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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 79 93
Rank change year-on-year -24 +14 0
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 585 466 445
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.90% 3.49% 2.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.27% 3.77% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 223 244
10th Percentile £274 £289 £243
25th Percentile £385 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -14.89%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £635
90th Percentile £725 £723 £738
England median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 5
10th Percentile £14.25 £27.05 £27.14
25th Percentile £16.93 £28.62 £27.84
Median hourly rate £25.00 £31.74 £44.08
Median % change year-on-year -21.24% -27.99% -5.75%
75th Percentile £33.31 £34.36 £71.88
90th Percentile £35.38 £35.63 -
England median hourly rate £17.85 £19.00 £26.68
% change year-on-year -6.05% -28.79% +10.35%

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 17,877 12,367 14,519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.76% 92.52% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,722 8,164 9,655
10th Percentile £359 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 309 250 178
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.83 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.15% -10.03% -6.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £48.44 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -2.27%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 21 September 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 0 49 £550 +4.31% 83
West London -20 8 £475 +23.38% 18
South London -11 6 £338 -54.27% 7
East London - 3 £410 - 5
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 (3.08%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.37%) Confluence
5 7 (1.20%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.03%) IIS
6 6 (1.03%) SAS
7 5 (0.85%) Apache
8 3 (0.51%) CMS
8 3 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.34%) CICS
9 2 (0.34%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.34%) nginx
9 2 (0.34%) WordPress
10 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.17%) Drupal
10 1 (0.17%) Luigi
10 1 (0.17%) Moodle
10 1 (0.17%) MQSeries
Applications
1 19 (3.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.68%) UserZoom
4 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.85%) Aladdin
1 5 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.51%) Unit4 Business World
4 2 (0.34%) Endur
4 2 (0.34%) ION MarketView
4 2 (0.34%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.34%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.17%) Actimize
5 1 (0.17%) Maximo
5 1 (0.17%) Misys Equation
5 1 (0.17%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle BRM
5 1 (0.17%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.17%) SAP FI-CA
5 1 (0.17%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 132 (22.56%) Azure
2 113 (19.32%) AWS
3 51 (8.72%) GCP
4 36 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
5 35 (5.98%) SaaS
6 27 (4.62%) Entra ID
6 27 (4.62%) Microsoft Purview
7 22 (3.76%) Power Platform
8 21 (3.59%) GitHub
9 20 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (2.56%) Serverless
11 14 (2.39%) Microsoft Copilot
12 12 (2.05%) OneDrive
13 10 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (1.71%) Snowflake
13 10 (1.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (1.54%) Azure Logic Apps
14 9 (1.54%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 8 (1.37%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 37 (6.32%) Network Security
2 18 (3.08%) Firewall
3 15 (2.56%) Cisco IPT
4 11 (1.88%) VPN
5 10 (1.71%) DNS
6 9 (1.54%) Wireless
7 8 (1.37%) DHCP
7 8 (1.37%) WAN
7 8 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (1.20%) LAN
8 7 (1.20%) SSL
8 7 (1.20%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.85%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.68%) Cisco ISE
10 4 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (0.68%) MPLS
11 3 (0.51%) DMZ
11 3 (0.51%) HSRP
11 3 (0.51%) OSPF
11 3 (0.51%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.59%) Metadata
2 17 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (2.91%) Power BI
3 14 (2.39%) NoSQL
4 13 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (1.88%) MySQL
6 10 (1.71%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (1.20%) Big Data
9 6 (1.03%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.03%) Oracle Database
10 5 (0.85%) BigQuery
10 5 (0.85%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.85%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.85%) SQL Server
11 4 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.51%) Apache Hudi
12 3 (0.51%) Pinecone
12 3 (0.51%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 31 (5.30%) JIRA
2 20 (3.42%) Git
3 18 (3.08%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.85%) GitLab
5 4 (0.68%) Selenium
6 3 (0.51%) Gradle
6 3 (0.51%) Postman
7 2 (0.34%) CMake
7 2 (0.34%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.34%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.34%) ERwin
7 2 (0.34%) JUnit
7 2 (0.34%) Maven
7 2 (0.34%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.34%) XCUITest
8 1 (0.17%) Appium
8 1 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.17%) Zephyr
General
1 212 (36.24%) Social Skills
2 160 (27.35%) Finance
3 70 (11.97%) Public Sector
4 68 (11.62%) Banking
5 65 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (11.11%) Legal
6 35 (5.98%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (4.44%) Front Office
8 17 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
9 16 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (2.39%) Retail
11 13 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (2.22%) Marketing
11 13 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
12 12 (2.05%) Local Government
13 11 (1.88%) Billing
14 10 (1.71%) Investment Banking
14 10 (1.71%) Law
14 10 (1.71%) Police
15 9 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 100 (17.09%) Architect
2 73 (12.48%) Analyst
3 45 (7.69%) Senior
4 42 (7.18%) Lead
5 41 (7.01%) Developer
6 33 (5.64%) Business Analyst
7 32 (5.47%) Consultant
8 30 (5.13%) Project Manager
8 30 (5.13%) Security Architect
9 26 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
10 13 (2.22%) Security Engineer
11 12 (2.05%) Data Engineer
11 12 (2.05%) Network Engineer
11 12 (2.05%) Product Manager
12 11 (1.88%) Data Protection Officer
12 11 (1.88%) Java Developer
13 10 (1.71%) Enterprise Architect
13 10 (1.71%) Security Analyst
14 9 (1.54%) Data Analyst
14 9 (1.54%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (5.30%) REST
2 24 (4.10%) Terraform
3 17 (2.91%) OAuth
4 12 (2.05%) RESTful
4 12 (2.05%) Spring
5 11 (1.88%) Middleware
5 11 (1.88%) React
6 10 (1.71%) HTML
6 10 (1.71%) OAuth2
6 10 (1.71%) Spring Boot
7 9 (1.54%) CSS
7 9 (1.54%) GraphQL
8 8 (1.37%) JSON
8 8 (1.37%) Kafka
8 8 (1.37%) Lightning Web Components
8 8 (1.37%) OpenID
8 8 (1.37%) Pandas
8 8 (1.37%) SAML
9 7 (1.20%) SailPoint
10 6 (1.03%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 262 (44.79%) Data Protection Act
2 42 (7.18%) Onboarding
2 42 (7.18%) Product Ownership
3 34 (5.81%) Cloud Native
4 32 (5.47%) Management Information System
5 23 (3.93%) Security Posture
6 19 (3.25%) Virtual Team
7 18 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (2.05%) Data Centre
9 11 (1.88%) Derivative
9 11 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (1.71%) NHS
11 8 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.20%) AI Agents
12 7 (1.20%) FMCG
12 7 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (1.20%) Mobile App
12 7 (1.20%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 41 (7.01%) Windows
2 21 (3.59%) Linux
3 13 (2.22%) Android
4 10 (1.71%) Apple iOS
4 10 (1.71%) Unix
4 10 (1.71%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.03%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.68%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.34%) zOS
9 1 (0.17%) CentOS
9 1 (0.17%) MVS
9 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.17%) VMS
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (23.93%) Stakeholder Management
2 114 (19.49%) Agile
3 97 (16.58%) AI
4 86 (14.70%) Continuous Improvement
4 86 (14.70%) Cybersecurity
5 82 (14.02%) CI/CD
5 82 (14.02%) Migration
5 82 (14.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 78 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 72 (12.31%) DevOps
8 71 (12.14%) Data Governance
9 68 (11.62%) Risk Management
9 68 (11.62%) Roadmaps
10 63 (10.77%) Information Security
11 61 (10.43%) Analytics
12 60 (10.26%) Decision-Making
13 46 (7.86%) Test Automation
14 44 (7.52%) Data Modelling
15 43 (7.35%) Cloud Security
15 43 (7.35%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 63 (10.77%) Python
2 60 (10.26%) SQL
3 39 (6.67%) Java
4 21 (3.59%) PowerShell
5 16 (2.74%) JavaScript
6 13 (2.22%) TypeScript
7 11 (1.88%) Scala
8 9 (1.54%) Apex Code
9 8 (1.37%) Kotlin
10 6 (1.03%) C#
10 6 (1.03%) C++
11 5 (0.85%) Bash
11 5 (0.85%) C
12 4 (0.68%) Perl
13 3 (0.51%) COBOL
13 3 (0.51%) Go
13 3 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.51%) VBScript
14 2 (0.34%) Bicep
14 2 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 75 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 58 (9.91%) SC Cleared
3 46 (7.86%) Degree
4 40 (6.84%) CISSP
5 25 (4.27%) CISM
6 17 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (2.91%) DV Cleared
7 15 (2.56%) PMI Certification
7 15 (2.56%) PMP
8 14 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.54%) Azure Certification
11 6 (1.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (1.03%) CCNP
12 5 (0.85%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.85%) CISA
12 5 (0.85%) CRISC
12 5 (0.85%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (16.58%) GDPR
2 42 (7.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 38 (6.50%) Data Quality
4 29 (4.96%) NIST
5 28 (4.79%) QA
6 20 (3.42%) GRC
7 19 (3.25%) Accessibility
8 13 (2.22%) PCI DSS
9 10 (1.71%) PMO
10 9 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (1.37%) Government Security Classifications
11 8 (1.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 7 (1.20%) PERC
13 6 (1.03%) HIPAA
13 6 (1.03%) NCSC
14 5 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.68%) COBIT
16 3 (0.51%) HL7
16 3 (0.51%) MiFID
System Software
1 33 (5.64%) Active Directory
2 22 (3.76%) Docker
3 5 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.34%) Firmware
5 2 (0.34%) Varnish
5 2 (0.34%) vSphere
6 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.17%) IAG
6 1 (0.17%) NFS
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 24 (4.10%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (1.88%) SCCM
3 10 (1.71%) Grafana
3 10 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (1.54%) Ansible
5 8 (1.37%) Kibana
6 5 (0.85%) CA Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.68%) PingFederate
8 3 (0.51%) Puppet
8 3 (0.51%) QRadar
9 2 (0.34%) Control-M
9 2 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.34%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.34%) Packer
9 2 (0.34%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.34%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.34%) SCOM
10 1 (0.17%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 114 (19.49%) Microsoft
2 42 (7.18%) ServiceNow
3 27 (4.62%) Oracle
4 23 (3.93%) Cisco
5 19 (3.25%) Google
6 18 (3.08%) Salesforce
7 15 (2.56%) Splunk
7 15 (2.56%) Zscaler
8 14 (2.39%) Databricks
9 9 (1.54%) SAP
10 8 (1.37%) Murex
11 7 (1.20%) Red Hat
12 6 (1.03%) CyberArk
12 6 (1.03%) MuleSoft
12 6 (1.03%) Ping Identity
12 6 (1.03%) VMware
13 5 (0.85%) Bloomberg
13 5 (0.85%) CrowdStrike
13 5 (0.85%) Dynatrace
14 4 (0.68%) NetApp