Data Protection Contract Job Trends in Oxford

Data Protection
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxford requiring Data Protection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 12 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 7.55% 3.39% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.16% 4.55% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £520 - -
25th Percentile £550 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% - -
75th Percentile - £488 -
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £600 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +26.32% - +11.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 49 44 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 92.45% 74.58% 75.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 39 60
10th Percentile £222 £204 £162
25th Percentile £256 £271 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £413
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £544 £531 £488
90th Percentile £670 £575 £651
Oxfordshire median daily rate £450 £450 £450
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.15 - -
Median hourly rate £51.08 - -
75th Percentile £87.97 - -
90th Percentile £89.63 - -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £25.15 £25.99 £32.32
% change year-on-year -3.23% -19.59% +61.60%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Data Protection job vacancy trend in Oxford

Data Protection
Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

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

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

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxford

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

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

Data Protection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford 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 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Law
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Migration Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Transformation Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Educational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Change Management
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 2 (50.00%) RBAC
2 2 (50.00%) Runbook
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (25.00%) Budget Management
3 1 (25.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Proactive Management
3 1 (25.00%) Product Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Product Vision
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (25.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Sophos