Microsoft Data Protection Manager Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Data Protection Manager (DPM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Microsoft Data Protection Manager skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 568 543 622
Rank change year-on-year -25 +79 +186
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2 8 7
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.006% 0.022% 0.015%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.035% 0.15% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 £460 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £470 £470
Median % change year-on-year +17.02% - +63.48%
75th Percentile £575 £480 £480
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £470 £470
% change year-on-year +17.02% - +10.59%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Microsoft Data Protection Manager falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,763 5,250 6,664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.23% 14.33% 14.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,848 3,369 4,751
10th Percentile £306 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £517
% change year-on-year - -3.29% -1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 60 172
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.23 £18.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £23.59 £30.94
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -36.59% +102.13%
75th Percentile £63.36 £60.63 £75.00
90th Percentile £77.38 £74.50 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £34.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -26.47% -26.38% +100.78%

Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Data Protection Manager relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Microsoft Data Protection Manager job vacancy trend in the UK

Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microsoft Data Protection Manager.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microsoft Data Protection Manager

Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microsoft Data Protection Manager.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microsoft Data Protection Manager

Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Top 4 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Data Protection Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 15 November 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
UK excluding London -38 2 £550 +17.02% 3
England -37 1 £550 +17.02% 2
East of England - 1 £550 - 2
Wales - 1 £550 - 1

Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 2 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Veeam
1 2 (100.00%) VMware