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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 97 94
Rank change year-on-year +21 -3 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 530 343 442
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.46% 2.52% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% 2.78% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 185 266
10th Percentile £313 £291 £236
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £650
90th Percentile £726 £725 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 14
10th Percentile £21.47 £17.46 £11.95
25th Percentile £22.43 £20.75 £12.32
Median hourly rate £24.88 £30.81 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +27.03% -
75th Percentile £26.74 £37.00 £42.63
90th Percentile £27.35 £41.25 £57.11
England median hourly rate £20.71 £30.02 £21.00
% change year-on-year -31.01% +42.94% -70.00%

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 13,905 12,332 16,419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.68% 90.64% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,265 7,884 11,766
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% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 153 341
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.75 £19.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +23.33% -15.49%
75th Percentile £56.25 £55.25 £50.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 14 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 14 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 -17 33 £600 +20.00% 17
South London -25 11 £475 -20.83% 8
East London +3 3 £675 - 3
West London -21 3 £250 -37.50% 10
North London - 2 £625 - 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 21 (3.96%) Confluence
2 12 (2.26%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.75%) CMS
5 2 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.38%) Apache
5 2 (0.38%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.38%) Drupal
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.38%) SAS
5 2 (0.38%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.19%) Camunda
6 1 (0.19%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.19%) Mule
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.19%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 19 (3.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.38%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.38%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.19%) Final Cut Pro
6 1 (0.19%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.19%) Sketch
6 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.89%) Aladdin
2 8 (1.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.75%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 3 (0.57%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.38%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle FAH
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.19%) BambooHR
6 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.19%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.19%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.19%) Veritas eDiscovery
6 1 (0.19%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 111 (20.94%) Azure
2 71 (13.40%) AWS
3 36 (6.79%) GCP
4 31 (5.85%) Power Platform
5 30 (5.66%) SaaS
6 25 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (4.72%) Snowflake
7 24 (4.53%) Microsoft 365
8 23 (4.34%) Serverless
9 19 (3.58%) Entra ID
10 16 (3.02%) GitHub
11 15 (2.83%) Amazon S3
11 15 (2.83%) PaaS
12 14 (2.64%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (2.45%) IaaS
14 12 (2.26%) Azure AKS
15 11 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
16 10 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
17 9 (1.70%) Azure Functions
17 9 (1.70%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.02%) Network Security
2 12 (2.26%) MPLS
3 10 (1.89%) Cisco IPT
3 10 (1.89%) Firewall
4 6 (1.13%) SAN
4 6 (1.13%) VPN
5 5 (0.94%) LAN
5 5 (0.94%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.94%) WAN
6 4 (0.75%) Ethernet
6 4 (0.75%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.75%) VLAN
6 4 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.57%) BGP
7 3 (0.57%) HTTP
7 3 (0.57%) NAS
7 3 (0.57%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.38%) DNS
8 2 (0.38%) Internet
8 2 (0.38%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (5.28%) Power BI
2 15 (2.83%) SQL Server
3 12 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (2.08%) Metadata
5 10 (1.89%) NoSQL
5 10 (1.89%) Tableau
6 8 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (1.32%) MongoDB
8 6 (1.13%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.94%) Big Data
9 5 (0.94%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.75%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.57%) EDRMS
11 3 (0.57%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.57%) MySQL
11 3 (0.57%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 42 (7.92%) JIRA
2 22 (4.15%) Git
3 12 (2.26%) SpecFlow
4 8 (1.51%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.32%) GitLab
6 5 (0.94%) JUnit
7 4 (0.75%) Maven
8 3 (0.57%) Gradle
9 2 (0.38%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.38%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.38%) DBeaver
9 2 (0.38%) Katalon Studio
9 2 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.38%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.19%) AppVeyor
10 1 (0.19%) Gemini Tracker
10 1 (0.19%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.19%) Storybook
10 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 146 (27.55%) Social Skills
2 141 (26.60%) Finance
3 67 (12.64%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (11.51%) Banking
5 39 (7.36%) Legal
5 39 (7.36%) Public Sector
6 18 (3.40%) Front Office
6 18 (3.40%) Marketing
6 18 (3.40%) Telecoms
7 15 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (1.89%) Investment Banking
11 8 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.32%) Retail
13 6 (1.13%) Electronics
13 6 (1.13%) Publishing
14 5 (0.94%) International Banking
15 4 (0.75%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 68 (12.83%) Analyst
2 65 (12.26%) Architect
3 61 (11.51%) Developer
4 51 (9.62%) Lead
5 35 (6.60%) Business Analyst
6 34 (6.42%) Senior
7 30 (5.66%) Consultant
8 29 (5.47%) Project Manager
9 21 (3.96%) Solutions Architect
10 15 (2.83%) Security Engineer
11 14 (2.64%) Data Analyst
11 14 (2.64%) Network Engineer
11 14 (2.64%) Security Architect
12 12 (2.26%) Technical Architect
12 12 (2.26%) Tester
13 11 (2.08%) Technical Analyst
14 10 (1.89%) Cloud Engineer
14 10 (1.89%) Python Developer
14 10 (1.89%) Software Engineer
15 9 (1.70%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.58%) .NET
2 18 (3.40%) React
3 17 (3.21%) REST
4 12 (2.26%) RESTful
4 12 (2.26%) Spring
5 11 (2.08%) Playwright
6 9 (1.70%) HTML
6 9 (1.70%) Kafka
7 8 (1.51%) Middleware
7 8 (1.51%) Spring Boot
8 7 (1.32%) .NET Core
8 7 (1.32%) AngularJS
8 7 (1.32%) Node.js
8 7 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
9 6 (1.13%) SOAP
9 6 (1.13%) XML
10 5 (0.94%) ARM Templates
11 4 (0.75%) HTML5
11 4 (0.75%) LangChain
11 4 (0.75%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 300 (56.60%) Data Protection Act
2 28 (5.28%) Cloud Native
3 19 (3.58%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.40%) Onboarding
5 17 (3.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 17 (3.21%) Management Information System
6 11 (2.08%) Derivative
6 11 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.08%) Equities
7 10 (1.89%) NHS
7 10 (1.89%) Security Posture
8 9 (1.70%) CMDB
8 9 (1.70%) Fixed Income
9 8 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.32%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.32%) Freedom of Information
10 7 (1.32%) Public Cloud
11 5 (0.94%) Data Centre
11 5 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.72%) Windows
2 24 (4.53%) Linux
3 10 (1.89%) Unix
4 5 (0.94%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.94%) Mac OS
4 5 (0.94%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.75%) Android
5 4 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.38%) VMS
6 2 (0.38%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.38%) zOS
7 1 (0.19%) CentOS
7 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (20.57%) Agile
2 92 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
3 90 (16.98%) Stakeholder Management
4 66 (12.45%) AI
5 65 (12.26%) Migration
6 61 (11.51%) DevOps
7 60 (11.32%) CI/CD
8 58 (10.94%) Analytics
9 52 (9.81%) Risk Management
10 49 (9.25%) Roadmaps
10 49 (9.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 43 (8.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 43 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
12 42 (7.92%) Decision-Making
13 37 (6.98%) Business Intelligence
13 37 (6.98%) Project Management
13 37 (6.98%) Test Automation
14 36 (6.79%) Data Governance
14 36 (6.79%) Microservices
15 35 (6.60%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 103 (19.43%) Python
2 94 (17.74%) SQL
3 38 (7.17%) Java
4 36 (6.79%) C#
4 36 (6.79%) JavaScript
5 19 (3.58%) TypeScript
6 15 (2.83%) PowerShell
7 10 (1.89%) C++
8 9 (1.70%) Bash
9 8 (1.51%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.32%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.94%) Bicep
12 3 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.57%) PHP
12 3 (0.57%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.57%) VBA
13 2 (0.38%) COBOL
13 2 (0.38%) Groovy
13 2 (0.38%) R
13 2 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 66 (12.45%) Security Cleared
2 56 (10.57%) SC Cleared
3 49 (9.25%) Degree
4 23 (4.34%) CISSP
5 18 (3.40%) Master's Degree
6 17 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (2.45%) CISM
8 12 (2.26%) PMI Certification
9 11 (2.08%) PMP
10 8 (1.51%) CRISC
11 7 (1.32%) AWS Certification
11 7 (1.32%) Azure Certification
11 7 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.32%) DV Cleared
12 6 (1.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (1.13%) CCSP
13 5 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.75%) CISA
14 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (14.34%) GDPR
2 32 (6.04%) NIST
3 28 (5.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (4.15%) Data Quality
4 22 (4.15%) QA
5 13 (2.45%) PCI DSS
6 12 (2.26%) GRC
7 9 (1.70%) Accessibility
8 7 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (1.13%) PERC
9 6 (1.13%) PMO
9 6 (1.13%) SLA
10 5 (0.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.75%) COBIT
11 4 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.75%) GAAP
11 4 (0.75%) IFRS
11 4 (0.75%) NCSC
12 3 (0.57%) Basel III
12 3 (0.57%) Solvency II
System Software
1 25 (4.72%) Docker
2 17 (3.21%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.19%) Firmware
5 1 (0.19%) HDFS
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 31 (5.85%) Kubernetes
2 25 (4.72%) Terraform
3 14 (2.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (2.45%) Ansible
5 8 (1.51%) SCCM
6 5 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.57%) Kibana
9 2 (0.38%) Control-M
9 2 (0.38%) Grafana
9 2 (0.38%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.38%) Puppet
9 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.19%) CASB
10 1 (0.19%) Foglight
10 1 (0.19%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.19%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 71 (13.40%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.34%) Google
3 22 (4.15%) Databricks
4 21 (3.96%) SAP
5 19 (3.58%) Oracle
6 14 (2.64%) Salesforce
6 14 (2.64%) ServiceNow
7 10 (1.89%) Citrix
8 9 (1.70%) Adobe
8 9 (1.70%) Cisco
9 8 (1.51%) Nokia
10 7 (1.32%) ADVA
10 7 (1.32%) Informatica
10 7 (1.32%) VMware
10 7 (1.32%) Workday
11 6 (1.13%) F5
11 6 (1.13%) IBM
11 6 (1.13%) Rapid7
12 5 (0.94%) Foundry
12 5 (0.94%) Red Hat