Microsoft Data Protection Manager Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Data Protection Manager (DPM)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Microsoft Data Protection Manager skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 394 356 402
Rank change year-on-year -38 +46 +102
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2 8 7
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% 0.048% 0.034%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.073% 0.35% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 £460 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £470 £470
Median % change year-on-year +17.02% - +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £480 £480
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £550 £470 £470
% change year-on-year +17.02% - +63.48%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

Microsoft Data Protection Manager falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,747 2,290 2,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.79% 13.73% 13.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,876 1,465 1,959
10th Percentile £255 £250 £262
25th Percentile £400 £380 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £517
Median % change year-on-year - -3.29% -1.52%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £613
90th Percentile £647 £668 £695
UK median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.71% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 39 121
10th Percentile £15.87 £13.32 £17.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.15 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £34.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% -26.38% +100.78%
75th Percentile £66.88 £51.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £82.10 £74.09 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £51.25
% change year-on-year -7.69% -36.59% +102.13%

Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Data Protection Manager relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Microsoft Data Protection Manager job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Microsoft Data Protection Manager.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Microsoft Data Protection Manager

Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Microsoft Data Protection Manager.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Microsoft Data Protection Manager

Microsoft Data Protection Manager
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 Microsoft Data Protection Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
Wales - 1 £550 - 1
East of England - 1 £550 - 2
Microsoft Data Protection Manager
UK

Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 2 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Veeam
1 2 (100.00%) VMware