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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 66 56
Rank change year-on-year +26 -10 -21
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 23 27 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 3.94% 2.25% 3.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.28% 2.59% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 25
10th Percentile £342 £118 £210
25th Percentile £431 £121 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -11.11% -20.00%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £538
90th Percentile £588 £563 £669
Berkshire median daily rate £522 £438 £425
% change year-on-year +19.20% +2.94% -19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £69.38 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £42.50 -

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 537 1,044 999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.95% 86.86% 87.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 544 654
10th Percentile £350 £316 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £639 £650
90th Percentile £700 £700 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.95% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 48 25
10th Percentile - £14.50 £29.10
25th Percentile £14.75 £50.89 £53.50
Median hourly rate £20.75 £60.83 £65.13
Median % change year-on-year -65.89% -6.60% +117.08%
75th Percentile £38.42 £78.84 £74.00
90th Percentile £60.50 £87.51 £76.29
Berkshire median hourly rate £37.28 £60.53 £60.00
% change year-on-year -38.41% +0.88% +166.67%

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 20 July 2025.

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (4.35%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) Azure
2 5 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (13.04%) Entra ID
3 3 (13.04%) SonarCloud
4 2 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (8.70%) AWS
4 2 (8.70%) GitHub
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.35%) GCP
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.35%) OCI
5 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) Network Security
2 1 (4.35%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (4.35%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (4.35%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) iSCSI
2 1 (4.35%) Unified Communications
2 1 (4.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Git
1 3 (13.04%) Snyk
2 2 (8.70%) GitLab
3 1 (4.35%) Burp Suite
3 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.35%) Metasploit
General
1 13 (56.52%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.35%) Marketing
4 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Project Manager
1 5 (21.74%) Security Manager
1 5 (21.74%) Security Project Manager
2 4 (17.39%) Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Compliance Manager
3 3 (13.04%) Compliance Project Manager
3 3 (13.04%) Data Compliance Manager
3 3 (13.04%) Security Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Security Compliance Manager
3 3 (13.04%) Support Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Oracle Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
4 2 (8.70%) Security Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
5 1 (4.35%) Network Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) Google JAX
1 3 (13.04%) JAX
1 3 (13.04%) PyTorch
1 3 (13.04%) scikit-learn
1 3 (13.04%) TensorFlow
1 3 (13.04%) Web Services
2 2 (8.70%) OAuth
3 1 (4.35%) .NET
3 1 (4.35%) CSS
3 1 (4.35%) HTML
3 1 (4.35%) React
3 1 (4.35%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (13.04%) Algorithms
2 3 (13.04%) Data Structures
3 2 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (8.70%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.35%) FlexPod
4 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) DevOps
1 10 (43.48%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
2 4 (17.39%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (17.39%) Migration
2 4 (17.39%) OWASP
2 4 (17.39%) Threat Modelling
2 4 (17.39%) Validation
2 4 (17.39%) Workflow
3 3 (13.04%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (13.04%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (13.04%) Data Mapping
3 3 (13.04%) Deep Learning
3 3 (13.04%) Integration Testing
3 3 (13.04%) Machine Learning
3 3 (13.04%) Regulatory Compliance
3 3 (13.04%) Secure Coding
3 3 (13.04%) Security Architecture
3 3 (13.04%) SOA
3 3 (13.04%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (17.39%) C
1 4 (17.39%) C++
1 4 (17.39%) Java
1 4 (17.39%) Python
2 3 (13.04%) PL/SQL
2 3 (13.04%) R
2 3 (13.04%) SQL
3 1 (4.35%) C#
3 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Degree
1 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.70%) OSCP
2 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.35%) CCSP
3 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.35%) CISSP
3 1 (4.35%) GPEN
3 1 (4.35%) GWAPT
3 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.35%) OSCE
3 1 (4.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (30.43%) GDPR
2 5 (21.74%) NIST
3 4 (17.39%) EU AI Act
4 3 (13.04%) GRC
4 3 (13.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (13.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (4.35%) HIPAA
5 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.70%) Docker
3 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (4.35%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.70%) Cisco
4 1 (4.35%) Aruba
4 1 (4.35%) Commvault
4 1 (4.35%) F5
4 1 (4.35%) Fortinet
4 1 (4.35%) HP
4 1 (4.35%) IBM
4 1 (4.35%) Juniper
4 1 (4.35%) NetApp
4 1 (4.35%) Okta
4 1 (4.35%) Progress
4 1 (4.35%) Rapid7
4 1 (4.35%) VMware