Data Protection Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Data Protection
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Data Protection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 47 50
Rank change year-on-year +9 +3 +9
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 8 5 8
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 2.42% 1.74% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.85% 2.01% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 7
10th Percentile £392 - £118
25th Percentile £453 £463 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% +11.76% -32.00%
75th Percentile £500 £488 £538
90th Percentile £566 - £640
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £490 £663 £425
% change year-on-year -26.04% +55.88% -30.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 281 249 490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 85.15% 86.46% 93.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 177 378
10th Percentile £224 £243 £279
25th Percentile £352 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £613
90th Percentile £630 £664 £700
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £445 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -11.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 7 13
10th Percentile £14.90 £13.93 £13.16
25th Percentile £18.00 £16.96 £16.00
Median hourly rate £29.61 £22.50 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.60% +9.76% +20.59%
75th Percentile £31.21 £36.37 £24.00
90th Percentile £36.00 £37.25 £28.80
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year -26.03% +60.00% +34.92%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Protection relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Data Protection job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Data Protection
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Data Protection.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Data Protection

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 6 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in Milton Keynes

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Data Protection.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Data Protection

Data Protection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 1 (12.50%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) iSCSI
1 1 (12.50%) NAS
1 1 (12.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
General
1 5 (62.50%) Law
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) NetApp Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) PHP Developer
2 1 (12.50%) PHP WordPress Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) CSS
1 1 (12.50%) CSS3
1 1 (12.50%) HTML
1 1 (12.50%) HTML5
1 1 (12.50%) Middleware
1 1 (12.50%) REST
1 1 (12.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Freedom of Information Act
2 4 (50.00%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
3 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (62.50%) Data Privacy
3 1 (12.50%) Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) API Integration
3 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
3 1 (12.50%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (12.50%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven
3 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (12.50%) Inventory Management
3 1 (12.50%) Microservices
3 1 (12.50%) Personalization
3 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
3 1 (12.50%) Software Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
1 1 (12.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) DV Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
1 1 (12.50%) NFS
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) SnapMirror
1 1 (12.50%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) NetApp
1 1 (12.50%) VMware