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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 104 94
Rank change year-on-year +30 -10 +20
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 552 330 435
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.52% 2.49% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.90% 2.74% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 179 259
10th Percentile £289 £285 £248
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -1.43% -7.49%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £669
90th Percentile £725 £745 £755
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 14
10th Percentile £21.47 £18.01 £11.95
25th Percentile £22.43 £22.61 £12.32
Median hourly rate £24.88 £30.90 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year -19.48% +27.43% -
75th Percentile £26.74 £36.10 £42.63
90th Percentile £27.35 £40.54 £57.11
England median hourly rate £20.71 £30.90 £19.50
% change year-on-year -32.98% +58.47% -72.14%

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 14,158 12,033 16,215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.35% 90.69% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,486 7,785 11,599
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 155 348
10th Percentile £18.06 £20.85 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £26.13 £19.45
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +25.00% -14.29%
75th Percentile £56.98 £55.25 £50.06
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.61 £72.15
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% - -

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 24 February 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 24 February 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 31 £600 +20.00% 22
South London -25 11 £475 -20.83% 6
East London +7 3 £675 - 2
West London -22 3 £250 -37.50% 12
North London - 2 £625 - 5
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 23 (4.17%) Confluence
2 12 (2.17%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.54%) CMS
5 2 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.36%) Apache
5 2 (0.36%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.36%) Drupal
5 2 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.36%) SAS
5 2 (0.36%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.18%) Camunda
6 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.18%) Mule
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.18%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 20 (3.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.54%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.36%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.36%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.18%) Final Cut Pro
6 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.18%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.18%) Sketch
6 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.81%) Aladdin
2 7 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.72%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 4 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.54%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.36%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.36%) Oracle FAH
5 2 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.18%) BambooHR
6 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.18%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.18%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.18%) Veritas eDiscovery
6 1 (0.18%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 116 (21.01%) Azure
2 74 (13.41%) AWS
3 39 (7.07%) GCP
4 32 (5.80%) SaaS
5 30 (5.43%) Power Platform
6 27 (4.89%) Microsoft 365
7 25 (4.53%) Snowflake
8 24 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (3.99%) Serverless
10 20 (3.62%) Entra ID
11 16 (2.90%) GitHub
12 15 (2.72%) Amazon S3
12 15 (2.72%) PaaS
13 14 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (2.36%) IaaS
15 12 (2.17%) Azure AKS
15 12 (2.17%) Microsoft Purview
16 11 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
17 10 (1.81%) Azure Sentinel
18 8 (1.45%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.08%) Network Security
2 12 (2.17%) Firewall
2 12 (2.17%) MPLS
3 11 (1.99%) Cisco IPT
4 6 (1.09%) SAN
4 6 (1.09%) VPN
5 5 (0.91%) LAN
5 5 (0.91%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.91%) WAN
6 4 (0.72%) Ethernet
6 4 (0.72%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.72%) VLAN
6 4 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.54%) BGP
7 3 (0.54%) HTTP
7 3 (0.54%) NAS
7 3 (0.54%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.36%) DNS
8 2 (0.36%) Internet
8 2 (0.36%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (5.07%) Power BI
2 15 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (2.72%) SQL Server
3 12 (2.17%) Metadata
3 12 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (1.99%) Tableau
5 8 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (1.45%) NoSQL
6 7 (1.27%) BigQuery
6 7 (1.27%) Data Lake
6 7 (1.27%) MongoDB
7 6 (1.09%) Relational Database
8 5 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.91%) Big Data
8 5 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.54%) EDRMS
9 3 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.54%) MySQL
9 3 (0.54%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 44 (7.97%) JIRA
2 23 (4.17%) Git
3 13 (2.36%) SpecFlow
4 8 (1.45%) GitLab
4 8 (1.45%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.91%) JUnit
6 4 (0.72%) Maven
7 3 (0.54%) Gradle
7 3 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.36%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.36%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.36%) DBeaver
8 2 (0.36%) Katalon Studio
8 2 (0.36%) NUnit
8 2 (0.36%) Postman
8 2 (0.36%) Selenium
8 2 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.36%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.36%) webpack
9 1 (0.18%) IntelliJ
General
1 151 (27.36%) Social Skills
2 147 (26.63%) Finance
3 72 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (11.78%) Banking
5 40 (7.25%) Legal
6 38 (6.88%) Public Sector
7 20 (3.62%) Front Office
8 17 (3.08%) Marketing
8 17 (3.08%) Telecoms
9 15 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (2.36%) Investment Banking
11 13 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (1.09%) Publishing
14 6 (1.09%) Retail
15 5 (0.91%) Electronics
15 5 (0.91%) International Banking
15 5 (0.91%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 73 (13.22%) Analyst
2 72 (13.04%) Architect
3 58 (10.51%) Developer
4 50 (9.06%) Lead
5 40 (7.25%) Business Analyst
6 36 (6.52%) Senior
7 33 (5.98%) Consultant
8 29 (5.25%) Project Manager
9 20 (3.62%) Solutions Architect
10 16 (2.90%) Security Engineer
11 15 (2.72%) Network Engineer
12 14 (2.54%) Data Analyst
12 14 (2.54%) Security Architect
13 13 (2.36%) Technical Architect
13 13 (2.36%) Tester
14 11 (1.99%) Technical Analyst
15 10 (1.81%) Automation Tester
15 10 (1.81%) Cloud Engineer
15 10 (1.81%) Data Engineer
15 10 (1.81%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.26%) .NET
1 18 (3.26%) React
1 18 (3.26%) REST
2 13 (2.36%) Spring
3 12 (2.17%) Playwright
4 11 (1.99%) Kafka
5 10 (1.81%) Middleware
5 10 (1.81%) Oracle Fusion
5 10 (1.81%) RESTful
6 8 (1.45%) HTML
6 8 (1.45%) Spring Boot
7 7 (1.27%) .NET Core
7 7 (1.27%) AngularJS
7 7 (1.27%) Node.js
8 6 (1.09%) SOAP
8 6 (1.09%) XML
9 5 (0.91%) ARM Templates
10 4 (0.72%) HTML5
10 4 (0.72%) LangChain
10 4 (0.72%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 304 (55.07%) Data Protection Act
2 28 (5.07%) Cloud Native
3 20 (3.62%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.44%) Onboarding
5 18 (3.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 18 (3.26%) Management Information System
6 13 (2.36%) Security Posture
7 12 (2.17%) Derivative
7 12 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (1.99%) NHS
9 10 (1.81%) Equities
10 9 (1.63%) CMDB
10 9 (1.63%) Fixed Income
11 8 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.27%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.27%) Freedom of Information
13 6 (1.09%) Data Centre
13 6 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (1.09%) Public Cloud
14 5 (0.91%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.71%) Windows
2 20 (3.62%) Linux
3 8 (1.45%) Unix
4 6 (1.09%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.91%) Android
5 5 (0.91%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.91%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.36%) VMS
7 2 (0.36%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.36%) zOS
8 1 (0.18%) CentOS
8 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (20.83%) Agile
2 100 (18.12%) Problem-Solving
3 98 (17.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 69 (12.50%) Analytics
5 66 (11.96%) Migration
6 64 (11.59%) CI/CD
6 64 (11.59%) DevOps
7 63 (11.41%) AI
8 55 (9.96%) Risk Management
9 51 (9.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 50 (9.06%) Roadmaps
10 50 (9.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 48 (8.70%) Decision-Making
12 47 (8.51%) Cybersecurity
13 39 (7.07%) Data Governance
13 39 (7.07%) Test Automation
14 38 (6.88%) Microservices
15 37 (6.70%) Business Intelligence
16 36 (6.52%) Project Management
16 36 (6.52%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 108 (19.57%) Python
2 95 (17.21%) SQL
3 41 (7.43%) Java
4 37 (6.70%) C#
4 37 (6.70%) JavaScript
5 20 (3.62%) TypeScript
6 17 (3.08%) PowerShell
7 9 (1.63%) Bash
7 9 (1.63%) C++
8 6 (1.09%) PL/SQL
8 6 (1.09%) Shell Script
9 5 (0.91%) Bicep
10 3 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.54%) PHP
10 3 (0.54%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.54%) VBA
11 2 (0.36%) Groovy
11 2 (0.36%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.36%) R
11 2 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 70 (12.68%) Security Cleared
2 60 (10.87%) SC Cleared
3 51 (9.24%) Degree
4 25 (4.53%) CISSP
5 19 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (3.08%) Master's Degree
7 16 (2.90%) CISM
8 12 (2.17%) PMI Certification
9 11 (1.99%) PMP
10 9 (1.63%) Azure Certification
11 8 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (1.45%) CRISC
12 7 (1.27%) AWS Certification
12 7 (1.27%) CCSP
12 7 (1.27%) DV Cleared
13 6 (1.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.91%) CISA
14 5 (0.91%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 5 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (13.95%) GDPR
2 36 (6.52%) NIST
3 31 (5.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (4.53%) Data Quality
5 23 (4.17%) QA
6 13 (2.36%) PCI DSS
7 12 (2.17%) GRC
8 8 (1.45%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (1.27%) PMO
10 6 (1.09%) PERC
10 6 (1.09%) SLA
11 4 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.72%) COBIT
11 4 (0.72%) GAAP
11 4 (0.72%) IFRS
11 4 (0.72%) NCSC
11 4 (0.72%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.54%) Basel III
12 3 (0.54%) Solvency II
System Software
1 27 (4.89%) Docker
2 18 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (1.27%) 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%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 33 (5.98%) Kubernetes
2 28 (5.07%) Terraform
3 15 (2.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (2.54%) Ansible
5 9 (1.63%) SCCM
6 6 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.91%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.72%) Kibana
9 3 (0.54%) Grafana
10 2 (0.36%) Control-M
10 2 (0.36%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.36%) Puppet
10 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.18%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.18%) Foglight
11 1 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.18%) SCOM
11 1 (0.18%) WSUS
Vendors
1 72 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.17%) Databricks
2 23 (4.17%) Google
2 23 (4.17%) Oracle
3 21 (3.80%) ServiceNow
4 20 (3.62%) SAP
5 15 (2.72%) Salesforce
6 11 (1.99%) Citrix
7 10 (1.81%) Adobe
7 10 (1.81%) Cisco
8 8 (1.45%) Nokia
8 8 (1.45%) Workday
9 7 (1.27%) ADVA
9 7 (1.27%) F5
9 7 (1.27%) VMware
10 6 (1.09%) IBM
10 6 (1.09%) Informatica
10 6 (1.09%) Rapid7
11 5 (0.91%) Apple
11 5 (0.91%) Red Hat