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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 113 95
Rank change year-on-year +34 -18 +20
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 602 309 440
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.27% 2.56% 2.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.69% 2.77% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 145 252
10th Percentile £256 £263 £243
25th Percentile £375 £368 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £531
Median % change year-on-year - -1.18% -9.96%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £666
90th Percentile £800 £742 £775
England median daily rate £498 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.32% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 15
10th Percentile £20.51 £26.15 £11.95
25th Percentile £20.89 £26.88 £12.69
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.81 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.11% +23.22% -60.00%
75th Percentile £33.31 £34.94 £51.25
90th Percentile £37.55 £36.69 £68.13
England median hourly rate £22.13 £29.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -24.97% +40.48% -44.76%

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 16,309 11,148 15,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.69% 92.30% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,878 7,454 11,015
10th Percentile £358 £350 £338
25th Percentile £435 £430 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -1.55% -0.36% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 194 318
10th Percentile £18.14 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.16 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £36.75 £32.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.95% +15.18% -28.59%
75th Percentile £58.98 £49.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.73 £63.18 £68.23
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.53 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.77% -23.93% +0.54%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -4 36 £550 -4.30% 39
South London -7 13 £500 -31.86% 3
East London -1 5 £432 - 7
West London -23 4 £338 -0.74% 8
North London - 1 £550 -
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 (2.16%) Confluence
2 12 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.33%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.83%) Apache
6 5 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.66%) CMS
7 4 (0.66%) IIS
7 4 (0.66%) SAS
8 3 (0.50%) Drupal
9 2 (0.33%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.33%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.17%) Mule
10 1 (0.17%) nginx
10 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.66%) UserZoom
4 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.66%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.66%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 3 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.50%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.17%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.17%) Endur
5 1 (0.17%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.17%) Magento
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 135 (22.43%) Azure
2 98 (16.28%) AWS
3 49 (8.14%) GCP
4 38 (6.31%) Microsoft 365
5 37 (6.15%) Entra ID
6 34 (5.65%) SaaS
7 26 (4.32%) Microsoft Purview
8 22 (3.65%) Power Platform
9 18 (2.99%) Snowflake
10 17 (2.82%) GitHub
11 15 (2.49%) Serverless
12 13 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (1.99%) Amazon S3
13 12 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (1.99%) Azure Logic Apps
13 12 (1.99%) Azure Sentinel
13 12 (1.99%) Microsoft Copilot
14 10 (1.66%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (1.66%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (5.81%) Network Security
2 18 (2.99%) Firewall
3 12 (1.99%) MPLS
4 7 (1.16%) SSL
4 7 (1.16%) VLAN
4 7 (1.16%) VPN
4 7 (1.16%) WAN
4 7 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (1.00%) SAN
5 6 (1.00%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.00%) Wireless
6 5 (0.83%) Cisco IPT
6 5 (0.83%) Ethernet
6 5 (0.83%) NAS
7 4 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (0.66%) HTTP
7 4 (0.66%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.66%) LAN
8 3 (0.50%) IPv4
8 3 (0.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.49%) Metadata
2 18 (2.99%) Power BI
3 14 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (1.99%) NoSQL
5 10 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.50%) Big Data
6 9 (1.50%) Data Lake
6 9 (1.50%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (1.16%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.16%) Tableau
9 6 (1.00%) BigQuery
9 6 (1.00%) SQL Server
10 5 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.66%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (0.66%) Delta Lake
11 4 (0.66%) MySQL
11 4 (0.66%) Pinecone
11 4 (0.66%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 34 (5.65%) JIRA
2 22 (3.65%) Git
3 10 (1.66%) GitLab
4 9 (1.50%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.50%) SpecFlow
5 4 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.50%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.50%) ERwin
6 3 (0.50%) Gradle
6 3 (0.50%) Katalon Studio
7 2 (0.33%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.33%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.33%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.33%) JUnit
7 2 (0.33%) Maven
7 2 (0.33%) Postman
7 2 (0.33%) Selenium
7 2 (0.33%) Storybook
8 1 (0.17%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 172 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 171 (28.41%) Finance
3 70 (11.63%) Banking
4 65 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (8.14%) Legal
6 45 (7.48%) Public Sector
7 33 (5.48%) Documentation Skills
8 29 (4.82%) Front Office
9 18 (2.99%) Telecoms
10 15 (2.49%) Marketing
10 15 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (1.99%) Local Government
12 12 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (1.83%) Investment Banking
13 11 (1.83%) Retail
14 9 (1.50%) Billing
14 9 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (1.33%) Law
16 7 (1.16%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 97 (16.11%) Architect
2 65 (10.80%) Analyst
3 53 (8.80%) Developer
4 47 (7.81%) Senior
5 42 (6.98%) Lead
6 37 (6.15%) Business Analyst
7 35 (5.81%) Project Manager
8 32 (5.32%) Consultant
9 27 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
10 24 (3.99%) Security Engineer
11 23 (3.82%) Security Architect
12 22 (3.65%) Network Engineer
13 15 (2.49%) Data Engineer
13 15 (2.49%) Java Developer
14 11 (1.83%) Cloud Engineer
14 11 (1.83%) IT Support
14 11 (1.83%) Senior Manager
15 10 (1.66%) Product Manager
15 10 (1.66%) Tester
16 9 (1.50%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (3.99%) REST
2 19 (3.16%) React
3 18 (2.99%) .NET
4 15 (2.49%) Middleware
5 13 (2.16%) Spring
6 11 (1.83%) HTML
6 11 (1.83%) RESTful
7 10 (1.66%) Playwright
8 9 (1.50%) CSS
8 9 (1.50%) GraphQL
8 9 (1.50%) OAuth
8 9 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (1.33%) Kafka
9 8 (1.33%) Spring Boot
10 7 (1.16%) JSON
10 7 (1.16%) OAuth2
10 7 (1.16%) OpenID
11 6 (1.00%) .NET Core
11 6 (1.00%) SAML
12 5 (0.83%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 307 (51.00%) Data Protection Act
2 46 (7.64%) Cloud Native
3 30 (4.98%) Onboarding
4 26 (4.32%) Product Ownership
5 20 (3.32%) Security Posture
6 19 (3.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 18 (2.99%) Management Information System
8 16 (2.66%) Virtual Team
9 14 (2.33%) Derivative
10 11 (1.83%) Data Centre
10 11 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (1.66%) Mobile App
12 9 (1.50%) Equities
13 8 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
14 7 (1.16%) NHS
14 7 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
15 6 (1.00%) Algorithms
15 6 (1.00%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 37 (6.15%) Windows
2 19 (3.16%) Linux
3 12 (1.99%) Android
4 10 (1.66%) Apple iOS
4 10 (1.66%) Unix
5 7 (1.16%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.00%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.33%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.33%) zOS
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.17%) Rocky
9 1 (0.17%) Solaris
9 1 (0.17%) VMS
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (19.93%) Agile
2 97 (16.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 87 (14.45%) Problem-Solving
4 82 (13.62%) CI/CD
5 79 (13.12%) AI
5 79 (13.12%) DevOps
6 77 (12.79%) Migration
7 76 (12.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 68 (11.30%) Analytics
8 68 (11.30%) Cybersecurity
9 61 (10.13%) Roadmaps
10 58 (9.63%) Risk Management
11 53 (8.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 51 (8.47%) Cloud Security
12 51 (8.47%) Information Security
13 49 (8.14%) Decision-Making
14 46 (7.64%) Data Governance
15 44 (7.31%) Test Automation
16 40 (6.64%) Infrastructure as Code
17 39 (6.48%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 90 (14.95%) Python
2 68 (11.30%) SQL
3 66 (10.96%) Java
4 26 (4.32%) C#
5 22 (3.65%) JavaScript
6 16 (2.66%) TypeScript
7 13 (2.16%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.50%) C++
9 7 (1.16%) Bash
9 7 (1.16%) Kotlin
9 7 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (1.00%) Apex Code
10 6 (1.00%) Scala
11 5 (0.83%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.83%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.50%) Bicep
13 2 (0.33%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.33%) R
14 1 (0.17%) GLSL
14 1 (0.17%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 80 (13.29%) Security Cleared
2 67 (11.13%) SC Cleared
3 62 (10.30%) Degree
4 42 (6.98%) CISSP
5 21 (3.49%) CISM
6 17 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (2.66%) Master's Degree
8 15 (2.49%) Azure Certification
9 14 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (2.33%) PMI Certification
9 14 (2.33%) PMP
10 12 (1.99%) AWS Certification
11 10 (1.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 10 (1.66%) DV Cleared
12 9 (1.50%) CRISC
13 8 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (1.33%) CCSP
13 8 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (1.16%) CISA
15 6 (1.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (15.28%) GDPR
2 43 (7.14%) NIST
3 37 (6.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (4.65%) QA
5 27 (4.49%) Data Quality
6 19 (3.16%) PCI DSS
7 16 (2.66%) GRC
8 12 (1.99%) SLA
9 11 (1.83%) Accessibility
10 10 (1.66%) PMO
10 10 (1.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (1.00%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.83%) NCSC
12 5 (0.83%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.66%) COBIT
13 4 (0.66%) GAAP
13 4 (0.66%) IFRS
14 3 (0.50%) Basel III
System Software
1 32 (5.32%) Active Directory
2 26 (4.32%) Docker
3 4 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.17%) Firmware
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 35 (5.81%) Kubernetes
2 29 (4.82%) Terraform
3 17 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (1.99%) Ansible
5 11 (1.83%) SCCM
6 10 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 9 (1.50%) Grafana
8 7 (1.16%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.66%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.66%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.66%) Kibana
9 4 (0.66%) PingFederate
10 3 (0.50%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.33%) Avamar
11 2 (0.33%) Control-M
11 2 (0.33%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (0.33%) Packer
11 2 (0.33%) QRadar
11 2 (0.33%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 101 (16.78%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.49%) Oracle
3 26 (4.32%) ServiceNow
4 19 (3.16%) Databricks
4 19 (3.16%) Google
5 18 (2.99%) Cisco
6 13 (2.16%) Salesforce
6 13 (2.16%) Zscaler
7 12 (1.99%) SAP
8 10 (1.66%) Splunk
8 10 (1.66%) Workday
9 8 (1.33%) Citrix
9 8 (1.33%) Nokia
10 7 (1.16%) ADVA
10 7 (1.16%) Aruba
11 6 (1.00%) Adobe
11 6 (1.00%) Apple
11 6 (1.00%) OpenAI
11 6 (1.00%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.00%) Red Hat