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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 107 97
Rank change year-on-year +26 -10 +11
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 610 334 438
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.24% 2.73% 2.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.65% 2.95% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 156 254
10th Percentile £263 £263 £252
25th Percentile £385 £359 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -10.64%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £662
90th Percentile £789 £738 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 15
10th Percentile £20.51 £26.15 £11.95
25th Percentile £20.89 £26.88 £12.69
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.81 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.11% +23.22% -60.00%
75th Percentile £33.31 £34.94 £51.25
90th Percentile £37.55 £36.69 £68.13
England median hourly rate £22.42 £29.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -22.69% +38.10% -44.76%

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 16,716 11,308 15,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.77% 92.32% 88.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,135 7,565 11,176
10th Percentile £359 £346 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 198 317
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.17 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +19.45% -28.97%
75th Percentile £58.96 £49.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.40
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +69.64% -25.33% +5.63%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -14 37 £550 -4.35% 29
South London -2 13 £500 -31.86% 2
East London 0 5 £432 - 4
West London -22 5 £475 +39.71% 11
North London - 1 £550 -
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 14 (2.30%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.13%) Confluence
3 11 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.31%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.82%) IIS
6 5 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.66%) Apache
8 3 (0.49%) CMS
8 3 (0.49%) SAS
9 2 (0.33%) Drupal
9 2 (0.33%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.33%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.16%) Mule
10 1 (0.16%) nginx
10 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (2.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.66%) UserZoom
4 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.48%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.66%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 3 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.49%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.33%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.16%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.16%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.16%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.16%) Magento
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.16%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 138 (22.62%) Azure
2 99 (16.23%) AWS
3 49 (8.03%) GCP
4 38 (6.23%) Microsoft 365
5 36 (5.90%) Entra ID
6 30 (4.92%) SaaS
7 27 (4.43%) Microsoft Purview
8 23 (3.77%) Power Platform
9 18 (2.95%) GitHub
10 17 (2.79%) Snowflake
11 12 (1.97%) Azure Sentinel
11 12 (1.97%) Microsoft Copilot
12 11 (1.80%) Amazon S3
12 11 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (1.80%) Serverless
13 10 (1.64%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (1.64%) Azure Logic Apps
14 8 (1.31%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 37 (6.07%) Network Security
2 17 (2.79%) Firewall
3 12 (1.97%) MPLS
4 7 (1.15%) SSL
4 7 (1.15%) VLAN
4 7 (1.15%) VPN
4 7 (1.15%) WAN
4 7 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (0.98%) SAN
5 6 (0.98%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.98%) Wireless
6 5 (0.82%) Cisco IPT
6 5 (0.82%) Ethernet
6 5 (0.82%) HTTPS
6 5 (0.82%) NAS
7 4 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (0.66%) HTTP
7 4 (0.66%) LAN
8 3 (0.49%) IPv4
8 3 (0.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.44%) Metadata
2 19 (3.11%) Power BI
3 13 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (1.97%) NoSQL
5 10 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.48%) Big Data
6 9 (1.48%) Data Lake
7 8 (1.31%) MongoDB
8 7 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (1.15%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.15%) SQL Server
8 7 (1.15%) Tableau
9 6 (0.98%) BigQuery
10 5 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (0.82%) MySQL
11 4 (0.66%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (0.66%) Delta Lake
11 4 (0.66%) Pinecone
11 4 (0.66%) Weaviate
12 3 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 38 (6.23%) JIRA
2 24 (3.93%) Git
3 10 (1.64%) GitLab
4 9 (1.48%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.31%) SpecFlow
6 4 (0.66%) ERwin
6 4 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.49%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.49%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.49%) Gradle
7 3 (0.49%) Katalon Studio
7 3 (0.49%) Selenium
8 2 (0.33%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.33%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.33%) JUnit
8 2 (0.33%) Maven
8 2 (0.33%) Postman
9 1 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.16%) NUnit
9 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 172 (28.20%) Social Skills
2 170 (27.87%) Finance
3 72 (11.80%) Banking
4 66 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (8.03%) Legal
6 47 (7.70%) Public Sector
7 31 (5.08%) Documentation Skills
8 28 (4.59%) Front Office
9 18 (2.95%) Telecoms
10 15 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (2.30%) Marketing
12 12 (1.97%) Investment Banking
12 12 (1.97%) Local Government
12 12 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (1.80%) Pharmaceutical
13 11 (1.80%) Retail
14 9 (1.48%) Billing
15 8 (1.31%) Law
16 7 (1.15%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 97 (15.90%) Architect
2 67 (10.98%) Analyst
3 53 (8.69%) Developer
4 47 (7.70%) Senior
5 41 (6.72%) Lead
6 38 (6.23%) Project Manager
7 37 (6.07%) Business Analyst
8 33 (5.41%) Consultant
9 28 (4.59%) Solutions Architect
10 25 (4.10%) Security Architect
11 22 (3.61%) Security Engineer
12 21 (3.44%) Network Engineer
13 16 (2.62%) Data Engineer
14 14 (2.30%) Java Developer
15 11 (1.80%) Cloud Engineer
15 11 (1.80%) IT Support
15 11 (1.80%) Junior
15 11 (1.80%) Senior Manager
16 10 (1.64%) Product Manager
17 9 (1.48%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (4.26%) REST
2 18 (2.95%) React
3 15 (2.46%) .NET
4 14 (2.30%) Middleware
5 13 (2.13%) Spring
6 11 (1.80%) HTML
6 11 (1.80%) RESTful
7 10 (1.64%) Playwright
8 9 (1.48%) CSS
8 9 (1.48%) GraphQL
8 9 (1.48%) OAuth
8 9 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (1.31%) Kafka
9 8 (1.31%) Spring Boot
10 7 (1.15%) JSON
10 7 (1.15%) OAuth2
10 7 (1.15%) OpenID
11 6 (0.98%) SAML
12 5 (0.82%) FIX Protocol
12 5 (0.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 309 (50.66%) Data Protection Act
2 47 (7.70%) Cloud Native
3 31 (5.08%) Onboarding
4 28 (4.59%) Product Ownership
5 20 (3.28%) Security Posture
6 19 (3.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 19 (3.11%) Management Information System
7 16 (2.62%) Virtual Team
8 13 (2.13%) Derivative
9 12 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (1.80%) Data Centre
10 11 (1.80%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (1.31%) Cyber Threat
12 8 (1.31%) Equities
12 8 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (1.15%) NHS
13 7 (1.15%) Operational Technology
13 7 (1.15%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 38 (6.23%) Windows
2 19 (3.11%) Linux
3 13 (2.13%) Android
4 10 (1.64%) Unix
5 9 (1.48%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.15%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.98%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.33%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.33%) zOS
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
1 122 (20.00%) Agile
2 96 (15.74%) Stakeholder Management
3 84 (13.77%) AI
4 83 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
5 82 (13.44%) CI/CD
6 79 (12.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 77 (12.62%) DevOps
8 74 (12.13%) Migration
9 73 (11.97%) Cybersecurity
10 70 (11.48%) Analytics
11 61 (10.00%) Roadmaps
12 59 (9.67%) Risk Management
13 56 (9.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 51 (8.36%) Cloud Security
14 51 (8.36%) Decision-Making
14 51 (8.36%) Information Security
15 49 (8.03%) Data Governance
16 44 (7.21%) Test Automation
17 40 (6.56%) Incident Response
18 39 (6.39%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 88 (14.43%) Python
2 65 (10.66%) Java
3 64 (10.49%) SQL
4 25 (4.10%) C#
5 21 (3.44%) JavaScript
6 14 (2.30%) PowerShell
6 14 (2.30%) TypeScript
7 9 (1.48%) C++
8 8 (1.31%) Kotlin
9 7 (1.15%) Apex Code
9 7 (1.15%) Bash
9 7 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (0.82%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.82%) Scala
10 5 (0.82%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.33%) ActionScript
11 2 (0.33%) R
12 1 (0.16%) GLSL
12 1 (0.16%) Groovy
12 1 (0.16%) Swift
Qualifications
1 79 (12.95%) Security Cleared
2 65 (10.66%) SC Cleared
3 62 (10.16%) Degree
4 42 (6.89%) CISSP
5 21 (3.44%) CISM
6 17 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (2.62%) Master's Degree
8 15 (2.46%) PMI Certification
8 15 (2.46%) PMP
9 14 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (1.97%) AWS Certification
10 12 (1.97%) Azure Certification
11 10 (1.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 10 (1.64%) DV Cleared
12 9 (1.48%) CRISC
13 8 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (1.31%) CCSP
13 8 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (1.15%) CISA
15 6 (0.98%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (15.74%) GDPR
2 45 (7.38%) NIST
3 40 (6.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 32 (5.25%) QA
5 30 (4.92%) Data Quality
6 20 (3.28%) PCI DSS
7 19 (3.11%) GRC
8 13 (2.13%) Accessibility
9 12 (1.97%) SLA
10 11 (1.80%) PMO
10 11 (1.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (1.15%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.98%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.82%) NCSC
14 4 (0.66%) COBIT
14 4 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.66%) GAAP
14 4 (0.66%) IFRS
15 3 (0.49%) Basel III
System Software
1 30 (4.92%) Active Directory
2 25 (4.10%) Docker
3 4 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.16%) Firmware
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.16%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 34 (5.57%) Kubernetes
2 26 (4.26%) Terraform
3 16 (2.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (1.97%) Ansible
5 11 (1.80%) SCCM
6 10 (1.64%) Grafana
6 10 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 7 (1.15%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.66%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.66%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.66%) Kibana
9 4 (0.66%) PingFederate
10 3 (0.49%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.33%) Avamar
11 2 (0.33%) Control-M
11 2 (0.33%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (0.33%) Packer
11 2 (0.33%) QRadar
11 2 (0.33%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 101 (16.56%) Microsoft
2 29 (4.75%) ServiceNow
3 28 (4.59%) Oracle
4 19 (3.11%) Cisco
4 19 (3.11%) Google
5 18 (2.95%) Databricks
6 16 (2.62%) Salesforce
7 13 (2.13%) Zscaler
8 12 (1.97%) SAP
9 11 (1.80%) Splunk
10 10 (1.64%) Workday
11 8 (1.31%) Citrix
11 8 (1.31%) Nokia
12 7 (1.15%) ADVA
12 7 (1.15%) Aruba
13 6 (0.98%) Adobe
13 6 (0.98%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.98%) Palo Alto
13 6 (0.98%) Red Hat
14 5 (0.82%) Apple