Data Protection Contract Job Trends in Warwickshire

Data Protection
West Midlands > Warwickshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Warwickshire requiring Data Protection skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 51 41
Rank change year-on-year +2 -10 +8
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 7 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Warwickshire 1.34% 0.23% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 0.27% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 8
10th Percentile £326 - £679
25th Percentile £355 - £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £625 £738
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% -15.25% +73.53%
75th Percentile £455 - £766
90th Percentile £482 - £813
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £428 £513
% change year-on-year +16.96% -16.59% +10.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.46 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £40.46 - £17.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
Warwickshire

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 in Warwickshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 455 373 344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire 87.00% 86.95% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 224 240
10th Percentile £311 £379 £227
25th Percentile £400 £497 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £716
90th Percentile £725 £723 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 7 3
10th Percentile £23.23 £13.80 £22.00
25th Percentile £29.33 £14.60 £25.00
Median hourly rate £40.46 £14.70 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +175.24% -51.00% +73.91%
75th Percentile £50.00 £32.91 £32.25
90th Percentile - £34.12 £33.60
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £26.13 £27.50
% change year-on-year -6.83% -5.00% +52.78%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Warwickshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in Warwickshire

Data Protection
Daily Rate Trend in Warwickshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing Data Protection.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing Data Protection

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in Warwickshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in Warwickshire over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in Warwickshire

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Trend in Warwickshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing Data Protection.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing Data Protection

Data Protection
Contract Job Locations in Warwickshire

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 Warwickshire region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Warwick - 4 £313 - 3
Gaydon - 3 £500 -
Data Protection
West Midlands

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Warwickshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
General
1 2 (28.57%) Automotive
1 2 (28.57%) Law
1 2 (28.57%) Legal
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Compliance Specialist
1 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) SOC Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 2 (28.57%) Infotainment
2 2 (28.57%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Data Privacy
2 2 (28.57%) Security Management
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Transition
3 1 (14.29%) Manual Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 1 (14.29%) Network Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Security Operations
3 1 (14.29%) SIEM
3 1 (14.29%) Threat Detection
3 1 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
1 2 (28.57%) PERC
2 1 (14.29%) COBIT
2 1 (14.29%) NIST