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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 88 100
Rank change year-on-year +13 +12 +15
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 513 432 503
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.70% 2.77% 2.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.01% 3.10% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 252 302
10th Percentile £313 £300 £264
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% -
75th Percentile £650 £613 £675
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £23.08 £28.75
25th Percentile - £26.58 £35.88
Median hourly rate - £32.79 £41.62
Median % change year-on-year - -21.21% +4.04%
75th Percentile - £38.62 £43.76
90th Percentile - £41.90 £44.23
England median hourly rate £20.56 £22.50 £24.56
% change year-on-year -8.64% -8.38% -59.07%

All Process and 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 12,793 13,929 18,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.39% 89.24% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,409 8,974 13,045
10th Percentile £334 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -3.51% -3.39%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £507 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.43% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 165 251
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.35 £18.57
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £21.63
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% +1.79% -1.76%
75th Percentile £47.25 £55.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £67.87 £80.45 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.48% -16.29% +27.14%

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 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 2025. 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 +3 34 £540 +8.00% 86
South London -25 6 £600 - 2
West London -14 4 £250 -44.44% 13
East London +6 1 £638 +19.16% 7
North London - 1 £700 - 2
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 (3.51%) Confluence
2 10 (1.95%) CMS
2 10 (1.95%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.58%) CICS
6 2 (0.39%) Apache
6 2 (0.39%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.39%) nginx
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.19%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.19%) Luigi
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.19%) SAS
7 1 (0.19%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 22 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.19%) Final Cut Pro
5 1 (0.19%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.19%) Sketch
5 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.19%) SPSS
5 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.58%) VisionPLUS
3 2 (0.39%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.39%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.39%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.39%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.19%) BambooHR
4 1 (0.19%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.19%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle Internet Expenses
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle iProcurement
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.19%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.19%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 117 (22.81%) Azure
2 86 (16.76%) AWS
3 47 (9.16%) Power Platform
4 37 (7.21%) GCP
5 34 (6.63%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (4.87%) GitHub
8 21 (4.09%) Serverless
9 20 (3.90%) Power Automate
9 20 (3.90%) SaaS
10 17 (3.31%) Entra ID
11 16 (3.12%) PowerApps
12 14 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (2.73%) Snowflake
13 13 (2.53%) Amazon S3
14 12 (2.34%) Azure Monitor
15 8 (1.56%) Azure AKS
15 8 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
15 8 (1.56%) Microsoft Purview
15 8 (1.56%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.70%) Firewall
2 14 (2.73%) Network Security
3 9 (1.75%) Cisco IPT
4 8 (1.56%) DNS
5 7 (1.36%) VPN
6 5 (0.97%) WAN
7 4 (0.78%) DHCP
7 4 (0.78%) DMARC
7 4 (0.78%) HTTP
7 4 (0.78%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.58%) BGP
8 3 (0.58%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (0.58%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 3 (0.58%) Internet
8 3 (0.58%) MPLS
8 3 (0.58%) NetScaler
8 3 (0.58%) SAN
8 3 (0.58%) SMTP
9 2 (0.39%) 4G
9 2 (0.39%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (6.04%) Power BI
2 16 (3.12%) SQL Server
3 13 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (2.14%) Tableau
5 9 (1.75%) NoSQL
6 8 (1.56%) Metadata
7 7 (1.36%) Data Lake
8 6 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.97%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.58%) Big Data
11 3 (0.58%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.58%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.58%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.58%) Power Query
12 2 (0.39%) Apache Iceberg
12 2 (0.39%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 46 (8.97%) JIRA
2 14 (2.73%) Git
3 9 (1.75%) Metasploit
4 8 (1.56%) Burp Suite
4 8 (1.56%) SonarQube
5 6 (1.17%) GitLab
5 6 (1.17%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.58%) ChangeMan
6 3 (0.58%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.39%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.39%) DBeaver
7 2 (0.39%) Gradle
7 2 (0.39%) JUnit
7 2 (0.39%) Maven
8 1 (0.19%) AppVeyor
8 1 (0.19%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.19%) gulp
8 1 (0.19%) MLflow
8 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.19%) webpack
General
1 165 (32.16%) Social Skills
2 116 (22.61%) Finance
3 63 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (9.36%) Banking
5 44 (8.58%) Public Sector
6 40 (7.80%) Legal
7 20 (3.90%) Marketing
8 19 (3.70%) Front Office
9 11 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.56%) Financial Institution
11 8 (1.56%) Investment Banking
11 8 (1.56%) Law
11 8 (1.56%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.36%) Back Office
12 7 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.36%) Retail
13 6 (1.17%) Local Government
14 5 (0.97%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 72 (14.04%) Developer
2 66 (12.87%) Analyst
3 45 (8.77%) Architect
4 43 (8.38%) Lead
5 35 (6.82%) Business Analyst
6 25 (4.87%) Consultant
6 25 (4.87%) Senior
7 24 (4.68%) Security Engineer
8 20 (3.90%) Project Manager
9 18 (3.51%) Data Analyst
10 13 (2.53%) Python Engineer
11 12 (2.34%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 11 (2.14%) ServiceNow Developer
12 11 (2.14%) Software Engineer
12 11 (2.14%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (1.95%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 10 (1.95%) Python Developer
13 10 (1.95%) Site Engineer
14 9 (1.75%) Network Engineer
14 9 (1.75%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.07%) REST
2 16 (3.12%) SOAP
3 11 (2.14%) React
4 10 (1.95%) HTML
5 9 (1.75%) .NET
5 9 (1.75%) Middleware
5 9 (1.75%) RESTful
6 8 (1.56%) AngularJS
7 7 (1.36%) OAuth
8 6 (1.17%) FIX Protocol
9 5 (0.97%) .NET Core
9 5 (0.97%) LangChain
9 5 (0.97%) Node.js
9 5 (0.97%) Spring
10 4 (0.78%) ASP.NET
10 4 (0.78%) Pandas
10 4 (0.78%) PySpark
10 4 (0.78%) scikit-learn
11 3 (0.58%) CSS
11 3 (0.58%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 275 (53.61%) Data Protection Act
2 20 (3.90%) Cloud Native
3 16 (3.12%) CMDB
4 15 (2.92%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.73%) Virtual Team
6 13 (2.53%) Product Ownership
7 10 (1.95%) Derivative
7 10 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (1.56%) NHS
8 8 (1.56%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.36%) Credit Risk
9 7 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.36%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.17%) Marketing Technology
10 6 (1.17%) Security Posture
11 5 (0.97%) AI Agents
11 5 (0.97%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.26%) Linux
2 22 (4.29%) Windows
3 10 (1.95%) Unix
4 6 (1.17%) Android
5 5 (0.97%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.78%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.58%) VMS
7 3 (0.58%) zOS
8 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.39%) CentOS
8 2 (0.39%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.39%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.19%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (18.52%) Agile
1 95 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
2 77 (15.01%) CI/CD
3 68 (13.26%) DevOps
4 59 (11.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 58 (11.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 57 (11.11%) AI
7 53 (10.33%) Analytics
8 49 (9.55%) Cybersecurity
9 48 (9.36%) Migration
10 42 (8.19%) Infrastructure as Code
11 40 (7.80%) Roadmaps
12 39 (7.60%) Continuous Improvement
12 39 (7.60%) Data Governance
13 38 (7.41%) Project Management
14 37 (7.21%) Risk Management
15 35 (6.82%) Business Intelligence
16 31 (6.04%) Machine Learning
16 31 (6.04%) Requirements Gathering
17 30 (5.85%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 121 (23.59%) Python
2 76 (14.81%) SQL
3 33 (6.43%) JavaScript
4 31 (6.04%) Bash
5 26 (5.07%) PowerShell
6 25 (4.87%) C#
7 17 (3.31%) Java
8 12 (2.34%) TypeScript
9 8 (1.56%) C++
9 8 (1.56%) Go
9 8 (1.56%) PromQL
10 7 (1.36%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.17%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.78%) COBOL
13 3 (0.58%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.39%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.39%) PHP
14 2 (0.39%) R
14 2 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 55 (10.72%) Security Cleared
2 48 (9.36%) SC Cleared
3 37 (7.21%) Degree
4 16 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.53%) CISSP
6 10 (1.95%) CISM
6 10 (1.95%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.56%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.56%) CHECK Team Member
7 8 (1.56%) CREST Certified
7 8 (1.56%) OSCP
7 8 (1.56%) Tigerscheme
8 7 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.17%) CISA
9 6 (1.17%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.97%) PMP
11 4 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (14.04%) GDPR
2 29 (5.65%) NIST
3 22 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (3.31%) Data Quality
4 17 (3.31%) QA
5 13 (2.53%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (1.95%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 9 (1.75%) NCSC
8 7 (1.36%) PERC
8 7 (1.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (1.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 6 (1.17%) COBIT
9 6 (1.17%) GRC
9 6 (1.17%) PMO
10 5 (0.97%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.39%) EU AI Act
12 2 (0.39%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 19 (3.70%) Active Directory
1 19 (3.70%) Docker
2 12 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.36%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.39%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.39%) vSphere
5 1 (0.19%) Firmware
5 1 (0.19%) HDFS
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 21 (4.09%) Kubernetes
2 19 (3.70%) Terraform
3 12 (2.34%) Grafana
4 11 (2.14%) Ansible
5 10 (1.95%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.95%) SCCM
6 8 (1.56%) Nmap
7 7 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.97%) NetBackup
9 3 (0.58%) CA Endevor
9 3 (0.58%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.58%) Kibana
9 3 (0.58%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.19%) Puppet
11 1 (0.19%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.19%) vRealize
Vendors
1 77 (15.01%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.29%) ServiceNow
3 20 (3.90%) Google
3 20 (3.90%) Salesforce
4 14 (2.73%) Databricks
5 13 (2.53%) SAP
6 12 (2.34%) Splunk
6 12 (2.34%) VMware
7 11 (2.14%) Cisco
7 11 (2.14%) Oracle
8 9 (1.75%) Veracode
9 7 (1.36%) F5
9 7 (1.36%) Juniper
10 6 (1.17%) Citrix
10 6 (1.17%) IBM
10 6 (1.17%) ION Trading
11 5 (0.97%) Adobe
11 5 (0.97%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.97%) Solace
11 5 (0.97%) Veritas