Data Protection Contracts in South London

Data Protection
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 40 49
Rank change year-on-year +21 +9 +2
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 16 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 8.70% 1.24% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.88% 1.33% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 5
10th Percentile - - £503
25th Percentile - £450 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £650
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -23.08% +22.35%
75th Percentile £635 £550 £688
90th Percentile £738 - £755
London median daily rate £500 £544 £575
% change year-on-year -8.05% -5.43% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £13.42 -
London median hourly rate £30.40 £24.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +22.84% -60.40% +86.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 162 225 352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 88.04% 93.36% 90.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 152 283
10th Percentile £380 £253 £300
25th Percentile £463 £425 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £656 £575 £666
90th Percentile £886 £638 £775
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 13
10th Percentile - £17.00 £18.75
25th Percentile - £20.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £23.46
Median % change year-on-year -32.60% +0.17% -50.54%
75th Percentile £20.38 £77.19 £50.42
90th Percentile £73.96 £83.75 £52.46
London median hourly rate £32.00 £28.50 £39.00
% change year-on-year +12.28% -26.92% +8.33%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in South London

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in South London

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in South London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in South London

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in South London

Data Protection
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 within the South London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Croydon +18 11 £600 - 1
Bromley -5 3 - - 7
Merton - 1 £450 -
Data Protection
London

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 1 (6.25%) JBoss
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (6.25%) WebSphere
1 1 (6.25%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 8 (50.00%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub
3 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) DB2
1 1 (6.25%) IMS/DB
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
1 1 (6.25%) GitLab
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (62.50%) Finance
2 8 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Local Government
5 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Consultant
1 8 (50.00%) Development Consultant
2 4 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (6.25%) Administrator
3 1 (6.25%) Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Administrator
3 1 (6.25%) QA Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) QA Leader
3 1 (6.25%) Security Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Splunk Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Support Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) EJB
2 1 (6.25%) J2EE
2 1 (6.25%) JDBC
2 1 (6.25%) Middleware
2 1 (6.25%) RESTful
2 1 (6.25%) SOAP
2 1 (6.25%) Web Services
2 1 (6.25%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (6.25%) XML
2 1 (6.25%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 12 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 8 (50.00%) Requirements Workshops
2 8 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 8 (50.00%) System Testing
3 4 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 4 (25.00%) Microservices
3 4 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (18.75%) Data Transformation
4 3 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (18.75%) Technical Debt
5 2 (12.50%) Analytics
5 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 2 (12.50%) Cloud Security
5 2 (12.50%) Identity Management
5 2 (12.50%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 2 (12.50%) Performance Management
5 2 (12.50%) Process Improvement
6 1 (6.25%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Python
1 4 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
3 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) REXX
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) QA
1 1 (6.25%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) NEC
2 1 (6.25%) IBM
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) MuleSoft
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Proofpoint
2 1 (6.25%) Splunk