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 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 105 99
Rank change year-on-year +23 -6 +23
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 593 322 424
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.42% 2.54% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.84% 2.77% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 161 259
10th Percentile £284 £257 £249
25th Percentile £413 £363 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £675
90th Percentile £775 £750 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 12
10th Percentile £20.19 £21.85 -
25th Percentile £20.86 £26.88 £11.95
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.81 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.73% +43.28% -70.34%
75th Percentile £33.22 £34.94 £40.88
90th Percentile £35.49 £36.69 £60.60
England median hourly rate £20.79 £29.62 £19.50
% change year-on-year -29.80% +51.87% -71.32%

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 15,445 11,632 15,861
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.07% 91.83% 88.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,343 7,889 11,364
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £675
90th Percentile £756 £800 £799
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 166 338
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £15.98
25th Percentile £24.00 £23.64 £19.65
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.67% -22.58%
75th Percentile £57.25 £50.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.80 £63.50 £66.83
England median hourly rate £41.90 £31.70 £34.00
% change year-on-year +32.17% -6.76% -9.33%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 17 April 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 -9 36 £600 +14.29% 33
South London -25 12 £556 -7.33% 2
East London +1 6 £535 - 6
West London -22 4 £200 -40.96% 14
North London - 2 £625 - 3
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 (3.20%) Confluence
2 14 (2.36%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.84%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.67%) SAS
7 3 (0.51%) Apache
7 3 (0.51%) CMS
7 3 (0.51%) Drupal
8 2 (0.34%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.34%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.17%) Camunda
9 1 (0.17%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.17%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 19 (3.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.67%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.34%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (2.36%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.67%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 4 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.34%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.34%) ION MarketView
4 2 (0.34%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.34%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.17%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.17%) Endur
5 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 136 (22.93%) Azure
2 90 (15.18%) AWS
3 49 (8.26%) GCP
4 35 (5.90%) SaaS
5 31 (5.23%) Entra ID
5 31 (5.23%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (4.55%) Power Platform
7 26 (4.38%) Snowflake
8 23 (3.88%) Microsoft Purview
9 20 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (3.37%) Serverless
10 17 (2.87%) GitHub
11 15 (2.53%) Amazon S3
12 14 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (2.36%) PaaS
13 13 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
13 13 (2.19%) Azure AKS
14 12 (2.02%) Amazon ECS
14 12 (2.02%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (2.02%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.71%) Network Security
2 14 (2.36%) Firewall
3 13 (2.19%) MPLS
4 12 (2.02%) Cisco IPT
5 9 (1.52%) SAN
5 9 (1.52%) WAN
6 7 (1.18%) VLAN
7 6 (1.01%) LAN
7 6 (1.01%) VPN
8 5 (0.84%) Ethernet
8 5 (0.84%) NAS
8 5 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.84%) Wireless
9 4 (0.67%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (0.67%) NetScaler
9 4 (0.67%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.67%) SSL
10 3 (0.51%) IPv4
10 3 (0.51%) IPv6
10 3 (0.51%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (4.05%) Power BI
2 19 (3.20%) Metadata
3 16 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (2.36%) NoSQL
5 12 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (2.02%) SQL Server
6 11 (1.85%) Big Data
6 11 (1.85%) MongoDB
6 11 (1.85%) Relational Database
7 10 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (1.18%) BigQuery
9 7 (1.18%) Tableau
10 6 (1.01%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.01%) MySQL
11 5 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.67%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.67%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.67%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 39 (6.58%) JIRA
2 25 (4.22%) Git
3 14 (2.36%) SpecFlow
4 12 (2.02%) GitLab
5 10 (1.69%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.51%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.51%) JUnit
7 3 (0.51%) Katalon Studio
7 3 (0.51%) Maven
8 2 (0.34%) ERwin
8 2 (0.34%) Gradle
8 2 (0.34%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.34%) NUnit
8 2 (0.34%) Postman
8 2 (0.34%) Selenium
8 2 (0.34%) Storybook
8 2 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.34%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
General
1 160 (26.98%) Finance
2 159 (26.81%) Social Skills
3 75 (12.65%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (11.64%) Banking
5 49 (8.26%) Legal
6 40 (6.75%) Public Sector
7 28 (4.72%) Front Office
8 23 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
9 22 (3.71%) Telecoms
10 20 (3.37%) Marketing
11 16 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (2.02%) Local Government
14 9 (1.52%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.18%) Billing
15 7 (1.18%) Retail
16 6 (1.01%) Electronics
16 6 (1.01%) Private Banking
17 5 (0.84%) Law
Job Titles
1 88 (14.84%) Architect
2 73 (12.31%) Analyst
3 56 (9.44%) Developer
4 50 (8.43%) Senior
5 47 (7.93%) Lead
6 40 (6.75%) Business Analyst
7 39 (6.58%) Consultant
8 28 (4.72%) Solutions Architect
9 23 (3.88%) Project Manager
10 20 (3.37%) Security Engineer
11 18 (3.04%) Network Engineer
12 16 (2.70%) Data Engineer
12 16 (2.70%) Java Developer
12 16 (2.70%) Security Architect
13 15 (2.53%) Technical Architect
14 13 (2.19%) Tester
15 12 (2.02%) Automation Tester
15 12 (2.02%) Data Analyst
16 11 (1.85%) Product Manager
16 11 (1.85%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.71%) .NET
2 20 (3.37%) REST
3 19 (3.20%) React
3 19 (3.20%) Spring
4 14 (2.36%) Middleware
4 14 (2.36%) RESTful
5 13 (2.19%) HTML
5 13 (2.19%) Playwright
5 13 (2.19%) Spring Boot
6 12 (2.02%) Kafka
7 9 (1.52%) CSS
7 9 (1.52%) Oracle Fusion
8 7 (1.18%) .NET Core
8 7 (1.18%) GraphQL
8 7 (1.18%) Node.js
9 6 (1.01%) OAuth
9 6 (1.01%) XML
10 5 (0.84%) FIX Protocol
10 5 (0.84%) JSON
10 5 (0.84%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 307 (51.77%) Data Protection Act
2 40 (6.75%) Cloud Native
3 27 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 26 (4.38%) Onboarding
5 19 (3.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 18 (3.04%) Security Posture
7 15 (2.53%) Management Information System
8 14 (2.36%) Derivative
9 13 (2.19%) Virtual Team
10 12 (2.02%) Data Centre
10 12 (2.02%) Mobile App
11 11 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
12 10 (1.69%) NHS
13 9 (1.52%) Equities
13 9 (1.52%) Freedom of Information
13 9 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (1.01%) Algorithms
14 6 (1.01%) Enterprise Storage
14 6 (1.01%) Fixed Income
14 6 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 29 (4.89%) Windows
2 21 (3.54%) Linux
3 12 (2.02%) Unix
4 10 (1.69%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.01%) Android
6 5 (0.84%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.67%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.34%) VMS
9 2 (0.34%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.34%) zOS
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.17%) Rocky
10 1 (0.17%) Solaris
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (19.90%) Agile
2 101 (17.03%) Stakeholder Management
3 98 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
4 79 (13.32%) CI/CD
5 78 (13.15%) DevOps
6 72 (12.14%) Migration
7 71 (11.97%) Analytics
8 67 (11.30%) AI
9 58 (9.78%) Cybersecurity
10 57 (9.61%) Risk Management
11 56 (9.44%) Roadmaps
12 55 (9.27%) Continuous Improvement
13 53 (8.94%) Decision-Making
14 51 (8.60%) Data Governance
14 51 (8.60%) Test Automation
15 47 (7.93%) Cloud Security
16 45 (7.59%) Infrastructure as Code
16 45 (7.59%) Microservices
17 42 (7.08%) Information Security
18 41 (6.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 101 (17.03%) Python
2 91 (15.35%) SQL
3 65 (10.96%) Java
4 35 (5.90%) C#
5 31 (5.23%) JavaScript
6 24 (4.05%) TypeScript
7 14 (2.36%) PowerShell
8 8 (1.35%) C++
9 7 (1.18%) Bash
10 6 (1.01%) PL/SQL
10 6 (1.01%) Scala
10 6 (1.01%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.67%) Bicep
11 4 (0.67%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.51%) PHP
12 3 (0.51%) R
12 3 (0.51%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.34%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 79 (13.32%) Security Cleared
2 66 (11.13%) SC Cleared
3 53 (8.94%) Degree
4 33 (5.56%) CISSP
5 19 (3.20%) CISM
6 18 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.36%) Azure Certification
7 14 (2.36%) Master's Degree
8 12 (2.02%) PMI Certification
8 12 (2.02%) PMP
9 11 (1.85%) AWS Certification
10 10 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 9 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (1.35%) CCSP
12 8 (1.35%) DV Cleared
13 7 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
13 7 (1.18%) CRISC
14 6 (1.01%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 5 (0.84%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (15.18%) GDPR
2 45 (7.59%) NIST
3 34 (5.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 32 (5.40%) QA
5 28 (4.72%) Data Quality
6 14 (2.36%) PCI DSS
7 13 (2.19%) GRC
8 12 (2.02%) SLA
9 9 (1.52%) PERC
9 9 (1.52%) PMO
10 7 (1.18%) Accessibility
11 6 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.84%) NCSC
12 5 (0.84%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.67%) COBIT
13 4 (0.67%) GAAP
13 4 (0.67%) IFRS
14 3 (0.51%) IFRS 9
14 3 (0.51%) NIST 800
System Software
1 35 (5.90%) Docker
2 27 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.34%) Firmware
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 39 (6.58%) Kubernetes
2 35 (5.90%) Terraform
3 15 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (2.02%) Ansible
5 11 (1.85%) SCCM
6 9 (1.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 9 (1.52%) Grafana
6 9 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.01%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.84%) Kibana
9 4 (0.67%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.67%) PingFederate
10 3 (0.51%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (0.34%) Avamar
11 2 (0.34%) Control-M
11 2 (0.34%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.34%) Puppet
11 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.34%) SCOM
Vendors
1 94 (15.85%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.38%) Oracle
3 24 (4.05%) ServiceNow
4 23 (3.88%) Databricks
5 22 (3.71%) Google
6 17 (2.87%) SAP
7 16 (2.70%) Salesforce
8 15 (2.53%) Cisco
9 11 (1.85%) Adobe
9 11 (1.85%) Citrix
10 9 (1.52%) Nokia
10 9 (1.52%) Splunk
10 9 (1.52%) Workday
11 7 (1.18%) ADVA
11 7 (1.18%) Apple
11 7 (1.18%) F5
11 7 (1.18%) VMware
12 6 (1.01%) IBM
12 6 (1.01%) Rapid7
12 6 (1.01%) Red Hat