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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 102 92
Rank change year-on-year +25 -10 +21
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 529 344 440
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.47% 2.53% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.82% 2.79% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 186 266
10th Percentile £313 £291 £236
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £516 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -1.67% -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £650
90th Percentile £727 £731 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 14
10th Percentile £21.47 £16.91 £11.95
25th Percentile £22.43 £19.38 £12.32
Median hourly rate £24.88 £26.15 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year -4.86% +7.85% -
75th Percentile £26.74 £36.07 £42.63
90th Percentile £27.35 £40.88 £57.11
England median hourly rate £20.71 £29.23 £21.00
% change year-on-year -29.15% +39.19% -70.00%

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 13,833 12,324 16,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.73% 90.63% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,202 7,872 11,677
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 152 339
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.03 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.56 £19.49
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% +24.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £56.25 £55.38 £51.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.88 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 13 February 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
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 13 February 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 -7 33 £600 +20.00% 21
South London -21 11 £475 -20.83% 9
West London -21 3 £250 -37.50% 10
East London - 3 £675 - 3
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 21 (3.97%) Confluence
2 12 (2.27%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.76%) CMS
6 3 (0.57%) Apache
7 2 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.38%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.38%) Drupal
7 2 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.38%) SAS
7 2 (0.38%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.19%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.19%) Luigi
8 1 (0.19%) Mule
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.19%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 19 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.38%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.38%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.19%) Final Cut Pro
6 1 (0.19%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.19%) Sketch
6 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.70%) Aladdin
1 9 (1.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.76%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 3 (0.57%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.38%) ION MarketView
4 2 (0.38%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.19%) BambooHR
5 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.19%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.19%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.19%) Veritas eDiscovery
5 1 (0.19%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 111 (20.98%) Azure
2 70 (13.23%) AWS
3 34 (6.43%) GCP
4 30 (5.67%) Power Platform
4 30 (5.67%) SaaS
5 27 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (4.73%) Serverless
7 24 (4.54%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (4.54%) Snowflake
8 19 (3.59%) Entra ID
9 16 (3.02%) GitHub
10 15 (2.84%) Amazon S3
10 15 (2.84%) PaaS
11 14 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (2.65%) Azure AKS
12 13 (2.46%) IaaS
13 11 (2.08%) Azure Functions
13 11 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
13 11 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
14 10 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.84%) Network Security
2 12 (2.27%) MPLS
3 10 (1.89%) Cisco IPT
3 10 (1.89%) Firewall
4 6 (1.13%) SAN
4 6 (1.13%) VPN
5 5 (0.95%) LAN
5 5 (0.95%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.95%) WAN
6 4 (0.76%) Ethernet
6 4 (0.76%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.76%) VLAN
6 4 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.57%) BGP
7 3 (0.57%) HTTP
7 3 (0.57%) NAS
7 3 (0.57%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.38%) DKIM
8 2 (0.38%) DMARC
8 2 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (5.10%) Power BI
2 15 (2.84%) SQL Server
3 12 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (2.27%) NoSQL
3 12 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (2.08%) Metadata
5 10 (1.89%) Tableau
6 9 (1.70%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.13%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.95%) Big Data
9 5 (0.95%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.76%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.57%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (0.57%) EDRMS
11 3 (0.57%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 42 (7.94%) JIRA
2 24 (4.54%) Git
3 11 (2.08%) SpecFlow
4 8 (1.51%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.32%) GitLab
6 5 (0.95%) JUnit
7 4 (0.76%) Maven
8 3 (0.57%) Gradle
9 2 (0.38%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.38%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.38%) DBeaver
9 2 (0.38%) Katalon Studio
9 2 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.38%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.19%) AppVeyor
10 1 (0.19%) Gemini Tracker
10 1 (0.19%) Storybook
10 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio Coded UI
10 1 (0.19%) webpack
General
1 145 (27.41%) Social Skills
2 143 (27.03%) Finance
3 68 (12.85%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (11.91%) Banking
5 39 (7.37%) Legal
5 39 (7.37%) Public Sector
6 18 (3.40%) Front Office
6 18 (3.40%) Marketing
6 18 (3.40%) Telecoms
7 16 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (1.89%) Investment Banking
11 8 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.32%) Retail
13 6 (1.13%) Electronics
13 6 (1.13%) Publishing
14 5 (0.95%) International Banking
15 4 (0.76%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 68 (12.85%) Analyst
2 65 (12.29%) Architect
3 63 (11.91%) Developer
4 51 (9.64%) Lead
5 35 (6.62%) Business Analyst
6 34 (6.43%) Senior
7 30 (5.67%) Consultant
8 28 (5.29%) Project Manager
9 21 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
10 15 (2.84%) Security Engineer
11 14 (2.65%) Data Analyst
11 14 (2.65%) Network Engineer
12 13 (2.46%) Security Architect
13 12 (2.27%) Technical Architect
14 11 (2.08%) Technical Analyst
14 11 (2.08%) Tester
15 10 (1.89%) Administrator
15 10 (1.89%) Cloud Engineer
15 10 (1.89%) Python Developer
15 10 (1.89%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.97%) .NET
2 18 (3.40%) React
2 18 (3.40%) REST
3 12 (2.27%) RESTful
4 11 (2.08%) Spring
5 10 (1.89%) Playwright
6 9 (1.70%) .NET Core
6 9 (1.70%) HTML
6 9 (1.70%) Kafka
6 9 (1.70%) Node.js
7 8 (1.51%) Middleware
8 7 (1.32%) AngularJS
8 7 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
8 7 (1.32%) SOAP
8 7 (1.32%) Spring Boot
9 6 (1.13%) XML
10 5 (0.95%) ARM Templates
10 5 (0.95%) ASP.NET
10 5 (0.95%) OAuth
11 4 (0.76%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 299 (56.52%) Data Protection Act
2 29 (5.48%) Cloud Native
3 19 (3.59%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.40%) Onboarding
5 17 (3.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 16 (3.02%) Management Information System
7 13 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (2.08%) Derivative
8 11 (2.08%) Equities
9 10 (1.89%) NHS
9 10 (1.89%) Security Posture
10 9 (1.70%) CMDB
10 9 (1.70%) Fixed Income
11 8 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.32%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.32%) Freedom of Information
12 7 (1.32%) Public Cloud
13 5 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (0.95%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 24 (4.54%) Linux
1 24 (4.54%) Windows
2 10 (1.89%) Unix
3 5 (0.95%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.95%) Mac OS
3 5 (0.95%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.76%) Android
4 4 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.38%) VMS
5 2 (0.38%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.38%) zOS
6 1 (0.19%) CentOS
6 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (20.98%) Agile
2 92 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
3 87 (16.45%) Stakeholder Management
4 66 (12.48%) AI
5 65 (12.29%) Migration
6 61 (11.53%) CI/CD
6 61 (11.53%) DevOps
7 58 (10.96%) Analytics
8 52 (9.83%) Risk Management
9 50 (9.45%) Roadmaps
10 48 (9.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 43 (8.13%) Continuous Improvement
12 42 (7.94%) Cybersecurity
12 42 (7.94%) Decision-Making
13 38 (7.18%) Test Automation
14 37 (6.99%) Microservices
14 37 (6.99%) Project Management
15 36 (6.81%) Business Intelligence
15 36 (6.81%) Data Governance
16 35 (6.62%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 103 (19.47%) Python
2 95 (17.96%) SQL
3 37 (6.99%) C#
3 37 (6.99%) Java
4 35 (6.62%) JavaScript
5 18 (3.40%) TypeScript
6 15 (2.84%) PowerShell
7 10 (1.89%) C++
8 9 (1.70%) Bash
9 8 (1.51%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.32%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.95%) Bicep
12 3 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.57%) PHP
12 3 (0.57%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.57%) VBA
13 2 (0.38%) COBOL
13 2 (0.38%) Groovy
13 2 (0.38%) R
13 2 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 64 (12.10%) Security Cleared
2 54 (10.21%) SC Cleared
3 51 (9.64%) Degree
4 22 (4.16%) CISSP
5 19 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.40%) Master's Degree
7 13 (2.46%) CISM
8 12 (2.27%) PMI Certification
9 11 (2.08%) PMP
10 8 (1.51%) CRISC
11 7 (1.32%) Azure Certification
12 6 (1.13%) AWS Certification
12 6 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (1.13%) DV Cleared
13 5 (0.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.95%) CCSP
13 5 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.76%) CISA
14 4 (0.76%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (14.56%) GDPR
2 32 (6.05%) NIST
3 28 (5.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (4.35%) Data Quality
5 22 (4.16%) QA
6 13 (2.46%) PCI DSS
7 11 (2.08%) GRC
8 9 (1.70%) Accessibility
9 7 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (1.13%) PERC
10 6 (1.13%) PMO
10 6 (1.13%) SLA
11 5 (0.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.76%) COBIT
12 4 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.76%) GAAP
12 4 (0.76%) IFRS
12 4 (0.76%) NCSC
13 3 (0.57%) Basel III
13 3 (0.57%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 24 (4.54%) Docker
2 17 (3.21%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.19%) Firmware
5 1 (0.19%) HDFS
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 29 (5.48%) Kubernetes
2 25 (4.73%) Terraform
3 14 (2.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (2.46%) Ansible
5 8 (1.51%) SCCM
6 5 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.57%) Kibana
9 2 (0.38%) Control-M
9 2 (0.38%) Grafana
9 2 (0.38%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.38%) Puppet
9 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.19%) CASB
10 1 (0.19%) Foglight
10 1 (0.19%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.19%) vRealize
10 1 (0.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 70 (13.23%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.35%) Google
3 22 (4.16%) SAP
4 21 (3.97%) Databricks
5 19 (3.59%) Oracle
6 14 (2.65%) Salesforce
6 14 (2.65%) ServiceNow
7 10 (1.89%) Cisco
7 10 (1.89%) Citrix
8 9 (1.70%) Adobe
9 8 (1.51%) Nokia
10 7 (1.32%) ADVA
10 7 (1.32%) Informatica
10 7 (1.32%) VMware
10 7 (1.32%) Workday
11 6 (1.13%) F5
11 6 (1.13%) IBM
11 6 (1.13%) Rapid7
12 5 (0.95%) Foundry
12 5 (0.95%) Red Hat