Hybrid/Remote Data Protection Engineer Contract Job Trends

Data Protection/Privacy Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Protection/Privacy Engineer daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £519, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
20 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 310 362
Rank change year-on-year -16 +52 +149
Contract jobs requiring a Data Protection Engineer 3 1 3
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.027% 0.009% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% 0.010% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £508 - -
25th Percentile £511 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £609 £564
Median % change year-on-year -14.82% +7.98% -
75th Percentile £523 - -
90th Percentile £524 - -
UK median daily rate £520 £587 £564
% change year-on-year -11.41% +4.08% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.00 - -
Median hourly rate £62.00 - -
75th Percentile £63.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 10,389 10,027 15,417
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 93.48% 94.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,667 6,504 10,348
10th Percentile £338 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £630
90th Percentile £723 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 428 180 509
10th Percentile £17.00 £18.21 £14.23
25th Percentile £24.50 £24.42 £21.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £38.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.94% -18.42% -15.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £66.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.25 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £31.36 £33.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -5.70% -5.00% -10.26%

Data Protection Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Data Protection Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Data Protection Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Data Protection Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Data Protection Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Data Protection Engineer job vacancies

Data Protection Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 20 February 2026, Data Protection Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Data Protection Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Commvault
1 3 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (100.00%) Confluence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
1 3 (100.00%) NetBackup
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Refinement
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) CloudBees
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) Puppet
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Retrospective
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) Veritas
3 1 (33.33%) Cohesity
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) GitLab
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared

Data Protection Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 3 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) CloudBees
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) Cohesity
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Refinement
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Retrospective
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) NetBackup
2 2 (66.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Commvault
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) Veritas
Data Protection Engineer jobs