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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 107 90
Rank change year-on-year +29 -17 +30
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 595 328 451
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.37% 2.59% 2.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% 2.81% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 155 271
10th Percentile £296 £254 £243
25th Percentile £411 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £647 £624 £663
90th Percentile £775 £748 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 14
10th Percentile £20.19 £22.78 £11.95
25th Percentile £20.86 £26.19 £12.32
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.40 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% +22.84% -60.40%
75th Percentile £33.22 £34.17 £42.63
90th Percentile £35.49 £36.64 £62.50
England median hourly rate £20.79 £29.23 £21.00
% change year-on-year -28.87% +39.19% -60.00%

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 15,626 11,665 15,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.63% 92.10% 88.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,463 7,932 11,228
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £759 £813 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 173 325
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% +21.05% -26.92%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £46.86
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.65 £66.30
England median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year +44.50% -13.00% -6.67%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -15 37 £588 +14.63% 36
South London -21 13 £475 -20.83% 4
East London +1 6 £535 - 4
West London -24 3 £275 -19.12% 7
North London - 1 £550 - 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 (3.03%) Confluence
2 14 (2.35%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.84%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.67%) CMS
6 4 (0.67%) SAS
7 3 (0.50%) Apache
7 3 (0.50%) Drupal
8 2 (0.34%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.34%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.17%) Mule
9 1 (0.17%) nginx
9 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.17%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (3.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.50%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.34%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (2.02%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.67%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 3 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.50%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (0.34%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.34%) ION MarketView
4 2 (0.34%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.17%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.17%) Endur
5 1 (0.17%) Magento
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 134 (22.52%) Azure
2 92 (15.46%) AWS
3 49 (8.24%) GCP
4 34 (5.71%) SaaS
5 32 (5.38%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (5.21%) Entra ID
7 29 (4.87%) Power Platform
8 25 (4.20%) Microsoft Purview
8 25 (4.20%) Snowflake
9 19 (3.19%) GitHub
9 19 (3.19%) Serverless
10 18 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (2.35%) Amazon S3
11 14 (2.35%) PaaS
12 13 (2.18%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (2.18%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (2.02%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (2.02%) Azure AKS
13 12 (2.02%) IaaS
13 12 (2.02%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.20%) Network Security
2 16 (2.69%) Firewall
3 14 (2.35%) MPLS
4 12 (2.02%) Cisco IPT
5 10 (1.68%) WAN
6 9 (1.51%) SAN
7 7 (1.18%) LAN
7 7 (1.18%) VLAN
7 7 (1.18%) VPN
8 6 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.84%) Ethernet
9 5 (0.84%) NAS
9 5 (0.84%) Wireless
10 4 (0.67%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (0.67%) NetScaler
10 4 (0.67%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.67%) SSL
11 3 (0.50%) IPv4
11 3 (0.50%) IPv6
11 3 (0.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (4.20%) Power BI
2 19 (3.19%) Metadata
3 16 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (2.35%) NoSQL
5 12 (2.02%) SQL Server
6 11 (1.85%) Big Data
6 11 (1.85%) MongoDB
6 11 (1.85%) Relational Database
7 10 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (1.18%) BigQuery
9 7 (1.18%) Tableau
10 5 (0.84%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.84%) MySQL
10 5 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.67%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.67%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (0.67%) Pinecone
11 4 (0.67%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 38 (6.39%) JIRA
2 24 (4.03%) Git
3 12 (2.02%) GitLab
3 12 (2.02%) SpecFlow
4 11 (1.85%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.50%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.50%) JUnit
6 3 (0.50%) Katalon Studio
6 3 (0.50%) Maven
7 2 (0.34%) ERwin
7 2 (0.34%) Gradle
7 2 (0.34%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.34%) NUnit
7 2 (0.34%) Postman
7 2 (0.34%) Selenium
7 2 (0.34%) Storybook
7 2 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.34%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.17%) TestNG
General
1 165 (27.73%) Social Skills
2 161 (27.06%) Finance
3 74 (12.44%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (11.60%) Banking
5 49 (8.24%) Legal
6 39 (6.55%) Public Sector
7 29 (4.87%) Front Office
8 23 (3.87%) Documentation Skills
8 23 (3.87%) Telecoms
9 18 (3.03%) Marketing
10 15 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
10 15 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (2.02%) Local Government
12 11 (1.85%) Investment Banking
13 7 (1.18%) Billing
13 7 (1.18%) Retail
14 6 (1.01%) Electronics
14 6 (1.01%) Private Banking
15 5 (0.84%) Law
Job Titles
1 85 (14.29%) Architect
2 73 (12.27%) Analyst
3 58 (9.75%) Developer
4 49 (8.24%) Senior
5 45 (7.56%) Lead
6 41 (6.89%) Business Analyst
7 37 (6.22%) Consultant
8 28 (4.71%) Project Manager
9 27 (4.54%) Solutions Architect
10 21 (3.53%) Security Engineer
11 20 (3.36%) Network Engineer
12 18 (3.03%) Security Architect
13 16 (2.69%) Data Engineer
13 16 (2.69%) Java Developer
14 13 (2.18%) Technical Architect
14 13 (2.18%) Tester
15 12 (2.02%) Data Analyst
16 11 (1.85%) Automation Tester
16 11 (1.85%) Senior Analyst
16 11 (1.85%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (3.87%) .NET
2 21 (3.53%) REST
3 20 (3.36%) React
4 19 (3.19%) Spring
5 14 (2.35%) HTML
5 14 (2.35%) RESTful
6 13 (2.18%) Spring Boot
7 12 (2.02%) Kafka
7 12 (2.02%) Middleware
8 11 (1.85%) Playwright
9 10 (1.68%) CSS
10 9 (1.51%) Oracle Fusion
11 7 (1.18%) .NET Core
11 7 (1.18%) GraphQL
11 7 (1.18%) Node.js
11 7 (1.18%) OAuth
12 6 (1.01%) JSON
13 5 (0.84%) FIX Protocol
13 5 (0.84%) Vue
13 5 (0.84%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 311 (52.27%) Data Protection Act
2 42 (7.06%) Cloud Native
3 28 (4.71%) Onboarding
4 26 (4.37%) Product Ownership
5 19 (3.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 19 (3.19%) Security Posture
6 18 (3.03%) Management Information System
7 15 (2.52%) Derivative
8 14 (2.35%) Virtual Team
9 12 (2.02%) Data Centre
9 12 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (2.02%) Mobile App
10 10 (1.68%) Equities
10 10 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (1.68%) NHS
11 9 (1.51%) Freedom of Information
12 7 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.01%) Equity Derivative
13 6 (1.01%) Fixed Income
13 6 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 28 (4.71%) Windows
2 20 (3.36%) Linux
3 11 (1.85%) Apple iOS
3 11 (1.85%) Unix
4 7 (1.18%) Android
5 5 (0.84%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.50%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.50%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.34%) zOS
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.17%) Rocky
8 1 (0.17%) Solaris
8 1 (0.17%) VMS
8 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (20.00%) Agile
2 100 (16.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 94 (15.80%) Problem-Solving
4 79 (13.28%) CI/CD
5 78 (13.11%) DevOps
6 73 (12.27%) AI
7 72 (12.10%) Analytics
7 72 (12.10%) Migration
8 64 (10.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 56 (9.41%) Risk Management
9 56 (9.41%) Roadmaps
10 55 (9.24%) Cybersecurity
11 54 (9.08%) Decision-Making
12 53 (8.91%) Data Governance
13 50 (8.40%) Test Automation
14 48 (8.07%) Cloud Security
15 46 (7.73%) Microservices
15 46 (7.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 44 (7.39%) Infrastructure as Code
17 42 (7.06%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 101 (16.97%) Python
2 87 (14.62%) SQL
3 65 (10.92%) Java
4 33 (5.55%) C#
5 29 (4.87%) JavaScript
6 22 (3.70%) TypeScript
7 13 (2.18%) PowerShell
8 10 (1.68%) C++
9 7 (1.18%) Bash
9 7 (1.18%) PL/SQL
9 7 (1.18%) Scala
10 6 (1.01%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.67%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.50%) Bicep
12 3 (0.50%) PHP
12 3 (0.50%) R
12 3 (0.50%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.34%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 82 (13.78%) Security Cleared
2 69 (11.60%) SC Cleared
3 53 (8.91%) Degree
4 33 (5.55%) CISSP
5 18 (3.03%) CISM
6 17 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.35%) Azure Certification
8 13 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (2.18%) Master's Degree
9 12 (2.02%) AWS Certification
9 12 (2.02%) PMI Certification
9 12 (2.02%) PMP
10 9 (1.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 9 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (1.34%) CCSP
11 8 (1.34%) DV Cleared
12 7 (1.18%) CRISC
13 6 (1.01%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 5 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.84%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (14.79%) GDPR
2 41 (6.89%) NIST
3 32 (5.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 31 (5.21%) QA
5 27 (4.54%) Data Quality
6 13 (2.18%) PCI DSS
6 13 (2.18%) SLA
7 10 (1.68%) GRC
8 9 (1.51%) PERC
8 9 (1.51%) PMO
9 7 (1.18%) Accessibility
10 6 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.84%) NCSC
11 5 (0.84%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.67%) COBIT
12 4 (0.67%) GAAP
12 4 (0.67%) IFRS
13 3 (0.50%) Basel III
13 3 (0.50%) HL7
System Software
1 34 (5.71%) Docker
2 28 (4.71%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.34%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.17%) Firmware
6 1 (0.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 40 (6.72%) Kubernetes
2 34 (5.71%) Terraform
3 16 (2.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (2.18%) Ansible
5 11 (1.85%) SCCM
6 10 (1.68%) Grafana
7 9 (1.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 9 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (1.18%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.67%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.67%) Kibana
9 4 (0.67%) PingFederate
10 3 (0.50%) EMC NetWorker
10 3 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.34%) Packer
11 2 (0.34%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.34%) Puppet
11 2 (0.34%) QRadar
11 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.34%) SCOM
Vendors
1 97 (16.30%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.54%) Oracle
3 23 (3.87%) ServiceNow
4 22 (3.70%) Google
5 20 (3.36%) Databricks
6 17 (2.86%) Cisco
7 13 (2.18%) Salesforce
7 13 (2.18%) SAP
8 11 (1.85%) Adobe
8 11 (1.85%) Citrix
9 10 (1.68%) Workday
10 9 (1.51%) Nokia
10 9 (1.51%) Splunk
11 7 (1.18%) ADVA
11 7 (1.18%) Apple
11 7 (1.18%) F5
11 7 (1.18%) VMware
12 6 (1.01%) IBM
12 6 (1.01%) OpenAI
12 6 (1.01%) Red Hat