Data Protection Contracts in Scotland

Data Protection
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 34 30
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 -8
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 104 123 205
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 6.44% 5.54% 7.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.89% 6.25% 7.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 53 110
10th Percentile £259 £185 £269
25th Percentile £331 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £494
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% -3.80% +3.95%
75th Percentile £531 £575 £579
90th Percentile £550 £638 £636
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £52.18
25th Percentile £26.32 - £53.58
Median hourly rate £27.35 - £56.53
75th Percentile £28.38 - £58.85
90th Percentile - - £59.87
UK median hourly rate £27.64 £20.25 £52.50
% change year-on-year +36.49% -61.43% +162.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,509 1,967 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.49% 88.60% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 918 1,198 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in Scotland

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in Scotland

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in Scotland over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in Scotland

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in Scotland

Data Protection
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Protection within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +25 54 £500 -6.98% 7
Edinburgh -14 36 £400 -20.00% 14
West Lothian +3 1 - -
West Dunbartonshire - 1 £188 -
Highlands - 1 - -
Perthshire - 1 - -
Data Protection
UK

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (4.81%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.88%) Confluence
3 2 (1.92%) Camunda
3 2 (1.92%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.92%) SAS
3 2 (1.92%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.96%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.96%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (16.35%) AWS
1 17 (16.35%) Azure
2 15 (14.42%) Cloud Computing
3 14 (13.46%) Amazon S3
4 12 (11.54%) OpenShift
5 7 (6.73%) Cohesity
5 7 (6.73%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (5.77%) GitHub
6 6 (5.77%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.85%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.88%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.88%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.92%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.92%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.92%) SaaS
10 1 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.96%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (0.96%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.58%) NAS
1 11 (10.58%) SAN
2 4 (3.85%) Network Security
3 3 (2.88%) Firewall
4 2 (1.92%) DNS
5 1 (0.96%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.96%) DHCP
5 1 (0.96%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.96%) LAN
5 1 (0.96%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.81%) Relational Database
2 4 (3.85%) Power BI
3 3 (2.88%) DB2
3 3 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.88%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (1.92%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.92%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.96%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.96%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.96%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.96%) KDB
5 1 (0.96%) Kdb+
5 1 (0.96%) OLAP
5 1 (0.96%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (18.27%) Git
2 11 (10.58%) Jenkins
3 9 (8.65%) JIRA
4 4 (3.85%) Maven
5 3 (2.88%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.88%) GitLab
5 3 (2.88%) Xcode
6 2 (1.92%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.92%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (1.92%) Mercurial
6 2 (1.92%) Selenium
6 2 (1.92%) Subversion
7 1 (0.96%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.96%) JUnit
7 1 (0.96%) Postman
7 1 (0.96%) Zephyr
General
1 40 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 34 (32.69%) Finance
3 27 (25.96%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (12.50%) Banking
5 6 (5.77%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.81%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.92%) Marketing
9 1 (0.96%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.96%) Front Office
9 1 (0.96%) German Language
9 1 (0.96%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (18.27%) Developer
2 9 (8.65%) Analyst
3 8 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (7.69%) Python Developer
4 6 (5.77%) Architect
5 5 (4.81%) Build Engineer
5 5 (4.81%) Business Analyst
5 5 (4.81%) Data Engineer
5 5 (4.81%) Java Developer
5 5 (4.81%) NetBackup Engineer
5 5 (4.81%) Project Manager
6 4 (3.85%) Administrator
6 4 (3.85%) Backup Engineer
6 4 (3.85%) Build and Release Engineer
6 4 (3.85%) Linux Build Engineer
6 4 (3.85%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (3.85%) Linux Scripter
6 4 (3.85%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 4 (3.85%) Release Engineer
6 4 (3.85%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.77%) Spring
2 4 (3.85%) RESTful
3 3 (2.88%) Middleware
3 3 (2.88%) REST
3 3 (2.88%) Spring Boot
3 3 (2.88%) SwiftUI
3 3 (2.88%) UIKit
3 3 (2.88%) Web Services
4 2 (1.92%) .NET
4 2 (1.92%) JDBC
4 2 (1.92%) Kafka
4 2 (1.92%) LDAP
4 2 (1.92%) React
4 2 (1.92%) SPFx
5 1 (0.96%) CSS
5 1 (0.96%) DOM
5 1 (0.96%) EJB
5 1 (0.96%) HTML
5 1 (0.96%) J2EE
5 1 (0.96%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 67 (64.42%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (5.77%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.81%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.85%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.85%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.88%) Credit Risk
5 3 (2.88%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.88%) iPad
5 3 (2.88%) iPhone
5 3 (2.88%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.92%) Blog
6 2 (1.92%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.92%) CMDB
6 2 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.92%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.92%) Social Media
7 1 (0.96%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.96%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 21 (20.19%) Linux
1 21 (20.19%) Windows
2 18 (17.31%) Unix
3 14 (13.46%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.85%) Android
5 3 (2.88%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.96%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.96%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.96%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (28.85%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (25.00%) Agile
3 23 (22.12%) CI/CD
4 17 (16.35%) SDLC
5 16 (15.38%) Decision-Making
6 11 (10.58%) Data Deduplication
6 11 (10.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (9.62%) Observability
7 10 (9.62%) Software Engineering
8 9 (8.65%) Computer Science
8 9 (8.65%) DevOps
8 9 (8.65%) Migration
9 8 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (7.69%) Project Management
9 8 (7.69%) Scrum
10 7 (6.73%) Data Analysis
10 7 (6.73%) Penetration Testing
10 7 (6.73%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (6.73%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 35 (33.65%) Python
2 15 (14.42%) SQL
3 14 (13.46%) Java
4 9 (8.65%) Shell Script
5 7 (6.73%) Perl
6 5 (4.81%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.85%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.88%) Objective-C
8 3 (2.88%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.88%) R
8 3 (2.88%) Swift
8 3 (2.88%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.92%) C#
9 2 (1.92%) Groovy
10 1 (0.96%) C++
10 1 (0.96%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (12.50%) Degree
2 6 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.92%) CCNA
3 2 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.96%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.96%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.96%) CCNP
4 1 (0.96%) ISACA
4 1 (0.96%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (0.96%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.96%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.88%) Accessibility
1 3 (2.88%) GDPR
2 1 (0.96%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.96%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (0.96%) PERC
2 1 (0.96%) QA
2 1 (0.96%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (8.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.88%) Docker
3 2 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.92%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (1.92%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.96%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (14.42%) Kubernetes
1 15 (14.42%) NetBackup
2 11 (10.58%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (3.85%) Ansible
3 4 (3.85%) Terraform
4 2 (1.92%) Grafana
4 2 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.96%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (13.46%) Veritas
2 11 (10.58%) Microsoft
3 9 (8.65%) VMware
4 5 (4.81%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.85%) Cisco
6 3 (2.88%) Fortinet
6 3 (2.88%) Informatica
6 3 (2.88%) Splunk
7 2 (1.92%) Oracle
7 2 (1.92%) Pega
7 2 (1.92%) Sybase
7 2 (1.92%) Teradata
7 2 (1.92%) Twitter
8 1 (0.96%) Apple
8 1 (0.96%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.96%) Dell
8 1 (0.96%) Juniper
8 1 (0.96%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.96%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.96%) Symantec