Data Protection Contracts in Reading

Data Protection
Berkshire > Reading

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 48 31
Rank change year-on-year -22 -17 +35
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 29 40 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.45% 3.82% 5.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.79% 4.31% 6.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 25 49
10th Percentile £121 £248 £386
25th Percentile £185 £375 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £488 £538
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% -9.30% +43.33%
75th Percentile £475 £673 £638
90th Percentile £509 £702 £693
Berkshire median daily rate £425 £450 £516
% change year-on-year -5.56% -12.75% +47.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,040 927 1,252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 87.76% 88.45% 90.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 542 603 816
10th Percentile £213 £363 £238
25th Percentile £413 £461 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +10.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £625 £664 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 23 9
10th Percentile £14.50 £45.50 £13.15
25th Percentile £52.21 £58.32 £21.25
Median hourly rate £61.60 £66.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +120.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80.69 £75.38 £34.89
90th Percentile £87.53 £79.19 £38.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £60.80 £63.00 £21.03
% change year-on-year -3.49% +199.64% -1.18%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in Reading

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in Reading

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in Reading over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in Reading

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in Reading

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (24.14%) Azure
2 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (10.34%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (10.34%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (10.34%) PaaS
3 2 (6.90%) AWS
3 2 (6.90%) Azure AKS
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) MPLS
2 2 (6.90%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (6.90%) Firewall
2 2 (6.90%) Intranet
2 2 (6.90%) SD-WAN
2 2 (6.90%) WAN
3 1 (3.45%) 5G
3 1 (3.45%) BGP
3 1 (3.45%) GGSN
3 1 (3.45%) Internet
3 1 (3.45%) PBX
3 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.45%) VoIP
3 1 (3.45%) VPN
3 1 (3.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.45%) Big Data
2 1 (3.45%) MySQL
2 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.45%) RDBMS
2 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 12 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 9 (31.03%) Legal
3 7 (24.14%) Marketing
4 6 (20.69%) Law
4 6 (20.69%) Telecoms
5 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.34%) Mandarin Language
5 3 (10.34%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Advertising
6 1 (3.45%) Billing
6 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (17.24%) Developer
2 4 (13.79%) Architect
2 4 (13.79%) C# Developer
2 4 (13.79%) Network Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) HR Assistant
3 2 (6.90%) Network Architect
3 2 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.45%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (3.45%) Consultant
4 1 (3.45%) DBA
4 1 (3.45%) Junior Project Manager
4 1 (3.45%) Lead
4 1 (3.45%) Lead Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Project Manager
4 1 (3.45%) Security Architect
4 1 (3.45%) Senior
4 1 (3.45%) Senior C# Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Senior Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) CSS
1 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (3.45%) Google JAX
1 1 (3.45%) PyTorch
1 1 (3.45%) scikit-learn
1 1 (3.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 22 (75.86%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.45%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Linux
2 3 (10.34%) Windows
3 2 (6.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (24.14%) B2C
1 7 (24.14%) Collaborative Working
1 7 (24.14%) Data Privacy
2 6 (20.69%) Data Management
2 6 (20.69%) Data Sharing
2 6 (20.69%) Impact Assessments
2 6 (20.69%) Information Security
3 4 (13.79%) DevOps
3 4 (13.79%) Scrum
3 4 (13.79%) Value Proposition
4 3 (10.34%) Change Control
4 3 (10.34%) Customer-Centricity
4 3 (10.34%) Project Management
4 3 (10.34%) Test Automation
5 2 (6.90%) Mentoring
5 2 (6.90%) Performance Testing
5 2 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (6.90%) Workflow
6 1 (3.45%) Data Science
6 1 (3.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.24%) C#
1 5 (17.24%) SQL
2 3 (10.34%) Java
2 3 (10.34%) Python
3 2 (6.90%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.45%) C
4 1 (3.45%) C++
4 1 (3.45%) F#
4 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.45%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) ISEB
2 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
3 4 (13.79%) Degree
3 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.45%) CEH
5 1 (3.45%) CISSP
5 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (31.03%) GDPR
2 2 (6.90%) QA
3 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.45%) NIST
3 1 (3.45%) PMO
3 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Ansible
1 1 (3.45%) Grafana
1 1 (3.45%) Graylog
1 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.45%) Nagios
1 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
1 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Cisco
2 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.90%) F5
4 1 (3.45%) Dell
4 1 (3.45%) Meraki
4 1 (3.45%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.45%) Splunk
4 1 (3.45%) VMware