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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 70 90
Rank change year-on-year -34 +20 0
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 588 474 455
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.91% 3.57% 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.28% 3.86% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 239 251
10th Percentile £279 £289 £243
25th Percentile £385 £401 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -14.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £633
90th Percentile £718 £713 £738
England median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 1 5
10th Percentile £14.25 - £27.14
25th Percentile £17.32 £26.00 £27.84
Median hourly rate £23.82 £27.00 £44.08
Median % change year-on-year -11.79% -38.75% -5.75%
75th Percentile £31.98 £28.00 £71.88
90th Percentile £35.15 - -
England median hourly rate £17.85 £18.70 £26.68
% change year-on-year -4.55% -29.91% +10.35%

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 17,952 12,291 14,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.77% 92.58% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,781 8,116 9,426
10th Percentile £358 £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 £663 £669 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 240 179
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.89 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.25 £25.01 £23.98
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.25 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.07% -14.79% -5.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.13 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.25
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%

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 September 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 29 September 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 29 September 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 -2 52 £550 +4.27% 72
West London -16 8 £475 +23.38% 24
South London -10 6 £338 -54.27% 7
East London - 4 £410 - 4
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 16 (2.72%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.19%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.19%) IIS
5 6 (1.02%) SAS
6 5 (0.85%) Apache
6 5 (0.85%) Confluence
7 4 (0.68%) CMS
8 2 (0.34%) CICS
8 2 (0.34%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.34%) nginx
8 2 (0.34%) WordPress
9 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.17%) Drupal
9 1 (0.17%) Luigi
9 1 (0.17%) Moodle
9 1 (0.17%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 20 (3.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.68%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.68%) UserZoom
5 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 5 (0.85%) Aladdin
1 5 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.51%) Unit4 Business World
4 2 (0.34%) Endur
4 2 (0.34%) ION MarketView
4 2 (0.34%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.34%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.17%) Actimize
5 1 (0.17%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.17%) Maximo
5 1 (0.17%) Misys Equation
5 1 (0.17%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.17%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.17%) SAP FI-CA
5 1 (0.17%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 130 (22.11%) Azure
2 108 (18.37%) AWS
3 48 (8.16%) GCP
4 37 (6.29%) Microsoft 365
5 34 (5.78%) SaaS
6 26 (4.42%) Microsoft Purview
7 23 (3.91%) Entra ID
7 23 (3.91%) Power Platform
8 21 (3.57%) GitHub
9 19 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (2.38%) Microsoft Copilot
11 13 (2.21%) Serverless
12 12 (2.04%) Snowflake
13 11 (1.87%) OneDrive
14 10 (1.70%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (1.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (1.53%) Azure Logic Apps
16 8 (1.36%) Power Automate
16 8 (1.36%) PowerApps
16 8 (1.36%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 37 (6.29%) Network Security
2 19 (3.23%) Firewall
3 15 (2.55%) Cisco IPT
4 10 (1.70%) DNS
4 10 (1.70%) VPN
5 9 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (1.36%) DHCP
6 8 (1.36%) LAN
6 8 (1.36%) WAN
6 8 (1.36%) Wireless
7 7 (1.19%) TCP/IP
8 6 (1.02%) MPLS
9 5 (0.85%) Cisco ISE
9 5 (0.85%) HTTPS
9 5 (0.85%) Unified Communications
10 4 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (0.68%) SAN
10 4 (0.68%) SDH
10 4 (0.68%) SSL
11 3 (0.51%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.57%) Metadata
2 19 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (3.06%) Power BI
4 14 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (2.38%) NoSQL
5 10 (1.70%) MySQL
6 9 (1.53%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (1.19%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.02%) Big Data
9 6 (1.02%) BigQuery
9 6 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.02%) Oracle Database
10 5 (0.85%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.85%) SQL Server
11 4 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.51%) Apache Hudi
12 3 (0.51%) Pinecone
12 3 (0.51%) Power Query
12 3 (0.51%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 27 (4.59%) JIRA
2 21 (3.57%) Git
3 18 (3.06%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.85%) GitLab
5 4 (0.68%) Selenium
6 3 (0.51%) Gradle
6 3 (0.51%) JUnit
6 3 (0.51%) Maven
6 3 (0.51%) Postman
7 2 (0.34%) CMake
7 2 (0.34%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.34%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.34%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.34%) ERwin
7 2 (0.34%) Mockito
7 2 (0.34%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.34%) XCUITest
8 1 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
General
1 216 (36.73%) Social Skills
2 158 (26.87%) Finance
3 73 (12.41%) Public Sector
4 71 (12.07%) Legal
5 69 (11.73%) Analytical Skills
6 68 (11.56%) Banking
7 33 (5.61%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (4.42%) Front Office
9 20 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
10 16 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
11 14 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
12 13 (2.21%) Local Government
12 13 (2.21%) Retail
13 12 (2.04%) Law
13 12 (2.04%) Marketing
13 12 (2.04%) Telecoms
14 11 (1.87%) Investment Banking
15 10 (1.70%) Police
16 9 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 95 (16.16%) Architect
2 76 (12.93%) Analyst
3 47 (7.99%) Senior
4 42 (7.14%) Lead
5 36 (6.12%) Developer
6 35 (5.95%) Business Analyst
7 32 (5.44%) Project Manager
8 31 (5.27%) Consultant
9 28 (4.76%) Security Architect
10 25 (4.25%) Solutions Architect
11 15 (2.55%) Security Engineer
12 13 (2.21%) Data Engineer
13 12 (2.04%) Data Protection Officer
14 11 (1.87%) Network Engineer
14 11 (1.87%) Security Analyst
15 10 (1.70%) Cloud Engineer
15 10 (1.70%) Enterprise Architect
15 10 (1.70%) Product Manager
16 9 (1.53%) Data Analyst
16 9 (1.53%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (5.44%) REST
2 25 (4.25%) Terraform
3 16 (2.72%) OAuth
4 11 (1.87%) Middleware
5 10 (1.70%) HTML
5 10 (1.70%) React
5 10 (1.70%) RESTful
6 9 (1.53%) CSS
6 9 (1.53%) GraphQL
6 9 (1.53%) Pandas
6 9 (1.53%) Spring
7 8 (1.36%) JSON
7 8 (1.36%) Kafka
7 8 (1.36%) Lightning Web Components
7 8 (1.36%) OAuth2
8 7 (1.19%) Spring Boot
9 6 (1.02%) .NET
9 6 (1.02%) Play Framework
9 6 (1.02%) Playwright
10 5 (0.85%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 257 (43.71%) Data Protection Act
2 41 (6.97%) Onboarding
2 41 (6.97%) Product Ownership
3 36 (6.12%) Cloud Native
4 35 (5.95%) Management Information System
5 22 (3.74%) Security Posture
6 18 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (3.06%) Virtual Team
7 16 (2.72%) Data Centre
8 11 (1.87%) Derivative
8 11 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.70%) NHS
10 9 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (1.36%) Data Structures
11 8 (1.36%) Fixed Income
11 8 (1.36%) Freedom of Information
11 8 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (1.36%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 42 (7.14%) Windows
2 22 (3.74%) Linux
3 13 (2.21%) Android
4 11 (1.87%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.70%) Unix
6 9 (1.53%) Apple iOS
7 8 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.02%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.68%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.34%) zOS
11 1 (0.17%) CentOS
11 1 (0.17%) MVS
11 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.17%) VMS
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (25.51%) Stakeholder Management
2 111 (18.88%) Agile
3 104 (17.69%) AI
4 90 (15.31%) Continuous Improvement
5 88 (14.97%) Cybersecurity
6 82 (13.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 81 (13.78%) CI/CD
8 80 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
9 79 (13.44%) Migration
10 76 (12.93%) Data Governance
11 72 (12.24%) Risk Management
12 68 (11.56%) Information Security
13 67 (11.39%) Roadmaps
14 66 (11.22%) DevOps
15 61 (10.37%) Analytics
15 61 (10.37%) Decision-Making
16 50 (8.50%) Data Modelling
17 43 (7.31%) Test Automation
17 43 (7.31%) Validation
18 41 (6.97%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 66 (11.22%) Python
2 63 (10.71%) SQL
3 32 (5.44%) Java
4 22 (3.74%) PowerShell
5 16 (2.72%) JavaScript
6 14 (2.38%) TypeScript
7 11 (1.87%) Scala
8 8 (1.36%) Apex Code
8 8 (1.36%) Kotlin
9 6 (1.02%) C#
9 6 (1.02%) C++
10 5 (0.85%) Bash
10 5 (0.85%) C
11 4 (0.68%) COBOL
11 4 (0.68%) Go
11 4 (0.68%) Perl
12 3 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.51%) VBScript
13 2 (0.34%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 74 (12.59%) Security Cleared
2 57 (9.69%) SC Cleared
3 48 (8.16%) Degree
4 38 (6.46%) CISSP
5 26 (4.42%) CISM
6 17 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (2.89%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.89%) PMI Certification
7 16 (2.72%) PMP
8 15 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.53%) Azure Certification
11 6 (1.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (1.02%) AWS Certification
11 6 (1.02%) CCNP
11 6 (1.02%) CISA
11 6 (1.02%) CRISC
12 5 (0.85%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.68%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (16.67%) GDPR
2 42 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 41 (6.97%) Data Quality
4 29 (4.93%) NIST
5 27 (4.59%) QA
6 21 (3.57%) GRC
7 19 (3.23%) Accessibility
8 14 (2.38%) PCI DSS
9 9 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (1.53%) PMO
9 9 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (1.36%) Government Security Classifications
10 8 (1.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 7 (1.19%) NCSC
11 7 (1.19%) PERC
12 5 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.85%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.68%) COBIT
14 3 (0.51%) HL7
14 3 (0.51%) MiFID
System Software
1 29 (4.93%) Active Directory
2 22 (3.74%) Docker
3 7 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.51%) vSphere
5 2 (0.34%) Firmware
5 2 (0.34%) IAG
5 2 (0.34%) Varnish
6 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.17%) ISA Server
6 1 (0.17%) NFS
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 25 (4.25%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (1.70%) Grafana
3 10 (1.70%) SCCM
4 9 (1.53%) Ansible
5 8 (1.36%) Kibana
6 7 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.51%) Puppet
7 3 (0.51%) QRadar
8 2 (0.34%) CA Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.34%) Control-M
8 2 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.34%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.34%) Packer
8 2 (0.34%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.34%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.34%) SCOM
9 1 (0.17%) CASB
9 1 (0.17%) PingFederate
9 1 (0.17%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 123 (20.92%) Microsoft
2 38 (6.46%) ServiceNow
3 26 (4.42%) Cisco
4 24 (4.08%) Oracle
5 21 (3.57%) Google
6 17 (2.89%) Databricks
7 16 (2.72%) Salesforce
8 15 (2.55%) Zscaler
9 14 (2.38%) Splunk
10 9 (1.53%) SAP
11 8 (1.36%) Murex
11 8 (1.36%) VMware
12 7 (1.19%) Red Hat
13 6 (1.02%) CrowdStrike
13 6 (1.02%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.85%) Bloomberg
14 5 (0.85%) Dynatrace
14 5 (0.85%) IBM
14 5 (0.85%) SolarWinds
15 4 (0.68%) Calypso