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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 86 100
Rank change year-on-year +11 +14 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 527 437 492
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.72% 2.78% 2.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.03% 3.11% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 256 294
10th Percentile £325 £298 £263
25th Percentile £414 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £570
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -12.28% -0.87%
75th Percentile £650 £613 £675
90th Percentile £700 £725 £749
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £23.08 £28.75
25th Percentile - £26.58 £35.88
Median hourly rate - £32.79 £41.62
Median % change year-on-year - -21.21% +14.80%
75th Percentile - £38.62 £43.76
90th Percentile - £41.90 £44.23
England median hourly rate £20.71 £22.50 £24.56
% change year-on-year -7.96% -8.38% -62.22%

All Process and 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 13,068 14,030 17,858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.28% 89.29% 89.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,592 9,056 12,811
10th Percentile £334 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £569
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% -3.34% -3.56%
75th Percentile £655 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 166 246
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.38 £18.68
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.98 £21.56
Median hourly rate £28.50 £37.50 £36.33
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +3.21% -6.54%
75th Percentile £47.25 £55.94 £61.75
90th Percentile £67.87 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +23.61%

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025. 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 +3 35 £551 +10.25% 88
South London -21 7 £600 - 5
West London -11 5 £300 -33.33% 14
East London +6 1 £638 +19.16% 7
North London - 1 £700 - 2
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 (3.61%) Confluence
2 11 (2.09%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.90%) CMS
4 7 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.57%) CICS
7 2 (0.38%) Apache
7 2 (0.38%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.38%) nginx
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%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.19%) SAS
8 1 (0.19%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 23 (4.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.38%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
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
6 1 (0.19%) SPSS
6 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.57%) VisionPLUS
3 2 (0.38%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.38%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.38%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.38%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.19%) BambooHR
4 1 (0.19%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.19%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle Internet Expenses
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle iProcurement
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.19%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.19%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 119 (22.58%) Azure
2 90 (17.08%) AWS
3 49 (9.30%) Power Platform
4 39 (7.40%) GCP
5 33 (6.26%) Microsoft 365
6 28 (5.31%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (4.93%) GitHub
8 22 (4.17%) SaaS
9 21 (3.98%) Power Automate
9 21 (3.98%) Serverless
10 17 (3.23%) Entra ID
10 17 (3.23%) PowerApps
11 14 (2.66%) Amazon S3
11 14 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (2.66%) Snowflake
12 12 (2.28%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (1.71%) Azure AKS
13 9 (1.71%) Microsoft Purview
14 8 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
14 8 (1.52%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.61%) Firewall
2 14 (2.66%) Network Security
3 9 (1.71%) Cisco IPT
4 8 (1.52%) DNS
5 7 (1.33%) VPN
6 5 (0.95%) WAN
7 4 (0.76%) DHCP
7 4 (0.76%) DMARC
7 4 (0.76%) HTTP
7 4 (0.76%) MPLS
7 4 (0.76%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.57%) 5G
8 3 (0.57%) BGP
8 3 (0.57%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (0.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 3 (0.57%) Internet
8 3 (0.57%) NetScaler
8 3 (0.57%) SAN
8 3 (0.57%) SMTP
9 2 (0.38%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (6.26%) Power BI
2 17 (3.23%) SQL Server
3 14 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (2.09%) Tableau
5 9 (1.71%) NoSQL
6 8 (1.52%) Metadata
7 7 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (1.33%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.33%) Relational Database
8 5 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.57%) Big Data
10 3 (0.57%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.57%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.57%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.57%) MySQL
10 3 (0.57%) Power Query
11 2 (0.38%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 48 (9.11%) JIRA
2 16 (3.04%) Git
3 9 (1.71%) Metasploit
4 8 (1.52%) Burp Suite
4 8 (1.52%) SonarQube
5 7 (1.33%) GitLab
5 7 (1.33%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.57%) ChangeMan
6 3 (0.57%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.38%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.38%) DBeaver
7 2 (0.38%) Gradle
7 2 (0.38%) JUnit
7 2 (0.38%) Maven
8 1 (0.19%) AppVeyor
8 1 (0.19%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.19%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.19%) MLflow
8 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.19%) webpack
General
1 166 (31.50%) Social Skills
2 121 (22.96%) Finance
3 65 (12.33%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (9.11%) Banking
5 47 (8.92%) Public Sector
6 43 (8.16%) Legal
7 20 (3.80%) Marketing
8 19 (3.61%) Front Office
9 11 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.71%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.52%) Financial Institution
11 8 (1.52%) Investment Banking
11 8 (1.52%) Law
12 7 (1.33%) Back Office
12 7 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.33%) Retail
13 6 (1.14%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 73 (13.85%) Developer
2 69 (13.09%) Analyst
3 44 (8.35%) Architect
3 44 (8.35%) Lead
4 36 (6.83%) Business Analyst
5 29 (5.50%) Senior
6 26 (4.93%) Consultant
7 25 (4.74%) Security Engineer
8 21 (3.98%) Project Manager
9 18 (3.42%) Data Analyst
10 13 (2.47%) Python Engineer
10 13 (2.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 11 (2.09%) ServiceNow Developer
11 11 (2.09%) Site Engineer
11 11 (2.09%) Software Engineer
11 11 (2.09%) Solutions Architect
12 10 (1.90%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 10 (1.90%) Network Engineer
12 10 (1.90%) Python Developer
13 9 (1.71%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (5.12%) REST
2 16 (3.04%) SOAP
3 11 (2.09%) .NET
3 11 (2.09%) React
4 10 (1.90%) HTML
4 10 (1.90%) RESTful
5 9 (1.71%) Middleware
6 8 (1.52%) AngularJS
7 7 (1.33%) OAuth
7 7 (1.33%) Spring
8 6 (1.14%) FIX Protocol
9 5 (0.95%) .NET Core
9 5 (0.95%) LangChain
9 5 (0.95%) Node.js
10 4 (0.76%) ASP.NET
10 4 (0.76%) Pandas
10 4 (0.76%) PySpark
10 4 (0.76%) scikit-learn
10 4 (0.76%) Spring Boot
11 3 (0.57%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 279 (52.94%) Data Protection Act
2 21 (3.98%) Cloud Native
3 16 (3.04%) CMDB
4 15 (2.85%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.66%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.66%) Virtual Team
6 11 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (1.90%) Derivative
7 10 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (1.90%) NHS
8 8 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (1.52%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.33%) Credit Risk
9 7 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.33%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.33%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.14%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
10 6 (1.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.12%) Linux
2 24 (4.55%) Windows
3 9 (1.71%) Unix
4 6 (1.14%) Android
5 4 (0.76%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.76%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.57%) VMS
6 3 (0.57%) zOS
7 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.38%) CentOS
7 2 (0.38%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.38%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.19%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (18.79%) Agile
2 95 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
3 81 (15.37%) CI/CD
4 70 (13.28%) DevOps
5 61 (11.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 59 (11.20%) Stakeholder Management
7 58 (11.01%) AI
8 54 (10.25%) Analytics
9 50 (9.49%) Migration
10 49 (9.30%) Cybersecurity
11 44 (8.35%) Infrastructure as Code
12 41 (7.78%) Roadmaps
13 40 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
13 40 (7.59%) Data Governance
14 39 (7.40%) Project Management
14 39 (7.40%) Risk Management
15 37 (7.02%) Business Intelligence
16 33 (6.26%) Requirements Gathering
17 31 (5.88%) Machine Learning
18 30 (5.69%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 122 (23.15%) Python
2 78 (14.80%) SQL
3 34 (6.45%) JavaScript
4 31 (5.88%) Bash
5 26 (4.93%) PowerShell
6 25 (4.74%) C#
7 20 (3.80%) Java
8 12 (2.28%) TypeScript
9 8 (1.52%) C++
9 8 (1.52%) Go
9 8 (1.52%) PromQL
10 7 (1.33%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.14%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.76%) COBOL
13 3 (0.57%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.57%) R
13 3 (0.57%) VBA
14 2 (0.38%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 60 (11.39%) Security Cleared
2 50 (9.49%) SC Cleared
3 37 (7.02%) Degree
4 17 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.66%) CISSP
6 10 (1.90%) CISM
6 10 (1.90%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.71%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.71%) OSCP
8 8 (1.52%) CHECK Team Member
8 8 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.52%) CREST Certified
8 8 (1.52%) Tigerscheme
9 7 (1.33%) PMI Certification
10 6 (1.14%) CISA
10 6 (1.14%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.14%) PMP
11 5 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (13.85%) GDPR
2 29 (5.50%) NIST
3 23 (4.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (3.61%) QA
5 17 (3.23%) Data Quality
6 12 (2.28%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (1.90%) Accessibility
7 10 (1.90%) NCSC
8 9 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (1.52%) GRC
10 7 (1.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 7 (1.33%) PERC
10 7 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (1.14%) COBIT
11 6 (1.14%) PCI DSS
11 6 (1.14%) PMO
12 3 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.38%) EU AI Act
13 2 (0.38%) HL7
13 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 22 (4.17%) Docker
2 18 (3.42%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.38%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.38%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.38%) vSphere
6 1 (0.19%) Firmware
6 1 (0.19%) HDFS
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 23 (4.36%) Kubernetes
2 21 (3.98%) Terraform
3 13 (2.47%) Grafana
4 12 (2.28%) Ansible
5 10 (1.90%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.90%) SCCM
6 8 (1.52%) Nmap
7 7 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.95%) NetBackup
9 3 (0.57%) CA Endevor
9 3 (0.57%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.57%) Kibana
9 3 (0.57%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.38%) Puppet
10 2 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.19%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 78 (14.80%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.17%) ServiceNow
3 21 (3.98%) Google
4 20 (3.80%) Salesforce
5 14 (2.66%) Databricks
6 13 (2.47%) SAP
7 12 (2.28%) Cisco
7 12 (2.28%) Splunk
7 12 (2.28%) VMware
8 11 (2.09%) Oracle
9 9 (1.71%) IBM
9 9 (1.71%) Veracode
10 8 (1.52%) F5
10 8 (1.52%) Juniper
11 7 (1.33%) Citrix
12 6 (1.14%) Adobe
12 6 (1.14%) ION Trading
12 6 (1.14%) Veeam
13 5 (0.95%) Palo Alto
13 5 (0.95%) Solace