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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 102 91
Rank change year-on-year +28 -11 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 541 349 453
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.67% 2.53% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.04% 2.80% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 189 279
10th Percentile £317 £285 £225
25th Percentile £413 £385 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £650
90th Percentile £716 £728 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 13
10th Percentile - £16.36 -
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.01 £11.95
Median hourly rate £22.27 £21.50 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.56% -12.24% -
75th Percentile £23.71 £33.17 £43.51
90th Percentile - £39.71 £58.91
England median hourly rate £20.71 £26.87 £21.50
% change year-on-year -22.91% +24.95% -69.29%

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 13,393 12,486 16,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.95% 90.46% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,878 7,905 11,829
10th Percentile £350 £350 £342
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 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 153 339
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.23
25th Percentile £25.08 £25.23 £19.53
Median hourly rate £34.27 £35.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% +16.39% -18.67%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £71.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £36.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -3.47% +2.86%

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 1 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 1 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 -12 32 £600 +20.00% 25
South London -18 8 £320 -46.67% 7
West London -24 3 £250 -37.50% 9
East London - 3 £675 - 5
North London - 2 £625 -
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 (3.51%) Confluence
2 12 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.29%) CMS
3 7 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.55%) Apache
6 2 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.37%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.37%) Drupal
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.37%) SAS
6 2 (0.37%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.18%) CICS
7 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.18%) Luigi
7 1 (0.18%) nginx
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.18%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 20 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.55%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.37%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.37%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.18%) Final Cut Pro
6 1 (0.18%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.18%) Sketch
6 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.66%) Aladdin
1 9 (1.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.74%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 3 (0.55%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.37%) ION MarketView
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.18%) BambooHR
5 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.18%) Endur
5 1 (0.18%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.18%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.18%) Veritas eDiscovery
5 1 (0.18%) VisionPLUS
5 1 (0.18%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 112 (20.70%) Azure
2 64 (11.83%) AWS
3 40 (7.39%) Power Platform
4 34 (6.28%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (5.73%) Microsoft 365
6 29 (5.36%) GCP
6 29 (5.36%) SaaS
7 27 (4.99%) Serverless
8 24 (4.44%) Snowflake
9 18 (3.33%) Entra ID
10 16 (2.96%) GitHub
10 16 (2.96%) Power Automate
11 15 (2.77%) Amazon S3
11 15 (2.77%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (2.59%) Azure AKS
12 14 (2.59%) PaaS
13 13 (2.40%) IaaS
13 13 (2.40%) PowerApps
14 12 (2.22%) Azure Functions
14 12 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.77%) Network Security
2 12 (2.22%) MPLS
3 10 (1.85%) Cisco IPT
3 10 (1.85%) Firewall
4 6 (1.11%) SAN
4 6 (1.11%) VPN
5 5 (0.92%) Ethernet
5 5 (0.92%) LAN
5 5 (0.92%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.92%) WAN
6 4 (0.74%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.74%) VLAN
6 4 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.55%) BGP
7 3 (0.55%) HTTP
7 3 (0.55%) Internet
7 3 (0.55%) NAS
7 3 (0.55%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.37%) DKIM
8 2 (0.37%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (5.18%) Power BI
2 14 (2.59%) SQL Server
3 12 (2.22%) NoSQL
3 12 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (2.03%) Metadata
5 10 (1.85%) Tableau
6 9 (1.66%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (1.29%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.92%) Big Data
9 5 (0.92%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.55%) Apache Iceberg
10 3 (0.55%) EDRMS
10 3 (0.55%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.55%) MySQL
10 3 (0.55%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 46 (8.50%) JIRA
2 23 (4.25%) Git
3 11 (2.03%) SpecFlow
4 6 (1.11%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.92%) GitLab
5 5 (0.92%) JUnit
6 4 (0.74%) Maven
7 3 (0.55%) Gradle
8 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.37%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.37%) DBeaver
8 2 (0.37%) Katalon Studio
8 2 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.37%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.18%) AppVeyor
9 1 (0.18%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.18%) MSI
9 1 (0.18%) Storybook
9 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 152 (28.10%) Social Skills
2 134 (24.77%) Finance
3 70 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (11.09%) Banking
5 49 (9.06%) Public Sector
6 37 (6.84%) Legal
7 20 (3.70%) Front Office
7 20 (3.70%) Marketing
8 18 (3.33%) Telecoms
9 13 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.66%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.48%) Retail
13 6 (1.11%) Electronics
13 6 (1.11%) Publishing
14 5 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.92%) Local Government
15 4 (0.74%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 82 (15.16%) Developer
2 68 (12.57%) Analyst
3 57 (10.54%) Architect
4 50 (9.24%) Lead
5 34 (6.28%) Senior
6 33 (6.10%) Business Analyst
7 30 (5.55%) Consultant
8 27 (4.99%) Project Manager
9 17 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
10 14 (2.59%) Network Engineer
10 14 (2.59%) Security Engineer
11 13 (2.40%) Data Analyst
12 12 (2.22%) Technical Architect
13 11 (2.03%) Cloud Engineer
13 11 (2.03%) ServiceNow Developer
13 11 (2.03%) Technical Analyst
13 11 (2.03%) Tester
14 10 (1.85%) Administrator
14 10 (1.85%) Python Developer
15 9 (1.66%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.62%) REST
2 21 (3.88%) .NET
3 16 (2.96%) React
4 14 (2.59%) SOAP
5 13 (2.40%) RESTful
6 11 (2.03%) HTML
6 11 (2.03%) Spring
7 10 (1.85%) Middleware
7 10 (1.85%) Playwright
8 9 (1.66%) .NET Core
8 9 (1.66%) Kafka
8 9 (1.66%) Node.js
9 7 (1.29%) AngularJS
9 7 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
9 7 (1.29%) Spring Boot
9 7 (1.29%) XML
10 6 (1.11%) FIX Protocol
10 6 (1.11%) OAuth
11 5 (0.92%) ARM Templates
11 5 (0.92%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 305 (56.38%) Data Protection Act
2 25 (4.62%) Cloud Native
3 18 (3.33%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.14%) CMDB
5 16 (2.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 15 (2.77%) Management Information System
6 15 (2.77%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (2.22%) Virtual Team
9 11 (2.03%) Derivative
10 10 (1.85%) Equities
10 10 (1.85%) NHS
11 9 (1.66%) Security Posture
12 8 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.48%) Public Cloud
13 7 (1.29%) Fixed Income
13 7 (1.29%) Freedom of Information
14 6 (1.11%) AI Agents
14 6 (1.11%) Algorithms
14 6 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 28 (5.18%) Linux
2 24 (4.44%) Windows
3 11 (2.03%) Unix
4 4 (0.74%) Android
4 4 (0.74%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.74%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.74%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.55%) VMS
5 3 (0.55%) zOS
6 2 (0.37%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.18%) CentOS
7 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (23.11%) Agile
2 105 (19.41%) Problem-Solving
3 87 (16.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 66 (12.20%) AI
4 66 (12.20%) DevOps
5 64 (11.83%) Analytics
6 62 (11.46%) CI/CD
7 60 (11.09%) Migration
8 51 (9.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 50 (9.24%) Roadmaps
10 48 (8.87%) Risk Management
11 41 (7.58%) Project Management
11 41 (7.58%) Scrum
12 40 (7.39%) Continuous Improvement
13 38 (7.02%) Decision-Making
14 37 (6.84%) Business Intelligence
15 35 (6.47%) Cybersecurity
15 35 (6.47%) Data Governance
15 35 (6.47%) Microservices
16 34 (6.28%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 108 (19.96%) Python
2 96 (17.74%) SQL
3 41 (7.58%) JavaScript
4 36 (6.65%) C#
5 34 (6.28%) Java
6 20 (3.70%) PowerShell
7 18 (3.33%) TypeScript
8 12 (2.22%) Bash
9 10 (1.85%) C++
10 8 (1.48%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.11%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.92%) Bicep
13 3 (0.55%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.55%) PHP
13 3 (0.55%) R
13 3 (0.55%) VBA
14 2 (0.37%) COBOL
14 2 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.37%) Scala
14 2 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 73 (13.49%) Security Cleared
2 61 (11.28%) SC Cleared
3 47 (8.69%) Degree
4 19 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (3.33%) CISSP
6 16 (2.96%) Master's Degree
7 13 (2.40%) CISM
8 12 (2.22%) PMI Certification
9 11 (2.03%) PMP
10 6 (1.11%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.11%) CRISC
10 6 (1.11%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.92%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.55%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (13.86%) GDPR
2 31 (5.73%) NIST
3 26 (4.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (3.88%) Data Quality
5 19 (3.51%) QA
6 11 (2.03%) Accessibility
6 11 (2.03%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.66%) GRC
8 8 (1.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (1.11%) PERC
10 5 (0.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.74%) GAAP
11 4 (0.74%) IFRS
11 4 (0.74%) NCSC
11 4 (0.74%) PMO
11 4 (0.74%) SLA
12 3 (0.55%) Basel III
12 3 (0.55%) COBIT
12 3 (0.55%) Solvency II
System Software
1 23 (4.25%) Docker
2 17 (3.14%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.29%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.18%) Firmware
5 1 (0.18%) HDFS
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.18%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 25 (4.62%) Terraform
2 24 (4.44%) Kubernetes
3 15 (2.77%) Ansible
4 12 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (1.85%) SCCM
6 4 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.55%) Kibana
7 3 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.37%) Control-M
8 2 (0.37%) Grafana
8 2 (0.37%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.37%) Puppet
8 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.18%) CASB
9 1 (0.18%) Foglight
9 1 (0.18%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.18%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 79 (14.60%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.07%) Google
3 21 (3.88%) Databricks
3 21 (3.88%) SAP
3 21 (3.88%) ServiceNow
4 18 (3.33%) Oracle
5 14 (2.59%) Salesforce
6 10 (1.85%) Cisco
6 10 (1.85%) Citrix
7 8 (1.48%) Adobe
7 8 (1.48%) Nokia
7 8 (1.48%) Workday
8 7 (1.29%) ADVA
8 7 (1.29%) F5
8 7 (1.29%) Informatica
8 7 (1.29%) VMware
9 6 (1.11%) IBM
9 6 (1.11%) Rapid7
10 5 (0.92%) ION Trading
10 5 (0.92%) Red Hat