Data Protection Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Data Protection
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Data Protection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 14 23
Rank change year-on-year +3 +9 +7
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 5 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 8.06% 4.20% 2.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.20% 5.75% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £203 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £125 £600
Median % change year-on-year +66.00% -79.17% +242.86%
75th Percentile £273 - £631
90th Percentile £387 - £635
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +17.65% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 49 87 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 79.03% 73.11% 86.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 42 103
10th Percentile £140 £129 £363
25th Percentile £163 £336 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £413 £500
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% -17.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £450 £497 £594
90th Percentile £488 £594 £745
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -3.66% +3.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 11
10th Percentile - £25.72 -
25th Percentile £29.00 - £23.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.93 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% +35.72% -
75th Percentile £31.00 £35.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £35.90 £43.25 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.05 £28.06 £27.25
% change year-on-year -17.86% +2.98% +53.78%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Data Protection job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Data Protection
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

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

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in Staffordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in Staffordshire

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

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

Data Protection
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 8 November 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
Uttoxeter - 3 £205 - 1
Stafford 0 2 £450 +260.00%
Data Protection
West Midlands

Data Protection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Business Continuity
1 3 (60.00%) Business Strategy
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) ERP
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (40.00%) Server Management
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Workday