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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 86 100
Rank change year-on-year -7 +14 -1
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 625 441 426
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.11% 3.26% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.49% 3.53% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 214 242
10th Percentile £285 £279 £243
25th Percentile £391 £381 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -15.82%
75th Percentile £642 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £725 £749
England median daily rate £500 £491 £500
% change year-on-year +1.83% -1.80% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 4
10th Percentile £14.25 £26.10 £27.03
25th Percentile £16.26 £26.25 £27.55
Median hourly rate £25.32 £30.00 £48.30
Median % change year-on-year -15.61% -37.88% -8.01%
75th Percentile £33.94 £32.50 £71.88
90th Percentile £37.11 £34.89 -
England median hourly rate £20.39 £19.70 £20.50
% change year-on-year +3.48% -3.90% -50.05%

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 17,900 12,495 14,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.11% 92.36% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 8,322 10,079
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £777 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 253 201
10th Percentile £17.07 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.71
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.39% -12.41%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.87%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 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
Central London -11 46 £557 +4.26% 49
West London -14 8 £475 +23.38% 7
South London -13 6 £581 -20.82% 15
East London - 3 £410 - 2
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 13 (2.08%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (1.60%) Confluence
4 9 (1.44%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.96%) Apache
6 5 (0.80%) IIS
7 3 (0.48%) CMS
7 3 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.48%) SAS
8 2 (0.32%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.32%) WordPress
9 1 (0.16%) CICS
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 21 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.64%) UserZoom
5 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.32%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.96%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.64%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.48%) Unit4 Business World
4 2 (0.32%) ION MarketView
4 2 (0.32%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.16%) Actimize
5 1 (0.16%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.16%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.16%) Endur
5 1 (0.16%) Misys Equation
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.16%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 146 (23.36%) Azure
2 109 (17.44%) AWS
3 51 (8.16%) GCP
4 35 (5.60%) Microsoft 365
4 35 (5.60%) SaaS
5 32 (5.12%) Entra ID
6 29 (4.64%) Microsoft Purview
7 27 (4.32%) Power Platform
8 23 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (3.52%) GitHub
10 20 (3.20%) Serverless
11 15 (2.40%) Microsoft Copilot
12 14 (2.24%) Azure Logic Apps
13 13 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (1.92%) Snowflake
15 11 (1.76%) Amazon S3
16 10 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
16 10 (1.60%) OneDrive
17 9 (1.44%) Salesforce Service Cloud
18 8 (1.28%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 44 (7.04%) Network Security
2 24 (3.84%) Firewall
3 11 (1.76%) Cisco IPT
4 10 (1.60%) DNS
4 10 (1.60%) Wireless
5 9 (1.44%) VPN
6 8 (1.28%) DHCP
6 8 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (1.12%) Cisco Nexus
7 7 (1.12%) LAN
7 7 (1.12%) SSL
7 7 (1.12%) WAN
8 6 (0.96%) SAN
8 6 (0.96%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.80%) HTTPS
9 5 (0.80%) MPLS
10 4 (0.64%) HTTP
10 4 (0.64%) NAS
11 3 (0.48%) Cisco ISE
11 3 (0.48%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.52%) Power BI
2 20 (3.20%) Metadata
3 17 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (2.56%) NoSQL
5 10 (1.60%) Big Data
5 10 (1.60%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.44%) Data Lake
6 9 (1.44%) MySQL
7 8 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (1.12%) MongoDB
9 6 (0.96%) Tableau
10 5 (0.80%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.64%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (0.64%) Delta Lake
11 4 (0.64%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.64%) SQL Server
12 3 (0.48%) Db2
12 3 (0.48%) Pinecone
12 3 (0.48%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 32 (5.12%) JIRA
2 22 (3.52%) Git
3 12 (1.92%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.44%) GitLab
5 5 (0.80%) Selenium
6 4 (0.64%) ERwin
6 4 (0.64%) Gradle
7 3 (0.48%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.48%) SpecFlow
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%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.16%) NUnit
9 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 210 (33.60%) Social Skills
2 165 (26.40%) Finance
3 69 (11.04%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (10.72%) Banking
5 64 (10.24%) Public Sector
6 60 (9.60%) Legal
7 35 (5.60%) Documentation Skills
8 27 (4.32%) Front Office
9 19 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (2.24%) Marketing
11 14 (2.24%) Retail
12 13 (2.08%) Billing
12 13 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
13 12 (1.92%) Local Government
13 12 (1.92%) Telecoms
14 10 (1.60%) Investment Banking
14 10 (1.60%) Law
14 10 (1.60%) Police
Job Titles
1 109 (17.44%) Architect
2 76 (12.16%) Analyst
3 48 (7.68%) Developer
4 46 (7.36%) Senior
5 38 (6.08%) Lead
6 37 (5.92%) Business Analyst
7 33 (5.28%) Consultant
8 30 (4.80%) Security Architect
9 29 (4.64%) Project Manager
10 25 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
11 19 (3.04%) Security Engineer
12 17 (2.72%) Data Engineer
13 13 (2.08%) Network Engineer
14 12 (1.92%) Java Developer
14 12 (1.92%) Junior
15 11 (1.76%) Data Analyst
15 11 (1.76%) Data Protection Officer
15 11 (1.76%) Product Manager
16 10 (1.60%) IT Support
17 9 (1.44%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (5.12%) REST
2 14 (2.24%) Middleware
2 14 (2.24%) React
3 13 (2.08%) Spring
4 12 (1.92%) OAuth
5 11 (1.76%) CSS
5 11 (1.76%) GraphQL
5 11 (1.76%) RESTful
6 10 (1.60%) .NET
6 10 (1.60%) HTML
7 9 (1.44%) Spring Boot
8 8 (1.28%) JSON
8 8 (1.28%) Kafka
9 7 (1.12%) Lightning Web Components
9 7 (1.12%) OAuth2
9 7 (1.12%) Playwright
9 7 (1.12%) SAML
10 6 (0.96%) OpenID
10 6 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
10 6 (0.96%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 300 (48.00%) Data Protection Act
2 42 (6.72%) Cloud Native
3 36 (5.76%) Product Ownership
4 35 (5.60%) Onboarding
5 26 (4.16%) Security Posture
6 22 (3.52%) Management Information System
7 21 (3.36%) Virtual Team
8 17 (2.72%) Data Centre
8 17 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (2.08%) Derivative
10 12 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 11 (1.76%) Mobile App
11 11 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.44%) NHS
12 9 (1.44%) Operational Technology
13 8 (1.28%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (1.12%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 41 (6.56%) Windows
2 22 (3.52%) Linux
3 15 (2.40%) Android
4 12 (1.92%) Apple iOS
4 12 (1.92%) Unix
5 7 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.96%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.80%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.64%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.32%) zOS
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%) VMS
10 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (18.88%) Agile
1 118 (18.88%) Stakeholder Management
2 97 (15.52%) AI
3 96 (15.36%) Continuous Improvement
4 94 (15.04%) CI/CD
5 88 (14.08%) DevOps
6 87 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
7 84 (13.44%) Cybersecurity
8 76 (12.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 75 (12.00%) Analytics
9 75 (12.00%) Data Governance
9 75 (12.00%) Migration
10 68 (10.88%) Roadmaps
11 60 (9.60%) Decision-Making
12 59 (9.44%) Information Security
13 53 (8.48%) Risk Management
14 50 (8.00%) Data Modelling
15 45 (7.20%) Cloud Security
15 45 (7.20%) Test Automation
16 39 (6.24%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 76 (12.16%) Python
2 65 (10.40%) SQL
3 52 (8.32%) Java
4 21 (3.36%) PowerShell
5 18 (2.88%) JavaScript
6 14 (2.24%) TypeScript
7 11 (1.76%) C#
8 10 (1.60%) Kotlin
9 9 (1.44%) Apex Code
10 7 (1.12%) C++
11 6 (0.96%) Bash
11 6 (0.96%) Scala
12 5 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.64%) Perl
14 3 (0.48%) C
15 2 (0.32%) COBOL
15 2 (0.32%) PHP
15 2 (0.32%) R
15 2 (0.32%) Ruby
15 2 (0.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 77 (12.32%) Security Cleared
2 59 (9.44%) SC Cleared
3 52 (8.32%) Degree
4 43 (6.88%) CISSP
5 26 (4.16%) CISM
6 18 (2.88%) DV Cleared
7 14 (2.24%) Azure Certification
7 14 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.24%) PMI Certification
8 13 (2.08%) PMP
9 11 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (1.60%) AWS Certification
10 10 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.96%) CISA
12 5 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.80%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (0.80%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.80%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.64%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (15.84%) GDPR
2 40 (6.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 38 (6.08%) NIST
4 37 (5.92%) Data Quality
5 34 (5.44%) QA
6 20 (3.20%) Accessibility
7 16 (2.56%) GRC
8 14 (2.24%) PCI DSS
9 13 (2.08%) PMO
10 9 (1.44%) PERC
10 9 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (1.44%) SLA
11 8 (1.28%) Government Security Classifications
11 8 (1.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 7 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.96%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.96%) NCSC
14 5 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 3 (0.48%) HL7
System Software
1 35 (5.60%) Active Directory
2 21 (3.36%) Docker
3 4 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.32%) Firmware
5 2 (0.32%) Varnish
6 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.16%) NFS
Systems Management
1 29 (4.64%) Kubernetes
2 26 (4.16%) Terraform
3 14 (2.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (1.76%) Ansible
5 11 (1.76%) SCCM
6 10 (1.60%) Grafana
7 5 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.80%) CA Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.80%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.64%) Kibana
8 4 (0.64%) PingFederate
9 3 (0.48%) EMC NetWorker
9 3 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.48%) NetBackup
9 3 (0.48%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.48%) Puppet
9 3 (0.48%) QRadar
10 2 (0.32%) Avamar
10 2 (0.32%) Packer
Vendors
1 118 (18.88%) Microsoft
2 42 (6.72%) ServiceNow
3 27 (4.32%) Oracle
4 24 (3.84%) Cisco
5 19 (3.04%) Salesforce
6 17 (2.72%) Google
7 16 (2.56%) Databricks
8 13 (2.08%) Splunk
9 12 (1.92%) Zscaler
10 8 (1.28%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.12%) Palo Alto
11 7 (1.12%) Workday
12 6 (0.96%) Bloomberg
12 6 (0.96%) CyberArk
12 6 (0.96%) F5
12 6 (0.96%) Murex
12 6 (0.96%) SAP
13 5 (0.80%) Aruba
13 5 (0.80%) NetApp
13 5 (0.80%) Ping Identity