Data Protection Consultant Contracts

Data Protection/Privacy Consultant
UK

The median Data Protection/Privacy Consultant daily rate in the UK is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 544 627 831
Rank change year-on-year +83 +204 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Data Protection Consultant 4 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.008% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% 0.009% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £353 - £523
25th Percentile £356 - £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £440 £625
Median % change year-on-year -14.77% -29.60% +19.05%
75th Percentile £406 - £713
90th Percentile £418 - £758
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 - £625
% change year-on-year - - +31.58%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 34,853 44,903 78,425
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 94.00% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,022 30,697 55,029
10th Percentile £300 £300 £323
25th Percentile £413 £413 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -4.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,438 1,521 1,723
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.65 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.30 £19.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £41.27 £45.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.30% +69.81% +32.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.19
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £71.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £44.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -4.49% +97.78% +25.00%

Data Protection Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Data Protection Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Consultant in the UK

Data Protection Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Protection Consultant.

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Consultant in the UK

Data Protection Consultant
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Protection Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 12 October 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
England +49 4 £375 - 3
UK excluding London +61 2 £375 -
South West +19 2 £375 -
London - 2 £375 - 3
Work from Home +75 1 £375 -14.77%

Data Protection Consultant Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 October 2024, Data Protection Consultant 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 featuring Data Protection Consultant in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (75.00%) GDPR
3 2 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
3 2 (50.00%) Data Collection
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (25.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 1 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (25.00%) Data Security
4 1 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) NetBackup
4 1 (25.00%) Banking
4 1 (25.00%) Billing
4 1 (25.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
4 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001

Data Protection Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Billing
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) Data Collection
2 2 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (25.00%) Data Security
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (25.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager