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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 171 158
Rank change year-on-year -15 -13 -6
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 297 212 291
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.50% 1.56% 1.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.09% 4.21% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 86 150
10th Percentile £214 £239 £217
25th Percentile £320 £352 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £431 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -13.75% -15.97%
75th Percentile £575 £566 £613
90th Percentile £701 £650 £750
England median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 8
10th Percentile £22.75 - -
25th Percentile £28.00 £28.21 £11.95
Median hourly rate £32.63 £30.81 £45.17
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% -31.80% -27.73%
75th Percentile £33.31 £33.40 £64.84
90th Percentile £36.58 - £71.88
England median hourly rate £28.00 £21.45 £27.50
% change year-on-year +30.57% -22.02% +22.22%

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 7,267 5,030 5,815
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.71% 37.09% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,555 3,311 4,065
10th Percentile £354 £338 £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 £725 £738
90th Percentile £800 £838 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 111 122
10th Percentile £19.03 £15.84 £15.55
25th Percentile £22.91 £22.50 £21.39
Median hourly rate £37.50 £29.50 £30.14
Median % change year-on-year +27.12% -2.12% -13.89%
75th Percentile £63.50 £46.63 £53.94
90th Percentile £88.75 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £33.05 £40.00
% change year-on-year +33.01% -17.38% +14.29%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -16 4 £624 - 1
Central London -9 3 £625 - 2
West London -16 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 5 (1.68%) Confluence
2 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.35%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.01%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.01%) SAS
4 2 (0.67%) Apache
4 2 (0.67%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.34%) Camunda
5 1 (0.34%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.02%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.34%) Actimize
2 1 (0.34%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.34%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.34%) Endur
2 1 (0.34%) ION MarketView
2 1 (0.34%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 44 (14.81%) Azure
2 37 (12.46%) AWS
3 15 (5.05%) GCP
4 14 (4.71%) Power Platform
5 11 (3.70%) SaaS
5 11 (3.70%) Snowflake
6 10 (3.37%) GitHub
6 10 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (2.36%) Serverless
9 5 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.68%) Figma
10 4 (1.35%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (1.35%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (1.35%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 3 (1.01%) Adobe Analytics
11 3 (1.01%) Collibra
11 3 (1.01%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (1.01%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.71%) Firewall
2 7 (2.36%) LAN
2 7 (2.36%) Network Security
3 6 (2.02%) MPLS
3 6 (2.02%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (1.68%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (1.68%) WAN
5 3 (1.01%) Cisco IPT
5 3 (1.01%) DHCP
5 3 (1.01%) DNS
5 3 (1.01%) Ethernet
5 3 (1.01%) VoIP
6 2 (0.67%) BGP
6 2 (0.67%) EIGRP
6 2 (0.67%) OSPF
6 2 (0.67%) SAN
6 2 (0.67%) SDH
6 2 (0.67%) SNMP
6 2 (0.67%) VPN
6 2 (0.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.38%) Power BI
2 8 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (2.69%) Relational Database
3 7 (2.36%) Metadata
3 7 (2.36%) Tableau
4 4 (1.35%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.35%) DynamoDB
4 4 (1.35%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.35%) Pinecone
4 4 (1.35%) Weaviate
5 3 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.01%) Delta Lake
5 3 (1.01%) MySQL
6 2 (0.67%) Data Vault
6 2 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.67%) KDB
6 2 (0.67%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.67%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (7.07%) JIRA
2 10 (3.37%) Git
3 5 (1.68%) SpecFlow
4 4 (1.35%) Selenium
5 3 (1.01%) Gradle
6 2 (0.67%) CMake
6 2 (0.67%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.67%) ERwin
6 2 (0.67%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.67%) JUnit
6 2 (0.67%) Postman
6 2 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.67%) XCUITest
7 1 (0.34%) Appium
7 1 (0.34%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.34%) GitLab
7 1 (0.34%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.34%) webpack
7 1 (0.34%) XCTest
7 1 (0.34%) Zephyr
General
1 94 (31.65%) Social Skills
2 71 (23.91%) Finance
3 46 (15.49%) Banking
4 34 (11.45%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (8.08%) Front Office
6 14 (4.71%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (3.70%) Legal
8 10 (3.37%) Telecoms
9 9 (3.03%) Investment Banking
10 8 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (2.69%) Marketing
10 8 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (2.69%) Public Sector
11 7 (2.36%) Private Banking
12 6 (2.02%) Billing
13 5 (1.68%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.68%) Retail
14 4 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (1.01%) Back Office
15 3 (1.01%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 44 (14.81%) Analyst
2 37 (12.46%) Architect
3 31 (10.44%) Senior
4 30 (10.10%) Developer
5 27 (9.09%) Business Analyst
6 14 (4.71%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (4.38%) Lead
8 12 (4.04%) Consultant
8 12 (4.04%) Project Manager
9 11 (3.70%) Java Developer
10 9 (3.03%) Product Manager
11 8 (2.69%) Designer
12 7 (2.36%) Java Engineer
12 7 (2.36%) Network Engineer
12 7 (2.36%) Senior Manager
13 6 (2.02%) Senior Analyst
13 6 (2.02%) Tester
14 5 (1.68%) Automation Tester
14 5 (1.68%) Enterprise Architect
14 5 (1.68%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.72%) REST
2 11 (3.70%) React
3 10 (3.37%) Spring
4 9 (3.03%) GraphQL
5 8 (2.69%) .NET
6 7 (2.36%) Middleware
6 7 (2.36%) Spring Boot
7 6 (2.02%) Kafka
7 6 (2.02%) Playwright
8 5 (1.68%) OAuth
8 5 (1.68%) Pandas
8 5 (1.68%) Vue
9 4 (1.35%) Faiss
9 4 (1.35%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (1.35%) RESTful
10 3 (1.01%) JSON
10 3 (1.01%) LlamaIndex
10 3 (1.01%) Model Context Protocol
10 3 (1.01%) NumPy
10 3 (1.01%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.73%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.72%) Virtual Team
3 14 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 14 (4.71%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.04%) Derivative
4 12 (4.04%) Onboarding
5 11 (3.70%) Mobile App
6 8 (2.69%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.69%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.68%) Equities
7 5 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.68%) Reference Data
7 5 (1.68%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.35%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.35%) Credit Risk
8 4 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.35%) Equity Derivative
8 4 (1.35%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.01%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.05%) Windows
2 12 (4.04%) Android
3 7 (2.36%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.36%) Unix
4 6 (2.02%) Linux
5 3 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.67%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.67%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.34%) MVS
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.34%) Rocky
7 1 (0.34%) Solaris
7 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 63 (21.21%) Agile
3 59 (19.87%) Stakeholder Management
4 54 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (16.84%) AI
6 42 (14.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 37 (12.46%) Analytics
7 37 (12.46%) CI/CD
8 32 (10.77%) Migration
9 29 (9.76%) DevOps
10 27 (9.09%) Roadmaps
10 27 (9.09%) Test Automation
11 26 (8.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 25 (8.42%) Decision-Making
13 22 (7.41%) Data Modelling
13 22 (7.41%) Project Management
14 21 (7.07%) Risk Management
15 20 (6.73%) User Acceptance Testing
16 19 (6.40%) Data Governance
17 17 (5.72%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 45 (15.15%) Python
2 37 (12.46%) Java
3 29 (9.76%) SQL
4 14 (4.71%) TypeScript
5 10 (3.37%) C#
6 8 (2.69%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.69%) Kotlin
7 4 (1.35%) C++
7 4 (1.35%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.01%) Apex Code
8 3 (1.01%) Bash
8 3 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (1.01%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.67%) ActionScript
9 2 (0.67%) R
10 1 (0.34%) C
10 1 (0.34%) GLSL
10 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.34%) Scala
10 1 (0.34%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 23 (7.74%) Security Cleared
2 20 (6.73%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.05%) Degree
4 5 (1.68%) AWS Certification
4 5 (1.68%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.01%) CISSP
5 3 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.67%) CCNP
6 2 (0.67%) CISM
6 2 (0.67%) CRISC
6 2 (0.67%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.67%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.67%) PMP
7 1 (0.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.34%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.34%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.42%) QA
2 21 (7.07%) GDPR
3 11 (3.70%) Data Quality
4 10 (3.37%) PMO
5 7 (2.36%) SLA
6 6 (2.02%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.35%) NIST
8 3 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.67%) GRC
9 2 (0.67%) NCSC
9 2 (0.67%) PERC
10 1 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.34%) PSD2
10 1 (0.34%) SEPA
10 1 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.34%) TARGET2
System Software
1 10 (3.37%) Docker
2 7 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.01%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.34%) NFS
4 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (5.39%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.69%) Ansible
2 8 (2.69%) Terraform
3 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.67%) Grafana
4 2 (0.67%) Packer
4 2 (0.67%) QRadar
5 1 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.34%) CA Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.34%) Kibana
5 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.34%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 29 (9.76%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.39%) Cisco
3 12 (4.04%) Oracle
4 8 (2.69%) Databricks
4 8 (2.69%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.02%) Murex
5 6 (2.02%) Palo Alto
6 5 (1.68%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.68%) Workday
7 4 (1.35%) Adobe
7 4 (1.35%) F5
7 4 (1.35%) Google
8 3 (1.01%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.01%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.67%) Avaya
9 2 (0.67%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.67%) Citrix
9 2 (0.67%) Genesys
9 2 (0.67%) Infoblox
9 2 (0.67%) SolarWinds