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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 100 100
Rank change year-on-year +11 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 617 395 415
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.10% 2.89% 2.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.49% 3.13% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 185 239
10th Percentile £294 £263 £243
25th Percentile £385 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £753 £738 £750
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 6
10th Percentile £14.25 £26.15 £22.22
25th Percentile £16.75 £26.88 £26.97
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.81 £45.17
Median % change year-on-year -10.73% -31.80% -13.96%
75th Percentile £33.22 £34.94 £69.53
90th Percentile £37.25 £36.69 £71.88
England median hourly rate £21.35 £27.39 £19.75
% change year-on-year -22.05% +38.68% -51.88%

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 17,699 12,607 14,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.22% 88.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,693 8,437 10,407
10th Percentile £363 £326 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 241 219
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.19
25th Percentile £20.69 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -12.41% -20.35%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.38
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.63% -5.12%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 27 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
Central London -6 40 £550 -6.34% 27
South London -15 9 £637 -13.19% 10
West London -16 8 £475 +31.03% 1
East London +6 3 £410 - 3
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 11 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
1 11 (1.78%) Confluence
1 11 (1.78%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.46%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.97%) Apache
5 5 (0.81%) IIS
6 3 (0.49%) CMS
6 3 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.49%) SAS
7 2 (0.32%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.32%) WordPress
8 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.16%) Camunda
8 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.16%) Luigi
8 1 (0.16%) nginx
8 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 16 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.65%) UserZoom
5 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.32%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.97%) Aladdin
1 6 (0.97%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.49%) SAP Payroll
3 3 (0.49%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.16%) Actimize
4 1 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.16%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.16%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.16%) Magento
4 1 (0.16%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.16%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle BRM
4 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (0.16%) SAP FI-CA
4 1 (0.16%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 147 (23.82%) Azure
2 111 (17.99%) AWS
3 53 (8.59%) GCP
4 35 (5.67%) Entra ID
5 33 (5.35%) Microsoft 365
5 33 (5.35%) SaaS
6 27 (4.38%) Microsoft Purview
7 25 (4.05%) Power Platform
8 18 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (2.92%) GitHub
9 17 (2.76%) Serverless
10 16 (2.59%) Snowflake
11 12 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (1.94%) Azure Logic Apps
11 12 (1.94%) Microsoft Copilot
12 11 (1.78%) Azure Sentinel
13 10 (1.62%) Amazon S3
14 8 (1.30%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 7 (1.13%) Datadog
15 7 (1.13%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 39 (6.32%) Network Security
2 21 (3.40%) Firewall
3 9 (1.46%) Cisco IPT
4 8 (1.30%) WAN
4 8 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (1.30%) Wireless
5 7 (1.13%) LAN
5 7 (1.13%) SSL
5 7 (1.13%) VPN
6 6 (0.97%) Cisco Nexus
7 5 (0.81%) HTTPS
7 5 (0.81%) MPLS
7 5 (0.81%) SAN
7 5 (0.81%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.65%) DHCP
8 4 (0.65%) DNS
8 4 (0.65%) HTTP
9 3 (0.49%) DMZ
9 3 (0.49%) NAS
9 3 (0.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.40%) Power BI
2 20 (3.24%) Metadata
3 17 (2.76%) NoSQL
3 17 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (1.78%) Relational Database
6 10 (1.62%) Big Data
7 9 (1.46%) Data Lake
7 9 (1.46%) MySQL
8 8 (1.30%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (1.13%) Tableau
10 6 (0.97%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.81%) Delta Lake
11 5 (0.81%) SQL Server
12 4 (0.65%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (0.65%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.65%) Pinecone
12 4 (0.65%) Weaviate
13 3 (0.49%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 34 (5.51%) JIRA
2 21 (3.40%) Git
3 10 (1.62%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.46%) GitLab
5 5 (0.81%) Selenium
5 5 (0.81%) SpecFlow
6 4 (0.65%) ERwin
6 4 (0.65%) Gradle
7 3 (0.49%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.32%) CMake
8 2 (0.32%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.32%) JUnit
8 2 (0.32%) Maven
8 2 (0.32%) Postman
8 2 (0.32%) Vite
8 2 (0.32%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.16%) Mockito
9 1 (0.16%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.16%) RSpec
General
1 195 (31.60%) Social Skills
2 164 (26.58%) Finance
3 67 (10.86%) Banking
4 65 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 61 (9.89%) Public Sector
6 56 (9.08%) Legal
7 30 (4.86%) Documentation Skills
8 23 (3.73%) Front Office
9 15 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (2.27%) Marketing
10 14 (2.27%) Telecoms
11 13 (2.11%) Billing
12 12 (1.94%) Local Government
12 12 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
12 12 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.94%) Retail
13 11 (1.78%) Investment Banking
14 9 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 9 (1.46%) Law
Job Titles
1 111 (17.99%) Architect
2 71 (11.51%) Analyst
3 46 (7.46%) Developer
4 45 (7.29%) Senior
5 39 (6.32%) Lead
6 35 (5.67%) Business Analyst
7 33 (5.35%) Consultant
8 32 (5.19%) Project Manager
9 30 (4.86%) Security Architect
9 30 (4.86%) Solutions Architect
10 20 (3.24%) Security Engineer
11 17 (2.76%) Data Engineer
12 13 (2.11%) Network Engineer
13 12 (1.94%) Java Developer
13 12 (1.94%) Junior
14 11 (1.78%) Data Analyst
14 11 (1.78%) Data Protection Officer
14 11 (1.78%) IT Support
14 11 (1.78%) Product Manager
15 9 (1.46%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (5.51%) REST
2 16 (2.59%) React
3 14 (2.27%) Middleware
3 14 (2.27%) Spring
4 13 (2.11%) OAuth
5 12 (1.94%) CSS
5 12 (1.94%) GraphQL
6 11 (1.78%) HTML
6 11 (1.78%) RESTful
7 10 (1.62%) .NET
7 10 (1.62%) Spring Boot
8 9 (1.46%) Kafka
8 9 (1.46%) Playwright
9 8 (1.30%) JSON
10 7 (1.13%) OAuth2
10 7 (1.13%) OpenID
10 7 (1.13%) SAML
11 6 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
11 6 (0.97%) PySpark
11 6 (0.97%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 296 (47.97%) Data Protection Act
2 49 (7.94%) Cloud Native
3 36 (5.83%) Product Ownership
4 34 (5.51%) Onboarding
5 25 (4.05%) Security Posture
6 20 (3.24%) Virtual Team
7 18 (2.92%) Management Information System
8 16 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (2.11%) Data Centre
10 12 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 12 (1.94%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.62%) Derivative
12 9 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.46%) Operational Technology
12 9 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.30%) BYOD
13 8 (1.30%) Fixed Income
14 7 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (1.13%) Data Structures
14 7 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 40 (6.48%) Windows
2 15 (2.43%) Android
2 15 (2.43%) Linux
3 13 (2.11%) Apple iOS
4 10 (1.62%) Unix
5 5 (0.81%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.81%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.49%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.16%) MVS
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.16%) Rocky
8 1 (0.16%) Solaris
8 1 (0.16%) VMS
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (19.61%) Agile
2 110 (17.83%) Stakeholder Management
3 90 (14.59%) CI/CD
4 89 (14.42%) AI
4 89 (14.42%) Continuous Improvement
5 87 (14.10%) DevOps
6 86 (13.94%) Problem-Solving
7 79 (12.80%) Cybersecurity
8 75 (12.16%) Migration
9 72 (11.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 70 (11.35%) Analytics
11 66 (10.70%) Data Governance
12 63 (10.21%) Roadmaps
13 60 (9.72%) Decision-Making
14 53 (8.59%) Information Security
15 51 (8.27%) Risk Management
16 47 (7.62%) Data Modelling
17 45 (7.29%) Test Automation
18 42 (6.81%) Cloud Security
19 41 (6.65%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 72 (11.67%) Python
2 60 (9.72%) SQL
3 55 (8.91%) Java
4 19 (3.08%) JavaScript
5 16 (2.59%) TypeScript
6 15 (2.43%) PowerShell
7 14 (2.27%) C#
8 9 (1.46%) Kotlin
9 8 (1.30%) Apex Code
10 6 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (0.97%) Scala
11 4 (0.65%) Bash
11 4 (0.65%) C++
12 2 (0.32%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.32%) Go
12 2 (0.32%) PHP
12 2 (0.32%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.32%) R
12 2 (0.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 78 (12.64%) Security Cleared
2 64 (10.37%) SC Cleared
3 51 (8.27%) Degree
4 41 (6.65%) CISSP
5 21 (3.40%) CISM
6 14 (2.27%) DV Cleared
7 13 (2.11%) Azure Certification
7 13 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (1.94%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (1.94%) PMI Certification
9 11 (1.78%) PMP
10 9 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (1.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 8 (1.30%) CISA
12 7 (1.13%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.97%) CCSP
14 5 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (0.81%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (15.56%) GDPR
2 35 (5.67%) NIST
2 35 (5.67%) QA
3 34 (5.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 31 (5.02%) Data Quality
5 19 (3.08%) GRC
6 17 (2.76%) Accessibility
7 16 (2.59%) PMO
8 15 (2.43%) PCI DSS
9 11 (1.78%) SLA
10 9 (1.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (1.30%) PERC
12 6 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.97%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.97%) NCSC
13 5 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 5 (0.81%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.65%) Government Security Classifications
14 4 (0.65%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 32 (5.19%) Active Directory
2 23 (3.73%) Docker
3 3 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.32%) Varnish
4 2 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.16%) Firmware
5 1 (0.16%) NFS
Systems Management
1 34 (5.51%) Kubernetes
2 22 (3.57%) Terraform
3 14 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (1.62%) Grafana
5 10 (1.62%) SCCM
6 9 (1.46%) Ansible
7 6 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.81%) CA Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.81%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.65%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.65%) Kibana
9 4 (0.65%) PingFederate
10 3 (0.49%) EMC NetWorker
10 3 (0.49%) NetBackup
10 3 (0.49%) QRadar
11 2 (0.32%) Avamar
11 2 (0.32%) Packer
12 1 (0.16%) Istio
12 1 (0.16%) SCOM
Vendors
1 102 (16.53%) Microsoft
2 35 (5.67%) ServiceNow
3 27 (4.38%) Oracle
4 23 (3.73%) Cisco
5 18 (2.92%) Databricks
5 18 (2.92%) Salesforce
6 17 (2.76%) Google
7 13 (2.11%) Zscaler
8 12 (1.94%) Splunk
9 7 (1.13%) Palo Alto
9 7 (1.13%) SAP
9 7 (1.13%) Workday
10 6 (0.97%) Adobe
10 6 (0.97%) Murex
10 6 (0.97%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.81%) Apple
11 5 (0.81%) Aruba
11 5 (0.81%) Bloomberg
11 5 (0.81%) CyberArk
11 5 (0.81%) Red Hat