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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 73 82
Rank change year-on-year -33 +9 +12
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 588 483 454
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.91% 3.61% 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.27% 3.90% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 249 249
10th Percentile £293 £289 £243
25th Percentile £400 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -13.58%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £635
90th Percentile £689 £700 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 1 5
10th Percentile £14.25 - £27.14
25th Percentile £17.32 £26.00 £27.84
Median hourly rate £22.03 £27.00 £44.08
Median % change year-on-year -18.43% -38.75% -5.75%
75th Percentile £32.20 £28.00 £71.88
90th Percentile £36.82 - -
England median hourly rate £17.85 £18.82 £26.68
% change year-on-year -5.15% -29.46% +14.80%

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 17,967 12,400 14,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.89% 92.57% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,762 8,167 9,402
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 £664 £663 £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 336 240 183
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.22 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.02 £25.03 £24.17
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.25 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.07% -17.12% -8.36%
75th Percentile £59.25 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £80.63 £64.78 £78.68
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.69
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.09% -4.07%

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 October 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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -3 47 £550 +1.85% 91
West London -13 9 £475 +23.38% 19
South London -9 6 £338 -43.75% 10
East London - 4 £600 - 7
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 17 (2.89%) SharePoint
2 15 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.36%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.19%) IIS
6 6 (1.02%) SAS
7 5 (0.85%) Apache
8 4 (0.68%) Confluence
9 3 (0.51%) CMS
10 2 (0.34%) CICS
10 2 (0.34%) nginx
11 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.17%) Luigi
11 1 (0.17%) Moodle
11 1 (0.17%) MQSeries
11 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (3.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.68%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.68%) UserZoom
5 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 5 (0.85%) Aladdin
1 5 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (0.51%) Unit4 Business World
3 2 (0.34%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.34%) SAP MDG
3 2 (0.34%) SAP Payroll
3 2 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.17%) Actimize
4 1 (0.17%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.17%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.17%) Maximo
4 1 (0.17%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.17%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle BRM
4 1 (0.17%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (0.17%) SAP FI-CA
4 1 (0.17%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 135 (22.96%) Azure
2 108 (18.37%) AWS
3 48 (8.16%) GCP
4 38 (6.46%) Microsoft 365
5 34 (5.78%) SaaS
6 28 (4.76%) Power Platform
7 25 (4.25%) Entra ID
8 24 (4.08%) GitHub
8 24 (4.08%) Microsoft Purview
9 23 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (2.72%) Serverless
11 14 (2.38%) Microsoft Copilot
12 13 (2.21%) Snowflake
13 12 (2.04%) OneDrive
14 11 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
15 10 (1.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 9 (1.53%) Azure Monitor
16 9 (1.53%) Power Automate
17 8 (1.36%) PowerApps
17 8 (1.36%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 38 (6.46%) Network Security
2 20 (3.40%) Firewall
3 16 (2.72%) Cisco IPT
4 11 (1.87%) DNS
5 10 (1.70%) VPN
6 9 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (1.36%) LAN
7 8 (1.36%) WAN
7 8 (1.36%) Wireless
8 7 (1.19%) DHCP
8 7 (1.19%) MPLS
8 7 (1.19%) TCP/IP
9 6 (1.02%) Cisco ISE
10 5 (0.85%) HTTPS
10 5 (0.85%) SAN
10 5 (0.85%) Unified Communications
11 4 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
11 4 (0.68%) NAS
11 4 (0.68%) SDH
12 3 (0.51%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.91%) Metadata
2 21 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (3.57%) Power BI
3 14 (2.38%) NoSQL
4 13 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (1.70%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.53%) Data Lake
6 9 (1.53%) SQL Server
7 8 (1.36%) MySQL
8 7 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (1.19%) Big Data
8 7 (1.19%) BigQuery
8 7 (1.19%) Oracle Database
9 6 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (0.85%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.85%) Redis
11 4 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.68%) Power Query
12 3 (0.51%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 24 (4.08%) JIRA
2 22 (3.74%) Git
3 20 (3.40%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.85%) GitLab
4 5 (0.85%) Selenium
5 4 (0.68%) Gradle
5 4 (0.68%) JUnit
5 4 (0.68%) Maven
6 3 (0.51%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.51%) Mockito
6 3 (0.51%) Postman
7 2 (0.34%) CMake
7 2 (0.34%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.34%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.34%) ERwin
7 2 (0.34%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.17%) Capybara
8 1 (0.17%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.17%) Mocha
General
1 224 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 161 (27.38%) Finance
3 75 (12.76%) Public Sector
4 73 (12.41%) Legal
5 72 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
6 68 (11.56%) Banking
7 32 (5.44%) Documentation Skills
8 22 (3.74%) Front Office
9 20 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (2.21%) Pharmaceutical
12 12 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (2.04%) Investment Banking
12 12 (2.04%) Local Government
12 12 (2.04%) Telecoms
13 11 (1.87%) Law
13 11 (1.87%) Police
13 11 (1.87%) Retail
14 10 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 9 (1.53%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 95 (16.16%) Architect
2 78 (13.27%) Analyst
3 42 (7.14%) Lead
3 42 (7.14%) Senior
4 37 (6.29%) Developer
5 35 (5.95%) Business Analyst
6 32 (5.44%) Project Manager
7 30 (5.10%) Consultant
8 28 (4.76%) Security Architect
9 26 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
10 15 (2.55%) Security Engineer
11 14 (2.38%) Data Engineer
12 12 (2.04%) Security Analyst
13 11 (1.87%) Cloud Engineer
13 11 (1.87%) Data Protection Officer
13 11 (1.87%) Network Engineer
14 10 (1.70%) Enterprise Architect
15 9 (1.53%) Data Analyst
15 9 (1.53%) Senior Analyst
15 9 (1.53%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (5.61%) REST
2 31 (5.27%) Terraform
3 16 (2.72%) OAuth
4 12 (2.04%) Middleware
5 11 (1.87%) RESTful
6 10 (1.70%) Kafka
7 9 (1.53%) React
7 9 (1.53%) Spring
8 8 (1.36%) CSS
8 8 (1.36%) HTML
8 8 (1.36%) JSON
8 8 (1.36%) Lightning Web Components
8 8 (1.36%) OAuth2
8 8 (1.36%) Pandas
8 8 (1.36%) Spring Boot
9 7 (1.19%) .NET
9 7 (1.19%) Play Framework
10 6 (1.02%) GraphQL
10 6 (1.02%) Playwright
11 5 (0.85%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 250 (42.52%) Data Protection Act
2 42 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 41 (6.97%) Product Ownership
4 38 (6.46%) Onboarding
5 35 (5.95%) Cloud Native
6 21 (3.57%) Security Posture
7 20 (3.40%) Distributed Systems
8 17 (2.89%) Data Centre
9 14 (2.38%) Virtual Team
10 12 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (1.87%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.87%) Derivative
11 11 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 9 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (1.36%) AI Agents
14 8 (1.36%) Fixed Income
15 7 (1.19%) Freedom of Information
15 7 (1.19%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 44 (7.48%) Windows
2 23 (3.91%) Linux
3 11 (1.87%) Android
3 11 (1.87%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.70%) Unix
5 8 (1.36%) Apple iOS
5 8 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.02%) 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%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (26.87%) Stakeholder Management
2 106 (18.03%) Agile
2 106 (18.03%) AI
3 95 (16.16%) Cybersecurity
4 94 (15.99%) Continuous Improvement
5 87 (14.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 84 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 82 (13.95%) Migration
7 82 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
8 76 (12.93%) Data Governance
9 73 (12.41%) Risk Management
10 69 (11.73%) DevOps
10 69 (11.73%) Information Security
10 69 (11.73%) Roadmaps
11 61 (10.37%) Analytics
12 57 (9.69%) Decision-Making
13 52 (8.84%) Data Modelling
14 45 (7.65%) Impact Assessments
14 45 (7.65%) Test Automation
15 42 (7.14%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 67 (11.39%) Python
1 67 (11.39%) SQL
2 32 (5.44%) Java
3 24 (4.08%) PowerShell
4 16 (2.72%) JavaScript
5 14 (2.38%) TypeScript
6 11 (1.87%) Scala
7 8 (1.36%) Apex Code
7 8 (1.36%) C#
8 6 (1.02%) Bash
8 6 (1.02%) C++
8 6 (1.02%) Kotlin
9 5 (0.85%) Bicep
9 5 (0.85%) C
10 4 (0.68%) COBOL
10 4 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.68%) Go
10 4 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (0.68%) Perl
11 3 (0.51%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 81 (13.78%) Security Cleared
2 64 (10.88%) SC Cleared
3 50 (8.50%) Degree
4 37 (6.29%) CISSP
5 26 (4.42%) CISM
6 17 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.89%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.89%) PMI Certification
7 16 (2.72%) PMP
8 12 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (1.70%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.19%) CRISC
11 6 (1.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (1.02%) AWS Certification
11 6 (1.02%) CCNP
11 6 (1.02%) CISA
11 6 (1.02%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.68%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (16.50%) GDPR
2 45 (7.65%) Data Quality
2 45 (7.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (4.93%) NIST
4 26 (4.42%) QA
5 20 (3.40%) GRC
6 17 (2.89%) Accessibility
6 17 (2.89%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (1.53%) PMO
8 8 (1.36%) Government Security Classifications
8 8 (1.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 8 (1.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (1.19%) NCSC
9 7 (1.19%) PERC
10 5 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (0.85%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.68%) COBIT
12 3 (0.51%) MiFID
12 3 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (4.93%) Active Directory
2 24 (4.08%) Docker
3 10 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.68%) vSphere
5 3 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.34%) IAG
7 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.17%) Firmware
7 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.17%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.17%) NFS
7 1 (0.17%) Varnish
7 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 28 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 16 (2.72%) Grafana
3 11 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (1.70%) Ansible
4 10 (1.70%) SCCM
5 9 (1.53%) Kibana
6 7 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.68%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.51%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.51%) Puppet
8 3 (0.51%) QRadar
9 2 (0.34%) Control-M
9 2 (0.34%) EMC NetWorker
9 2 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.34%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.34%) Packer
9 2 (0.34%) SCOM
10 1 (0.17%) CASB
10 1 (0.17%) Istio
10 1 (0.17%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 127 (21.60%) Microsoft
2 37 (6.29%) ServiceNow
3 28 (4.76%) Cisco
3 28 (4.76%) Oracle
4 24 (4.08%) Google
5 19 (3.23%) Databricks
6 15 (2.55%) Salesforce
6 15 (2.55%) Zscaler
7 13 (2.21%) Splunk
8 12 (2.04%) SAP
8 12 (2.04%) VMware
9 9 (1.53%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.36%) Murex
10 8 (1.36%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.02%) MuleSoft
11 6 (1.02%) SolarWinds
12 5 (0.85%) Bloomberg
12 5 (0.85%) CrowdStrike
12 5 (0.85%) IBM
12 5 (0.85%) OneTrust