Data Protection Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Protection
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 67 59
Rank change year-on-year 0 -8 +185
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 569 803 1,141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.78% 3.42% 3.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.29% 3.82% 4.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 495 797
10th Percentile £206 £269 £300
25th Percentile £375 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £638 £675 £654
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% +12.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 17 28
10th Percentile £14.41 £15.34 £13.14
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £19.50 £44.53 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.21% +122.65% -11.11%
75th Percentile £27.50 £60.55 £39.26
90th Percentile £40.00 £66.00 £70.97
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £52.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -60.00% +162.50% -11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,300 21,032 27,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.50% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,314 14,532 18,929
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,281 1,348
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.44 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £47.05
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.92
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in the UK excluding London

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in the UK excluding London

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in the UK excluding London

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in the UK excluding London

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Protection in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Protection in the UK excluding London

Data Protection
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
North of England -16 150 £533 +22.41% 73
South East +12 132 £450 -10.00% 76
Scotland -4 118 £455 -6.77% 19
North West -15 104 £550 +29.41% 43
South West +32 69 £525 -14.63% 32
Midlands -28 51 £425 -5.03% 84
East of England +21 44 £430 -9.47% 36
West Midlands -22 44 £425 -10.53% 40
Yorkshire +5 41 £525 +10.53% 25
Wales +7 10 £400 -11.11% 9
North East +15 9 - - 8
East Midlands +2 7 £538 +43.33% 45
Northern Ireland +9 4 £513 +28.13% 1
Data Protection
UK

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 18 (3.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (2.28%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.11%) Confluence
4 4 (0.70%) Apache
5 3 (0.53%) SAS
6 2 (0.35%) CMS
6 2 (0.35%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 38 (6.68%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (2.46%) Spreadsheet
4 7 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.35%) Adobe Captivate
6 2 (0.35%) Camtasia
6 2 (0.35%) Lectora
6 2 (0.35%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (2.28%) Teamcenter
2 7 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.35%) SAP CRM
4 2 (0.35%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.18%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.18%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.18%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.18%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.18%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.18%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.18%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 76 (13.36%) Azure
2 41 (7.21%) AWS
3 25 (4.39%) Power Platform
4 24 (4.22%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (3.51%) Taleo
6 16 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (2.28%) SaaS
8 10 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (1.76%) Entra ID
8 10 (1.76%) OpenShift
8 10 (1.76%) Power Automate
9 9 (1.58%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (1.58%) GCP
10 8 (1.41%) PowerApps
11 7 (1.23%) Amazon S3
11 7 (1.23%) Microsoft Purview
11 7 (1.23%) PaaS
12 6 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (1.05%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.39%) WAN
2 24 (4.22%) SAN
3 21 (3.69%) LAN
4 16 (2.81%) DNS
4 16 (2.81%) Firewall
5 15 (2.64%) VoIP
5 15 (2.64%) Wi-Fi
6 14 (2.46%) MPLS
7 13 (2.28%) PBX
8 12 (2.11%) DHCP
9 11 (1.93%) NAS
9 11 (1.93%) Network Security
10 10 (1.76%) VLAN
11 9 (1.58%) Intranet
11 9 (1.58%) TCP/IP
12 6 (1.05%) VPN
13 5 (0.88%) SD-WAN
14 4 (0.70%) Fibre Channel
14 4 (0.70%) FTP
14 4 (0.70%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (4.92%) SQL Server
2 19 (3.34%) Power BI
3 14 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (1.93%) Oracle Database
5 8 (1.41%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.23%) Data Lake
6 7 (1.23%) Metadata
7 6 (1.05%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (0.88%) MySQL
8 5 (0.88%) Tableau
9 4 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.53%) Big Data
10 3 (0.53%) Data Mining
10 3 (0.53%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.35%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.35%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (4.75%) JIRA
2 24 (4.22%) Git
3 15 (2.64%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.41%) Postman
5 7 (1.23%) Artifactory
6 6 (1.05%) Cucumber
6 6 (1.05%) JUnit
6 6 (1.05%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.88%) ERwin
8 4 (0.70%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.70%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.53%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.53%) Maven
9 3 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.35%) Capybara
10 2 (0.35%) GitLab
10 2 (0.35%) Gradle
10 2 (0.35%) Storybook
11 1 (0.18%) ER Studio
General
1 146 (25.66%) Social Skills
2 75 (13.18%) Legal
3 68 (11.95%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (10.02%) Finance
5 53 (9.31%) Public Sector
6 36 (6.33%) Telecoms
7 26 (4.57%) Manufacturing
8 25 (4.39%) Organisational Skills
9 24 (4.22%) Presentation Skills
10 23 (4.04%) Marketing
11 21 (3.69%) Aerospace
12 18 (3.16%) Banking
13 15 (2.64%) Pharmaceutical
13 15 (2.64%) Police
14 13 (2.28%) Law
15 11 (1.93%) Local Government
16 5 (0.88%) Electronics
16 5 (0.88%) Mandarin Language
16 5 (0.88%) Retail
17 3 (0.53%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 73 (12.83%) Analyst
2 62 (10.90%) Architect
3 45 (7.91%) Developer
4 32 (5.62%) Consultant
5 31 (5.45%) Project Manager
6 30 (5.27%) Solutions Architect
7 29 (5.10%) Business Analyst
8 23 (4.04%) Administrator
8 23 (4.04%) Senior
9 18 (3.16%) Lead
10 16 (2.81%) Network Engineer
10 16 (2.81%) Storage Engineer
11 15 (2.64%) Data Architect
12 13 (2.28%) Java Developer
13 12 (2.11%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 12 (2.11%) Data Consultant
13 12 (2.11%) DevOps Engineer
13 12 (2.11%) IT Support
13 12 (2.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 11 (1.93%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.87%) REST
2 17 (2.99%) XML
3 13 (2.28%) Spring Boot
4 12 (2.11%) CSS
4 12 (2.11%) JSON
4 12 (2.11%) Spring
5 10 (1.76%) HTML
6 9 (1.58%) .NET
7 7 (1.23%) Kafka
8 6 (1.05%) Apache Camel
8 6 (1.05%) Node.js
8 6 (1.05%) React
8 6 (1.05%) YAML
9 4 (0.70%) ADO
9 4 (0.70%) J2EE
9 4 (0.70%) Vue
9 4 (0.70%) Web Services
10 3 (0.53%) Laravel
10 3 (0.53%) Playwright
10 3 (0.53%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 254 (44.64%) Data Protection Act
2 28 (4.92%) Replication
3 19 (3.34%) Data Centre
4 16 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
5 15 (2.64%) Management Information System
5 15 (2.64%) Product Ownership
6 11 (1.93%) Clustering
6 11 (1.93%) Data Structures
6 11 (1.93%) Freedom of Information
7 9 (1.58%) Blog
7 9 (1.58%) Client/Server
7 9 (1.58%) Public Cloud
8 8 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.23%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.23%) Reference Data
10 5 (0.88%) Life Science
10 5 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
10 5 (0.88%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.70%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 57 (10.02%) Windows
2 49 (8.61%) Linux
3 21 (3.69%) Unix
4 15 (2.64%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.23%) Solaris
6 5 (0.88%) AIX
6 5 (0.88%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.18%) VMS
8 1 (0.18%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.18%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (13.18%) Agile
2 55 (9.67%) Decision-Making
3 51 (8.96%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (8.96%) Value Proposition
4 50 (8.79%) Project Management
5 47 (8.26%) Migration
6 42 (7.38%) Cybersecurity
7 41 (7.21%) Stakeholder Management
8 40 (7.03%) DevOps
9 39 (6.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 38 (6.68%) Analytics
11 36 (6.33%) Information Security
12 34 (5.98%) Change Management
13 31 (5.45%) ITIL
14 30 (5.27%) Data Modelling
15 29 (5.10%) Data Governance
16 28 (4.92%) CI/CD
17 25 (4.39%) Data Management
18 24 (4.22%) Business Analysis
19 23 (4.04%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 59 (10.37%) SQL
2 38 (6.68%) Python
3 30 (5.27%) Java
4 29 (5.10%) PowerShell
5 22 (3.87%) C#
6 15 (2.64%) JavaScript
6 15 (2.64%) Perl
7 11 (1.93%) Bash
8 8 (1.41%) PL/SQL
9 7 (1.23%) PHP
10 6 (1.05%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.88%) Ruby
12 4 (0.70%) C++
12 4 (0.70%) X++
13 3 (0.53%) F#
13 3 (0.53%) Rust
14 2 (0.35%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.18%) Bicep
15 1 (0.18%) CLIST
15 1 (0.18%) R
Qualifications
1 91 (15.99%) Security Cleared
2 70 (12.30%) Degree
3 47 (8.26%) SC Cleared
4 31 (5.45%) DV Cleared
5 22 (3.87%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (2.11%) IIBA
7 11 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 7 (1.23%) CISSP
9 7 (1.23%) ISEB
10 6 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.05%) CISM
10 6 (1.05%) SAP Certification
11 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.53%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.53%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.53%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.35%) CCNA
13 2 (0.35%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (15.11%) GDPR
2 24 (4.22%) Data Quality
3 13 (2.28%) GxP
4 12 (2.11%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.11%) Good Clinical Practice
5 11 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.93%) QA
6 10 (1.76%) NIST
7 7 (1.23%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.70%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.70%) SLA
9 3 (0.53%) COBIT
9 3 (0.53%) Government Security Classifications
9 3 (0.53%) IASME
9 3 (0.53%) NCSC
10 2 (0.35%) GRC
10 2 (0.35%) PMO
10 2 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 38 (6.68%) Active Directory
2 29 (5.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (3.34%) Docker
4 9 (1.58%) Virtual Servers
4 9 (1.58%) VMware Workstation
5 6 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (1.05%) vSphere
6 4 (0.70%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.70%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.53%) SRDF
7 3 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.18%) NFS
8 1 (0.18%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.18%) Snort
8 1 (0.18%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.18%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 30 (5.27%) Ansible
1 30 (5.27%) NetBackup
2 22 (3.87%) Terraform
3 17 (2.99%) Kubernetes
4 13 (2.28%) Puppet
5 12 (2.11%) vCenter Server
6 11 (1.93%) SCCM
7 10 (1.76%) Grafana
7 10 (1.76%) Nagios
8 8 (1.41%) Microsoft Clustering
8 8 (1.41%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.70%) Kibana
9 4 (0.70%) VxRail
10 3 (0.53%) EMC TimeFinder
10 3 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.35%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (0.35%) Graylog
11 2 (0.35%) HP Data Protector
11 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.35%) vRealize
Vendors
1 73 (12.83%) Microsoft
2 45 (7.91%) VMware
3 33 (5.80%) SAP
4 30 (5.27%) Cisco
5 24 (4.22%) ServiceNow
6 23 (4.04%) Oracle
7 18 (3.16%) Veritas
8 11 (1.93%) Dell
9 10 (1.76%) NetApp
10 9 (1.58%) EMC
11 8 (1.41%) Hitachi
11 8 (1.41%) OneTrust
12 7 (1.23%) Palo Alto
13 6 (1.05%) Brocade
13 6 (1.05%) CheckPoint
13 6 (1.05%) Databricks
13 6 (1.05%) IBM
13 6 (1.05%) Informatica
13 6 (1.05%) Juniper
13 6 (1.05%) Splunk