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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 105 93
Rank change year-on-year +27 -12 +25
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 591 335 446
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.37% 2.63% 2.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.80% 2.86% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 161 267
10th Percentile £300 £253 £243
25th Percentile £413 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £650 £613 £663
90th Percentile £775 £744 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 13
10th Percentile £20.19 £22.78 -
25th Percentile £20.86 £26.19 £11.95
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.40 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% +24.09% -60.80%
75th Percentile £33.22 £34.17 £40.00
90th Percentile £35.49 £36.64 £58.70
England median hourly rate £20.79 £29.23 £20.25
% change year-on-year -28.87% +44.35% -61.43%

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 15,562 11,733 15,787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.73% 92.06% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,427 7,976 11,319
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 172 330
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.53 £15.99
25th Percentile £25.11 £22.86 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.50 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% +20.00% -26.28%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £47.34
90th Percentile £73.38 £63.70 £65.78
England median hourly rate £42.69 £30.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year +40.18% -13.00% -8.74%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -20 36 £600 +17.07% 29
South London -21 13 £475 -20.83% 3
East London +1 6 £535 - 2
West London -26 3 £275 -19.12% 7
North London - 1 £550 - 1
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 18 (3.05%) Confluence
2 14 (2.37%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.85%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.68%) CMS
6 4 (0.68%) SAS
7 3 (0.51%) Apache
7 3 (0.51%) Drupal
8 2 (0.34%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.34%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.17%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.17%) Mule
9 1 (0.17%) nginx
9 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.17%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (3.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.51%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.34%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (2.03%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.68%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 3 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.51%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (0.34%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.34%) ION MarketView
4 2 (0.34%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.17%) Endur
5 1 (0.17%) Magento
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.17%) Veritas eDiscovery
5 1 (0.17%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 133 (22.50%) Azure
2 89 (15.06%) AWS
3 49 (8.29%) GCP
4 33 (5.58%) SaaS
5 31 (5.25%) Entra ID
5 31 (5.25%) Microsoft 365
6 29 (4.91%) Power Platform
7 25 (4.23%) Microsoft Purview
7 25 (4.23%) Snowflake
8 19 (3.21%) Serverless
9 18 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (2.88%) GitHub
11 14 (2.37%) Amazon S3
11 14 (2.37%) PaaS
12 13 (2.20%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (2.03%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (2.03%) Azure Logic Apps
13 12 (2.03%) Azure Sentinel
13 12 (2.03%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.06%) Network Security
2 15 (2.54%) Firewall
3 14 (2.37%) MPLS
4 12 (2.03%) Cisco IPT
5 10 (1.69%) WAN
6 9 (1.52%) SAN
7 7 (1.18%) LAN
7 7 (1.18%) VLAN
7 7 (1.18%) VPN
8 6 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.85%) Ethernet
9 5 (0.85%) NAS
9 5 (0.85%) Wireless
10 4 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (0.68%) NetScaler
10 4 (0.68%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.68%) SSL
11 3 (0.51%) IPv4
11 3 (0.51%) IPv6
11 3 (0.51%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (4.23%) Power BI
2 19 (3.21%) Metadata
3 16 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (2.37%) NoSQL
5 12 (2.03%) SQL Server
6 11 (1.86%) Big Data
6 11 (1.86%) MongoDB
6 11 (1.86%) Relational Database
7 10 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (1.18%) BigQuery
9 7 (1.18%) Tableau
10 5 (0.85%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.85%) MySQL
10 5 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.68%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.68%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 38 (6.43%) JIRA
2 24 (4.06%) Git
3 12 (2.03%) GitLab
3 12 (2.03%) SpecFlow
4 9 (1.52%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.51%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.51%) JUnit
6 3 (0.51%) Katalon Studio
6 3 (0.51%) Maven
7 2 (0.34%) ERwin
7 2 (0.34%) Gradle
7 2 (0.34%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.34%) NUnit
7 2 (0.34%) Postman
7 2 (0.34%) Selenium
7 2 (0.34%) Storybook
7 2 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.34%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.17%) Vite
General
1 162 (27.41%) Social Skills
2 160 (27.07%) Finance
3 74 (12.52%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (12.01%) Banking
5 51 (8.63%) Legal
6 39 (6.60%) Public Sector
7 29 (4.91%) Front Office
8 23 (3.89%) Telecoms
9 22 (3.72%) Documentation Skills
10 18 (3.05%) Marketing
11 15 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
11 15 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (2.03%) Local Government
13 11 (1.86%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.18%) Billing
14 7 (1.18%) Retail
15 6 (1.02%) Electronics
15 6 (1.02%) Private Banking
16 5 (0.85%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 84 (14.21%) Architect
2 74 (12.52%) Analyst
3 58 (9.81%) Developer
4 49 (8.29%) Senior
5 45 (7.61%) Lead
6 41 (6.94%) Business Analyst
7 38 (6.43%) Consultant
8 27 (4.57%) Project Manager
8 27 (4.57%) Solutions Architect
9 21 (3.55%) Security Engineer
10 20 (3.38%) Network Engineer
11 17 (2.88%) Security Architect
12 16 (2.71%) Data Engineer
12 16 (2.71%) Java Developer
13 13 (2.20%) Technical Architect
14 12 (2.03%) Data Analyst
14 12 (2.03%) Tester
15 11 (1.86%) Automation Tester
15 11 (1.86%) Senior Analyst
15 11 (1.86%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (3.89%) .NET
2 21 (3.55%) REST
3 20 (3.38%) React
4 19 (3.21%) Spring
5 14 (2.37%) HTML
5 14 (2.37%) RESTful
6 13 (2.20%) Spring Boot
7 12 (2.03%) Kafka
7 12 (2.03%) Middleware
8 11 (1.86%) Playwright
9 10 (1.69%) CSS
10 9 (1.52%) Oracle Fusion
11 7 (1.18%) .NET Core
11 7 (1.18%) GraphQL
11 7 (1.18%) Node.js
11 7 (1.18%) OAuth
12 6 (1.02%) JSON
13 5 (0.85%) FIX Protocol
13 5 (0.85%) OpenID
13 5 (0.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 308 (52.12%) Data Protection Act
2 40 (6.77%) Cloud Native
3 28 (4.74%) Onboarding
4 26 (4.40%) Product Ownership
5 19 (3.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 18 (3.05%) Management Information System
6 18 (3.05%) Security Posture
7 15 (2.54%) Derivative
8 14 (2.37%) Virtual Team
9 12 (2.03%) Data Centre
9 12 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (2.03%) Mobile App
10 10 (1.69%) Equities
10 10 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (1.69%) NHS
11 9 (1.52%) Freedom of Information
12 6 (1.02%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.02%) Enterprise Storage
12 6 (1.02%) Equity Derivative
12 6 (1.02%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.57%) Windows
2 20 (3.38%) Linux
3 11 (1.86%) Unix
4 10 (1.69%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.02%) Android
6 5 (0.85%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.51%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.34%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.34%) zOS
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.17%) Rocky
9 1 (0.17%) Solaris
9 1 (0.17%) VMS
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (19.80%) Agile
2 99 (16.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 94 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
4 77 (13.03%) CI/CD
5 76 (12.86%) DevOps
6 72 (12.18%) AI
6 72 (12.18%) Analytics
6 72 (12.18%) Migration
7 60 (10.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 59 (9.98%) Risk Management
9 57 (9.64%) Cybersecurity
10 56 (9.48%) Roadmaps
11 53 (8.97%) Data Governance
11 53 (8.97%) Decision-Making
12 49 (8.29%) Test Automation
13 47 (7.95%) Cloud Security
14 45 (7.61%) Microservices
14 45 (7.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 44 (7.45%) Information Security
16 42 (7.11%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 100 (16.92%) Python
2 87 (14.72%) SQL
3 65 (11.00%) Java
4 33 (5.58%) C#
5 29 (4.91%) JavaScript
6 22 (3.72%) TypeScript
7 13 (2.20%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.52%) C++
9 7 (1.18%) PL/SQL
9 7 (1.18%) Scala
10 6 (1.02%) Bash
10 6 (1.02%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.68%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.51%) Bicep
12 3 (0.51%) PHP
12 3 (0.51%) R
12 3 (0.51%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.34%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 80 (13.54%) Security Cleared
2 67 (11.34%) SC Cleared
3 53 (8.97%) Degree
4 33 (5.58%) CISSP
5 18 (3.05%) CISM
6 17 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.37%) Azure Certification
8 13 (2.20%) Master's Degree
9 12 (2.03%) AWS Certification
9 12 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (2.03%) PMI Certification
9 12 (2.03%) PMP
10 9 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 9 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (1.35%) CCSP
11 8 (1.35%) DV Cleared
12 7 (1.18%) CRISC
13 6 (1.02%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 5 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (14.89%) GDPR
2 43 (7.28%) NIST
3 33 (5.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 31 (5.25%) QA
5 27 (4.57%) Data Quality
6 13 (2.20%) PCI DSS
7 12 (2.03%) GRC
7 12 (2.03%) SLA
8 9 (1.52%) PERC
8 9 (1.52%) PMO
9 7 (1.18%) Accessibility
10 6 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.85%) NCSC
11 5 (0.85%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.68%) COBIT
12 4 (0.68%) GAAP
12 4 (0.68%) IFRS
13 3 (0.51%) HL7
13 3 (0.51%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 34 (5.75%) Docker
2 27 (4.57%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.17%) Firmware
6 1 (0.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 38 (6.43%) Kubernetes
2 32 (5.41%) Terraform
3 14 (2.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (1.86%) Ansible
4 11 (1.86%) SCCM
5 9 (1.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 9 (1.52%) Grafana
5 9 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.02%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.68%) CA Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.68%) Kibana
7 4 (0.68%) PingFederate
8 3 (0.51%) EMC NetWorker
8 3 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.34%) Control-M
9 2 (0.34%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.34%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.34%) Puppet
9 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (0.34%) SCOM
Vendors
1 94 (15.91%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.57%) Oracle
3 22 (3.72%) Google
3 22 (3.72%) ServiceNow
4 20 (3.38%) Databricks
5 17 (2.88%) Cisco
6 14 (2.37%) Salesforce
7 13 (2.20%) SAP
8 11 (1.86%) Adobe
8 11 (1.86%) Citrix
9 9 (1.52%) Nokia
9 9 (1.52%) Splunk
9 9 (1.52%) Workday
10 7 (1.18%) ADVA
10 7 (1.18%) Apple
10 7 (1.18%) F5
10 7 (1.18%) VMware
11 6 (1.02%) IBM
11 6 (1.02%) OpenAI
11 6 (1.02%) Red Hat