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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 89 100
Rank change year-on-year +16 +11 +16
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 516 376 427
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.66% 2.68% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.00% 2.97% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 211 260
10th Percentile £325 £288 £239
25th Percentile £415 £378 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £642 £613 £650
90th Percentile £702 £725 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 7
10th Percentile - £16.36 £19.77
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.01 £24.13
Median hourly rate £22.27 £21.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.56% -14.00% -52.38%
75th Percentile £23.71 £33.17 £41.75
90th Percentile - £39.71 £43.92
England median hourly rate £20.56 £24.50 £24.25
% change year-on-year -16.10% +1.03% -65.36%

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 12,887 12,677 16,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.35% 90.27% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,501 8,101 11,545
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -5.46%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 155 258
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.94 £16.52
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.99 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.59 £54.50 £54.03
90th Percentile £69.30 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -27.63% -18.24% +21.43%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 -9 31 £563 +15.38% 22
South London -22 4 £538 -10.42% 4
West London -19 3 £250 -41.18% 4
East London - 1 £638 - 7
North London - 1 £700 -
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 (3.68%) Confluence
2 11 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.94%) CMS
4 6 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.58%) Apache
6 3 (0.58%) CICS
7 2 (0.39%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.39%) Drupal
7 2 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.39%) SAS
7 2 (0.39%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.19%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.19%) Luigi
8 1 (0.19%) nginx
8 1 (0.19%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 23 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.58%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.39%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.39%) Chatbot
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 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.36%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (0.78%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 3 (0.58%) Oracle FAH
4 3 (0.58%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.58%) VisionPLUS
5 2 (0.39%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.39%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.19%) BambooHR
6 1 (0.19%) Endur
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Internet Expenses
6 1 (0.19%) Veritas eDiscovery
6 1 (0.19%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 107 (20.74%) Azure
2 59 (11.43%) AWS
3 48 (9.30%) Power Platform
4 34 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (5.62%) Microsoft 365
6 28 (5.43%) Serverless
7 27 (5.23%) SaaS
8 25 (4.84%) GCP
9 22 (4.26%) Snowflake
10 19 (3.68%) Power Automate
11 18 (3.49%) Entra ID
12 15 (2.91%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (2.91%) PowerApps
13 14 (2.71%) Azure Logic Apps
14 13 (2.52%) Amazon S3
14 13 (2.52%) Azure Functions
14 13 (2.52%) Azure Monitor
15 12 (2.33%) Azure AKS
16 11 (2.13%) GitHub
17 10 (1.94%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.91%) Network Security
2 11 (2.13%) Firewall
3 9 (1.74%) Cisco IPT
4 8 (1.55%) MPLS
5 5 (0.97%) VPN
6 4 (0.78%) LAN
6 4 (0.78%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.78%) WAN
7 3 (0.58%) HTTP
7 3 (0.58%) SAN
7 3 (0.58%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.39%) DKIM
8 2 (0.39%) DMARC
8 2 (0.39%) Internet
8 2 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.39%) SSH
8 2 (0.39%) Structured Cabling
8 2 (0.39%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (6.59%) Power BI
2 16 (3.10%) SQL Server
3 12 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (2.13%) NoSQL
5 9 (1.74%) Metadata
5 9 (1.74%) Tableau
6 8 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (1.55%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.36%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.97%) Big Data
8 5 (0.97%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.58%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.58%) MySQL
10 3 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.58%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 45 (8.72%) JIRA
2 16 (3.10%) Git
3 9 (1.74%) SpecFlow
4 7 (1.36%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.78%) GitLab
6 3 (0.58%) ChangeMan
6 3 (0.58%) JUnit
7 2 (0.39%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.39%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.39%) DBeaver
7 2 (0.39%) Gradle
7 2 (0.39%) Katalon Studio
7 2 (0.39%) Maven
7 2 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.39%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.19%) AppVeyor
8 1 (0.19%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.19%) Storybook
8 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 154 (29.84%) Social Skills
2 128 (24.81%) Finance
3 66 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (10.85%) Banking
5 45 (8.72%) Public Sector
6 42 (8.14%) Legal
7 19 (3.68%) Marketing
8 15 (2.91%) Front Office
9 13 (2.52%) Telecoms
10 11 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (1.74%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.36%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.16%) Electronics
14 6 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (1.16%) Law
14 6 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.16%) Publishing
14 6 (1.16%) Retail
Job Titles
1 81 (15.70%) Developer
2 67 (12.98%) Analyst
3 52 (10.08%) Architect
4 46 (8.91%) Lead
5 32 (6.20%) Senior
6 30 (5.81%) Business Analyst
7 29 (5.62%) Consultant
8 25 (4.84%) Project Manager
9 16 (3.10%) Data Analyst
10 14 (2.71%) Security Engineer
11 12 (2.33%) Solutions Architect
11 12 (2.33%) Technical Architect
12 11 (2.13%) Administrator
12 11 (2.13%) ServiceNow Developer
12 11 (2.13%) Software Engineer
13 9 (1.74%) Azure Architect
13 9 (1.74%) Security Architect
13 9 (1.74%) Security Manager
13 9 (1.74%) Technical Analyst
13 9 (1.74%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.84%) REST
2 16 (3.10%) .NET
3 15 (2.91%) SOAP
4 12 (2.33%) React
5 10 (1.94%) HTML
6 9 (1.74%) .NET Core
6 9 (1.74%) Middleware
6 9 (1.74%) RESTful
6 9 (1.74%) Spring
7 8 (1.55%) Node.js
7 8 (1.55%) Playwright
8 7 (1.36%) AngularJS
8 7 (1.36%) Kafka
8 7 (1.36%) Oracle Fusion
9 6 (1.16%) OAuth
9 6 (1.16%) Spring Boot
9 6 (1.16%) XML
10 5 (0.97%) ARM Templates
10 5 (0.97%) ASP.NET
10 5 (0.97%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 289 (56.01%) Data Protection Act
2 23 (4.46%) Cloud Native
3 19 (3.68%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.29%) CMDB
5 14 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (2.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 13 (2.52%) Virtual Team
7 12 (2.33%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.33%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.13%) Derivative
9 9 (1.74%) NHS
10 8 (1.55%) Equities
10 8 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.36%) Freedom of Information
12 6 (1.16%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.16%) Credit Risk
12 6 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.16%) Fixed Income
12 6 (1.16%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.16%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.84%) Linux
2 22 (4.26%) Windows
3 11 (2.13%) Unix
4 5 (0.97%) Android
4 5 (0.97%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.78%) zOS
6 3 (0.58%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.58%) VMS
7 2 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.39%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.39%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.19%) CentOS
8 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (22.48%) Agile
2 104 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
3 82 (15.89%) Stakeholder Management
4 72 (13.95%) DevOps
5 62 (12.02%) Analytics
6 61 (11.82%) CI/CD
7 58 (11.24%) Migration
8 54 (10.47%) AI
9 50 (9.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 47 (9.11%) Roadmaps
11 42 (8.14%) Risk Management
12 41 (7.95%) Business Intelligence
12 41 (7.95%) Scrum
13 39 (7.56%) Project Management
14 38 (7.36%) Cybersecurity
15 37 (7.17%) Data Governance
16 36 (6.98%) Decision-Making
17 34 (6.59%) Continuous Improvement
18 32 (6.20%) Incident Response
19 31 (6.01%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 99 (19.19%) Python
2 96 (18.60%) SQL
3 38 (7.36%) JavaScript
4 36 (6.98%) C#
5 24 (4.65%) Java
6 20 (3.88%) PowerShell
7 16 (3.10%) TypeScript
8 14 (2.71%) C++
9 11 (2.13%) Bash
10 7 (1.36%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.97%) Bicep
11 5 (0.97%) Kotlin
11 5 (0.97%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.78%) COBOL
13 3 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.58%) PHP
13 3 (0.58%) R
13 3 (0.58%) VBA
14 2 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (12.40%) Security Cleared
2 53 (10.27%) SC Cleared
3 39 (7.56%) Degree
4 16 (3.10%) CISSP
5 15 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.52%) CISM
6 13 (2.52%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.33%) PMI Certification
8 11 (2.13%) PMP
9 5 (0.97%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.97%) CRISC
9 5 (0.97%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.78%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.58%) CCSP
11 3 (0.58%) ISEB
11 3 (0.58%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (14.53%) GDPR
2 28 (5.43%) NIST
3 24 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (3.29%) Data Quality
4 17 (3.29%) QA
5 11 (2.13%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (1.55%) GRC
8 6 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (1.16%) PCI DSS
8 6 (1.16%) PERC
9 5 (0.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (0.97%) PMO
10 4 (0.78%) IFRS
10 4 (0.78%) NCSC
10 4 (0.78%) SLA
11 3 (0.58%) Basel III
11 3 (0.58%) COBIT
11 3 (0.58%) GAAP
11 3 (0.58%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 18 (3.49%) Active Directory
2 16 (3.10%) Docker
3 8 (1.55%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.19%) Firmware
6 1 (0.19%) HDFS
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 22 (4.26%) Terraform
2 18 (3.49%) Kubernetes
3 12 (2.33%) Ansible
4 10 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (1.55%) SCCM
6 3 (0.58%) CA Endevor
6 3 (0.58%) Grafana
6 3 (0.58%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (0.58%) Kibana
6 3 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.39%) Control-M
7 2 (0.39%) NetBackup
7 2 (0.39%) Puppet
8 1 (0.19%) Foglight
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.19%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.19%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 1 (0.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 78 (15.12%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.07%) ServiceNow
3 19 (3.68%) Google
3 19 (3.68%) SAP
4 17 (3.29%) Salesforce
5 16 (3.10%) Databricks
5 16 (3.10%) Oracle
6 9 (1.74%) Cisco
6 9 (1.74%) Citrix
7 8 (1.55%) Workday
8 7 (1.36%) Adobe
8 7 (1.36%) IBM
9 6 (1.16%) Informatica
9 6 (1.16%) ION Trading
10 5 (0.97%) F5
10 5 (0.97%) VMware
11 4 (0.78%) Avaloq
11 4 (0.78%) Foundry
11 4 (0.78%) Splunk
11 4 (0.78%) Veeam