Data Protection Contract Job Trends in Nottingham

Data Protection
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottingham requiring Data Protection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 21 18
Rank change year-on-year -10 -3 +9
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 5 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Nottingham 1.43% 1.50% 2.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 1.94% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £65 -
Median % change year-on-year +553.85% - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £425 £65 -
% change year-on-year +553.85% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Nottingham

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 Nottingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 258 103 94
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottingham 73.93% 77.44% 78.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 62 58
10th Percentile £263 £192 £256
25th Percentile £413 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% -2.00% -6.76%
75th Percentile £588 £559 £569
90th Percentile £650 £669 £613
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £488 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -0.51% -2.00% -4.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 13 11
10th Percentile £13.25 £15.12 £12.42
25th Percentile £13.51 £16.11 £12.73
Median hourly rate £17.87 £17.87 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year - +32.37% -44.91%
75th Percentile £19.03 - £14.69
90th Percentile £19.13 - £15.25
Nottinghamshire median hourly rate £17.87 £16.35 £13.52
% change year-on-year +9.30% +20.93% -72.27%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

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

Data Protection job vacancy trend in Nottingham

Data Protection
Daily Rate Trend in Nottingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Data Protection

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Trend in Nottingham

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Data Protection

Data Protection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottingham 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 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (40.00%) SaaS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) Gatling
2 2 (40.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) Gradle
2 2 (40.00%) JMeter
2 2 (40.00%) JUnit
2 2 (40.00%) Maven
2 2 (40.00%) Postman
2 2 (40.00%) REST Assured
2 2 (40.00%) TestNG
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Migration Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Migration Project Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS Project Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) JSON
1 2 (40.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (40.00%) Playwright
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) Swagger
1 2 (40.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (20.00%) Hedge funds
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) CentOS
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Observability
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) API Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Dependency Management
2 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) OOP
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (20.00%) Agile Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Change Control
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Graceful Degradation
3 1 (20.00%) Information Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Project Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat