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 30 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 155 149
Rank change year-on-year +26 -6 +34
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 295 273 340
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.09% 1.73% 1.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.31% 5.09% 5.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 145 202
10th Percentile £313 £239 £233
25th Percentile £413 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £672
90th Percentile £675 £741 £738
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £39.97
25th Percentile - £20.75 £40.16
Median hourly rate - £21.50 £42.25
Median % change year-on-year - -49.11% -
75th Percentile - £22.25 £44.28
90th Percentile - - £44.43
England median hourly rate £15.25 £21.50 £42.19
% change year-on-year -29.07% -49.04% +168.47%

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 5,556 5,365 6,675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.43% 33.98% 33.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,545 3,436 4,761
10th Percentile £333 £325 £325
25th Percentile £429 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.36% -0.83%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £725
90th Percentile £801 £850 £825
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 63 104
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.83
25th Percentile £20.00 £24.15 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +16.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £43.75 £55.88 £50.10
90th Percentile £71.00 £80.75 £65.07
England median hourly rate £27.50 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -31.25% -10.11% +27.14%

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 2025. 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 +3 7 £600 -
Central London -2 5 £600 +20.00% 4
West London - 3 £213 -
East London +3 1 £638 +19.16% 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 9 (3.05%) Confluence
2 4 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.02%) CICS
3 3 (1.02%) CMS
3 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.68%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.68%) nginx
4 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.34%) Apache
5 1 (0.34%) Luigi
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.34%) SAS
5 1 (0.34%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (2.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.68%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.34%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.34%) Final Cut Pro
6 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.34%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.34%) Sketch
6 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.34%) SPSS
6 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.36%) Aladdin
2 3 (1.02%) VisionPLUS
3 2 (0.68%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.68%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.34%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.34%) Endur
4 1 (0.34%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle iProcurement
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.34%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.34%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 45 (15.25%) AWS
2 30 (10.17%) Azure
3 15 (5.08%) Power Platform
4 14 (4.75%) GitHub
5 13 (4.41%) Amazon S3
6 12 (4.07%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (4.07%) GCP
6 12 (4.07%) Serverless
6 12 (4.07%) Snowflake
7 10 (3.39%) SaaS
8 7 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (2.03%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.36%) dbt
11 4 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.02%) Power Automate
12 3 (1.02%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.73%) Firewall
2 4 (1.36%) Wireshark
3 3 (1.02%) 5G
3 3 (1.02%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (1.02%) DNS
3 3 (1.02%) LAN
3 3 (1.02%) MPLS
3 3 (1.02%) NetScaler
3 3 (1.02%) Network Security
3 3 (1.02%) VPN
3 3 (1.02%) WAN
4 2 (0.68%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (0.68%) DHCP
4 2 (0.68%) DKIM
4 2 (0.68%) DMARC
4 2 (0.68%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (0.68%) HTTP
4 2 (0.68%) OSPF
4 2 (0.68%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.68%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.75%) Power BI
2 11 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (3.39%) SQL Server
4 8 (2.71%) Tableau
5 5 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.36%) Big Data
6 4 (1.36%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.36%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.02%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.02%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.02%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.68%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.68%) Metadata
8 2 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.68%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (6.10%) JIRA
2 10 (3.39%) Git
3 5 (1.69%) GitLab
4 4 (1.36%) SpecFlow
5 3 (1.02%) ChangeMan
5 3 (1.02%) JUnit
6 2 (0.68%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.68%) DBeaver
6 2 (0.68%) Gradle
6 2 (0.68%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.68%) Maven
7 1 (0.34%) AppVeyor
7 1 (0.34%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.34%) CMake
7 1 (0.34%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.34%) gulp
7 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.34%) webpack
General
1 86 (29.15%) Social Skills
2 58 (19.66%) Finance
3 29 (9.83%) Banking
4 27 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.75%) Front Office
6 11 (3.73%) Legal
7 7 (2.37%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.37%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.03%) Back Office
8 6 (2.03%) Marketing
8 6 (2.03%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.69%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.69%) Publishing
10 4 (1.36%) Advertising
10 4 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.68%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (14.92%) Analyst
2 40 (13.56%) Developer
3 25 (8.47%) Business Analyst
4 18 (6.10%) Architect
5 15 (5.08%) Lead
6 14 (4.75%) Project Manager
6 14 (4.75%) Senior
7 12 (4.07%) Python Engineer
7 12 (4.07%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 10 (3.39%) Site Engineer
9 9 (3.05%) Consultant
9 9 (3.05%) Software Engineer
10 8 (2.71%) Network Engineer
11 7 (2.37%) Python Developer
12 6 (2.03%) Data Analyst
12 6 (2.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 6 (2.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (2.03%) Security Engineer
12 6 (2.03%) Support Engineer
13 5 (1.69%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.39%) React
1 10 (3.39%) REST
2 7 (2.37%) RESTful
3 6 (2.03%) OAuth
4 5 (1.69%) FIX Protocol
4 5 (1.69%) LangChain
4 5 (1.69%) Middleware
4 5 (1.69%) Playwright
5 4 (1.36%) .NET
5 4 (1.36%) AngularJS
5 4 (1.36%) HTML
5 4 (1.36%) Pandas
5 4 (1.36%) PySpark
5 4 (1.36%) scikit-learn
6 3 (1.02%) CSS
6 3 (1.02%) JSON
6 3 (1.02%) PyTorch
6 3 (1.02%) Spring
6 3 (1.02%) Vue
6 3 (1.02%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.39%) Onboarding
2 9 (3.05%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.05%) Derivative
3 6 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (2.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (2.03%) Product Ownership
4 5 (1.69%) Credit Risk
4 5 (1.69%) Freedom of Information
4 5 (1.69%) Virtual Reality
5 4 (1.36%) Equities
5 4 (1.36%) Fixed Income
5 4 (1.36%) Mainframe
5 4 (1.36%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.36%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.02%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.02%) Market Risk
6 3 (1.02%) Oculus
6 3 (1.02%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.10%) Linux
2 13 (4.41%) Windows
3 7 (2.37%) Unix
4 4 (1.36%) Android
5 3 (1.02%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.02%) zOS
6 2 (0.68%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.68%) VMS
6 2 (0.68%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.34%) CentOS
7 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 295 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 48 (16.27%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (13.22%) Agile
4 38 (12.88%) CI/CD
5 37 (12.54%) Stakeholder Management
6 34 (11.53%) AI
7 26 (8.81%) DevOps
7 26 (8.81%) Migration
7 26 (8.81%) Project Management
8 22 (7.46%) Analytics
9 21 (7.12%) Business Analysis
10 20 (6.78%) Software Engineering
11 19 (6.44%) Cybersecurity
11 19 (6.44%) Infrastructure as Code
11 19 (6.44%) Machine Learning
11 19 (6.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 18 (6.10%) Decision-Making
12 18 (6.10%) Roadmaps
13 17 (5.76%) Business Intelligence
13 17 (5.76%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 88 (29.83%) Python
2 55 (18.64%) SQL
3 18 (6.10%) C#
3 18 (6.10%) JavaScript
4 16 (5.42%) Bash
5 14 (4.75%) Java
6 13 (4.41%) PowerShell
7 9 (3.05%) TypeScript
8 8 (2.71%) C++
8 8 (2.71%) Go
8 8 (2.71%) PromQL
9 6 (2.03%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.69%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.36%) COBOL
12 3 (1.02%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.34%) JCL
13 1 (0.34%) PHP
13 1 (0.34%) VB
13 1 (0.34%) VBA
13 1 (0.34%) VC++
Qualifications
1 28 (9.49%) Degree
2 9 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (2.71%) Master's Degree
4 6 (2.03%) Security Cleared
5 5 (1.69%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (1.69%) CISSP
5 5 (1.69%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.02%) MCP
7 2 (0.68%) CCIE
7 2 (0.68%) CCNP
7 2 (0.68%) CISA
7 2 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.68%) CISM
7 2 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (0.68%) ISEB
7 2 (0.68%) ISEB Practitioner
7 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.68%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.68%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.08%) QA
2 12 (4.07%) GDPR
3 9 (3.05%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.03%) PMO
5 5 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.69%) NIST
6 3 (1.02%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.02%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.68%) GRC
7 2 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.34%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.34%) EMIR
8 1 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.34%) SLA
8 1 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (3.39%) Docker
2 5 (1.69%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.34%) Firmware
4 1 (0.34%) HDFS
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 14 (4.75%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.07%) Grafana
3 10 (3.39%) Prometheus
4 7 (2.37%) Terraform
5 6 (2.03%) Ansible
6 4 (1.36%) SCCM
7 3 (1.02%) CA Endevor
7 3 (1.02%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.68%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.68%) Puppet
9 1 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.34%) Nessus
9 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.34%) SCOM
9 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (7.80%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.41%) Databricks
3 10 (3.39%) Cisco
3 10 (3.39%) Salesforce
4 9 (3.05%) Google
4 9 (3.05%) Splunk
5 8 (2.71%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.37%) F5
6 7 (2.37%) Juniper
6 7 (2.37%) Oracle
7 6 (2.03%) ION Trading
8 5 (1.69%) Adobe
8 5 (1.69%) Citrix
8 5 (1.69%) Solace
9 4 (1.36%) Avaloq
10 3 (1.02%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.02%) Foundry
10 3 (1.02%) IBM
10 3 (1.02%) SolarWinds
10 3 (1.02%) VMware