Data Protection Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Data Protection
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring Data Protection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 10 24
Rank change year-on-year -10 +14 +5
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 1 8 7
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 0.59% 7.41% 4.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 10.13% 6.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £513 £324
25th Percentile £488 £517 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £529 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% +11.42% +26.16%
75th Percentile £513 £537 £500
90th Percentile - £538 -
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £450 £473
% change year-on-year +11.11% -4.76% -12.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 143 79 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 84.62% 73.15% 65.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 49 89
10th Percentile £170 £331 £346
25th Percentile £256 £356 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -13.89% +8.00%
75th Percentile £543 £575 £650
90th Percentile £671 £628 £703
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £558
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.35% +5.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 0 3
10th Percentile £12.21 - £31.70
25th Percentile £12.29 - £32.38
Median hourly rate £25.00 - £34.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +85.36%
75th Percentile £40.00 - £54.75
90th Percentile £73.00 - £66.90
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.71 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -40.83% -36.36% +29.67%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Data Protection job vacancy trend in Southampton

Data Protection
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Data Protection.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Data Protection

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Trend in Southampton

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Data Protection.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Data Protection

Data Protection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) CRM Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) CRM Business Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Data Business Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Mapping
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Impact Assessments
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce