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 11 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 18 30
Rank change year-on-year +6 +12 +10
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 20 9 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 9.30% 5.52% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.30% 6.12% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £205 - -
25th Percentile £316 £406 £145
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £413 £150
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +175.00% -69.39%
75th Percentile £475 £419 £155
90th Percentile £513 - -
North East median daily rate £413 £413 £150
% change year-on-year - +175.00% -68.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.37 - -
Median hourly rate £13.49 - -
75th Percentile £13.61 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median hourly rate £13.49 - -

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 177 147 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 82.33% 90.18% 86.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 81 118
10th Percentile £200 £345 £350
25th Percentile £411 £400 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £639
90th Percentile £638 £650 £720
North East median daily rate £475 £460 £475
% change year-on-year +3.26% -3.16% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 6
10th Percentile £11.60 £17.83 £17.50
25th Percentile £13.56 £18.25 £18.19
Median hourly rate £17.30 £21.50 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -19.53% +8.86% +19.70%
75th Percentile £20.63 £65.00 £29.06
90th Percentile £36.00 £70.00 £32.88
North East median hourly rate £17.30 £38.27 £26.00
% change year-on-year -54.79% +47.19% +57.58%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 +8 20 £425 +3.03% 5
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 (5.00%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Chatbot
1 1 (5.00%) MadCap Flare
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) SaaS
3 2 (10.00%) Azure
3 2 (10.00%) dbt
3 2 (10.00%) GitHub
3 2 (10.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.00%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.00%) Smartsheet
4 1 (5.00%) Stitch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Big Data
1 2 (10.00%) Data Hub
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Git
1 1 (5.00%) Postman
General
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Marketing
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Legal
5 1 (5.00%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 2 (10.00%) Analyst
1 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 2 (10.00%) Product Manager
1 2 (10.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (5.00%) Agile Coach
2 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (5.00%) Business Manager
2 1 (5.00%) Business Project Manager
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (5.00%) CloudOps Engineer
2 1 (5.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (5.00%) Operations Analyst
2 1 (5.00%) Operations Project Manager
2 1 (5.00%) Senior
2 1 (5.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (5.00%) Senior CloudOps Engineer
2 1 (5.00%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (5.00%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (10.00%) REST
1 2 (10.00%) Swagger
2 1 (5.00%) GatsbyJS
2 1 (5.00%) HTML
2 1 (5.00%) JSON
2 1 (5.00%) Middleware
2 1 (5.00%) Next.js
2 1 (5.00%) Node.js
2 1 (5.00%) Playwright
2 1 (5.00%) React
2 1 (5.00%) Web Services
2 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (15.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (10.00%) AI Agents
3 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.00%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (25.00%) Business Strategy
3 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 3 (15.00%) Agile
4 3 (15.00%) Customer Experience
4 3 (15.00%) Data Science
4 3 (15.00%) Fintech
4 3 (15.00%) Product Management
5 2 (10.00%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (10.00%) Cloud Security
5 2 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (10.00%) DataOps
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (10.00%) Matrix Organization
5 2 (10.00%) Product Requirements
5 2 (10.00%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (10.00%) Value Proposition
5 2 (10.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) SQL
2 3 (15.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (10.00%) SnowPro
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.00%) MCP
4 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Cisco
2 2 (10.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (10.00%) HP
2 2 (10.00%) Veeam
2 2 (10.00%) VMware
3 1 (5.00%) Databricks
3 1 (5.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) PagerDuty
3 1 (5.00%) Sage
3 1 (5.00%) Salesforce