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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 108 103
Rank change year-on-year +29 -5 +15
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 579 319 414
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.49% 2.52% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.89% 2.75% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 168 251
10th Percentile £313 £256 £263
25th Percentile £413 £356 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £675
90th Percentile £750 £746 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 14
10th Percentile £19.88 £18.55 £11.95
25th Percentile £20.82 £23.50 £12.32
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +23.71% -66.55%
75th Percentile £33.12 £32.95 £42.63
90th Percentile £36.50 £34.84 £57.11
England median hourly rate £20.71 £30.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -30.97% +53.85% -71.32%

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 14,898 11,581 15,984
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.70% 91.39% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,994 7,826 11,435
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 164 337
10th Percentile £18.07 £19.06 £15.98
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.54 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.25 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +15.57% -21.79%
75th Percentile £57.00 £51.20 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £67.50 £70.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £33.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +6.06% - -12.00%

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 March 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 24 March 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 24 March 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 -4 38 £600 +14.29% 37
South London -25 13 £600 - 3
East London 0 5 £638 - 6
West London -16 3 £200 -40.96% 20
North London - 2 £625 -
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 (2.76%) Confluence
2 13 (2.25%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.52%) CMS
6 2 (0.35%) Apache
6 2 (0.35%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.35%) Drupal
6 2 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.35%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.17%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.17%) Mule
7 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.17%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 19 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.69%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.35%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (2.07%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.69%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 4 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.52%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle FAH
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.17%) ION MarketView
6 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.17%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.17%) Veritas eDiscovery
6 1 (0.17%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 140 (24.18%) Azure
2 80 (13.82%) AWS
3 44 (7.60%) GCP
4 33 (5.70%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (5.70%) SaaS
5 30 (5.18%) Power Platform
6 27 (4.66%) Entra ID
6 27 (4.66%) Snowflake
7 25 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (3.80%) Serverless
9 21 (3.63%) Microsoft Purview
10 16 (2.76%) GitHub
11 15 (2.59%) PaaS
12 14 (2.42%) Amazon S3
12 14 (2.42%) Azure AKS
13 13 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
13 13 (2.25%) Azure Sentinel
13 13 (2.25%) IaaS
14 12 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (2.07%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.97%) Network Security
2 16 (2.76%) Firewall
3 13 (2.25%) MPLS
4 12 (2.07%) Cisco IPT
5 9 (1.55%) SAN
6 5 (0.86%) LAN
6 5 (0.86%) NAS
6 5 (0.86%) VPN
6 5 (0.86%) WAN
7 4 (0.69%) Ethernet
7 4 (0.69%) NetScaler
7 4 (0.69%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.69%) VLAN
7 4 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.52%) BGP
8 3 (0.52%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (0.52%) HTTP
8 3 (0.52%) IPv4
8 3 (0.52%) IPv6
8 3 (0.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.49%) Power BI
2 16 (2.76%) Metadata
2 16 (2.76%) SQL Server
3 15 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (1.73%) NoSQL
6 8 (1.38%) MongoDB
6 8 (1.38%) Tableau
7 7 (1.21%) Data Lake
8 6 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (1.04%) Big Data
8 6 (1.04%) BigQuery
8 6 (1.04%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.69%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.52%) Delta Lake
11 3 (0.52%) EDRMS
11 3 (0.52%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 39 (6.74%) JIRA
2 25 (4.32%) Git
3 12 (2.07%) GitLab
3 12 (2.07%) SpecFlow
4 10 (1.73%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.52%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.52%) Gradle
6 3 (0.52%) JUnit
6 3 (0.52%) Katalon Studio
6 3 (0.52%) Maven
7 2 (0.35%) DBeaver
7 2 (0.35%) ERwin
7 2 (0.35%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.35%) NUnit
7 2 (0.35%) Postman
7 2 (0.35%) Selenium
7 2 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.35%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.17%) Liquibase
General
1 157 (27.12%) Finance
2 156 (26.94%) Social Skills
3 71 (12.26%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (11.40%) Banking
5 48 (8.29%) Legal
6 38 (6.56%) Public Sector
7 25 (4.32%) Front Office
8 22 (3.80%) Telecoms
9 18 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
9 18 (3.11%) Marketing
10 13 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (1.90%) Investment Banking
13 9 (1.55%) Local Government
14 7 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 6 (1.04%) Electronics
16 5 (0.86%) Back Office
16 5 (0.86%) Billing
16 5 (0.86%) Law
Job Titles
1 88 (15.20%) Architect
2 72 (12.44%) Analyst
3 54 (9.33%) Developer
4 49 (8.46%) Lead
5 42 (7.25%) Senior
6 39 (6.74%) Business Analyst
7 32 (5.53%) Consultant
8 28 (4.84%) Solutions Architect
9 26 (4.49%) Project Manager
10 19 (3.28%) Security Engineer
11 17 (2.94%) Network Engineer
12 16 (2.76%) Technical Architect
13 15 (2.59%) Security Architect
14 13 (2.25%) Data Analyst
14 13 (2.25%) Tester
15 12 (2.07%) Data Engineer
16 11 (1.90%) Java Developer
16 11 (1.90%) Technical Analyst
17 10 (1.73%) Administrator
17 10 (1.73%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.80%) .NET
2 16 (2.76%) React
3 15 (2.59%) REST
4 14 (2.42%) Middleware
4 14 (2.42%) Spring
5 12 (2.07%) Playwright
6 11 (1.90%) Kafka
7 9 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
7 9 (1.55%) RESTful
8 8 (1.38%) .NET Core
8 8 (1.38%) Spring Boot
9 7 (1.21%) HTML
9 7 (1.21%) Node.js
10 6 (1.04%) XML
11 5 (0.86%) ARM Templates
11 5 (0.86%) JSON
11 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Graph
12 4 (0.69%) ASP.NET
12 4 (0.69%) FIX Protocol
12 4 (0.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 303 (52.33%) Data Protection Act
2 40 (6.91%) Cloud Native
3 24 (4.15%) Onboarding
4 21 (3.63%) Product Ownership
5 18 (3.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 18 (3.11%) Security Posture
6 17 (2.94%) Management Information System
7 14 (2.42%) Derivative
8 12 (2.07%) Data Centre
9 11 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.73%) Equities
10 10 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.55%) Fixed Income
11 9 (1.55%) Freedom of Information
11 9 (1.55%) Mobile App
12 7 (1.21%) NHS
13 6 (1.04%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.04%) CMDB
13 6 (1.04%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 30 (5.18%) Windows
2 22 (3.80%) Linux
3 9 (1.55%) Unix
4 7 (1.21%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.86%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.69%) Android
6 4 (0.69%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.52%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.35%) VMS
8 2 (0.35%) zOS
9 1 (0.17%) CentOS
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.17%) Rocky
9 1 (0.17%) Solaris
9 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (19.00%) Agile
2 102 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
3 96 (16.58%) Stakeholder Management
4 75 (12.95%) CI/CD
4 75 (12.95%) DevOps
4 75 (12.95%) Migration
5 68 (11.74%) Analytics
6 65 (11.23%) AI
7 60 (10.36%) Continuous Improvement
8 58 (10.02%) Cybersecurity
9 56 (9.67%) Roadmaps
10 55 (9.50%) Risk Management
11 51 (8.81%) Decision-Making
12 48 (8.29%) Data Governance
13 45 (7.77%) Test Automation
14 44 (7.60%) Cloud Security
15 43 (7.43%) Infrastructure as Code
15 43 (7.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 41 (7.08%) Microservices
17 37 (6.39%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 99 (17.10%) Python
2 92 (15.89%) SQL
3 52 (8.98%) Java
4 36 (6.22%) C#
5 29 (5.01%) JavaScript
6 20 (3.45%) TypeScript
7 17 (2.94%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.55%) Bash
8 9 (1.55%) C++
9 6 (1.04%) PL/SQL
9 6 (1.04%) Shell Script
10 5 (0.86%) Bicep
11 4 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.52%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.35%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.35%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.35%) Groovy
13 2 (0.35%) PHP
13 2 (0.35%) Scala
13 2 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 80 (13.82%) Security Cleared
2 67 (11.57%) SC Cleared
3 53 (9.15%) Degree
4 27 (4.66%) CISSP
5 19 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.94%) CISM
7 14 (2.42%) Azure Certification
7 14 (2.42%) Master's Degree
8 13 (2.25%) PMI Certification
9 11 (1.90%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.90%) PMP
10 9 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (1.38%) DV Cleared
12 7 (1.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (1.21%) CCSP
12 7 (1.21%) CRISC
13 6 (1.04%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 5 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.86%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (14.68%) GDPR
2 43 (7.43%) NIST
3 35 (6.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 31 (5.35%) QA
5 29 (5.01%) Data Quality
6 14 (2.42%) PCI DSS
7 13 (2.25%) GRC
7 13 (2.25%) SLA
8 9 (1.55%) PERC
8 9 (1.55%) PMO
9 7 (1.21%) Accessibility
9 7 (1.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.86%) NCSC
10 5 (0.86%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.69%) COBIT
11 4 (0.69%) GAAP
11 4 (0.69%) IFRS
12 3 (0.52%) Basel III
12 3 (0.52%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 32 (5.53%) Docker
2 21 (3.63%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 39 (6.74%) Kubernetes
2 34 (5.87%) Terraform
3 17 (2.94%) Ansible
3 17 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (1.55%) SCCM
5 7 (1.21%) Grafana
6 6 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.86%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (0.86%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.69%) Kibana
9 3 (0.52%) EMC NetWorker
9 3 (0.52%) Puppet
10 2 (0.35%) Avamar
10 2 (0.35%) Control-M
10 2 (0.35%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.35%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.17%) CASB
11 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 92 (15.89%) Microsoft
2 23 (3.97%) Google
3 22 (3.80%) Oracle
4 20 (3.45%) Databricks
4 20 (3.45%) ServiceNow
5 19 (3.28%) SAP
6 17 (2.94%) Salesforce
7 13 (2.25%) Cisco
8 12 (2.07%) Citrix
9 10 (1.73%) Workday
10 9 (1.55%) F5
10 9 (1.55%) Nokia
11 8 (1.38%) Adobe
11 8 (1.38%) VMware
12 7 (1.21%) ADVA
12 7 (1.21%) Red Hat
13 6 (1.04%) IBM
13 6 (1.04%) OpenAI
13 6 (1.04%) Rapid7
14 5 (0.86%) Palo Alto