Data Protection Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Protection
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Data Protection skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Protection over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 68 67
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 +181
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 608 818 1,123
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.92% 3.35% 3.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.44% 3.75% 4.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 513 814
10th Percentile £200 £269 £238
25th Percentile £358 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% -4.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £561 £594 £575
90th Percentile £633 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +11.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 14 28
10th Percentile £14.41 £19.37 £12.36
25th Percentile £16.06 £22.84 £17.00
Median hourly rate £19.50 £61.78 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -68.43% +208.88% -23.71%
75th Percentile £27.38 £66.00 £59.59
90th Percentile £40.00 £70.00 £71.78
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £63.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year -69.05% +196.47% -13.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data Protection is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,689 21,829 27,884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.99% 89.52% 88.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,683 15,134 19,490
10th Percentile £240 £250 £230
25th Percentile £381 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,009 1,327 1,384
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.94 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.16 £13.87
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £19.96
Median % change year-on-year - +75.39% -8.21%
75th Percentile £59.95 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £72.46 £70.95 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.78% +44.00% -

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in the UK excluding London

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in the UK excluding London

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in the UK excluding London

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in the UK excluding London

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Protection in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Protection in the UK excluding London

Data Protection
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
North of England -3 166 £525 +16.67% 47
South East +12 130 £450 -14.29% 81
Scotland -5 122 £470 -5.95% 16
North West -13 114 £519 +20.29% 32
South West +58 75 £525 -7.69% 19
Midlands -9 56 £425 -1.16% 49
East of England +32 50 £410 -18.00% 22
West Midlands -5 49 £425 -5.03% 39
Yorkshire +15 47 £525 - 14
Wales +7 15 £255 -43.33% 3
North East +25 9 - - 2
East Midlands -2 7 £538 +65.38% 10
Northern Ireland +6 3 £513 +28.13% 7
Data Protection
UK

Data Protection
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 17 (2.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.97%) Confluence
4 4 (0.66%) SAS
5 3 (0.49%) Apache
6 2 (0.33%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.33%) CMS
6 2 (0.33%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.16%) Mendix
Applications
1 41 (6.74%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (2.14%) Spreadsheet
4 7 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.33%) Adobe Captivate
6 2 (0.33%) Camtasia
6 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.33%) Lectora
6 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 12 (1.97%) Teamcenter
2 7 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.33%) SAP CRM
4 2 (0.33%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.16%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.16%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.16%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.16%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.16%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.16%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.16%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 87 (14.31%) Azure
2 47 (7.73%) AWS
3 34 (5.59%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (3.62%) Power Platform
5 20 (3.29%) Taleo
6 18 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (1.97%) SaaS
8 11 (1.81%) OpenShift
9 10 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (1.64%) Entra ID
10 9 (1.48%) Amazon S3
10 9 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (1.48%) GCP
10 9 (1.48%) Power Automate
11 8 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (1.32%) GitHub
12 7 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (1.15%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
13 6 (0.99%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.44%) WAN
2 24 (3.95%) SAN
3 21 (3.45%) LAN
4 20 (3.29%) Firewall
5 15 (2.47%) DNS
5 15 (2.47%) VoIP
5 15 (2.47%) Wi-Fi
6 14 (2.30%) MPLS
7 13 (2.14%) DHCP
7 13 (2.14%) PBX
8 12 (1.97%) TCP/IP
8 12 (1.97%) VLAN
9 11 (1.81%) Network Security
10 10 (1.64%) NAS
11 6 (0.99%) VPN
12 5 (0.82%) HTTP
12 5 (0.82%) SD-WAN
13 4 (0.66%) Fibre Channel
13 4 (0.66%) FTP
13 4 (0.66%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (5.26%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.80%) Power BI
3 15 (2.47%) Relational Database
4 13 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (1.64%) Metadata
5 10 (1.64%) Oracle Database
6 8 (1.32%) Data Lake
6 8 (1.32%) MySQL
6 8 (1.32%) RDBMS
7 7 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (1.15%) Tableau
8 6 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (0.99%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (0.66%) Big Data
9 4 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.49%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.49%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.49%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.33%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 29 (4.77%) Git
2 28 (4.61%) JIRA
3 20 (3.29%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.64%) Cucumber
5 9 (1.48%) Postman
6 7 (1.15%) Artifactory
6 7 (1.15%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.99%) GitLab
7 6 (0.99%) JUnit
8 5 (0.82%) ERwin
8 5 (0.82%) Selenium
9 4 (0.66%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.66%) Maven
10 3 (0.49%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.49%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (0.49%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.33%) Capybara
11 2 (0.33%) Gradle
11 2 (0.33%) Subversion
General
1 152 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 81 (13.32%) Legal
3 62 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (9.87%) Finance
5 56 (9.21%) Public Sector
6 39 (6.41%) Telecoms
7 33 (5.43%) Presentation Skills
8 28 (4.61%) Manufacturing
9 23 (3.78%) Marketing
10 21 (3.45%) Aerospace
10 21 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
11 19 (3.13%) Police
12 16 (2.63%) Banking
12 16 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
13 12 (1.97%) Law
14 8 (1.32%) Local Government
15 5 (0.82%) Electronics
15 5 (0.82%) Mandarin Language
15 5 (0.82%) Retail
16 4 (0.66%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 71 (11.68%) Analyst
2 60 (9.87%) Architect
3 55 (9.05%) Developer
4 37 (6.09%) Consultant
5 34 (5.59%) Project Manager
6 29 (4.77%) Business Analyst
7 27 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
8 23 (3.78%) Administrator
9 21 (3.45%) Lead
10 19 (3.13%) Senior
11 18 (2.96%) Network Engineer
12 15 (2.47%) Data Architect
12 15 (2.47%) Java Developer
12 15 (2.47%) Storage Engineer
13 14 (2.30%) Data Consultant
13 14 (2.30%) IT Support
14 13 (2.14%) DevOps Engineer
14 13 (2.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 13 (2.14%) Support Engineer
15 12 (1.97%) Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (5.10%) REST
2 17 (2.80%) Spring
2 17 (2.80%) XML
3 15 (2.47%) JSON
3 15 (2.47%) Spring Boot
4 13 (2.14%) CSS
4 13 (2.14%) HTML
5 12 (1.97%) Kafka
6 11 (1.81%) React
7 10 (1.64%) .NET
8 7 (1.15%) Node.js
8 7 (1.15%) Web Services
9 6 (0.99%) Apache Camel
9 6 (0.99%) RESTful
9 6 (0.99%) YAML
10 4 (0.66%) AWS CDK
10 4 (0.66%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (0.66%) Spring MVC
10 4 (0.66%) Spring Web Flow
10 4 (0.66%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 281 (46.22%) Data Protection Act
2 27 (4.44%) Replication
3 19 (3.13%) Data Centre
4 18 (2.96%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.30%) Management Information System
6 12 (1.97%) Public Cloud
7 11 (1.81%) Clustering
8 10 (1.64%) Data Structures
8 10 (1.64%) Freedom of Information
8 10 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.48%) Blog
9 9 (1.48%) Client/Server
10 8 (1.32%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.15%) Reference Data
12 5 (0.82%) Life Science
12 5 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
13 4 (0.66%) Distributed Systems
13 4 (0.66%) Security Posture
13 4 (0.66%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 67 (11.02%) Windows
2 62 (10.20%) Linux
3 24 (3.95%) Unix
4 20 (3.29%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.15%) Solaris
5 7 (1.15%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.82%) AIX
7 2 (0.33%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.16%) VMS
8 1 (0.16%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (13.98%) Agile
2 57 (9.38%) Value Proposition
3 53 (8.72%) Decision-Making
4 52 (8.55%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (8.55%) Project Management
5 51 (8.39%) Migration
6 50 (8.22%) Cybersecurity
7 47 (7.73%) DevOps
8 45 (7.40%) Information Security
9 42 (6.91%) Analytics
10 39 (6.41%) Stakeholder Management
11 37 (6.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (5.76%) Change Management
13 34 (5.59%) CI/CD
14 33 (5.43%) ITIL
15 32 (5.26%) Data Modelling
16 30 (4.93%) Data Governance
17 28 (4.61%) Data Management
18 25 (4.11%) Scrum
18 25 (4.11%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 59 (9.70%) SQL
2 41 (6.74%) Python
3 39 (6.41%) Java
4 32 (5.26%) PowerShell
5 24 (3.95%) JavaScript
6 21 (3.45%) C#
7 17 (2.80%) Perl
8 14 (2.30%) Bash
9 11 (1.81%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.99%) PHP
10 6 (0.99%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.66%) C++
11 4 (0.66%) Ruby
11 4 (0.66%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.49%) F#
12 3 (0.49%) X++
13 2 (0.33%) Bicep
13 2 (0.33%) R
13 2 (0.33%) Scala
14 1 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 114 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 73 (12.01%) Degree
3 57 (9.38%) SC Cleared
4 40 (6.58%) DV Cleared
5 22 (3.62%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.97%) IIBA
7 10 (1.64%) CISSP
7 10 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.48%) CISM
8 9 (1.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 6 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (0.99%) ISEB
10 5 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.82%) SAP Certification
11 4 (0.66%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.49%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.33%) CCNA
13 2 (0.33%) CIPD
13 2 (0.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (13.32%) GDPR
2 21 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.96%) QA
4 14 (2.30%) Accessibility
4 14 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.97%) Good Clinical Practice
5 12 (1.97%) GxP
5 12 (1.97%) NIST
6 6 (0.99%) Government Security Classifications
6 6 (0.99%) NCSC
7 5 (0.82%) SLA
8 4 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.49%) COBIT
9 3 (0.49%) IASME
9 3 (0.49%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.33%) PMO
11 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.16%) GRC
11 1 (0.16%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 45 (7.40%) Active Directory
2 36 (5.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (3.45%) Docker
4 9 (1.48%) Virtual Servers
4 9 (1.48%) VMware Workstation
5 6 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.99%) vSphere
6 4 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.66%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.49%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.49%) SRDF
8 2 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.16%) NFS
9 1 (0.16%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.16%) Snort
9 1 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.16%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 32 (5.26%) Ansible
2 30 (4.93%) NetBackup
3 25 (4.11%) Terraform
4 15 (2.47%) Kubernetes
5 14 (2.30%) Grafana
5 14 (2.30%) Puppet
6 12 (1.97%) Nagios
6 12 (1.97%) SCCM
6 12 (1.97%) vCenter Server
7 10 (1.64%) Prometheus
8 8 (1.32%) Microsoft Clustering
9 5 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.66%) Graylog
10 4 (0.66%) Kibana
10 4 (0.66%) VxRail
11 3 (0.49%) Avamar
11 3 (0.49%) EMC TimeFinder
11 3 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.33%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 87 (14.31%) Microsoft
2 52 (8.55%) VMware
3 33 (5.43%) SAP
4 32 (5.26%) Cisco
5 27 (4.44%) Oracle
6 26 (4.28%) ServiceNow
7 18 (2.96%) Veritas
8 11 (1.81%) Dell
9 9 (1.48%) NetApp
10 8 (1.32%) EMC
10 8 (1.32%) Hitachi
10 8 (1.32%) Splunk
11 7 (1.15%) Juniper
11 7 (1.15%) OneTrust
11 7 (1.15%) Palo Alto
12 6 (0.99%) Brocade
12 6 (0.99%) Databricks
12 6 (0.99%) HP
12 6 (0.99%) IBM
12 6 (0.99%) Informatica