Data Protection Specialist Contracts

Data Protection/Privacy Specialist
UK

The median Data Protection/Privacy Specialist daily rate in the UK is £375 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 713 860
Rank change year-on-year +141 +147 -169
Contract jobs requiring a Data Protection Specialist 6 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.005% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.005% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 4
10th Percentile - £443 £279
25th Percentile £263 £469 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £525 £400
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +31.25% -27.27%
75th Percentile £420 £656 £503
90th Percentile £481 £728 £644
UK excluding London median daily rate £398 £600 £400
% change year-on-year -33.75% +50.00% +31.69%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,246 55,892 84,695
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,216 39,044 59,517
10th Percentile £279 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,569 2,074
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%

Data Protection Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Specialist in the UK

Data Protection Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Specialist in the UK

Data Protection Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Specialist over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Specialist in the UK

Data Protection Specialist
Top 10 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 Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
England +110 4 £420 -30.00%
UK excluding London +61 4 £398 -33.75%
London - 2 £275 -
Work from Home - 2 £275 -
Yorkshire - 1 £514 -
Midlands - 1 £420 -
Wales - 1 £375 -
West Midlands - 1 £420 -
North of England - 1 £514 -
Scotland - 1 £275 -

Data Protection Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Data Protection Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (33.33%) Data Privacy
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) GDPR
3 1 (16.67%) Avamar
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (16.67%) Data Mapping
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Puppet
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) Windows
3 1 (16.67%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (16.67%) SLA
3 1 (16.67%) Veritas
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Data Security
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Legal
3 1 (16.67%) Replication
3 1 (16.67%) NetBackup
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management

Data Protection Specialist 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) VLAN
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Legal
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
1 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (33.33%) Data Privacy
3 1 (16.67%) Biotechnology
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Data Mapping
3 1 (16.67%) Data Security
3 1 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security
3 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Avamar
1 1 (16.67%) NetBackup
1 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Veritas