Data Protection Contracts in England

Data Protection
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 99 102
Rank change year-on-year +12 +3 +195
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 897 1,229 1,887
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.45% 2.50% 2.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.84% 2.77% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 807 1,354
10th Percentile £247 £300 £325
25th Percentile £400 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £650
90th Percentile £728 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% +12.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 16 27
10th Percentile £12.43 £15.33 £12.87
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.05 £20.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £48.52 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.71% +115.62% -3.23%
75th Percentile £27.59 £64.88 £53.07
90th Percentile £41.13 £66.00 £75.63
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £52.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -60.00% +162.50% -13.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,610 44,349 64,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.47% 90.16% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,692 31,129 45,727
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £446 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £764 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,241 1,561 1,760
10th Percentile £12.87 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +49.36% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in England

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in England

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in England

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in England

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Protection in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Protection in England

Data Protection
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. 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
London +20 448 £550 -4.35% 149
North of England -14 150 £533 +22.41% 74
South East +13 132 £450 -10.00% 75
North West -16 104 £550 +29.41% 44
South West +34 69 £525 -14.63% 31
Midlands -26 50 £425 -5.03% 89
East of England +21 44 £430 -9.47% 38
West Midlands -18 43 £425 -10.53% 45
Yorkshire +4 41 £525 +10.53% 25
North East +13 9 - - 8
East Midlands +4 7 £538 +43.33% 45
Data Protection
UK

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 28 (3.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (3.01%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.23%) Confluence
4 5 (0.56%) Apache
4 5 (0.56%) SAS
5 4 (0.45%) govService
6 3 (0.33%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.22%) Gunicorn
8 1 (0.11%) CMS
8 1 (0.11%) IBM Notes
8 1 (0.11%) Mule
8 1 (0.11%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 60 (6.69%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (3.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
4 7 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.33%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.22%) Mingle
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 13 (1.45%) Teamcenter
2 8 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.45%) Endur
3 4 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.33%) ION MarketView
4 3 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.22%) SAP CRM
5 2 (0.22%) SAP IS-U
5 2 (0.22%) Shopify
6 1 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.11%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.11%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.11%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 101 (11.26%) Azure
2 81 (9.03%) AWS
3 37 (4.12%) Power Platform
4 36 (4.01%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (2.34%) GCP
5 21 (2.34%) SaaS
6 20 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (2.23%) Taleo
7 16 (1.78%) Microsoft Purview
8 15 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (1.67%) Amazon S3
8 15 (1.67%) Entra ID
9 12 (1.34%) Azure Stack
9 12 (1.34%) OneDrive
10 11 (1.23%) Power Automate
11 10 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
11 10 (1.11%) PaaS
11 10 (1.11%) WhatsApp
12 9 (1.00%) Azure Logic Apps
12 9 (1.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.12%) WAN
2 24 (2.68%) LAN
2 24 (2.68%) SAN
3 23 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
4 22 (2.45%) DNS
5 20 (2.23%) Firewall
6 16 (1.78%) DHCP
7 14 (1.56%) MPLS
7 14 (1.56%) VPN
8 13 (1.45%) Network Security
9 12 (1.34%) TCP/IP
9 12 (1.34%) VoIP
10 11 (1.23%) PBX
10 11 (1.23%) VLAN
11 9 (1.00%) HTTP
12 8 (0.89%) 5G
13 7 (0.78%) Intranet
13 7 (0.78%) Wireless
14 6 (0.67%) SD-WAN
15 5 (0.56%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (4.24%) Data Warehouse
2 36 (4.01%) SQL Server
3 29 (3.23%) Power BI
4 19 (2.12%) Metadata
5 18 (2.01%) Big Data
6 14 (1.56%) Data Lake
7 13 (1.45%) Relational Database
7 13 (1.45%) Snowflake Schema
8 11 (1.23%) Oracle Database
9 10 (1.11%) Tableau
10 8 (0.89%) MongoDB
10 8 (0.89%) NoSQL
11 7 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (0.67%) Data Mining
12 6 (0.67%) MySQL
13 5 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (0.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.45%) GIS
Development Applications
1 34 (3.79%) Git
2 30 (3.34%) JIRA
3 17 (1.90%) ERwin
4 14 (1.56%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.00%) Artifactory
6 6 (0.67%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
6 6 (0.67%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.56%) XCTest
8 4 (0.45%) Selenium
9 3 (0.33%) GitLab
9 3 (0.33%) JUnit
9 3 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.33%) SpecFlow
9 3 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.22%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.22%) JMeter
10 2 (0.22%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.22%) Postman
General
1 209 (23.30%) Social Skills
2 115 (12.82%) Finance
3 112 (12.49%) Legal
4 100 (11.15%) Analytical Skills
5 88 (9.81%) Public Sector
6 48 (5.35%) Banking
7 47 (5.24%) Telecoms
8 39 (4.35%) Marketing
9 35 (3.90%) Manufacturing
10 26 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
11 23 (2.56%) Law
11 23 (2.56%) Police
12 22 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
13 21 (2.34%) Aerospace
13 21 (2.34%) Local Government
14 20 (2.23%) Retail
15 15 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
16 13 (1.45%) Electronics
17 9 (1.00%) Games
18 8 (0.89%) Billing
Job Titles
1 129 (14.38%) Architect
2 102 (11.37%) Analyst
3 78 (8.70%) Developer
4 70 (7.80%) Lead
5 54 (6.02%) Project Manager
6 48 (5.35%) Consultant
7 44 (4.91%) Senior
8 39 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
9 33 (3.68%) Business Analyst
10 31 (3.46%) Administrator
11 30 (3.34%) Data Architect
12 25 (2.79%) Network Engineer
13 19 (2.12%) Enterprise Architect
14 17 (1.90%) Support Engineer
15 16 (1.78%) IT Analyst
15 16 (1.78%) IT Support
15 16 (1.78%) Security Architect
15 16 (1.78%) Technical Architect
16 15 (1.67%) Data Consultant
16 15 (1.67%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (2.79%) XML
2 24 (2.68%) JSON
3 21 (2.34%) REST
4 13 (1.45%) Kafka
5 10 (1.11%) .NET
6 9 (1.00%) CSS
6 9 (1.00%) Spring
7 8 (0.89%) HTML
7 8 (0.89%) Node.js
7 8 (0.89%) React
8 7 (0.78%) SwiftUI
8 7 (0.78%) YAML
9 6 (0.67%) AngularJS
9 6 (0.67%) RESTful
10 5 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (0.56%) Web Services
11 4 (0.45%) ADO
11 4 (0.45%) FastAPI
11 4 (0.45%) PySpark
11 4 (0.45%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 453 (50.50%) Data Protection Act
2 49 (5.46%) Management Information System
3 31 (3.46%) Freedom of Information
4 29 (3.23%) Data Centre
4 29 (3.23%) Replication
5 25 (2.79%) Product Ownership
6 20 (2.23%) Data Structures
7 18 (2.01%) Freedom of Information Act
8 14 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.34%) Clustering
10 12 (1.34%) Reference Data
10 12 (1.34%) Wiki
11 11 (1.23%) Security Posture
12 10 (1.11%) Blog
12 10 (1.11%) Cloud Native
13 9 (1.00%) Client/Server
13 9 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
14 8 (0.89%) Derivative
14 8 (0.89%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 83 (9.25%) Windows
2 71 (7.92%) Linux
3 22 (2.45%) Unix
4 17 (1.90%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.23%) Apple iOS
6 10 (1.11%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.78%) Solaris
8 5 (0.56%) AIX
9 4 (0.45%) Android
10 3 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.33%) VMS
11 2 (0.22%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (14.83%) Agile
2 90 (10.03%) Problem-Solving
3 82 (9.14%) Cybersecurity
4 77 (8.58%) Project Management
5 73 (8.14%) Analytics
5 73 (8.14%) Decision-Making
6 70 (7.80%) Information Security
6 70 (7.80%) Stakeholder Management
7 63 (7.02%) Migration
8 62 (6.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 62 (6.91%) Data Modelling
9 61 (6.80%) Value Proposition
10 56 (6.24%) Change Management
11 55 (6.13%) Data Governance
12 52 (5.80%) DevOps
13 47 (5.24%) Roadmaps
14 46 (5.13%) CI/CD
15 45 (5.02%) Business Intelligence
16 44 (4.91%) Risk Management
17 43 (4.79%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 89 (9.92%) Python
2 78 (8.70%) SQL
3 50 (5.57%) Java
4 39 (4.35%) PowerShell
5 27 (3.01%) C#
6 23 (2.56%) Bash
7 20 (2.23%) C++
8 13 (1.45%) JavaScript
9 12 (1.34%) Perl
10 10 (1.11%) Swift
11 9 (1.00%) PL/SQL
11 9 (1.00%) Scala
12 8 (0.89%) PHP
12 8 (0.89%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.78%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.56%) C
14 5 (0.56%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.45%) X++
16 3 (0.33%) F#
16 3 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 113 (12.60%) Security Cleared
2 101 (11.26%) Degree
3 66 (7.36%) SC Cleared
4 33 (3.68%) DV Cleared
5 26 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 26 (2.90%) CISSP
6 20 (2.23%) CISM
7 15 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.34%) IIBA
10 10 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 7 (0.78%) ISEB
12 6 (0.67%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.67%) SAP Certification
13 5 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (0.56%) Azure Certification
13 5 (0.56%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.45%) CISA
14 4 (0.45%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (14.72%) GDPR
2 57 (6.35%) Data Quality
3 48 (5.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 44 (4.91%) QA
5 39 (4.35%) NIST
6 15 (1.67%) Accessibility
7 13 (1.45%) GxP
8 12 (1.34%) Good Clinical Practice
9 10 (1.11%) GRC
10 9 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (1.00%) SLA
11 7 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 7 (0.78%) NCSC
12 6 (0.67%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.67%) PMO
13 4 (0.45%) Government Security Classifications
13 4 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.33%) COBIT
14 3 (0.33%) IASME
14 3 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 56 (6.24%) Active Directory
2 37 (4.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (2.68%) Docker
4 10 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (1.00%) VMware Workstation
6 8 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
6 8 (0.89%) vSphere
7 7 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.56%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.45%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.33%) SRDF
11 2 (0.22%) NFS
12 1 (0.11%) Snort
12 1 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
12 1 (0.11%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 33 (3.68%) Ansible
1 33 (3.68%) Terraform
2 26 (2.90%) NetBackup
3 22 (2.45%) SCCM
4 21 (2.34%) Kubernetes
5 14 (1.56%) vCenter Server
6 12 (1.34%) Puppet
7 10 (1.11%) Nagios
8 8 (0.89%) Microsoft Clustering
9 5 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.45%) Grafana
10 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.45%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.33%) EMC TimeFinder
12 2 (0.22%) Ambari
12 2 (0.22%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (0.22%) Graylog
12 2 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.22%) Nessus
12 2 (0.22%) vRealize
Vendors
1 116 (12.93%) Microsoft
2 54 (6.02%) VMware
3 49 (5.46%) Cisco
4 48 (5.35%) SAP
5 34 (3.79%) Oracle
6 29 (3.23%) ServiceNow
7 15 (1.67%) Google
7 15 (1.67%) Sparx
7 15 (1.67%) Veritas
8 13 (1.45%) Dell
9 10 (1.11%) IBM
9 10 (1.11%) OneTrust
9 10 (1.11%) Salesforce
9 10 (1.11%) Splunk
10 9 (1.00%) Apple
10 9 (1.00%) NetApp
11 8 (0.89%) EMC
11 8 (0.89%) Hitachi
12 7 (0.78%) Informatica
12 7 (0.78%) Juniper