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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 83 100
Rank change year-on-year -15 +17 -5
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 612 442 433
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.05% 3.30% 2.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.42% 3.57% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 219 245
10th Percentile £300 £289 £236
25th Percentile £385 £393 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £635
90th Percentile £749 £725 £738
England median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 5
10th Percentile £14.25 £27.05 £27.14
25th Percentile £16.93 £28.62 £27.84
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.74 £44.08
Median % change year-on-year -11.78% -27.99% -16.04%
75th Percentile £33.60 £34.36 £71.88
90th Percentile £36.96 £35.63 -
England median hourly rate £17.85 £19.00 £26.84
% change year-on-year -6.05% -29.21% -35.50%

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 17,877 12,377 14,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.04% 92.46% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,691 8,233 9,872
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 255 194
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.00 £17.33
25th Percentile £19.98 £24.89 £22.28
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.53 £63.75 £71.69
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -6 47 £557 +3.06% 65
West London -14 8 £475 +23.38% 16
South London -17 8 £525 -28.45% 7
East London - 4 £410 - 3
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 (2.61%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.31%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.31%) Confluence
5 6 (0.98%) Apache
6 5 (0.82%) IIS
7 3 (0.49%) CMS
7 3 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.49%) SAS
8 2 (0.33%) CICS
8 2 (0.33%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.33%) WordPress
9 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.16%) Drupal
9 1 (0.16%) Luigi
9 1 (0.16%) Moodle
9 1 (0.16%) nginx
9 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
Applications
1 20 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.65%) UserZoom
5 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.14%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.82%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.49%) Unit4 Business World
5 2 (0.33%) Endur
5 2 (0.33%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.33%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.16%) Actimize
6 1 (0.16%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.16%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.16%) Magento
6 1 (0.16%) Misys Equation
6 1 (0.16%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle BRM
6 1 (0.16%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.16%) SAP FI-CA
6 1 (0.16%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 144 (23.53%) Azure
2 116 (18.95%) AWS
3 54 (8.82%) GCP
4 37 (6.05%) SaaS
5 34 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
6 29 (4.74%) Entra ID
6 29 (4.74%) Microsoft Purview
7 24 (3.92%) Power Platform
8 23 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (3.76%) GitHub
9 21 (3.43%) Serverless
10 15 (2.45%) Microsoft Copilot
11 14 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (2.12%) Azure Logic Apps
13 12 (1.96%) Amazon S3
13 12 (1.96%) Snowflake
14 11 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (1.80%) OneDrive
14 11 (1.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (1.63%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 43 (7.03%) Network Security
2 23 (3.76%) Firewall
3 13 (2.12%) Cisco IPT
4 11 (1.80%) DNS
5 10 (1.63%) VPN
5 10 (1.63%) Wireless
6 9 (1.47%) DHCP
7 8 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (1.14%) LAN
8 7 (1.14%) SSL
8 7 (1.14%) TCP/IP
8 7 (1.14%) WAN
9 5 (0.82%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (0.82%) HTTPS
9 5 (0.82%) MPLS
10 4 (0.65%) HTTP
10 4 (0.65%) SAN
11 3 (0.49%) DMZ
11 3 (0.49%) OSPF
11 3 (0.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.59%) Metadata
2 19 (3.10%) Power BI
3 18 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (2.61%) NoSQL
5 14 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (1.80%) MySQL
7 10 (1.63%) Big Data
7 10 (1.63%) Relational Database
8 8 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (1.14%) Data Lake
10 6 (0.98%) MongoDB
10 6 (0.98%) SQL Server
11 5 (0.82%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.82%) Tableau
12 4 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.65%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (0.65%) Delta Lake
12 4 (0.65%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.49%) Pinecone
13 3 (0.49%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 32 (5.23%) JIRA
2 21 (3.43%) Git
3 14 (2.29%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.31%) GitLab
5 4 (0.65%) ERwin
5 4 (0.65%) Selenium
6 3 (0.49%) ER Studio
6 3 (0.49%) Gradle
7 2 (0.33%) CMake
7 2 (0.33%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.33%) JUnit
7 2 (0.33%) Maven
7 2 (0.33%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.33%) Vite
7 2 (0.33%) XCUITest
8 1 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.16%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 216 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 162 (26.47%) Finance
3 68 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (10.95%) Banking
4 67 (10.95%) Public Sector
5 61 (9.97%) Legal
6 36 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (5.07%) Front Office
8 18 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
9 17 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (2.29%) Marketing
10 14 (2.29%) Retail
11 13 (2.12%) Pharmaceutical
12 12 (1.96%) Billing
12 12 (1.96%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.63%) Local Government
13 10 (1.63%) Police
14 9 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 9 (1.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 108 (17.65%) Architect
2 75 (12.25%) Analyst
3 47 (7.68%) Developer
4 46 (7.52%) Senior
5 41 (6.70%) Lead
6 34 (5.56%) Business Analyst
6 34 (5.56%) Security Architect
7 33 (5.39%) Consultant
8 30 (4.90%) Project Manager
9 27 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
10 16 (2.61%) Security Engineer
11 14 (2.29%) Data Engineer
12 13 (2.12%) Product Manager
13 12 (1.96%) Java Developer
13 12 (1.96%) Junior
14 11 (1.80%) Data Protection Officer
14 11 (1.80%) Network Engineer
15 10 (1.63%) Data Analyst
15 10 (1.63%) Enterprise Architect
16 9 (1.47%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (4.90%) REST
2 26 (4.25%) Terraform
3 15 (2.45%) OAuth
4 13 (2.12%) Middleware
4 13 (2.12%) React
4 13 (2.12%) RESTful
5 12 (1.96%) Spring
6 10 (1.63%) CSS
6 10 (1.63%) GraphQL
6 10 (1.63%) HTML
7 9 (1.47%) Spring Boot
8 8 (1.31%) Kafka
8 8 (1.31%) Lightning Web Components
8 8 (1.31%) OAuth2
8 8 (1.31%) OpenID
9 7 (1.14%) .NET
9 7 (1.14%) JSON
9 7 (1.14%) SAML
10 6 (0.98%) Pandas
10 6 (0.98%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 283 (46.24%) Data Protection Act
2 43 (7.03%) Cloud Native
3 38 (6.21%) Product Ownership
4 36 (5.88%) Onboarding
5 29 (4.74%) Management Information System
6 27 (4.41%) Security Posture
7 20 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
8 18 (2.94%) Virtual Team
9 14 (2.29%) Data Centre
9 14 (2.29%) Derivative
10 10 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.63%) NHS
11 9 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.31%) Fixed Income
12 8 (1.31%) Operational Technology
13 7 (1.14%) AI Agents
13 7 (1.14%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 43 (7.03%) Windows
2 21 (3.43%) Linux
3 13 (2.12%) Android
4 12 (1.96%) Unix
5 10 (1.63%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.31%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.14%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.65%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.33%) zOS
10 1 (0.16%) CentOS
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%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.16%) VMS
10 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (21.90%) Stakeholder Management
2 112 (18.30%) Agile
3 101 (16.50%) AI
4 95 (15.52%) Continuous Improvement
5 93 (15.20%) CI/CD
6 89 (14.54%) Cybersecurity
7 85 (13.89%) DevOps
8 81 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
9 78 (12.75%) Data Governance
9 78 (12.75%) Migration
10 77 (12.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 69 (11.27%) Roadmaps
12 65 (10.62%) Analytics
13 64 (10.46%) Information Security
14 60 (9.80%) Risk Management
15 59 (9.64%) Decision-Making
16 49 (8.01%) Cloud Security
17 47 (7.68%) Data Modelling
18 44 (7.19%) Test Automation
19 42 (6.86%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 72 (11.76%) Python
2 58 (9.48%) SQL
3 45 (7.35%) Java
4 21 (3.43%) PowerShell
5 16 (2.61%) JavaScript
6 12 (1.96%) TypeScript
7 10 (1.63%) Apex Code
8 9 (1.47%) Kotlin
9 8 (1.31%) C#
10 7 (1.14%) Bash
10 7 (1.14%) C++
11 6 (0.98%) Scala
12 5 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.65%) C
13 4 (0.65%) Perl
14 3 (0.49%) COBOL
14 3 (0.49%) VBScript
15 2 (0.33%) PHP
15 2 (0.33%) REXX
15 2 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 77 (12.58%) Security Cleared
2 57 (9.31%) SC Cleared
3 51 (8.33%) Degree
4 45 (7.35%) CISSP
5 28 (4.58%) CISM
6 18 (2.94%) DV Cleared
7 15 (2.45%) PMI Certification
8 14 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.29%) PMP
9 12 (1.96%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (1.63%) AWS Certification
12 8 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (1.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.98%) CISA
15 5 (0.82%) CRISC
15 5 (0.82%) DBS Check
16 4 (0.65%) CCNP
16 4 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (16.83%) GDPR
2 45 (7.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 39 (6.37%) Data Quality
4 35 (5.72%) NIST
5 32 (5.23%) QA
6 19 (3.10%) Accessibility
6 19 (3.10%) GRC
7 14 (2.29%) PCI DSS
8 12 (1.96%) PMO
9 10 (1.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (1.31%) Government Security Classifications
10 8 (1.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 8 (1.31%) PERC
11 6 (0.98%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.98%) SLA
12 5 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.82%) NCSC
13 4 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.65%) COBIT
System Software
1 31 (5.07%) Active Directory
2 21 (3.43%) Docker
3 4 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.33%) Firmware
5 2 (0.33%) Varnish
6 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.16%) NFS
6 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (4.90%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (1.80%) SCCM
4 10 (1.63%) Ansible
4 10 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (1.47%) Grafana
6 5 (0.82%) CA Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.82%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.65%) PingFederate
7 4 (0.65%) Puppet
8 3 (0.49%) Kibana
8 3 (0.49%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.49%) QRadar
9 2 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.33%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.33%) Packer
9 2 (0.33%) SCOM
10 1 (0.16%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.16%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 117 (19.12%) Microsoft
2 38 (6.21%) ServiceNow
3 25 (4.08%) Oracle
4 22 (3.59%) Cisco
5 19 (3.10%) Google
5 19 (3.10%) Salesforce
6 15 (2.45%) Databricks
7 13 (2.12%) Splunk
7 13 (2.12%) Zscaler
8 7 (1.14%) Red Hat
9 6 (0.98%) CyberArk
9 6 (0.98%) Murex
10 5 (0.82%) Aruba
10 5 (0.82%) Bloomberg
10 5 (0.82%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (0.82%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.82%) Palo Alto
10 5 (0.82%) Ping Identity
10 5 (0.82%) Workday
11 4 (0.65%) BeyondTrust