Data Protection Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Data Protection
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Data Protection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 45 64
Rank change year-on-year -2 +19 -14
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 4 9 17
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 1.14% 1.89% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 2.18% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 15
10th Percentile - £489 £385
25th Percentile £256 £491 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £269 £575 £569
90th Percentile - - £581
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.80% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £23.24
South East median hourly rate £20.40 £20.00 £25.12
% change year-on-year +2.00% -20.37% -39.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 330 413 700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 93.75% 86.95% 90.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 287 560
10th Percentile £204 £203 £200
25th Percentile £219 £275 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £634
90th Percentile £635 £600 £738
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -2.01% -2.81% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 22 36
10th Percentile £20.70 £21.27 £24.75
25th Percentile £25.15 £30.00 £44.90
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £61.63
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -6.70% +36.96%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £65.10 £75.00 £80.27
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.30 £52.30
% change year-on-year -64.48% +11.47% +47.66%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Data Protection job vacancy trend in Surrey

Data Protection
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

Data Protection
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 25 October 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
Redhill +17 2 - - 1
Camberley -3 1 - -
Guildford - 1 £263 - 2
Data Protection
South East

Data Protection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) CloudFront
1 2 (50.00%) Datadog
1 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) VSAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Digital Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Digital Solutions Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Service Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
1 2 (50.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Interface Catalogue
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
1 2 (50.00%) Observability
1 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Application Virtualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) NFS
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) VMware