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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 95 103
Rank change year-on-year +23 +8 +12
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 538 370 418
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.75% 2.64% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.11% 2.92% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 202 257
10th Percentile £321 £300 £225
25th Percentile £419 £386 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £540
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -6.02% -6.09%
75th Percentile £639 £601 £650
90th Percentile £701 £700 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 8
10th Percentile - £16.36 £12.98
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.01 £21.36
Median hourly rate £22.27 £21.50 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year +3.56% -13.13% -
75th Percentile £23.71 £33.17 £40.88
90th Percentile - £39.71 £43.82
England median hourly rate £20.71 £24.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -15.47% +16.67% -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 13,093 12,664 16,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.28% 90.41% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,651 8,072 11,558
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 156 277
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.97 £16.48
25th Percentile £24.69 £24.42 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% -14.35%
75th Percentile £54.38 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.49 £80.38 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -12.50% +14.29%

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 18 January 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 18 January 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 +1 34 £563 +12.50% 21
South London -17 5 £538 -10.42% 9
West London -19 3 £250 -41.18% 6
East London - 3 £675 - 8
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 20 (3.72%) Confluence
2 12 (2.23%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.86%) CMS
4 7 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.56%) Apache
6 3 (0.56%) CICS
7 2 (0.37%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.37%) Drupal
7 2 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.37%) SAS
7 2 (0.37%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.19%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.19%) Luigi
8 1 (0.19%) nginx
8 1 (0.19%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 23 (4.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.93%) 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%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.49%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (0.74%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 3 (0.56%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle FAH
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.56%) VisionPLUS
5 2 (0.37%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.19%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Internet Expenses
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle iProcurement
6 1 (0.19%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.19%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 112 (20.82%) Azure
2 61 (11.34%) AWS
3 47 (8.74%) Power Platform
4 34 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (5.76%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (5.58%) SaaS
7 29 (5.39%) GCP
8 28 (5.20%) Serverless
9 23 (4.28%) Snowflake
10 19 (3.53%) Entra ID
11 18 (3.35%) Power Automate
12 15 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (2.79%) GitHub
13 14 (2.60%) Amazon S3
13 14 (2.60%) Azure Logic Apps
13 14 (2.60%) PowerApps
14 13 (2.42%) Azure AKS
14 13 (2.42%) Azure Functions
14 13 (2.42%) Azure Monitor
14 13 (2.42%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.97%) Network Security
2 11 (2.04%) MPLS
3 10 (1.86%) Firewall
4 9 (1.67%) Cisco IPT
5 5 (0.93%) SAN
5 5 (0.93%) VPN
6 4 (0.74%) Ethernet
6 4 (0.74%) LAN
6 4 (0.74%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.74%) WAN
7 3 (0.56%) BGP
7 3 (0.56%) HTTP
7 3 (0.56%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.56%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.56%) VLAN
7 3 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.37%) DKIM
8 2 (0.37%) DMARC
8 2 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.37%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (6.32%) Power BI
2 17 (3.16%) SQL Server
3 13 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.04%) NoSQL
6 10 (1.86%) Metadata
7 9 (1.67%) Tableau
8 8 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (1.49%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.30%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.93%) Big Data
10 5 (0.93%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.74%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.56%) EDRMS
12 3 (0.56%) MySQL
12 3 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (0.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 46 (8.55%) JIRA
2 21 (3.90%) Git
3 10 (1.86%) SpecFlow
4 7 (1.30%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.93%) GitLab
6 4 (0.74%) JUnit
7 3 (0.56%) ChangeMan
7 3 (0.56%) Maven
8 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.37%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.37%) DBeaver
8 2 (0.37%) Gradle
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%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.19%) Storybook
9 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 155 (28.81%) Social Skills
2 132 (24.54%) Finance
3 69 (12.83%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (10.78%) Banking
5 46 (8.55%) Public Sector
6 39 (7.25%) Legal
7 20 (3.72%) Marketing
8 16 (2.97%) Front Office
8 16 (2.97%) Telecoms
9 12 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.67%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.30%) Financial Institution
12 7 (1.30%) Local Government
13 6 (1.12%) Electronics
13 6 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (1.12%) Law
13 6 (1.12%) Publishing
13 6 (1.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 85 (15.80%) Developer
2 66 (12.27%) Analyst
3 53 (9.85%) Architect
4 47 (8.74%) Lead
5 33 (6.13%) Senior
6 31 (5.76%) Business Analyst
7 30 (5.58%) Consultant
8 25 (4.65%) Project Manager
9 17 (3.16%) Security Engineer
10 14 (2.60%) Data Analyst
11 13 (2.42%) Solutions Architect
12 12 (2.23%) Network Engineer
12 12 (2.23%) Technical Architect
13 11 (2.04%) Administrator
13 11 (2.04%) ServiceNow Developer
13 11 (2.04%) Software Engineer
14 10 (1.86%) Cloud Engineer
14 10 (1.86%) Tester
15 9 (1.67%) DBA
15 9 (1.67%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.65%) REST
2 19 (3.53%) .NET
3 15 (2.79%) SOAP
4 14 (2.60%) React
5 12 (2.23%) RESTful
6 11 (2.04%) HTML
6 11 (2.04%) Spring
7 9 (1.67%) .NET Core
7 9 (1.67%) Middleware
7 9 (1.67%) Node.js
7 9 (1.67%) Playwright
8 8 (1.49%) Kafka
9 7 (1.30%) AngularJS
9 7 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
9 7 (1.30%) Spring Boot
10 6 (1.12%) OAuth
10 6 (1.12%) XML
11 5 (0.93%) ARM Templates
11 5 (0.93%) ASP.NET
11 5 (0.93%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 298 (55.39%) Data Protection Act
2 24 (4.46%) Cloud Native
3 19 (3.53%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.16%) CMDB
5 14 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (2.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 14 (2.60%) Management Information System
6 13 (2.42%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.23%) Derivative
7 12 (2.23%) Virtual Team
8 10 (1.86%) Equities
9 9 (1.67%) NHS
10 8 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.49%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.30%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.12%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.12%) Credit Risk
12 6 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.12%) Fixed Income
12 6 (1.12%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 28 (5.20%) Linux
2 23 (4.28%) Windows
3 12 (2.23%) Unix
4 5 (0.93%) Android
4 5 (0.93%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.93%) zOS
5 4 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.56%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.56%) VMS
7 2 (0.37%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.37%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.19%) CentOS
8 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (22.12%) Agile
2 107 (19.89%) Problem-Solving
3 86 (15.99%) Stakeholder Management
4 72 (13.38%) DevOps
5 65 (12.08%) Analytics
5 65 (12.08%) CI/CD
6 61 (11.34%) AI
7 59 (10.97%) Migration
8 50 (9.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 49 (9.11%) Roadmaps
10 43 (7.99%) Risk Management
11 42 (7.81%) Business Intelligence
12 41 (7.62%) Cybersecurity
12 41 (7.62%) Scrum
13 38 (7.06%) Data Governance
13 38 (7.06%) Project Management
14 36 (6.69%) Decision-Making
15 35 (6.51%) Continuous Improvement
16 34 (6.32%) Test Automation
17 33 (6.13%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 110 (20.45%) Python
2 100 (18.59%) SQL
3 40 (7.43%) JavaScript
4 37 (6.88%) C#
5 32 (5.95%) Java
6 20 (3.72%) PowerShell
7 17 (3.16%) TypeScript
8 14 (2.60%) C++
9 12 (2.23%) Bash
10 7 (1.30%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.12%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.93%) Bicep
12 5 (0.93%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.74%) COBOL
14 3 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.56%) PHP
14 3 (0.56%) R
14 3 (0.56%) VBA
15 2 (0.37%) Scala
15 2 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 71 (13.20%) Security Cleared
2 59 (10.97%) SC Cleared
3 44 (8.18%) Degree
4 19 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (3.35%) CISSP
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%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.12%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (0.93%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.93%) CCSP
11 5 (0.93%) CRISC
11 5 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.74%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (0.74%) MCP
12 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (13.94%) GDPR
2 30 (5.58%) NIST
3 25 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (3.72%) Data Quality
5 17 (3.16%) QA
6 11 (2.04%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.67%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (1.49%) GRC
9 6 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (1.12%) PERC
10 5 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.74%) IFRS
11 4 (0.74%) NCSC
11 4 (0.74%) SLA
12 3 (0.56%) Basel III
12 3 (0.56%) COBIT
12 3 (0.56%) GAAP
12 3 (0.56%) IFRS 9
12 3 (0.56%) PMO
System Software
1 20 (3.72%) Docker
2 18 (3.35%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.19%) Firmware
6 1 (0.19%) HDFS
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 24 (4.46%) Terraform
2 21 (3.90%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.60%) Ansible
4 10 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (1.49%) SCCM
6 3 (0.56%) CA Endevor
6 3 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (0.56%) Kibana
6 3 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.37%) Control-M
7 2 (0.37%) Grafana
7 2 (0.37%) NetBackup
7 2 (0.37%) Puppet
8 1 (0.19%) Foglight
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.19%) SCOM
8 1 (0.19%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 1 (0.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 80 (14.87%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.28%) Google
3 21 (3.90%) ServiceNow
4 20 (3.72%) SAP
5 18 (3.35%) Databricks
5 18 (3.35%) Salesforce
6 17 (3.16%) Oracle
7 9 (1.67%) Cisco
7 9 (1.67%) Citrix
8 8 (1.49%) Workday
9 7 (1.30%) Adobe
9 7 (1.30%) IBM
9 7 (1.30%) Nokia
10 6 (1.12%) ADVA
10 6 (1.12%) F5
10 6 (1.12%) Informatica
10 6 (1.12%) ION Trading
11 5 (0.93%) Rapid7
11 5 (0.93%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.93%) VMware