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 10 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 50 60
Rank change year-on-year -6 +10 +18
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 15 20 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.00% 2.39% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 2.81% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 15 18
10th Percentile £376 £152 £228
25th Percentile £415 £164 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -7.83%
75th Percentile £555 £531 £584
90th Percentile £574 £568 £661
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.76 - -
Median hourly rate £33.11 - -
75th Percentile £34.46 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £33.11 £27.00 -
% change year-on-year +22.63% - -

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 671 713 1,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 89.35% 85.29% 90.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 458 835
10th Percentile £287 £350 £350
25th Percentile £400 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £566 £575 £625
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 25 18
10th Percentile - - £12.00
25th Percentile - £12.15 £13.16
Median hourly rate £22.14 £13.87 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.63% -25.03% -7.50%
75th Percentile £81.25 £25.00 £21.31
90th Percentile - £33.75 £25.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £13.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +64.00% -32.50% +5.26%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -2 15 £488 - 18
Halifax - 1 £550 - 1
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 (13.33%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) Apache
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (13.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) AWS
3 3 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (20.00%) GCP
3 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (13.33%) Lucidchart
5 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Power BI
1 3 (20.00%) Tableau
2 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.67%) Delta Lake
2 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Qlik Sense
2 1 (6.67%) QlikView
2 1 (6.67%) SAP HANA
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Legal
2 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Back Office
4 1 (6.67%) Digital Health
4 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
4 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Law
4 1 (6.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Business Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Data Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Lead
3 1 (6.67%) Business Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Data Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Floorwalker
3 1 (6.67%) IT Floorwalker
3 1 (6.67%) Junior
3 1 (6.67%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Product Owner
3 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) LDAP
1 1 (6.67%) OAuth
1 1 (6.67%) OpenID
1 1 (6.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (6.67%) Unix
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Agile
1 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (20.00%) Data Integration
2 3 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
2 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (20.00%) Use Case
2 3 (20.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (13.33%) BPMN
3 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (13.33%) Data Engineering
3 2 (13.33%) Data Governance
3 2 (13.33%) Dependency Management
3 2 (13.33%) Information Governance
3 2 (13.33%) Kanban
3 2 (13.33%) SWOT Analysis
3 2 (13.33%) Time Management
3 2 (13.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) Bash
3 1 (6.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) CISSP
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (6.67%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) NIST
2 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (13.33%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (13.33%) VMware NSX
3 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) NetBackup
2 2 (13.33%) HP Data Protector
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (13.33%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.67%) vCenter Server
3 1 (6.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) Veritas
2 3 (20.00%) VMware
3 2 (13.33%) Databricks
3 2 (13.33%) Dell
3 2 (13.33%) Google
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle
3 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
3 2 (13.33%) Veeam
4 1 (6.67%) CyberArk
4 1 (6.67%) SAP