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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 105 95
Rank change year-on-year +28 -10 +19
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 556 336 433
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.51% 2.50% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.89% 2.75% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 180 258
10th Percentile £289 £286 £247
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £516 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -1.67% -6.67%
75th Percentile £644 £613 £672
90th Percentile £725 £744 £758
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 14
10th Percentile £21.47 £19.10 £11.95
25th Percentile £22.43 £24.88 £12.32
Median hourly rate £24.88 £30.40 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year -18.16% +25.37% -
75th Percentile £26.74 £34.30 £42.63
90th Percentile £27.35 £39.12 £57.11
England median hourly rate £20.71 £30.40 £19.50
% change year-on-year -31.88% +55.91% -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 14,309 12,214 16,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.33% 90.73% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,601 7,904 11,472
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
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 £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 158 346
10th Percentile £18.06 £20.93 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.81 £19.40
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +23.33% -14.89%
75th Percentile £56.98 £54.88 £49.97
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.51 £72.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £34.21
% change year-on-year -20.00% +2.31% -2.26%

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 26 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 26 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 +4 32 £600 +20.00% 24
South London -25 11 £475 -20.83% 4
East London +2 3 £675 - 2
West London -18 3 £250 -37.50% 10
North London - 2 £625 - 6
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 23 (4.14%) Confluence
2 12 (2.16%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.44%) 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%) SAS
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%) 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 7 (1.26%) 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
1 116 (20.86%) Azure
2 72 (12.95%) AWS
3 39 (7.01%) GCP
4 32 (5.76%) SaaS
5 31 (5.58%) Power Platform
6 30 (5.40%) Microsoft 365
7 25 (4.50%) Snowflake
8 24 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (3.96%) Serverless
10 20 (3.60%) Entra ID
11 16 (2.88%) GitHub
12 15 (2.70%) Amazon S3
12 15 (2.70%) PaaS
13 14 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (2.34%) IaaS
15 12 (2.16%) Azure AKS
15 12 (2.16%) Microsoft Purview
16 11 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
17 10 (1.80%) Azure Sentinel
18 8 (1.44%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.06%) 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 (5.04%) 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%) Big Data
9 5 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.54%) EDRMS
10 3 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.54%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.54%) MySQL
10 3 (0.54%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 44 (7.91%) 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 (27.16%) Social Skills
2 150 (26.98%) Finance
3 70 (12.59%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (12.05%) Banking
5 42 (7.55%) Legal
6 38 (6.83%) 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%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (2.34%) Investment Banking
12 13 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 6 (1.08%) Publishing
15 6 (1.08%) Retail
16 5 (0.90%) Electronics
16 5 (0.90%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.90%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 73 (13.13%) Analyst
1 73 (13.13%) Architect
2 58 (10.43%) Developer
3 49 (8.81%) Lead
4 39 (7.01%) Business Analyst
5 38 (6.83%) Senior
6 33 (5.94%) Consultant
7 28 (5.04%) Project Manager
8 21 (3.78%) Solutions Architect
9 16 (2.88%) Security Engineer
10 15 (2.70%) Network Engineer
11 14 (2.52%) Data Analyst
11 14 (2.52%) Security Architect
12 13 (2.34%) Technical Architect
12 13 (2.34%) Tester
13 11 (1.98%) Software Engineer
13 11 (1.98%) Technical Analyst
14 10 (1.80%) Cloud Engineer
14 10 (1.80%) Data Engineer
14 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 (54.86%) Data Protection Act
2 28 (5.04%) 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 11 (1.98%) NHS
8 10 (1.80%) Equities
9 9 (1.62%) CMDB
9 9 (1.62%) Fixed Income
10 8 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.26%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.26%) Freedom of Information
12 6 (1.08%) Data Centre
12 6 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.08%) Mobile App
12 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
1 113 (20.32%) Agile
2 99 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
2 99 (17.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 68 (12.23%) Analytics
4 67 (12.05%) Migration
5 64 (11.51%) AI
6 63 (11.33%) CI/CD
6 63 (11.33%) DevOps
7 55 (9.89%) Risk Management
8 53 (9.53%) Roadmaps
9 51 (9.17%) Continuous Improvement
10 49 (8.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 48 (8.63%) Cybersecurity
11 48 (8.63%) Decision-Making
12 39 (7.01%) Test Automation
13 38 (6.83%) Data Governance
13 38 (6.83%) Microservices
14 37 (6.65%) Business Intelligence
15 36 (6.47%) Incident Response
15 36 (6.47%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 109 (19.60%) Python
2 94 (16.91%) SQL
3 43 (7.73%) Java
4 37 (6.65%) C#
4 37 (6.65%) 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 (12.59%) Security Cleared
2 60 (10.79%) SC Cleared
3 50 (8.99%) 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%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (13.67%) GDPR
2 37 (6.65%) NIST
3 32 (5.76%) 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 8 (1.44%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (1.44%) SLA
8 7 (1.26%) PMO
9 6 (1.08%) PERC
10 5 (0.90%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.72%) COBIT
11 4 (0.72%) GAAP
11 4 (0.72%) IFRS
11 4 (0.72%) NCSC
12 3 (0.54%) Basel III
12 3 (0.54%) IFRS 9
12 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 (5.94%) Kubernetes
2 28 (5.04%) 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 76 (13.67%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.32%) Google
2 24 (4.32%) Oracle
3 22 (3.96%) Databricks
3 22 (3.96%) ServiceNow
4 21 (3.78%) SAP
5 15 (2.70%) Salesforce
6 11 (1.98%) Citrix
7 10 (1.80%) Adobe
7 10 (1.80%) Cisco
8 9 (1.62%) Workday
9 8 (1.44%) Nokia
10 7 (1.26%) ADVA
10 7 (1.26%) F5
10 7 (1.26%) VMware
11 6 (1.08%) IBM
11 6 (1.08%) Rapid7
12 5 (0.90%) Apple
12 5 (0.90%) Informatica
12 5 (0.90%) Red Hat