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 7 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 151 139
Rank change year-on-year +16 -12 +42
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 290 267 340
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.03% 1.71% 1.74%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.17% 5.01% 5.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 139 200
10th Percentile £313 £227 £231
25th Percentile £413 £346 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £653
90th Percentile £675 £739 £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 £27.86 £23.00 £42.19
% change year-on-year +21.11% -45.48% +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 5,610 5,325 6,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.24% 34.13% 33.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,591 3,406 4,672
10th Percentile £334 £325 £325
25th Percentile £427 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.54% -1.67%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £725
90th Percentile £800 £850 £825
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.68% - -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 64 105
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.84
25th Percentile £19.95 £25.17 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.65% +17.50% -10.21%
75th Percentile £45.05 £56.69 £49.08
90th Percentile £67.00 £80.75 £64.81
England median hourly rate £27.21 £38.54 £43.92
% change year-on-year -29.39% -12.26% +25.49%

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 7 December 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 7 December 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 0 7 £600 -
Central London -1 5 £600 +20.00% 4
West London - 3 £213 -
East London +4 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 7 (2.41%) Confluence
2 4 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.03%) CICS
3 3 (1.03%) CMS
3 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.69%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.69%) nginx
4 2 (0.69%) 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 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.69%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.69%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.34%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.34%) Final Cut Pro
5 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.34%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.34%) Sketch
5 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.34%) SPSS
5 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.38%) Aladdin
2 3 (1.03%) VisionPLUS
3 2 (0.69%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.69%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.34%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.34%) Endur
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 Internet Expenses
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 43 (14.83%) AWS
2 30 (10.34%) Azure
3 15 (5.17%) Power Platform
4 12 (4.14%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (4.14%) GCP
4 12 (4.14%) GitHub
4 12 (4.14%) Serverless
4 12 (4.14%) Snowflake
5 11 (3.79%) Amazon S3
6 10 (3.45%) SaaS
7 7 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (1.38%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.38%) dbt
9 4 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.03%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.03%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.79%) Firewall
2 5 (1.72%) MPLS
3 4 (1.38%) Wireshark
4 3 (1.03%) 5G
4 3 (1.03%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (1.03%) DNS
4 3 (1.03%) LAN
4 3 (1.03%) NetScaler
4 3 (1.03%) Network Security
4 3 (1.03%) VPN
4 3 (1.03%) WAN
5 2 (0.69%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.69%) DHCP
5 2 (0.69%) DKIM
5 2 (0.69%) DMARC
5 2 (0.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 2 (0.69%) HTTP
5 2 (0.69%) SDH
5 2 (0.69%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.69%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.83%) Power BI
2 10 (3.45%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.41%) Tableau
5 5 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.38%) Big Data
6 4 (1.38%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.38%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.03%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.03%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.69%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.69%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.69%) Metadata
8 2 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (5.52%) JIRA
2 9 (3.10%) Git
3 4 (1.38%) SpecFlow
4 3 (1.03%) ChangeMan
4 3 (1.03%) JUnit
5 2 (0.69%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.69%) DBeaver
5 2 (0.69%) GitLab
5 2 (0.69%) Gradle
5 2 (0.69%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.69%) Maven
6 1 (0.34%) AppVeyor
6 1 (0.34%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.34%) CMake
6 1 (0.34%) gulp
6 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.34%) webpack
General
1 79 (27.24%) Social Skills
2 61 (21.03%) Finance
3 29 (10.00%) Banking
4 26 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (4.48%) Front Office
6 12 (4.14%) Legal
7 8 (2.76%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.41%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.07%) Back Office
9 6 (2.07%) Public Sector
10 5 (1.72%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.72%) Marketing
10 5 (1.72%) Publishing
11 4 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.03%) Advertising
13 2 (0.69%) International Banking
13 2 (0.69%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.69%) Retail
13 2 (0.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (14.48%) Analyst
2 40 (13.79%) Developer
3 24 (8.28%) Business Analyst
4 18 (6.21%) Architect
5 15 (5.17%) Lead
6 14 (4.83%) Project Manager
7 13 (4.48%) Senior
8 12 (4.14%) Python Engineer
8 12 (4.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 10 (3.45%) Consultant
9 10 (3.45%) Site Engineer
10 9 (3.10%) Software Engineer
11 8 (2.76%) Network Engineer
12 7 (2.41%) Python Developer
13 6 (2.07%) Data Analyst
13 6 (2.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 6 (2.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (2.07%) Solutions Architect
13 6 (2.07%) Support Engineer
14 5 (1.72%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.45%) React
2 9 (3.10%) REST
3 7 (2.41%) RESTful
4 6 (2.07%) OAuth
5 5 (1.72%) FIX Protocol
5 5 (1.72%) LangChain
5 5 (1.72%) Middleware
5 5 (1.72%) Playwright
6 4 (1.38%) .NET
6 4 (1.38%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.38%) HTML
6 4 (1.38%) Pandas
6 4 (1.38%) PySpark
6 4 (1.38%) scikit-learn
7 3 (1.03%) CSS
7 3 (1.03%) JSON
7 3 (1.03%) PyTorch
7 3 (1.03%) Spring
7 3 (1.03%) Vue
7 3 (1.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.45%) Derivative
1 10 (3.45%) Onboarding
2 9 (3.10%) Cloud Native
3 7 (2.41%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.07%) Equities
4 6 (2.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (1.72%) Credit Risk
5 5 (1.72%) Freedom of Information
6 4 (1.38%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.38%) Mainframe
6 4 (1.38%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.38%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.03%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.03%) Market Risk
7 3 (1.03%) Replication
8 2 (0.69%) CMDB
8 2 (0.69%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.21%) Linux
2 13 (4.48%) Windows
3 7 (2.41%) Unix
4 4 (1.38%) Android
5 3 (1.03%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.03%) zOS
6 2 (0.69%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.69%) VMS
6 2 (0.69%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.34%) CentOS
7 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 46 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (13.45%) Agile
4 38 (13.10%) Stakeholder Management
5 37 (12.76%) CI/CD
6 31 (10.69%) AI
7 27 (9.31%) DevOps
8 26 (8.97%) Project Management
9 25 (8.62%) Migration
10 23 (7.93%) Analytics
11 20 (6.90%) Business Analysis
11 20 (6.90%) Decision-Making
11 20 (6.90%) Software Engineering
12 19 (6.55%) Roadmaps
12 19 (6.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 18 (6.21%) Cybersecurity
13 18 (6.21%) Infrastructure as Code
14 17 (5.86%) Business Intelligence
14 17 (5.86%) Generative AI
14 17 (5.86%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 83 (28.62%) Python
2 54 (18.62%) SQL
3 18 (6.21%) JavaScript
4 16 (5.52%) Bash
5 15 (5.17%) C#
6 14 (4.83%) Java
7 13 (4.48%) PowerShell
8 9 (3.10%) TypeScript
9 8 (2.76%) C++
9 8 (2.76%) Go
9 8 (2.76%) PromQL
10 5 (1.72%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.38%) COBOL
12 3 (1.03%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.03%) Shell Script
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 27 (9.31%) Degree
2 8 (2.76%) Security Cleared
3 7 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (2.41%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.07%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.72%) CISSP
6 3 (1.03%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.03%) MCP
7 2 (0.69%) CISA
7 2 (0.69%) CISM
7 2 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (0.69%) ISEB
7 2 (0.69%) ISEB Practitioner
7 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.69%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.69%) PMP
8 1 (0.34%) CCIE
8 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.34%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.17%) QA
2 12 (4.14%) GDPR
3 8 (2.76%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.07%) PMO
5 5 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.72%) NIST
6 3 (1.03%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.03%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.69%) GRC
7 2 (0.69%) 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 9 (3.10%) Docker
2 5 (1.72%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.34%) Firmware
4 1 (0.34%) HDFS
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 13 (4.48%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.14%) Grafana
3 10 (3.45%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.07%) Terraform
5 5 (1.72%) Ansible
6 4 (1.38%) SCCM
7 3 (1.03%) CA Endevor
7 3 (1.03%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.69%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.69%) 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 (7.93%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.48%) Databricks
3 10 (3.45%) Cisco
4 9 (3.10%) Google
4 9 (3.10%) Splunk
5 8 (2.76%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.76%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.41%) F5
6 7 (2.41%) Juniper
6 7 (2.41%) Oracle
7 6 (2.07%) ION Trading
8 5 (1.72%) Adobe
8 5 (1.72%) Citrix
8 5 (1.72%) Solace
9 4 (1.38%) Avaloq
10 3 (1.03%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.03%) Foundry
10 3 (1.03%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.03%) SAP
10 3 (1.03%) VMware