Data Protection Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Protection
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 70 69
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -8
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 424 559 777
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.27% 2.76% 3.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.61% 3.26% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 274 475
10th Percentile £238 £211 £269
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £625 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £489 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.25% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 93 17
10th Percentile £15.81 £14.41 £15.34
25th Percentile £24.25 £16.06 £20.50
Median hourly rate £29.12 £19.50 £44.53
Median % change year-on-year +49.31% -56.21% +122.65%
75th Percentile £33.55 £27.50 £60.55
90th Percentile £65.00 £40.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £27.64 £21.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +31.62% -60.00% +162.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,752 17,125 20,591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.51% 84.40% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,324 10,208 14,216
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.38%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £600
90th Percentile £654 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 2,061 1,259
10th Percentile £14.16 £12.34 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.23 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.72
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £35.65
% change year-on-year -22.81% +1.75% +38.82%

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 17 May 2025.

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 17 May 2025.

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 17 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
North of England +16 146 £475 -12.04% 105
Scotland +5 109 £465 +3.33% 38
South East -6 68 £500 +11.11% 159
Yorkshire +31 67 £506 -3.57% 37
North West -23 55 £413 -25.00% 63
Midlands +15 48 £500 +17.65% 54
West Midlands +2 37 £525 +23.53% 31
South West +8 32 £400 -23.81% 47
North East +15 24 £419 - 6
East of England +1 17 £538 +25.00% 48
East Midlands +15 11 £415 -22.88% 21
Wales -4 3 £413 +59.88% 10
Northern Ireland -10 3 £492 -4.00% 13
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 19 (4.48%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.59%) Confluence
3 4 (0.94%) CMS
3 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (0.71%) SAS
5 2 (0.47%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.47%) Camunda
5 2 (0.47%) FactoryTalk
5 2 (0.47%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.47%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 18 (4.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.18%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.47%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.47%) MadCap Flare
4 2 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.47%) SAP PM
2 2 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.47%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.24%) BASE24
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (0.24%) SAP APO
3 1 (0.24%) SAP SCM
3 1 (0.24%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 62 (14.62%) Azure
2 46 (10.85%) AWS
3 24 (5.66%) Cloud Computing
4 21 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (4.01%) Power Platform
6 15 (3.54%) Amazon S3
6 15 (3.54%) GCP
7 11 (2.59%) OpenShift
8 10 (2.36%) GitHub
9 9 (2.12%) Entra ID
9 9 (2.12%) OneDrive
10 7 (1.65%) Cohesity
10 7 (1.65%) OCI
10 7 (1.65%) Serverless
10 7 (1.65%) Snowflake
11 6 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (1.42%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.18%) Power Automate
12 5 (1.18%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.54%) Firewall
2 11 (2.59%) NAS
2 11 (2.59%) Network Security
2 11 (2.59%) SAN
3 9 (2.12%) SD-WAN
3 9 (2.12%) Structured Cabling
4 7 (1.65%) DNS
5 6 (1.42%) Unified Communications
6 5 (1.18%) WAN
6 5 (1.18%) Wireless
7 4 (0.94%) VoIP
8 3 (0.71%) BGP
8 3 (0.71%) Cisco IPT
8 3 (0.71%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (0.71%) DHCP
8 3 (0.71%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (0.71%) LAN
8 3 (0.71%) MPLS
8 3 (0.71%) SSL
9 2 (0.47%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.30%) Power BI
2 10 (2.36%) Oracle Database
2 10 (2.36%) Tableau
3 8 (1.89%) MongoDB
4 6 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (1.42%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.94%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.94%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.71%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.71%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.71%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (0.71%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.71%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.47%) Metadata
7 2 (0.47%) Power Query
7 2 (0.47%) QlikView
7 2 (0.47%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 29 (6.84%) Git
2 26 (6.13%) JIRA
3 17 (4.01%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.89%) GitLab
5 6 (1.42%) Maven
6 4 (0.94%) Xcode
7 3 (0.71%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.71%) JUnit
7 3 (0.71%) Postman
7 3 (0.71%) Selenium
7 3 (0.71%) Snyk
7 3 (0.71%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.47%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.47%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (0.47%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.47%) Gradle
8 2 (0.47%) Mercurial
8 2 (0.47%) Mockito
8 2 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.47%) Zephyr
General
1 138 (32.55%) Social Skills
2 99 (23.35%) Finance
3 63 (14.86%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (9.43%) Banking
5 30 (7.08%) Legal
6 29 (6.84%) Public Sector
7 15 (3.54%) Telecoms
8 13 (3.07%) Marketing
8 13 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (2.83%) Law
10 10 (2.36%) Pharmaceutical
11 9 (2.12%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.42%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.42%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.18%) Local Government
13 5 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.94%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.94%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.71%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 48 (11.32%) Analyst
2 47 (11.08%) Architect
3 43 (10.14%) Senior
4 36 (8.49%) Developer
5 28 (6.60%) Data Engineer
6 20 (4.72%) Consultant
6 20 (4.72%) Project Manager
7 17 (4.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (3.77%) Security Engineer
9 14 (3.30%) Applications Support
9 14 (3.30%) Lead
9 14 (3.30%) Senior Applications Support
9 14 (3.30%) Support Analyst
10 12 (2.83%) Business Analyst
11 10 (2.36%) Data Protection Engineer
11 10 (2.36%) Senior Analyst
12 9 (2.12%) Applications Support Analyst
12 9 (2.12%) Cabling Engineer
12 9 (2.12%) Java Developer
12 9 (2.12%) Senior Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.12%) React
1 9 (2.12%) RESTful
1 9 (2.12%) Spring
2 7 (1.65%) Web Services
3 5 (1.18%) .NET
3 5 (1.18%) LDAP
3 5 (1.18%) Spring Boot
4 4 (0.94%) HTML
4 4 (0.94%) Kafka
4 4 (0.94%) PySpark
4 4 (0.94%) REST
4 4 (0.94%) SwiftUI
4 4 (0.94%) UIKit
5 3 (0.71%) CSS
5 3 (0.71%) JPA
5 3 (0.71%) JSON
5 3 (0.71%) Middleware
5 3 (0.71%) Qt
6 2 (0.47%) JDBC
6 2 (0.47%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 245 (57.78%) Data Protection Act
2 28 (6.60%) Management Information System
3 14 (3.30%) Data Centre
4 12 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (2.59%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.12%) Fibre Optics
7 9 (2.12%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.65%) Freedom of Information
8 7 (1.65%) NHS
9 6 (1.42%) Cloud Native
9 6 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.42%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.18%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.18%) Mainframe
10 5 (1.18%) Operational Technology
11 4 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.94%) PKI
11 4 (0.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 39 (9.20%) Windows
2 37 (8.73%) Linux
3 24 (5.66%) Unix
4 19 (4.48%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.42%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.18%) Android
7 4 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.47%) AIX
8 2 (0.47%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.47%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.24%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.24%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (28.30%) Problem-Solving
2 72 (16.98%) Agile
3 47 (11.08%) Project Management
4 40 (9.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 39 (9.20%) CI/CD
6 33 (7.78%) Cybersecurity
7 32 (7.55%) Continuous Improvement
7 32 (7.55%) Decision-Making
8 29 (6.84%) Migration
9 26 (6.13%) Data Analysis
9 26 (6.13%) DevOps
9 26 (6.13%) SDLC
10 23 (5.42%) Risk Management
11 22 (5.19%) Mentoring
12 21 (4.95%) Cloud Security
12 21 (4.95%) Information Security
13 20 (4.72%) Business Intelligence
13 20 (4.72%) Computer Science
13 20 (4.72%) Impact Assessments
13 20 (4.72%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 74 (17.45%) Python
2 45 (10.61%) SQL
3 23 (5.42%) Java
4 17 (4.01%) PowerShell
5 13 (3.07%) Shell Script
6 9 (2.12%) C++
6 9 (2.12%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.89%) Perl
8 7 (1.65%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.18%) C
9 5 (1.18%) C#
9 5 (1.18%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.18%) Scala
10 4 (0.94%) Objective-C
10 4 (0.94%) R
10 4 (0.94%) Swift
11 3 (0.71%) Groovy
11 3 (0.71%) PHP
11 3 (0.71%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.47%) Bash
Qualifications
1 44 (10.38%) Degree
2 33 (7.78%) Security Cleared
3 27 (6.37%) SC Cleared
4 19 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.83%) CISSP
5 12 (2.83%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (1.89%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.65%) CISM
8 7 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (1.65%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.42%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.42%) PMP
10 5 (1.18%) CCNP
10 5 (1.18%) ISEB
11 4 (0.94%) CEH
11 4 (0.94%) OSCP
12 3 (0.71%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.71%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (14.62%) GDPR
2 21 (4.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (3.30%) NIST
4 13 (3.07%) Data Quality
5 11 (2.59%) PMO
5 11 (2.59%) QA
6 6 (1.42%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.42%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.18%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (1.18%) SLA
8 4 (0.94%) GRC
8 4 (0.94%) NIST 800
8 4 (0.94%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.71%) NEBOSH
10 2 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.47%) FIPS 140-2
10 2 (0.47%) SEPA
System Software
1 23 (5.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (4.01%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.54%) Docker
4 8 (1.89%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.94%) vSphere
7 3 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.47%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.47%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.24%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 31 (7.31%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.25%) Ansible
2 18 (4.25%) NetBackup
3 12 (2.83%) Terraform
4 11 (2.59%) Oracle RMAN
5 4 (0.94%) Control-M
5 4 (0.94%) Grafana
5 4 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.71%) Cisco CUCM
6 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.71%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.47%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (0.47%) HP Data Protector
7 2 (0.47%) vRealize
7 2 (0.47%) WSUS
8 1 (0.24%) Cisco UCCX
8 1 (0.24%) Nessus
8 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.24%) Puppet
8 1 (0.24%) SCCM
Vendors
1 59 (13.92%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.60%) VMware
3 23 (5.42%) Cisco
4 20 (4.72%) Oracle
5 16 (3.77%) Veritas
6 11 (2.59%) Google
7 10 (2.36%) Commvault
7 10 (2.36%) Fortinet
7 10 (2.36%) SAP
7 10 (2.36%) ServiceNow
8 8 (1.89%) Databricks
8 8 (1.89%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.89%) Veeam
9 6 (1.42%) HP
10 5 (1.18%) Dell
10 5 (1.18%) IBM
10 5 (1.18%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.18%) Splunk
11 4 (0.94%) Informatica
11 4 (0.94%) Meraki