Data Protection Contracts in Reading

Data Protection
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 45 32
Rank change year-on-year -25 -13 +31
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 29 40 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.40% 3.82% 5.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 4.34% 6.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 26 47
10th Percentile £121 £219 £385
25th Percentile £164 £366 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £450 £535
Median % change year-on-year -38.89% -15.89% +42.67%
75th Percentile £475 £641 £638
90th Percentile £513 £688 £698
Berkshire median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +37.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,058 922 1,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 87.51% 88.06% 90.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 542 595 794
10th Percentile £214 £363 £247
25th Percentile £413 £456 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +10.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £655
Berkshire median daily rate £509 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.14% +5.00% +6.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 22 9
10th Percentile £15.40 £45.25 £13.15
25th Percentile £51.86 £55.91 £21.25
Median hourly rate £60.83 £68.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.54% +126.67% -21.05%
75th Percentile £75.83 £75.56 £34.89
90th Percentile £87.51 £79.19 £38.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £60.53 £63.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -3.92% +200.00% -2.33%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Data Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in Reading

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in Reading

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in Reading over the 6 months to 16 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in Reading

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in Reading

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.24%) Azure
2 3 (10.34%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (6.90%) AWS
3 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (6.90%) PaaS
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.45%) Azure AKS
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) MPLS
2 2 (6.90%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (6.90%) Firewall
2 2 (6.90%) Intranet
2 2 (6.90%) SD-WAN
2 2 (6.90%) WAN
3 1 (3.45%) 5G
3 1 (3.45%) BGP
3 1 (3.45%) GGSN
3 1 (3.45%) Internet
3 1 (3.45%) PBX
3 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.45%) VoIP
3 1 (3.45%) VPN
3 1 (3.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.45%) Big Data
2 1 (3.45%) MySQL
2 1 (3.45%) RDBMS
2 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 14 (48.28%) Social Skills
2 9 (31.03%) Legal
3 7 (24.14%) Marketing
4 6 (20.69%) Law
4 6 (20.69%) Telecoms
5 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (10.34%) Mandarin Language
6 3 (10.34%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.45%) Advertising
7 1 (3.45%) Billing
7 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Architect
2 4 (13.79%) Network Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 3 (10.34%) C# Developer
3 3 (10.34%) Developer
3 3 (10.34%) Security Architect
4 2 (6.90%) HR Assistant
4 2 (6.90%) Network Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Consultant
5 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Officer
5 1 (3.45%) DBA
5 1 (3.45%) Junior
5 1 (3.45%) Junior Project Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Project Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Senior
5 1 (3.45%) Senior C# Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) Google JAX
1 3 (10.34%) PyTorch
1 3 (10.34%) scikit-learn
1 3 (10.34%) TensorFlow
2 1 (3.45%) CSS
2 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 20 (68.97%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (10.34%) Algorithms
2 3 (10.34%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Linux
1 3 (10.34%) Windows
2 2 (6.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (24.14%) B2C
1 7 (24.14%) Collaborative Working
1 7 (24.14%) Data Privacy
2 6 (20.69%) Data Management
2 6 (20.69%) Data Sharing
2 6 (20.69%) Impact Assessments
2 6 (20.69%) Information Security
3 5 (17.24%) DevOps
4 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (13.79%) Workflow
5 3 (10.34%) CI/CD
5 3 (10.34%) Customer-Centricity
5 3 (10.34%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (10.34%) Data Science
5 3 (10.34%) DataOps
5 3 (10.34%) Incident Response
5 3 (10.34%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 3 (10.34%) MLOps
5 3 (10.34%) Secure Coding
5 3 (10.34%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.79%) C#
1 4 (13.79%) Java
1 4 (13.79%) Python
2 3 (10.34%) C
2 3 (10.34%) C++
2 3 (10.34%) R
2 3 (10.34%) SQL
3 1 (3.45%) F#
3 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) ISEB
2 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
3 4 (13.79%) Degree
3 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.45%) CEH
4 1 (3.45%) CISSP
4 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (37.93%) GDPR
2 3 (10.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (10.34%) NIST
3 2 (6.90%) QA
4 1 (3.45%) PMO
4 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.45%) Ansible
2 1 (3.45%) Grafana
2 1 (3.45%) Graylog
2 1 (3.45%) Nagios
2 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
2 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Cisco
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.90%) F5
4 1 (3.45%) Dell
4 1 (3.45%) Meraki
4 1 (3.45%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.45%) Splunk
4 1 (3.45%) VMware