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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 98 96
Rank change year-on-year +21 -2 +15
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 552 339 439
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.53% 2.50% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.90% 2.76% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 186 262
10th Percentile £313 £281 £241
25th Percentile £413 £366 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% -2.14% -8.50%
75th Percentile £639 £613 £659
90th Percentile £725 £731 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
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 14,143 12,286 16,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.44% 90.69% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,444 7,897 11,628
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 219 156 343
10th Percentile £18.21 £20.23 £16.02
25th Percentile £24.81 £24.73 £19.53
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% +23.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.73 £55.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.58 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.61 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.99% - -

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 20 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 20 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 -9 32 £600 +20.00% 24
South London -25 11 £475 -20.83% 7
East London +2 3 £675 - 2
West London -22 3 £250 -37.50% 12
North London - 2 £625 - 4
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 23 (4.17%) Confluence
2 12 (2.17%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.54%) CMS
6 2 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.36%) Apache
6 2 (0.36%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.36%) Drupal
6 2 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.36%) SAS
6 2 (0.36%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.18%) Camunda
7 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.18%) Mule
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.18%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 19 (3.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.54%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.36%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.36%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.18%) Final Cut Pro
6 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.18%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.18%) Sketch
6 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.81%) Aladdin
2 8 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.72%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 4 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.54%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.36%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.36%) Oracle FAH
5 2 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.18%) BambooHR
6 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.18%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.18%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.18%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.18%) Veritas eDiscovery
6 1 (0.18%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 118 (21.38%) Azure
2 74 (13.41%) AWS
3 38 (6.88%) GCP
4 32 (5.80%) Power Platform
4 32 (5.80%) SaaS
5 27 (4.89%) Microsoft 365
6 25 (4.53%) Snowflake
7 24 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (4.17%) Serverless
9 22 (3.99%) Entra ID
10 17 (3.08%) GitHub
11 15 (2.72%) Amazon S3
11 15 (2.72%) PaaS
12 14 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (2.36%) IaaS
13 13 (2.36%) Microsoft Purview
14 12 (2.17%) Azure AKS
15 11 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (1.81%) Azure Sentinel
17 9 (1.63%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.90%) Network Security
2 12 (2.17%) Firewall
2 12 (2.17%) MPLS
3 10 (1.81%) Cisco IPT
4 6 (1.09%) SAN
4 6 (1.09%) VPN
5 5 (0.91%) LAN
5 5 (0.91%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.91%) WAN
6 4 (0.72%) Ethernet
6 4 (0.72%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.72%) VLAN
6 4 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.54%) BGP
7 3 (0.54%) HTTP
7 3 (0.54%) NAS
7 3 (0.54%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.36%) DKIM
8 2 (0.36%) DMARC
8 2 (0.36%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (5.25%) Power BI
2 15 (2.72%) SQL Server
3 14 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (1.99%) Metadata
5 11 (1.99%) Tableau
6 10 (1.81%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (1.27%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.27%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.09%) BigQuery
9 6 (1.09%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.91%) Big Data
10 5 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.54%) EDRMS
11 3 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.54%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.54%) MySQL
11 3 (0.54%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 44 (7.97%) JIRA
2 23 (4.17%) Git
3 13 (2.36%) SpecFlow
4 8 (1.45%) GitLab
4 8 (1.45%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.91%) JUnit
6 4 (0.72%) Maven
7 3 (0.54%) Gradle
7 3 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.36%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.36%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.36%) DBeaver
8 2 (0.36%) Katalon Studio
8 2 (0.36%) NUnit
8 2 (0.36%) Postman
8 2 (0.36%) Selenium
8 2 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.36%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.36%) webpack
9 1 (0.18%) AppVeyor
General
1 153 (27.72%) Social Skills
2 146 (26.45%) Finance
3 70 (12.68%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (11.78%) Banking
5 40 (7.25%) Legal
5 40 (7.25%) Public Sector
6 20 (3.62%) Front Office
7 18 (3.26%) Marketing
7 18 (3.26%) Telecoms
8 15 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (2.36%) Investment Banking
10 13 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.27%) Retail
13 6 (1.09%) Electronics
13 6 (1.09%) Publishing
14 5 (0.91%) International Banking
14 5 (0.91%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 73 (13.22%) Analyst
1 73 (13.22%) Architect
2 60 (10.87%) Developer
3 50 (9.06%) Lead
4 39 (7.07%) Business Analyst
5 36 (6.52%) Senior
6 31 (5.62%) Consultant
7 29 (5.25%) Project Manager
8 21 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
9 16 (2.90%) Security Engineer
10 15 (2.72%) Data Analyst
10 15 (2.72%) Network Engineer
11 14 (2.54%) Security Architect
12 13 (2.36%) Technical Architect
12 13 (2.36%) Tester
13 11 (1.99%) Cloud Engineer
13 11 (1.99%) Technical Analyst
14 10 (1.81%) Automation Tester
14 10 (1.81%) Java Developer
14 10 (1.81%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.44%) React
2 18 (3.26%) .NET
2 18 (3.26%) REST
3 13 (2.36%) Spring
4 12 (2.17%) Playwright
4 12 (2.17%) RESTful
5 11 (1.99%) Kafka
6 10 (1.81%) Middleware
7 9 (1.63%) Oracle Fusion
8 8 (1.45%) HTML
8 8 (1.45%) Spring Boot
9 7 (1.27%) .NET Core
9 7 (1.27%) AngularJS
9 7 (1.27%) Node.js
10 6 (1.09%) SOAP
10 6 (1.09%) XML
11 5 (0.91%) ARM Templates
12 4 (0.72%) CSS
12 4 (0.72%) LangChain
12 4 (0.72%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 307 (55.62%) Data Protection Act
2 29 (5.25%) Cloud Native
3 20 (3.62%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.44%) Onboarding
5 18 (3.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 17 (3.08%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.17%) Derivative
7 12 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (2.17%) Security Posture
8 10 (1.81%) Equities
8 10 (1.81%) NHS
9 9 (1.63%) CMDB
9 9 (1.63%) Fixed Income
10 8 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.27%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.27%) Freedom of Information
11 7 (1.27%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.09%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.09%) Data Centre
12 6 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.89%) Windows
2 22 (3.99%) Linux
3 8 (1.45%) Unix
4 5 (0.91%) Android
4 5 (0.91%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.91%) Mac OS
4 5 (0.91%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.36%) VMS
6 2 (0.36%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.36%) zOS
7 1 (0.18%) CentOS
7 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (20.83%) Agile
2 99 (17.93%) Problem-Solving
3 97 (17.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 68 (12.32%) Analytics
5 67 (12.14%) Migration
6 65 (11.78%) AI
6 65 (11.78%) CI/CD
6 65 (11.78%) DevOps
7 54 (9.78%) Risk Management
8 50 (9.06%) Continuous Improvement
8 50 (9.06%) Roadmaps
9 49 (8.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 45 (8.15%) Decision-Making
11 44 (7.97%) Cybersecurity
12 39 (7.07%) Business Intelligence
12 39 (7.07%) Data Governance
12 39 (7.07%) Test Automation
13 38 (6.88%) Microservices
14 36 (6.52%) Project Management
14 36 (6.52%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 109 (19.75%) Python
2 97 (17.57%) SQL
3 41 (7.43%) Java
4 37 (6.70%) C#
4 37 (6.70%) JavaScript
5 20 (3.62%) TypeScript
6 17 (3.08%) PowerShell
7 9 (1.63%) Bash
7 9 (1.63%) C++
8 8 (1.45%) Shell Script
9 7 (1.27%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.91%) Bicep
11 3 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.54%) PHP
11 3 (0.54%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.54%) VBA
12 2 (0.36%) Groovy
12 2 (0.36%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.36%) R
12 2 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 71 (12.86%) Security Cleared
2 61 (11.05%) SC Cleared
3 50 (9.06%) Degree
4 22 (3.99%) CISSP
5 18 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.90%) Master's Degree
7 13 (2.36%) CISM
8 12 (2.17%) PMI Certification
9 11 (1.99%) PMP
10 9 (1.63%) Azure Certification
11 8 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (1.45%) CRISC
12 7 (1.27%) AWS Certification
12 7 (1.27%) CCSP
12 7 (1.27%) DV Cleared
13 6 (1.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.72%) CISA
15 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (14.13%) GDPR
2 33 (5.98%) NIST
3 29 (5.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (4.35%) Data Quality
5 23 (4.17%) QA
6 13 (2.36%) PCI DSS
7 12 (2.17%) GRC
8 8 (1.45%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (1.27%) PMO
10 6 (1.09%) PERC
10 6 (1.09%) SLA
11 4 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.72%) COBIT
11 4 (0.72%) GAAP
11 4 (0.72%) IFRS
11 4 (0.72%) NCSC
11 4 (0.72%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.54%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 27 (4.89%) Docker
2 18 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.18%) Firmware
6 1 (0.18%) HDFS
6 1 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 33 (5.98%) Kubernetes
2 28 (5.07%) Terraform
3 15 (2.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (2.54%) Ansible
5 8 (1.45%) SCCM
6 6 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.91%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.72%) Kibana
9 3 (0.54%) Grafana
10 2 (0.36%) Control-M
10 2 (0.36%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.36%) Puppet
10 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.18%) CASB
11 1 (0.18%) Foglight
11 1 (0.18%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.18%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 73 (13.22%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.35%) Google
3 22 (3.99%) Databricks
3 22 (3.99%) Oracle
3 22 (3.99%) SAP
4 20 (3.62%) ServiceNow
5 15 (2.72%) Salesforce
6 11 (1.99%) Citrix
7 10 (1.81%) Cisco
8 9 (1.63%) Adobe
9 8 (1.45%) Nokia
9 8 (1.45%) Workday
10 7 (1.27%) ADVA
10 7 (1.27%) F5
10 7 (1.27%) VMware
11 6 (1.09%) IBM
11 6 (1.09%) Informatica
11 6 (1.09%) Rapid7
12 5 (0.91%) Avaloq
12 5 (0.91%) Red Hat