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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 84 98
Rank change year-on-year -10 +14 -2
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 615 445 434
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.06% 3.32% 2.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.44% 3.59% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 218 247
10th Percentile £300 £289 £238
25th Percentile £383 £389 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £641 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £725 £743
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 £19.70 £25.84
% change year-on-year -9.39% -23.76% -37.91%

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 17,897 12,384 14,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.53% 88.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,693 8,242 9,970
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 £787 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 255 193
10th Percentile £17.23 £16.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% -10.03% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.63 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -7 48 £551 +1.94% 49
South London -14 8 £525 -28.45% 3
West London -17 8 £475 +23.38% 12
East London - 4 £410 - 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 16 (2.60%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.46%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.30%) Confluence
5 6 (0.98%) Apache
6 5 (0.81%) IIS
7 3 (0.49%) CMS
7 3 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.49%) SAS
8 2 (0.33%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.33%) WordPress
9 1 (0.16%) CICS
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 (3.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.81%) 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 (0.81%) 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%) 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%) Endur
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
1 143 (23.25%) Azure
2 113 (18.37%) AWS
3 51 (8.29%) GCP
4 36 (5.85%) SaaS
5 34 (5.53%) Microsoft 365
6 32 (5.20%) Entra ID
7 29 (4.72%) Microsoft Purview
8 26 (4.23%) Power Platform
9 22 (3.58%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (3.41%) GitHub
10 21 (3.41%) Serverless
11 15 (2.44%) Microsoft Copilot
12 14 (2.28%) Azure Logic Apps
13 13 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (2.11%) Snowflake
14 11 (1.79%) Amazon S3
14 11 (1.79%) OneDrive
15 10 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
15 10 (1.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 9 (1.46%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 45 (7.32%) Network Security
2 24 (3.90%) Firewall
3 14 (2.28%) Cisco IPT
4 11 (1.79%) DNS
5 10 (1.63%) VPN
5 10 (1.63%) Wireless
6 9 (1.46%) DHCP
7 8 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (1.14%) LAN
8 7 (1.14%) SSL
8 7 (1.14%) TCP/IP
8 7 (1.14%) WAN
9 6 (0.98%) Cisco Nexus
9 6 (0.98%) SAN
10 5 (0.81%) HTTPS
10 5 (0.81%) MPLS
11 4 (0.65%) HTTP
11 4 (0.65%) NAS
12 3 (0.49%) Cisco ISE
12 3 (0.49%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.58%) Metadata
2 20 (3.25%) Power BI
3 16 (2.60%) NoSQL
3 16 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (1.63%) Big Data
5 10 (1.63%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.46%) MySQL
7 8 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (1.14%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.14%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.81%) SQL Server
9 5 (0.81%) Tableau
10 4 (0.65%) Apache Hudi
10 4 (0.65%) Delta Lake
10 4 (0.65%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.65%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.49%) Pinecone
11 3 (0.49%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 32 (5.20%) JIRA
2 22 (3.58%) Git
3 12 (1.95%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.30%) GitLab
5 4 (0.65%) ERwin
5 4 (0.65%) Gradle
5 4 (0.65%) Selenium
6 3 (0.49%) ER Studio
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%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.33%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.33%) Vite
7 2 (0.33%) XCUITest
8 1 (0.16%) Appium
8 1 (0.16%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.16%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.16%) Zephyr
General
1 213 (34.63%) Social Skills
2 161 (26.18%) Finance
3 68 (11.06%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (10.89%) Public Sector
5 65 (10.57%) Banking
6 61 (9.92%) Legal
7 35 (5.69%) Documentation Skills
8 30 (4.88%) Front Office
9 18 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (2.28%) Retail
12 13 (2.11%) Marketing
12 13 (2.11%) Pharmaceutical
13 12 (1.95%) Billing
13 12 (1.95%) Telecoms
14 11 (1.79%) Local Government
15 10 (1.63%) Law
15 10 (1.63%) Police
16 9 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 107 (17.40%) Architect
2 74 (12.03%) Analyst
3 48 (7.80%) Developer
4 45 (7.32%) Senior
5 44 (7.15%) Lead
6 33 (5.37%) Consultant
6 33 (5.37%) Security Architect
7 32 (5.20%) Business Analyst
8 30 (4.88%) Project Manager
9 25 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
10 17 (2.76%) Security Engineer
11 14 (2.28%) Data Engineer
12 13 (2.11%) Product Manager
13 12 (1.95%) Java Developer
13 12 (1.95%) Junior
13 12 (1.95%) Network Engineer
14 11 (1.79%) Data Protection Officer
15 10 (1.63%) Data Analyst
15 10 (1.63%) Enterprise Architect
16 9 (1.46%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (5.04%) REST
2 24 (3.90%) Terraform
3 14 (2.28%) OAuth
4 13 (2.11%) React
5 12 (1.95%) Middleware
5 12 (1.95%) RESTful
5 12 (1.95%) Spring
6 11 (1.79%) GraphQL
7 10 (1.63%) .NET
7 10 (1.63%) CSS
7 10 (1.63%) HTML
8 9 (1.46%) Spring Boot
9 7 (1.14%) JSON
9 7 (1.14%) Kafka
9 7 (1.14%) Lightning Web Components
9 7 (1.14%) OAuth2
9 7 (1.14%) OpenID
9 7 (1.14%) SAML
10 6 (0.98%) Playwright
10 6 (0.98%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 288 (46.83%) Data Protection Act
2 44 (7.15%) Cloud Native
3 38 (6.18%) Product Ownership
4 35 (5.69%) Onboarding
5 28 (4.55%) Management Information System
6 27 (4.39%) Security Posture
7 19 (3.09%) Virtual Team
8 18 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
9 16 (2.60%) Data Centre
10 14 (2.28%) Derivative
11 10 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (1.63%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.63%) NHS
12 9 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.30%) Fixed Income
13 8 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
13 8 (1.30%) Operational Technology
14 7 (1.14%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 44 (7.15%) Windows
2 23 (3.74%) Linux
3 13 (2.11%) Android
4 12 (1.95%) Unix
5 10 (1.63%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.14%) Windows 10
7 7 (1.14%) Windows Server
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
1 129 (20.98%) Stakeholder Management
2 111 (18.05%) Agile
3 102 (16.59%) AI
4 94 (15.28%) Continuous Improvement
5 91 (14.80%) CI/CD
6 86 (13.98%) Cybersecurity
7 84 (13.66%) DevOps
8 81 (13.17%) Problem-Solving
9 78 (12.68%) Data Governance
9 78 (12.68%) Migration
10 76 (12.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 67 (10.89%) Analytics
11 67 (10.89%) Roadmaps
12 64 (10.41%) Information Security
13 59 (9.59%) Decision-Making
14 58 (9.43%) Risk Management
15 50 (8.13%) Data Modelling
16 47 (7.64%) Cloud Security
17 44 (7.15%) Test Automation
18 42 (6.83%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 72 (11.71%) Python
2 60 (9.76%) SQL
3 48 (7.80%) Java
4 20 (3.25%) PowerShell
5 16 (2.60%) JavaScript
6 12 (1.95%) TypeScript
7 10 (1.63%) Kotlin
8 9 (1.46%) Apex Code
8 9 (1.46%) C#
9 7 (1.14%) C++
10 6 (0.98%) Bash
10 6 (0.98%) Scala
11 5 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (0.65%) C
12 4 (0.65%) Perl
13 3 (0.49%) COBOL
13 3 (0.49%) VBScript
14 2 (0.33%) PHP
14 2 (0.33%) REXX
14 2 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 77 (12.52%) Security Cleared
2 57 (9.27%) SC Cleared
3 50 (8.13%) Degree
4 42 (6.83%) CISSP
5 25 (4.07%) CISM
6 18 (2.93%) DV Cleared
7 15 (2.44%) PMI Certification
8 14 (2.28%) PMP
9 13 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (1.95%) Azure Certification
11 10 (1.63%) AWS Certification
12 9 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.98%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (0.81%) CISA
16 4 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 4 (0.65%) CCNP
16 4 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (17.07%) GDPR
2 43 (6.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 39 (6.34%) Data Quality
4 34 (5.53%) NIST
5 33 (5.37%) QA
6 20 (3.25%) Accessibility
7 18 (2.93%) GRC
8 13 (2.11%) PCI DSS
9 12 (1.95%) PMO
10 9 (1.46%) PERC
11 8 (1.30%) Government Security Classifications
11 8 (1.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 8 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.98%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.98%) NCSC
13 6 (0.98%) SLA
14 5 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
15 4 (0.65%) COBIT
System Software
1 34 (5.53%) Active Directory
2 19 (3.09%) Docker
3 4 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.33%) Firmware
4 2 (0.33%) Varnish
4 2 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.16%) NFS
5 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (4.72%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (1.79%) Ansible
3 11 (1.79%) SCCM
4 10 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (1.46%) Grafana
6 5 (0.81%) CA Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.81%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.65%) NetBackup
7 4 (0.65%) PingFederate
7 4 (0.65%) Puppet
8 3 (0.49%) EMC NetWorker
8 3 (0.49%) Kibana
8 3 (0.49%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.49%) QRadar
9 2 (0.33%) Avamar
9 2 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.33%) Packer
10 1 (0.16%) Istio
Vendors
1 118 (19.19%) Microsoft
2 37 (6.02%) ServiceNow
3 24 (3.90%) Oracle
4 23 (3.74%) Cisco
5 18 (2.93%) Salesforce
6 17 (2.76%) Google
7 15 (2.44%) Databricks
8 13 (2.11%) Zscaler
9 12 (1.95%) Splunk
10 8 (1.30%) Red Hat
11 6 (0.98%) CyberArk
11 6 (0.98%) Murex
11 6 (0.98%) Palo Alto
11 6 (0.98%) VMware
12 5 (0.81%) Aruba
12 5 (0.81%) Bloomberg
12 5 (0.81%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.81%) F5
12 5 (0.81%) NetApp
12 5 (0.81%) Ping Identity