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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 93 95
Rank change year-on-year +24 +2 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 538 414 472
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.74% 2.72% 2.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.09% 3.02% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 238 282
10th Percentile £338 £266 £250
25th Percentile £413 £366 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £639 £613 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - £16.36 £28.75
25th Percentile - £18.01 £35.88
Median hourly rate - £21.50 £41.62
Median % change year-on-year - -48.34% +14.80%
75th Percentile - £33.17 £43.76
90th Percentile - £39.71 £44.23
England median hourly rate £20.71 £24.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -15.47% +16.67% -70.00%

All Process and 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 13,166 13,695 16,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.50% 90.05% 89.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,682 8,808 12,056
10th Percentile £343 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £792
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 165 236
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.70 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.25 £36.50 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.12% +5.80% -11.25%
75th Percentile £48.44 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £80.75 £74.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

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 17 December 2025.

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 17 December 2025. 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 +5 34 £563 +12.50% 10
South London -16 7 £538 -10.42% 3
West London -17 5 £300 -29.41% 4
East London +3 1 £638 +19.16% 7
North London - 1 £700 -
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 18 (3.35%) Confluence
2 12 (2.23%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.67%) CMS
4 6 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.56%) Apache
6 3 (0.56%) CICS
7 2 (0.37%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.37%) SAS
8 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.19%) Drupal
8 1 (0.19%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.19%) Luigi
8 1 (0.19%) nginx
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.19%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 24 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.74%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.37%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.37%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.19%) Final Cut Pro
7 1 (0.19%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.19%) Sketch
7 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.19%) SPSS
7 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.93%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.56%) VisionPLUS
4 2 (0.37%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.37%) ION MarketView
4 2 (0.37%) ResourceLink
4 2 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.19%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.19%) Endur
5 1 (0.19%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Internet Expenses
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.19%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 122 (22.68%) Azure
2 83 (15.43%) AWS
3 48 (8.92%) Power Platform
4 37 (6.88%) GCP
5 35 (6.51%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (5.58%) Microsoft 365
7 28 (5.20%) Serverless
8 27 (5.02%) SaaS
9 20 (3.72%) Power Automate
10 19 (3.53%) Entra ID
10 19 (3.53%) Snowflake
11 16 (2.97%) GitHub
11 16 (2.97%) PowerApps
12 15 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (2.79%) Azure Monitor
13 14 (2.60%) Amazon S3
13 14 (2.60%) Azure Logic Apps
14 13 (2.42%) Azure Functions
15 12 (2.23%) Azure AKS
16 10 (1.86%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.53%) Firewall
2 15 (2.79%) Network Security
3 9 (1.67%) Cisco IPT
4 6 (1.12%) DNS
4 6 (1.12%) VPN
5 5 (0.93%) MPLS
5 5 (0.93%) WAN
6 4 (0.74%) HTTP
6 4 (0.74%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.56%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (0.56%) DHCP
7 3 (0.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 3 (0.56%) Internet
7 3 (0.56%) LAN
7 3 (0.56%) SAN
8 2 (0.37%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.37%) NetScaler
8 2 (0.37%) OSPF
8 2 (0.37%) SDH
8 2 (0.37%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (6.13%) Power BI
2 18 (3.35%) SQL Server
3 13 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (2.04%) NoSQL
5 10 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (1.86%) Tableau
6 8 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (1.49%) Metadata
6 8 (1.49%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.30%) MongoDB
8 6 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (1.12%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.93%) Big Data
9 5 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.74%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.56%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.56%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.56%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 47 (8.74%) JIRA
2 17 (3.16%) Git
3 8 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.30%) SpecFlow
5 5 (0.93%) GitLab
6 4 (0.74%) Metasploit
7 3 (0.56%) Burp Suite
7 3 (0.56%) ChangeMan
7 3 (0.56%) JUnit
7 3 (0.56%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.37%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.37%) DBeaver
8 2 (0.37%) Gradle
8 2 (0.37%) Maven
8 2 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.37%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.19%) AppVeyor
9 1 (0.19%) MLflow
9 1 (0.19%) Storybook
9 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 159 (29.55%) Social Skills
2 127 (23.61%) Finance
3 64 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (9.85%) Banking
5 45 (8.36%) Public Sector
6 40 (7.43%) Legal
7 19 (3.53%) Front Office
7 19 (3.53%) Marketing
8 12 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (1.67%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.49%) Financial Institution
11 7 (1.30%) Investment Banking
11 7 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.12%) Back Office
12 6 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.12%) Law
12 6 (1.12%) Publishing
12 6 (1.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 83 (15.43%) Developer
2 71 (13.20%) Analyst
3 51 (9.48%) Architect
4 42 (7.81%) Lead
5 34 (6.32%) Business Analyst
6 30 (5.58%) Consultant
6 30 (5.58%) Senior
7 22 (4.09%) Project Manager
8 21 (3.90%) Security Engineer
9 18 (3.35%) Data Analyst
10 13 (2.42%) Solutions Architect
11 12 (2.23%) Technical Architect
12 11 (2.04%) Azure Architect
12 11 (2.04%) ServiceNow Developer
12 11 (2.04%) Software Engineer
13 10 (1.86%) Administrator
13 10 (1.86%) Network Engineer
13 10 (1.86%) Python Developer
13 10 (1.86%) Python Engineer
13 10 (1.86%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (4.83%) REST
2 16 (2.97%) .NET
3 15 (2.79%) SOAP
4 14 (2.60%) React
5 12 (2.23%) RESTful
6 11 (2.04%) HTML
7 10 (1.86%) .NET Core
8 9 (1.67%) Middleware
8 9 (1.67%) Spring
9 8 (1.49%) AngularJS
9 8 (1.49%) Node.js
9 8 (1.49%) OAuth
10 7 (1.30%) Kafka
11 6 (1.12%) FIX Protocol
11 6 (1.12%) Playwright
11 6 (1.12%) Spring Boot
12 5 (0.93%) ARM Templates
12 5 (0.93%) ASP.NET
12 5 (0.93%) JSON
12 5 (0.93%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 295 (54.83%) Data Protection Act
2 26 (4.83%) Cloud Native
3 18 (3.35%) Product Ownership
4 16 (2.97%) CMDB
5 15 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (2.79%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.60%) Virtual Team
7 11 (2.04%) Derivative
8 10 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 9 (1.67%) NHS
10 8 (1.49%) Equities
10 8 (1.49%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.30%) Freedom of Information
11 7 (1.30%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.30%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.12%) Credit Risk
12 6 (1.12%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.12%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.83%) Linux
2 22 (4.09%) Windows
3 11 (2.04%) Unix
4 5 (0.93%) Android
4 5 (0.93%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.74%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.74%) zOS
6 3 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.56%) VMS
6 3 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.37%) CentOS
7 2 (0.37%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.37%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.19%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (20.45%) Agile
2 102 (18.96%) Problem-Solving
3 77 (14.31%) DevOps
4 76 (14.13%) CI/CD
5 71 (13.20%) Stakeholder Management
6 62 (11.52%) Analytics
7 60 (11.15%) Migration
8 57 (10.59%) AI
9 56 (10.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 46 (8.55%) Roadmaps
11 45 (8.36%) Cybersecurity
12 40 (7.43%) Business Intelligence
12 40 (7.43%) Data Governance
13 38 (7.06%) Continuous Improvement
13 38 (7.06%) Infrastructure as Code
13 38 (7.06%) Project Management
13 38 (7.06%) Risk Management
14 34 (6.32%) Scrum
15 33 (6.13%) Decision-Making
15 33 (6.13%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 116 (21.56%) Python
2 93 (17.29%) SQL
3 39 (7.25%) JavaScript
4 30 (5.58%) C#
5 27 (5.02%) PowerShell
6 24 (4.46%) Java
7 23 (4.28%) Bash
8 17 (3.16%) TypeScript
9 11 (2.04%) C++
10 5 (0.93%) Bicep
10 5 (0.93%) Kotlin
10 5 (0.93%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.93%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.74%) COBOL
11 4 (0.74%) Go
11 4 (0.74%) PromQL
12 3 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.56%) PHP
12 3 (0.56%) R
12 3 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 60 (11.15%) Security Cleared
2 50 (9.29%) SC Cleared
3 35 (6.51%) Degree
4 15 (2.79%) CISSP
5 14 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.04%) CISM
7 8 (1.49%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.30%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.12%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.12%) CISA
9 6 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.12%) PMP
10 5 (0.93%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.93%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.74%) CCSP
11 4 (0.74%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 4 (0.74%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (13.57%) GDPR
2 33 (6.13%) NIST
3 27 (5.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (3.72%) QA
5 18 (3.35%) Data Quality
6 11 (2.04%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (1.49%) GRC
9 6 (1.12%) COBIT
9 6 (1.12%) NCSC
9 6 (1.12%) PCI DSS
9 6 (1.12%) PERC
9 6 (1.12%) PMO
9 6 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.37%) EU AI Act
12 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 2 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (4.28%) Docker
2 18 (3.35%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.37%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.37%) vSphere
6 1 (0.19%) Firmware
6 1 (0.19%) HDFS
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 24 (4.46%) Kubernetes
2 23 (4.28%) Terraform
3 12 (2.23%) Ansible
4 11 (2.04%) SCCM
5 10 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (1.67%) Grafana
7 6 (1.12%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.93%) NetBackup
9 3 (0.56%) CA Endevor
9 3 (0.56%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.56%) Kibana
9 3 (0.56%) Nmap
9 3 (0.56%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.37%) Puppet
11 1 (0.19%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.19%) Nessus
11 1 (0.19%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 83 (15.43%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.28%) Google
2 23 (4.28%) ServiceNow
3 19 (3.53%) Salesforce
4 16 (2.97%) Databricks
5 15 (2.79%) Oracle
6 14 (2.60%) SAP
7 12 (2.23%) VMware
8 11 (2.04%) Cisco
9 8 (1.49%) F5
10 7 (1.30%) Adobe
10 7 (1.30%) IBM
10 7 (1.30%) Juniper
10 7 (1.30%) Splunk
11 6 (1.12%) Citrix
11 6 (1.12%) ION Trading
11 6 (1.12%) Workday
12 5 (0.93%) Palo Alto
12 5 (0.93%) Solace
12 5 (0.93%) Veritas