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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 99 89
Rank change year-on-year +20 -10 +27
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 533 347 463
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.58% 2.54% 2.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.94% 2.81% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 188 285
10th Percentile £315 £293 £236
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -2.14% -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £604 £650
90th Percentile £715 £725 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 14
10th Percentile £21.47 £16.36 £11.95
25th Percentile £22.43 £18.01 £12.32
Median hourly rate £24.88 £21.50 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year +15.73% -11.34% -
75th Percentile £26.74 £33.17 £42.63
90th Percentile £27.35 £39.71 £57.11
England median hourly rate £20.71 £26.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year -22.91% +27.93% -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 13,533 12,355 16,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.77% 90.53% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,013 7,845 11,870
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 208 153 346
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.80 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.90 £25.00 £19.28
Median hourly rate £34.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +23.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £56.13 £55.25 £51.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% - -

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 8 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 8 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 -8 32 £600 +20.00% 19
South London -22 9 £165 -72.50% 9
West London -18 3 £250 -37.50% 10
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 (3.56%) Confluence
2 13 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.94%) CMS
5 3 (0.56%) Apache
6 2 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.38%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.38%) Drupal
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.38%) SAS
6 2 (0.38%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.19%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.19%) Luigi
7 1 (0.19%) Mule
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.19%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 19 (3.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.56%) 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 (1.69%) Aladdin
1 9 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.75%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 3 (0.56%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.56%) 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%) Veritas eDiscovery
5 1 (0.19%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 112 (21.01%) Azure
2 63 (11.82%) AWS
3 39 (7.32%) Power Platform
4 33 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (5.82%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (5.63%) SaaS
7 29 (5.44%) GCP
8 26 (4.88%) Serverless
9 24 (4.50%) Snowflake
10 20 (3.75%) Entra ID
11 16 (3.00%) Power Automate
12 15 (2.81%) Amazon S3
12 15 (2.81%) GitHub
13 14 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (2.63%) Azure AKS
13 14 (2.63%) PaaS
14 13 (2.44%) IaaS
14 13 (2.44%) PowerApps
15 12 (2.25%) Azure Functions
15 12 (2.25%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.63%) Network Security
2 12 (2.25%) MPLS
3 10 (1.88%) Cisco IPT
3 10 (1.88%) Firewall
4 6 (1.13%) SAN
4 6 (1.13%) VPN
5 5 (0.94%) LAN
5 5 (0.94%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.94%) WAN
6 4 (0.75%) Ethernet
6 4 (0.75%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.75%) VLAN
6 4 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.56%) BGP
7 3 (0.56%) HTTP
7 3 (0.56%) Internet
7 3 (0.56%) NAS
7 3 (0.56%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.38%) DNS
8 2 (0.38%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (5.25%) Power BI
2 15 (2.81%) SQL Server
3 12 (2.25%) NoSQL
3 12 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (2.06%) Metadata
5 10 (1.88%) Tableau
6 9 (1.69%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.13%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.94%) Big Data
9 5 (0.94%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.56%) EDRMS
10 3 (0.56%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.56%) MySQL
10 3 (0.56%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 47 (8.82%) JIRA
2 23 (4.32%) Git
3 11 (2.06%) SpecFlow
4 6 (1.13%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.94%) GitLab
5 5 (0.94%) JUnit
6 4 (0.75%) Maven
7 3 (0.56%) Gradle
8 2 (0.38%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.38%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.38%) DBeaver
8 2 (0.38%) Katalon Studio
8 2 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.38%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.19%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.19%) GCC
9 1 (0.19%) Mockito
9 1 (0.19%) MSTest
9 1 (0.19%) QADirector
General
1 149 (27.95%) Social Skills
2 135 (25.33%) Finance
3 69 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (11.07%) Banking
5 48 (9.01%) Public Sector
6 39 (7.32%) Legal
7 19 (3.56%) Marketing
7 19 (3.56%) Telecoms
8 18 (3.38%) Front Office
9 15 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.69%) Investment Banking
13 8 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.31%) Retail
15 6 (1.13%) Electronics
15 6 (1.13%) Publishing
16 5 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 4 (0.75%) International Banking
17 4 (0.75%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 81 (15.20%) Developer
2 68 (12.76%) Analyst
3 59 (11.07%) Architect
4 49 (9.19%) Lead
5 35 (6.57%) Business Analyst
6 33 (6.19%) Senior
7 31 (5.82%) Consultant
8 26 (4.88%) Project Manager
9 19 (3.56%) Solutions Architect
10 14 (2.63%) Network Engineer
10 14 (2.63%) Security Engineer
11 13 (2.44%) Data Analyst
12 12 (2.25%) Technical Architect
13 11 (2.06%) ServiceNow Developer
13 11 (2.06%) Technical Analyst
13 11 (2.06%) Tester
14 10 (1.88%) Administrator
14 10 (1.88%) Cloud Engineer
14 10 (1.88%) Python Developer
15 9 (1.69%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.69%) REST
2 21 (3.94%) .NET
3 16 (3.00%) React
4 14 (2.63%) SOAP
5 12 (2.25%) RESTful
6 11 (2.06%) Spring
7 10 (1.88%) HTML
7 10 (1.88%) Playwright
8 9 (1.69%) .NET Core
8 9 (1.69%) Kafka
8 9 (1.69%) Node.js
9 8 (1.50%) Middleware
10 7 (1.31%) AngularJS
10 7 (1.31%) Oracle Fusion
10 7 (1.31%) Spring Boot
11 6 (1.13%) XML
12 5 (0.94%) ARM Templates
12 5 (0.94%) ASP.NET
12 5 (0.94%) OAuth
13 4 (0.75%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 299 (56.10%) Data Protection Act
2 24 (4.50%) Cloud Native
3 18 (3.38%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.19%) CMDB
4 17 (3.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 15 (2.81%) Management Information System
5 15 (2.81%) Onboarding
6 13 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.06%) Derivative
7 11 (2.06%) Equities
7 11 (2.06%) Virtual Team
8 10 (1.88%) NHS
9 9 (1.69%) Fixed Income
10 8 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.50%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.31%) Freedom of Information
11 7 (1.31%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.13%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.13%) Algorithms
13 5 (0.94%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.69%) Linux
2 24 (4.50%) Windows
3 10 (1.88%) Unix
4 5 (0.94%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.75%) Android
5 4 (0.75%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.75%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.56%) VMS
7 2 (0.38%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.38%) zOS
8 1 (0.19%) CentOS
8 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (22.89%) Agile
2 103 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
3 86 (16.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 63 (11.82%) AI
4 63 (11.82%) Analytics
4 63 (11.82%) DevOps
4 63 (11.82%) Migration
5 59 (11.07%) CI/CD
6 53 (9.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 51 (9.57%) Roadmaps
8 47 (8.82%) Risk Management
9 41 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 41 (7.69%) Scrum
10 38 (7.13%) Decision-Making
10 38 (7.13%) Project Management
11 37 (6.94%) Business Intelligence
12 36 (6.75%) Cybersecurity
13 35 (6.57%) Data Governance
13 35 (6.57%) Microservices
13 35 (6.57%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 101 (18.95%) Python
2 96 (18.01%) SQL
3 42 (7.88%) JavaScript
4 36 (6.75%) C#
5 35 (6.57%) Java
6 18 (3.38%) TypeScript
7 15 (2.81%) PowerShell
8 10 (1.88%) Bash
8 10 (1.88%) C++
9 8 (1.50%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.31%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.94%) Bicep
12 3 (0.56%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.56%) PHP
12 3 (0.56%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.56%) VBA
13 2 (0.38%) COBOL
13 2 (0.38%) Groovy
13 2 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.38%) R
Qualifications
1 73 (13.70%) Security Cleared
2 61 (11.44%) SC Cleared
3 47 (8.82%) Degree
4 18 (3.38%) CISSP
4 18 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.00%) Master's Degree
6 13 (2.44%) CISM
7 12 (2.25%) PMI Certification
8 11 (2.06%) PMP
9 6 (1.13%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.13%) CRISC
9 6 (1.13%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.94%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.56%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (14.45%) GDPR
2 31 (5.82%) NIST
3 26 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (3.94%) Data Quality
5 20 (3.75%) QA
6 11 (2.06%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.88%) Accessibility
8 9 (1.69%) GRC
9 7 (1.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (1.13%) PERC
11 5 (0.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.75%) GAAP
12 4 (0.75%) IFRS
12 4 (0.75%) NCSC
12 4 (0.75%) PMO
12 4 (0.75%) SLA
13 3 (0.56%) Basel III
13 3 (0.56%) IFRS 9
13 3 (0.56%) Solvency II
System Software
1 22 (4.13%) Docker
2 18 (3.38%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.31%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (1.31%) 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 25 (4.69%) Kubernetes
2 23 (4.32%) Terraform
3 13 (2.44%) Ansible
3 13 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (1.69%) SCCM
5 5 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (0.56%) Kibana
6 3 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.38%) Control-M
7 2 (0.38%) Grafana
7 2 (0.38%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.38%) Puppet
7 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.19%) CASB
8 1 (0.19%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.19%) Foglight
8 1 (0.19%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 79 (14.82%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.13%) Google
3 21 (3.94%) Databricks
3 21 (3.94%) SAP
3 21 (3.94%) ServiceNow
4 19 (3.56%) Oracle
5 14 (2.63%) Salesforce
6 10 (1.88%) Cisco
6 10 (1.88%) Citrix
7 8 (1.50%) Adobe
7 8 (1.50%) Nokia
7 8 (1.50%) Workday
8 7 (1.31%) ADVA
8 7 (1.31%) Informatica
8 7 (1.31%) VMware
9 6 (1.13%) F5
9 6 (1.13%) IBM
9 6 (1.13%) Rapid7
10 5 (0.94%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.75%) ION Trading