Data Protection Contracts in the South East

Data Protection
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 90 86 95
Rank change year-on-year -4 +9 -28
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 71 130 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.37% 2.34% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.58% 2.76% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 63 97
10th Percentile £266 £180 £238
25th Percentile £450 £270 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £425 £513
Median % change year-on-year +22.24% -17.07% -2.38%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £638
90th Percentile £679 £525 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 25 1
10th Percentile - £17.98 -
25th Percentile - £19.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -47.62% -14.46%
75th Percentile - £43.75 £53.75
90th Percentile - £65.10 -
England median hourly rate £29.23 £21.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +39.19% -60.00% +147.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,748 4,707 5,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.63% 84.80% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,752 2,740 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -1.48% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 432 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £16.34 £18.20 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.72%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.83 £37.50
% change year-on-year -16.27% -4.45% +53.20%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Data Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in the South East

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in the South East

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in the South East

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in the South East

Data Protection
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley -6 44 £550 +29.41% 30
Berkshire +8 41 £550 +22.22% 18
Hampshire +26 14 £545 +36.13% 20
West Sussex +9 5 £470 +4.44% 5
Surrey +9 4 £278 -44.50% 14
Kent +11 3 £438 +9.38% 8
Oxfordshire -4 3 £613 +240.28% 12
Home Counties - 2 £490 -
Sussex - 1 £700 - 5
East Sussex - 1 £625 - 5
Data Protection
England

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (2.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (2.82%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.41%) Confluence
2 1 (1.41%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.41%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (1.41%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.41%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.41%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 11 (15.49%) Azure
2 4 (5.63%) AWS
3 3 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (4.23%) SonarCloud
4 2 (2.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (2.82%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.82%) GCP
4 2 (2.82%) OCI
4 2 (2.82%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.41%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.41%) Apigee
5 1 (1.41%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.41%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (1.41%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.41%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.41%) Nutanix
5 1 (1.41%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.41%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.45%) SD-WAN
2 3 (4.23%) BGP
3 2 (2.82%) Cisco IPT
3 2 (2.82%) Firewall
3 2 (2.82%) Network Security
3 2 (2.82%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.41%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.41%) Internet
4 1 (1.41%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.41%) MPLS
4 1 (1.41%) OSPF
4 1 (1.41%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (1.41%) VLAN
4 1 (1.41%) VPN
4 1 (1.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.23%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (4.23%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.82%) Big Data
2 2 (2.82%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (2.82%) Data Lake
2 2 (2.82%) Metadata
2 2 (2.82%) NewSQL
2 2 (2.82%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.82%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (2.82%) Power BI
3 1 (1.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Git
1 3 (4.23%) Snyk
2 2 (2.82%) Burp Suite
2 2 (2.82%) Metasploit
3 1 (1.41%) JIRA
3 1 (1.41%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.41%) Selenium
3 1 (1.41%) SpecFlow
General
1 26 (36.62%) Social Skills
2 13 (18.31%) Legal
3 10 (14.08%) Telecoms
4 9 (12.68%) Law
5 7 (9.86%) Marketing
6 6 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (8.45%) Public Sector
7 4 (5.63%) Finance
8 3 (4.23%) Billing
9 2 (2.82%) Aerospace
9 2 (2.82%) Military
9 2 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.41%) Aviation
10 1 (1.41%) Games
10 1 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.41%) Portuguese Language
10 1 (1.41%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 16 (22.54%) Architect
2 9 (12.68%) Senior
3 6 (8.45%) Information Manager
3 6 (8.45%) Senior Manager
4 5 (7.04%) Data Protection Officer
4 5 (7.04%) Project Manager
5 4 (5.63%) Analyst
5 4 (5.63%) Product Architect
5 4 (5.63%) Security Manager
6 3 (4.23%) Compliance Manager
6 3 (4.23%) Compliance Project Manager
6 3 (4.23%) Data Compliance Manager
6 3 (4.23%) Lead
6 3 (4.23%) Network Architect
6 3 (4.23%) Security Compliance Manager
6 3 (4.23%) Security Project Manager
6 3 (4.23%) Support Engineer
6 3 (4.23%) Tester
7 2 (2.82%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (2.82%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.82%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (2.82%) Qt
1 2 (2.82%) Web Services
2 1 (1.41%) .NET
2 1 (1.41%) CSS
2 1 (1.41%) HTML
2 1 (1.41%) OAuth
2 1 (1.41%) PySpark
2 1 (1.41%) QML
2 1 (1.41%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 38 (53.52%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (4.23%) NHS
2 3 (4.23%) Replication
3 2 (2.82%) Cyberattack
3 2 (2.82%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.82%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.82%) Freedom of Information
3 2 (2.82%) Freedom of Information Act
3 2 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.82%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.82%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.41%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.41%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.41%) PKI
4 1 (1.41%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.41%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.41%) Smartphone
4 1 (1.41%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.04%) Windows
2 2 (2.82%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (22.54%) Impact Assessments
1 16 (22.54%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (15.49%) Agile
3 9 (12.68%) B2C
3 9 (12.68%) Project Management
3 9 (12.68%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (11.27%) Regulatory Compliance
4 8 (11.27%) Validation
5 7 (9.86%) Data Sharing
5 7 (9.86%) Information Security
6 6 (8.45%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (8.45%) Data Loss Prevention
6 6 (8.45%) Data Privacy
6 6 (8.45%) Product Management
6 6 (8.45%) Roadmaps
7 5 (7.04%) Analytics
7 5 (7.04%) Business Analysis
7 5 (7.04%) Computer Science
7 5 (7.04%) OWASP
7 5 (7.04%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.27%) Python
1 8 (11.27%) SQL
2 4 (5.63%) C++
2 4 (5.63%) Java
3 2 (2.82%) C
3 2 (2.82%) PL/SQL
3 2 (2.82%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.82%) Ruby
3 2 (2.82%) Scala
4 1 (1.41%) Bash
4 1 (1.41%) C#
4 1 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.41%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (11.27%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.86%) Degree
3 6 (8.45%) ISEB
4 5 (7.04%) CISSP
4 5 (7.04%) SC Cleared
5 4 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (5.63%) Master's Degree
5 4 (5.63%) OSCP
6 3 (4.23%) CEH
6 3 (4.23%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (4.23%) CISM
6 3 (4.23%) SANS
7 2 (2.82%) CCNP
7 2 (2.82%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (2.82%) GIAC
7 2 (2.82%) GPEN
7 2 (2.82%) GWAPT
7 2 (2.82%) OSCE
8 1 (1.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.41%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (23.94%) GDPR
2 7 (9.86%) NIST
3 4 (5.63%) HIPAA
4 3 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.82%) NIST 800
5 2 (2.82%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.82%) PMO
5 2 (2.82%) QA
5 2 (2.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.41%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.41%) EU AI Act
6 1 (1.41%) GRC
6 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 6 (8.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (4.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.41%) Docker
3 1 (1.41%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (1.41%) CASB
1 1 (1.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (11.27%) Cisco
2 7 (9.86%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.45%) VMware
4 5 (7.04%) Oracle
5 3 (4.23%) Meraki
6 2 (2.82%) Databricks
6 2 (2.82%) Google
6 2 (2.82%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.82%) SAP
7 1 (1.41%) Adobe
7 1 (1.41%) Ariba
7 1 (1.41%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.41%) Forcepoint
7 1 (1.41%) Informatica
7 1 (1.41%) Okta
7 1 (1.41%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.41%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.41%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.41%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.41%) Veeam