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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 176 157
Rank change year-on-year +6 -19 +3
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 305 185 290
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.61% 1.48% 1.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.47% 4.06% 4.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 75 146
10th Percentile £196 £254 £221
25th Percentile £313 £338 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -15.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £731 £645 £744
England median daily rate £450 £475 £494
% change year-on-year -5.26% -3.80% -5.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 11
10th Percentile £22.75 - -
25th Percentile £28.00 £28.21 £11.95
Median hourly rate £32.63 £30.81 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% +10.65% -55.46%
75th Percentile £33.31 £33.40 £62.50
90th Percentile £36.58 - £71.88
England median hourly rate £28.00 £17.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year +61.15% -36.82% -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 6,829 4,561 5,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.99% 36.55% 33.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,329 3,031 4,120
10th Percentile £358 £331 £315
25th Percentile £450 £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 £838 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 92 144
10th Percentile £19.03 £15.84 £15.45
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.21 £18.41
Median hourly rate £36.50 £31.95 £27.42
Median % change year-on-year +14.26% +16.50% -21.66%
75th Percentile £64.69 £49.56 £49.13
90th Percentile £88.75 £77.12 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £33.89 £36.50
% change year-on-year +29.73% -7.16% +62.33%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -7 4 £624 - 1
Central London -22 2 - - 2
West London -26 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 6 (1.97%) Confluence
2 5 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (1.64%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.98%) SAS
4 2 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.66%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.66%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.33%) Apache
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.33%) Camunda
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (2.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (2.95%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.98%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.66%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.66%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.33%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.33%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.33%) Endur
4 1 (0.33%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.33%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.33%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.33%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 43 (14.10%) Azure
2 33 (10.82%) AWS
3 16 (5.25%) GCP
4 15 (4.92%) Power Platform
4 15 (4.92%) Snowflake
5 11 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (2.95%) SaaS
7 8 (2.62%) GitHub
8 5 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.64%) Figma
9 4 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.31%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (1.31%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 4 (1.31%) Serverless
10 3 (0.98%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (0.98%) Collibra
10 3 (0.98%) Entra ID
10 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (0.98%) OCI
10 3 (0.98%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.26%) Firewall
2 12 (3.93%) MPLS
3 8 (2.62%) Network Security
4 6 (1.97%) Ethernet
5 5 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.31%) LAN
6 4 (1.31%) VLAN
6 4 (1.31%) WAN
7 3 (0.98%) BGP
7 3 (0.98%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (0.98%) VoIP
7 3 (0.98%) VPN
8 2 (0.66%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.66%) NetScaler
8 2 (0.66%) SDH
8 2 (0.66%) SNMP
9 1 (0.33%) Cisco IPT
9 1 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 1 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 1 (0.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.59%) Power BI
2 8 (2.62%) Metadata
2 8 (2.62%) Relational Database
3 7 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (2.30%) Tableau
4 6 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.31%) Pinecone
5 4 (1.31%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.31%) Weaviate
6 3 (0.98%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.98%) Delta Lake
6 3 (0.98%) DynamoDB
6 3 (0.98%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.66%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.66%) KDB
7 2 (0.66%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.66%) MySQL
7 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (7.87%) JIRA
2 9 (2.95%) Git
3 8 (2.62%) SpecFlow
4 3 (0.98%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.98%) Gradle
4 3 (0.98%) Katalon Studio
4 3 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.66%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.66%) ERwin
5 2 (0.66%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.66%) Maven
5 2 (0.66%) Postman
5 2 (0.66%) Selenium
6 1 (0.33%) CMake
6 1 (0.33%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.33%) JUnit
6 1 (0.33%) NUnit
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.33%) Storybook
6 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 91 (29.84%) Social Skills
2 76 (24.92%) Finance
3 50 (16.39%) Banking
4 30 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.54%) Front Office
6 15 (4.92%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (4.92%) Telecoms
7 10 (3.28%) Investment Banking
8 9 (2.95%) Marketing
9 8 (2.62%) Legal
10 7 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.30%) Private Banking
11 6 (1.97%) Billing
11 6 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.97%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.31%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.98%) Back Office
13 3 (0.98%) Publishing
13 3 (0.98%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (13.44%) Analyst
2 36 (11.80%) Architect
3 35 (11.48%) Developer
4 32 (10.49%) Senior
5 27 (8.85%) Business Analyst
6 16 (5.25%) Lead
7 14 (4.59%) Network Engineer
7 14 (4.59%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (4.26%) Consultant
8 13 (4.26%) Project Manager
9 10 (3.28%) Java Developer
9 10 (3.28%) Product Manager
10 9 (2.95%) Tester
11 8 (2.62%) Automation Tester
12 7 (2.30%) Java Engineer
12 7 (2.30%) Senior Manager
13 6 (1.97%) Data Engineer
13 6 (1.97%) Senior Analyst
14 5 (1.64%) Android Engineer
14 5 (1.64%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.59%) REST
2 13 (4.26%) React
3 10 (3.28%) Spring
4 8 (2.62%) .NET
4 8 (2.62%) GraphQL
4 8 (2.62%) Playwright
5 7 (2.30%) Middleware
6 6 (1.97%) Kafka
6 6 (1.97%) Oracle Fusion
6 6 (1.97%) Spring Boot
7 5 (1.64%) Vue
8 4 (1.31%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (1.31%) OAuth
8 4 (1.31%) RESTful
8 4 (1.31%) XML
9 3 (0.98%) ADO
9 3 (0.98%) JSON
9 3 (0.98%) OAuth2
9 3 (0.98%) OpenID
9 3 (0.98%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.25%) Cloud Native
1 16 (5.25%) Virtual Team
2 15 (4.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 14 (4.59%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.93%) Derivative
4 12 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.93%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.28%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.30%) Equities
7 6 (1.97%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.97%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.64%) Equity Derivative
8 5 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.64%) Reference Data
9 4 (1.31%) BYOD
9 4 (1.31%) Credit Risk
10 3 (0.98%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.98%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.98%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.92%) Windows
2 10 (3.28%) Android
3 5 (1.64%) Linux
4 4 (1.31%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.31%) Unix
5 2 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.66%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.33%) Rocky
6 1 (0.33%) Solaris
6 1 (0.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 69 (22.62%) Agile
3 61 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 52 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (15.41%) AI
6 40 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 37 (12.13%) Analytics
8 33 (10.82%) Migration
9 31 (10.16%) CI/CD
10 29 (9.51%) Roadmaps
10 29 (9.51%) Test Automation
11 26 (8.52%) DevOps
12 24 (7.87%) Decision-Making
12 24 (7.87%) User Acceptance Testing
13 23 (7.54%) Project Management
13 23 (7.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 21 (6.89%) Data Modelling
15 19 (6.23%) Business Intelligence
15 19 (6.23%) Risk Management
16 18 (5.90%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 49 (16.07%) Python
2 39 (12.79%) Java
3 36 (11.80%) SQL
4 16 (5.25%) C#
5 15 (4.92%) TypeScript
6 11 (3.61%) JavaScript
7 8 (2.62%) Kotlin
8 5 (1.64%) C++
8 5 (1.64%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.31%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.98%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.98%) Bash
10 3 (0.98%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.66%) ActionScript
11 2 (0.66%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.66%) R
12 1 (0.33%) GLSL
12 1 (0.33%) Go
12 1 (0.33%) Scala
12 1 (0.33%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 30 (9.84%) Security Cleared
2 26 (8.52%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.89%) Degree
4 6 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.64%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.64%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.64%) PMI Certification
5 5 (1.64%) PMP
6 4 (1.31%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.66%) CCNP
8 2 (0.66%) CISSP
8 2 (0.66%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.33%) Citrix Certification
9 1 (0.33%) ISEB
9 1 (0.33%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.89%) QA
2 19 (6.23%) GDPR
3 10 (3.28%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.95%) PMO
5 8 (2.62%) SLA
6 7 (2.30%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.31%) NIST
8 3 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.98%) IFRS
8 3 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.66%) Basel III
9 2 (0.66%) GAAP
9 2 (0.66%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.66%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.33%) GRC
10 1 (0.33%) NCSC
10 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.33%) PSD2
10 1 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 8 (2.62%) Docker
2 7 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.98%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (4.59%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.62%) Terraform
3 7 (2.30%) Ansible
4 4 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.66%) Control-M
5 2 (0.66%) Grafana
5 2 (0.66%) Packer
5 2 (0.66%) QRadar
6 1 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.33%) Kibana
6 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (8.85%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.25%) Oracle
3 14 (4.59%) Cisco
4 11 (3.61%) Databricks
5 8 (2.62%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.30%) ADVA
6 7 (2.30%) Nokia
6 7 (2.30%) Workday
7 5 (1.64%) Citrix
7 5 (1.64%) Murex
7 5 (1.64%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.31%) Adobe
8 4 (1.31%) CheckPoint
8 4 (1.31%) F5
8 4 (1.31%) Google
8 4 (1.31%) Informatica
9 3 (0.98%) Aruba
9 3 (0.98%) SAP
10 2 (0.66%) Avaya
10 2 (0.66%) Genesys