Data Protection Act Contracts 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 160 163
Rank change year-on-year -26 +3 +58
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 164 289 400
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.35% 1.65% 1.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.74% 4.96% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 147 260
10th Percentile £247 £225 £375
25th Percentile £356 £377 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £595
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -11.76% -0.83%
75th Percentile £538 £663 £750
90th Percentile £632 £750 £825
England median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 2
10th Percentile - - £53.00
25th Percentile £28.21 £11.95 £55.63
Median hourly rate £30.81 £27.84 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.65% -55.46% +35.87%
75th Percentile £33.40 £62.50 £70.63
90th Percentile - £71.88 £74.00
England median hourly rate £24.50 £27.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -10.91% -26.67% +26.60%

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 4,380 5,824 9,214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.14% 33.34% 36.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,943 4,116 6,683
10th Percentile £333 £313 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £743
90th Percentile £838 £850 £838
England median daily rate £530 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -3.64% -3.51% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 150 106
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.49 £18.47
25th Percentile £22.57 £19.40 £21.24
Median hourly rate £30.90 £27.42 £34.81
Median % change year-on-year +12.70% -21.23% -19.98%
75th Percentile £47.06 £50.63 £63.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.25 £86.65
England median hourly rate £33.91 £35.50 £22.21
% change year-on-year -4.48% +59.87% -16.21%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Data Protection Act as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Act in London

Data Protection Act
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Protection Act in London.

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Act in London

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in London

Data Protection Act
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Protection Act in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 29 May 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
West London +11 4 £340 +36.00%
Central London +8 3 - - 1
South London +5 3 - -
Data Protection Act
England

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (5.49%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.88%) Confluence
3 2 (1.22%) JBoss
3 2 (1.22%) Oracle Coherence
3 2 (1.22%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.22%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (0.61%) Apache
4 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.61%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.61%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.22%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.22%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.61%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.22%) Aladdin
1 2 (1.22%) BASE24
1 2 (1.22%) Salesforce CRM
1 2 (1.22%) VisionPLUS
2 1 (0.61%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.61%) Endur
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (0.61%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.61%) SAP SD
2 1 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 23 (14.02%) AWS
2 19 (11.59%) Azure
3 11 (6.71%) Power Platform
4 10 (6.10%) SaaS
5 7 (4.27%) Amazon S3
5 7 (4.27%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (4.27%) Serverless
6 6 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (3.05%) PaaS
8 4 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.44%) GCP
8 4 (2.44%) IaaS
9 3 (1.83%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.83%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.83%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.22%) Adobe Analytics
10 2 (1.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.22%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.88%) DNS
2 6 (3.66%) DHCP
3 5 (3.05%) Firewall
3 5 (3.05%) VLAN
4 4 (2.44%) HTTPS
5 3 (1.83%) SSL
5 3 (1.83%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.22%) ATM
6 2 (1.22%) HTTP
6 2 (1.22%) NAS
6 2 (1.22%) Network Security
6 2 (1.22%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.22%) SSH
6 2 (1.22%) WAN
6 2 (1.22%) WebEx
6 2 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.61%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.61%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.61%) LAN
7 1 (0.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.27%) Power BI
1 7 (4.27%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.05%) DynamoDB
2 5 (3.05%) Tableau
3 2 (1.22%) DB2
3 2 (1.22%) Hazelcast
3 2 (1.22%) IMS/DB
3 2 (1.22%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.22%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.22%) Redis
3 2 (1.22%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.61%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.61%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.61%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (0.61%) OLAP
4 1 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.61%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 11 (6.71%) JIRA
2 4 (2.44%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.83%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.22%) GitLab
4 2 (1.22%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.61%) ERwin
5 1 (0.61%) Gemini Tracker
5 1 (0.61%) Git
5 1 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 48 (29.27%) Social Skills
2 43 (26.22%) Finance
3 27 (16.46%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.49%) Back Office
4 9 (5.49%) Banking
4 9 (5.49%) Front Office
5 5 (3.05%) Legal
5 5 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.44%) Advertising
6 4 (2.44%) Marketing
6 4 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.22%) Dutch Language
7 2 (1.22%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.22%) Spanish Language
8 1 (0.61%) German Language
8 1 (0.61%) Italian Language
8 1 (0.61%) Law
8 1 (0.61%) Polish Language
8 1 (0.61%) Portuguese Language
8 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (12.20%) Analyst
2 19 (11.59%) Developer
3 14 (8.54%) Senior
4 13 (7.93%) Architect
5 8 (4.88%) Consultant
5 8 (4.88%) Project Manager
6 7 (4.27%) Applications Support
6 7 (4.27%) Business Analyst
6 7 (4.27%) Lead
7 6 (3.66%) Site Engineer
7 6 (3.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (3.05%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (3.05%) Java Developer
8 5 (3.05%) Junior
8 5 (3.05%) Product Manager
8 5 (3.05%) Software Engineer
8 5 (3.05%) Support Engineer
9 4 (2.44%) Administrator
9 4 (2.44%) Data Analyst
9 4 (2.44%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.05%) RESTful
2 4 (2.44%) GraphQL
2 4 (2.44%) XML
3 3 (1.83%) React
3 3 (1.83%) Spring
4 2 (1.22%) .NET
4 2 (1.22%) EJB
4 2 (1.22%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (1.22%) J2EE
4 2 (1.22%) JDBC
4 2 (1.22%) jQuery
4 2 (1.22%) Kafka
4 2 (1.22%) Middleware
4 2 (1.22%) Murex MxML
4 2 (1.22%) Protocol Buffers
4 2 (1.22%) SOAP
4 2 (1.22%) Swagger
4 2 (1.22%) Web Services
4 2 (1.22%) WebSphere MQ
4 2 (1.22%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.27%) Data Centre
1 7 (4.27%) Onboarding
2 4 (2.44%) Derivative
2 4 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (1.83%) Fixed Income
3 3 (1.83%) Mainframe
3 3 (1.83%) Management Information System
3 3 (1.83%) Public Cloud
3 3 (1.83%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.22%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.22%) Credit Derivative
4 2 (1.22%) e-Learning
4 2 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.22%) Grid Computing
4 2 (1.22%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 2 (1.22%) Learning Management System
4 2 (1.22%) Market Risk
4 2 (1.22%) Private Cloud
4 2 (1.22%) Reference Data
4 2 (1.22%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 20 (12.20%) Windows
2 15 (9.15%) Linux
3 12 (7.32%) Unix
4 4 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.44%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.83%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.61%) Android
6 1 (0.61%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.61%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 31 (18.90%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (15.24%) Stakeholder Management
4 24 (14.63%) Agile
5 19 (11.59%) CI/CD
6 18 (10.98%) DevOps
6 18 (10.98%) Migration
6 18 (10.98%) Project Management
7 12 (7.32%) Analytics
7 12 (7.32%) Risk Management
8 11 (6.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (6.71%) Project Delivery
9 10 (6.10%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (6.10%) Root Cause Analysis
10 9 (5.49%) Computer Science
10 9 (5.49%) Data Analysis
10 9 (5.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 9 (5.49%) Test Automation
11 8 (4.88%) Artificial Intelligence
11 8 (4.88%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 33 (20.12%) Python
2 29 (17.68%) SQL
3 16 (9.76%) PowerShell
4 11 (6.71%) Java
4 11 (6.71%) JavaScript
5 6 (3.66%) C#
5 6 (3.66%) TypeScript
6 5 (3.05%) PHP
7 4 (2.44%) C++
8 3 (1.83%) COBOL
8 3 (1.83%) Perl
8 3 (1.83%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.22%) ActionScript
9 2 (1.22%) ActionScript 2.0
9 2 (1.22%) Go
9 2 (1.22%) REXX
9 2 (1.22%) VBA
9 2 (1.22%) VBScript
10 1 (0.61%) Bash
10 1 (0.61%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 23 (14.02%) Degree
2 9 (5.49%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.88%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.05%) CCNP
5 5 (3.05%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.83%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.22%) CCIE
7 2 (1.22%) CCNA
8 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.61%) CWDP
8 1 (0.61%) CWNA
8 1 (0.61%) FFIEC
8 1 (0.61%) ISEB
8 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.61%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.27%) GDPR
2 5 (3.05%) QA
3 3 (1.83%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.83%) PMO
4 2 (1.22%) PERC
4 2 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.61%) COBIT
5 1 (0.61%) GRC
5 1 (0.61%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.61%) SLA
5 1 (0.61%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 8 (4.88%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.22%) Docker
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (6.10%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.27%) Terraform
3 3 (1.83%) Ansible
4 2 (1.22%) HP ALM
4 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.22%) SCCM
5 1 (0.61%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.61%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.61%) Grafana
5 1 (0.61%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.61%) Kibana
5 1 (0.61%) Netcool
5 1 (0.61%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.61%) Puppet
5 1 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.61%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.61%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (0.61%) VxRail
Vendors
1 14 (8.54%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.10%) Cisco
2 10 (6.10%) Oracle
2 10 (6.10%) ServiceNow
3 7 (4.27%) SAP
4 6 (3.66%) IBM
4 6 (3.66%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.66%) VMware
5 4 (2.44%) Google
5 4 (2.44%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.83%) Adobe
6 3 (1.83%) HP
6 3 (1.83%) IBM Sterling
6 3 (1.83%) Murex
6 3 (1.83%) Splunk
6 3 (1.83%) Sybase
7 2 (1.22%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.22%) EMC
7 2 (1.22%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.22%) Qualys