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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 104 96
Rank change year-on-year +28 -8 +16
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 555 328 435
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.49% 2.44% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.87% 2.69% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 179 258
10th Percentile £283 £285 £247
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -6.67%
75th Percentile £641 £613 £672
90th Percentile £725 £745 £758
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 14
10th Percentile £21.47 £18.55 £11.95
25th Percentile £22.43 £23.50 £12.32
Median hourly rate £24.88 £30.00 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year -17.06% +23.71% -
75th Percentile £26.74 £32.95 £42.63
90th Percentile £27.35 £34.84 £57.11
England median hourly rate £20.71 £30.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -30.97% +53.85% -72.14%

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 14,339 12,191 16,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.30% 90.76% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,629 7,896 11,545
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 158 346
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.93 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.40 £25.81 £19.40
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +22.50% -15.49%
75th Percentile £56.99 £54.88 £49.97
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.51 £72.00
England median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £34.23
% change year-on-year -18.57% +2.25% -2.20%

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 27 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 27 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% 23
South London -27 11 £475 -20.83% 2
West London -17 4 £225 -43.75% 7
East London +4 3 £675 - 2
North London - 2 £625 - 4
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 22 (3.96%) Confluence
2 12 (2.16%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.54%) CMS
6 2 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.36%) Apache
6 2 (0.36%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.36%) Drupal
6 2 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.36%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.18%) Camunda
7 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.18%) Mule
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.18%) SAS
7 1 (0.18%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 21 (3.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.72%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.36%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.36%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.18%) Final Cut Pro
6 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.18%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.18%) Sketch
6 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.80%) Aladdin
2 6 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.72%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 4 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.54%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.36%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.36%) Oracle FAH
5 2 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.18%) BambooHR
6 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.18%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.18%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.18%) Veritas eDiscovery
6 1 (0.18%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 114 (20.54%) Azure
2 71 (12.79%) AWS
3 38 (6.85%) GCP
4 32 (5.77%) SaaS
5 31 (5.59%) Microsoft 365
5 31 (5.59%) Power Platform
6 25 (4.50%) Snowflake
7 23 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (3.96%) Serverless
9 20 (3.60%) Entra ID
10 16 (2.88%) GitHub
11 15 (2.70%) Amazon S3
11 15 (2.70%) PaaS
12 14 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (2.34%) IaaS
13 13 (2.34%) Microsoft Purview
14 12 (2.16%) Azure AKS
15 11 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (1.80%) Azure Sentinel
17 8 (1.44%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.88%) Network Security
2 12 (2.16%) Firewall
2 12 (2.16%) MPLS
3 11 (1.98%) Cisco IPT
4 6 (1.08%) SAN
4 6 (1.08%) VPN
5 5 (0.90%) LAN
5 5 (0.90%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.90%) WAN
6 4 (0.72%) Ethernet
6 4 (0.72%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.72%) VLAN
6 4 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.54%) BGP
7 3 (0.54%) HTTP
7 3 (0.54%) NAS
7 3 (0.54%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.36%) DKIM
8 2 (0.36%) DMARC
8 2 (0.36%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (5.05%) Power BI
2 15 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (2.70%) SQL Server
3 13 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (2.16%) Metadata
5 11 (1.98%) Tableau
6 8 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (1.44%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.26%) BigQuery
7 7 (1.26%) MongoDB
8 6 (1.08%) Data Lake
8 6 (1.08%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.72%) Big Data
11 3 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.54%) EDRMS
11 3 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.54%) MySQL
11 3 (0.54%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 42 (7.57%) JIRA
2 23 (4.14%) Git
3 13 (2.34%) SpecFlow
4 8 (1.44%) GitLab
4 8 (1.44%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.90%) JUnit
6 4 (0.72%) Maven
7 3 (0.54%) Gradle
7 3 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.36%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.36%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.36%) DBeaver
8 2 (0.36%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.36%) Katalon Studio
8 2 (0.36%) NUnit
8 2 (0.36%) Postman
8 2 (0.36%) Selenium
8 2 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.36%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.36%) webpack
General
1 151 (27.21%) Social Skills
2 149 (26.85%) Finance
3 70 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (12.25%) Banking
5 42 (7.57%) Legal
6 37 (6.67%) Public Sector
7 20 (3.60%) Front Office
8 18 (3.24%) Telecoms
9 17 (3.06%) Marketing
10 15 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
11 14 (2.52%) Investment Banking
12 13 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 6 (1.08%) Publishing
17 5 (0.90%) Electronics
17 5 (0.90%) International Banking
17 5 (0.90%) Local Government
17 5 (0.90%) Retail
Job Titles
1 72 (12.97%) Analyst
1 72 (12.97%) Architect
2 58 (10.45%) Developer
3 48 (8.65%) Lead
4 39 (7.03%) Business Analyst
5 38 (6.85%) Senior
6 33 (5.95%) Consultant
7 28 (5.05%) Project Manager
8 21 (3.78%) Solutions Architect
9 17 (3.06%) Security Engineer
10 15 (2.70%) Network Engineer
11 13 (2.34%) Data Analyst
11 13 (2.34%) Security Architect
11 13 (2.34%) Technical Architect
11 13 (2.34%) Tester
12 11 (1.98%) Software Engineer
12 11 (1.98%) Technical Analyst
13 10 (1.80%) Cloud Engineer
13 10 (1.80%) Data Engineer
13 10 (1.80%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.24%) React
1 18 (3.24%) REST
2 17 (3.06%) .NET
3 13 (2.34%) Spring
4 12 (2.16%) Playwright
5 11 (1.98%) Kafka
6 10 (1.80%) Middleware
6 10 (1.80%) Oracle Fusion
7 9 (1.62%) RESTful
8 8 (1.44%) HTML
8 8 (1.44%) Spring Boot
9 7 (1.26%) .NET Core
9 7 (1.26%) AngularJS
9 7 (1.26%) Node.js
10 6 (1.08%) SOAP
10 6 (1.08%) XML
11 5 (0.90%) ARM Templates
12 4 (0.72%) CSS
12 4 (0.72%) LangChain
12 4 (0.72%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 305 (54.95%) Data Protection Act
2 28 (5.05%) Cloud Native
3 20 (3.60%) Onboarding
3 20 (3.60%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 18 (3.24%) Management Information System
5 13 (2.34%) Security Posture
6 12 (2.16%) Derivative
6 12 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (1.80%) Equities
7 10 (1.80%) NHS
8 9 (1.62%) CMDB
8 9 (1.62%) Fixed Income
9 8 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.26%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.26%) Freedom of Information
11 6 (1.08%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.08%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.68%) Windows
2 20 (3.60%) Linux
3 8 (1.44%) Unix
4 7 (1.26%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.08%) Android
6 5 (0.90%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.90%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.36%) VMS
8 2 (0.36%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.36%) zOS
9 1 (0.18%) CentOS
9 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (20.00%) Agile
2 98 (17.66%) Problem-Solving
2 98 (17.66%) Stakeholder Management
3 67 (12.07%) Analytics
3 67 (12.07%) Migration
4 64 (11.53%) AI
5 63 (11.35%) CI/CD
6 62 (11.17%) DevOps
7 54 (9.73%) Risk Management
8 53 (9.55%) Roadmaps
9 50 (9.01%) Continuous Improvement
10 49 (8.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 47 (8.47%) Cybersecurity
11 47 (8.47%) Decision-Making
12 39 (7.03%) Test Automation
13 38 (6.85%) Microservices
14 37 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
14 37 (6.67%) Data Governance
14 37 (6.67%) Project Management
15 35 (6.31%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 108 (19.46%) Python
2 93 (16.76%) SQL
3 43 (7.75%) Java
4 37 (6.67%) C#
4 37 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 20 (3.60%) TypeScript
6 19 (3.42%) PowerShell
7 9 (1.62%) Bash
7 9 (1.62%) C++
8 6 (1.08%) PL/SQL
8 6 (1.08%) Shell Script
9 5 (0.90%) Bicep
10 3 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.54%) PHP
10 3 (0.54%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.54%) VBA
11 2 (0.36%) Groovy
11 2 (0.36%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.36%) R
11 2 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 70 (12.61%) Security Cleared
2 60 (10.81%) SC Cleared
3 50 (9.01%) Degree
4 25 (4.50%) CISSP
5 19 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.88%) CISM
6 16 (2.88%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.98%) PMI Certification
8 10 (1.80%) PMP
9 9 (1.62%) Azure Certification
10 8 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.44%) CRISC
11 7 (1.26%) AWS Certification
11 7 (1.26%) CCSP
11 7 (1.26%) DV Cleared
12 6 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (1.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 5 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.90%) CISA
13 5 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (13.51%) GDPR
2 36 (6.49%) NIST
3 31 (5.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (4.50%) Data Quality
5 24 (4.32%) QA
6 13 (2.34%) GRC
6 13 (2.34%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.62%) SLA
8 8 (1.44%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (1.26%) PMO
10 6 (1.08%) PERC
11 5 (0.90%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.72%) COBIT
12 4 (0.72%) GAAP
12 4 (0.72%) IFRS
13 3 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.54%) Basel III
13 3 (0.54%) IFRS 9
13 3 (0.54%) Solvency II
System Software
1 27 (4.86%) Docker
2 19 (3.42%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.44%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.18%) Firmware
6 1 (0.18%) HDFS
6 1 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 33 (5.95%) Kubernetes
2 28 (5.05%) Terraform
3 17 (3.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (2.52%) Ansible
5 9 (1.62%) SCCM
6 6 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.72%) Kibana
9 3 (0.54%) Grafana
10 2 (0.36%) Control-M
10 2 (0.36%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.36%) Puppet
10 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.18%) CASB
11 1 (0.18%) Foglight
11 1 (0.18%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.18%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 78 (14.05%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.32%) Oracle
3 23 (4.14%) Google
4 22 (3.96%) Databricks
4 22 (3.96%) ServiceNow
5 20 (3.60%) SAP
6 15 (2.70%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.98%) Citrix
8 10 (1.80%) Adobe
8 10 (1.80%) Cisco
9 9 (1.62%) Workday
10 8 (1.44%) Nokia
11 7 (1.26%) ADVA
11 7 (1.26%) F5
11 7 (1.26%) VMware
12 6 (1.08%) IBM
12 6 (1.08%) Rapid7
13 5 (0.90%) Apple
13 5 (0.90%) Informatica
13 5 (0.90%) Red Hat