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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 93 96
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 +10
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 604 368 450
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.13% 2.85% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.53% 3.09% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 170 261
10th Percentile £258 £257 £250
25th Percentile £375 £361 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £647 £638 £638
90th Percentile £775 £738 £775
England median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -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 £21.72 £28.32 £19.50
% change year-on-year -23.32% +45.23% -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 17,131 11,893 15,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 92.25% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,394 7,948 11,029
10th Percentile £360 £333 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% - -6.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £685
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 223 303
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.59
25th Percentile £23.91 £24.66 £20.01
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -26.42%
75th Percentile £59.00 £49.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.20 £68.60
England median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.48% -34.02% +1.65%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -5 39 £550 -4.30% 37
South London -2 12 £525 -28.45% 7
West London -15 7 £475 +31.03% 8
East London +4 5 £432 - 8
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 (2.65%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.15%) Confluence
3 11 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.49%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.83%) Apache
6 5 (0.83%) IIS
7 3 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.50%) SAS
8 2 (0.33%) CMS
8 2 (0.33%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.17%) Drupal
9 1 (0.17%) Luigi
9 1 (0.17%) Mule
9 1 (0.17%) nginx
9 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (2.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.66%) UserZoom
5 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.16%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.50%) SAP Payroll
3 3 (0.50%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.17%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.17%) Endur
4 1 (0.17%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.17%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.17%) Magento
4 1 (0.17%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.17%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 139 (23.01%) Azure
2 102 (16.89%) AWS
3 52 (8.61%) GCP
4 39 (6.46%) Microsoft 365
5 37 (6.13%) Entra ID
6 32 (5.30%) SaaS
7 29 (4.80%) Microsoft Purview
8 22 (3.64%) Power Platform
9 18 (2.98%) GitHub
10 16 (2.65%) Snowflake
11 13 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (1.99%) Azure Logic Apps
12 12 (1.99%) Azure Sentinel
12 12 (1.99%) Microsoft Copilot
12 12 (1.99%) Serverless
13 11 (1.82%) Amazon S3
13 11 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (1.66%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (1.32%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 38 (6.29%) Network Security
2 21 (3.48%) 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 (0.99%) NAS
5 6 (0.99%) VLAN
5 6 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.83%) Cisco IPT
6 5 (0.83%) Ethernet
6 5 (0.83%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (0.66%) DHCP
7 4 (0.66%) DNS
7 4 (0.66%) HTTP
7 4 (0.66%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.31%) Metadata
2 18 (2.98%) Power BI
3 14 (2.32%) NoSQL
3 14 (2.32%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (1.66%) Big Data
6 9 (1.49%) MongoDB
6 9 (1.49%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.32%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (1.16%) BigQuery
8 7 (1.16%) MySQL
9 6 (0.99%) SQL Server
9 6 (0.99%) Tableau
10 5 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.66%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (0.66%) Delta Lake
11 4 (0.66%) Pinecone
11 4 (0.66%) Weaviate
12 3 (0.50%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 38 (6.29%) JIRA
2 27 (4.47%) Git
3 11 (1.82%) GitLab
4 10 (1.66%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.99%) SpecFlow
6 4 (0.66%) ERwin
6 4 (0.66%) Gradle
6 4 (0.66%) JUnit
6 4 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.50%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.50%) Maven
7 3 (0.50%) Selenium
8 2 (0.33%) CMake
8 2 (0.33%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.33%) Postman
8 2 (0.33%) Vite
9 1 (0.17%) Mocha
9 1 (0.17%) Mockito
9 1 (0.17%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.17%) TestNG
General
1 178 (29.47%) Social Skills
2 164 (27.15%) Finance
3 66 (10.93%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (10.93%) Banking
4 49 (8.11%) Legal
4 49 (8.11%) Public Sector
5 28 (4.64%) Documentation Skills
6 25 (4.14%) Front Office
7 16 (2.65%) Telecoms
8 15 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (1.99%) Local Government
11 11 (1.82%) Investment Banking
11 11 (1.82%) Marketing
11 11 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
11 11 (1.82%) Retail
12 10 (1.66%) Billing
13 7 (1.16%) Law
13 7 (1.16%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 99 (16.39%) Architect
2 72 (11.92%) Analyst
3 48 (7.95%) Developer
4 46 (7.62%) Senior
5 36 (5.96%) Business Analyst
6 35 (5.79%) Lead
7 33 (5.46%) Project Manager
8 29 (4.80%) Consultant
9 28 (4.64%) Solutions Architect
10 26 (4.30%) Security Architect
11 24 (3.97%) Security Engineer
12 19 (3.15%) Network Engineer
13 17 (2.81%) Data Engineer
14 14 (2.32%) Java Developer
15 12 (1.99%) Cloud Engineer
15 12 (1.99%) IT Support
16 11 (1.82%) Data Analyst
16 11 (1.82%) Junior
16 11 (1.82%) Product Manager
17 10 (1.66%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (4.97%) REST
2 18 (2.98%) React
3 15 (2.48%) .NET
3 15 (2.48%) Spring
4 14 (2.32%) Middleware
5 13 (2.15%) RESTful
6 12 (1.99%) GraphQL
7 11 (1.82%) HTML
7 11 (1.82%) OAuth
8 10 (1.66%) CSS
8 10 (1.66%) Kafka
8 10 (1.66%) Spring Boot
9 9 (1.49%) Playwright
10 7 (1.16%) JSON
10 7 (1.16%) OAuth2
10 7 (1.16%) OpenID
11 6 (0.99%) SAML
12 5 (0.83%) LDAP
12 5 (0.83%) Node.js
12 5 (0.83%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 291 (48.18%) Data Protection Act
2 50 (8.28%) Cloud Native
3 30 (4.97%) Onboarding
3 30 (4.97%) Product Ownership
4 25 (4.14%) Security Posture
5 19 (3.15%) Management Information System
5 19 (3.15%) Virtual Team
6 14 (2.32%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (1.99%) Data Centre
7 12 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 11 (1.82%) Derivative
8 11 (1.82%) Mobile App
9 9 (1.49%) Operational Technology
9 9 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.16%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.16%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 40 (6.62%) Windows
2 18 (2.98%) Linux
3 15 (2.48%) Android
4 11 (1.82%) Apple iOS
4 11 (1.82%) Unix
5 7 (1.16%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.99%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.50%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.17%) Rocky
9 1 (0.17%) Solaris
9 1 (0.17%) VMS
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (19.54%) Agile
2 97 (16.06%) Stakeholder Management
3 86 (14.24%) CI/CD
3 86 (14.24%) Continuous Improvement
4 83 (13.74%) Problem-Solving
5 81 (13.41%) AI
6 79 (13.08%) DevOps
7 77 (12.75%) Cybersecurity
8 71 (11.75%) Migration
9 65 (10.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 64 (10.60%) Analytics
11 61 (10.10%) Roadmaps
12 58 (9.60%) Data Governance
13 54 (8.94%) Risk Management
14 51 (8.44%) Decision-Making
14 51 (8.44%) Information Security
15 46 (7.62%) Cloud Security
16 43 (7.12%) Test Automation
17 40 (6.62%) Data Modelling
18 38 (6.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 84 (13.91%) Python
2 64 (10.60%) Java
3 61 (10.10%) SQL
4 19 (3.15%) JavaScript
5 16 (2.65%) C#
6 15 (2.48%) TypeScript
7 14 (2.32%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.49%) Kotlin
9 7 (1.16%) Apex Code
9 7 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (0.99%) Bash
10 6 (0.99%) Scala
11 4 (0.66%) C++
11 4 (0.66%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.50%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.33%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.33%) Go
13 2 (0.33%) R
13 2 (0.33%) RPG
14 1 (0.17%) Swift
Qualifications
1 82 (13.58%) Security Cleared
2 68 (11.26%) SC Cleared
3 58 (9.60%) Degree
4 39 (6.46%) CISSP
5 18 (2.98%) CISM
6 16 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.32%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (1.99%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.99%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.99%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.82%) Master's Degree
9 11 (1.82%) PMI Certification
10 10 (1.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 10 (1.66%) PMP
11 9 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (1.32%) CCSP
12 8 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (1.16%) CISA
13 7 (1.16%) CRISC
14 5 (0.83%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (15.73%) GDPR
2 40 (6.62%) NIST
3 36 (5.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 34 (5.63%) Data Quality
5 33 (5.46%) QA
6 20 (3.31%) GRC
7 19 (3.15%) PCI DSS
8 15 (2.48%) Accessibility
9 13 (2.15%) PMO
10 11 (1.82%) SLA
11 9 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.99%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.99%) 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%) NIST 800
System Software
1 33 (5.46%) Active Directory
2 27 (4.47%) 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 37 (6.13%) Kubernetes
2 25 (4.14%) Terraform
3 16 (2.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (1.99%) SCCM
4 12 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (1.82%) Ansible
6 10 (1.66%) Grafana
7 8 (1.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 7 (1.16%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.83%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.66%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.66%) Kibana
10 4 (0.66%) PingFederate
11 3 (0.50%) NetBackup
11 3 (0.50%) QRadar
12 2 (0.33%) Avamar
12 2 (0.33%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (0.33%) Packer
12 2 (0.33%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.17%) Istio
Vendors
1 106 (17.55%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.30%) ServiceNow
3 24 (3.97%) Oracle
4 21 (3.48%) Google
5 20 (3.31%) Cisco
6 17 (2.81%) Databricks
6 17 (2.81%) Salesforce
7 13 (2.15%) Zscaler
8 12 (1.99%) Splunk
9 7 (1.16%) Palo Alto
9 7 (1.16%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.16%) SAP
9 7 (1.16%) Workday
10 6 (0.99%) Adobe
10 6 (0.99%) F5
10 6 (0.99%) Nokia
10 6 (0.99%) OpenAI
10 6 (0.99%) VMware
11 5 (0.83%) Aruba
11 5 (0.83%) CyberArk