Data Protection Act Contract Job Trends in South London

Data Protection Act (DPA)
London > South London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies in South London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 34 46
Rank change year-on-year -8 +12 +17
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 5 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in South London 2.14% 1.36% 0.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.10% 4.69% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £454 - -
25th Percentile £478 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -24.53%
75th Percentile £578 - £550
90th Percentile £591 - -
London median daily rate £505 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -8.70%

All Generic Skills
South London

Data Protection Act falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 82 64 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 35.04% 28.96% 25.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 43 34
10th Percentile £159 £183 £134
25th Percentile £320 £319 £196
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £425
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +41.18% -19.05%
75th Percentile £556 £720 £575
90th Percentile £648 £938 £600
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -5.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 23
10th Percentile £54.46 £35.49 £15.74
25th Percentile £56.35 £56.90 £17.25
Median hourly rate £64.75 £73.60 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.02% +213.19% +4.44%
75th Percentile £66.50 £79.60 £46.86
90th Percentile - £81.76 £83.75
London median hourly rate £27.86 £39.00 £28.88
% change year-on-year -28.58% +35.06% -14.62%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Data Protection Act job vacancy trend in South London

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Data Protection Act.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Data Protection Act

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in South London over the 6 months to 4 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in South London

Data Protection Act
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Data Protection Act.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Data Protection Act

Data Protection Act
Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Protection Act within the South London region over the 6 months to 4 February 2026. 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
Bromley -4 4 £538 - 1
Sutton - 1 - -
Data Protection Act
London

Data Protection Act
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (20.00%) Collibra
1 1 (20.00%) IaaS
1 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Metadata
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Iceberg
2 1 (20.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Tableau
2 1 (20.00%) ThoughtSpot
2 1 (20.00%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Collateral Management
2 2 (40.00%) Observability
2 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Metadata Management
3 1 (20.00%) MLOps
3 1 (20.00%) Release Train
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (20.00%) Informatica
1 1 (20.00%) MicroStrategy
1 1 (20.00%) PagerDuty