Data Protection Consultant Contracts

Data Protection/Privacy Consultant
UK

The median Data Protection/Privacy Consultant daily rate in the UK is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 696 838
Rank change year-on-year +126 +142 -159
Contract jobs requiring a Data Protection Consultant 9 5 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.009% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.009% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 8
10th Percentile £406 - -
25th Percentile £466 £425 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £595
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -24.37% +9.68%
75th Percentile £547 £506 £624
90th Percentile £603 £525 £684
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,532 53,805 83,473
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.61% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,714 37,580 58,666
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,503 2,037
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.30 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Data Protection Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Data Protection Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Consultant in the UK

Data Protection Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Consultant in the UK

Data Protection Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Consultant over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Consultant in the UK

Data Protection Consultant
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Protection Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 17 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
England +114 8 £525 +16.67% 5
Work from Home +128 7 £525 - 1
UK excluding London +66 6 £525 - 2
North of England - 4 £525 -
Yorkshire - 3 £525 -
London +85 2 £655 +45.56% 3
South West +2 1 £375 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £525 -
Midlands - 1 £525 -
North West - 1 £525 -

Data Protection Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, Data Protection Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Data Protection Consultant in the job title.

1 8 (88.89%) Data Protection
1 8 (88.89%) GDPR
2 5 (55.56%) Data Privacy
3 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 3 (33.33%) Police
3 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (33.33%) Information Security
4 2 (22.22%) Law
4 2 (22.22%) CIPD
4 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
4 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 2 (22.22%) Degree
4 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
4 2 (22.22%) OneTrust
5 1 (11.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
5 1 (11.11%) Data Mapping
5 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
5 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Impact Assessments
5 1 (11.11%) Privacy Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
5 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (11.11%) Finance
5 1 (11.11%) Data Security
5 1 (11.11%) Management Information System

Data Protection Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco IPT
General
1 3 (33.33%) Police
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Law
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) CSS
1 1 (11.11%) HTML
1 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Data Protection
2 5 (55.56%) Data Privacy
3 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (33.33%) Information Security
3 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
4 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
5 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
5 1 (11.11%) Data Mapping
5 1 (11.11%) Data Security
5 1 (11.11%) Impact Assessments
5 1 (11.11%) Privacy Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (11.11%) Project Management
5 1 (11.11%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) CIPD
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (88.89%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) OneTrust