Data Protection Contracts

Data Protection
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Protection skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Protection over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 96 106
Rank change year-on-year +14 +10 +206
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 1,114 1,504 2,276
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.58% 2.54% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.99% 2.83% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 960 1,612
10th Percentile £225 £288 £325
25th Percentile £400 £413 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.65%
75th Percentile £601 £650 £638
90th Percentile £725 £759 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 19 35
10th Percentile £12.45 £15.37 £13.08
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.88 £17.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £52.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +162.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £27.84 £62.53 £47.94
90th Percentile £43.56 £66.00 £73.69
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.50 £44.53 £20.00
% change year-on-year -56.21% +122.65% -11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Protection is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,262 53,150 80,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.86% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,013 36,862 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,756 1,916
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Protection in the UK

Data Protection
Top 17 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 4 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 +13 920 £510 -2.86% 470
UK excluding London 0 600 £475 -1.04% 333
London +26 447 £550 -4.35% 147
Work from Home +25 318 £525 +2.44% 166
North of England -8 157 £525 +16.67% 84
South East +17 136 £450 -10.00% 85
Scotland -3 126 £459 -8.20% 15
North West -13 110 £538 +26.47% 46
South West +45 74 £525 -14.63% 36
Midlands -21 54 £425 -10.53% 64
East of England +24 47 £410 -15.90% 45
West Midlands -14 47 £425 -10.53% 30
Yorkshire +4 42 £525 +5.00% 31
Wales +3 11 £375 -16.67% 8
North East +19 9 - - 10
East Midlands +3 7 £538 +43.33% 34
Northern Ireland +9 4 £513 +28.13% 2

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 30 (2.69%) SharePoint
2 29 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 23 (2.06%) Confluence
4 8 (0.72%) Apache
5 6 (0.54%) SAS
6 5 (0.45%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.36%) govService
8 3 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.18%) CMS
9 2 (0.18%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.090%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.090%) IBM Notes
10 1 (0.090%) Mule
10 1 (0.090%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.090%) WebSphere
Applications
1 63 (5.66%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (1.44%) Spreadsheet
4 13 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.54%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.18%) Adobe Captivate
6 2 (0.18%) Camtasia
6 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.18%) Lectora
6 2 (0.18%) Mingle
7 1 (0.090%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.090%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.090%) Revit
Business Applications
1 17 (1.53%) Teamcenter
2 8 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.36%) Endur
3 4 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.27%) Shopify
4 3 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.18%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.18%) SAP CRM
5 2 (0.18%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.090%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.090%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.090%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.090%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.090%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.090%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.090%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.090%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.090%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.090%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 143 (12.84%) Azure
2 96 (8.62%) AWS
3 51 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (3.50%) Power Platform
5 25 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (2.24%) GCP
5 25 (2.24%) SaaS
6 20 (1.80%) Taleo
7 19 (1.71%) Amazon S3
7 19 (1.71%) Entra ID
8 18 (1.62%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (1.62%) Microsoft Purview
9 17 (1.53%) Azure Stack
10 14 (1.26%) PaaS
11 13 (1.17%) OneDrive
12 12 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
12 12 (1.08%) IaaS
12 12 (1.08%) OpenShift
13 11 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
13 11 (0.99%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.78%) DNS
1 31 (2.78%) SAN
2 30 (2.69%) WAN
3 29 (2.60%) Firewall
4 25 (2.24%) LAN
5 23 (2.06%) Wi-Fi
6 21 (1.89%) DHCP
6 21 (1.89%) TCP/IP
7 18 (1.62%) Network Security
8 15 (1.35%) VoIP
9 14 (1.26%) HTTP
9 14 (1.26%) MPLS
9 14 (1.26%) NAS
9 14 (1.26%) VPN
10 13 (1.17%) PBX
11 11 (0.99%) VLAN
12 9 (0.81%) Intranet
12 9 (0.81%) Wireless
13 8 (0.72%) 5G
14 7 (0.63%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
2 43 (3.86%) SQL Server
3 31 (2.78%) Power BI
4 25 (2.24%) Metadata
5 19 (1.71%) Big Data
6 18 (1.62%) Relational Database
6 18 (1.62%) Snowflake Schema
7 16 (1.44%) Oracle Database
8 14 (1.26%) Data Lake
9 13 (1.17%) Tableau
10 11 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (0.81%) MongoDB
11 9 (0.81%) NoSQL
12 8 (0.72%) MySQL
13 7 (0.63%) Hadoop
14 6 (0.54%) Apache Hive
14 6 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (0.54%) Star Schema
15 5 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
15 5 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 52 (4.67%) Git
2 49 (4.40%) JIRA
3 34 (3.05%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.53%) ERwin
5 11 (0.99%) Postman
6 9 (0.81%) Artifactory
6 9 (0.81%) Cucumber
6 9 (0.81%) JUnit
7 6 (0.54%) GitLab
7 6 (0.54%) Selenium
7 6 (0.54%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
7 6 (0.54%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.45%) XCTest
9 4 (0.36%) IDA Disassembler
9 4 (0.36%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.27%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.27%) Maven
10 3 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.27%) SpecFlow
General
1 250 (22.44%) Social Skills
2 148 (13.29%) Finance
3 123 (11.04%) Legal
4 122 (10.95%) Public Sector
5 119 (10.68%) Analytical Skills
6 62 (5.57%) Banking
7 57 (5.12%) Telecoms
8 42 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
9 39 (3.50%) Manufacturing
10 38 (3.41%) Marketing
11 32 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
12 28 (2.51%) Law
12 28 (2.51%) Police
13 21 (1.89%) Aerospace
14 18 (1.62%) Local Government
14 18 (1.62%) Retail
15 16 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
16 13 (1.17%) Electronics
17 9 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
18 8 (0.72%) Games
Job Titles
1 165 (14.81%) Architect
2 117 (10.50%) Analyst
3 100 (8.98%) Developer
4 76 (6.82%) Lead
5 69 (6.19%) Project Manager
6 64 (5.75%) Consultant
7 58 (5.21%) Senior
8 53 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
9 44 (3.95%) Business Analyst
10 43 (3.86%) Data Architect
11 31 (2.78%) Administrator
12 26 (2.33%) Network Engineer
13 24 (2.15%) Support Engineer
14 21 (1.89%) Enterprise Architect
15 20 (1.80%) Data Manager
15 20 (1.80%) Technical Architect
16 19 (1.71%) Data Consultant
16 19 (1.71%) IT Support
16 19 (1.71%) Java Developer
17 17 (1.53%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (4.22%) REST
2 35 (3.14%) XML
3 31 (2.78%) JSON
4 21 (1.89%) Kafka
5 19 (1.71%) CSS
6 18 (1.62%) Spring
7 17 (1.53%) React
8 16 (1.44%) HTML
9 15 (1.35%) Spring Boot
10 14 (1.26%) .NET
11 12 (1.08%) Node.js
12 11 (0.99%) RESTful
13 8 (0.72%) AngularJS
14 7 (0.63%) SwiftUI
14 7 (0.63%) YAML
15 6 (0.54%) Apache Camel
15 6 (0.54%) Middleware
15 6 (0.54%) Web Services
16 5 (0.45%) OAuth
16 5 (0.45%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 567 (50.90%) Data Protection Act
2 49 (4.40%) Management Information System
3 36 (3.23%) Data Centre
3 36 (3.23%) Freedom of Information
4 33 (2.96%) Product Ownership
4 33 (2.96%) Replication
5 26 (2.33%) Data Structures
6 18 (1.62%) Freedom of Information Act
7 16 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (1.26%) Blog
8 14 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.26%) Reference Data
9 13 (1.17%) Wiki
10 12 (1.08%) Cloud Native
10 12 (1.08%) Clustering
10 12 (1.08%) Security Posture
11 11 (0.99%) Public Cloud
12 10 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
12 10 (0.90%) Mobile App
13 9 (0.81%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 96 (8.62%) Windows
2 93 (8.35%) Linux
3 30 (2.69%) Unix
4 23 (2.06%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.17%) Windows 10
6 9 (0.81%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.63%) Solaris
8 5 (0.45%) AIX
9 3 (0.27%) Android
9 3 (0.27%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.27%) VMS
9 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.090%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.090%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.090%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.090%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (14.81%) Agile
2 110 (9.87%) Problem-Solving
3 103 (9.25%) Project Management
4 101 (9.07%) Cybersecurity
5 87 (7.81%) Decision-Making
5 87 (7.81%) Stakeholder Management
6 86 (7.72%) Value Proposition
7 83 (7.45%) Analytics
8 82 (7.36%) Information Security
9 80 (7.18%) Migration
10 74 (6.64%) Data Modelling
10 74 (6.64%) DevOps
11 73 (6.55%) Continuous Improvement
11 73 (6.55%) Data Governance
12 66 (5.92%) CI/CD
13 61 (5.48%) Change Management
14 60 (5.39%) Microservices
15 56 (5.03%) Data Management
16 55 (4.94%) Roadmaps
17 51 (4.58%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 109 (9.78%) Python
2 104 (9.34%) SQL
3 70 (6.28%) Java
4 47 (4.22%) PowerShell
5 34 (3.05%) JavaScript
6 30 (2.69%) C#
7 25 (2.24%) Bash
7 25 (2.24%) Perl
8 17 (1.53%) C++
9 15 (1.35%) PL/SQL
10 10 (0.90%) PHP
10 10 (0.90%) Scala
10 10 (0.90%) Swift
10 10 (0.90%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.63%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.54%) Ruby
13 5 (0.45%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.36%) C
14 4 (0.36%) X++
15 3 (0.27%) F#
Qualifications
1 144 (12.93%) Security Cleared
2 127 (11.40%) Degree
3 85 (7.63%) SC Cleared
4 43 (3.86%) DV Cleared
5 31 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 30 (2.69%) CISSP
7 26 (2.33%) CISM
8 24 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.08%) IIBA
10 10 (0.90%) DBS Check
10 10 (0.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 7 (0.63%) ISEB
12 6 (0.54%) CISA
12 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.54%) SAP Certification
13 5 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (0.36%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.36%) CRISC
14 4 (0.36%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (14.00%) GDPR
2 63 (5.66%) Data Quality
3 55 (4.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 50 (4.49%) QA
5 45 (4.04%) NIST
6 31 (2.78%) Accessibility
7 13 (1.17%) GxP
8 12 (1.08%) Good Clinical Practice
9 11 (0.99%) GRC
9 11 (0.99%) NCSC
9 11 (0.99%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.99%) SLA
10 10 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 7 (0.63%) COBIT
12 7 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
12 7 (0.63%) Government Security Classifications
12 7 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 5 (0.45%) PMO
14 4 (0.36%) PSD2
System Software
1 67 (6.01%) Active Directory
2 54 (4.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (3.23%) Docker
4 12 (1.08%) vSphere
5 10 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
6 9 (0.81%) VMware Workstation
7 7 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.45%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.36%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.36%) Snort
10 3 (0.27%) NFS
10 3 (0.27%) SRDF
11 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.090%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.090%) Time Sharing Option
12 1 (0.090%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 47 (4.22%) Terraform
2 43 (3.86%) Ansible
3 39 (3.50%) Kubernetes
4 33 (2.96%) NetBackup
5 22 (1.97%) SCCM
6 18 (1.62%) vCenter Server
7 14 (1.26%) Grafana
7 14 (1.26%) Puppet
8 10 (0.90%) Nagios
8 10 (0.90%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.72%) Microsoft Clustering
10 7 (0.63%) Kibana
11 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.54%) VxRail
12 5 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.27%) Avamar
13 3 (0.27%) CASB
13 3 (0.27%) EMC TimeFinder
14 2 (0.18%) Graylog
14 2 (0.18%) Nessus
Vendors
1 142 (12.75%) Microsoft
2 72 (6.46%) VMware
3 55 (4.94%) SAP
4 53 (4.76%) Cisco
5 44 (3.95%) Oracle
6 34 (3.05%) ServiceNow
7 22 (1.97%) Google
8 21 (1.89%) Veritas
9 17 (1.53%) Dell
10 15 (1.35%) Sparx
11 14 (1.26%) Splunk
12 12 (1.08%) OneTrust
13 11 (0.99%) Salesforce
14 10 (0.90%) IBM
14 10 (0.90%) NetApp
15 9 (0.81%) Databricks
15 9 (0.81%) EMC
15 9 (0.81%) Informatica
15 9 (0.81%) Palo Alto
16 8 (0.72%) Hitachi