Data Protection Contracts in West Yorkshire

Data Protection
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Data Protection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 65 76
Rank change year-on-year +17 +11 0
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 14 12 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.55% 1.20% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.79% 1.37% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 16
10th Percentile £313 £333 £316
25th Percentile £400 £403 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% -6.33%
75th Percentile £619 £603 £559
90th Percentile £675 £625 £641
Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -2.38% +10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £31.50 - -
25th Percentile £31.54 - -
Median hourly rate £32.96 - -
75th Percentile £34.38 - -
90th Percentile £34.43 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £32.96 £27.00 -
% change year-on-year +22.07% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 502 875 1,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 91.61% 87.59% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 513 1,023
10th Percentile £263 £300 £350
25th Percentile £363 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £644 £656 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 16
10th Percentile £20.11 £11.91 £12.58
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.15 £15.10
Median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%
75th Percentile £41.50 £15.20 £65.31
90th Percentile £99.93 £41.35 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in West Yorkshire

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in West Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in West Yorkshire

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in West Yorkshire

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in West Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in West Yorkshire

Data Protection
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Leeds +8 14 £475 +11.76% 25
Halifax - 1 £550 -
Data Protection
Yorkshire

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 2 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Entra ID
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) GCP
3 2 (14.29%) Lucidchart
4 1 (7.14%) Google Compute Engine
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Power BI
1 4 (28.57%) Tableau
2 2 (14.29%) Qlik Sense
2 2 (14.29%) QlikView
3 1 (7.14%) BigQuery
3 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Public Sector
3 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
4 1 (7.14%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) GCP Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Information Assurance Leader
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Business Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) GCP DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) LDAP
1 1 (7.14%) OAuth
1 1 (7.14%) OpenID
1 1 (7.14%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.14%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
1 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (28.57%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (28.57%) Data Analysis
2 4 (28.57%) Data Visualisation
2 4 (28.57%) Information Governance
2 4 (28.57%) Visualisation
3 3 (21.43%) Change Management
3 3 (21.43%) Project Management
3 3 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (21.43%) Use Case
4 2 (14.29%) Data Integration
4 2 (14.29%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2
4 2 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 2 (14.29%) Scrum
4 2 (14.29%) SWOT Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
1 2 (14.29%) T-SQL
2 1 (7.14%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
1 2 (14.29%) Master's Degree
2 1 (7.14%) CISSP
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 2 (14.29%) GDPR
2 2 (14.29%) PMO
3 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (7.14%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (14.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) HP Data Protector
1 2 (14.29%) NetBackup
1 2 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (7.14%) vCenter Server
2 1 (7.14%) vRealize
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) Databricks
3 2 (14.29%) Dell
3 2 (14.29%) Google
3 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 2 (14.29%) Veeam
3 2 (14.29%) Veritas
3 2 (14.29%) VMware
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle