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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 103 95
Rank change year-on-year +19 -8 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 605 353 458
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.16% 2.78% 2.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.56% 3.01% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 162 264
10th Percentile £254 £258 £252
25th Percentile £366 £357 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £647 £638
90th Percentile £775 £738 £775
England median daily rate £500 £489 £500
% change year-on-year +2.30% -2.25% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 13
10th Percentile £20.40 £26.15 -
25th Percentile £25.66 £26.88 £11.95
Median hourly rate £30.31 £30.81 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +25.73% -53.33%
75th Percentile £34.30 £34.94 £62.50
90th Percentile £37.70 £36.69 £70.00
England median hourly rate £21.86 £27.57 £19.50
% change year-on-year -20.72% +41.38% -38.10%

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 17,012 11,732 15,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.40% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,345 7,858 11,109
10th Percentile £360 £336 £340
25th Percentile £438 £425 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 220 302
10th Percentile £17.96 £16.50 £15.54
25th Percentile £25.24 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% +7.50% -25.00%
75th Percentile £59.72 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £67.90
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% +8.48%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 26 June 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 37 £551 -4.26% 16
South London -4 12 £525 -28.45% 6
West London -19 7 £475 +39.71% 11
East London +4 5 £432 - 5
North London - 1 £550 -
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 16 (2.64%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.15%) Confluence
3 12 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.32%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.83%) IIS
6 5 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.66%) Apache
8 3 (0.50%) SAS
9 2 (0.33%) CMS
9 2 (0.33%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.33%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.17%) Drupal
10 1 (0.17%) Mule
10 1 (0.17%) nginx
10 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (2.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.66%) UserZoom
5 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (1.32%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.50%) SAP Payroll
4 3 (0.50%) Unit4 Business World
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.17%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.17%) ION MarketView
6 1 (0.17%) Magento
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.17%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 138 (22.81%) Azure
2 101 (16.69%) AWS
3 50 (8.26%) GCP
4 40 (6.61%) Microsoft 365
5 37 (6.12%) Entra ID
6 33 (5.45%) SaaS
7 28 (4.63%) Microsoft Purview
8 24 (3.97%) Power Platform
9 17 (2.81%) GitHub
10 16 (2.64%) Snowflake
11 12 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (1.98%) Azure Logic Apps
11 12 (1.98%) Azure Sentinel
11 12 (1.98%) Microsoft Copilot
12 11 (1.82%) Amazon S3
12 11 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (1.82%) Serverless
13 10 (1.65%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (1.65%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (1.32%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (6.28%) Network Security
2 21 (3.47%) Firewall
3 12 (1.98%) MPLS
4 7 (1.16%) SAN
4 7 (1.16%) SSL
4 7 (1.16%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.16%) VLAN
4 7 (1.16%) VPN
4 7 (1.16%) WAN
4 7 (1.16%) Wireless
5 6 (0.99%) Ethernet
5 6 (0.99%) NAS
5 6 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.83%) Cisco IPT
6 5 (0.83%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (0.66%) DHCP
7 4 (0.66%) DNS
7 4 (0.66%) HTTP
7 4 (0.66%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.31%) Power BI
2 19 (3.14%) Metadata
3 12 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (1.98%) NoSQL
3 12 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (1.49%) Big Data
4 9 (1.49%) Relational Database
5 8 (1.32%) Data Lake
5 8 (1.32%) MongoDB
5 8 (1.32%) SQL Server
6 7 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (0.99%) BigQuery
7 6 (0.99%) Tableau
8 5 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (0.83%) MySQL
9 4 (0.66%) Apache Hudi
9 4 (0.66%) Delta Lake
9 4 (0.66%) Pinecone
9 4 (0.66%) Weaviate
10 3 (0.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 40 (6.61%) JIRA
2 26 (4.30%) Git
3 11 (1.82%) GitLab
4 10 (1.65%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.16%) SpecFlow
6 4 (0.66%) ERwin
6 4 (0.66%) Gradle
6 4 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.50%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.50%) JUnit
7 3 (0.50%) Maven
7 3 (0.50%) Selenium
8 2 (0.33%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.33%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.33%) Katalon Studio
8 2 (0.33%) Postman
8 2 (0.33%) Vite
9 1 (0.17%) Mockito
9 1 (0.17%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.17%) XCUITest
General
1 177 (29.26%) Social Skills
2 166 (27.44%) Finance
3 67 (11.07%) Banking
4 65 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (8.10%) Legal
6 47 (7.77%) Public Sector
7 28 (4.63%) Documentation Skills
8 25 (4.13%) Front Office
9 18 (2.98%) Telecoms
10 15 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (1.98%) Local Government
12 12 (1.98%) Marketing
13 11 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
13 11 (1.82%) Retail
14 10 (1.65%) Billing
14 10 (1.65%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.16%) Law
15 7 (1.16%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 98 (16.20%) Architect
2 72 (11.90%) Analyst
3 48 (7.93%) Developer
4 44 (7.27%) Senior
5 38 (6.28%) Lead
6 36 (5.95%) Business Analyst
7 33 (5.45%) Project Manager
8 29 (4.79%) Consultant
9 28 (4.63%) Solutions Architect
10 26 (4.30%) Security Architect
11 24 (3.97%) Security Engineer
12 21 (3.47%) Network Engineer
13 16 (2.64%) Data Engineer
14 13 (2.15%) Java Developer
15 12 (1.98%) Cloud Engineer
15 12 (1.98%) IT Support
16 11 (1.82%) Data Analyst
16 11 (1.82%) Junior
16 11 (1.82%) Product Manager
17 10 (1.65%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (4.63%) REST
2 19 (3.14%) React
3 15 (2.48%) .NET
3 15 (2.48%) Middleware
4 14 (2.31%) Spring
5 12 (1.98%) RESTful
6 11 (1.82%) OAuth
7 10 (1.65%) GraphQL
7 10 (1.65%) HTML
8 9 (1.49%) CSS
8 9 (1.49%) Kafka
8 9 (1.49%) Playwright
8 9 (1.49%) Spring Boot
9 7 (1.16%) JSON
9 7 (1.16%) OAuth2
9 7 (1.16%) OpenID
10 6 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
10 6 (0.99%) SAML
11 5 (0.83%) LDAP
11 5 (0.83%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 296 (48.93%) Data Protection Act
2 48 (7.93%) Cloud Native
3 30 (4.96%) Onboarding
3 30 (4.96%) Product Ownership
4 25 (4.13%) Security Posture
5 20 (3.31%) Management Information System
6 18 (2.98%) Virtual Team
7 14 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (1.98%) Data Centre
8 12 (1.98%) Derivative
8 12 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 11 (1.82%) Mobile App
10 9 (1.49%) Operational Technology
10 9 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
11 8 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.16%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.16%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 41 (6.78%) Windows
2 17 (2.81%) Linux
3 14 (2.31%) Android
4 10 (1.65%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.49%) Unix
6 8 (1.32%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.83%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.50%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.17%) Rocky
9 1 (0.17%) Solaris
9 1 (0.17%) VMS
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (20.00%) Agile
2 101 (16.69%) Stakeholder Management
3 86 (14.21%) Problem-Solving
4 85 (14.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 84 (13.88%) CI/CD
6 81 (13.39%) AI
7 77 (12.73%) Cybersecurity
7 77 (12.73%) DevOps
8 71 (11.74%) Migration
9 67 (11.07%) Analytics
10 63 (10.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 62 (10.25%) Roadmaps
12 56 (9.26%) Data Governance
13 54 (8.93%) Decision-Making
13 54 (8.93%) Risk Management
14 51 (8.43%) Information Security
15 46 (7.60%) Cloud Security
16 43 (7.11%) Test Automation
17 39 (6.45%) Data Modelling
18 38 (6.28%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 84 (13.88%) Python
2 63 (10.41%) SQL
3 62 (10.25%) Java
4 19 (3.14%) JavaScript
5 17 (2.81%) C#
6 15 (2.48%) PowerShell
7 14 (2.31%) TypeScript
8 9 (1.49%) Kotlin
9 7 (1.16%) Apex Code
9 7 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (0.99%) Bash
11 5 (0.83%) Scala
12 4 (0.66%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.66%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.50%) C++
14 2 (0.33%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.33%) R
14 2 (0.33%) RPG
15 1 (0.17%) GLSL
15 1 (0.17%) Go
Qualifications
1 82 (13.55%) Security Cleared
2 68 (11.24%) SC Cleared
3 60 (9.92%) Degree
4 39 (6.45%) CISSP
5 18 (2.98%) CISM
6 17 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (2.15%) Master's Degree
8 13 (2.15%) PMI Certification
9 12 (1.98%) AWS Certification
9 12 (1.98%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.98%) DV Cleared
9 12 (1.98%) PMP
10 10 (1.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 9 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (1.32%) CCSP
13 7 (1.16%) CISA
13 7 (1.16%) CRISC
14 5 (0.83%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (15.37%) GDPR
2 40 (6.61%) NIST
3 36 (5.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 33 (5.45%) Data Quality
5 32 (5.29%) QA
6 20 (3.31%) GRC
7 19 (3.14%) PCI DSS
8 15 (2.48%) Accessibility
9 13 (2.15%) PMO
10 12 (1.98%) SLA
11 11 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.99%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.99%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.83%) NCSC
14 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.50%) GAAP
14 3 (0.50%) PERC
15 2 (0.33%) Basel III
15 2 (0.33%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 34 (5.62%) Active Directory
2 26 (4.30%) Docker
3 5 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.17%) Firmware
6 1 (0.17%) NFS
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 36 (5.95%) Kubernetes
2 24 (3.97%) Terraform
3 17 (2.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (1.98%) SCCM
4 12 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (1.65%) Ansible
5 10 (1.65%) Grafana
6 9 (1.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (1.16%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.83%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.66%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.66%) Kibana
9 4 (0.66%) PingFederate
10 3 (0.50%) NetBackup
10 3 (0.50%) QRadar
11 2 (0.33%) Avamar
11 2 (0.33%) Control-M
11 2 (0.33%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (0.33%) Packer
11 2 (0.33%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 105 (17.36%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.29%) ServiceNow
3 26 (4.30%) Oracle
4 20 (3.31%) Cisco
5 19 (3.14%) Google
6 18 (2.98%) Databricks
7 17 (2.81%) Salesforce
8 13 (2.15%) Zscaler
9 12 (1.98%) Splunk
10 9 (1.49%) SAP
10 9 (1.49%) Workday
11 8 (1.32%) Nokia
12 7 (1.16%) ADVA
12 7 (1.16%) Palo Alto
13 6 (0.99%) Adobe
13 6 (0.99%) F5
13 6 (0.99%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.99%) Red Hat
13 6 (0.99%) VMware
14 5 (0.83%) CyberArk