Data Protection Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Protection/Privacy Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Protection/Privacy Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 - 523
Rank change year-on-year - - -91
Contract jobs requiring a Data Protection Engineer 9 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.044% - 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% - 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £298 - £366
25th Percentile £405 - £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £388
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.80%
75th Percentile £552 - £397
90th Percentile £564 - £399
UK median daily rate £525 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -25.23%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,029 22,515 29,590
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.22% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,619 15,794 20,727
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,162 1,474
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.81 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

Data Protection Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Data Protection Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Protection Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Protection Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Protection Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Protection Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Protection Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
Yorkshire - 7 £540 -
North of England - 7 £540 -
Midlands - 2 £298 -
West Midlands - 2 £298 -
Data Protection Engineer
UK

Data Protection Engineer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Data Protection Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Data Protection Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 7 (77.78%) Windows
2 7 (77.78%) Linux
2 7 (77.78%) Service Delivery
2 7 (77.78%) Change Management
2 7 (77.78%) Replication
2 7 (77.78%) Puppet
2 7 (77.78%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
3 6 (66.67%) Ansible
3 6 (66.67%) VLAN
3 6 (66.67%) Veritas
3 6 (66.67%) NetBackup
4 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
4 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
5 2 (22.22%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (22.22%) vCenter Server
5 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
5 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
5 2 (22.22%) Time Management
5 2 (22.22%) VMware
5 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
5 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange

Data Protection Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) VLAN
General
1 7 (77.78%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (22.22%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Linux
1 7 (77.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 7 (77.78%) Change Management
2 7 (77.78%) Service Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
3 2 (22.22%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Puppet
2 6 (66.67%) Ansible
2 6 (66.67%) NetBackup
3 2 (22.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Veritas
2 2 (22.22%) VMware