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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 95 98
Rank change year-on-year +23 +3 +17
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 538 394 433
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.74% 2.67% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.08% 2.97% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 228 259
10th Percentile £325 £274 £248
25th Percentile £414 £380 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.74% -8.86% -
75th Percentile £650 £613 £650
90th Percentile £719 £725 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - £16.36 £24.40
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.01 £25.00
Median hourly rate £22.27 £21.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.56% -46.25% -23.81%
75th Percentile £23.71 £33.17 £43.51
90th Percentile - £39.71 £44.12
England median hourly rate £20.71 £24.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -15.47% +2.08% -65.71%

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 13,174 13,286 16,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.50% 90.14% 89.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,690 8,522 11,607
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £758 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 164 241
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.15 £17.75
25th Percentile £24.65 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £31.58 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.79% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.75 £55.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £69.06 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +25.00%

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 31 December 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 31 December 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 +1 34 £563 +15.38% 41
South London -22 6 £538 -10.42% 3
West London -18 4 £250 -41.18% 3
East London +1 1 £638 +19.16% 3
North London - 1 £700 -
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 (3.35%) Confluence
2 11 (2.04%) 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 24 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.74%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.37%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.37%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.19%) Final Cut Pro
7 1 (0.19%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.19%) Sketch
7 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.19%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.30%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (0.74%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
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%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.37%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.19%) BambooHR
6 1 (0.19%) Endur
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Internet Expenses
6 1 (0.19%) Veritas eDiscovery
6 1 (0.19%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 115 (21.38%) Azure
2 69 (12.83%) AWS
3 50 (9.29%) Power Platform
4 34 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (5.76%) Microsoft 365
6 29 (5.39%) GCP
7 28 (5.20%) SaaS
7 28 (5.20%) Serverless
8 22 (4.09%) Snowflake
9 21 (3.90%) Power Automate
10 20 (3.72%) Entra ID
11 16 (2.97%) PowerApps
12 15 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (2.60%) Amazon S3
13 14 (2.60%) Azure Logic Apps
13 14 (2.60%) Azure Monitor
14 13 (2.42%) Azure Functions
14 13 (2.42%) GitHub
15 12 (2.23%) Azure AKS
16 10 (1.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.79%) Firewall
1 15 (2.79%) Network Security
2 9 (1.67%) Cisco IPT
3 7 (1.30%) MPLS
3 7 (1.30%) VPN
4 5 (0.93%) WAN
4 5 (0.93%) Wireshark
5 4 (0.74%) DNS
5 4 (0.74%) HTTP
5 4 (0.74%) LAN
5 4 (0.74%) NetScaler
6 3 (0.56%) BGP
6 3 (0.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 3 (0.56%) Internet
6 3 (0.56%) SAN
6 3 (0.56%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.37%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (0.37%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.37%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (6.69%) Power BI
2 17 (3.16%) SQL Server
3 13 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (2.04%) NoSQL
4 11 (2.04%) Tableau
5 8 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (1.49%) Metadata
5 8 (1.49%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.30%) MongoDB
6 7 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.93%) Big Data
8 5 (0.93%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.74%) BigQuery
9 4 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.56%) MySQL
10 3 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 48 (8.92%) JIRA
2 17 (3.16%) Git
3 9 (1.67%) SpecFlow
4 7 (1.30%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.93%) GitLab
6 3 (0.56%) ChangeMan
6 3 (0.56%) JUnit
7 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.37%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.37%) DBeaver
7 2 (0.37%) Gradle
7 2 (0.37%) Katalon Studio
7 2 (0.37%) Maven
7 2 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.37%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.19%) AppVeyor
8 1 (0.19%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.19%) Storybook
8 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 162 (30.11%) Social Skills
2 135 (25.09%) Finance
3 68 (12.64%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (10.78%) Banking
5 44 (8.18%) Public Sector
6 42 (7.81%) Legal
7 21 (3.90%) Marketing
8 17 (3.16%) Front Office
9 12 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.23%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.67%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.49%) Financial Institution
12 7 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
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 86 (15.99%) Developer
2 70 (13.01%) Analyst
3 53 (9.85%) Architect
4 47 (8.74%) Lead
5 32 (5.95%) Senior
6 31 (5.76%) Business Analyst
7 30 (5.58%) Consultant
8 24 (4.46%) Project Manager
9 17 (3.16%) Data Analyst
10 15 (2.79%) Security Engineer
11 13 (2.42%) Solutions Architect
12 12 (2.23%) Technical Architect
13 11 (2.04%) ServiceNow Developer
13 11 (2.04%) Software Engineer
13 11 (2.04%) Tester
14 10 (1.86%) Administrator
14 10 (1.86%) Azure Architect
14 10 (1.86%) Network Engineer
15 9 (1.67%) Support Engineer
15 9 (1.67%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (4.83%) REST
2 16 (2.97%) .NET
3 15 (2.79%) SOAP
4 13 (2.42%) React
5 11 (2.04%) HTML
5 11 (2.04%) Middleware
6 10 (1.86%) RESTful
7 9 (1.67%) .NET Core
7 9 (1.67%) Spring
8 8 (1.49%) AngularJS
8 8 (1.49%) Node.js
8 8 (1.49%) Playwright
9 7 (1.30%) FIX Protocol
9 7 (1.30%) Kafka
9 7 (1.30%) OAuth
9 7 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
10 6 (1.12%) Spring Boot
10 6 (1.12%) XML
11 5 (0.93%) ARM Templates
11 5 (0.93%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 305 (56.69%) Data Protection Act
2 27 (5.02%) Cloud Native
3 18 (3.35%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.16%) CMDB
5 15 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (2.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 14 (2.60%) Virtual Team
7 13 (2.42%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.04%) Derivative
9 10 (1.86%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.67%) NHS
11 8 (1.49%) Equities
11 8 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.30%) Freedom of Information
12 7 (1.30%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.30%) Security Posture
13 6 (1.12%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.12%) Credit Risk
13 6 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.12%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.65%) Linux
2 24 (4.46%) Windows
3 11 (2.04%) Unix
4 5 (0.93%) Android
4 5 (0.93%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.74%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.74%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.74%) zOS
6 3 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.56%) VMS
7 2 (0.37%) CentOS
7 2 (0.37%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (21.93%) Agile
2 108 (20.07%) Problem-Solving
3 81 (15.06%) Stakeholder Management
4 76 (14.13%) DevOps
5 69 (12.83%) CI/CD
6 66 (12.27%) Analytics
7 61 (11.34%) Migration
8 58 (10.78%) AI
9 52 (9.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 47 (8.74%) Roadmaps
11 45 (8.36%) Business Intelligence
12 42 (7.81%) Risk Management
13 41 (7.62%) Cybersecurity
13 41 (7.62%) Scrum
14 38 (7.06%) Data Governance
14 38 (7.06%) Project Management
15 37 (6.88%) Decision-Making
16 35 (6.51%) Continuous Improvement
17 34 (6.32%) Incident Response
18 32 (5.95%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 108 (20.07%) Python
2 97 (18.03%) SQL
3 40 (7.43%) JavaScript
4 36 (6.69%) C#
5 26 (4.83%) Java
6 24 (4.46%) PowerShell
7 17 (3.16%) TypeScript
8 15 (2.79%) Bash
9 14 (2.60%) C++
10 7 (1.30%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.93%) Bicep
11 5 (0.93%) Kotlin
11 5 (0.93%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.74%) COBOL
13 3 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.56%) Go
13 3 (0.56%) PHP
13 3 (0.56%) PromQL
13 3 (0.56%) R
13 3 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 61 (11.34%) Security Cleared
2 51 (9.48%) SC Cleared
3 40 (7.43%) Degree
4 17 (3.16%) CISSP
5 16 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.60%) CISM
7 12 (2.23%) Master's Degree
8 11 (2.04%) PMI Certification
9 10 (1.86%) PMP
10 6 (1.12%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.12%) CISA
11 5 (0.93%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.74%) CCSP
12 4 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (0.74%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.74%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (14.31%) GDPR
2 33 (6.13%) NIST
3 27 (5.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (3.53%) QA
5 18 (3.35%) Data Quality
6 10 (1.86%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (1.49%) GRC
9 7 (1.30%) PCI DSS
10 6 (1.12%) COBIT
10 6 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (1.12%) PERC
10 6 (1.12%) PMO
11 5 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.74%) IFRS
12 4 (0.74%) SLA
13 3 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.56%) Basel III
13 3 (0.56%) GAAP
13 3 (0.56%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 20 (3.72%) Active Directory
2 17 (3.16%) Docker
3 8 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.19%) Firmware
5 1 (0.19%) HDFS
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (4.46%) Terraform
2 21 (3.90%) Kubernetes
3 13 (2.42%) Ansible
4 11 (2.04%) SCCM
5 10 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (1.49%) Grafana
7 5 (0.93%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.56%) CA Endevor
8 3 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.56%) Kibana
8 3 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.37%) Control-M
9 2 (0.37%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.37%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.37%) Puppet
10 1 (0.19%) Nessus
10 1 (0.19%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 1 (0.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 83 (15.43%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.28%) ServiceNow
3 21 (3.90%) Google
4 19 (3.53%) SAP
5 18 (3.35%) Salesforce
6 17 (3.16%) Databricks
6 17 (3.16%) Oracle
7 11 (2.04%) Cisco
8 9 (1.67%) Citrix
9 8 (1.49%) IBM
9 8 (1.49%) Workday
10 7 (1.30%) Adobe
10 7 (1.30%) F5
11 6 (1.12%) Informatica
11 6 (1.12%) ION Trading
11 6 (1.12%) Solace
11 6 (1.12%) Splunk
11 6 (1.12%) VMware
12 5 (0.93%) Juniper
13 4 (0.74%) Fortinet