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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 109 103
Rank change year-on-year +34 -6 +15
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 584 311 411
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.49% 2.46% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.89% 2.69% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 157 249
10th Percentile £313 £255 £263
25th Percentile £413 £360 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -2.22%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £675
90th Percentile £756 £750 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 14
10th Percentile £19.88 £19.10 £11.95
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.88 £12.32
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.40 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% +25.37% -66.55%
75th Percentile £33.12 £34.17 £42.63
90th Percentile £36.50 £36.64 £57.11
England median hourly rate £20.71 £29.62 £19.50
% change year-on-year -30.07% +51.87% -71.32%

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 14,995 11,556 15,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.68% 91.45% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,050 7,835 11,420
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 169 333
10th Percentile £18.11 £19.16 £15.96
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.05% -22.67%
75th Percentile £57.00 £51.25 £50.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £67.50 £69.90
England median hourly rate £35.91 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +10.49% -1.52% -12.00%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 27 March 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 36 £600 +14.29% 34
South London -24 13 £600 - 4
East London +1 5 £638 - 6
West London -15 3 £200 -40.96% 19
North London - 2 £625 - 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 16 (2.74%) Confluence
2 14 (2.40%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.51%) CMS
7 2 (0.34%) Apache
7 2 (0.34%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.34%) Drupal
7 2 (0.34%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.17%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.17%) Mule
8 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.17%) SAS
8 1 (0.17%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 19 (3.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.68%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.34%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (2.05%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.68%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 4 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.34%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.34%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.17%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
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%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.17%) Veritas eDiscovery
5 1 (0.17%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 140 (23.97%) Azure
2 85 (14.55%) AWS
3 46 (7.88%) GCP
4 33 (5.65%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (5.65%) SaaS
5 29 (4.97%) Power Platform
6 27 (4.62%) Entra ID
6 27 (4.62%) Snowflake
7 24 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (4.11%) Serverless
8 21 (3.60%) Microsoft Purview
9 16 (2.74%) GitHub
10 15 (2.57%) PaaS
11 14 (2.40%) Amazon S3
11 14 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (2.40%) Azure AKS
12 13 (2.23%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (2.23%) IaaS
13 12 (2.05%) Azure Sentinel
14 11 (1.88%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.11%) Network Security
2 14 (2.40%) Firewall
3 13 (2.23%) MPLS
4 12 (2.05%) Cisco IPT
5 9 (1.54%) SAN
6 5 (0.86%) LAN
6 5 (0.86%) NAS
6 5 (0.86%) VPN
6 5 (0.86%) WAN
7 4 (0.68%) Ethernet
7 4 (0.68%) NetScaler
7 4 (0.68%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.68%) VLAN
7 4 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.68%) Wireless
8 3 (0.51%) BGP
8 3 (0.51%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (0.51%) HTTP
8 3 (0.51%) IPv4
8 3 (0.51%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (4.28%) Power BI
2 16 (2.74%) Metadata
2 16 (2.74%) SQL Server
3 15 (2.57%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (1.71%) NoSQL
6 9 (1.54%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.37%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.37%) Tableau
8 7 (1.20%) Big Data
8 7 (1.20%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.03%) BigQuery
10 5 (0.86%) MySQL
10 5 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.68%) Apache Iceberg
12 3 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.51%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.51%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 36 (6.16%) JIRA
2 25 (4.28%) Git
3 12 (2.05%) GitLab
3 12 (2.05%) SpecFlow
4 10 (1.71%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.51%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.51%) Gradle
6 3 (0.51%) JUnit
6 3 (0.51%) Katalon Studio
6 3 (0.51%) Maven
7 2 (0.34%) DBeaver
7 2 (0.34%) ERwin
7 2 (0.34%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.34%) NUnit
7 2 (0.34%) Postman
7 2 (0.34%) Selenium
7 2 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.34%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.17%) Liquibase
General
1 161 (27.57%) Finance
1 161 (27.57%) Social Skills
2 72 (12.33%) Analytical Skills
3 68 (11.64%) Banking
4 46 (7.88%) Legal
5 39 (6.68%) Public Sector
6 26 (4.45%) Front Office
7 21 (3.60%) Telecoms
8 20 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
9 18 (3.08%) Marketing
10 13 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (1.71%) Investment Banking
13 9 (1.54%) Local Government
14 8 (1.37%) Billing
15 7 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 6 (1.03%) Electronics
17 5 (0.86%) Back Office
17 5 (0.86%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 93 (15.92%) Architect
2 70 (11.99%) Analyst
3 57 (9.76%) Developer
4 47 (8.05%) Lead
5 43 (7.36%) Senior
6 37 (6.34%) Business Analyst
7 33 (5.65%) Consultant
8 29 (4.97%) Solutions Architect
9 25 (4.28%) Project Manager
10 19 (3.25%) Security Engineer
11 18 (3.08%) Security Architect
12 16 (2.74%) Network Engineer
12 16 (2.74%) Technical Architect
13 14 (2.40%) Java Developer
14 13 (2.23%) Data Analyst
14 13 (2.23%) Tester
15 12 (2.05%) Data Engineer
16 10 (1.71%) Administrator
16 10 (1.71%) Python Developer
16 10 (1.71%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.77%) .NET
2 17 (2.91%) React
2 17 (2.91%) REST
2 17 (2.91%) Spring
3 14 (2.40%) Middleware
4 12 (2.05%) Playwright
4 12 (2.05%) Spring Boot
5 11 (1.88%) Kafka
5 11 (1.88%) RESTful
6 9 (1.54%) Oracle Fusion
7 8 (1.37%) .NET Core
8 7 (1.20%) HTML
8 7 (1.20%) Node.js
9 6 (1.03%) XML
10 5 (0.86%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.86%) ARM Templates
10 5 (0.86%) FIX Protocol
10 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Graph
11 4 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (0.68%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 307 (52.57%) Data Protection Act
2 40 (6.85%) Cloud Native
3 25 (4.28%) Onboarding
4 22 (3.77%) Product Ownership
5 19 (3.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 17 (2.91%) Security Posture
7 16 (2.74%) Management Information System
8 14 (2.40%) Derivative
9 12 (2.05%) Data Centre
9 12 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.71%) Equities
10 10 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (1.54%) Fixed Income
11 9 (1.54%) Freedom of Information
11 9 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.54%) Mobile App
12 7 (1.20%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.20%) NHS
13 6 (1.03%) Enterprise Storage
13 6 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (5.14%) Windows
2 22 (3.77%) Linux
3 9 (1.54%) Unix
4 8 (1.37%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.86%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.68%) Android
6 4 (0.68%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.51%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.34%) VMS
8 2 (0.34%) zOS
9 1 (0.17%) CentOS
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.17%) Rocky
9 1 (0.17%) Solaris
9 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (19.35%) Agile
2 104 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
3 96 (16.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 77 (13.18%) CI/CD
4 77 (13.18%) DevOps
5 75 (12.84%) Migration
6 68 (11.64%) Analytics
7 65 (11.13%) AI
8 58 (9.93%) Cybersecurity
9 57 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 57 (9.76%) Roadmaps
10 54 (9.25%) Risk Management
11 51 (8.73%) Decision-Making
12 48 (8.22%) Data Governance
13 47 (8.05%) Test Automation
14 46 (7.88%) Cloud Security
15 44 (7.53%) Microservices
15 44 (7.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 43 (7.36%) Infrastructure as Code
17 36 (6.16%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 97 (16.61%) Python
2 92 (15.75%) SQL
3 56 (9.59%) Java
4 36 (6.16%) C#
5 29 (4.97%) JavaScript
6 20 (3.42%) TypeScript
7 16 (2.74%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.54%) C++
9 8 (1.37%) Bash
10 6 (1.03%) PL/SQL
10 6 (1.03%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.86%) Bicep
12 4 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.51%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.34%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.34%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.34%) Groovy
14 2 (0.34%) PHP
14 2 (0.34%) Scala
14 2 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 80 (13.70%) Security Cleared
2 67 (11.47%) SC Cleared
3 54 (9.25%) Degree
4 29 (4.97%) CISSP
5 19 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.74%) CISM
7 14 (2.40%) Azure Certification
7 14 (2.40%) Master's Degree
8 13 (2.23%) PMI Certification
9 11 (1.88%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.88%) PMP
10 9 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 9 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (1.37%) CCSP
11 8 (1.37%) DV Cleared
12 7 (1.20%) CRISC
13 6 (1.03%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 5 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.86%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (14.55%) GDPR
2 43 (7.36%) NIST
3 35 (5.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 31 (5.31%) QA
5 29 (4.97%) Data Quality
6 15 (2.57%) PCI DSS
7 12 (2.05%) GRC
7 12 (2.05%) SLA
8 10 (1.71%) PMO
9 9 (1.54%) PERC
10 7 (1.20%) Accessibility
10 7 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.86%) NCSC
11 5 (0.86%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.68%) COBIT
12 4 (0.68%) GAAP
12 4 (0.68%) IFRS
13 3 (0.51%) Basel III
13 3 (0.51%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 32 (5.48%) Docker
2 22 (3.77%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 40 (6.85%) Kubernetes
2 34 (5.82%) Terraform
3 16 (2.74%) Ansible
4 15 (2.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (1.54%) SCCM
6 7 (1.20%) Grafana
7 6 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.86%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.68%) Kibana
10 3 (0.51%) EMC NetWorker
10 3 (0.51%) Puppet
11 2 (0.34%) Avamar
11 2 (0.34%) Control-M
11 2 (0.34%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.34%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.17%) CASB
12 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 92 (15.75%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.28%) Oracle
3 23 (3.94%) Google
4 20 (3.42%) Databricks
4 20 (3.42%) ServiceNow
5 18 (3.08%) SAP
6 16 (2.74%) Salesforce
7 12 (2.05%) Cisco
7 12 (2.05%) Citrix
8 9 (1.54%) F5
8 9 (1.54%) Nokia
8 9 (1.54%) Workday
9 8 (1.37%) Adobe
9 8 (1.37%) VMware
10 7 (1.20%) ADVA
10 7 (1.20%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.03%) Apple
11 6 (1.03%) IBM
11 6 (1.03%) OpenAI
11 6 (1.03%) Rapid7