Data Protection Contracts in the South West

Data Protection
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 86 111
Rank change year-on-year +8 +25 -4
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 33 71 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.93% 2.19% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 2.66% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 36 34
10th Percentile £358 £200 £422
25th Percentile £363 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -19.23% +42.86%
75th Percentile - £641 £800
90th Percentile £517 £650 £835
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 21 3
10th Percentile £28.18 £12.81 £15.28
25th Percentile £29.00 - £15.33
Median hourly rate £65.00 £25.00 £15.80
Median % change year-on-year +160.00% +58.23% -15.17%
75th Percentile - £40.00 £41.10
90th Percentile £66.50 - £56.04
England median hourly rate £29.50 £21.00 £44.53
% change year-on-year +40.48% -52.84% +83.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,557 2,668 3,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.84% 82.32% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 948 1,694 2,209
10th Percentile £220 £227 £313
25th Percentile £381 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 358 318
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £29.75 £15.29
Median hourly rate £36.00 £55.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.55% -8.33% +27.66%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.23
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £82.74
England median hourly rate £28.53 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.93% - +50.00%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in the South West

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in the South West

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in the South West over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in the South West

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in the South West

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Protection in the South West over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Protection in the South West

Data Protection
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 31 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
Bristol +5 18 £400 -27.27% 14
Devon +19 9 £410 +95.24% 3
Wiltshire +30 2 £485 +340.91% 10
Somerset -15 2 - - 6
Gloucestershire +18 1 £500 - 10
Dorset - 1 £170 - 3
Data Protection
England

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (6.06%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.12%) Azure
2 3 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (3.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.03%) GCP
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) Firewall
2 1 (3.03%) ATM
2 1 (3.03%) BGP
2 1 (3.03%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (3.03%) Unified Communications
2 1 (3.03%) VoIP
2 1 (3.03%) VSAN
2 1 (3.03%) Wireless
2 1 (3.03%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (3.03%) DynamoDB
1 1 (3.03%) NonStop SQL
1 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.03%) Power BI
1 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
1 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 6 (18.18%) Finance
2 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Local Government
4 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Law
4 2 (6.06%) Legal
4 2 (6.06%) Marketing
4 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.06%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.03%) Electronics
5 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.03%) Police
Job Titles
1 15 (45.45%) Senior
2 14 (42.42%) Applications Support
2 14 (42.42%) Senior Applications Support
3 12 (36.36%) Analyst
4 9 (27.27%) Applications Support Analyst
4 9 (27.27%) Senior Analyst
4 9 (27.27%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
4 9 (27.27%) Senior Support Analyst
4 9 (27.27%) Support Analyst
5 6 (18.18%) Support Officer
6 2 (6.06%) Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Lead
6 2 (6.06%) Security Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Security Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Consultant
7 1 (3.03%) Database Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) DBA
7 1 (3.03%) Information Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (45.45%) Management Information System
2 8 (24.24%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (9.09%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (6.06%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.03%) EMV
5 1 (3.03%) Mainframe
5 1 (3.03%) NHS
5 1 (3.03%) PKI
5 1 (3.03%) Replication
5 1 (3.03%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.03%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Linux
1 1 (3.03%) Ubuntu
1 1 (3.03%) Unix
1 1 (3.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (42.42%) Logistics
2 7 (21.21%) Customer Service
3 6 (18.18%) Benchmarking
3 6 (18.18%) Data Security
3 6 (18.18%) Project Delivery
4 4 (12.12%) Project Management
5 3 (9.09%) Information Governance
5 3 (9.09%) Information Security
5 3 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (6.06%) Analytics
6 2 (6.06%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (6.06%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (6.06%) DevOps
6 2 (6.06%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (6.06%) Document Management
6 2 (6.06%) High Availability
6 2 (6.06%) Incident Response
6 2 (6.06%) Risk Management
6 2 (6.06%) Safety Engineering
6 2 (6.06%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (45.45%) SQL
2 1 (3.03%) C
2 1 (3.03%) C++
2 1 (3.03%) COBOL
2 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.09%) Degree
4 2 (6.06%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.06%) Master's Degree
4 2 (6.06%) RIBA
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.03%) CCNA
5 1 (3.03%) CCNP
5 1 (3.03%) Chartered Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.03%) CISM
5 1 (3.03%) CISSP
5 1 (3.03%) ISSAP
5 1 (3.03%) MCSE
5 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (57.58%) GDPR
2 5 (15.15%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.03%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.03%) ISO 8583
3 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.03%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (3.03%) VMware NSX
1 1 (3.03%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.03%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (3.03%) Cisco UCCX
2 1 (3.03%) Nessus
2 1 (3.03%) SCCM
2 1 (3.03%) vCenter Server
2 1 (3.03%) VxRail
2 1 (3.03%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.03%) Cisco
2 1 (3.03%) Citrix
2 1 (3.03%) Dell
2 1 (3.03%) HP
2 1 (3.03%) Palo Alto
2 1 (3.03%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.03%) SAP
2 1 (3.03%) Varonis
2 1 (3.03%) VMware