Data Protection Contracts in Yorkshire

Data Protection
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 61 68
Rank change year-on-year +32 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 64 43 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 6.31% 2.55% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.82% 2.95% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 26 37
10th Percentile £359 £349 £308
25th Percentile £434 £417 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £611 £582 £613
90th Percentile £638 £615 £652
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £31.50 - -
25th Percentile £31.54 - -
Median hourly rate £32.96 £27.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +22.07% - -
75th Percentile £34.38 - -
90th Percentile £34.43 - -
England median hourly rate £29.23 £21.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +39.19% -60.00% +147.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 939 1,458 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.51% 86.43% 90.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 587 874 1,388
10th Percentile £247 £263 £296
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £579 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 65 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%
75th Percentile £27.10 £22.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £80.10 £53.75 £56.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.83 £37.50
% change year-on-year -16.27% -4.45% +53.20%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in Yorkshire

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in Yorkshire

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in Yorkshire

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in Yorkshire

Data Protection
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
South Yorkshire +20 49 £519 -1.19% 9
West Yorkshire +15 14 £475 - 18
North Yorkshire +6 1 £550 - 3
Data Protection
England

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 4 (6.25%) Confluence
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (9.38%) AWS
1 6 (9.38%) GCP
2 5 (7.81%) Azure
3 4 (6.25%) OCI
3 4 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.69%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (3.13%) Google Compute Engine
5 2 (3.13%) Lucidchart
5 2 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.13%) DNS
1 2 (3.13%) Firewall
1 2 (3.13%) Network Security
2 1 (1.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (1.56%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.56%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.56%) NAS
2 1 (1.56%) NGN
2 1 (1.56%) SAN
2 1 (1.56%) SSH
2 1 (1.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.06%) Oracle Database
2 4 (6.25%) Power BI
2 4 (6.25%) Tableau
3 2 (3.13%) BigQuery
3 2 (3.13%) Qlik Sense
3 2 (3.13%) QlikView
4 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.56%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (1.56%) Flink
Development Applications
1 9 (14.06%) JIRA
2 3 (4.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.56%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.56%) Git
3 1 (1.56%) GitLab
3 1 (1.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (43.75%) Finance
2 21 (32.81%) Social Skills
3 20 (31.25%) Banking
4 11 (17.19%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (9.38%) Financial Institution
6 5 (7.81%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.13%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.56%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.56%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (15.63%) Data Engineer
2 8 (12.50%) Architect
2 8 (12.50%) Data Protection Engineer
3 7 (10.94%) Analyst
4 4 (6.25%) Consultant
4 4 (6.25%) Developer
5 3 (4.69%) Business Analyst
5 3 (4.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (4.69%) GCP Architect
5 3 (4.69%) Lead
5 3 (4.69%) Programme Manager
5 3 (4.69%) Senior
5 3 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.13%) Administrator
6 2 (3.13%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (3.13%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (3.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (3.13%) Business Intelligence Consultant
6 2 (3.13%) Information Assurance Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.13%) Anaconda
1 2 (3.13%) Pandas
1 2 (3.13%) PySpark
2 1 (1.56%) Apache Beam
2 1 (1.56%) FHIR
2 1 (1.56%) Gherkin
2 1 (1.56%) Kafka
2 1 (1.56%) LDAP
2 1 (1.56%) Middleware
2 1 (1.56%) OAuth
2 1 (1.56%) OpenID
2 1 (1.56%) React
2 1 (1.56%) SAML
2 1 (1.56%) Spark Streaming
2 1 (1.56%) Spring
2 1 (1.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 48 (75.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.13%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.13%) Mainframe
2 2 (3.13%) NHS
2 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.13%) Robotics
3 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.56%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (1.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.56%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.94%) Linux
1 7 (10.94%) Windows
2 4 (6.25%) Unix
3 3 (4.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (4.69%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.56%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (1.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (40.63%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (18.75%) Agile
3 9 (14.06%) Data Analysis
4 7 (10.94%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (10.94%) Performance Tuning
4 7 (10.94%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (9.38%) CI/CD
5 6 (9.38%) Project Management
6 5 (7.81%) Analytics
6 5 (7.81%) Change Management
6 5 (7.81%) Containerisation
6 5 (7.81%) DevOps
6 5 (7.81%) Performance Optimisation
6 5 (7.81%) Risk Management
6 5 (7.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (6.25%) Data Visualisation
7 4 (6.25%) Information Governance
7 4 (6.25%) Scrum
7 4 (6.25%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (20.31%) Python
2 5 (7.81%) Shell Script
3 3 (4.69%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.69%) SQL
4 2 (3.13%) Go
4 2 (3.13%) Java
4 2 (3.13%) Scala
4 2 (3.13%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.56%) ActionScript
5 1 (1.56%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (1.56%) C
5 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.56%) JCL
5 1 (1.56%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.56%) REXX
Qualifications
1 4 (6.25%) Degree
2 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.13%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.56%) CCNP
3 1 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.56%) CISSP
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.56%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (6.25%) PMO
2 3 (4.69%) GDPR
3 2 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (3.13%) SLA
4 1 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.56%) HL7
4 1 (1.56%) NIST
4 1 (1.56%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.56%) QA
4 1 (1.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (9.38%) Docker
1 6 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (7.81%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.69%) VMware NSX
3 3 (4.69%) vSphere
4 2 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.56%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (21.88%) Ansible
2 8 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.25%) Terraform
4 3 (4.69%) Control-M
4 3 (4.69%) NetBackup
5 2 (3.13%) HP Data Protector
5 2 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (3.13%) vCenter Server
5 2 (3.13%) vRealize
6 1 (1.56%) Grafana
6 1 (1.56%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (15.63%) Commvault
1 10 (15.63%) Oracle
2 6 (9.38%) VMware
3 5 (7.81%) Google
3 5 (7.81%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.25%) Databricks
5 3 (4.69%) IBM
5 3 (4.69%) Red Hat
5 3 (4.69%) Veritas
6 2 (3.13%) Cisco
6 2 (3.13%) Dell
6 2 (3.13%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.13%) Snow
6 2 (3.13%) Veeam
7 1 (1.56%) F5
7 1 (1.56%) IBM Sterling
7 1 (1.56%) Splunk