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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 100 92
Rank change year-on-year +11 -8 +19
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 601 361 456
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.14% 2.83% 2.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.52% 3.07% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 167 264
10th Percentile £258 £255 £258
25th Percentile £375 £358 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £638
90th Percentile £775 £738 £775
England median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 13
10th Percentile £20.40 £26.15 -
25th Percentile £25.66 £26.88 £11.95
Median hourly rate £30.31 £30.81 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +25.73% -53.33%
75th Percentile £34.30 £34.94 £62.50
90th Percentile £37.70 £36.69 £70.00
England median hourly rate £21.86 £27.57 £19.50
% change year-on-year -20.72% +41.38% -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 17,053 11,769 15,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.41% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,360 7,875 11,093
10th Percentile £360 £336 £340
25th Percentile £438 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - -6.34%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 221 300
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.17 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £59.36 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £68.08
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year +84.31% -33.11% +1.87%

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 June 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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -15 38 £550 -4.30% 16
South London -5 12 £525 -28.45% 6
West London -19 7 £475 +39.71% 12
East London +4 5 £432 - 5
North London - 1 £550 -
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 (2.66%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.16%) Confluence
3 11 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.33%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.83%) IIS
7 4 (0.67%) Apache
7 4 (0.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.50%) SAS
9 2 (0.33%) CMS
9 2 (0.33%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.17%) Drupal
10 1 (0.17%) Mule
10 1 (0.17%) nginx
10 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.67%) UserZoom
5 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (1.33%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.50%) SAP Payroll
4 3 (0.50%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.17%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.17%) Endur
5 1 (0.17%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.17%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.17%) Magento
5 1 (0.17%) Misys Equation
5 1 (0.17%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 137 (22.80%) Azure
2 101 (16.81%) AWS
3 51 (8.49%) GCP
4 39 (6.49%) Microsoft 365
5 37 (6.16%) Entra ID
6 32 (5.32%) SaaS
7 28 (4.66%) Microsoft Purview
8 23 (3.83%) Power Platform
9 17 (2.83%) GitHub
10 16 (2.66%) Snowflake
11 12 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
11 12 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
11 12 (2.00%) Microsoft Copilot
12 11 (1.83%) Amazon S3
12 11 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (1.83%) Serverless
13 10 (1.66%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (1.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 38 (6.32%) Network Security
2 21 (3.49%) Firewall
3 10 (1.66%) MPLS
4 7 (1.16%) SAN
4 7 (1.16%) SSL
4 7 (1.16%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.16%) VPN
4 7 (1.16%) WAN
4 7 (1.16%) Wireless
5 6 (1.00%) NAS
5 6 (1.00%) VLAN
5 6 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.83%) Cisco IPT
6 5 (0.83%) Ethernet
6 5 (0.83%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.67%) DHCP
7 4 (0.67%) DNS
7 4 (0.67%) HTTP
7 4 (0.67%) LAN
7 4 (0.67%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.16%) Metadata
1 19 (3.16%) Power BI
2 12 (2.00%) NoSQL
2 12 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (1.50%) Big Data
4 9 (1.50%) Relational Database
5 8 (1.33%) Data Lake
5 8 (1.33%) MongoDB
6 7 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (1.16%) SQL Server
7 6 (1.00%) BigQuery
7 6 (1.00%) Tableau
8 5 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (0.83%) MySQL
9 4 (0.67%) Apache Hudi
9 4 (0.67%) Delta Lake
9 4 (0.67%) Pinecone
9 4 (0.67%) Weaviate
10 3 (0.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 39 (6.49%) JIRA
2 26 (4.33%) Git
3 11 (1.83%) GitLab
4 10 (1.66%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.16%) SpecFlow
6 4 (0.67%) ERwin
6 4 (0.67%) Gradle
6 4 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.50%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.50%) JUnit
7 3 (0.50%) Maven
7 3 (0.50%) Selenium
8 2 (0.33%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.33%) Postman
8 2 (0.33%) Vite
9 1 (0.17%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.17%) MLflow
9 1 (0.17%) Storybook
9 1 (0.17%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.17%) Zephyr
General
1 174 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 164 (27.29%) Finance
3 66 (10.98%) Banking
4 65 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (7.99%) Legal
5 48 (7.99%) Public Sector
6 28 (4.66%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (4.16%) Front Office
8 16 (2.66%) Telecoms
9 15 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (2.00%) Local Government
12 12 (2.00%) Marketing
13 11 (1.83%) Investment Banking
13 11 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
13 11 (1.83%) Retail
14 10 (1.66%) Billing
15 7 (1.16%) Law
15 7 (1.16%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 98 (16.31%) Architect
2 72 (11.98%) Analyst
3 47 (7.82%) Developer
4 44 (7.32%) Senior
5 36 (5.99%) Business Analyst
5 36 (5.99%) Lead
6 33 (5.49%) Project Manager
7 29 (4.83%) Consultant
8 28 (4.66%) Solutions Architect
9 26 (4.33%) Security Architect
10 24 (3.99%) Security Engineer
11 19 (3.16%) Network Engineer
12 16 (2.66%) Data Engineer
13 13 (2.16%) Java Developer
14 12 (2.00%) Cloud Engineer
14 12 (2.00%) IT Support
15 11 (1.83%) Data Analyst
15 11 (1.83%) Junior
15 11 (1.83%) Product Manager
16 10 (1.66%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (4.66%) REST
2 18 (3.00%) React
3 15 (2.50%) .NET
3 15 (2.50%) Middleware
4 14 (2.33%) Spring
5 12 (2.00%) RESTful
6 11 (1.83%) OAuth
7 10 (1.66%) GraphQL
7 10 (1.66%) HTML
8 9 (1.50%) CSS
8 9 (1.50%) Kafka
8 9 (1.50%) Playwright
8 9 (1.50%) Spring Boot
9 7 (1.16%) JSON
9 7 (1.16%) OAuth2
9 7 (1.16%) OpenID
10 6 (1.00%) SAML
11 5 (0.83%) LDAP
11 5 (0.83%) Node.js
11 5 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 291 (48.42%) Data Protection Act
2 48 (7.99%) Cloud Native
3 30 (4.99%) Onboarding
3 30 (4.99%) Product Ownership
4 25 (4.16%) Security Posture
5 20 (3.33%) Management Information System
6 19 (3.16%) Virtual Team
7 14 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (2.00%) Data Centre
8 12 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 11 (1.83%) Derivative
9 11 (1.83%) Mobile App
10 9 (1.50%) Operational Technology
10 9 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
11 8 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.16%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.16%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 40 (6.66%) Windows
2 17 (2.83%) Linux
3 14 (2.33%) Android
4 10 (1.66%) Apple iOS
4 10 (1.66%) Unix
5 7 (1.16%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.83%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.50%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.17%) Rocky
8 1 (0.17%) Solaris
8 1 (0.17%) VMS
8 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (19.80%) Agile
2 98 (16.31%) Stakeholder Management
3 85 (14.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 84 (13.98%) CI/CD
4 84 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
5 80 (13.31%) AI
6 77 (12.81%) Cybersecurity
6 77 (12.81%) DevOps
7 69 (11.48%) Migration
8 66 (10.98%) Analytics
9 63 (10.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 61 (10.15%) Roadmaps
11 56 (9.32%) Data Governance
12 54 (8.99%) Risk Management
13 52 (8.65%) Decision-Making
14 51 (8.49%) Information Security
15 46 (7.65%) Cloud Security
16 42 (6.99%) Test Automation
17 39 (6.49%) Data Modelling
18 38 (6.32%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 85 (14.14%) Python
2 62 (10.32%) Java
3 61 (10.15%) SQL
4 19 (3.16%) JavaScript
5 17 (2.83%) C#
6 14 (2.33%) PowerShell
6 14 (2.33%) TypeScript
7 9 (1.50%) Kotlin
8 7 (1.16%) Apex Code
8 7 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (1.00%) Bash
10 5 (0.83%) Scala
11 4 (0.67%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.50%) C++
12 3 (0.50%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.33%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.33%) R
13 2 (0.33%) RPG
14 1 (0.17%) GLSL
14 1 (0.17%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 81 (13.48%) Security Cleared
2 67 (11.15%) SC Cleared
3 58 (9.65%) Degree
4 39 (6.49%) CISSP
5 18 (3.00%) CISM
6 16 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (2.00%) AWS Certification
8 12 (2.00%) Azure Certification
8 12 (2.00%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.00%) Master's Degree
8 12 (2.00%) PMI Certification
9 11 (1.83%) PMP
10 10 (1.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 9 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (1.33%) CCSP
12 8 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (1.16%) CISA
13 7 (1.16%) CRISC
14 5 (0.83%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (15.47%) GDPR
2 40 (6.66%) NIST
3 36 (5.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 33 (5.49%) Data Quality
5 32 (5.32%) QA
6 20 (3.33%) GRC
7 19 (3.16%) PCI DSS
8 15 (2.50%) Accessibility
9 13 (2.16%) PMO
10 11 (1.83%) SLA
11 10 (1.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (1.00%) HIPAA
12 6 (1.00%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.83%) NCSC
14 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.50%) PERC
15 2 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.33%) ISO 31000
15 2 (0.33%) Solvency II
System Software
1 33 (5.49%) Active Directory
2 26 (4.33%) Docker
3 5 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.17%) Firmware
6 1 (0.17%) NFS
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 36 (5.99%) Kubernetes
2 24 (3.99%) Terraform
3 16 (2.66%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (2.00%) SCCM
4 12 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (1.66%) Ansible
5 10 (1.66%) Grafana
6 8 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (1.16%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.83%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.67%) Kibana
9 4 (0.67%) PingFederate
10 3 (0.50%) NetBackup
10 3 (0.50%) QRadar
11 2 (0.33%) Avamar
11 2 (0.33%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (0.33%) Packer
11 2 (0.33%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.17%) Istio
Vendors
1 104 (17.30%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.32%) ServiceNow
3 25 (4.16%) Oracle
4 20 (3.33%) Cisco
4 20 (3.33%) Google
5 18 (3.00%) Databricks
6 17 (2.83%) Salesforce
7 13 (2.16%) Zscaler
8 12 (2.00%) Splunk
9 8 (1.33%) SAP
9 8 (1.33%) Workday
10 7 (1.16%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.00%) Adobe
11 6 (1.00%) F5
11 6 (1.00%) Nokia
11 6 (1.00%) OpenAI
11 6 (1.00%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.00%) VMware
12 5 (0.83%) Aruba
12 5 (0.83%) CyberArk