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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 93 92
Rank change year-on-year +8 -1 +7
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 622 394 451
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.15% 2.91% 2.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.54% 3.15% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 184 259
10th Percentile £276 £259 £243
25th Percentile £384 £362 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £639 £641 £638
90th Percentile £775 £738 £775
England median daily rate £500 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +4.44% -4.25% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 11
10th Percentile £20.40 £26.15 -
25th Percentile £25.66 £26.88 £11.95
Median hourly rate £30.31 £30.81 £26.68
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +15.46% -49.18%
75th Percentile £34.30 £34.94 £62.50
90th Percentile £37.70 £36.69 £71.88
England median hourly rate £21.53 £27.64 £19.50
% change year-on-year -22.10% +41.74% -38.10%

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 17,581 12,493 15,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.12% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,664 8,343 10,937
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £446 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £770 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 239 281
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £36.25 £32.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +13.28% +6.10% -27.33%
75th Percentile £58.44 £50.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.35 £69.50
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -8.14%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -13 40 £551 -4.26% 19
South London -12 12 £525 -28.45% 11
West London -12 8 £475 +31.03% 1
East London +4 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 14 (2.25%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.93%) Confluence
3 11 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (1.45%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.96%) Apache
7 5 (0.80%) IIS
8 3 (0.48%) CMS
8 3 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.48%) SAS
9 2 (0.32%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.16%) Drupal
10 1 (0.16%) Luigi
10 1 (0.16%) Mule
10 1 (0.16%) nginx
10 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.64%) UserZoom
5 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.32%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.96%) Aladdin
1 6 (0.96%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.48%) SAP Payroll
3 3 (0.48%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.16%) Actimize
4 1 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.16%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.16%) Endur
4 1 (0.16%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.16%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.16%) Magento
4 1 (0.16%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.16%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 146 (23.47%) Azure
2 106 (17.04%) AWS
3 52 (8.36%) GCP
4 38 (6.11%) Microsoft 365
5 37 (5.95%) Entra ID
6 32 (5.14%) SaaS
7 28 (4.50%) Microsoft Purview
8 23 (3.70%) Power Platform
9 18 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (2.89%) GitHub
10 17 (2.73%) Serverless
11 15 (2.41%) Snowflake
12 12 (1.93%) Amazon S3
12 12 (1.93%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (1.93%) Azure Logic Apps
12 12 (1.93%) Microsoft Copilot
13 11 (1.77%) Azure Sentinel
14 8 (1.29%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (1.29%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (1.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 38 (6.11%) Network Security
2 21 (3.38%) Firewall
3 9 (1.45%) Cisco IPT
4 8 (1.29%) WAN
4 8 (1.29%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (1.29%) Wireless
5 7 (1.13%) LAN
5 7 (1.13%) MPLS
5 7 (1.13%) SAN
5 7 (1.13%) SSL
5 7 (1.13%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.13%) VPN
6 6 (0.96%) Cisco Nexus
6 6 (0.96%) NAS
7 5 (0.80%) HTTPS
7 5 (0.80%) VLAN
8 4 (0.64%) DHCP
8 4 (0.64%) DNS
8 4 (0.64%) Ethernet
8 4 (0.64%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.22%) Metadata
2 19 (3.05%) Power BI
3 17 (2.73%) NoSQL
4 14 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (1.61%) Big Data
7 9 (1.45%) Data Lake
7 9 (1.45%) MongoDB
7 9 (1.45%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (1.13%) MySQL
8 7 (1.13%) Tableau
9 6 (0.96%) BigQuery
10 5 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (0.80%) SQL Server
11 4 (0.64%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (0.64%) Delta Lake
11 4 (0.64%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.64%) Pinecone
11 4 (0.64%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 38 (6.11%) JIRA
2 24 (3.86%) Git
3 11 (1.77%) GitLab
4 10 (1.61%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.80%) Selenium
5 5 (0.80%) SpecFlow
6 4 (0.64%) ERwin
6 4 (0.64%) Gradle
6 4 (0.64%) JUnit
7 3 (0.48%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.48%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.32%) CMake
8 2 (0.32%) Maven
8 2 (0.32%) Postman
8 2 (0.32%) Vite
8 2 (0.32%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.16%) MLflow
9 1 (0.16%) Storybook
9 1 (0.16%) XCTest
General
1 189 (30.39%) Social Skills
2 168 (27.01%) Finance
3 68 (10.93%) Analytical Skills
3 68 (10.93%) Banking
4 57 (9.16%) Public Sector
5 54 (8.68%) Legal
6 30 (4.82%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (4.34%) Front Office
8 17 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (2.25%) Marketing
9 14 (2.25%) Telecoms
10 13 (2.09%) Billing
10 13 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (2.09%) Retail
11 11 (1.77%) Investment Banking
11 11 (1.77%) Local Government
11 11 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (1.29%) Law
13 7 (1.13%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 105 (16.88%) Architect
2 75 (12.06%) Analyst
3 48 (7.72%) Developer
4 44 (7.07%) Senior
5 39 (6.27%) Lead
6 38 (6.11%) Business Analyst
7 32 (5.14%) Consultant
7 32 (5.14%) Project Manager
8 29 (4.66%) Solutions Architect
9 27 (4.34%) Security Architect
10 21 (3.38%) Security Engineer
11 16 (2.57%) Data Engineer
12 15 (2.41%) Network Engineer
13 14 (2.25%) Java Developer
14 13 (2.09%) IT Support
15 11 (1.77%) Data Analyst
15 11 (1.77%) Data Protection Officer
15 11 (1.77%) Junior
15 11 (1.77%) Product Manager
16 9 (1.45%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (5.31%) REST
2 17 (2.73%) React
3 14 (2.25%) Middleware
3 14 (2.25%) Spring
4 13 (2.09%) OAuth
5 12 (1.93%) .NET
5 12 (1.93%) GraphQL
5 12 (1.93%) RESTful
6 11 (1.77%) HTML
7 10 (1.61%) CSS
7 10 (1.61%) Kafka
7 10 (1.61%) Spring Boot
8 9 (1.45%) Playwright
9 8 (1.29%) JSON
10 7 (1.13%) OAuth2
10 7 (1.13%) OpenID
10 7 (1.13%) SAML
11 6 (0.96%) Lightning Web Components
11 6 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
11 6 (0.96%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 301 (48.39%) Data Protection Act
2 51 (8.20%) Cloud Native
3 33 (5.31%) Product Ownership
4 30 (4.82%) Onboarding
5 26 (4.18%) Security Posture
6 21 (3.38%) Virtual Team
7 16 (2.57%) Management Information System
8 15 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
9 14 (2.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 13 (2.09%) Data Centre
10 13 (2.09%) Derivative
11 12 (1.93%) Mobile App
12 9 (1.45%) Operational Technology
12 9 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.29%) BYOD
13 8 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
13 8 (1.29%) Fixed Income
13 8 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (1.13%) Data Structures
14 7 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 42 (6.75%) Windows
2 17 (2.73%) Linux
3 16 (2.57%) Android
4 13 (2.09%) Apple iOS
5 12 (1.93%) Unix
6 7 (1.13%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.96%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.48%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.16%) MVS
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.16%) Rocky
10 1 (0.16%) Solaris
10 1 (0.16%) VMS
10 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (19.61%) Agile
2 107 (17.20%) Stakeholder Management
3 89 (14.31%) AI
3 89 (14.31%) Continuous Improvement
4 87 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
5 86 (13.83%) CI/CD
5 86 (13.83%) DevOps
6 75 (12.06%) Cybersecurity
6 75 (12.06%) Migration
7 71 (11.41%) Analytics
8 69 (11.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 65 (10.45%) Roadmaps
10 62 (9.97%) Data Governance
11 57 (9.16%) Decision-Making
12 56 (9.00%) Risk Management
13 54 (8.68%) Information Security
14 45 (7.23%) Data Modelling
14 45 (7.23%) Test Automation
15 41 (6.59%) Cloud Security
16 39 (6.27%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 79 (12.70%) Python
2 62 (9.97%) SQL
3 58 (9.32%) Java
4 17 (2.73%) JavaScript
5 15 (2.41%) C#
5 15 (2.41%) TypeScript
6 14 (2.25%) PowerShell
7 9 (1.45%) Kotlin
8 8 (1.29%) Apex Code
9 7 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (0.96%) Bash
10 6 (0.96%) Scala
11 4 (0.64%) C++
11 4 (0.64%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.32%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.32%) Go
12 2 (0.32%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.32%) R
12 2 (0.32%) Swift
13 1 (0.16%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 75 (12.06%) Security Cleared
2 64 (10.29%) SC Cleared
3 53 (8.52%) Degree
4 37 (5.95%) CISSP
5 18 (2.89%) CISM
6 13 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (1.93%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.93%) Azure Certification
7 12 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (1.77%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.61%) PMI Certification
10 9 (1.45%) PMP
11 8 (1.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 8 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (1.13%) CISA
12 7 (1.13%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.96%) CCSP
13 6 (0.96%) CRISC
14 5 (0.80%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (15.92%) GDPR
2 37 (5.95%) NIST
3 36 (5.79%) QA
4 34 (5.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (5.31%) Data Quality
6 20 (3.22%) GRC
7 17 (2.73%) PCI DSS
8 16 (2.57%) Accessibility
8 16 (2.57%) PMO
9 11 (1.77%) SLA
10 9 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (1.29%) PERC
12 6 (0.96%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.96%) NCSC
12 6 (0.96%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.32%) ISO 31000
16 2 (0.32%) SEPA
System Software
1 34 (5.47%) Active Directory
2 25 (4.02%) Docker
3 5 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.16%) Firmware
6 1 (0.16%) NFS
6 1 (0.16%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 37 (5.95%) Kubernetes
2 22 (3.54%) Terraform
3 16 (2.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (1.93%) Ansible
4 12 (1.93%) SCCM
4 12 (1.93%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (1.61%) Grafana
6 8 (1.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (1.13%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.80%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.64%) Kibana
9 4 (0.64%) PingFederate
10 3 (0.48%) NetBackup
10 3 (0.48%) QRadar
11 2 (0.32%) Avamar
11 2 (0.32%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (0.32%) Packer
11 2 (0.32%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.16%) Istio
Vendors
1 105 (16.88%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.14%) ServiceNow
3 29 (4.66%) Oracle
4 22 (3.54%) Cisco
5 18 (2.89%) Salesforce
6 17 (2.73%) Google
7 16 (2.57%) Databricks
8 13 (2.09%) Zscaler
9 12 (1.93%) Splunk
10 7 (1.13%) Palo Alto
10 7 (1.13%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.13%) SAP
10 7 (1.13%) Workday
11 6 (0.96%) Adobe
11 6 (0.96%) F5
11 6 (0.96%) Murex
11 6 (0.96%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.96%) VMware
12 5 (0.80%) Aruba
12 5 (0.80%) CyberArk