Data Protection Contracts in London

Data Protection
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Data Protection skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Protection over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 118 120
Rank change year-on-year +27 +2 +133
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 451 597 922
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.56% 2.28% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.88% 2.51% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 396 643
10th Percentile £243 £350 £413
25th Percentile £413 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £672 £738 £725
90th Percentile £773 £825 £785
England median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.71% -4.55% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 5
10th Percentile £11.95 £53.00 £15.43
25th Percentile £12.69 £55.63 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £62.50 £47.11
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +32.67% +114.14%
75th Percentile £51.25 £70.63 £48.76
90th Percentile £68.13 £74.00 £64.20
England median hourly rate £21.00 £48.52 £22.50
% change year-on-year -56.71% +115.62% -2.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Data Protection is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,657 23,832 35,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.72% 90.97% 92.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,214 17,166 25,985
10th Percentile £341 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 313 270 416
10th Percentile £15.96 £18.45 £17.40
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £38.25 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.80% +4.08% +13.08%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.94 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.40 £80.23 £69.06
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Data Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in London

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in London.

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in London

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in London

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in London

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Protection in London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

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 May 2024. 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 +53 30 £610 +10.91% 13
East London +10 12 £630 +20.00% 5
West London +14 9 £275 -45.00% 9
South London +7 4 £500 -16.67% 2
Data Protection
England

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (3.10%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.55%) Confluence
4 5 (1.11%) Apache
5 4 (0.89%) govService
6 3 (0.67%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.67%) SAS
7 2 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.44%) Gunicorn
8 1 (0.22%) IBM Notes
8 1 (0.22%) Mule
8 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 23 (5.10%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.44%) Mingle
3 2 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.22%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.22%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (0.89%) Endur
2 3 (0.67%) ION MarketView
2 3 (0.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.22%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.22%) SAP MDM
3 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 51 (11.31%) AWS
2 42 (9.31%) Azure
3 21 (4.66%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (3.10%) GCP
5 13 (2.88%) Power Platform
6 11 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (2.44%) Amazon S3
6 11 (2.44%) SaaS
7 9 (2.00%) OneDrive
8 8 (1.77%) Entra ID
8 8 (1.77%) WhatsApp
9 7 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (1.55%) Microsoft Purview
9 7 (1.55%) Serverless
9 7 (1.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (1.33%) GitHub
11 5 (1.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (0.89%) Azure Stack
13 3 (0.67%) Alation
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.10%) DNS
2 9 (2.00%) DHCP
3 8 (1.77%) HTTP
3 8 (1.77%) VPN
3 8 (1.77%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (1.55%) 5G
4 7 (1.55%) Firewall
4 7 (1.55%) SAN
4 7 (1.55%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.33%) Wireless
6 5 (1.11%) Network Security
7 4 (0.89%) SWIFTNet
8 3 (0.67%) BGP
8 3 (0.67%) LAN
8 3 (0.67%) SSL
8 3 (0.67%) VSAN
8 3 (0.67%) WAN
9 2 (0.44%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.44%) NAS
9 2 (0.44%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.10%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (3.55%) Big Data
3 12 (2.66%) Metadata
4 11 (2.44%) Power BI
5 9 (2.00%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.00%) SQL Server
6 7 (1.55%) Data Lake
7 6 (1.33%) MongoDB
7 6 (1.33%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.33%) Tableau
8 5 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.11%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (0.89%) KDB
9 4 (0.89%) Star Schema
10 3 (0.67%) Data Mining
10 3 (0.67%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.67%) MySQL
10 3 (0.67%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 25 (5.54%) Git
2 16 (3.55%) JIRA
3 14 (3.10%) Jenkins
4 12 (2.66%) ERwin
5 6 (1.33%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (1.11%) XCTest
7 3 (0.67%) JUnit
7 3 (0.67%) Selenium
7 3 (0.67%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.44%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.44%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.44%) FitNesse
8 2 (0.44%) GitLab
8 2 (0.44%) JMeter
8 2 (0.44%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.44%) Postman
8 2 (0.44%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.22%) Babel
9 1 (0.22%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.22%) webpack
General
1 90 (19.96%) Social Skills
2 85 (18.85%) Finance
3 55 (12.20%) Public Sector
4 40 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (8.87%) Legal
5 38 (8.43%) Banking
6 17 (3.77%) Telecoms
7 16 (3.55%) Marketing
8 15 (3.33%) Retail
9 12 (2.66%) Law
10 10 (2.22%) Local Government
11 9 (2.00%) Games
11 9 (2.00%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.77%) Electronics
13 7 (1.55%) Back Office
13 7 (1.55%) Billing
13 7 (1.55%) Police
13 7 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.11%) Publishing
15 4 (0.89%) Military
Job Titles
1 75 (16.63%) Architect
2 54 (11.97%) Lead
3 52 (11.53%) Developer
4 42 (9.31%) Analyst
5 35 (7.76%) Senior
6 30 (6.65%) Project Manager
7 23 (5.10%) Consultant
8 18 (3.99%) Data Architect
9 15 (3.33%) QA Engineer
9 15 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
10 14 (3.10%) Enterprise Architect
11 13 (2.88%) QA Leader
11 13 (2.88%) Technical Architect
12 12 (2.66%) Business Analyst
12 12 (2.66%) Senior Manager
13 11 (2.44%) Python Developer
14 10 (2.22%) Security Architect
14 10 (2.22%) Support Engineer
15 9 (2.00%) Administrator
15 9 (2.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.66%) Kafka
1 12 (2.66%) REST
2 11 (2.44%) JSON
3 10 (2.22%) XML
4 7 (1.55%) React
4 7 (1.55%) SwiftUI
5 6 (1.33%) Node.js
5 6 (1.33%) Spring
6 5 (1.11%) AngularJS
6 5 (1.11%) RESTful
7 4 (0.89%) CSS
7 4 (0.89%) FastAPI
7 4 (0.89%) Flask
7 4 (0.89%) Middleware
8 3 (0.67%) Apache Avro
8 3 (0.67%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.67%) HTML
8 3 (0.67%) SAML
8 3 (0.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 289 (64.08%) Data Protection Act
2 33 (7.32%) Management Information System
3 24 (5.32%) Freedom of Information
4 17 (3.77%) Data Centre
5 16 (3.55%) Freedom of Information Act
6 14 (3.10%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.00%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.77%) Cloud Native
8 8 (1.77%) Derivative
8 8 (1.77%) Wiki
9 7 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.55%) NHS
9 7 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.33%) FPGA
10 6 (1.33%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.33%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.11%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 3 (0.67%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 33 (7.32%) Linux
1 33 (7.32%) Windows
2 11 (2.44%) Apple iOS
3 8 (1.77%) Unix
4 7 (1.55%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.33%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.11%) Android
7 2 (0.44%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.44%) VMS
8 1 (0.22%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (18.40%) Agile
2 47 (10.42%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (9.76%) Cybersecurity
4 39 (8.65%) Project Management
5 37 (8.20%) Data Modelling
6 36 (7.98%) Analytics
7 33 (7.32%) Information Security
8 32 (7.10%) CI/CD
9 31 (6.87%) Stakeholder Management
10 29 (6.43%) Risk Management
10 29 (6.43%) Test Automation
11 28 (6.21%) Roadmaps
12 27 (5.99%) Business Intelligence
12 27 (5.99%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (5.99%) Decision-Making
12 27 (5.99%) Value Proposition
13 26 (5.76%) Migration
14 25 (5.54%) Microservices
14 25 (5.54%) Scrum
15 24 (5.32%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 66 (14.63%) Python
2 37 (8.20%) Java
3 36 (7.98%) SQL
4 16 (3.55%) C++
5 15 (3.33%) PowerShell
6 12 (2.66%) Bash
7 10 (2.22%) JavaScript
7 10 (2.22%) Swift
8 9 (2.00%) Perl
9 8 (1.77%) Scala
9 8 (1.77%) TypeScript
10 6 (1.33%) C#
11 4 (0.89%) C
11 4 (0.89%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.67%) PHP
13 2 (0.44%) Go
13 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.44%) U-SQL
14 1 (0.22%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.22%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 44 (9.76%) Degree
2 26 (5.76%) Security Cleared
3 21 (4.66%) SC Cleared
4 17 (3.77%) CISSP
5 13 (2.88%) CISM
6 10 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.89%) CTC Cleared
8 4 (0.89%) DBS Check
8 4 (0.89%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.67%) CCSK
9 3 (0.67%) CISA
10 2 (0.44%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.44%) CCIE
10 2 (0.44%) CCNP
10 2 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.44%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.44%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (10.86%) GDPR
2 37 (8.20%) QA
3 36 (7.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 31 (6.87%) Data Quality
5 28 (6.21%) NIST
6 11 (2.44%) Accessibility
7 9 (2.00%) GRC
8 7 (1.55%) SLA
9 6 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 4 (0.89%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 4 (0.89%) NCSC
10 4 (0.89%) PMO
11 3 (0.67%) COBIT
11 3 (0.67%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.44%) HL7
12 2 (0.44%) ISAE 3402
12 2 (0.44%) MiFID
13 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 23 (5.10%) Active Directory
2 17 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (3.33%) Docker
4 6 (1.33%) vSphere
5 4 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.44%) NFS
7 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (4.88%) Terraform
2 17 (3.77%) Kubernetes
3 12 (2.66%) Ansible
4 11 (2.44%) SCCM
5 6 (1.33%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.44%) Ambari
6 2 (0.44%) Grafana
6 2 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.44%) NetBackup
6 2 (0.44%) Oozie
6 2 (0.44%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.44%) VxRail
7 1 (0.22%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.22%) Nessus
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.22%) Packer
7 1 (0.22%) Puppet
7 1 (0.22%) systemd
7 1 (0.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 53 (11.75%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.66%) Cisco
3 18 (3.99%) VMware
4 15 (3.33%) SAP
5 14 (3.10%) Oracle
6 13 (2.88%) Google
7 11 (2.44%) Sparx
8 9 (2.00%) Apple
9 8 (1.77%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.55%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.33%) Dell
11 6 (1.33%) Splunk
12 5 (1.11%) Cadence
12 5 (1.11%) IBM
12 5 (1.11%) ION Trading
12 5 (1.11%) Okta
13 3 (0.67%) Databricks
13 3 (0.67%) Murex
13 3 (0.67%) OneTrust
13 3 (0.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud