Data Protection Contracts in Sheffield

Data Protection
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 29 30
Rank change year-on-year +20 +1 -13
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 48 26 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 15.05% 6.86% 5.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.74% 7.41% 5.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 18 19
10th Percentile £393 £397 £310
25th Percentile £463 £474 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £564 £622
90th Percentile £625 £588 £659
South Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -6.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 305 351 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.61% 92.61% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 203 302
10th Percentile £232 £375 £364
25th Percentile £388 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £551
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.30% +10.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £675
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 3
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.05
25th Percentile £18.10 £11.33 £11.13
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +91.30% -28.13%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 £25.88
90th Percentile £18.47 - £34.35
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
% change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in Sheffield

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in Sheffield

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in Sheffield over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in Sheffield

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 2 (4.17%) Confluence
2 1 (2.08%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.33%) GCP
1 4 (8.33%) OCI
2 2 (4.17%) AWS
2 2 (4.17%) Azure
3 1 (2.08%) Google Compute Engine
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) DNS
1 2 (4.17%) Firewall
1 2 (4.17%) Network Security
2 1 (2.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (2.08%) HTTPS
2 1 (2.08%) NAS
2 1 (2.08%) NGN
2 1 (2.08%) SAN
2 1 (2.08%) SSH
2 1 (2.08%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.75%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.08%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.08%) Flink
Development Applications
1 7 (14.58%) JIRA
2 3 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.08%) Git
3 1 (2.08%) GitLab
3 1 (2.08%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (54.17%) Finance
2 17 (35.42%) Banking
3 15 (31.25%) Social Skills
4 8 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (12.50%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.08%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (20.83%) Data Engineer
2 8 (16.67%) Data Protection Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) Architect
4 4 (8.33%) Developer
5 3 (6.25%) Analyst
5 3 (6.25%) Consultant
5 3 (6.25%) Senior
6 2 (4.17%) Administrator
6 2 (4.17%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Database Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) IT Administrator
6 2 (4.17%) Oracle Database Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Programme Manager
6 2 (4.17%) Technical Manager
7 1 (2.08%) Business Manager
7 1 (2.08%) Delivery Manager
7 1 (2.08%) Firewall Engineer
7 1 (2.08%) Infrastructure Manager
7 1 (2.08%) Python Developer
7 1 (2.08%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.17%) Anaconda
1 2 (4.17%) Pandas
1 2 (4.17%) PySpark
2 1 (2.08%) Apache Beam
2 1 (2.08%) Gherkin
2 1 (2.08%) Kafka
2 1 (2.08%) Middleware
2 1 (2.08%) React
2 1 (2.08%) Spark Streaming
2 1 (2.08%) Spring
2 1 (2.08%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 40 (83.33%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (4.17%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.17%) Mainframe
2 2 (4.17%) Robotics
3 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.08%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.42%) Linux
1 5 (10.42%) Windows
2 4 (8.33%) Unix
3 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.08%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (14.58%) Agile
2 7 (14.58%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 5 (10.42%) Containerisation
4 5 (10.42%) Data Analysis
5 4 (8.33%) Analytics
5 4 (8.33%) Data Management
5 4 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (6.25%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (6.25%) Mentoring
6 3 (6.25%) Project Management
6 3 (6.25%) Risk Management
6 3 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (6.25%) Test Automation
7 2 (4.17%) Risk Assessment
7 2 (4.17%) Scrum
7 2 (4.17%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 12 (25.00%) Python
2 5 (10.42%) Shell Script
3 2 (4.17%) Go
3 2 (4.17%) Java
4 1 (2.08%) ActionScript
4 1 (2.08%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (2.08%) C
4 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.08%) JCL
4 1 (2.08%) Kotlin
4 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.08%) REXX
4 1 (2.08%) Scala
4 1 (2.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (4.17%) Degree
2 1 (2.08%) CCNP
2 1 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.17%) PMO
1 2 (4.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 2 (4.17%) SLA
2 1 (2.08%) GDPR
2 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.08%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.08%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (12.50%) Docker
2 4 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.25%) vSphere
4 2 (4.17%) Active Directory
5 1 (2.08%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.08%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (29.17%) Ansible
2 8 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.25%) Control-M
4 2 (4.17%) Terraform
5 1 (2.08%) Grafana
5 1 (2.08%) NetBackup
5 1 (2.08%) Puppet
5 1 (2.08%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.08%) vRealize
Vendors
1 10 (20.83%) Commvault
2 9 (18.75%) Oracle
3 4 (8.33%) VMware
4 3 (6.25%) Google
4 3 (6.25%) IBM
5 2 (4.17%) Cisco
5 2 (4.17%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.17%) Snow
6 1 (2.08%) Databricks
6 1 (2.08%) F5
6 1 (2.08%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (2.08%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.08%) Splunk
6 1 (2.08%) Veritas