Data Protection Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Data Protection
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 18 23 44
Rank change year-on-year +5 +21 -11
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 19 9 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 7.79% 3.70% 2.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.36% 4.33% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 5
10th Percentile £285 - £514
25th Percentile £325 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £488 - £575
90th Percentile £520 - £609
North East median daily rate £450 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 203 208 325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 83.20% 85.60% 93.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 98 255
10th Percentile £213 £297 £319
25th Percentile £350 £371 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -11.50% +13.00%
75th Percentile £566 £589 £650
90th Percentile £626 £650 £736
North East median daily rate £470 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 36 0
10th Percentile - £11.50 -
25th Percentile £11.60 £12.13 -
Median hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £50.70 £50.00 -
North East median hourly rate £14.07 £15.46 £40.75
% change year-on-year -8.99% -62.06% +146.97%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Data Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in Tyne and Wear

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in Tyne and Wear

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in Tyne and Wear

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in Tyne and Wear

Data Protection
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +2 19 £425 - 13
Data Protection
North East

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 1 (5.26%) CMS
1 1 (5.26%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Chatbot
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.26%) MadCap Flare
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (10.53%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
2 2 (10.53%) Serverless
2 2 (10.53%) Snowflake
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (5.26%) dbt
3 1 (5.26%) GitHub
3 1 (5.26%) Power Automate
3 1 (5.26%) Stitch
3 1 (5.26%) Sumo Logic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
1 2 (10.53%) Redis
2 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
1 2 (10.53%) Visual Studio
1 2 (10.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (26.32%) Organisational Skills
1 5 (26.32%) Pharmaceutical
2 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) French Language
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) German Language
4 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Developer
2 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Security Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) IT Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) IT Security Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) C# Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Java Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Lead
5 1 (5.26%) Agile Coach
5 1 (5.26%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) OpenEdge Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Progress Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) CSS
1 3 (15.79%) HTML
2 2 (10.53%) .NET
2 2 (10.53%) Micronaut
2 2 (10.53%) RESTful
3 1 (5.26%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 19 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (26.32%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (15.79%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
5 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
5 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
5 1 (5.26%) PMI
5 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Agile
2 5 (26.32%) Information Security
2 5 (26.32%) Information Security Management
2 5 (26.32%) ISMS
2 5 (26.32%) Security Management
2 5 (26.32%) Zero Trust
3 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
3 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (15.79%) SDLC
4 2 (10.53%) API Integration
4 2 (10.53%) Conversational UI
4 2 (10.53%) Data Analysis
4 2 (10.53%) Kanban
4 2 (10.53%) Microservices
5 1 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (5.26%) Business Analysis
5 1 (5.26%) Computer Science
5 1 (5.26%) Content Management
5 1 (5.26%) Operations Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) Python
2 2 (10.53%) C#
2 2 (10.53%) Java
3 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
1 2 (10.53%) Azure Certification
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.26%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.26%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (10.53%) QA
3 1 (5.26%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
1 2 (10.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Microsoft
2 5 (26.32%) Cisco
2 5 (26.32%) Fortinet
2 5 (26.32%) HP
2 5 (26.32%) Veeam
2 5 (26.32%) VMware
3 3 (15.79%) New Relic
4 1 (5.26%) Salesforce