Data Protection Contract Job Trends in the North East

Data Protection
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Data Protection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 18 21
Rank change year-on-year -13 +3 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 19 27 11
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 4.63% 9.12% 4.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.25% 9.85% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 1
10th Percentile £378 £340 -
25th Percentile £392 £378 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -20.00%
75th Percentile £476 £494 -
90th Percentile £479 £520 -
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -8.26%

All Process & 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 362 274 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 88.29% 92.57% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 130 148
10th Percentile £176 £310 £225
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £498 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% +10.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £530 £593 £575
90th Percentile £588 £722 £712
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 24 13
10th Percentile £15.17 £14.03 £15.47
25th Percentile £17.88 £15.44 £16.25
Median hourly rate £48.00 £18.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +159.46% -59.94% +29.17%
75th Percentile £53.75 £46.18 -
90th Percentile £57.00 - £64.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.35%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Data Protection job vacancy trend in the North East

Data Protection
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Data Protection.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Data Protection

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Data Protection.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Data Protection

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 29 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
Tyne and Wear -12 18 £425 +1.49% 11
Durham +2 1 - - 1
Data Protection
England

Data Protection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 (5.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) AWS
1 4 (21.05%) SaaS
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (10.53%) GitHub
3 2 (10.53%) Intacct
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.26%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
1 2 (10.53%) Postman
2 1 (5.26%) TestRail
2 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Mandarin Language
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.26%) Marketing
4 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Business Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) PHP Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Product Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Support Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Support
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Support Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Designer
5 1 (5.26%) Governance Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Lead
5 1 (5.26%) Lead Product Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (5.26%) QA Tester
5 1 (5.26%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Product Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) REST
2 1 (5.26%) .NET
2 1 (5.26%) Middleware
2 1 (5.26%) OpenAPI
2 1 (5.26%) Swagger
2 1 (5.26%) Web Services
2 1 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (84.21%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.26%) Robotics
3 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (21.05%) Business Strategy
1 4 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (21.05%) Customer Experience
1 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (15.79%) Fintech
2 3 (15.79%) Microservices
2 3 (15.79%) Project Management
2 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (10.53%) Process Improvement
3 2 (10.53%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (10.53%) Strategic Planning
3 2 (10.53%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (10.53%) Workflow
4 1 (5.26%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (5.26%) Incident Response
4 1 (5.26%) Product Requirements
4 1 (5.26%) Product Strategy
4 1 (5.26%) Product Thinking
4 1 (5.26%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) PHP
2 1 (5.26%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.26%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) GDPR
2 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.26%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) PagerDuty
2 1 (5.26%) Sage