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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 98 96
Rank change year-on-year +9 -2 +2
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 620 390 456
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.12% 2.88% 2.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.50% 3.12% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 182 264
10th Percentile £281 £258 £245
25th Percentile £385 £361 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £642 £647 £638
90th Percentile £775 £738 £775
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 10
10th Percentile £18.25 £26.15 £11.95
25th Percentile £20.89 £26.88 £13.40
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.81 £27.26
Median % change year-on-year -9.11% +13.00% -48.08%
75th Percentile £33.31 £34.94 £62.50
90th Percentile £37.55 £36.69 £71.88
England median hourly rate £21.35 £27.64 £21.00
% change year-on-year -22.76% +31.62% -42.10%

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 17,703 12,488 15,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.99% 92.09% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,731 8,359 10,820
10th Percentile £363 £331 £350
25th Percentile £449 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 238 265
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £20.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £31.25 £32.29
Median % change year-on-year +15.20% -3.22% -21.76%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.94 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.40 £69.20
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -8.14%

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 July 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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -5 41 £557 -5.28% 18
South London -14 11 £525 -28.45% 10
West London -10 8 £475 +31.03% 1
East London +4 3 £410 - 6
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 13 (2.10%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.94%) Confluence
3 11 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (1.45%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.97%) Apache
7 5 (0.81%) IIS
8 3 (0.48%) CMS
8 3 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.48%) SAS
9 2 (0.32%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.16%) Drupal
10 1 (0.16%) Luigi
10 1 (0.16%) Mule
10 1 (0.16%) nginx
10 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.65%) UserZoom
5 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.32%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.97%) Aladdin
1 6 (0.97%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.48%) SAP Payroll
3 3 (0.48%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.16%) Actimize
4 1 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.16%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.16%) Endur
4 1 (0.16%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.16%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.16%) Magento
4 1 (0.16%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.16%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 146 (23.55%) Azure
2 106 (17.10%) AWS
3 52 (8.39%) GCP
4 37 (5.97%) Entra ID
4 37 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
5 33 (5.32%) SaaS
6 28 (4.52%) Microsoft Purview
7 23 (3.71%) Power Platform
8 18 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (2.90%) GitHub
9 17 (2.74%) Serverless
10 15 (2.42%) Snowflake
11 12 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (1.94%) Azure Logic Apps
11 12 (1.94%) Microsoft Copilot
12 11 (1.77%) Amazon S3
12 11 (1.77%) Azure Sentinel
13 8 (1.29%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (1.29%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (1.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 38 (6.13%) Network Security
2 21 (3.39%) Firewall
3 9 (1.45%) Cisco IPT
4 8 (1.29%) WAN
4 8 (1.29%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (1.29%) Wireless
5 7 (1.13%) LAN
5 7 (1.13%) SSL
5 7 (1.13%) VPN
6 6 (0.97%) Cisco Nexus
6 6 (0.97%) MPLS
6 6 (0.97%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.81%) HTTPS
7 5 (0.81%) SAN
8 4 (0.65%) DHCP
8 4 (0.65%) DNS
8 4 (0.65%) HTTP
8 4 (0.65%) NAS
8 4 (0.65%) VLAN
9 3 (0.48%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.23%) Metadata
2 19 (3.06%) Power BI
3 17 (2.74%) NoSQL
4 15 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (1.61%) Big Data
6 10 (1.61%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.45%) Data Lake
7 9 (1.45%) MongoDB
8 8 (1.29%) MySQL
9 7 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (1.13%) Tableau
10 6 (0.97%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.81%) SQL Server
12 4 (0.65%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (0.65%) Delta Lake
12 4 (0.65%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.65%) Pinecone
12 4 (0.65%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 37 (5.97%) JIRA
2 22 (3.55%) Git
3 10 (1.61%) GitLab
3 10 (1.61%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.81%) Selenium
4 5 (0.81%) SpecFlow
5 4 (0.65%) ERwin
5 4 (0.65%) Gradle
6 3 (0.48%) ER Studio
6 3 (0.48%) JUnit
6 3 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.32%) CMake
7 2 (0.32%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.32%) Maven
7 2 (0.32%) Postman
7 2 (0.32%) Vite
7 2 (0.32%) XCUITest
8 1 (0.16%) MLflow
8 1 (0.16%) Storybook
8 1 (0.16%) XCTest
General
1 190 (30.65%) Social Skills
2 165 (26.61%) Finance
3 68 (10.97%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (10.81%) Banking
5 60 (9.68%) Public Sector
6 55 (8.87%) Legal
7 30 (4.84%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (4.19%) Front Office
9 17 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (2.26%) Marketing
11 13 (2.10%) Billing
11 13 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (2.10%) Retail
11 13 (2.10%) Telecoms
12 12 (1.94%) Local Government
13 11 (1.77%) Investment Banking
13 11 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (1.45%) Law
15 8 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 106 (17.10%) Architect
2 74 (11.94%) Analyst
3 47 (7.58%) Developer
4 46 (7.42%) Senior
5 39 (6.29%) Lead
6 37 (5.97%) Business Analyst
7 32 (5.16%) Consultant
7 32 (5.16%) Project Manager
8 29 (4.68%) Security Architect
9 28 (4.52%) Solutions Architect
10 21 (3.39%) Security Engineer
11 16 (2.58%) Data Engineer
12 14 (2.26%) Network Engineer
13 13 (2.10%) IT Support
13 13 (2.10%) Java Developer
14 11 (1.77%) Data Analyst
14 11 (1.77%) Data Protection Officer
14 11 (1.77%) Junior
14 11 (1.77%) Product Manager
15 9 (1.45%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (5.32%) REST
2 16 (2.58%) React
3 14 (2.26%) Middleware
4 13 (2.10%) OAuth
4 13 (2.10%) Spring
5 12 (1.94%) .NET
5 12 (1.94%) GraphQL
6 11 (1.77%) CSS
6 11 (1.77%) HTML
6 11 (1.77%) RESTful
7 9 (1.45%) Kafka
7 9 (1.45%) Playwright
7 9 (1.45%) Spring Boot
8 8 (1.29%) JSON
9 7 (1.13%) OAuth2
9 7 (1.13%) OpenID
9 7 (1.13%) SAML
10 6 (0.97%) Lightning Web Components
10 6 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
10 6 (0.97%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 298 (48.06%) Data Protection Act
2 50 (8.06%) Cloud Native
3 34 (5.48%) Product Ownership
4 32 (5.16%) Onboarding
5 26 (4.19%) Security Posture
6 21 (3.39%) Virtual Team
7 17 (2.74%) Management Information System
8 15 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
9 14 (2.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 13 (2.10%) Data Centre
11 12 (1.94%) Derivative
11 12 (1.94%) Mobile App
12 9 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.45%) Operational Technology
12 9 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.29%) BYOD
13 8 (1.29%) Fixed Income
14 7 (1.13%) Data Structures
14 7 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 42 (6.77%) Windows
2 16 (2.58%) Android
3 15 (2.42%) Linux
4 13 (2.10%) Apple iOS
5 11 (1.77%) Unix
6 7 (1.13%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.97%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.48%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.16%) MVS
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.16%) Rocky
9 1 (0.16%) Solaris
9 1 (0.16%) VMS
9 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (19.52%) Agile
2 106 (17.10%) Stakeholder Management
3 91 (14.68%) AI
4 89 (14.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 88 (14.19%) Problem-Solving
6 86 (13.87%) CI/CD
6 86 (13.87%) DevOps
7 76 (12.26%) Cybersecurity
8 74 (11.94%) Migration
9 71 (11.45%) Analytics
10 69 (11.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 63 (10.16%) Data Governance
12 62 (10.00%) Roadmaps
13 59 (9.52%) Decision-Making
14 56 (9.03%) Risk Management
15 55 (8.87%) Information Security
16 45 (7.26%) Data Modelling
17 43 (6.94%) Test Automation
18 41 (6.61%) Cloud Security
19 40 (6.45%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 76 (12.26%) Python
2 61 (9.84%) SQL
3 57 (9.19%) Java
4 18 (2.90%) JavaScript
5 15 (2.42%) C#
5 15 (2.42%) TypeScript
6 14 (2.26%) PowerShell
7 9 (1.45%) Kotlin
8 8 (1.29%) Apex Code
9 7 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (0.97%) Scala
11 5 (0.81%) Bash
12 4 (0.65%) C++
13 3 (0.48%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.32%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.32%) Go
14 2 (0.32%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.32%) R
14 2 (0.32%) Ruby
14 2 (0.32%) Swift
Qualifications
1 75 (12.10%) Security Cleared
2 62 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 53 (8.55%) Degree
4 39 (6.29%) CISSP
5 20 (3.23%) CISM
6 13 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.10%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.94%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.94%) Azure Certification
7 12 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (1.61%) PMI Certification
9 9 (1.45%) PMP
10 8 (1.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 8 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.13%) CISA
11 7 (1.13%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.97%) CCSP
12 6 (0.97%) CRISC
13 5 (0.81%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (16.13%) GDPR
2 37 (5.97%) NIST
3 36 (5.81%) QA
4 34 (5.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (5.32%) Data Quality
6 20 (3.23%) GRC
7 17 (2.74%) Accessibility
7 17 (2.74%) PCI DSS
8 16 (2.58%) PMO
9 11 (1.77%) SLA
10 9 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (1.29%) PERC
12 6 (0.97%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.97%) NCSC
12 6 (0.97%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 3 (0.48%) Government Security Classifications
15 3 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 34 (5.48%) Active Directory
2 24 (3.87%) Docker
3 5 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.16%) Firmware
6 1 (0.16%) NFS
6 1 (0.16%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 36 (5.81%) Kubernetes
2 22 (3.55%) Terraform
3 16 (2.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (1.94%) SCCM
4 12 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (1.61%) Ansible
5 10 (1.61%) Grafana
6 8 (1.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (0.97%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.81%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.65%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.65%) Kibana
9 4 (0.65%) PingFederate
10 3 (0.48%) NetBackup
10 3 (0.48%) QRadar
11 2 (0.32%) Avamar
11 2 (0.32%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (0.32%) Packer
12 1 (0.16%) Istio
12 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 104 (16.77%) Microsoft
2 33 (5.32%) ServiceNow
3 28 (4.52%) Oracle
4 22 (3.55%) Cisco
5 18 (2.90%) Salesforce
6 17 (2.74%) Google
7 16 (2.58%) Databricks
8 13 (2.10%) Zscaler
9 12 (1.94%) Splunk
10 7 (1.13%) Palo Alto
10 7 (1.13%) SAP
10 7 (1.13%) Workday
11 6 (0.97%) Adobe
11 6 (0.97%) Murex
11 6 (0.97%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.97%) VMware
12 5 (0.81%) Apple
12 5 (0.81%) Bloomberg
12 5 (0.81%) CyberArk
12 5 (0.81%) Red Hat