Data Protection Contracts in the North East

Data Protection
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East requiring Data Protection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 30 50
Rank change year-on-year +11 +20 -11
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 20 9 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 6.31% 2.65% 2.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.75% 3.30% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 5
10th Percentile £295 - £514
25th Percentile £325 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £503 - £575
90th Percentile £556 - £609
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 258 273 388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 81.39% 80.29% 91.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 129 301
10th Percentile £225 £228 £255
25th Percentile £358 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £650 £655 £720
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 47 2
10th Percentile - £11.44 £32.98
25th Percentile £11.60 £11.81 £35.56
Median hourly rate £14.07 £15.46 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% -62.06% +146.97%
75th Percentile £46.82 £47.47 £45.56
90th Percentile £51.68 £50.00 £47.93
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.83 £37.50
% change year-on-year -16.27% -4.45% +53.20%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Data Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in the North East

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in the North East

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in the North East over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in the North East

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in the North East

Data Protection
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Tyne and Wear +4 19 £425 - 4
Data Protection
England

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (5.00%) CMS
1 1 (5.00%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Chatbot
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.00%) MadCap Flare
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) Azure
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (10.00%) Serverless
3 2 (10.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (5.00%) dbt
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) Power Automate
4 1 (5.00%) Stitch
4 1 (5.00%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (10.00%) Redis
2 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
1 2 (10.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (10.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
1 5 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) French Language
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) German Language
4 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Developer
2 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Security Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) IT Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) IT Security Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) C# Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
5 1 (5.00%) Agile Coach
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) OpenEdge Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) CSS
1 3 (15.00%) HTML
2 2 (10.00%) .NET
2 2 (10.00%) Micronaut
2 2 (10.00%) RESTful
3 1 (5.00%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 19 (95.00%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (15.00%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
5 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (5.00%) PMI
5 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Agile
2 5 (25.00%) Information Security
2 5 (25.00%) Information Security Management
2 5 (25.00%) ISMS
2 5 (25.00%) Security Management
2 5 (25.00%) Zero Trust
3 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (15.00%) SDLC
4 2 (10.00%) API Integration
4 2 (10.00%) Conversational UI
4 2 (10.00%) Data Analysis
4 2 (10.00%) Kanban
4 2 (10.00%) Microservices
5 1 (5.00%) Agile Coaching
5 1 (5.00%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (5.00%) Iteration Planning
5 1 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (5.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) C#
2 2 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (10.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.00%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (10.00%) QA
3 1 (5.00%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (10.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) Cisco
2 5 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 5 (25.00%) HP
2 5 (25.00%) Veeam
2 5 (25.00%) VMware
3 3 (15.00%) New Relic
4 1 (5.00%) Ariba
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.00%) SAP