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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 96 96
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 613 392 430
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.08% 2.88% 2.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.47% 3.13% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 184 250
10th Percentile £283 £263 £243
25th Percentile £382 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £648 £650 £638
90th Percentile £753 £738 £775
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 8
10th Percentile £14.25 £26.15 £16.01
25th Percentile £19.66 £26.88 £24.45
Median hourly rate £27.75 £30.81 £45.17
Median % change year-on-year -9.92% -31.80% -13.96%
75th Percentile £33.26 £34.94 £64.84
90th Percentile £37.40 £36.69 £71.88
England median hourly rate £21.35 £27.50 £19.75
% change year-on-year -22.36% +39.24% -45.55%

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 17,688 12,531 14,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.00% 92.21% 88.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,675 8,382 10,562
10th Percentile £363 £329 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 239 238
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £21.13
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -11.76% -20.93%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £53.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.35 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -8.32%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -13 40 £550 -6.34% 27
South London -15 10 £581 -20.82% 10
West London -12 8 £475 +31.03% 2
East London +4 3 £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 12 (1.96%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (1.79%) Confluence
3 10 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.47%) Apache Spark
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%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.33%) WordPress
9 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.16%) Drupal
9 1 (0.16%) Luigi
9 1 (0.16%) Mule
9 1 (0.16%) nginx
9 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 16 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.65%) UserZoom
5 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.98%) Aladdin
1 6 (0.98%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.65%) 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%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.16%) Endur
4 1 (0.16%) ION MarketView
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 BRM
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (0.16%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 147 (23.98%) Azure
2 108 (17.62%) AWS
3 52 (8.48%) GCP
4 36 (5.87%) Entra ID
5 34 (5.55%) Microsoft 365
6 33 (5.38%) SaaS
7 27 (4.40%) Microsoft Purview
8 24 (3.92%) Power Platform
9 18 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (2.94%) GitHub
10 17 (2.77%) Serverless
11 15 (2.45%) Snowflake
12 12 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (1.96%) Azure Logic Apps
12 12 (1.96%) Microsoft Copilot
13 11 (1.79%) Azure Sentinel
14 10 (1.63%) Amazon S3
15 8 (1.31%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 7 (1.14%) Power Automate
16 7 (1.14%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 39 (6.36%) Network Security
2 21 (3.43%) Firewall
3 9 (1.47%) Cisco IPT
4 8 (1.31%) WAN
4 8 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (1.31%) Wireless
5 7 (1.14%) LAN
5 7 (1.14%) SSL
5 7 (1.14%) VPN
6 6 (0.98%) Cisco Nexus
7 5 (0.82%) HTTPS
7 5 (0.82%) MPLS
7 5 (0.82%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.65%) DHCP
8 4 (0.65%) DNS
8 4 (0.65%) HTTP
8 4 (0.65%) SAN
9 3 (0.49%) DMZ
9 3 (0.49%) VLAN
9 3 (0.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.26%) Metadata
1 20 (3.26%) Power BI
2 17 (2.77%) NoSQL
2 17 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (1.79%) Relational Database
5 10 (1.63%) Big Data
6 9 (1.47%) Data Lake
6 9 (1.47%) MySQL
7 8 (1.31%) MongoDB
8 7 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (1.14%) Tableau
9 6 (0.98%) BigQuery
10 5 (0.82%) Delta Lake
10 5 (0.82%) SQL Server
11 4 (0.65%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (0.65%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.65%) Pinecone
11 4 (0.65%) Weaviate
12 3 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 34 (5.55%) JIRA
2 21 (3.43%) Git
3 10 (1.63%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.47%) GitLab
5 5 (0.82%) Selenium
5 5 (0.82%) SpecFlow
6 4 (0.65%) ERwin
6 4 (0.65%) Gradle
7 3 (0.49%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.33%) CMake
8 2 (0.33%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.33%) JUnit
8 2 (0.33%) Maven
8 2 (0.33%) Postman
8 2 (0.33%) Vite
8 2 (0.33%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.16%) NUnit
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
General
1 194 (31.65%) Social Skills
2 163 (26.59%) Finance
3 67 (10.93%) Banking
4 65 (10.60%) Analytical Skills
5 61 (9.95%) Public Sector
6 57 (9.30%) Legal
7 30 (4.89%) Documentation Skills
8 23 (3.75%) Front Office
9 16 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (2.28%) Marketing
10 14 (2.28%) Telecoms
11 13 (2.12%) Billing
12 12 (1.96%) Local Government
12 12 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
12 12 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.96%) Retail
13 11 (1.79%) Investment Banking
14 9 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 9 (1.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 108 (17.62%) Architect
2 72 (11.75%) Analyst
3 46 (7.50%) Developer
4 44 (7.18%) Senior
5 39 (6.36%) Lead
6 35 (5.71%) Business Analyst
7 33 (5.38%) Consultant
8 32 (5.22%) Project Manager
9 30 (4.89%) Security Architect
10 29 (4.73%) Solutions Architect
11 20 (3.26%) Security Engineer
12 16 (2.61%) Data Engineer
13 13 (2.12%) Network Engineer
14 12 (1.96%) IT Support
14 12 (1.96%) Java Developer
14 12 (1.96%) Junior
15 11 (1.79%) Data Analyst
15 11 (1.79%) Data Protection Officer
15 11 (1.79%) Product Manager
16 9 (1.47%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (5.55%) REST
2 16 (2.61%) React
3 14 (2.28%) Middleware
3 14 (2.28%) Spring
4 13 (2.12%) OAuth
5 12 (1.96%) CSS
5 12 (1.96%) GraphQL
6 11 (1.79%) HTML
6 11 (1.79%) RESTful
7 10 (1.63%) .NET
7 10 (1.63%) Spring Boot
8 9 (1.47%) Kafka
8 9 (1.47%) Playwright
9 8 (1.31%) JSON
10 7 (1.14%) OAuth2
10 7 (1.14%) OpenID
10 7 (1.14%) SAML
11 6 (0.98%) Lightning Web Components
11 6 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
11 6 (0.98%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 294 (47.96%) Data Protection Act
2 49 (7.99%) Cloud Native
3 36 (5.87%) Product Ownership
4 34 (5.55%) Onboarding
5 25 (4.08%) Security Posture
6 20 (3.26%) Virtual Team
7 18 (2.94%) Management Information System
8 16 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (2.12%) Data Centre
10 12 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 12 (1.96%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.63%) Derivative
12 9 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.47%) Operational Technology
12 9 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.31%) BYOD
13 8 (1.31%) Fixed Income
14 7 (1.14%) Data Structures
14 7 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (1.14%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 41 (6.69%) Windows
2 15 (2.45%) Android
3 14 (2.28%) Linux
4 13 (2.12%) Apple iOS
5 10 (1.63%) Unix
6 6 (0.98%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.82%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.49%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.16%) MVS
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.16%) Rocky
9 1 (0.16%) Solaris
9 1 (0.16%) VMS
9 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (19.74%) Agile
2 108 (17.62%) Stakeholder Management
3 89 (14.52%) AI
3 89 (14.52%) CI/CD
4 88 (14.36%) Continuous Improvement
5 87 (14.19%) DevOps
6 86 (14.03%) Problem-Solving
7 79 (12.89%) Cybersecurity
8 74 (12.07%) Migration
9 72 (11.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 70 (11.42%) Analytics
11 65 (10.60%) Data Governance
12 62 (10.11%) Roadmaps
13 58 (9.46%) Decision-Making
14 53 (8.65%) Information Security
15 52 (8.48%) Risk Management
16 46 (7.50%) Data Modelling
17 45 (7.34%) Test Automation
18 41 (6.69%) Cloud Security
19 40 (6.53%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 72 (11.75%) Python
2 59 (9.62%) SQL
3 55 (8.97%) Java
4 19 (3.10%) JavaScript
5 16 (2.61%) TypeScript
6 15 (2.45%) PowerShell
7 14 (2.28%) C#
8 9 (1.47%) Kotlin
9 8 (1.31%) Apex Code
10 6 (0.98%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (0.98%) Scala
11 4 (0.65%) Bash
11 4 (0.65%) C++
12 2 (0.33%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.33%) Go
12 2 (0.33%) PHP
12 2 (0.33%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.33%) R
12 2 (0.33%) Ruby
12 2 (0.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 77 (12.56%) Security Cleared
2 63 (10.28%) SC Cleared
3 52 (8.48%) Degree
4 41 (6.69%) CISSP
5 21 (3.43%) CISM
6 14 (2.28%) DV Cleared
7 13 (2.12%) Azure Certification
7 13 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (1.96%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (1.96%) PMI Certification
9 11 (1.79%) PMP
10 9 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (1.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 8 (1.31%) CISA
12 7 (1.14%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.98%) CCSP
13 6 (0.98%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 5 (0.82%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (15.66%) GDPR
2 36 (5.87%) NIST
3 35 (5.71%) QA
4 34 (5.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 31 (5.06%) Data Quality
6 20 (3.26%) GRC
7 17 (2.77%) Accessibility
8 16 (2.61%) PMO
9 15 (2.45%) PCI DSS
10 11 (1.79%) SLA
11 9 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (1.31%) PERC
13 6 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.98%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.98%) NCSC
13 6 (0.98%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.65%) Government Security Classifications
15 4 (0.65%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 33 (5.38%) Active Directory
2 23 (3.75%) Docker
3 4 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.33%) Varnish
5 2 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.16%) Firmware
6 1 (0.16%) NFS
Systems Management
1 34 (5.55%) Kubernetes
2 22 (3.59%) Terraform
3 15 (2.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (1.79%) SCCM
6 10 (1.63%) Grafana
7 9 (1.47%) Ansible
8 7 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.82%) CA Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.82%) Prometheus
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 (0.33%) Avamar
12 2 (0.33%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (0.33%) Packer
13 1 (0.16%) Istio
13 1 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 103 (16.80%) Microsoft
2 35 (5.71%) ServiceNow
3 27 (4.40%) Oracle
4 22 (3.59%) Cisco
5 18 (2.94%) Salesforce
6 17 (2.77%) Databricks
6 17 (2.77%) Google
7 13 (2.12%) Zscaler
8 12 (1.96%) Splunk
9 7 (1.14%) Palo Alto
9 7 (1.14%) SAP
9 7 (1.14%) Workday
10 6 (0.98%) Adobe
10 6 (0.98%) Murex
10 6 (0.98%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.82%) Apple
11 5 (0.82%) Aruba
11 5 (0.82%) Bloomberg
11 5 (0.82%) CyberArk
11 5 (0.82%) VMware