Data Protection Contracts in South Yorkshire

Data Protection
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 30 31
Rank change year-on-year +20 +1 -11
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 48 26 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 12.87% 5.69% 4.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.48% 6.36% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 18 19
10th Percentile £393 £397 £310
25th Percentile £463 £474 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £613 £564 £622
90th Percentile £625 £588 £659
Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -2.38% +10.53% -9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 356 409 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.44% 89.50% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 245 322
10th Percentile £219 £316 £300
25th Percentile £385 £411 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £663
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 38
10th Percentile - £10.90 -
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.64 £9.80
Median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £18.47 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in South Yorkshire

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in South Yorkshire

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in South Yorkshire

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in South Yorkshire

Data Protection
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Sheffield +20 48 £513 -2.38% 15
Data Protection
Yorkshire

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (4.17%) Confluence
2 1 (2.08%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.33%) GCP
1 4 (8.33%) OCI
2 2 (4.17%) AWS
2 2 (4.17%) Azure
3 1 (2.08%) Google Compute Engine
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) DNS
1 2 (4.17%) Firewall
1 2 (4.17%) Network Security
2 1 (2.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (2.08%) HTTPS
2 1 (2.08%) NAS
2 1 (2.08%) NGN
2 1 (2.08%) SAN
2 1 (2.08%) SSH
2 1 (2.08%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.75%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.08%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.08%) Flink
Development Applications
1 7 (14.58%) JIRA
2 3 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.08%) Git
3 1 (2.08%) GitLab
3 1 (2.08%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (54.17%) Finance
2 17 (35.42%) Banking
3 15 (31.25%) Social Skills
4 8 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (12.50%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.08%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (20.83%) Data Engineer
2 8 (16.67%) Data Protection Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) Architect
4 4 (8.33%) Developer
5 3 (6.25%) Analyst
5 3 (6.25%) Consultant
5 3 (6.25%) Senior
6 2 (4.17%) Administrator
6 2 (4.17%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Database Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) IT Administrator
6 2 (4.17%) Oracle Database Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Programme Manager
6 2 (4.17%) Technical Manager
7 1 (2.08%) Business Manager
7 1 (2.08%) Delivery Manager
7 1 (2.08%) Firewall Engineer
7 1 (2.08%) Infrastructure Manager
7 1 (2.08%) Python Developer
7 1 (2.08%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.17%) Anaconda
1 2 (4.17%) Pandas
1 2 (4.17%) PySpark
2 1 (2.08%) Apache Beam
2 1 (2.08%) Gherkin
2 1 (2.08%) Kafka
2 1 (2.08%) Middleware
2 1 (2.08%) React
2 1 (2.08%) Spark Streaming
2 1 (2.08%) Spring
2 1 (2.08%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 40 (83.33%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (4.17%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.17%) Mainframe
2 2 (4.17%) Robotics
3 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.08%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.42%) Linux
1 5 (10.42%) Windows
2 4 (8.33%) Unix
3 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.08%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (14.58%) Agile
2 7 (14.58%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 5 (10.42%) Containerisation
4 5 (10.42%) Data Analysis
5 4 (8.33%) Analytics
5 4 (8.33%) Data Management
5 4 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (6.25%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (6.25%) Mentoring
6 3 (6.25%) Project Management
6 3 (6.25%) Risk Management
6 3 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (6.25%) Test Automation
7 2 (4.17%) Risk Assessment
7 2 (4.17%) Scrum
7 2 (4.17%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 12 (25.00%) Python
2 5 (10.42%) Shell Script
3 2 (4.17%) Go
3 2 (4.17%) Java
4 1 (2.08%) ActionScript
4 1 (2.08%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (2.08%) C
4 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.08%) JCL
4 1 (2.08%) Kotlin
4 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.08%) REXX
4 1 (2.08%) Scala
4 1 (2.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (4.17%) Degree
2 1 (2.08%) CCNP
2 1 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.17%) PMO
1 2 (4.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 2 (4.17%) SLA
2 1 (2.08%) GDPR
2 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.08%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.08%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (12.50%) Docker
2 4 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.25%) vSphere
4 2 (4.17%) Active Directory
5 1 (2.08%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.08%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (29.17%) Ansible
2 8 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.25%) Control-M
4 2 (4.17%) Terraform
5 1 (2.08%) Grafana
5 1 (2.08%) NetBackup
5 1 (2.08%) Puppet
5 1 (2.08%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.08%) vRealize
Vendors
1 10 (20.83%) Commvault
2 9 (18.75%) Oracle
3 4 (8.33%) VMware
4 3 (6.25%) Google
4 3 (6.25%) IBM
5 2 (4.17%) Cisco
5 2 (4.17%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.17%) Snow
6 1 (2.08%) Databricks
6 1 (2.08%) F5
6 1 (2.08%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (2.08%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.08%) Splunk
6 1 (2.08%) Veritas