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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 96 99
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 +1
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 617 387 455
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.15% 2.90% 2.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.55% 3.14% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 177 264
10th Percentile £263 £260 £245
25th Percentile £382 £360 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £775 £738 £768
England median daily rate £500 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +4.44% -4.25% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 12
10th Percentile £20.40 £26.15 -
25th Percentile £25.66 £26.88 £11.95
Median hourly rate £30.31 £30.81 £22.59
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +36.37% -56.97%
75th Percentile £34.30 £34.94 £62.50
90th Percentile £37.70 £36.69 £70.94
England median hourly rate £21.72 £29.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -26.39% +51.28% -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 17,398 12,312 15,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.95% 92.16% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,552 8,218 11,064
10th Percentile £358 £331 £340
25th Percentile £440 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £524 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 230 293
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.96
25th Percentile £22.91 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.73% +7.50% -27.31%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £68.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -4.70%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -4 40 £550 -4.35% 37
South London -7 12 £525 -28.45% 11
West London -15 8 £475 +31.03% 8
East London +3 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 15 (2.43%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.11%) Confluence
3 11 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.46%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.97%) Apache
7 5 (0.81%) IIS
8 3 (0.49%) CMS
8 3 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.49%) SAS
9 2 (0.32%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.16%) Drupal
10 1 (0.16%) Luigi
10 1 (0.16%) Mule
10 1 (0.16%) nginx
10 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.65%) UserZoom
5 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.32%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.13%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.97%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.49%) SAP Payroll
3 3 (0.49%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.16%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.16%) Endur
4 1 (0.16%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.16%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.16%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.16%) Magento
4 1 (0.16%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.16%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 143 (23.18%) Azure
2 106 (17.18%) AWS
3 54 (8.75%) GCP
4 39 (6.32%) Microsoft 365
5 37 (6.00%) Entra ID
6 35 (5.67%) SaaS
7 29 (4.70%) Microsoft Purview
8 22 (3.57%) Power Platform
9 19 (3.08%) GitHub
10 16 (2.59%) Snowflake
11 15 (2.43%) Serverless
12 13 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (1.94%) Azure Logic Apps
13 12 (1.94%) Azure Sentinel
13 12 (1.94%) Microsoft Copilot
14 11 (1.78%) Amazon S3
14 11 (1.78%) AWS Lambda
15 10 (1.62%) Amazon ECS
15 10 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
16 8 (1.30%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 39 (6.32%) Network Security
2 21 (3.40%) Firewall
3 9 (1.46%) MPLS
4 8 (1.30%) WAN
4 8 (1.30%) Wireless
5 7 (1.13%) SAN
5 7 (1.13%) SSL
5 7 (1.13%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.13%) VPN
5 7 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (0.97%) Cisco IPT
6 6 (0.97%) LAN
6 6 (0.97%) NAS
6 6 (0.97%) VLAN
7 5 (0.81%) Cisco Nexus
7 5 (0.81%) Ethernet
7 5 (0.81%) HTTPS
8 4 (0.65%) DHCP
8 4 (0.65%) DNS
8 4 (0.65%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.08%) Metadata
2 18 (2.92%) Power BI
3 16 (2.59%) NoSQL
4 14 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (1.62%) Big Data
7 9 (1.46%) Data Lake
7 9 (1.46%) MongoDB
7 9 (1.46%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (1.13%) BigQuery
8 7 (1.13%) MySQL
9 6 (0.97%) SQL Server
9 6 (0.97%) Tableau
10 5 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.65%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (0.65%) Delta Lake
11 4 (0.65%) Pinecone
11 4 (0.65%) Weaviate
12 3 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 37 (6.00%) JIRA
2 27 (4.38%) Git
3 11 (1.78%) GitLab
4 10 (1.62%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.97%) SpecFlow
6 4 (0.65%) ERwin
6 4 (0.65%) Gradle
6 4 (0.65%) JUnit
6 4 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.49%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.49%) Maven
7 3 (0.49%) Selenium
8 2 (0.32%) CMake
8 2 (0.32%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.32%) Postman
8 2 (0.32%) Vite
8 2 (0.32%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.16%) Mockito
9 1 (0.16%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 180 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 169 (27.39%) Finance
3 68 (11.02%) Banking
4 67 (10.86%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (8.27%) Public Sector
6 50 (8.10%) Legal
7 29 (4.70%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (4.21%) Front Office
9 16 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
9 16 (2.59%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.27%) Marketing
10 14 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (1.94%) Billing
12 12 (1.94%) Local Government
12 12 (1.94%) Retail
13 11 (1.78%) Investment Banking
13 11 (1.78%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (1.30%) Law
15 7 (1.13%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 103 (16.69%) Architect
2 74 (11.99%) Analyst
3 49 (7.94%) Developer
4 46 (7.46%) Senior
5 37 (6.00%) Business Analyst
6 35 (5.67%) Lead
7 32 (5.19%) Consultant
7 32 (5.19%) Project Manager
8 29 (4.70%) Solutions Architect
9 27 (4.38%) Security Architect
10 24 (3.89%) Security Engineer
11 18 (2.92%) Network Engineer
12 17 (2.76%) Data Engineer
13 14 (2.27%) Java Developer
14 13 (2.11%) IT Support
15 12 (1.94%) Cloud Engineer
16 11 (1.78%) Data Analyst
16 11 (1.78%) Junior
17 10 (1.62%) Product Manager
17 10 (1.62%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (5.35%) REST
2 18 (2.92%) React
3 15 (2.43%) .NET
3 15 (2.43%) Spring
4 14 (2.27%) Middleware
5 13 (2.11%) RESTful
6 12 (1.94%) GraphQL
6 12 (1.94%) OAuth
7 11 (1.78%) HTML
8 10 (1.62%) CSS
8 10 (1.62%) Kafka
8 10 (1.62%) Spring Boot
9 9 (1.46%) Playwright
10 8 (1.30%) JSON
11 7 (1.13%) OAuth2
11 7 (1.13%) OpenID
11 7 (1.13%) SAML
12 6 (0.97%) Lightning Web Components
12 6 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
13 5 (0.81%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 297 (48.14%) Data Protection Act
2 51 (8.27%) Cloud Native
3 29 (4.70%) Onboarding
3 29 (4.70%) Product Ownership
4 27 (4.38%) Security Posture
5 19 (3.08%) Virtual Team
6 17 (2.76%) Management Information System
7 15 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
8 14 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 13 (2.11%) Data Centre
10 12 (1.94%) Derivative
10 12 (1.94%) Mobile App
11 9 (1.46%) Operational Technology
11 9 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
12 8 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (1.13%) Data Structures
13 7 (1.13%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 42 (6.81%) Windows
2 17 (2.76%) Linux
3 15 (2.43%) Android
4 12 (1.94%) Apple iOS
5 11 (1.78%) Unix
6 7 (1.13%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.97%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.49%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.16%) Rocky
10 1 (0.16%) Solaris
10 1 (0.16%) VMS
10 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (18.80%) Agile
2 99 (16.05%) Stakeholder Management
3 87 (14.10%) CI/CD
3 87 (14.10%) Continuous Improvement
4 85 (13.78%) AI
5 82 (13.29%) Problem-Solving
6 80 (12.97%) DevOps
7 78 (12.64%) Cybersecurity
8 75 (12.16%) Migration
9 67 (10.86%) Analytics
10 65 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 62 (10.05%) Roadmaps
12 58 (9.40%) Data Governance
13 56 (9.08%) Information Security
13 56 (9.08%) Risk Management
14 53 (8.59%) Decision-Making
15 47 (7.62%) Cloud Security
16 44 (7.13%) Test Automation
17 43 (6.97%) Data Modelling
18 39 (6.32%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 85 (13.78%) Python
2 64 (10.37%) Java
3 63 (10.21%) SQL
4 19 (3.08%) JavaScript
5 16 (2.59%) C#
5 16 (2.59%) TypeScript
6 14 (2.27%) PowerShell
7 9 (1.46%) Kotlin
8 8 (1.30%) Apex Code
9 7 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (0.97%) Bash
10 6 (0.97%) Scala
11 4 (0.65%) C++
11 4 (0.65%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.32%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.32%) Go
12 2 (0.32%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.32%) R
12 2 (0.32%) RPG
12 2 (0.32%) Swift
Qualifications
1 80 (12.97%) Security Cleared
2 67 (10.86%) SC Cleared
3 57 (9.24%) Degree
4 39 (6.32%) CISSP
5 18 (2.92%) CISM
6 16 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (1.94%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.94%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.94%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 10 (1.62%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.62%) PMI Certification
10 9 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.46%) PMP
11 8 (1.30%) CCSP
11 8 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (1.13%) CISA
13 6 (0.97%) CRISC
14 5 (0.81%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (15.40%) GDPR
2 40 (6.48%) NIST
3 35 (5.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 34 (5.51%) QA
5 33 (5.35%) Data Quality
6 20 (3.24%) GRC
6 20 (3.24%) PCI DSS
7 15 (2.43%) PMO
8 14 (2.27%) Accessibility
9 11 (1.78%) SLA
10 9 (1.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.97%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.97%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.81%) NCSC
13 4 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.65%) PERC
14 3 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.32%) ISO 31000
15 2 (0.32%) NIST 800
System Software
1 33 (5.35%) Active Directory
2 27 (4.38%) Docker
3 5 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.16%) Firmware
6 1 (0.16%) NFS
6 1 (0.16%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 39 (6.32%) Kubernetes
2 25 (4.05%) Terraform
3 16 (2.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (1.94%) SCCM
4 12 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (1.78%) Ansible
6 10 (1.62%) Grafana
7 8 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 7 (1.13%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.81%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.65%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.65%) Kibana
10 4 (0.65%) PingFederate
11 3 (0.49%) NetBackup
11 3 (0.49%) QRadar
12 2 (0.32%) Avamar
12 2 (0.32%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (0.32%) Packer
12 2 (0.32%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.16%) Istio
Vendors
1 107 (17.34%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.19%) ServiceNow
3 28 (4.54%) Oracle
4 21 (3.40%) Cisco
4 21 (3.40%) Google
5 19 (3.08%) Salesforce
6 17 (2.76%) Databricks
7 13 (2.11%) Zscaler
8 12 (1.94%) Splunk
9 8 (1.30%) SAP
10 7 (1.13%) Palo Alto
10 7 (1.13%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.13%) Workday
11 6 (0.97%) Adobe
11 6 (0.97%) F5
11 6 (0.97%) Murex
11 6 (0.97%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.97%) VMware
12 5 (0.81%) Apple
12 5 (0.81%) Bloomberg