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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 74 92
Rank change year-on-year -29 +18 +2
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 591 480 452
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.91% 3.56% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.27% 3.85% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 341 237 250
10th Percentile £281 £289 £243
25th Percentile £385 £403 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -14.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £635
90th Percentile £725 £713 £738
England median daily rate £500 £496 £500
% change year-on-year +0.81% -0.80% -6.98%
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 £20.40 £26.68
% change year-on-year -12.50% -23.54% +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 18,051 12,472 14,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.78% 92.51% 89.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,836 8,235 9,567
10th Percentile £358 £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 £671 £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 318 247 185
10th Percentile £16.21 £17.62 £17.35
25th Percentile £19.27 £25.02 £24.15
Median hourly rate £33.30 £30.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.18% -14.08% -5.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.23% -41.51% -1.94%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -8 51 £550 +4.31% 78
West London -20 8 £475 +23.38% 25
South London -10 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 16 (2.71%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.35%) Confluence
5 7 (1.18%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.02%) IIS
6 6 (1.02%) SAS
7 5 (0.85%) Apache
8 4 (0.68%) CMS
9 2 (0.34%) CICS
9 2 (0.34%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.34%) nginx
9 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
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 18 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.68%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.68%) UserZoom
5 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
6 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%) Magento
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%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.17%) SAP FI-CA
5 1 (0.17%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 132 (22.34%) Azure
2 112 (18.95%) AWS
3 50 (8.46%) GCP
4 36 (6.09%) Microsoft 365
5 33 (5.58%) SaaS
6 26 (4.40%) Microsoft Purview
7 25 (4.23%) Entra ID
8 22 (3.72%) Power Platform
9 21 (3.55%) GitHub
10 19 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (2.37%) Serverless
12 13 (2.20%) Microsoft Copilot
13 11 (1.86%) OneDrive
13 11 (1.86%) Snowflake
14 10 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (1.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
16 8 (1.35%) Amazon S3
16 8 (1.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 38 (6.43%) Network Security
2 19 (3.21%) Firewall
3 15 (2.54%) Cisco IPT
4 11 (1.86%) VPN
5 10 (1.69%) DNS
6 9 (1.52%) WAN
7 8 (1.35%) DHCP
7 8 (1.35%) LAN
7 8 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (1.35%) Wireless
8 7 (1.18%) SSL
8 7 (1.18%) TCP/IP
9 6 (1.02%) MPLS
10 5 (0.85%) Cisco ISE
10 5 (0.85%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
11 4 (0.68%) SAN
11 4 (0.68%) SDH
11 4 (0.68%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.68%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.89%) Metadata
2 19 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (2.88%) Power BI
4 14 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (2.37%) NoSQL
5 11 (1.86%) MySQL
6 10 (1.69%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (1.18%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.02%) Big Data
9 6 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.02%) Oracle Database
10 5 (0.85%) BigQuery
10 5 (0.85%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.85%) SQL Server
11 4 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.68%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.51%) Apache Hudi
12 3 (0.51%) Pinecone
12 3 (0.51%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 30 (5.08%) JIRA
2 20 (3.38%) Git
3 18 (3.05%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.85%) GitLab
5 4 (0.68%) Selenium
6 3 (0.51%) Gradle
6 3 (0.51%) JUnit
6 3 (0.51%) Maven
6 3 (0.51%) Postman
7 2 (0.34%) CMake
7 2 (0.34%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.34%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.34%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.34%) ERwin
7 2 (0.34%) Mockito
7 2 (0.34%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.34%) XCUITest
8 1 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
General
1 214 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 159 (26.90%) Finance
3 73 (12.35%) Public Sector
4 69 (11.68%) Banking
4 69 (11.68%) Legal
5 67 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (5.75%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (4.40%) Front Office
8 20 (3.38%) Presentation Skills
9 16 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (2.37%) Retail
11 13 (2.20%) Local Government
11 13 (2.20%) Pharmaceutical
12 12 (2.03%) Law
12 12 (2.03%) Marketing
13 11 (1.86%) Investment Banking
13 11 (1.86%) Telecoms
14 10 (1.69%) Police
15 8 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 96 (16.24%) Architect
2 74 (12.52%) Analyst
3 47 (7.95%) Senior
4 42 (7.11%) Lead
5 38 (6.43%) Developer
6 34 (5.75%) Business Analyst
7 32 (5.41%) Project Manager
8 31 (5.25%) Consultant
9 29 (4.91%) Security Architect
10 25 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
11 13 (2.20%) Data Engineer
11 13 (2.20%) Security Engineer
12 12 (2.03%) Data Protection Officer
12 12 (2.03%) Network Engineer
13 11 (1.86%) Product Manager
14 10 (1.69%) Cloud Engineer
14 10 (1.69%) Enterprise Architect
14 10 (1.69%) Junior
14 10 (1.69%) Security Analyst
15 9 (1.52%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (5.58%) REST
2 25 (4.23%) Terraform
3 18 (3.05%) OAuth
4 11 (1.86%) Middleware
4 11 (1.86%) OAuth2
4 11 (1.86%) RESTful
4 11 (1.86%) Spring
5 10 (1.69%) HTML
5 10 (1.69%) React
6 9 (1.52%) CSS
6 9 (1.52%) GraphQL
6 9 (1.52%) Spring Boot
7 8 (1.35%) JSON
7 8 (1.35%) Kafka
7 8 (1.35%) Lightning Web Components
7 8 (1.35%) OpenID
7 8 (1.35%) Pandas
7 8 (1.35%) SAML
8 6 (1.02%) Play Framework
8 6 (1.02%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 262 (44.33%) Data Protection Act
2 42 (7.11%) Product Ownership
3 40 (6.77%) Onboarding
4 35 (5.92%) Cloud Native
5 34 (5.75%) Management Information System
6 22 (3.72%) Security Posture
7 19 (3.21%) Virtual Team
8 18 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
9 14 (2.37%) Data Centre
10 11 (1.86%) Derivative
10 11 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (1.69%) NHS
12 9 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (1.35%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.35%) Fixed Income
13 8 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
13 8 (1.35%) Mobile App
14 7 (1.18%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 41 (6.94%) Windows
2 21 (3.55%) Linux
3 13 (2.20%) Android
4 10 (1.69%) Unix
4 10 (1.69%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.52%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.02%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.68%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.34%) zOS
10 1 (0.17%) CentOS
10 1 (0.17%) MVS
10 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.17%) VMS
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (25.21%) Stakeholder Management
2 113 (19.12%) Agile
3 102 (17.26%) AI
4 89 (15.06%) Continuous Improvement
5 86 (14.55%) Cybersecurity
6 85 (14.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 82 (13.87%) Migration
8 80 (13.54%) CI/CD
9 78 (13.20%) Problem-Solving
10 74 (12.52%) Data Governance
11 72 (12.18%) Risk Management
12 71 (12.01%) DevOps
13 67 (11.34%) Information Security
13 67 (11.34%) Roadmaps
14 61 (10.32%) Analytics
15 60 (10.15%) Decision-Making
16 48 (8.12%) Data Modelling
17 44 (7.45%) Test Automation
18 43 (7.28%) Validation
19 41 (6.94%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 65 (11.00%) Python
2 62 (10.49%) SQL
3 37 (6.26%) Java
4 22 (3.72%) PowerShell
5 16 (2.71%) JavaScript
6 14 (2.37%) TypeScript
7 11 (1.86%) Scala
8 8 (1.35%) Apex Code
8 8 (1.35%) Kotlin
9 6 (1.02%) C#
9 6 (1.02%) C++
10 5 (0.85%) Bash
10 5 (0.85%) C
11 4 (0.68%) COBOL
11 4 (0.68%) Go
11 4 (0.68%) Perl
12 3 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.51%) VBScript
13 2 (0.34%) Bicep
13 2 (0.34%) RPG
Qualifications
1 76 (12.86%) Security Cleared
2 59 (9.98%) SC Cleared
3 47 (7.95%) Degree
4 40 (6.77%) CISSP
5 27 (4.57%) CISM
6 17 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (2.88%) DV Cleared
7 16 (2.71%) PMI Certification
7 16 (2.71%) PMP
8 15 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.52%) Azure Certification
11 6 (1.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (1.02%) CCNP
11 6 (1.02%) CRISC
12 5 (0.85%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.85%) CISA
12 5 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (0.85%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (16.75%) GDPR
2 41 (6.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 40 (6.77%) Data Quality
4 27 (4.57%) NIST
4 27 (4.57%) QA
5 20 (3.38%) GRC
6 19 (3.21%) Accessibility
7 13 (2.20%) PCI DSS
8 10 (1.69%) PMO
9 9 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (1.35%) Government Security Classifications
10 8 (1.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 7 (1.18%) NCSC
11 7 (1.18%) PERC
12 5 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.85%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.68%) COBIT
14 3 (0.51%) HL7
14 3 (0.51%) MiFID
System Software
1 31 (5.25%) Active Directory
2 22 (3.72%) Docker
3 7 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.51%) vSphere
5 2 (0.34%) Firmware
5 2 (0.34%) IAG
5 2 (0.34%) Varnish
6 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.17%) NFS
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (4.40%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (1.69%) Grafana
3 10 (1.69%) SCCM
3 10 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (1.52%) Ansible
5 8 (1.35%) 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
1 119 (20.14%) Microsoft
2 40 (6.77%) ServiceNow
3 25 (4.23%) Cisco
3 25 (4.23%) Oracle
4 19 (3.21%) Google
5 16 (2.71%) Databricks
5 16 (2.71%) Salesforce
6 15 (2.54%) Zscaler
7 13 (2.20%) Splunk
8 9 (1.52%) SAP
9 8 (1.35%) Murex
9 8 (1.35%) VMware
10 7 (1.18%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.02%) MuleSoft
11 6 (1.02%) Ping Identity
12 5 (0.85%) Bloomberg
12 5 (0.85%) CrowdStrike
12 5 (0.85%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.85%) IBM
12 5 (0.85%) SolarWinds