Data Protection Contracts in the North West

Data Protection
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 69 37 26
Rank change year-on-year -32 -11 +12
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 54 115 198
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.77% 4.14% 6.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.06% 4.80% 6.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 66 125
10th Percentile - £309 £284
25th Percentile £203 £405 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +23.53% -15.00%
75th Percentile £524 £588 £530
90th Percentile £764 £644 £667
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 31 3
10th Percentile £16.19 £11.77 £21.43
25th Percentile £18.50 - £21.69
Median hourly rate £24.50 £16.06 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.55% -28.62% +116.35%
75th Percentile £25.87 - £44.88
90th Percentile £29.99 £21.00 £57.55
England median hourly rate £29.23 £21.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +39.19% -60.00% +147.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,763 2,396 2,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.32% 86.28% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,141 1,533 2,057
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £588
90th Percentile £662 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 244 144
10th Percentile £16.16 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.78 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £32.25 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.57% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £84.33 £57.50 £65.00
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in the North West

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in the North West

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in the North West

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in the North West

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Protection in the North West over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Protection in the North West

Data Protection
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester -9 28 £455 -13.33% 34
Cheshire -14 12 £447 -18.73% 8
Merseyside +8 6 £205 -18.00% 2
Lancashire -18 6 £558 -7.08% 16
Cumbria -1 2 £275 -
Data Protection
England

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 8 (14.81%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.70%) Confluence
2 2 (3.70%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.85%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) SAP APO
1 1 (1.85%) SAP PM
1 1 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.85%) SAP SCM
1 1 (1.85%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 7 (12.96%) Azure
2 5 (9.26%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (9.26%) Microsoft Purview
2 5 (9.26%) OneDrive
3 1 (1.85%) AWS
3 1 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (1.85%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (1.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.67%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (1.85%) DHCP
2 1 (1.85%) DNS
2 1 (1.85%) Firewall
2 1 (1.85%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.85%) SSH
2 1 (1.85%) VoIP
2 1 (1.85%) WAN
2 1 (1.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.56%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.70%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Git
1 2 (3.70%) JIRA
2 1 (1.85%) GitLab
2 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.96%) Finance
2 7 (12.96%) Legal
3 6 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.56%) Mandarin Language
4 3 (5.56%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.70%) Banking
5 2 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Local Government
6 1 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (18.52%) Data Engineer
2 9 (16.67%) Architect
2 9 (16.67%) Cabling Engineer
3 8 (14.81%) Analyst
4 5 (9.26%) Developer
5 4 (7.41%) Consultant
5 4 (7.41%) Support Analyst
6 3 (5.56%) Data Scientist
6 3 (5.56%) Project Manager
7 2 (3.70%) Administrator
7 2 (3.70%) C++ Developer
7 2 (3.70%) Data Administrator
7 2 (3.70%) Data Analyst
7 2 (3.70%) Integration Architect
7 2 (3.70%) Integration Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Junior
7 2 (3.70%) Junior Analyst
7 2 (3.70%) Lead
7 2 (3.70%) SAP Consultant
8 1 (1.85%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.70%) PyTorch
1 2 (3.70%) TensorFlow
2 1 (1.85%) FastAPI
2 1 (1.85%) Qt
2 1 (1.85%) React
2 1 (1.85%) RESTful
2 1 (1.85%) SAP Core Interface
2 1 (1.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (38.89%) Data Protection Act
2 9 (16.67%) Fibre Optics
3 3 (5.56%) Algorithms
3 3 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.70%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 2 (3.70%) Operational Technology
4 2 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.70%) SCADA
5 1 (1.85%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.85%) IoT
5 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.85%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.85%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.41%) Windows
2 3 (5.56%) Linux
3 1 (1.85%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (11.11%) Mentoring
3 6 (11.11%) Project Management
3 6 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 6 (11.11%) Technical Architecture
4 5 (9.26%) Cloud Security
4 5 (9.26%) Data Governance
4 5 (9.26%) Data Loss Prevention
4 5 (9.26%) Performance Optimisation
4 5 (9.26%) PRINCE2
4 5 (9.26%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (9.26%) Zero Trust
5 4 (7.41%) Data Management
5 4 (7.41%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (7.41%) Information Security
5 4 (7.41%) SFIA
5 4 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (5.56%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (11.11%) Python
2 5 (9.26%) PowerShell
3 3 (5.56%) C++
4 2 (3.70%) R
4 2 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 11 (20.37%) SC Cleared
3 9 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 6 (11.11%) Degree
5 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.70%) APMG
7 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.85%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.85%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.41%) GDPR
2 3 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.70%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.70%) PMO
4 1 (1.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.85%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.85%) Hyper-V
1 1 (1.85%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.85%) FortiGate
1 1 (1.85%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.85%) NetBackup
1 1 (1.85%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 9 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.56%) SAP
3 2 (3.70%) AVEVA
3 2 (3.70%) IBM
3 2 (3.70%) Rockwell
3 2 (3.70%) Siemens
4 1 (1.85%) Adobe
4 1 (1.85%) Apple
4 1 (1.85%) Cisco
4 1 (1.85%) Dell
4 1 (1.85%) Google
4 1 (1.85%) IBM Sterling
4 1 (1.85%) OneTrust
4 1 (1.85%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.85%) VMware
4 1 (1.85%) Workday