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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 96 103
Rank change year-on-year +12 +7 +201
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 1,080 1,483 2,261
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.53% 2.57% 2.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.94% 2.86% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 584 940 1,595
10th Percentile £235 £288 £325
25th Percentile £400 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% +12.63%
75th Percentile £602 £650 £638
90th Percentile £725 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 19 37
10th Percentile £12.43 £15.37 £13.12
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% -13.98%
75th Percentile £27.59 £62.53 £47.11
90th Percentile £41.13 £66.00 £75.63
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 36,783 51,773 79,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.20% 89.81% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,675 35,887 56,073
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
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% +8.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,434 1,710 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +8 898 £525 - 451
UK excluding London -3 566 £475 - 318
London +22 451 £544 -5.43% 146
Work from Home +18 312 £525 +2.44% 173
North of England -14 148 £540 +27.06% 70
South East +18 133 £450 -10.00% 71
Scotland -6 118 £450 -7.69% 16
North West -17 103 £550 +29.41% 42
South West +29 69 £525 -16.00% 31
Midlands -28 49 £425 -5.03% 84
East of England +27 44 £430 -9.47% 38
Yorkshire +7 42 £525 +10.53% 24
West Midlands -20 42 £425 -10.53% 46
Wales +7 10 £400 -11.11% 10
North East +10 7 - - 6
East Midlands -2 7 £538 +43.33% 39
Northern Ireland +10 4 £513 +28.13%

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 29 (2.69%) Microsoft Exchange
1 29 (2.69%) SharePoint
2 23 (2.13%) Confluence
3 9 (0.83%) Apache
4 6 (0.56%) SAS
5 4 (0.37%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.37%) govService
6 3 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.19%) CMS
7 2 (0.19%) Gunicorn
7 2 (0.19%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.093%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.093%) IBM Notes
8 1 (0.093%) Mule
8 1 (0.093%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.093%) WebSphere
Applications
1 60 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (3.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (1.48%) Spreadsheet
4 12 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.19%) Adobe Captivate
6 2 (0.19%) Camtasia
6 2 (0.19%) Lectora
6 2 (0.19%) Mingle
7 1 (0.093%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.093%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.093%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.093%) Revit
Business Applications
1 17 (1.57%) Teamcenter
2 8 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.37%) Endur
3 4 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.28%) ION MarketView
4 3 (0.28%) Shopify
4 3 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.19%) SAP CRM
5 2 (0.19%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.093%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.093%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.093%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.093%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.093%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.093%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.093%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.093%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.093%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.093%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 134 (12.41%) Azure
2 96 (8.89%) AWS
3 45 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
4 38 (3.52%) Power Platform
5 26 (2.41%) GCP
6 25 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (2.22%) SaaS
8 20 (1.85%) Taleo
9 19 (1.76%) Entra ID
10 18 (1.67%) Amazon S3
10 18 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
11 17 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
11 17 (1.57%) Azure Stack
12 13 (1.20%) OneDrive
13 12 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
13 12 (1.11%) GitHub
13 12 (1.11%) PaaS
14 11 (1.02%) OpenShift
14 11 (1.02%) Power Automate
15 10 (0.93%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.87%) SAN
2 30 (2.78%) WAN
3 29 (2.69%) DNS
4 27 (2.50%) Firewall
5 25 (2.31%) LAN
6 23 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
7 20 (1.85%) DHCP
8 18 (1.67%) TCP/IP
9 16 (1.48%) Network Security
10 15 (1.39%) VoIP
11 14 (1.30%) MPLS
11 14 (1.30%) NAS
11 14 (1.30%) VPN
12 13 (1.20%) PBX
13 11 (1.02%) HTTP
13 11 (1.02%) Intranet
13 11 (1.02%) VLAN
14 8 (0.74%) 5G
15 7 (0.65%) VSAN
15 7 (0.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
2 41 (3.80%) SQL Server
3 30 (2.78%) Power BI
4 24 (2.22%) Metadata
5 19 (1.76%) Big Data
6 18 (1.67%) Snowflake Schema
7 17 (1.57%) Relational Database
8 16 (1.48%) Oracle Database
9 14 (1.30%) Data Lake
10 13 (1.20%) Tableau
11 9 (0.83%) MySQL
11 9 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
12 8 (0.74%) Hadoop
12 8 (0.74%) MongoDB
12 8 (0.74%) NoSQL
13 6 (0.56%) Apache Hive
13 6 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (0.56%) Data Mining
13 6 (0.56%) Star Schema
14 5 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 50 (4.63%) Git
2 48 (4.44%) JIRA
3 30 (2.78%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.57%) ERwin
5 11 (1.02%) Postman
6 9 (0.83%) Artifactory
6 9 (0.83%) JUnit
7 8 (0.74%) Cucumber
8 7 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.56%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.56%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.46%) GitLab
10 5 (0.46%) Selenium
10 5 (0.46%) XCTest
11 4 (0.37%) IDA Disassembler
11 4 (0.37%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.28%) Maven
12 3 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
12 3 (0.28%) SpecFlow
12 3 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 242 (22.41%) Social Skills
2 146 (13.52%) Finance
3 121 (11.20%) Legal
4 118 (10.93%) Analytical Skills
5 115 (10.65%) Public Sector
6 61 (5.65%) Banking
7 54 (5.00%) Telecoms
8 39 (3.61%) Marketing
9 38 (3.52%) Manufacturing
10 36 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
11 33 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
12 28 (2.59%) Law
13 24 (2.22%) Police
14 21 (1.94%) Aerospace
14 21 (1.94%) Local Government
15 20 (1.85%) Retail
16 15 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
17 13 (1.20%) Electronics
18 10 (0.93%) Billing
19 9 (0.83%) Games
Job Titles
1 162 (15.00%) Architect
2 120 (11.11%) Analyst
3 99 (9.17%) Developer
4 77 (7.13%) Lead
5 64 (5.93%) Project Manager
6 60 (5.56%) Senior
7 57 (5.28%) Consultant
8 52 (4.81%) Solutions Architect
9 45 (4.17%) Business Analyst
10 43 (3.98%) Data Architect
11 32 (2.96%) Administrator
12 25 (2.31%) Network Engineer
13 22 (2.04%) Enterprise Architect
13 22 (2.04%) Java Developer
14 19 (1.76%) Support Engineer
14 19 (1.76%) Technical Architect
15 18 (1.67%) Data Consultant
15 18 (1.67%) Data Manager
16 17 (1.57%) IT Support
17 16 (1.48%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (3.80%) REST
2 35 (3.24%) XML
3 30 (2.78%) JSON
4 19 (1.76%) Kafka
5 18 (1.67%) Spring
6 16 (1.48%) CSS
6 16 (1.48%) Spring Boot
7 15 (1.39%) HTML
8 13 (1.20%) .NET
8 13 (1.20%) React
9 12 (1.11%) Node.js
10 8 (0.74%) RESTful
11 7 (0.65%) SwiftUI
11 7 (0.65%) YAML
12 6 (0.56%) AngularJS
12 6 (0.56%) Apache Camel
12 6 (0.56%) Middleware
12 6 (0.56%) Vue
12 6 (0.56%) Web Services
13 5 (0.46%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 549 (50.83%) Data Protection Act
2 50 (4.63%) Management Information System
3 36 (3.33%) Data Centre
3 36 (3.33%) Freedom of Information
4 33 (3.06%) Replication
5 31 (2.87%) Product Ownership
6 27 (2.50%) Data Structures
7 18 (1.67%) Freedom of Information Act
8 17 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (1.30%) Blog
9 14 (1.30%) Reference Data
9 14 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.20%) Wiki
11 12 (1.11%) Security Posture
12 11 (1.02%) Cloud Native
12 11 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
13 10 (0.93%) Clustering
13 10 (0.93%) Mobile App
13 10 (0.93%) Public Cloud
14 9 (0.83%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 94 (8.70%) Windows
2 86 (7.96%) Linux
3 30 (2.78%) Unix
4 21 (1.94%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.11%) Apple iOS
6 11 (1.02%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.65%) Solaris
8 5 (0.46%) AIX
8 5 (0.46%) Android
9 3 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.28%) VMS
10 2 (0.19%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.093%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.093%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.093%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.093%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (15.93%) Agile
2 103 (9.54%) Problem-Solving
3 98 (9.07%) Project Management
4 92 (8.52%) Cybersecurity
5 89 (8.24%) Stakeholder Management
6 86 (7.96%) Decision-Making
7 82 (7.59%) Analytics
8 81 (7.50%) Value Proposition
9 78 (7.22%) Migration
10 75 (6.94%) Data Modelling
10 75 (6.94%) Information Security
11 71 (6.57%) Continuous Improvement
12 69 (6.39%) DevOps
13 67 (6.20%) Data Governance
14 62 (5.74%) CI/CD
15 60 (5.56%) Change Management
16 55 (5.09%) Data Management
17 53 (4.91%) Microservices
18 51 (4.72%) Roadmaps
19 50 (4.63%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 106 (9.81%) Python
2 100 (9.26%) SQL
3 68 (6.30%) Java
4 44 (4.07%) PowerShell
5 29 (2.69%) C#
6 28 (2.59%) JavaScript
7 24 (2.22%) Perl
8 23 (2.13%) Bash
9 21 (1.94%) C++
10 14 (1.30%) PL/SQL
11 12 (1.11%) PHP
12 10 (0.93%) Swift
12 10 (0.93%) TypeScript
13 9 (0.83%) Scala
14 7 (0.65%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.56%) C
15 6 (0.56%) Ruby
16 5 (0.46%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.37%) X++
18 3 (0.28%) F#
Qualifications
1 123 (11.39%) Security Cleared
2 122 (11.30%) Degree
3 76 (7.04%) SC Cleared
4 34 (3.15%) DV Cleared
5 31 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
6 27 (2.50%) CISSP
7 21 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (1.85%) CISM
9 14 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (1.11%) IIBA
11 10 (0.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 8 (0.74%) ISEB
13 7 (0.65%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.56%) SAP Certification
15 5 (0.46%) Azure Certification
15 5 (0.46%) Master's Degree
16 4 (0.37%) CCNP
16 4 (0.37%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (13.89%) GDPR
2 64 (5.93%) Data Quality
3 50 (4.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 48 (4.44%) QA
5 44 (4.07%) NIST
6 28 (2.59%) Accessibility
7 13 (1.20%) GxP
8 12 (1.11%) Good Clinical Practice
8 12 (1.11%) PCI DSS
9 11 (1.02%) SLA
10 10 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.93%) GRC
11 7 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 7 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
11 7 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 7 (0.65%) NCSC
12 6 (0.56%) PMO
13 5 (0.46%) COBIT
14 4 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 4 (0.37%) PSD2
System Software
1 65 (6.02%) Active Directory
2 43 (3.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (3.15%) Docker
4 12 (1.11%) vSphere
5 9 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
5 9 (0.83%) VMware Workstation
6 8 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.46%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.37%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.37%) Snort
10 3 (0.28%) NFS
10 3 (0.28%) SRDF
11 1 (0.093%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.093%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.093%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 45 (4.17%) Terraform
2 42 (3.89%) Ansible
3 37 (3.43%) Kubernetes
4 33 (3.06%) NetBackup
5 22 (2.04%) SCCM
6 16 (1.48%) vCenter Server
7 14 (1.30%) Puppet
8 12 (1.11%) Grafana
9 10 (0.93%) Nagios
9 10 (0.93%) Prometheus
10 8 (0.74%) Microsoft Clustering
11 7 (0.65%) Kibana
12 6 (0.56%) VxRail
13 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.28%) CASB
14 3 (0.28%) EMC TimeFinder
15 2 (0.19%) Graylog
15 2 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
15 2 (0.19%) Nessus
Vendors
1 129 (11.94%) Microsoft
2 61 (5.65%) VMware
3 54 (5.00%) SAP
4 52 (4.81%) Cisco
5 43 (3.98%) Oracle
6 32 (2.96%) ServiceNow
7 21 (1.94%) Google
7 21 (1.94%) Veritas
8 17 (1.57%) Dell
9 15 (1.39%) Sparx
9 15 (1.39%) Splunk
10 11 (1.02%) IBM
10 11 (1.02%) Salesforce
11 10 (0.93%) NetApp
11 10 (0.93%) OneTrust
12 9 (0.83%) Apple
12 9 (0.83%) Databricks
12 9 (0.83%) EMC
12 9 (0.83%) Informatica
13 8 (0.74%) Hitachi