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

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 35 33
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 -11
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 108 111 183
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 6.19% 5.43% 6.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.72% 6.23% 7.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 48 85
10th Percentile £255 £179 £260
25th Percentile £314 £301 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £519 £550 £575
90th Percentile £575 £640 £625
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £52.18
25th Percentile - - £53.58
Median hourly rate - - £56.53
75th Percentile - - £58.85
90th Percentile - - £59.87
UK median hourly rate £19.00 £21.25 £41.04
% change year-on-year -10.59% -48.22% +82.40%

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 1,607 1,782 2,532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 92.04% 87.18% 92.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 909 1,111 1,747
10th Percentile £250 £213 £250
25th Percentile £366 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 69 57
10th Percentile £16.58 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.30 £13.64 £12.75
Median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% +10.55% -52.66%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.94 £43.75
90th Percentile £28.22 £60.75 £63.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.81
% change year-on-year -34.02% -8.83% +58.73%

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 +13 48 £467 -3.91% 15
Edinburgh -13 45 £425 +4.94% 11
West Lothian -2 2 £413 -2.94% 1
West Dunbartonshire - 1 £188 - 1
Moray - 1 - -
Highlands - 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 6 (5.56%) Confluence
2 4 (3.70%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.85%) Camunda
3 2 (1.85%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.93%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (6.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 30 (27.78%) AWS
2 19 (17.59%) Azure
3 11 (10.19%) Amazon S3
3 11 (10.19%) Cloud Computing
4 8 (7.41%) OpenShift
5 7 (6.48%) Cohesity
5 7 (6.48%) GCP
6 6 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (4.63%) Power Platform
8 4 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.78%) GitHub
9 3 (2.78%) Serverless
9 3 (2.78%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.85%) OneDrive
10 2 (1.85%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.85%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.56%) NAS
1 6 (5.56%) SAN
2 3 (2.78%) Firewall
2 3 (2.78%) Network Security
3 2 (1.85%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (1.85%) DNS
4 1 (0.93%) DHCP
4 1 (0.93%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.93%) LAN
4 1 (0.93%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.70%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.78%) MySQL
3 3 (2.78%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.78%) Power BI
4 2 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (1.85%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.85%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.85%) RDBMS
4 2 (1.85%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.93%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.93%) CockroachDB
5 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.93%) NewSQL
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.93%) Redis
5 1 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (18.52%) Git
2 12 (11.11%) JIRA
3 9 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 6 (5.56%) Xcode
5 4 (3.70%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.70%) GitLab
6 3 (2.78%) Maven
6 3 (2.78%) Selenium
7 2 (1.85%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.85%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (1.85%) Gradle
7 2 (1.85%) JUnit
7 2 (1.85%) Mercurial
7 2 (1.85%) Mockito
7 2 (1.85%) Postman
7 2 (1.85%) Subversion
8 1 (0.93%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.93%) git-flow
8 1 (0.93%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 46 (42.59%) Social Skills
2 38 (35.19%) Finance
3 28 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.19%) Banking
5 9 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.78%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.78%) Marketing
7 2 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.85%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.85%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.93%) German Language
8 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Legal
8 1 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (14.81%) Analyst
2 11 (10.19%) Business Analyst
2 11 (10.19%) Developer
3 6 (5.56%) Mobile Engineer
3 6 (5.56%) Senior
4 5 (4.63%) Architect
4 5 (4.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (4.63%) Java Developer
4 5 (4.63%) NetBackup Engineer
5 4 (3.70%) Administrator
5 4 (3.70%) Backup Engineer
5 4 (3.70%) Information Governance Specialist
5 4 (3.70%) Information Specialist
5 4 (3.70%) Project Manager
6 3 (2.78%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (2.78%) Lead
7 2 (1.85%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (1.85%) Data Protection Engineer
7 2 (1.85%) IT Analyst
7 2 (1.85%) JIRA Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.26%) RESTful
2 8 (7.41%) Spring
3 6 (5.56%) SwiftUI
3 6 (5.56%) UIKit
4 5 (4.63%) Spring Boot
5 3 (2.78%) JPA
5 3 (2.78%) Kafka
5 3 (2.78%) React
5 3 (2.78%) Web Services
6 2 (1.85%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.85%) AWS CDK
6 2 (1.85%) Hibernate
6 2 (1.85%) JDBC
6 2 (1.85%) LDAP
6 2 (1.85%) Loki
6 2 (1.85%) Middleware
6 2 (1.85%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.85%) REST
6 2 (1.85%) SPFx
6 2 (1.85%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 65 (60.19%) Data Protection Act
2 8 (7.41%) Virtual Team
3 7 (6.48%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (5.56%) Credit Risk
4 6 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.56%) iPad
4 6 (5.56%) iPhone
4 6 (5.56%) Management Information System
4 6 (5.56%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.70%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.78%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.78%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.78%) Freedom of Information
6 3 (2.78%) Legacy Code
6 3 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.78%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.85%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.85%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.93%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.11%) Linux
1 12 (11.11%) Windows
2 10 (9.26%) Unix
3 7 (6.48%) Android
3 7 (6.48%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.56%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.93%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.93%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.93%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (36.11%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (31.48%) Agile
3 27 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 15 (13.89%) DevOps
5 13 (12.04%) Decision-Making
5 13 (12.04%) Microservices
5 13 (12.04%) Scrum
6 12 (11.11%) Migration
7 11 (10.19%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (10.19%) Cybersecurity
7 11 (10.19%) Test Automation
8 10 (9.26%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (8.33%) MVC
9 9 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 8 (7.41%) Push Notifications
10 8 (7.41%) Risk Management
10 8 (7.41%) SDLC
10 8 (7.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 8 (7.41%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (25.00%) Python
2 16 (14.81%) SQL
3 14 (12.96%) Java
4 6 (5.56%) Objective-C
4 6 (5.56%) Perl
4 6 (5.56%) Swift
5 5 (4.63%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.70%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.70%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.85%) C#
7 2 (1.85%) Groovy
7 2 (1.85%) R
7 2 (1.85%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.93%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.93%) Ruby
8 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (12.96%) Degree
2 7 (6.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.85%) CCNP
3 2 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.85%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.85%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.93%) AAT
4 1 (0.93%) ACCA
4 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.93%) CCDP
4 1 (0.93%) CCIE
4 1 (0.93%) CIMA
4 1 (0.93%) CISM
4 1 (0.93%) CISSP
4 1 (0.93%) CRISC
4 1 (0.93%) HND
4 1 (0.93%) ISACA
4 1 (0.93%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.41%) QA
2 7 (6.48%) GDPR
3 5 (4.63%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.78%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.85%) SLA
6 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.93%) COBIT
6 1 (0.93%) NEBOSH
6 1 (0.93%) PERC
System Software
1 3 (2.78%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.78%) Docker
1 3 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.85%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.93%) ProxySG
3 1 (0.93%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (12.04%) Kubernetes
2 10 (9.26%) NetBackup
3 6 (5.56%) Oracle RMAN
4 5 (4.63%) Terraform
5 4 (3.70%) Ansible
6 3 (2.78%) Grafana
7 2 (1.85%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (10.19%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.33%) Veritas
3 3 (2.78%) Cisco
3 3 (2.78%) Oracle
3 3 (2.78%) VMware
4 2 (1.85%) Apple
4 2 (1.85%) Pega
4 2 (1.85%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.85%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.85%) Splunk
4 2 (1.85%) Symantec
5 1 (0.93%) Anaplan
5 1 (0.93%) CyberArk
5 1 (0.93%) Fiserv
5 1 (0.93%) Netskope
5 1 (0.93%) NVIDIA
5 1 (0.93%) Proofpoint
5 1 (0.93%) Spotify
5 1 (0.93%) StreamSets
5 1 (0.93%) Xero