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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 99 90
Rank change year-on-year +23 -9 +27
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 554 358 445
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.75% 2.58% 2.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.12% 2.85% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 194 274
10th Percentile £315 £290 £225
25th Percentile £413 £386 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% -4.42% -6.52%
75th Percentile £638 £610 £650
90th Percentile £725 £718 £746
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 12
10th Percentile - £16.36 -
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.01 £11.95
Median hourly rate £22.27 £21.50 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year +3.56% -11.34% -
75th Percentile £23.71 £33.17 £40.88
90th Percentile - £39.71 £44.43
England median hourly rate £20.71 £26.87 £21.50
% change year-on-year -22.91% +24.95% -69.29%

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 13,453 12,575 16,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.03% 90.47% 88.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,910 7,994 11,570
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £501 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.67% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 156 322
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £25.00 £24.66 £19.65
Median hourly rate £34.50 £35.00 £30.08
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% +16.36% -19.79%
75th Percentile £56.50 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £71.60 £79.38 £72.73
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -6.85% +4.29%

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 29 January 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
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 29 January 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 -9 33 £588 +17.50% 18
South London -19 7 £320 -46.67% 9
West London -18 3 £250 -37.50% 8
East London - 3 £675 - 4
North London - 2 £625 - 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 21 (3.79%) Confluence
2 14 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.62%) CMS
4 7 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.54%) Apache
6 3 (0.54%) CICS
7 2 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.36%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.36%) Drupal
7 2 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.36%) SAS
7 2 (0.36%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.18%) Luigi
8 1 (0.18%) nginx
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.18%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 21 (3.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.54%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.36%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.36%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.18%) Final Cut Pro
6 1 (0.18%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.18%) Sketch
6 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.62%) Aladdin
1 9 (1.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.72%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 3 (0.54%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.54%) VisionPLUS
4 2 (0.36%) ION MarketView
4 2 (0.36%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.18%) BambooHR
5 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.18%) Endur
5 1 (0.18%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.18%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.18%) Veritas eDiscovery
5 1 (0.18%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 115 (20.76%) Azure
2 64 (11.55%) AWS
3 45 (8.12%) Power Platform
4 34 (6.14%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (6.14%) Microsoft 365
5 31 (5.60%) GCP
6 29 (5.23%) SaaS
7 28 (5.05%) Serverless
8 25 (4.51%) Snowflake
9 21 (3.79%) Entra ID
10 18 (3.25%) Power Automate
11 16 (2.89%) GitHub
12 15 (2.71%) Amazon S3
12 15 (2.71%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (2.53%) Azure AKS
13 14 (2.53%) PaaS
13 14 (2.53%) PowerApps
14 13 (2.35%) Azure Logic Apps
14 13 (2.35%) Azure Monitor
14 13 (2.35%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.89%) Network Security
2 12 (2.17%) MPLS
3 10 (1.81%) Cisco IPT
3 10 (1.81%) Firewall
4 6 (1.08%) SAN
5 5 (0.90%) Ethernet
5 5 (0.90%) VPN
6 4 (0.72%) LAN
6 4 (0.72%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.72%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.72%) VLAN
6 4 (0.72%) WAN
7 3 (0.54%) BGP
7 3 (0.54%) HTTP
7 3 (0.54%) Internet
7 3 (0.54%) NAS
7 3 (0.54%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.36%) DNS
8 2 (0.36%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (5.78%) Power BI
2 16 (2.89%) SQL Server
3 13 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (1.99%) Metadata
5 11 (1.99%) NoSQL
6 9 (1.62%) Tableau
7 8 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (1.44%) MongoDB
8 7 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (1.08%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.90%) Big Data
10 5 (0.90%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.72%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.54%) EDRMS
12 3 (0.54%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.54%) MySQL
12 3 (0.54%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 48 (8.66%) JIRA
2 23 (4.15%) Git
3 11 (1.99%) SpecFlow
4 7 (1.26%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.08%) GitLab
6 5 (0.90%) JUnit
7 4 (0.72%) Maven
8 3 (0.54%) ChangeMan
8 3 (0.54%) Gradle
9 2 (0.36%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.36%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.36%) DBeaver
9 2 (0.36%) Katalon Studio
9 2 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.36%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.18%) GCC
10 1 (0.18%) Mockito
10 1 (0.18%) MSTest
General
1 157 (28.34%) Social Skills
2 138 (24.91%) Finance
3 73 (13.18%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (10.83%) Banking
5 50 (9.03%) Public Sector
6 38 (6.86%) Legal
7 20 (3.61%) Marketing
8 19 (3.43%) Front Office
9 17 (3.07%) Telecoms
10 13 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.62%) Investment Banking
13 8 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (1.44%) Retail
14 6 (1.08%) Electronics
14 6 (1.08%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.08%) Local Government
14 6 (1.08%) Publishing
15 5 (0.90%) Law
Job Titles
1 85 (15.34%) Developer
2 69 (12.45%) Analyst
3 56 (10.11%) Architect
4 47 (8.48%) Lead
5 34 (6.14%) Senior
6 33 (5.96%) Business Analyst
7 30 (5.42%) Consultant
8 27 (4.87%) Project Manager
9 18 (3.25%) Security Engineer
10 16 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
11 13 (2.35%) Data Analyst
11 13 (2.35%) Network Engineer
12 12 (2.17%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (2.17%) Technical Architect
13 11 (1.99%) Administrator
13 11 (1.99%) ServiceNow Developer
13 11 (1.99%) Tester
14 10 (1.81%) Python Developer
14 10 (1.81%) Technical Analyst
15 9 (1.62%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.51%) REST
2 21 (3.79%) .NET
3 16 (2.89%) React
4 14 (2.53%) SOAP
5 13 (2.35%) RESTful
6 11 (1.99%) HTML
6 11 (1.99%) Spring
7 10 (1.81%) Middleware
7 10 (1.81%) Playwright
8 9 (1.62%) .NET Core
8 9 (1.62%) Node.js
9 8 (1.44%) Kafka
10 7 (1.26%) AngularJS
10 7 (1.26%) Oracle Fusion
10 7 (1.26%) Spring Boot
10 7 (1.26%) XML
11 6 (1.08%) FIX Protocol
11 6 (1.08%) OAuth
12 5 (0.90%) ARM Templates
12 5 (0.90%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 309 (55.78%) Data Protection Act
2 26 (4.69%) Cloud Native
3 19 (3.43%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.07%) CMDB
5 16 (2.89%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 15 (2.71%) Management Information System
7 13 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (2.35%) Virtual Team
8 12 (2.17%) Derivative
9 11 (1.99%) Equities
10 10 (1.81%) NHS
11 9 (1.62%) Security Posture
12 8 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.44%) Public Cloud
13 7 (1.26%) Fixed Income
13 7 (1.26%) Freedom of Information
14 6 (1.08%) Algorithms
14 6 (1.08%) Credit Risk
14 6 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 30 (5.42%) Linux
2 25 (4.51%) Windows
3 13 (2.35%) Unix
4 5 (0.90%) Android
4 5 (0.90%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.90%) zOS
5 4 (0.72%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.72%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.54%) VMS
7 2 (0.36%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.18%) CentOS
8 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (23.10%) Agile
2 109 (19.68%) Problem-Solving
3 85 (15.34%) Stakeholder Management
4 72 (13.00%) DevOps
5 65 (11.73%) AI
5 65 (11.73%) CI/CD
6 64 (11.55%) Analytics
7 60 (10.83%) Migration
8 51 (9.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 50 (9.03%) Roadmaps
10 48 (8.66%) Risk Management
11 42 (7.58%) Scrum
12 41 (7.40%) Continuous Improvement
12 41 (7.40%) Cybersecurity
12 41 (7.40%) Project Management
13 40 (7.22%) Business Intelligence
14 38 (6.86%) Decision-Making
15 37 (6.68%) Data Governance
16 35 (6.32%) Microservices
16 35 (6.32%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 111 (20.04%) Python
2 99 (17.87%) SQL
3 41 (7.40%) JavaScript
4 36 (6.50%) C#
5 34 (6.14%) Java
6 20 (3.61%) PowerShell
7 18 (3.25%) TypeScript
8 13 (2.35%) Bash
9 11 (1.99%) C++
10 8 (1.44%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.08%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.90%) Bicep
13 4 (0.72%) COBOL
13 4 (0.72%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.54%) PHP
14 3 (0.54%) R
14 3 (0.54%) VBA
15 2 (0.36%) Scala
15 2 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 73 (13.18%) Security Cleared
2 61 (11.01%) SC Cleared
3 47 (8.48%) Degree
4 20 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (3.25%) CISSP
6 16 (2.89%) Master's Degree
7 13 (2.35%) CISM
8 12 (2.17%) PMI Certification
9 11 (1.99%) PMP
10 6 (1.08%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.08%) CRISC
10 6 (1.08%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (0.90%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.90%) CCSP
11 5 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (0.72%) MCP
12 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (13.36%) GDPR
2 32 (5.78%) NIST
3 27 (4.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (3.61%) Data Quality
5 19 (3.43%) QA
6 11 (1.99%) Accessibility
6 11 (1.99%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.62%) GRC
8 8 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (1.08%) PERC
10 5 (0.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.72%) GAAP
11 4 (0.72%) IFRS
11 4 (0.72%) NCSC
11 4 (0.72%) PMO
11 4 (0.72%) SLA
12 3 (0.54%) Basel III
12 3 (0.54%) IFRS 9
12 3 (0.54%) Solvency II
System Software
1 23 (4.15%) Docker
2 20 (3.61%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.44%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.18%) Firmware
6 1 (0.18%) HDFS
6 1 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.18%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 25 (4.51%) Kubernetes
1 25 (4.51%) Terraform
2 16 (2.89%) Ansible
3 12 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (1.81%) SCCM
5 4 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.54%) CA Endevor
6 3 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (0.54%) Kibana
6 3 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.36%) Control-M
7 2 (0.36%) Grafana
7 2 (0.36%) NetBackup
7 2 (0.36%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.36%) Puppet
7 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.18%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.18%) SCOM
8 1 (0.18%) vRealize
Vendors
1 85 (15.34%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.33%) Google
3 21 (3.79%) SAP
3 21 (3.79%) ServiceNow
4 20 (3.61%) Databricks
5 18 (3.25%) Oracle
6 16 (2.89%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.81%) Citrix
8 9 (1.62%) Cisco
9 8 (1.44%) Adobe
9 8 (1.44%) Nokia
9 8 (1.44%) Workday
10 7 (1.26%) ADVA
10 7 (1.26%) F5
10 7 (1.26%) IBM
10 7 (1.26%) VMware
11 6 (1.08%) Informatica
11 6 (1.08%) Rapid7
11 6 (1.08%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.90%) ION Trading