data Governance
16 20 (7.55%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 35 (13.21%) Python
2 27 (10.19%) SQL
3 23 (8.68%) Java
4 11 (4.15%) TypeScript
5 7 (2.64%) JavaScript
5 7 (2.64%) Kotlin
6 6 (2.26%) C++
7 5 (1.89%) C#
8 4 (1.51%) Apex Code
8 4 (1.51%) C
8 4 (1.51%) Perl
9 3 (1.13%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.75%) Bash
10 2 (0.75%) COBOL
10 2 (0.75%) Go
10 2 (0.75%) R
10 2 (0.75%) REXX
10 2 (0.75%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.38%) PHP
11 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (5.66%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.28%) Degree
3 13 (4.91%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.51%) AWS Certification
4 4 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (1.51%) PMI Certification
4 4 (1.51%) PMP
5 3 (1.13%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.13%) CISSP
6 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.75%) CCNP
6 2 (0.75%) CISA
6 2 (0.75%) CRISC
6 2 (0.75%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.75%) FFIEC
7 1 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.30%) GDPR
2 18 (6.79%) QA
3 13 (4.91%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.26%) PMO
5 5 (1.89%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.51%) NIST
6 4 (1.51%) PERC
7 3 (1.13%) EMIR
7 3 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.13%) MiFID
8 2 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.75%) COBIT
8 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.75%) SLA
9 1 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.38%) NCSC
9 1 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 7 (2.64%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.51%) Docker
3 1 (0.38%) NFS
3 1 (0.38%) Varnish
3 1 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (3.02%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.26%) Ansible
3 2 (0.75%) Packer
3 2 (0.75%) Progress Chef
3 2 (0.75%) Puppet
3 2 (0.75%) QRadar
4 1 (0.38%) CA Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.38%) Grafana
4 1 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.38%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 22 (8.30%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.91%) Cisco
3 11 (4.15%) Oracle
4 9 (3.40%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.26%) Databricks
5 6 (2.26%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.26%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.89%) Google
6 5 (1.89%) Murex
7 4 (1.51%) F5
7 4 (1.51%) Workday
8 3 (1.13%) ION Trading
8 3 (1.13%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.13%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.13%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.75%) Avaya
9 2 (0.75%) Calypso
9 2 (0.75%) CheckPoint
9 2 (0.75%) IBM
9 2 (0.75%) SAP