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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 92 98
Rank change year-on-year +21 +6 +19
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 550 400 448
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.82% 2.67% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.18% 2.96% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 230 272
10th Percentile £339 £270 £241
25th Percentile £415 £377 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.74% -8.86% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £613 £650
90th Percentile £710 £725 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - £16.36 £28.75
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.01 £35.88
Median hourly rate £22.27 £21.50 £41.10
Median % change year-on-year +3.56% -47.68% -21.72%
75th Percentile £23.71 £33.17 £43.76
90th Percentile - £39.71 £44.23
England median hourly rate £20.71 £24.50 £23.24
% change year-on-year -15.47% +5.42% -66.80%

All Process and 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 13,161 13,523 16,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.38% 90.14% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,663 8,690 11,795
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £681
90th Percentile £763 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 165 236
10th Percentile £18.06 £18.04 £18.42
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £21.38
Median hourly rate £30.25 £36.50 £33.35
Median % change year-on-year -17.12% +9.46% -13.52%
75th Percentile £52.66 £55.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.20 £80.75 £74.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +24.47%

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 24 December 2025.

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 24 December 2025. 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 -2 35 £563 +15.38% 46
South London -21 7 £538 -10.42% 7
West London -15 5 £300 -29.41% 6
East London +4 1 £638 +19.16% 5
North London - 1 £700 -
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 18 (3.27%) Confluence
2 12 (2.18%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.82%) CMS
4 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.55%) Apache
6 3 (0.55%) CICS
7 2 (0.36%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.36%) Drupal
7 2 (0.36%) SAS
8 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.18%) Luigi
8 1 (0.18%) nginx
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.18%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 24 (4.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.73%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.36%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.36%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.18%) Final Cut Pro
7 1 (0.18%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.18%) Sketch
7 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.18%) SPSS
7 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.09%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.55%) VisionPLUS
4 2 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.36%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.36%) ION MarketView
4 2 (0.36%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.18%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Internet Expenses
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.18%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 122 (22.18%) Azure
2 80 (14.55%) AWS
3 48 (8.73%) Power Platform
4 35 (6.36%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (6.36%) GCP
5 32 (5.82%) Microsoft 365
6 28 (5.09%) Serverless
7 27 (4.91%) SaaS
8 21 (3.82%) Power Automate
8 21 (3.82%) Snowflake
9 20 (3.64%) Entra ID
10 17 (3.09%) PowerApps
11 15 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (2.55%) Amazon S3
12 14 (2.55%) Azure Logic Apps
12 14 (2.55%) Azure Monitor
12 14 (2.55%) GitHub
13 13 (2.36%) Azure Functions
14 12 (2.18%) Azure AKS
15 9 (1.64%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.27%) Firewall
2 15 (2.73%) Network Security
3 9 (1.64%) Cisco IPT
4 6 (1.09%) VPN
5 5 (0.91%) DNS
5 5 (0.91%) MPLS
6 4 (0.73%) HTTP
6 4 (0.73%) WAN
6 4 (0.73%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.55%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (0.55%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 3 (0.55%) Internet
7 3 (0.55%) LAN
7 3 (0.55%) NetScaler
7 3 (0.55%) SAN
8 2 (0.36%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.36%) OSPF
8 2 (0.36%) SDH
8 2 (0.36%) SNMP
8 2 (0.36%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (6.00%) Power BI
2 18 (3.27%) SQL Server
3 13 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (2.00%) NoSQL
5 10 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (1.82%) Tableau
6 8 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (1.45%) Metadata
6 8 (1.45%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.27%) MongoDB
8 6 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (0.91%) Big Data
9 5 (0.91%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.73%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.55%) MySQL
11 3 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (0.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 46 (8.36%) JIRA
2 17 (3.09%) Git
3 8 (1.45%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.45%) SpecFlow
4 5 (0.91%) GitLab
5 3 (0.55%) ChangeMan
5 3 (0.55%) JUnit
6 2 (0.36%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.36%) DBeaver
6 2 (0.36%) Gradle
6 2 (0.36%) Maven
6 2 (0.36%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.36%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.18%) AppVeyor
7 1 (0.18%) MLflow
7 1 (0.18%) Mockito
7 1 (0.18%) MSTest
7 1 (0.18%) Storybook
7 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 160 (29.09%) Social Skills
2 132 (24.00%) Finance
3 66 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (10.18%) Banking
5 45 (8.18%) Public Sector
6 42 (7.64%) Legal
7 21 (3.82%) Marketing
8 18 (3.27%) Front Office
9 11 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (1.82%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.64%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.45%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.09%) Back Office
14 6 (1.09%) Electronics
14 6 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (1.09%) Law
14 6 (1.09%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 87 (15.82%) Developer
2 72 (13.09%) Analyst
3 52 (9.45%) Architect
4 42 (7.64%) Lead
5 34 (6.18%) Business Analyst
6 33 (6.00%) Senior
7 31 (5.64%) Consultant
8 24 (4.36%) Project Manager
9 19 (3.45%) Security Engineer
10 17 (3.09%) Data Analyst
11 13 (2.36%) Solutions Architect
12 12 (2.18%) Technical Architect
13 11 (2.00%) Administrator
13 11 (2.00%) ServiceNow Developer
13 11 (2.00%) Software Engineer
14 10 (1.82%) Azure Architect
14 10 (1.82%) Network Engineer
14 10 (1.82%) Tester
15 9 (1.64%) Software Developer
15 9 (1.64%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (4.73%) REST
2 16 (2.91%) .NET
3 15 (2.73%) SOAP
4 12 (2.18%) React
5 11 (2.00%) HTML
5 11 (2.00%) RESTful
6 9 (1.64%) .NET Core
6 9 (1.64%) Middleware
6 9 (1.64%) Spring
7 8 (1.45%) AngularJS
7 8 (1.45%) Node.js
8 7 (1.27%) FIX Protocol
8 7 (1.27%) Kafka
8 7 (1.27%) OAuth
8 7 (1.27%) Playwright
9 6 (1.09%) Spring Boot
10 5 (0.91%) ARM Templates
10 5 (0.91%) ASP.NET
10 5 (0.91%) JSON
10 5 (0.91%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 306 (55.64%) Data Protection Act
2 27 (4.91%) Cloud Native
3 18 (3.27%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.09%) CMDB
5 15 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (2.55%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.55%) Virtual Team
7 13 (2.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 12 (2.18%) Derivative
9 9 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.64%) NHS
10 8 (1.45%) Equities
10 8 (1.45%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.27%) Freedom of Information
11 7 (1.27%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.27%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.09%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.09%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.09%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.91%) Linux
2 23 (4.18%) Windows
3 11 (2.00%) Unix
4 5 (0.91%) Android
4 5 (0.91%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.91%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.73%) zOS
6 3 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.55%) VMS
6 3 (0.55%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.36%) CentOS
7 2 (0.36%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.36%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.18%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (20.91%) Agile
2 105 (19.09%) Problem-Solving
3 78 (14.18%) DevOps
4 76 (13.82%) Stakeholder Management
5 74 (13.45%) CI/CD
6 65 (11.82%) Analytics
7 61 (11.09%) AI
8 60 (10.91%) Migration
9 56 (10.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 48 (8.73%) Roadmaps
11 44 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
12 41 (7.45%) Business Intelligence
13 40 (7.27%) Project Management
13 40 (7.27%) Risk Management
14 39 (7.09%) Data Governance
15 37 (6.73%) Continuous Improvement
15 37 (6.73%) Scrum
16 35 (6.36%) Infrastructure as Code
17 34 (6.18%) Decision-Making
17 34 (6.18%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 115 (20.91%) Python
2 94 (17.09%) SQL
3 40 (7.27%) JavaScript
4 36 (6.55%) C#
5 27 (4.91%) PowerShell
6 26 (4.73%) Java
7 20 (3.64%) Bash
8 16 (2.91%) TypeScript
9 14 (2.55%) C++
10 5 (0.91%) Bicep
10 5 (0.91%) Kotlin
10 5 (0.91%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.91%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.73%) COBOL
12 3 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.55%) Go
12 3 (0.55%) PHP
12 3 (0.55%) PromQL
12 3 (0.55%) R
12 3 (0.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 60 (10.91%) Security Cleared
2 50 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 38 (6.91%) Degree
4 16 (2.91%) CISSP
5 14 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.36%) CISM
7 10 (1.82%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.64%) PMI Certification
9 8 (1.45%) PMP
10 6 (1.09%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.09%) CISA
11 5 (0.91%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.73%) CCSP
12 4 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (0.73%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.73%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (13.82%) GDPR
2 34 (6.18%) NIST
3 29 (5.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (3.45%) QA
5 18 (3.27%) Data Quality
6 10 (1.82%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.45%) GRC
8 7 (1.27%) COBIT
8 7 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (1.27%) PCI DSS
9 6 (1.09%) PERC
9 6 (1.09%) PMO
9 6 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.73%) NCSC
12 3 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.55%) SLA
13 2 (0.36%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.36%) HL7
System Software
1 22 (4.00%) Docker
2 19 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.18%) Firmware
6 1 (0.18%) HDFS
6 1 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.18%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.18%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (4.36%) Terraform
2 23 (4.18%) Kubernetes
3 12 (2.18%) Ansible
3 12 (2.18%) SCCM
4 10 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (1.45%) Grafana
6 5 (0.91%) NetBackup
6 5 (0.91%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.55%) CA Endevor
7 3 (0.55%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.55%) Kibana
7 3 (0.55%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.36%) Puppet
9 1 (0.18%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.18%) SCOM
9 1 (0.18%) WSUS
Vendors
1 84 (15.27%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.36%) Google
3 23 (4.18%) ServiceNow
4 20 (3.64%) Salesforce
5 17 (3.09%) Databricks
6 16 (2.91%) Oracle
6 16 (2.91%) SAP
7 11 (2.00%) Cisco
7 11 (2.00%) VMware
8 9 (1.64%) Citrix
9 8 (1.45%) F5
10 7 (1.27%) Adobe
10 7 (1.27%) IBM
10 7 (1.27%) Juniper
11 6 (1.09%) ION Trading
11 6 (1.09%) Solace
11 6 (1.09%) Splunk
11 6 (1.09%) Workday
12 5 (0.91%) Foundry
12 5 (0.91%) Palo Alto