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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 95 97
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 +7
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 629 406 414
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.12% 2.99% 2.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.50% 3.24% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 189 237
10th Percentile £302 £263 £243
25th Percentile £401 £368 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £754 £738 £750
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -7.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 4
10th Percentile £14.25 £26.15 £27.03
25th Percentile £15.50 £26.88 £27.55
Median hourly rate £25.32 £30.81 £48.30
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% -36.21% -8.01%
75th Percentile £33.26 £34.94 £71.88
90th Percentile £37.40 £36.69 -
England median hourly rate £21.00 £27.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year -22.22% +31.71% -50.05%

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 17,950 12,547 14,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.04% 92.29% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,820 8,389 10,191
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £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 297 247 197
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.58 £22.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.03% -15.71% -15.19%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £62.70 £71.50
England median hourly rate £44.23 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +75.86% -40.82% -

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 6 August 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 44 £551 +1.94% 70
West London -12 8 £475 +23.38% 9
South London -18 7 £680 -7.36% 9
East London +5 3 £410 - 5
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 (1.91%) Confluence
2 11 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (1.75%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.43%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.95%) Apache
6 5 (0.79%) IIS
7 3 (0.48%) CMS
7 3 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.48%) SAS
8 2 (0.32%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.32%) WordPress
9 1 (0.16%) Camunda
9 1 (0.16%) CICS
9 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.16%) Drupal
9 1 (0.16%) Luigi
9 1 (0.16%) nginx
9 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
Applications
1 18 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.64%) UserZoom
4 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.32%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.95%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.79%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.48%) SAP Payroll
4 3 (0.48%) Unit4 Business World
5 2 (0.32%) ION MarketView
6 1 (0.16%) Actimize
6 1 (0.16%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.16%) Magento
6 1 (0.16%) Misys Equation
6 1 (0.16%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle BRM
6 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
6 1 (0.16%) SAP FI-CA
6 1 (0.16%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 151 (24.01%) Azure
2 113 (17.97%) AWS
3 56 (8.90%) GCP
4 35 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
5 33 (5.25%) Entra ID
5 33 (5.25%) SaaS
6 29 (4.61%) Microsoft Purview
7 27 (4.29%) Power Platform
8 22 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (3.18%) GitHub
10 18 (2.86%) Serverless
11 14 (2.23%) Microsoft Copilot
12 13 (2.07%) Azure Logic Apps
12 13 (2.07%) Snowflake
13 12 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (1.75%) Azure Sentinel
15 10 (1.59%) Amazon S3
16 8 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (1.27%) OneDrive
16 8 (1.27%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 44 (7.00%) Network Security
2 23 (3.66%) Firewall
3 10 (1.59%) Cisco IPT
4 9 (1.43%) DNS
4 9 (1.43%) Wireless
5 7 (1.11%) DHCP
5 7 (1.11%) SSL
5 7 (1.11%) VPN
5 7 (1.11%) WAN
5 7 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (0.95%) Cisco Nexus
6 6 (0.95%) LAN
7 5 (0.79%) HTTPS
7 5 (0.79%) MPLS
7 5 (0.79%) SAN
7 5 (0.79%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.64%) HTTP
9 3 (0.48%) DMZ
9 3 (0.48%) VLAN
9 3 (0.48%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.50%) Power BI
2 18 (2.86%) Metadata
3 17 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (2.54%) NoSQL
5 10 (1.59%) Big Data
5 10 (1.59%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.43%) Data Lake
6 9 (1.43%) MySQL
7 7 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (1.11%) MongoDB
8 6 (0.95%) BigQuery
8 6 (0.95%) Tableau
9 4 (0.64%) Apache Hudi
9 4 (0.64%) Delta Lake
9 4 (0.64%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.64%) Pinecone
9 4 (0.64%) SQL Server
9 4 (0.64%) Weaviate
10 3 (0.48%) Db2
Development Applications
1 33 (5.25%) JIRA
2 22 (3.50%) Git
3 13 (2.07%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.75%) GitLab
5 5 (0.79%) Selenium
6 4 (0.64%) ERwin
6 4 (0.64%) Gradle
6 4 (0.64%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.48%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.32%) CMake
8 2 (0.32%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.32%) JUnit
8 2 (0.32%) Maven
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%) RSpec
General
1 202 (32.11%) Social Skills
2 165 (26.23%) Finance
3 66 (10.49%) Banking
4 65 (10.33%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (10.02%) Public Sector
6 59 (9.38%) Legal
7 30 (4.77%) Documentation Skills
8 25 (3.97%) Front Office
9 15 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (2.07%) Billing
11 13 (2.07%) Marketing
11 13 (2.07%) Pharmaceutical
11 13 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (2.07%) Retail
11 13 (2.07%) Telecoms
12 12 (1.91%) Local Government
13 10 (1.59%) Investment Banking
13 10 (1.59%) Law
14 9 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 115 (18.28%) Architect
2 72 (11.45%) Analyst
3 48 (7.63%) Developer
4 46 (7.31%) Senior
5 40 (6.36%) Lead
6 34 (5.41%) Business Analyst
7 33 (5.25%) Consultant
7 33 (5.25%) Security Architect
8 32 (5.09%) Project Manager
9 28 (4.45%) Solutions Architect
10 20 (3.18%) Security Engineer
11 17 (2.70%) Data Engineer
12 13 (2.07%) Java Developer
13 12 (1.91%) Data Analyst
13 12 (1.91%) Junior
13 12 (1.91%) Network Engineer
13 12 (1.91%) Product Manager
14 11 (1.75%) Data Protection Officer
15 10 (1.59%) IT Support
16 9 (1.43%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (5.09%) REST
2 16 (2.54%) React
3 14 (2.23%) Spring
4 13 (2.07%) Middleware
4 13 (2.07%) OAuth
5 11 (1.75%) CSS
5 11 (1.75%) GraphQL
5 11 (1.75%) RESTful
6 10 (1.59%) .NET
6 10 (1.59%) HTML
6 10 (1.59%) Spring Boot
7 8 (1.27%) JSON
7 8 (1.27%) Kafka
7 8 (1.27%) Playwright
8 7 (1.11%) OAuth2
8 7 (1.11%) OpenID
8 7 (1.11%) SAML
9 6 (0.95%) Lightning Web Components
9 6 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
9 6 (0.95%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 299 (47.54%) Data Protection Act
2 48 (7.63%) Cloud Native
3 37 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 37 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 27 (4.29%) Security Posture
5 20 (3.18%) Virtual Team
6 19 (3.02%) Management Information System
7 17 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
8 14 (2.23%) Data Centre
9 12 (1.91%) Derivative
9 12 (1.91%) Mobile App
10 11 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 11 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.43%) Operational Technology
12 8 (1.27%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.27%) BYOD
12 8 (1.27%) NHS
13 7 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 42 (6.68%) Windows
2 20 (3.18%) Linux
3 15 (2.38%) Android
4 13 (2.07%) Apple iOS
5 11 (1.75%) Unix
6 6 (0.95%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.79%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.64%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.32%) zOS
10 1 (0.16%) MVS
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
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (19.87%) Agile
2 111 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 98 (15.58%) AI
4 94 (14.94%) CI/CD
5 90 (14.31%) DevOps
6 89 (14.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 86 (13.67%) Cybersecurity
8 85 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
9 77 (12.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 75 (11.92%) Analytics
11 72 (11.45%) Migration
12 70 (11.13%) Data Governance
13 66 (10.49%) Roadmaps
14 59 (9.38%) Decision-Making
15 55 (8.74%) Information Security
16 54 (8.59%) Risk Management
17 48 (7.63%) Data Modelling
17 48 (7.63%) Test Automation
18 46 (7.31%) Cloud Security
19 42 (6.68%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 78 (12.40%) Python
2 63 (10.02%) SQL
3 56 (8.90%) Java
4 19 (3.02%) JavaScript
4 19 (3.02%) PowerShell
5 15 (2.38%) TypeScript
6 13 (2.07%) C#
7 10 (1.59%) Kotlin
8 8 (1.27%) Apex Code
9 6 (0.95%) Bash
9 6 (0.95%) C++
9 6 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (0.95%) Scala
10 3 (0.48%) Perl
11 2 (0.32%) ActionScript
11 2 (0.32%) C
11 2 (0.32%) COBOL
11 2 (0.32%) PHP
11 2 (0.32%) R
11 2 (0.32%) REXX
Qualifications
1 81 (12.88%) Security Cleared
2 65 (10.33%) SC Cleared
3 51 (8.11%) Degree
4 45 (7.15%) CISSP
5 24 (3.82%) CISM
6 16 (2.54%) DV Cleared
7 14 (2.23%) Azure Certification
7 14 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.23%) PMI Certification
8 13 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (2.07%) PMP
9 12 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (1.75%) AWS Certification
11 10 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (1.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 8 (1.27%) CISA
13 7 (1.11%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.95%) CCSP
15 5 (0.79%) CompTIA Security+
15 5 (0.79%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (15.42%) GDPR
2 39 (6.20%) NIST
3 38 (6.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 35 (5.56%) QA
5 33 (5.25%) Data Quality
6 18 (2.86%) GRC
7 17 (2.70%) Accessibility
8 16 (2.54%) PCI DSS
9 15 (2.38%) PMO
10 11 (1.75%) SLA
11 9 (1.43%) PERC
11 9 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.95%) Government Security Classifications
13 6 (0.95%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.95%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 6 (0.95%) NCSC
14 5 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 5 (0.79%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 24 (3.82%) Docker
3 3 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.32%) Firmware
4 2 (0.32%) Varnish
4 2 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.16%) NFS
Systems Management
1 35 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 24 (3.82%) Terraform
3 14 (2.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (1.59%) Ansible
5 10 (1.59%) Grafana
5 10 (1.59%) SCCM
6 5 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (0.79%) CA Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.79%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (0.64%) Kibana
7 4 (0.64%) PingFederate
8 3 (0.48%) EMC NetWorker
8 3 (0.48%) NetBackup
8 3 (0.48%) QRadar
9 2 (0.32%) Avamar
9 2 (0.32%) Packer
9 2 (0.32%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.32%) Puppet
Vendors
1 112 (17.81%) Microsoft
2 38 (6.04%) ServiceNow
3 27 (4.29%) Oracle
4 22 (3.50%) Cisco
5 19 (3.02%) Google
6 18 (2.86%) Salesforce
7 16 (2.54%) Databricks
8 13 (2.07%) Splunk
8 13 (2.07%) Zscaler
9 7 (1.11%) Palo Alto
9 7 (1.11%) SAP
9 7 (1.11%) Workday
10 6 (0.95%) CyberArk
10 6 (0.95%) F5
10 6 (0.95%) OpenAI
10 6 (0.95%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.79%) Adobe
11 5 (0.79%) Apple
11 5 (0.79%) Aruba
11 5 (0.79%) Bloomberg