Data Protection Contract Job Trends in West London

Data Protection
London > West London

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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 25 40
Rank change year-on-year -15 +15 +2
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 5 6 10
As % of all contract jobs in West London 1.70% 2.74% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 3.19% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 5
10th Percentile £181 £233 £240
25th Percentile £209 £324 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% +6.25% -37.25%
75th Percentile £403 £531 £475
90th Percentile £476 £633 £498
London median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £15.26 £41.04
Median % change year-on-year - -62.82% -
London median hourly rate - £21.50 £41.62
% change year-on-year - -48.34% +14.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West London

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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 260 188 414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 88.44% 85.84% 91.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 135 317
10th Percentile £204 £249 £216
25th Percentile £350 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -15.09% +2.51%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £613
90th Percentile £629 £633 £700
London median daily rate £530 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -3.73% -3.08% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 9 24
10th Percentile £20.24 £19.65 £17.28
25th Percentile £24.23 £20.75 £31.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £26.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -3.27% -51.63% -2.27%
75th Percentile £31.84 £30.59 £68.25
90th Percentile £36.73 £51.00 £82.00
London median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £35.63
% change year-on-year -21.33% +5.25% -10.93%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Protection relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West London.

Data Protection job vacancy trend in West London

Data Protection
Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Data Protection

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in West London over the 6 months to 6 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in West London

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Data Protection

Data Protection
Contract Job Locations in West London

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 West London region over the 6 months to 6 December 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
Hounslow +5 2 £213 -63.04%
Hillingdon - 2 £350 - 2
Data Protection
London

Data Protection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Akamai
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) BGP
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) OSPF
1 1 (20.00%) SNMP
1 1 (20.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Designer
1 1 (20.00%) Document Controller
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Network Designer
1 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (20.00%) Agile
1 1 (20.00%) Analytics
1 1 (20.00%) Change Management
1 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (20.00%) Data Entry
1 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (20.00%) Document Management
1 1 (20.00%) Facilities Management
1 1 (20.00%) High Availability
1 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL
1 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (20.00%) Migration
1 1 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (20.00%) Project Management
1 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) F5
2 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (20.00%) Juniper
2 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (20.00%) VMware