Data Protection Contracts in the Thames Valley

Data Protection
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 59 56 57
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -20
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 43 91 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.85% 3.39% 3.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.06% 3.89% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 41 69
10th Percentile £300 £180 £343
25th Percentile £450 £263 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £584 £500 £631
90th Percentile £614 £525 £680
South East median daily rate £510 £425 £513
% change year-on-year +19.94% -17.07% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 21 0
Median hourly rate - £27.50 -
South East median hourly rate - £27.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - -47.62% -14.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in the Thames Valley

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in the Thames Valley

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in the Thames Valley

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in the Thames Valley

Data Protection
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +9 40 £525 +20.00% 39
Oxfordshire -4 3 £613 +240.28% 22
Data Protection
South East

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (4.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.33%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) IIS
2 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.33%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.93%) Azure
2 4 (9.30%) AWS
3 3 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (6.98%) SonarCloud
4 2 (4.65%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (4.65%) Entra ID
4 2 (4.65%) GCP
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.33%) OCI
5 1 (2.33%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.33%) Slack
5 1 (2.33%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.95%) SD-WAN
2 2 (4.65%) BGP
2 2 (4.65%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (4.65%) Firewall
2 2 (4.65%) Network Security
3 1 (2.33%) Ethernet
3 1 (2.33%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.33%) MPLS
3 1 (2.33%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (2.33%) Unified Communications
3 1 (2.33%) VPN
3 1 (2.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.65%) BusinessObjects
1 2 (4.65%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.33%) Power BI
2 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Git
1 3 (6.98%) Snyk
2 2 (4.65%) Burp Suite
2 2 (4.65%) Metasploit
3 1 (2.33%) JIRA
3 1 (2.33%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (2.33%) Selenium
3 1 (2.33%) SpecFlow
General
1 19 (44.19%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.93%) Telecoms
3 7 (16.28%) Legal
3 7 (16.28%) Marketing
4 5 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.98%) Law
6 2 (4.65%) Finance
6 2 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Games
7 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (23.26%) Architect
2 5 (11.63%) Data Protection Officer
2 5 (11.63%) Project Manager
3 4 (9.30%) Analyst
3 4 (9.30%) Product Architect
3 4 (9.30%) Security Manager
4 3 (6.98%) Compliance Manager
4 3 (6.98%) Compliance Project Manager
4 3 (6.98%) Data Compliance Manager
4 3 (6.98%) Security Compliance Manager
4 3 (6.98%) Security Project Manager
4 3 (6.98%) Support Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) Tester
5 2 (4.65%) Developer
5 2 (4.65%) Penetration Tester
5 2 (4.65%) Senior
6 1 (2.33%) Applications Support Engineer
6 1 (2.33%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 1 (2.33%) Oracle Consultant
6 1 (2.33%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.65%) Web Services
2 1 (2.33%) .NET
2 1 (2.33%) CSS
2 1 (2.33%) HTML
2 1 (2.33%) OAuth
2 1 (2.33%) PySpark
2 1 (2.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 29 (67.44%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (6.98%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.65%) Cyberattack
3 2 (4.65%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.65%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.33%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.33%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.33%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.33%) PKI
4 1 (2.33%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.30%) Windows
2 1 (2.33%) Linux
2 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (20.93%) Agile
2 9 (20.93%) B2C
3 8 (18.60%) Impact Assessments
3 8 (18.60%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (16.28%) Project Management
4 7 (16.28%) Regulatory Compliance
5 6 (13.95%) Artificial Intelligence
5 6 (13.95%) Data Loss Prevention
5 6 (13.95%) Data Privacy
5 6 (13.95%) Roadmaps
6 5 (11.63%) Business Analysis
6 5 (11.63%) Computer Science
6 5 (11.63%) Information Security
6 5 (11.63%) OWASP
6 5 (11.63%) Product Management
6 5 (11.63%) Product Roadmap
7 4 (9.30%) Cloud Security
7 4 (9.30%) DevOps
7 4 (9.30%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.63%) Python
1 5 (11.63%) SQL
2 2 (4.65%) C
2 2 (4.65%) C++
2 2 (4.65%) Java
2 2 (4.65%) PL/SQL
2 2 (4.65%) Ruby
3 1 (2.33%) Bash
3 1 (2.33%) C#
3 1 (2.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (16.28%) Degree
2 6 (13.95%) ISEB
3 4 (9.30%) CISSP
3 4 (9.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (9.30%) Master's Degree
4 3 (6.98%) OSCP
5 2 (4.65%) CEH
5 2 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.65%) CISM
5 2 (4.65%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (4.65%) GPEN
5 2 (4.65%) GWAPT
5 2 (4.65%) OSCE
5 2 (4.65%) SANS
5 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.65%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.33%) CCSP
6 1 (2.33%) CISA
6 1 (2.33%) GIAC
6 1 (2.33%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (25.58%) GDPR
2 6 (13.95%) NIST
3 2 (4.65%) HIPAA
3 2 (4.65%) PCI DSS
3 2 (4.65%) PMO
3 2 (4.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.33%) EU AI Act
4 1 (2.33%) GRC
4 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.33%) NIST 800
4 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 5 (11.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.65%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.33%) CASB
1 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (11.63%) VMware
2 4 (9.30%) Cisco
2 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.98%) Oracle
4 2 (4.65%) Databricks
4 2 (4.65%) Google
4 2 (4.65%) Meraki
5 1 (2.33%) Adobe
5 1 (2.33%) Ariba
5 1 (2.33%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.33%) Forcepoint
5 1 (2.33%) Okta
5 1 (2.33%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.33%) Rapid7
5 1 (2.33%) SAP