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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 113 105
Rank change year-on-year +39 -8 +15
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 587 312 410
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.49% 2.45% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.90% 2.68% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 157 248
10th Percentile £305 £255 £263
25th Percentile £413 £360 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -3.30%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £675
90th Percentile £754 £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 15,060 11,622 15,941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.56% 91.41% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,095 7,890 11,411
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £677 £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 234 170 337
10th Percentile £18.13 £18.91 £15.98
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 £57.37 £51.07 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.25 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.71 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +12.95% - -13.33%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -10 36 £600 +14.29% 34
South London -25 13 £600 - 4
East London +5 5 £638 - 6
West London -19 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 19 (3.24%) Confluence
2 14 (2.39%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.02%) 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 (3.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.19%) 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 (2.04%) 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%) BambooHR
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%) Veritas eDiscovery
5 1 (0.17%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 143 (24.36%) Azure
2 89 (15.16%) AWS
3 50 (8.52%) GCP
4 33 (5.62%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (5.62%) SaaS
5 30 (5.11%) Entra ID
6 29 (4.94%) Power Platform
7 27 (4.60%) Snowflake
8 24 (4.09%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (4.09%) Serverless
9 21 (3.58%) Microsoft Purview
10 16 (2.73%) GitHub
11 15 (2.56%) PaaS
12 14 (2.39%) Amazon S3
12 14 (2.39%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (2.39%) Azure AKS
13 13 (2.21%) AWS CloudFormation
13 13 (2.21%) IaaS
14 12 (2.04%) Azure Sentinel
15 11 (1.87%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.09%) Network Security
2 14 (2.39%) Firewall
3 13 (2.21%) MPLS
4 12 (2.04%) Cisco IPT
5 9 (1.53%) SAN
6 6 (1.02%) VPN
6 6 (1.02%) WAN
7 5 (0.85%) LAN
7 5 (0.85%) NAS
7 5 (0.85%) VLAN
8 4 (0.68%) Ethernet
8 4 (0.68%) NetScaler
8 4 (0.68%) SSL
8 4 (0.68%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.68%) Wireless
9 3 (0.51%) BGP
9 3 (0.51%) HTTP
9 3 (0.51%) IPv4
9 3 (0.51%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (4.26%) Power BI
2 19 (3.24%) Metadata
3 16 (2.73%) SQL Server
4 15 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (1.70%) NoSQL
7 9 (1.53%) Relational Database
8 8 (1.36%) MongoDB
8 8 (1.36%) Tableau
9 7 (1.19%) Big Data
9 7 (1.19%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.02%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.85%) MySQL
11 5 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.68%) Apache Iceberg
13 3 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.51%) Delta Lake
13 3 (0.51%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 39 (6.64%) JIRA
2 25 (4.26%) Git
3 12 (2.04%) GitLab
3 12 (2.04%) SpecFlow
4 10 (1.70%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.85%) 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
1 163 (27.77%) Finance
2 159 (27.09%) Social Skills
3 72 (12.27%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (11.75%) Banking
5 47 (8.01%) Legal
6 39 (6.64%) Public Sector
7 26 (4.43%) Front Office
8 21 (3.58%) Telecoms
9 20 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
10 18 (3.07%) Marketing
11 13 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (1.70%) Investment Banking
15 9 (1.53%) Local Government
16 8 (1.36%) Billing
17 6 (1.02%) Electronics
17 6 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 5 (0.85%) Back Office
18 5 (0.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 93 (15.84%) Architect
2 70 (11.93%) Analyst
3 57 (9.71%) Developer
4 47 (8.01%) Lead
5 43 (7.33%) Senior
6 37 (6.30%) Business Analyst
7 34 (5.79%) Consultant
8 29 (4.94%) Solutions Architect
9 25 (4.26%) Project Manager
10 19 (3.24%) Security Engineer
11 18 (3.07%) Security Architect
12 16 (2.73%) Network Engineer
12 16 (2.73%) Technical Architect
13 14 (2.39%) Java Developer
14 13 (2.21%) Data Analyst
14 13 (2.21%) Tester
15 12 (2.04%) Data Engineer
16 10 (1.70%) Administrator
16 10 (1.70%) Python Developer
16 10 (1.70%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.75%) .NET
2 17 (2.90%) React
2 17 (2.90%) REST
2 17 (2.90%) Spring
3 14 (2.39%) Middleware
4 12 (2.04%) Playwright
4 12 (2.04%) Spring Boot
5 11 (1.87%) Kafka
5 11 (1.87%) RESTful
6 9 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
7 8 (1.36%) .NET Core
8 7 (1.19%) HTML
8 7 (1.19%) Node.js
9 6 (1.02%) OAuth
9 6 (1.02%) XML
10 5 (0.85%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.85%) ARM Templates
10 5 (0.85%) FIX Protocol
10 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Graph
11 4 (0.68%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 306 (52.13%) Data Protection Act
2 40 (6.81%) Cloud Native
3 25 (4.26%) Onboarding
4 22 (3.75%) Product Ownership
5 19 (3.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 17 (2.90%) Security Posture
7 16 (2.73%) Management Information System
8 14 (2.39%) Derivative
9 12 (2.04%) Data Centre
9 12 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.70%) Equities
10 10 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (1.53%) Fixed Income
11 9 (1.53%) Freedom of Information
11 9 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.53%) Mobile App
12 7 (1.19%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.19%) NHS
12 7 (1.19%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.02%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 31 (5.28%) Windows
2 21 (3.58%) Linux
3 9 (1.53%) Unix
4 8 (1.36%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.85%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.68%) Android
6 4 (0.68%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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 (19.25%) Agile
2 104 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
3 95 (16.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 80 (13.63%) DevOps
5 78 (13.29%) Migration
6 77 (13.12%) CI/CD
7 69 (11.75%) Analytics
8 65 (11.07%) AI
9 58 (9.88%) Cybersecurity
10 57 (9.71%) Roadmaps
11 56 (9.54%) Continuous Improvement
12 54 (9.20%) Risk Management
13 51 (8.69%) Decision-Making
14 48 (8.18%) Data Governance
15 47 (8.01%) Cloud Security
15 47 (8.01%) Test Automation
16 45 (7.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 44 (7.50%) Microservices
18 43 (7.33%) Infrastructure as Code
19 36 (6.13%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 97 (16.52%) Python
2 92 (15.67%) SQL
3 59 (10.05%) Java
4 36 (6.13%) C#
5 29 (4.94%) JavaScript
6 20 (3.41%) TypeScript
7 16 (2.73%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.53%) C++
9 8 (1.36%) Bash
10 6 (1.02%) PL/SQL
10 6 (1.02%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.85%) 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 (13.63%) Security Cleared
2 68 (11.58%) SC Cleared
3 54 (9.20%) Degree
4 31 (5.28%) CISSP
5 19 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.07%) CISM
7 14 (2.39%) Azure Certification
7 14 (2.39%) Master's Degree
8 13 (2.21%) PMI Certification
9 11 (1.87%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.87%) PMP
10 10 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (1.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 9 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (1.36%) CCSP
13 7 (1.19%) CRISC
13 7 (1.19%) DV Cleared
14 6 (1.02%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 5 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
15 5 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (14.99%) GDPR
2 43 (7.33%) NIST
3 35 (5.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 31 (5.28%) QA
5 29 (4.94%) Data Quality
6 15 (2.56%) PCI DSS
7 12 (2.04%) GRC
7 12 (2.04%) SLA
8 10 (1.70%) PMO
9 9 (1.53%) PERC
10 7 (1.19%) Accessibility
10 7 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.85%) NCSC
11 5 (0.85%) 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 (5.45%) Docker
2 25 (4.26%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.36%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 40 (6.81%) Kubernetes
2 34 (5.79%) Terraform
3 15 (2.56%) Ansible
3 15 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (1.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 9 (1.53%) SCCM
4 9 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (1.19%) Grafana
6 5 (0.85%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (0.68%) Kibana
8 3 (0.51%) CA Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.51%) EMC NetWorker
8 3 (0.51%) PingFederate
8 3 (0.51%) Puppet
9 2 (0.34%) Avamar
9 2 (0.34%) Control-M
9 2 (0.34%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.34%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 93 (15.84%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.26%) Oracle
3 23 (3.92%) Google
3 23 (3.92%) ServiceNow
4 20 (3.41%) Databricks
5 18 (3.07%) SAP
6 16 (2.73%) Salesforce
7 13 (2.21%) Cisco
8 12 (2.04%) Citrix
9 9 (1.53%) Adobe
9 9 (1.53%) F5
9 9 (1.53%) Nokia
9 9 (1.53%) Workday
10 8 (1.36%) VMware
11 7 (1.19%) ADVA
12 6 (1.02%) Apple
12 6 (1.02%) IBM
12 6 (1.02%) OpenAI
12 6 (1.02%) Rapid7
12 6 (1.02%) Red Hat