Data Protection Contract Job Trends in the South East

Data Protection
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Data Protection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 81 104
Rank change year-on-year +27 +23 0
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 151 93 102
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.42% 2.59% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.05% 2.93% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 39 70
10th Percentile £206 £393 £184
25th Percentile £412 £450 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -8.57%
75th Percentile £609 £625 £556
90th Percentile £675 £695 £705
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 0 2
10th Percentile £12.63 - £23.35
25th Percentile £16.50 - £23.52
Median hourly rate £20.71 - £24.18
75th Percentile - - £25.23
90th Percentile £20.79 - £25.62
England median hourly rate £20.71 £24.50 £23.62
% change year-on-year -15.47% +3.73% -66.26%

All Process & 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 3,731 3,175 4,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.60% 88.46% 89.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,450 1,978 2,853
10th Percentile £223 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.12% -1.38% +1.37%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £615
90th Percentile £678 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 355 119 236
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.84 £19.10
25th Percentile £17.00 £26.13 £27.50
Median hourly rate £22.50 £47.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.38% -14.10% +29.67%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.00 £66.30
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.89 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.35%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Protection relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Data Protection job vacancy trend in the South East

Data Protection
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Protection.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Protection

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 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in the South East

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Protection.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Protection

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 29 December 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 +8 80 £500 - 80
Berkshire -2 64 £450 -12.20% 48
Hampshire -4 35 £501 +4.70% 39
Surrey +6 17 £669 - 17
Buckinghamshire +7 9 £490 +3.16% 22
West Sussex -5 8 £235 -50.53% 6
Oxfordshire - 7 £525 - 10
Kent +2 5 - - 16
East Sussex +2 1 - - 7
Home Counties - 1 - -
Data Protection
England

Data Protection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (5.30%) Confluence
2 3 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.66%) Ethereum
3 1 (0.66%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.66%) nginx
3 1 (0.66%) SAS
3 1 (0.66%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (5.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.64%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.66%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (0.66%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.66%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.66%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (0.66%) Blender
3 1 (0.66%) CINEMA 4D
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.66%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (4.64%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.32%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (1.32%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.66%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.66%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.66%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.66%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.66%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 28 (18.54%) Azure
2 23 (15.23%) AWS
3 15 (9.93%) GCP
4 8 (5.30%) Entra ID
4 8 (5.30%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (5.30%) OCI
5 6 (3.97%) Amazon S3
6 5 (3.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (2.65%) GitHub
8 3 (1.99%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.99%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.99%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.99%) Serverless
9 2 (1.32%) Collibra
9 2 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.32%) Nutanix
9 2 (1.32%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.97%) Firewall
2 5 (3.31%) Network Security
3 3 (1.99%) BGP
3 3 (1.99%) DNS
3 3 (1.99%) VPN
4 2 (1.32%) Cisco IPT
4 2 (1.32%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (1.32%) HTTP
4 2 (1.32%) iSCSI
4 2 (1.32%) LAN
4 2 (1.32%) VSAN
5 1 (0.66%) DHCP
5 1 (0.66%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.66%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.66%) NAS
5 1 (0.66%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.66%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.66%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.66%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.66%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.31%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.99%) Metadata
3 3 (1.99%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 3 (1.99%) Power BI
3 3 (1.99%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.32%) Tableau
5 1 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.66%) MySQL
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.66%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (0.66%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.66%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 11 (7.28%) JIRA
2 3 (1.99%) Git
3 2 (1.32%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.66%) Fiddler
4 1 (0.66%) GitLab
General
1 84 (55.63%) Social Skills
2 21 (13.91%) Finance
3 17 (11.26%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.60%) Public Sector
5 14 (9.27%) Legal
6 12 (7.95%) Law
7 9 (5.96%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (3.97%) Telecoms
9 5 (3.31%) Manufacturing
9 5 (3.31%) Marketing
10 3 (1.99%) Banking
10 3 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.32%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.32%) General Ledger
11 2 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.32%) Publishing
11 2 (1.32%) Retail
12 1 (0.66%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 18 (11.92%) Architect
2 17 (11.26%) Lead
3 16 (10.60%) Analyst
4 15 (9.93%) Administrator
5 12 (7.95%) Data Administrator
6 11 (7.28%) 1st Line Support
7 10 (6.62%) Support Engineer
8 9 (5.96%) Project Manager
9 6 (3.97%) Business Analyst
9 6 (3.97%) Commercial Manager
9 6 (3.97%) IT Analyst
9 6 (3.97%) IT Support
10 5 (3.31%) Cloud Architect
10 5 (3.31%) Data Migration Lead
10 5 (3.31%) IT Support Analyst
10 5 (3.31%) Senior
10 5 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.31%) Support Analyst
11 4 (2.65%) Consultant
11 4 (2.65%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.99%) Google JAX
1 3 (1.99%) JAX
1 3 (1.99%) OpenTelemetry
1 3 (1.99%) PySpark
1 3 (1.99%) PyTorch
1 3 (1.99%) REST
1 3 (1.99%) scikit-learn
1 3 (1.99%) TensorFlow
2 2 (1.32%) HTML
2 2 (1.32%) OAuth
2 2 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.32%) SOAP
3 1 (0.66%) CSS
3 1 (0.66%) HTML5
3 1 (0.66%) JSON
3 1 (0.66%) MDX
3 1 (0.66%) Middleware
3 1 (0.66%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.66%) RESTful
3 1 (0.66%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (35.10%) Data Protection Act
2 10 (6.62%) Management Information System
3 9 (5.96%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.97%) Freedom of Information Act
5 5 (3.31%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.31%) Freedom of Information
6 4 (2.65%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.65%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.99%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.99%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.32%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.32%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.32%) Replication
9 1 (0.66%) Animation
9 1 (0.66%) EPoS
9 1 (0.66%) FlexPod
9 1 (0.66%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.66%) Motion Graphics
9 1 (0.66%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.27%) Windows
2 5 (3.31%) Windows 10
3 4 (2.65%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.32%) Linux
5 1 (0.66%) Android
5 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.66%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (19.21%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (17.88%) Stakeholder Management
3 26 (17.22%) Cybersecurity
4 25 (16.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 23 (15.23%) Migration
6 20 (13.25%) Information Security
7 16 (10.60%) AI
8 15 (9.93%) Agile
8 15 (9.93%) Customer Service
8 15 (9.93%) Project Management
8 15 (9.93%) Roadmaps
8 15 (9.93%) Service Delivery
9 14 (9.27%) Actionable Insight
10 13 (8.61%) Regulatory Compliance
10 13 (8.61%) Risk Management
11 12 (7.95%) Collaborative Working
11 12 (7.95%) Incident Response
12 11 (7.28%) ITIL
13 10 (6.62%) Analytics
13 10 (6.62%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 9 (5.96%) PowerShell
2 7 (4.64%) Python
3 6 (3.97%) SQL
4 4 (2.65%) Java
5 3 (1.99%) Bash
5 3 (1.99%) C
5 3 (1.99%) C++
5 3 (1.99%) R
5 3 (1.99%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.66%) Go
6 1 (0.66%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.66%) PHP
6 1 (0.66%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (11.92%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.26%) Degree
3 13 (8.61%) DV Cleared
4 9 (5.96%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.97%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.31%) A+ Certification
6 5 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.32%) CEH
8 2 (1.32%) CISM
8 2 (1.32%) CISSP
8 2 (1.32%) Citrix Certification
8 2 (1.32%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 2 (1.32%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.32%) PMP
9 1 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.66%) NVQ Level 3
9 1 (0.66%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (35.76%) GDPR
2 19 (12.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (8.61%) NIST
4 10 (6.62%) Data Quality
5 6 (3.97%) EU AI Act
6 5 (3.31%) PCI DSS
7 4 (2.65%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (2.65%) PMO
8 3 (1.99%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (1.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (1.99%) GRC
8 3 (1.99%) PERC
9 2 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (1.32%) SLA
10 1 (0.66%) NIST 800
System Software
1 9 (5.96%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.31%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.99%) NFS
5 2 (1.32%) Docker
5 2 (1.32%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.66%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (3.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (3.31%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.31%) Terraform
3 3 (1.99%) SCCM
3 3 (1.99%) vCenter Server
4 2 (1.32%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.66%) Ansible
5 1 (0.66%) Avamar
5 1 (0.66%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.66%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.66%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.66%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.66%) SnapMirror
5 1 (0.66%) SnapVault
5 1 (0.66%) VxRail
Vendors
1 25 (16.56%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.95%) Oracle
3 11 (7.28%) Cisco
4 9 (5.96%) VMware
5 8 (5.30%) Google
6 5 (3.31%) Palantir
7 3 (1.99%) Citrix
7 3 (1.99%) Foundry
7 3 (1.99%) Meraki
7 3 (1.99%) OneTrust
7 3 (1.99%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.99%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.99%) Veeam
8 2 (1.32%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.32%) Informatica
8 2 (1.32%) Juniper
8 2 (1.32%) NetApp
8 2 (1.32%) SAP
8 2 (1.32%) Sophos
8 2 (1.32%) Zscaler