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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 85 97
Rank change year-on-year -9 +12 0
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 629 437 423
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.12% 3.23% 2.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.49% 3.50% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 211 241
10th Percentile £287 £275 £243
25th Percentile £397 £379 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -15.82%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £725 £750
England median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 4
10th Percentile £14.25 £26.10 £27.03
25th Percentile £16.26 £26.25 £27.55
Median hourly rate £25.32 £30.00 £48.30
Median % change year-on-year -15.61% -37.88% -8.01%
75th Percentile £33.94 £32.50 £71.88
90th Percentile £37.11 £34.89 -
England median hourly rate £20.27 £19.70 £21.00
% change year-on-year +2.89% -6.19% -48.83%

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 18,004 12,485 14,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.37% 88.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,831 8,318 10,069
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £661 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 253 197
10th Percentile £17.10 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -13.04%
75th Percentile £57.13 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 15 August 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 46 £557 +4.26% 61
West London -15 8 £475 +23.38% 9
South London -10 6 £581 -20.82% 14
East London - 3 £410 - 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 13 (2.07%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (1.59%) Confluence
4 9 (1.43%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.95%) Apache
6 5 (0.79%) IIS
7 3 (0.48%) CMS
7 3 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.48%) SAS
8 2 (0.32%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.32%) WordPress
9 1 (0.16%) CICS
9 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.16%) Drupal
9 1 (0.16%) Luigi
9 1 (0.16%) Moodle
9 1 (0.16%) nginx
9 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
Applications
1 21 (3.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.64%) UserZoom
5 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.32%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.95%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.64%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.48%) Unit4 Business World
4 2 (0.32%) ION MarketView
4 2 (0.32%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.16%) Actimize
5 1 (0.16%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.16%) Endur
5 1 (0.16%) Magento
5 1 (0.16%) Misys Equation
5 1 (0.16%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle BRM
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.16%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.16%) SAP FI-CA
5 1 (0.16%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 147 (23.37%) Azure
2 111 (17.65%) AWS
3 53 (8.43%) GCP
4 36 (5.72%) SaaS
5 35 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
6 32 (5.09%) Entra ID
7 29 (4.61%) Microsoft Purview
8 27 (4.29%) Power Platform
9 23 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (3.50%) GitHub
11 20 (3.18%) Serverless
12 15 (2.38%) Microsoft Copilot
13 14 (2.23%) Azure Logic Apps
14 13 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (1.91%) Snowflake
16 11 (1.75%) Amazon S3
17 10 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
17 10 (1.59%) OneDrive
18 9 (1.43%) Salesforce Service Cloud
19 8 (1.27%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 44 (7.00%) Network Security
2 24 (3.82%) Firewall
3 11 (1.75%) Cisco IPT
4 10 (1.59%) DNS
4 10 (1.59%) Wireless
5 9 (1.43%) VPN
6 8 (1.27%) DHCP
6 8 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (1.11%) Cisco Nexus
7 7 (1.11%) LAN
7 7 (1.11%) SSL
7 7 (1.11%) WAN
8 6 (0.95%) SAN
8 6 (0.95%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.79%) HTTPS
9 5 (0.79%) MPLS
10 4 (0.64%) HTTP
10 4 (0.64%) NAS
11 3 (0.48%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 3 (0.48%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.50%) Power BI
2 21 (3.34%) Metadata
3 17 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (2.54%) NoSQL
5 10 (1.59%) Big Data
5 10 (1.59%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.43%) Data Lake
6 9 (1.43%) MySQL
7 8 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (1.11%) MongoDB
9 6 (0.95%) Tableau
10 5 (0.79%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.64%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (0.64%) Delta Lake
11 4 (0.64%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.64%) SQL Server
12 3 (0.48%) Electronic Patient Records
12 3 (0.48%) Pinecone
12 3 (0.48%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 32 (5.09%) JIRA
2 22 (3.50%) Git
3 12 (1.91%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.43%) GitLab
5 5 (0.79%) Selenium
6 4 (0.64%) ERwin
6 4 (0.64%) Gradle
7 3 (0.48%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.48%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.32%) CMake
8 2 (0.32%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.32%) JUnit
8 2 (0.32%) Maven
8 2 (0.32%) Postman
8 2 (0.32%) Vite
8 2 (0.32%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.16%) NUnit
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
General
1 211 (33.55%) Social Skills
2 165 (26.23%) Finance
3 69 (10.97%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (10.65%) Banking
5 64 (10.17%) Public Sector
6 61 (9.70%) Legal
7 35 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
8 27 (4.29%) Front Office
9 19 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (2.23%) Marketing
11 14 (2.23%) Retail
12 13 (2.07%) Billing
12 13 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (2.07%) Pharmaceutical
12 13 (2.07%) Telecoms
13 12 (1.91%) Local Government
14 10 (1.59%) Investment Banking
14 10 (1.59%) Law
14 10 (1.59%) Police
Job Titles
1 110 (17.49%) Architect
2 76 (12.08%) Analyst
3 48 (7.63%) Developer
4 46 (7.31%) Senior
5 38 (6.04%) Lead
6 37 (5.88%) Business Analyst
7 33 (5.25%) Consultant
8 30 (4.77%) Project Manager
8 30 (4.77%) Security Architect
9 25 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
10 19 (3.02%) Security Engineer
11 17 (2.70%) Data Engineer
12 13 (2.07%) Network Engineer
13 12 (1.91%) Java Developer
13 12 (1.91%) Junior
14 11 (1.75%) Data Analyst
14 11 (1.75%) Data Protection Officer
14 11 (1.75%) Product Manager
15 10 (1.59%) IT Support
16 9 (1.43%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (5.09%) REST
2 14 (2.23%) Middleware
2 14 (2.23%) React
3 13 (2.07%) Spring
4 12 (1.91%) OAuth
5 11 (1.75%) CSS
5 11 (1.75%) GraphQL
5 11 (1.75%) RESTful
6 10 (1.59%) .NET
6 10 (1.59%) HTML
7 9 (1.43%) Spring Boot
8 8 (1.27%) JSON
8 8 (1.27%) Kafka
9 7 (1.11%) Lightning Web Components
9 7 (1.11%) OAuth2
9 7 (1.11%) Playwright
9 7 (1.11%) SAML
10 6 (0.95%) OpenID
10 6 (0.95%) PySpark
10 6 (0.95%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 300 (47.69%) Data Protection Act
2 42 (6.68%) Cloud Native
3 36 (5.72%) Onboarding
3 36 (5.72%) Product Ownership
4 26 (4.13%) Security Posture
5 22 (3.50%) Management Information System
6 21 (3.34%) Virtual Team
7 17 (2.70%) Data Centre
7 17 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (2.07%) Derivative
9 12 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 11 (1.75%) Mobile App
10 11 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.43%) NHS
11 9 (1.43%) Operational Technology
12 8 (1.27%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.27%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 42 (6.68%) Windows
2 22 (3.50%) Linux
3 15 (2.38%) Android
4 12 (1.91%) Apple iOS
4 12 (1.91%) Unix
5 7 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.95%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.95%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.64%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.32%) zOS
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
1 120 (19.08%) Stakeholder Management
2 118 (18.76%) Agile
3 98 (15.58%) AI
4 96 (15.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 94 (14.94%) CI/CD
6 89 (14.15%) DevOps
7 87 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
8 85 (13.51%) Cybersecurity
9 77 (12.24%) Migration
10 76 (12.08%) Data Governance
10 76 (12.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 75 (11.92%) Analytics
12 68 (10.81%) Roadmaps
13 60 (9.54%) Decision-Making
14 59 (9.38%) Information Security
15 53 (8.43%) Risk Management
16 51 (8.11%) Data Modelling
17 46 (7.31%) Cloud Security
18 45 (7.15%) Test Automation
19 39 (6.20%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 76 (12.08%) Python
2 65 (10.33%) SQL
3 52 (8.27%) Java
4 21 (3.34%) PowerShell
5 18 (2.86%) JavaScript
6 14 (2.23%) TypeScript
7 11 (1.75%) C#
8 10 (1.59%) Kotlin
9 9 (1.43%) Apex Code
10 7 (1.11%) C++
11 6 (0.95%) Bash
11 6 (0.95%) Scala
12 5 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.64%) Perl
14 3 (0.48%) C
15 2 (0.32%) ActionScript
15 2 (0.32%) COBOL
15 2 (0.32%) PHP
15 2 (0.32%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 78 (12.40%) Security Cleared
2 59 (9.38%) SC Cleared
3 52 (8.27%) Degree
4 43 (6.84%) CISSP
5 26 (4.13%) CISM
6 18 (2.86%) DV Cleared
7 14 (2.23%) Azure Certification
7 14 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.23%) PMI Certification
8 13 (2.07%) PMP
9 11 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (1.59%) AWS Certification
10 10 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.95%) CISA
12 5 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.79%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (0.79%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.79%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.64%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (15.90%) GDPR
2 41 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 38 (6.04%) Data Quality
3 38 (6.04%) NIST
4 34 (5.41%) QA
5 20 (3.18%) Accessibility
6 17 (2.70%) GRC
7 14 (2.23%) PCI DSS
8 13 (2.07%) PMO
9 9 (1.43%) PERC
9 9 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (1.43%) SLA
10 8 (1.27%) Government Security Classifications
10 8 (1.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 7 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.95%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.95%) NCSC
13 5 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 21 (3.34%) Docker
3 4 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.32%) Firmware
5 2 (0.32%) Varnish
6 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.16%) NFS
Systems Management
1 29 (4.61%) Kubernetes
2 26 (4.13%) Terraform
3 14 (2.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (1.75%) Ansible
5 11 (1.75%) SCCM
6 10 (1.59%) Grafana
7 5 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.79%) CA Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.79%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.64%) Kibana
8 4 (0.64%) PingFederate
9 3 (0.48%) EMC NetWorker
9 3 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.48%) NetBackup
9 3 (0.48%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.48%) Puppet
9 3 (0.48%) QRadar
10 2 (0.32%) Avamar
10 2 (0.32%) Packer
Vendors
1 119 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 43 (6.84%) ServiceNow
3 27 (4.29%) Oracle
4 24 (3.82%) Cisco
5 19 (3.02%) Salesforce
6 17 (2.70%) Google
7 16 (2.54%) Databricks
8 13 (2.07%) Splunk
9 12 (1.91%) Zscaler
10 8 (1.27%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.11%) Palo Alto
11 7 (1.11%) Workday
12 6 (0.95%) Bloomberg
12 6 (0.95%) CyberArk
12 6 (0.95%) F5
12 6 (0.95%) Murex
12 6 (0.95%) SAP
13 5 (0.79%) Aruba
13 5 (0.79%) NetApp
13 5 (0.79%) Ping Identity