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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 87 100
Rank change year-on-year -9 +13 -3
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 629 421 421
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.12% 3.10% 2.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.50% 3.36% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 201 238
10th Percentile £300 £263 £239
25th Percentile £397 £375 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -15.82%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £738 £745
England median daily rate £500 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +3.63% -3.50% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 4
10th Percentile £14.25 £26.15 £27.03
25th Percentile £16.26 £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 £33.94 £34.94 £71.88
90th Percentile £37.11 £36.69 -
England median hourly rate £20.39 £23.70 £20.50
% change year-on-year -13.99% +15.61% -43.48%

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 17,959 12,532 14,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.08% 92.33% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,817 8,377 10,112
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 £663 £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 296 248 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.15% -13.73%
75th Percentile £56.25 £47.81 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.08 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.78%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -15 45 £551 -1.26% 65
South London -12 8 £680 -7.36% 11
West London -14 8 £475 +23.38% 8
East London +6 3 £410 - 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 12 (1.91%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (1.59%) Confluence
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%) Moodle
9 1 (0.16%) nginx
9 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
Applications
1 19 (3.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.23%) 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%) Unit4 Business World
5 2 (0.32%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.32%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.16%) Actimize
6 1 (0.16%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.16%) Endur
6 1 (0.16%) Magento
6 1 (0.16%) Misys Equation
6 1 (0.16%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle BRM
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.16%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.16%) SAP FI-CA
6 1 (0.16%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 150 (23.85%) Azure
2 113 (17.97%) AWS
3 55 (8.74%) GCP
4 35 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
5 34 (5.41%) SaaS
6 33 (5.25%) Entra ID
7 30 (4.77%) Microsoft Purview
8 27 (4.29%) Power Platform
9 21 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (3.02%) GitHub
11 18 (2.86%) Serverless
12 14 (2.23%) Microsoft Copilot
13 13 (2.07%) Azure Logic Apps
13 13 (2.07%) Snowflake
14 12 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
15 10 (1.59%) Amazon S3
15 10 (1.59%) Azure Sentinel
16 9 (1.43%) OneDrive
17 8 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
17 8 (1.27%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 46 (7.31%) Network Security
2 24 (3.82%) Firewall
3 11 (1.75%) Cisco IPT
4 10 (1.59%) DNS
4 10 (1.59%) Wireless
5 8 (1.27%) DHCP
5 8 (1.27%) VPN
5 8 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (1.11%) Cisco Nexus
6 7 (1.11%) LAN
6 7 (1.11%) SSL
6 7 (1.11%) WAN
7 6 (0.95%) SAN
7 6 (0.95%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.79%) HTTPS
8 5 (0.79%) MPLS
9 4 (0.64%) HTTP
9 4 (0.64%) NAS
10 3 (0.48%) Cisco ISE
10 3 (0.48%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.50%) Power BI
2 19 (3.02%) 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%) SQL Server
10 3 (0.48%) Electronic Patient Records
10 3 (0.48%) Pinecone
10 3 (0.48%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 32 (5.09%) JIRA
2 22 (3.50%) Git
3 14 (2.23%) 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%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.16%) NUnit
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
General
1 209 (33.23%) Social Skills
2 164 (26.07%) Finance
3 67 (10.65%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (10.02%) Banking
4 63 (10.02%) Public Sector
5 58 (9.22%) Legal
6 31 (4.93%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (4.29%) Front Office
8 16 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (2.23%) Retail
10 13 (2.07%) Billing
10 13 (2.07%) Marketing
10 13 (2.07%) Pharmaceutical
10 13 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (1.91%) Local Government
11 12 (1.91%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.59%) Investment Banking
12 10 (1.59%) Law
13 9 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 109 (17.33%) Architect
2 74 (11.76%) Analyst
3 47 (7.47%) Developer
4 46 (7.31%) Senior
5 41 (6.52%) Lead
6 35 (5.56%) Business Analyst
7 32 (5.09%) Consultant
8 31 (4.93%) Project Manager
8 31 (4.93%) Security Architect
9 25 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
10 20 (3.18%) Security Engineer
11 18 (2.86%) Data Engineer
12 12 (1.91%) Java Developer
12 12 (1.91%) Junior
12 12 (1.91%) Network Engineer
13 11 (1.75%) Data Analyst
13 11 (1.75%) Data Protection Officer
13 11 (1.75%) Product Manager
14 10 (1.59%) IT Support
15 9 (1.43%) Designer
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 46 (7.31%) Cloud Native
3 36 (5.72%) Onboarding
3 36 (5.72%) Product Ownership
4 27 (4.29%) Security Posture
5 22 (3.50%) Management Information System
6 20 (3.18%) Virtual Team
7 17 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (2.54%) Data Centre
9 13 (2.07%) Derivative
10 12 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 11 (1.75%) Mobile App
11 11 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.43%) NHS
12 9 (1.43%) Operational Technology
13 8 (1.27%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.27%) BYOD
14 7 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (1.11%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 42 (6.68%) Windows
2 21 (3.34%) Linux
3 15 (2.38%) Android
4 12 (1.91%) Apple iOS
4 12 (1.91%) Unix
5 6 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.95%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.79%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.64%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.32%) zOS
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
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (19.24%) Agile
2 116 (18.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 98 (15.58%) AI
4 95 (15.10%) CI/CD
5 92 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 88 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
7 87 (13.83%) DevOps
8 83 (13.20%) Cybersecurity
9 77 (12.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 75 (11.92%) Analytics
11 73 (11.61%) Data Governance
12 71 (11.29%) Migration
13 65 (10.33%) Roadmaps
14 61 (9.70%) Decision-Making
15 59 (9.38%) Information Security
16 58 (9.22%) Risk Management
17 48 (7.63%) Cloud Security
17 48 (7.63%) Data Modelling
17 48 (7.63%) Test Automation
18 41 (6.52%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 78 (12.40%) Python
2 65 (10.33%) SQL
3 55 (8.74%) Java
4 20 (3.18%) PowerShell
5 19 (3.02%) JavaScript
6 15 (2.38%) TypeScript
7 12 (1.91%) C#
8 10 (1.59%) Kotlin
9 8 (1.27%) Apex Code
10 7 (1.11%) C++
11 6 (0.95%) Bash
11 6 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
11 6 (0.95%) Scala
12 4 (0.64%) Perl
13 3 (0.48%) C
14 2 (0.32%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.32%) COBOL
14 2 (0.32%) PHP
14 2 (0.32%) REXX
14 2 (0.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 79 (12.56%) Security Cleared
2 62 (9.86%) SC Cleared
3 52 (8.27%) Degree
4 46 (7.31%) CISSP
5 25 (3.97%) CISM
6 17 (2.70%) DV Cleared
7 15 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.23%) Azure Certification
8 14 (2.23%) PMI Certification
9 13 (2.07%) PMP
10 12 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (1.75%) AWS Certification
11 11 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
12 10 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (1.27%) CISA
14 7 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 7 (1.11%) Master's Degree
15 6 (0.95%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 5 (0.79%) CompTIA Security+
16 5 (0.79%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (15.90%) GDPR
2 41 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 39 (6.20%) NIST
4 36 (5.72%) Data Quality
5 34 (5.41%) QA
6 19 (3.02%) GRC
7 18 (2.86%) 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
12 7 (1.11%) Government Security Classifications
12 7 (1.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 6 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.95%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.95%) NCSC
14 5 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 5 (0.79%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (5.72%) Active Directory
2 23 (3.66%) Docker
3 4 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.32%) Firmware
5 2 (0.32%) Varnish
6 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.16%) NFS
Systems Management
1 33 (5.25%) Kubernetes
2 25 (3.97%) Terraform
3 15 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (1.75%) SCCM
6 10 (1.59%) Ansible
6 10 (1.59%) Grafana
7 5 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.79%) CA Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.79%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.64%) Kibana
8 4 (0.64%) PingFederate
9 3 (0.48%) EMC NetWorker
9 3 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.48%) NetBackup
9 3 (0.48%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.48%) Puppet
9 3 (0.48%) QRadar
10 2 (0.32%) Avamar
10 2 (0.32%) Packer
Vendors
1 118 (18.76%) Microsoft
2 40 (6.36%) ServiceNow
3 27 (4.29%) Oracle
4 23 (3.66%) Cisco
5 18 (2.86%) Google
5 18 (2.86%) Salesforce
6 17 (2.70%) Databricks
7 13 (2.07%) Splunk
7 13 (2.07%) Zscaler
8 7 (1.11%) Palo Alto
8 7 (1.11%) Red Hat
8 7 (1.11%) Workday
9 6 (0.95%) Bloomberg
9 6 (0.95%) CyberArk
9 6 (0.95%) F5
9 6 (0.95%) Murex
9 6 (0.95%) SAP
10 5 (0.79%) Aruba
10 5 (0.79%) Ping Identity
11 4 (0.64%) Refinitiv