Data Protection Contracts

Data Protection
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 87 90
Rank change year-on-year +3 +3 +10
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 897 1,063 1,449
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.86% 2.45% 2.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.15% 2.87% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 561 905
10th Percentile £263 £213 £288
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -3.23%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £663
90th Percentile £688 £732 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +1.41% -2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 106 22
10th Percentile £14.78 £12.38 £15.73
25th Percentile £15.13 £16.06 £20.69
Median hourly rate £19.50 £19.50 £36.27
Median % change year-on-year - -46.24% +81.35%
75th Percentile £32.50 £27.50 £58.85
90th Percentile £36.69 £41.88 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.25 £19.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -21.79% -35.00% +50.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 28,438 37,047 49,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.78% 85.22% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,912 23,635 34,414
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,399 2,530 1,711
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.30 £64.81
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +64.71%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in the UK

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in the UK

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in the UK

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Protection.

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in the UK

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Protection over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Protection in the UK

Data Protection
Top 18 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 3 July 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
England +6 735 £486 -2.75% 905
UK excluding London +3 470 £469 +1.41% 514
London -2 375 £500 -4.76% 456
Work from Home +11 261 £469 -2.45% 420
North of England +9 148 £475 -9.52% 133
Scotland +4 113 £450 +1.41% 35
Yorkshire +32 81 £500 -4.76% 42
Midlands +35 72 £500 +25.79% 73
South East -13 70 £537 +19.33% 124
West Midlands +23 55 £525 +40.00% 51
North West -33 42 £425 -15.00% 75
South West +4 38 £400 -23.81% 68
North East +17 25 £413 - 17
East Midlands +12 17 £374 -30.47% 22
East of England -13 13 £525 +28.05% 47
Wales +2 8 £296 +124.43% 21
Northern Ireland -6 6 £492 -4.00% 18
Channel Islands - 2 £725 -

Data Protection
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 39 (4.35%) SharePoint
2 29 (3.23%) Confluence
3 10 (1.11%) CMS
3 10 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.45%) SAS
5 3 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.22%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.22%) Apache
6 2 (0.22%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.22%) Camunda
6 2 (0.22%) FactoryTalk
6 2 (0.22%) JBoss
6 2 (0.22%) OpenEdge
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Coherence
6 2 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
6 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.11%) nginx
Applications
1 41 (4.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.45%) MS Visio
4 12 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (1.00%) Chatbot
5 9 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.45%) Trello
7 2 (0.22%) MadCap Flare
7 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.11%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 3 (0.33%) BASE24
1 3 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.22%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (0.22%) ResourceLink
2 2 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.22%) VisionPLUS
3 1 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.11%) iTrent
3 1 (0.11%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.11%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.11%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.11%) SAP SCM
3 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 155 (17.28%) AWS
2 152 (16.95%) Azure
3 58 (6.47%) GCP
4 51 (5.69%) Microsoft 365
5 41 (4.57%) Power Platform
6 32 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
7 31 (3.46%) GitHub
8 28 (3.12%) Amazon S3
8 28 (3.12%) Entra ID
9 27 (3.01%) SaaS
10 21 (2.34%) Microsoft Purview
11 18 (2.01%) Serverless
12 17 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (1.78%) OneDrive
14 13 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (1.11%) PaaS
17 9 (1.00%) IaaS
17 9 (1.00%) Lucidchart
17 9 (1.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 38 (4.24%) Firewall
2 20 (2.23%) DNS
3 19 (2.12%) Network Security
4 15 (1.67%) WAN
5 14 (1.56%) SD-WAN
6 13 (1.45%) DHCP
7 12 (1.34%) SAN
8 10 (1.11%) NAS
9 9 (1.00%) VPN
10 7 (0.78%) LAN
10 7 (0.78%) TCP/IP
10 7 (0.78%) VLAN
10 7 (0.78%) Wireless
11 6 (0.67%) SSL
11 6 (0.67%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.56%) Cisco Nexus
13 4 (0.45%) HTTP
13 4 (0.45%) HTTPS
13 4 (0.45%) Structured Cabling
13 4 (0.45%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (3.46%) Power BI
2 26 (2.90%) SQL Server
3 18 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (2.01%) Tableau
4 14 (1.56%) Metadata
4 14 (1.56%) Oracle Database
5 11 (1.23%) MongoDB
6 10 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (1.00%) Data Lake
7 9 (1.00%) DynamoDB
7 9 (1.00%) Relational Database
8 8 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (0.89%) NoSQL
9 7 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (0.78%) MySQL
9 7 (0.78%) Power Query
10 5 (0.56%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.45%) BusinessObjects
11 4 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 54 (6.02%) JIRA
2 38 (4.24%) Git
3 26 (2.90%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.90%) GitLab
5 10 (1.11%) Postman
6 9 (1.00%) Burp Suite
6 9 (1.00%) Metasploit
7 8 (0.89%) SonarQube
8 6 (0.67%) Xcode
9 5 (0.56%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.56%) JUnit
9 5 (0.56%) Maven
9 5 (0.56%) Selenium
10 4 (0.45%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.33%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.33%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.33%) Snyk
12 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket Server
12 2 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 292 (32.55%) Social Skills
2 215 (23.97%) Finance
3 130 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (8.03%) Banking
5 53 (5.91%) Public Sector
6 46 (5.13%) Legal
7 23 (2.56%) Law
7 23 (2.56%) Marketing
8 21 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
9 19 (2.12%) Front Office
10 16 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (1.34%) Local Government
12 12 (1.34%) Telecoms
13 11 (1.23%) Back Office
13 11 (1.23%) Financial Institution
13 11 (1.23%) Retail
14 10 (1.11%) Aerospace
15 9 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 8 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 131 (14.60%) Analyst
2 95 (10.59%) Architect
3 68 (7.58%) Senior
4 60 (6.69%) Developer
5 54 (6.02%) Lead
6 47 (5.24%) Business Analyst
7 46 (5.13%) Consultant
8 41 (4.57%) Project Manager
9 30 (3.34%) Administrator
10 28 (3.12%) Security Engineer
11 26 (2.90%) Data Analyst
11 26 (2.90%) Data Engineer
12 23 (2.56%) Security Architect
13 22 (2.45%) Applications Support
14 19 (2.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 19 (2.12%) Support Engineer
15 18 (2.01%) Java Developer
16 16 (1.78%) Support Analyst
17 15 (1.67%) Senior Applications Support
18 14 (1.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.45%) React
2 21 (2.34%) RESTful
3 16 (1.78%) Spring
4 14 (1.56%) Kafka
5 12 (1.34%) REST
5 12 (1.34%) XML
6 9 (1.00%) JSON
6 9 (1.00%) Middleware
6 9 (1.00%) Web Services
7 8 (0.89%) .NET
7 8 (0.89%) OAuth
7 8 (0.89%) SOAP
8 7 (0.78%) AngularJS
8 7 (0.78%) HTML
8 7 (0.78%) LDAP
8 7 (0.78%) Spring Boot
9 6 (0.67%) SwiftUI
9 6 (0.67%) UIKit
10 5 (0.56%) AWS CDK
10 5 (0.56%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 497 (55.41%) Data Protection Act
2 48 (5.35%) Management Information System
3 26 (2.90%) Data Centre
4 24 (2.68%) Onboarding
5 22 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
6 19 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (1.78%) Cloud Native
7 16 (1.78%) Replication
7 16 (1.78%) Security Posture
7 16 (1.78%) Virtual Team
8 15 (1.67%) Product Ownership
9 14 (1.56%) Freedom of Information
10 13 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (1.11%) Insider Threat
12 10 (1.11%) Mobile App
12 10 (1.11%) NHS
13 9 (1.00%) Credit Risk
13 9 (1.00%) Derivative
13 9 (1.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 74 (8.25%) Linux
1 74 (8.25%) Windows
2 34 (3.79%) Unix
3 25 (2.79%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.23%) Apple iOS
4 11 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.11%) Android
6 9 (1.00%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.56%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.33%) CentOS
8 3 (0.33%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.22%) AIX
9 2 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.22%) Solaris
9 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.22%) zOS
10 1 (0.11%) HPUX
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (23.41%) Problem-Solving
2 133 (14.83%) Agile
3 109 (12.15%) Stakeholder Management
4 106 (11.82%) CI/CD
5 102 (11.37%) Migration
6 98 (10.93%) Project Management
7 91 (10.14%) Cybersecurity
8 81 (9.03%) DevOps
9 78 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 63 (7.02%) Risk Management
11 59 (6.58%) Information Security
11 59 (6.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 56 (6.24%) Cloud Security
13 54 (6.02%) Computer Science
13 54 (6.02%) Decision-Making
14 53 (5.91%) Analytics
15 50 (5.57%) Artificial Intelligence
15 50 (5.57%) Roadmaps
16 49 (5.46%) Mentoring
17 44 (4.91%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 149 (16.61%) Python
2 108 (12.04%) SQL
3 52 (5.80%) PowerShell
4 50 (5.57%) Java
5 34 (3.79%) JavaScript
6 27 (3.01%) Bash
7 19 (2.12%) C#
8 15 (1.67%) Shell Script
9 14 (1.56%) C++
9 14 (1.56%) TypeScript
10 10 (1.11%) Go
10 10 (1.11%) Perl
11 7 (0.78%) C
11 7 (0.78%) PHP
11 7 (0.78%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.78%) Swift
12 6 (0.67%) Objective-C
12 6 (0.67%) R
12 6 (0.67%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 107 (11.93%) Degree
2 74 (8.25%) Security Cleared
3 59 (6.58%) SC Cleared
4 48 (5.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (3.57%) CISSP
6 27 (3.01%) Microsoft Certification
7 22 (2.45%) CISM
8 18 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
9 15 (1.67%) AWS Certification
9 15 (1.67%) Master's Degree
10 12 (1.34%) CCNP
10 12 (1.34%) PMI Certification
11 11 (1.23%) DBS Check
11 11 (1.23%) OSCP
11 11 (1.23%) PMP
12 10 (1.11%) Azure Certification
12 10 (1.11%) DV Cleared
13 8 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (0.89%) CHECK Team Member
13 8 (0.89%) Tigerscheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (15.05%) GDPR
2 34 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 34 (3.79%) NIST
3 33 (3.68%) QA
4 28 (3.12%) Data Quality
5 20 (2.23%) HIPAA
6 18 (2.01%) GRC
6 18 (2.01%) PMO
7 17 (1.90%) SOC 2
8 16 (1.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 15 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (1.11%) Accessibility
10 10 (1.11%) NCSC
11 9 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 8 (0.89%) PCI DSS
12 8 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.78%) PERC
13 7 (0.78%) SLA
14 6 (0.67%) SEPA
15 4 (0.45%) NIST 800
System Software
1 51 (5.69%) Active Directory
2 36 (4.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (3.01%) Docker
4 9 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.89%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.56%) vSphere
7 4 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 3 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.11%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.11%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 55 (6.13%) Kubernetes
2 34 (3.79%) Terraform
3 27 (3.01%) Ansible
4 19 (2.12%) NetBackup
5 12 (1.34%) CASB
5 12 (1.34%) Grafana
5 12 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (1.34%) Oracle RMAN
6 8 (0.89%) Nmap
6 8 (0.89%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.89%) SCCM
7 7 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.45%) Control-M
8 4 (0.45%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.33%) Cisco CUCM
9 3 (0.33%) Puppet
10 2 (0.22%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.22%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.22%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.22%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 120 (13.38%) Microsoft
2 41 (4.57%) VMware
3 40 (4.46%) Oracle
4 36 (4.01%) Cisco
5 27 (3.01%) Google
6 22 (2.45%) ServiceNow
7 21 (2.34%) Salesforce
8 18 (2.01%) SAP
9 17 (1.90%) Veritas
10 15 (1.67%) Splunk
11 14 (1.56%) IBM
11 14 (1.56%) Red Hat
12 12 (1.34%) Databricks
13 11 (1.23%) Commvault
13 11 (1.23%) Dell
13 11 (1.23%) Fortinet
13 11 (1.23%) HP
14 9 (1.00%) Veeam
15 8 (0.89%) OneTrust
15 8 (0.89%) Veracode