Data Protection Contract Job Trends in London

Data Protection
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Data Protection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 81 101
Rank change year-on-year -21 +20 -6
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 611 462 434
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.01% 3.42% 2.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.38% 3.70% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 220 241
10th Percentile £286 £289 £243
25th Percentile £381 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.69% +2.25% -16.32%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £736 £725 £738
England median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 5
10th Percentile £14.25 £27.05 £27.14
25th Percentile £16.93 £28.62 £27.84
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.74 £44.08
Median % change year-on-year -11.78% -27.99% -16.04%
75th Percentile £33.60 £34.36 £71.88
90th Percentile £36.96 £35.63 -
England median hourly rate £17.85 £19.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.05% -24.00% -18.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Data Protection falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 18,076 12,495 14,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.53% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,807 8,257 9,705
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.95% -2.87% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 255 182
10th Percentile £16.75 £17.03 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.01 £23.29
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.63 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.84 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Protection relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Data Protection job vacancy trend in London

Data Protection
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Protection.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Protection

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in London over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in London

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Protection.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Protection

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Protection in London over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Protection in London

Data Protection
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 10 September 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
Central London -5 46 £551 +3.14% 52
West London -15 8 £475 +31.49% 17
South London -13 7 £338 -54.00% 8
East London - 4 £410 - 4
Data Protection
England

Data Protection
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 17 (2.78%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.47%) Confluence
4 7 (1.15%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.98%) Apache
5 6 (0.98%) IIS
6 5 (0.82%) SAS
7 3 (0.49%) CMS
7 3 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.33%) CICS
8 2 (0.33%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.33%) WordPress
9 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.16%) Drupal
9 1 (0.16%) Luigi
9 1 (0.16%) Moodle
9 1 (0.16%) nginx
9 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
Applications
1 20 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.65%) UserZoom
5 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (1.15%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.82%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.49%) Unit4 Business World
5 2 (0.33%) Endur
5 2 (0.33%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.33%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.16%) Actimize
6 1 (0.16%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.16%) Magento
6 1 (0.16%) Maximo
6 1 (0.16%) Misys Equation
6 1 (0.16%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle BRM
6 1 (0.16%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.16%) SAP FI-CA
6 1 (0.16%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 142 (23.24%) Azure
2 113 (18.49%) AWS
3 53 (8.67%) GCP
4 37 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
4 37 (6.06%) SaaS
5 29 (4.75%) Entra ID
6 28 (4.58%) Microsoft Purview
7 24 (3.93%) Power Platform
8 23 (3.76%) GitHub
9 21 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (2.78%) Serverless
11 16 (2.62%) Microsoft Copilot
12 12 (1.96%) Azure Logic Apps
12 12 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (1.80%) OneDrive
13 11 (1.80%) Snowflake
13 11 (1.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 10 (1.64%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 9 (1.47%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 43 (7.04%) Network Security
2 22 (3.60%) Firewall
3 14 (2.29%) Cisco IPT
4 11 (1.80%) DNS
5 10 (1.64%) VPN
5 10 (1.64%) Wireless
6 9 (1.47%) DHCP
7 8 (1.31%) WAN
7 8 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (1.15%) LAN
8 7 (1.15%) SSL
8 7 (1.15%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.82%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (0.82%) HTTPS
9 5 (0.82%) MPLS
10 4 (0.65%) Cisco ISE
10 4 (0.65%) HTTP
10 4 (0.65%) SAN
11 3 (0.49%) DMZ
11 3 (0.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.44%) Metadata
2 19 (3.11%) Power BI
3 17 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (2.13%) NoSQL
6 11 (1.80%) MySQL
7 10 (1.64%) Relational Database
8 8 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (1.31%) Big Data
9 6 (0.98%) Data Lake
9 6 (0.98%) Oracle Database
9 6 (0.98%) SQL Server
10 5 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (0.82%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.82%) Tableau
11 4 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.65%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (0.65%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.49%) Pinecone
12 3 (0.49%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 33 (5.40%) JIRA
2 21 (3.44%) Git
3 13 (2.13%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.15%) GitLab
5 4 (0.65%) ERwin
5 4 (0.65%) Selenium
6 3 (0.49%) ER Studio
6 3 (0.49%) Gradle
7 2 (0.33%) CMake
7 2 (0.33%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.33%) JUnit
7 2 (0.33%) Maven
7 2 (0.33%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.33%) Vite
7 2 (0.33%) XCUITest
8 1 (0.16%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.16%) Capybara
8 1 (0.16%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.16%) RSpec
General
1 214 (35.02%) Social Skills
2 169 (27.66%) Finance
3 70 (11.46%) Banking
4 67 (10.97%) Public Sector
5 63 (10.31%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (10.31%) Legal
6 36 (5.89%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (5.07%) Front Office
8 18 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
9 16 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (2.29%) Marketing
10 14 (2.29%) Retail
11 13 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
12 12 (1.96%) Billing
13 10 (1.64%) Investment Banking
13 10 (1.64%) Local Government
13 10 (1.64%) Police
14 9 (1.47%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.31%) Law
Job Titles
1 104 (17.02%) Architect
2 74 (12.11%) Analyst
3 47 (7.69%) Developer
3 47 (7.69%) Senior
4 44 (7.20%) Lead
5 36 (5.89%) Consultant
6 35 (5.73%) Security Architect
7 34 (5.56%) Business Analyst
8 30 (4.91%) Project Manager
9 26 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
10 13 (2.13%) Data Engineer
10 13 (2.13%) Product Manager
10 13 (2.13%) Security Engineer
11 12 (1.96%) Java Developer
12 11 (1.80%) Data Protection Officer
12 11 (1.80%) Network Engineer
13 10 (1.64%) Data Analyst
13 10 (1.64%) Enterprise Architect
13 10 (1.64%) Junior
14 9 (1.47%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (4.91%) REST
2 25 (4.09%) Terraform
3 15 (2.45%) OAuth
4 13 (2.13%) React
4 13 (2.13%) RESTful
5 11 (1.80%) Middleware
5 11 (1.80%) Spring
6 10 (1.64%) CSS
6 10 (1.64%) GraphQL
6 10 (1.64%) HTML
7 9 (1.47%) Spring Boot
8 8 (1.31%) Lightning Web Components
8 8 (1.31%) OAuth2
8 8 (1.31%) OpenID
8 8 (1.31%) Pandas
9 7 (1.15%) JSON
9 7 (1.15%) Kafka
9 7 (1.15%) SAML
10 6 (0.98%) Playwright
10 6 (0.98%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 281 (45.99%) Data Protection Act
2 39 (6.38%) Cloud Native
3 38 (6.22%) Onboarding
4 36 (5.89%) Product Ownership
5 30 (4.91%) Management Information System
6 26 (4.26%) Security Posture
7 18 (2.95%) Distributed Systems
7 18 (2.95%) Virtual Team
8 14 (2.29%) Derivative
9 13 (2.13%) Data Centre
10 10 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (1.64%) NHS
11 9 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.31%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.31%) Fixed Income
12 8 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (1.31%) Operational Technology
13 7 (1.15%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 44 (7.20%) Windows
2 23 (3.76%) Linux
3 13 (2.13%) Android
4 11 (1.80%) Unix
5 10 (1.64%) Apple iOS
5 10 (1.64%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.15%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.65%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.33%) zOS
10 1 (0.16%) CentOS
10 1 (0.16%) MVS
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.16%) Rocky
10 1 (0.16%) Solaris
10 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.16%) VMS
10 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (22.42%) Stakeholder Management
2 110 (18.00%) Agile
3 98 (16.04%) AI
4 96 (15.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 91 (14.89%) Cybersecurity
6 87 (14.24%) CI/CD
7 81 (13.26%) DevOps
7 81 (13.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 79 (12.93%) Migration
9 78 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
10 72 (11.78%) Data Governance
11 69 (11.29%) Roadmaps
12 64 (10.47%) Information Security
12 64 (10.47%) Risk Management
13 63 (10.31%) Analytics
14 61 (9.98%) Decision-Making
15 52 (8.51%) Cloud Security
16 47 (7.69%) Validation
17 46 (7.53%) Data Modelling
18 43 (7.04%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 71 (11.62%) Python
2 58 (9.49%) SQL
3 42 (6.87%) Java
4 21 (3.44%) PowerShell
5 16 (2.62%) JavaScript
6 12 (1.96%) TypeScript
7 10 (1.64%) Apex Code
8 9 (1.47%) Kotlin
9 7 (1.15%) Bash
9 7 (1.15%) C++
10 6 (0.98%) C#
10 6 (0.98%) Scala
11 5 (0.82%) C
12 4 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (0.65%) Perl
13 3 (0.49%) COBOL
13 3 (0.49%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.49%) VBScript
14 2 (0.33%) PHP
14 2 (0.33%) REXX
Qualifications
1 75 (12.27%) Security Cleared
2 55 (9.00%) SC Cleared
3 48 (7.86%) Degree
4 45 (7.36%) CISSP
5 28 (4.58%) CISM
6 18 (2.95%) DV Cleared
7 15 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (2.45%) PMI Certification
8 14 (2.29%) PMP
9 12 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (1.64%) Azure Certification
11 7 (1.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 7 (1.15%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.98%) CISA
13 5 (0.82%) CCNP
13 5 (0.82%) CRISC
13 5 (0.82%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (16.37%) GDPR
2 43 (7.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 39 (6.38%) Data Quality
4 33 (5.40%) QA
5 31 (5.07%) NIST
6 19 (3.11%) Accessibility
6 19 (3.11%) GRC
7 15 (2.45%) PCI DSS
8 12 (1.96%) PMO
9 9 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (1.31%) Government Security Classifications
10 8 (1.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 8 (1.31%) PERC
11 6 (0.98%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.98%) SLA
12 5 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.82%) NCSC
13 4 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.65%) COBIT
System Software
1 33 (5.40%) Active Directory
2 19 (3.11%) Docker
3 5 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.33%) Firmware
5 2 (0.33%) Varnish
5 2 (0.33%) vSphere
6 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.16%) IAG
6 1 (0.16%) NFS
6 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (4.42%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (1.96%) SCCM
3 11 (1.80%) Ansible
4 10 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (1.15%) Grafana
6 5 (0.82%) CA Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.65%) PingFederate
7 4 (0.65%) Puppet
8 3 (0.49%) Kibana
8 3 (0.49%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.49%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.49%) QRadar
9 2 (0.33%) Control-M
9 2 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.33%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.33%) Packer
9 2 (0.33%) SCOM
10 1 (0.16%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 118 (19.31%) Microsoft
2 38 (6.22%) ServiceNow
3 27 (4.42%) Oracle
4 24 (3.93%) Cisco
5 19 (3.11%) Salesforce
6 18 (2.95%) Google
7 15 (2.45%) Zscaler
8 14 (2.29%) Databricks
9 13 (2.13%) Splunk
10 8 (1.31%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.15%) Murex
12 6 (0.98%) CyberArk
12 6 (0.98%) VMware
13 5 (0.82%) Aruba
13 5 (0.82%) Bloomberg
13 5 (0.82%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.82%) IBM
13 5 (0.82%) Palo Alto
13 5 (0.82%) Ping Identity
13 5 (0.82%) Workday