Data Protection Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Data Protection
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring Data Protection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 - 42
Rank change year-on-year - - -3
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 19 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 6.21% - 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.76% - 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £420 - -
25th Percentile £431 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +29.41%
75th Percentile £513 - -
90th Percentile £550 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £550 £468
% change year-on-year -9.09% +17.65% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £15.72 - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £21.35 - £47.22

All Process & Methodology Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 217 130 216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 70.92% 73.45% 91.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 73 90
10th Percentile £352 £366 £400
25th Percentile £460 £418 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £623 £588 £675
90th Percentile £684 £626 £850
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £545 £588
% change year-on-year +0.92% -7.23% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 27 86
10th Percentile £14.82 £28.81 £51.06
25th Percentile £46.74 £36.97 £53.40
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -12.82% -0.26%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.55 £63.00 £76.86
Hampshire median hourly rate £46.54 £45.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +3.43% -21.53% +4.27%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Data Protection job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

Data Protection
Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

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

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in Portsmouth

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

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

Data Protection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 15 (78.95%) Power Platform
2 2 (10.53%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (10.53%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (78.95%) Power BI
2 2 (10.53%) BusinessObjects
General
1 15 (78.95%) Finance
2 13 (68.42%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (68.42%) Documentation Skills
2 13 (68.42%) Retail
3 3 (15.79%) Legal
3 3 (15.79%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Police
3 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
3 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (68.42%) Lead
2 3 (15.79%) Administrator
3 2 (10.53%) IT Manager
3 2 (10.53%) IT Project Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Backup Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Data Migration Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Data Migration Project Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Migration Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Migration Project Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Storage and Backup Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Storage Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Transformation Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Transformation Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) e-Learning
2 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (5.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) Business Intelligence
1 15 (78.95%) Data Cleansing
1 15 (78.95%) Migration
1 15 (78.95%) User Acceptance Testing
2 13 (68.42%) Change Management
2 13 (68.42%) ERP
2 13 (68.42%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (68.42%) Process Improvement
2 13 (68.42%) Requirements Gathering
2 13 (68.42%) Scenario Testing
2 13 (68.42%) Stakeholder Management
2 13 (68.42%) Validation
3 3 (15.79%) Digital Forensics
4 2 (10.53%) Change Control
4 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (10.53%) Data Extraction
4 2 (10.53%) Decision-Making
4 2 (10.53%) Information Governance
4 2 (10.53%) Line Management
4 2 (10.53%) Project Governance
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (78.95%) GDPR
2 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.53%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 13 (68.42%) IFS
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) NEC
3 1 (5.26%) NetApp
3 1 (5.26%) VMware