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 28 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 151 141
Rank change year-on-year -46 -10 +8
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 287 233 302
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.42% 1.74% 1.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.78% 4.56% 5.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 103 152
10th Percentile £222 £279 £206
25th Percentile £344 £375 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -14.89%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £613
90th Percentile £683 £675 £749
England median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £23.63 - £35.40
25th Percentile £28.98 - £46.73
Median hourly rate £32.87 - £68.75
75th Percentile £33.53 - £71.88
90th Percentile £36.18 - -
England median hourly rate £32.63 £15.25 £27.50
% change year-on-year +113.93% -44.55% -41.92%

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 7,592 5,106 5,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.67% 38.20% 33.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,750 3,342 3,754
10th Percentile £354 £333 £332
25th Percentile £450 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £574 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.14% -0.22% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £710 £750
90th Percentile £788 £825 £863
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 120 79
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.75 £23.21 £22.00
Median hourly rate £32.87 £27.25 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.63% -12.10% -11.43%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.15 £52.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.06 £71.25
England median hourly rate £40.00 £32.74 £49.75
% change year-on-year +22.19% -34.20% +8.44%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -12 4 £438 - 3
Central London -22 3 £625 +4.17% 4
West London -22 2 £300 -16.96% 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 4 (1.39%) Confluence
1 4 (1.39%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (1.05%) SAS
3 2 (0.70%) Apache
3 2 (0.70%) CICS
3 2 (0.70%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.35%) CMS
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (4.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.44%) Aladdin
2 3 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.70%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.35%) Actimize
4 1 (0.35%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.35%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.35%) Endur
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle BRM
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.35%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (0.35%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.35%) SAP FI-CA
4 1 (0.35%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 36 (12.54%) AWS
1 36 (12.54%) Azure
2 13 (4.53%) Power Platform
3 12 (4.18%) GCP
4 11 (3.83%) GitHub
5 10 (3.48%) SaaS
6 9 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (2.79%) Serverless
7 8 (2.79%) Snowflake
8 6 (2.09%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (1.74%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 4 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (1.39%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.39%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (1.39%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.05%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.05%) Figma
11 3 (1.05%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.53%) Firewall
2 7 (2.44%) LAN
3 6 (2.09%) Network Security
3 6 (2.09%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (1.74%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (1.74%) DHCP
4 5 (1.74%) DNS
4 5 (1.74%) MPLS
5 4 (1.39%) Cisco IPT
5 4 (1.39%) WAN
6 3 (1.05%) BGP
6 3 (1.05%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (1.05%) EIGRP
6 3 (1.05%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 3 (1.05%) HSRP
6 3 (1.05%) OSPF
6 3 (1.05%) VoIP
7 2 (0.70%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.70%) SAN
7 2 (0.70%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.83%) Power BI
2 9 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (2.79%) Relational Database
4 7 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.74%) Metadata
5 5 (1.74%) Tableau
6 4 (1.39%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.39%) MySQL
6 4 (1.39%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.05%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.05%) Db2
7 3 (1.05%) KDB
7 3 (1.05%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.05%) Pinecone
7 3 (1.05%) Weaviate
8 2 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.70%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 17 (5.92%) JIRA
2 12 (4.18%) Git
3 4 (1.39%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.05%) Gradle
4 3 (1.05%) Selenium
5 2 (0.70%) CMake
5 2 (0.70%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.70%) ERwin
5 2 (0.70%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.70%) XCUITest
6 1 (0.35%) Appium
6 1 (0.35%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.35%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.35%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.35%) Storybook
6 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.35%) Vite
6 1 (0.35%) XCTest
6 1 (0.35%) Zephyr
General
1 100 (34.84%) Social Skills
2 74 (25.78%) Finance
3 48 (16.72%) Banking
4 40 (13.94%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (9.06%) Front Office
6 18 (6.27%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (4.88%) Legal
8 9 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (3.14%) Public Sector
9 8 (2.79%) Investment Banking
9 8 (2.79%) Telecoms
10 7 (2.44%) Marketing
10 7 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.44%) Retail
11 6 (2.09%) Billing
12 4 (1.39%) Back Office
12 4 (1.39%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.39%) Private Banking
13 3 (1.05%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 43 (14.98%) Analyst
2 38 (13.24%) Architect
3 29 (10.10%) Developer
4 28 (9.76%) Senior
5 25 (8.71%) Business Analyst
6 13 (4.53%) Lead
7 12 (4.18%) Consultant
8 11 (3.83%) Project Manager
9 10 (3.48%) Java Developer
9 10 (3.48%) Product Manager
10 9 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (2.79%) Senior Manager
12 6 (2.09%) Data Engineer
12 6 (2.09%) Designer
13 5 (1.74%) Android Engineer
13 5 (1.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 5 (1.74%) Data Protection Officer
13 5 (1.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 5 (1.74%) Java Engineer
13 5 (1.74%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.27%) REST
2 9 (3.14%) GraphQL
2 9 (3.14%) React
2 9 (3.14%) Spring
2 9 (3.14%) Terraform
3 7 (2.44%) Spring Boot
4 6 (2.09%) .NET
4 6 (2.09%) Middleware
4 6 (2.09%) Pandas
5 5 (1.74%) RESTful
6 4 (1.39%) Faiss
6 4 (1.39%) FIX Protocol
6 4 (1.39%) Model Context Protocol
6 4 (1.39%) OAuth
6 4 (1.39%) Vue
7 3 (1.05%) Android Jetpack
7 3 (1.05%) gRPC
7 3 (1.05%) OAuth2
7 3 (1.05%) Playwright
7 3 (1.05%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.92%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.57%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.23%) Product Ownership
3 15 (5.23%) Virtual Team
4 14 (4.88%) Derivative
5 10 (3.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (3.14%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.79%) Fixed Income
7 8 (2.79%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.79%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.09%) Mainframe
9 5 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.74%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.74%) Reference Data
9 5 (1.74%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.39%) Credit Risk
10 4 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.39%) Equities
11 3 (1.05%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.53%) Windows
2 12 (4.18%) Linux
3 10 (3.48%) Android
4 8 (2.79%) Unix
5 6 (2.09%) Apple iOS
5 6 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.70%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.70%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.70%) zOS
7 1 (0.35%) MVS
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.35%) Rocky
7 1 (0.35%) Solaris
7 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 72 (25.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 58 (20.21%) Agile
4 50 (17.42%) AI
5 46 (16.03%) Continuous Improvement
6 45 (15.68%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (13.94%) Analytics
8 37 (12.89%) CI/CD
9 33 (11.50%) Migration
10 32 (11.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 27 (9.41%) Decision-Making
11 27 (9.41%) DevOps
12 26 (9.06%) Test Automation
13 25 (8.71%) Roadmaps
14 24 (8.36%) Data Modelling
14 24 (8.36%) Project Management
14 24 (8.36%) User Acceptance Testing
15 22 (7.67%) Data Governance
15 22 (7.67%) Risk Management
16 21 (7.32%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 43 (14.98%) Python
2 31 (10.80%) Java
3 29 (10.10%) SQL
4 11 (3.83%) TypeScript
5 9 (3.14%) Kotlin
6 7 (2.44%) C++
6 7 (2.44%) JavaScript
7 6 (2.09%) C#
8 4 (1.39%) Apex Code
8 4 (1.39%) C
8 4 (1.39%) Perl
8 4 (1.39%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.05%) Bash
9 3 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.70%) COBOL
10 2 (0.70%) R
10 2 (0.70%) REXX
10 2 (0.70%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.35%) PHP
11 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (6.27%) Security Cleared
2 17 (5.92%) Degree
3 16 (5.57%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.74%) PMI Certification
4 5 (1.74%) PMP
5 4 (1.39%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.39%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.05%) CISSP
7 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.70%) CCNP
7 2 (0.70%) CISA
7 2 (0.70%) CRISC
7 2 (0.70%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.70%) FFIEC
8 1 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 1 (0.35%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.01%) GDPR
2 21 (7.32%) QA
3 13 (4.53%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.79%) PMO
5 6 (2.09%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.39%) NIST
6 4 (1.39%) SLA
7 3 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.05%) PERC
8 2 (0.70%) COBIT
8 2 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.70%) NCSC
9 1 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.35%) GRC
9 1 (0.35%) MiFID
9 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 8 (2.79%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.74%) Docker
3 2 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.35%) NFS
4 1 (0.35%) Varnish
4 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (3.14%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.44%) Ansible
3 2 (0.70%) Packer
3 2 (0.70%) Progress Chef
3 2 (0.70%) Puppet
3 2 (0.70%) QRadar
4 1 (0.35%) CA Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.35%) Grafana
4 1 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.35%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 27 (9.41%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.23%) Cisco
3 10 (3.48%) Oracle
4 9 (3.14%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.09%) Databricks
5 6 (2.09%) Murex
5 6 (2.09%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.09%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.74%) F5
6 5 (1.74%) Google
6 5 (1.74%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.39%) Workday
8 3 (1.05%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.05%) Infoblox
8 3 (1.05%) ION Trading
8 3 (1.05%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.70%) Avaya
9 2 (0.70%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.70%) Calypso
9 2 (0.70%) Genesys