Data Protection Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Protection
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Data Protection skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Protection over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 128 122
Rank change year-on-year +24 -6 +185
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 318 494 946
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.10% 1.93% 2.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 2.15% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 298 666
10th Percentile £270 £300 £353
25th Percentile £414 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £613
90th Percentile £725 £745 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 9 11
10th Percentile £18.29 £20.14 £16.69
25th Percentile £19.25 £51.25 £21.18
Median hourly rate £25.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.38% +50.00% +13.45%
75th Percentile £33.92 £66.00 £67.25
90th Percentile £43.75 - £77.32
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £52.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -60.00% +162.50% -13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Protection is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,319 22,924 40,623
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.76% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,917 16,193 29,494
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 527 541
10th Percentile £15.17 £18.67 £13.75
25th Percentile £24.63 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.25
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

Data Protection
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Protection trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Protection
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Protection.

Data Protection daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Protection over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Data Protection daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Protection.

Data Protection hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Protection over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Data Protection hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (2.20%) Confluence
1 7 (2.20%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.94%) SAS
3 2 (0.63%) CMS
3 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.31%) IBM Notes
4 1 (0.31%) Mule
4 1 (0.31%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.31%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (3.46%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.94%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.63%) Adobe Captivate
5 2 (0.63%) Camtasia
5 2 (0.63%) Lectora
5 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (2.20%) Teamcenter
2 2 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.31%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.31%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.31%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.31%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 47 (14.78%) Azure
2 22 (6.92%) AWS
3 11 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (3.46%) Azure Stack
3 11 (3.46%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (3.46%) Power Platform
4 8 (2.52%) Microsoft Purview
4 8 (2.52%) SaaS
5 7 (2.20%) PaaS
6 6 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (1.89%) Amazon S3
6 6 (1.89%) Azure Logic Apps
6 6 (1.89%) GCP
6 6 (1.89%) IaaS
7 5 (1.57%) Azure AKS
7 5 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (1.57%) OpenShift
7 5 (1.57%) Power Automate
7 5 (1.57%) PowerApps
7 5 (1.57%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.83%) Firewall
2 6 (1.89%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.57%) VLAN
4 4 (1.26%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (1.26%) SWIFTNet
4 4 (1.26%) tcpdump
4 4 (1.26%) VSAN
4 4 (1.26%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.94%) DNS
5 3 (0.94%) Intranet
5 3 (0.94%) MPLS
5 3 (0.94%) NAS
5 3 (0.94%) Network Security
6 2 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.63%) HTTP
6 2 (0.63%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.63%) VPN
6 2 (0.63%) WAN
7 1 (0.31%) LAN
7 1 (0.31%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.23%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (5.35%) Metadata
3 11 (3.46%) Snowflake Schema
3 11 (3.46%) SQL Server
4 8 (2.52%) Tableau
5 7 (2.20%) Oracle Database
6 6 (1.89%) Data Lake
6 6 (1.89%) Power BI
7 5 (1.57%) Big Data
7 5 (1.57%) Hadoop
7 5 (1.57%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.26%) Apache Hive
8 4 (1.26%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.94%) QlikView
10 2 (0.63%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (0.63%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.63%) MySQL
10 2 (0.63%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (5.66%) JIRA
2 12 (3.77%) ERwin
3 7 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.89%) Git
5 4 (1.26%) IDA Disassembler
6 2 (0.63%) Selenium
6 2 (0.63%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.31%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.31%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.31%) GitLab
7 1 (0.31%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.31%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (0.31%) Postman
7 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 68 (21.38%) Public Sector
2 52 (16.35%) Finance
3 46 (14.47%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (13.52%) Social Skills
5 28 (8.81%) Legal
6 21 (6.60%) Police
7 17 (5.35%) Banking
8 16 (5.03%) Manufacturing
9 15 (4.72%) Telecoms
10 14 (4.40%) Marketing
11 12 (3.77%) Retail
12 11 (3.46%) Electronics
13 9 (2.83%) Law
13 9 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.94%) Local Government
15 3 (0.94%) Military
16 2 (0.63%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 72 (22.64%) Architect
2 33 (10.38%) Consultant
3 31 (9.75%) Project Manager
4 27 (8.49%) Developer
5 25 (7.86%) Data Architect
6 21 (6.60%) Analyst
7 18 (5.66%) Solutions Architect
8 15 (4.72%) Data Consultant
8 15 (4.72%) Lead
9 12 (3.77%) Data Protection Consultant
9 12 (3.77%) Enterprise Architect
10 11 (3.46%) Enterprise Data Architect
10 11 (3.46%) Security Consultant
10 11 (3.46%) Senior
11 9 (2.83%) Junior
12 8 (2.52%) Junior Project Manager
13 7 (2.20%) Business Analyst
13 7 (2.20%) Data Manager
13 7 (2.20%) Oracle Architect
13 7 (2.20%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.29%) XML
2 18 (5.66%) REST
3 17 (5.35%) JSON
4 8 (2.52%) CSS
4 8 (2.52%) Spring
5 7 (2.20%) HTML
6 5 (1.57%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.26%) .NET
7 4 (1.26%) ADO
7 4 (1.26%) AWS CDK
7 4 (1.26%) Node.js
7 4 (1.26%) OLE
7 4 (1.26%) RESTful
7 4 (1.26%) Spring MVC
7 4 (1.26%) Spring Web Flow
7 4 (1.26%) Thymeleaf
8 3 (0.94%) SOAP
9 2 (0.63%) Flash
9 2 (0.63%) Middleware
9 2 (0.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 124 (38.99%) Data Protection Act
2 15 (4.72%) Data Structures
3 13 (4.09%) Wiki
4 12 (3.77%) Replication
5 11 (3.46%) Freedom of Information
6 10 (3.14%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.83%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.52%) Reference Data
9 7 (2.20%) Blog
10 6 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.89%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (1.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 5 (1.57%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.57%) Freedom of Information Act
12 4 (1.26%) Cloud Native
12 4 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.26%) NHS
12 4 (1.26%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.26%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.60%) Windows
2 19 (5.97%) Linux
3 5 (1.57%) Unix
4 3 (0.94%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.63%) VMS
5 2 (0.63%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (16.67%) Agile
2 45 (14.15%) Project Management
3 44 (13.84%) Cybersecurity
4 39 (12.26%) Information Security
5 34 (10.69%) Data Modelling
5 34 (10.69%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (10.38%) Data Governance
6 33 (10.38%) DevOps
7 32 (10.06%) Stakeholder Management
8 29 (9.12%) Analytics
8 29 (9.12%) Microservices
8 29 (9.12%) Migration
9 27 (8.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (8.49%) Data Management
10 25 (7.86%) Change Management
10 25 (7.86%) Decision-Making
10 25 (7.86%) Value Proposition
11 24 (7.55%) Data Strategy
12 21 (6.60%) Data Architecture
13 20 (6.29%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 33 (10.38%) SQL
2 20 (6.29%) Python
3 13 (4.09%) JavaScript
4 12 (3.77%) C#
4 12 (3.77%) Java
5 8 (2.52%) PL/SQL
6 7 (2.20%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.89%) Perl
8 5 (1.57%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.26%) X++
10 2 (0.63%) Bash
10 2 (0.63%) C++
10 2 (0.63%) Ruby
10 2 (0.63%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.31%) COBOL
11 1 (0.31%) F#
11 1 (0.31%) Go
11 1 (0.31%) PHP
11 1 (0.31%) R
11 1 (0.31%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 55 (17.30%) Security Cleared
2 46 (14.47%) Degree
3 43 (13.52%) SC Cleared
4 14 (4.40%) CISSP
5 10 (3.14%) CISM
6 8 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.26%) CTC Cleared
8 4 (1.26%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.94%) SAP Certification
10 2 (0.63%) CIPD
10 2 (0.63%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.63%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.31%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.31%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.31%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (21.38%) GDPR
2 29 (9.12%) Data Quality
3 18 (5.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (5.35%) NIST
5 14 (4.40%) Accessibility
6 10 (3.14%) NCSC
7 7 (2.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 7 (2.20%) QA
8 6 (1.89%) Government Security Classifications
8 6 (1.89%) PCI DSS
9 4 (1.26%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (1.26%) PSD2
10 3 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.94%) GRC
10 3 (0.94%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.63%) COBIT
11 2 (0.63%) ISAE 3402
11 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.63%) PMO
12 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 14 (4.40%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.52%) Docker
3 7 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.26%) Snort
4 4 (1.26%) vSphere
5 2 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (3.14%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.83%) Ansible
2 9 (2.83%) NetBackup
2 9 (2.83%) Terraform
3 7 (2.20%) Grafana
4 5 (1.57%) Puppet
5 4 (1.26%) Kibana
5 4 (1.26%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.26%) vCenter Server
5 4 (1.26%) VxRail
6 2 (0.63%) CASB
6 2 (0.63%) McAfee ePO
6 2 (0.63%) SCCM
6 2 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.31%) Graylog
7 1 (0.31%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.31%) Nagios
7 1 (0.31%) QRadar
7 1 (0.31%) WSUS
Vendors
1 24 (7.55%) SAP
2 23 (7.23%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.40%) Oracle
4 12 (3.77%) Sparx
5 9 (2.83%) Cisco
5 9 (2.83%) Google
6 8 (2.52%) Veritas
6 8 (2.52%) VMware
7 6 (1.89%) OneTrust
7 6 (1.89%) Splunk
8 5 (1.57%) Dell
9 4 (1.26%) Informatica
9 4 (1.26%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.94%) Adobe
10 3 (0.94%) IBM
10 3 (0.94%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.63%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.63%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.63%) Citrix
11 2 (0.63%) F5