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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 100 91
Rank change year-on-year +22 -9 +27
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 538 344 443
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.56% 2.55% 2.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.92% 2.81% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 187 269
10th Percentile £314 £292 £239
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £607 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 14
10th Percentile £21.47 £16.36 £11.95
25th Percentile £22.43 £18.01 £12.32
Median hourly rate £24.88 £21.50 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year +15.73% -11.34% -
75th Percentile £26.74 £33.17 £42.63
90th Percentile £27.35 £39.71 £57.11
England median hourly rate £20.71 £26.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year -22.91% +27.93% -70.00%

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 13,733 12,232 16,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.75% 90.57% 88.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,140 7,798 11,691
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% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 153 343
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.11 £25.40 £19.42
Median hourly rate £34.38 £37.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.31% +25.00% -14.89%
75th Percentile £56.97 £55.25 £50.50
90th Percentile £69.94 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 11 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 11 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 -12 33 £600 +20.00% 20
South London -21 9 £165 -72.50% 9
West London -18 3 £250 -37.50% 10
East London - 3 £675 - 4
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 21 (3.90%) Confluence
2 13 (2.42%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.93%) CMS
5 3 (0.56%) Apache
6 2 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.37%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.37%) Drupal
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.37%) SAS
6 2 (0.37%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.19%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.19%) Luigi
7 1 (0.19%) Mule
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.19%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 19 (3.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.56%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.37%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.37%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.19%) Final Cut Pro
6 1 (0.19%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.19%) Sketch
6 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.67%) Aladdin
1 9 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.74%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 3 (0.56%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.37%) ION MarketView
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.19%) BambooHR
5 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.19%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.19%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.19%) Veritas eDiscovery
5 1 (0.19%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 116 (21.56%) Azure
2 65 (12.08%) AWS
3 34 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (6.32%) Power Platform
4 31 (5.76%) GCP
5 30 (5.58%) SaaS
6 27 (5.02%) Microsoft 365
7 26 (4.83%) Serverless
8 24 (4.46%) Snowflake
9 20 (3.72%) Entra ID
10 16 (2.97%) GitHub
11 15 (2.79%) Amazon S3
12 14 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (2.60%) Azure AKS
12 14 (2.60%) PaaS
13 13 (2.42%) IaaS
14 12 (2.23%) Azure Functions
14 12 (2.23%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (2.23%) Azure Monitor
15 11 (2.04%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.79%) Network Security
2 12 (2.23%) MPLS
3 10 (1.86%) Cisco IPT
3 10 (1.86%) Firewall
4 6 (1.12%) SAN
4 6 (1.12%) VPN
5 5 (0.93%) LAN
5 5 (0.93%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.93%) WAN
6 4 (0.74%) Ethernet
6 4 (0.74%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.74%) VLAN
6 4 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.56%) BGP
7 3 (0.56%) HTTP
7 3 (0.56%) Internet
7 3 (0.56%) NAS
7 3 (0.56%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.37%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (5.20%) Power BI
2 15 (2.79%) SQL Server
3 12 (2.23%) NoSQL
3 12 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (2.04%) Metadata
5 10 (1.86%) Tableau
6 9 (1.67%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.12%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.93%) Big Data
9 5 (0.93%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.56%) Apache Iceberg
10 3 (0.56%) EDRMS
10 3 (0.56%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 49 (9.11%) JIRA
2 24 (4.46%) Git
3 11 (2.04%) SpecFlow
4 6 (1.12%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.93%) GitLab
5 5 (0.93%) JUnit
6 4 (0.74%) Maven
7 3 (0.56%) Gradle
8 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.37%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.37%) DBeaver
8 2 (0.37%) Katalon Studio
8 2 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.37%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.19%) AppVeyor
9 1 (0.19%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.19%) Storybook
9 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio Coded UI
9 1 (0.19%) webpack
General
1 149 (27.70%) Social Skills
2 138 (25.65%) Finance
3 70 (13.01%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (11.90%) Banking
5 44 (8.18%) Public Sector
6 40 (7.43%) Legal
7 19 (3.53%) Front Office
7 19 (3.53%) Marketing
7 19 (3.53%) Telecoms
8 15 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (1.86%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.30%) Retail
14 6 (1.12%) Electronics
14 6 (1.12%) Publishing
15 5 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (0.93%) International Banking
16 4 (0.74%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 75 (13.94%) Developer
2 68 (12.64%) Analyst
3 65 (12.08%) Architect
4 49 (9.11%) Lead
5 35 (6.51%) Business Analyst
6 34 (6.32%) Senior
7 31 (5.76%) Consultant
8 27 (5.02%) Project Manager
9 21 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
10 15 (2.79%) Security Engineer
11 14 (2.60%) Data Analyst
11 14 (2.60%) Network Engineer
12 12 (2.23%) Security Architect
12 12 (2.23%) Technical Architect
13 11 (2.04%) ServiceNow Developer
13 11 (2.04%) Technical Analyst
13 11 (2.04%) Tester
14 10 (1.86%) Administrator
14 10 (1.86%) Cloud Engineer
14 10 (1.86%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.65%) REST
2 21 (3.90%) .NET
3 16 (2.97%) React
4 14 (2.60%) SOAP
5 12 (2.23%) RESTful
6 11 (2.04%) Spring
7 10 (1.86%) HTML
7 10 (1.86%) Playwright
8 9 (1.67%) .NET Core
8 9 (1.67%) Kafka
8 9 (1.67%) Middleware
8 9 (1.67%) Node.js
9 7 (1.30%) AngularJS
9 7 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
9 7 (1.30%) Spring Boot
10 6 (1.12%) XML
11 5 (0.93%) ARM Templates
11 5 (0.93%) ASP.NET
11 5 (0.93%) OAuth
12 4 (0.74%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 301 (55.95%) Data Protection Act
2 26 (4.83%) Cloud Native
3 19 (3.53%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 16 (2.97%) CMDB
5 16 (2.97%) Management Information System
5 16 (2.97%) Onboarding
6 13 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.04%) Derivative
7 11 (2.04%) Equities
8 10 (1.86%) NHS
9 9 (1.67%) Fixed Income
9 9 (1.67%) Security Posture
10 8 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.30%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.30%) Freedom of Information
11 7 (1.30%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.30%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.12%) AI Agents
13 5 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.65%) Linux
1 25 (4.65%) Windows
2 10 (1.86%) Unix
3 5 (0.93%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.93%) Mac OS
3 5 (0.93%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.74%) Android
4 4 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.37%) VMS
5 2 (0.37%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.37%) zOS
6 1 (0.19%) CentOS
6 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (22.12%) Agile
2 100 (18.59%) Problem-Solving
3 87 (16.17%) Stakeholder Management
4 67 (12.45%) AI
5 66 (12.27%) DevOps
6 64 (11.90%) Analytics
6 64 (11.90%) Migration
7 60 (11.15%) CI/CD
8 51 (9.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 49 (9.11%) Roadmaps
10 46 (8.55%) Risk Management
11 42 (7.81%) Scrum
12 41 (7.62%) Continuous Improvement
13 40 (7.43%) Cybersecurity
13 40 (7.43%) Decision-Making
14 38 (7.06%) Project Management
15 37 (6.88%) Business Intelligence
16 36 (6.69%) Microservices
17 35 (6.51%) Data Governance
17 35 (6.51%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 103 (19.14%) Python
2 95 (17.66%) SQL
3 42 (7.81%) JavaScript
4 37 (6.88%) C#
5 35 (6.51%) Java
6 18 (3.35%) TypeScript
7 16 (2.97%) PowerShell
8 10 (1.86%) Bash
8 10 (1.86%) C++
9 8 (1.49%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.30%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.93%) Bicep
12 3 (0.56%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.56%) PHP
12 3 (0.56%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.56%) VBA
13 2 (0.37%) COBOL
13 2 (0.37%) Groovy
13 2 (0.37%) R
13 2 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 70 (13.01%) Security Cleared
2 59 (10.97%) SC Cleared
3 48 (8.92%) Degree
4 19 (3.53%) CISSP
5 18 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.97%) Master's Degree
7 13 (2.42%) CISM
8 12 (2.23%) PMI Certification
9 11 (2.04%) PMP
10 6 (1.12%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.12%) CRISC
10 6 (1.12%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.93%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.74%) CCSP
12 4 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (14.31%) GDPR
2 31 (5.76%) NIST
3 26 (4.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (3.90%) Data Quality
4 21 (3.90%) QA
5 11 (2.04%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.86%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.67%) GRC
8 7 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (1.12%) PERC
10 5 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.74%) GAAP
11 4 (0.74%) IFRS
11 4 (0.74%) NCSC
11 4 (0.74%) PMO
11 4 (0.74%) SLA
12 3 (0.56%) Basel III
12 3 (0.56%) IFRS 9
12 3 (0.56%) Solvency II
System Software
1 23 (4.28%) Docker
2 18 (3.35%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.19%) Firmware
5 1 (0.19%) HDFS
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 27 (5.02%) Kubernetes
2 23 (4.28%) Terraform
3 13 (2.42%) Ansible
3 13 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (1.67%) SCCM
5 5 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.56%) Kibana
7 3 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.37%) Control-M
8 2 (0.37%) Grafana
8 2 (0.37%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.37%) Puppet
8 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.19%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.19%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.19%) Foglight
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.19%) SCOM
9 1 (0.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 74 (13.75%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.28%) Google
3 22 (4.09%) SAP
4 21 (3.90%) Databricks
4 21 (3.90%) ServiceNow
5 19 (3.53%) Oracle
6 14 (2.60%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.86%) Cisco
7 10 (1.86%) Citrix
8 9 (1.67%) Adobe
9 8 (1.49%) Nokia
10 7 (1.30%) ADVA
10 7 (1.30%) Informatica
10 7 (1.30%) VMware
10 7 (1.30%) Workday
11 6 (1.12%) F5
11 6 (1.12%) IBM
11 6 (1.12%) Rapid7
12 5 (0.93%) Foundry
12 5 (0.93%) Red Hat