Data Protection Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Protection
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 109 128 123
Rank change year-on-year +19 -5 +185
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 311 490 943
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.07% 1.95% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 2.17% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 299 662
10th Percentile £269 £300 £351
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £626 £631 £625
90th Percentile £725 £745 £749
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% +12.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 9 11
10th Percentile £17.81 £20.14 £16.69
25th Percentile £19.25 £51.25 £20.63
Median hourly rate £24.75 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.86% +50.00% +19.49%
75th Percentile £27.76 £66.00 £62.81
90th Percentile £43.75 - £77.32
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,241 22,603 40,082
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.03% 89.73% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,876 15,973 29,084
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 571 519 538
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.63 £14.18
25th Percentile £25.50 £29.31 £20.56
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +50.28% +44.90%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £70.60
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Data Protection
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Protection trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Protection
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Protection.

Data Protection daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Protection over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Data Protection daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Protection.

Data Protection hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Protection over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Data Protection hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (2.25%) Confluence
2 6 (1.93%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.96%) SAS
4 2 (0.64%) CMS
4 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.32%) IBM Notes
5 1 (0.32%) Mule
5 1 (0.32%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.32%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (3.22%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.96%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.64%) Adobe Captivate
5 2 (0.64%) Camtasia
5 2 (0.64%) Lectora
5 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (2.25%) Teamcenter
2 2 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.32%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.32%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.32%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.32%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 45 (14.47%) Azure
2 23 (7.40%) AWS
3 11 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (3.54%) Azure Stack
3 11 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (3.54%) Power Platform
4 8 (2.57%) Microsoft Purview
4 8 (2.57%) SaaS
5 7 (2.25%) GCP
6 6 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (1.93%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (1.61%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (1.61%) PaaS
7 5 (1.61%) Power Automate
7 5 (1.61%) PowerApps
7 5 (1.61%) Smartsheet
8 4 (1.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (1.29%) IaaS
8 4 (1.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.89%) Firewall
2 6 (1.93%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.61%) VLAN
4 4 (1.29%) Intranet
4 4 (1.29%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (1.29%) SWIFTNet
4 4 (1.29%) tcpdump
4 4 (1.29%) VSAN
4 4 (1.29%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.96%) DNS
5 3 (0.96%) MPLS
5 3 (0.96%) NAS
5 3 (0.96%) Network Security
6 2 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.64%) HTTP
6 2 (0.64%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.64%) VPN
6 2 (0.64%) WAN
7 1 (0.32%) LAN
7 1 (0.32%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.40%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (5.47%) Metadata
3 11 (3.54%) Snowflake Schema
4 10 (3.22%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.57%) Tableau
6 7 (2.25%) Oracle Database
7 6 (1.93%) Data Lake
7 6 (1.93%) Power BI
8 5 (1.61%) Big Data
8 5 (1.61%) Hadoop
8 5 (1.61%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.29%) Apache Hive
9 4 (1.29%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.96%) QlikView
11 2 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.64%) Crystal Reports
11 2 (0.64%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.64%) MySQL
11 2 (0.64%) SAS Enterprise Guide
11 2 (0.64%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (5.79%) JIRA
2 12 (3.86%) ERwin
3 6 (1.93%) Git
3 6 (1.93%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.29%) IDA Disassembler
5 2 (0.64%) Selenium
5 2 (0.64%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.32%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.32%) GitLab
6 1 (0.32%) HP UFT
6 1 (0.32%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (0.32%) Postman
6 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 63 (20.26%) Public Sector
2 51 (16.40%) Finance
3 48 (15.43%) Social Skills
4 46 (14.79%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (8.36%) Legal
6 18 (5.79%) Police
7 17 (5.47%) Banking
8 16 (5.14%) Manufacturing
9 15 (4.82%) Marketing
9 15 (4.82%) Telecoms
10 12 (3.86%) Retail
11 11 (3.54%) Electronics
12 10 (3.22%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (2.89%) Law
13 9 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.29%) Local Government
15 3 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.96%) Military
16 2 (0.64%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 71 (22.83%) Architect
2 31 (9.97%) Project Manager
3 28 (9.00%) Consultant
4 25 (8.04%) Data Architect
4 25 (8.04%) Developer
5 21 (6.75%) Analyst
6 17 (5.47%) Solutions Architect
7 16 (5.14%) Lead
8 14 (4.50%) Data Consultant
9 13 (4.18%) Enterprise Architect
9 13 (4.18%) Senior
10 11 (3.54%) Enterprise Data Architect
11 10 (3.22%) Data Protection Consultant
12 9 (2.89%) Junior
13 8 (2.57%) Junior Project Manager
14 7 (2.25%) Business Analyst
14 7 (2.25%) Oracle Architect
14 7 (2.25%) Security Consultant
14 7 (2.25%) Storage Engineer
15 6 (1.93%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.43%) XML
2 17 (5.47%) JSON
2 17 (5.47%) REST
3 8 (2.57%) Spring
4 7 (2.25%) CSS
4 7 (2.25%) HTML
5 5 (1.61%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.29%) .NET
6 4 (1.29%) ADO
6 4 (1.29%) Node.js
6 4 (1.29%) OLE
6 4 (1.29%) RESTful
7 3 (0.96%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.96%) Spring MVC
7 3 (0.96%) Spring Web Flow
7 3 (0.96%) Thymeleaf
8 2 (0.64%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.64%) FIDO
8 2 (0.64%) Guice
8 2 (0.64%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 123 (39.55%) Data Protection Act
2 15 (4.82%) Data Structures
3 13 (4.18%) Wiki
4 12 (3.86%) Replication
5 11 (3.54%) Freedom of Information
6 10 (3.22%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.89%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.57%) Reference Data
9 7 (2.25%) Blog
10 6 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.93%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (1.61%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 5 (1.61%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.61%) Freedom of Information Act
12 4 (1.29%) Cloud Native
12 4 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.29%) NHS
12 4 (1.29%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.29%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.75%) Windows
2 19 (6.11%) Linux
3 6 (1.93%) Unix
4 3 (0.96%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.64%) VMS
6 1 (0.32%) Android
6 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.32%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (17.36%) Agile
2 44 (14.15%) Project Management
3 37 (11.90%) Cybersecurity
4 34 (10.93%) Data Modelling
5 33 (10.61%) Information Security
5 33 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (10.61%) Stakeholder Management
6 31 (9.97%) Data Governance
7 29 (9.32%) DevOps
8 28 (9.00%) Analytics
9 27 (8.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (8.68%) Data Management
9 27 (8.68%) Migration
10 25 (8.04%) Change Management
10 25 (8.04%) Microservices
10 25 (8.04%) Value Proposition
11 24 (7.72%) Data Strategy
12 23 (7.40%) Decision-Making
13 21 (6.75%) Data Architecture
13 21 (6.75%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 31 (9.97%) SQL
2 18 (5.79%) Python
3 13 (4.18%) Java
4 12 (3.86%) JavaScript
5 11 (3.54%) C#
6 7 (2.25%) PL/SQL
7 6 (1.93%) Perl
7 6 (1.93%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.61%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.29%) X++
10 3 (0.96%) C++
11 2 (0.64%) Bash
11 2 (0.64%) PHP
11 2 (0.64%) Ruby
12 1 (0.32%) C
12 1 (0.32%) COBOL
12 1 (0.32%) F#
12 1 (0.32%) Go
12 1 (0.32%) R
12 1 (0.32%) Rust
Qualifications
1 47 (15.11%) Security Cleared
2 44 (14.15%) Degree
3 38 (12.22%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.54%) CISSP
5 8 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.93%) CISM
8 4 (1.29%) CTC Cleared
8 4 (1.29%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.96%) SAP Certification
10 2 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.64%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.64%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.64%) CIPD
10 2 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.64%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.64%) ISEB
10 2 (0.64%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (20.90%) GDPR
2 30 (9.65%) Data Quality
3 18 (5.79%) NIST
4 14 (4.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (3.86%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.25%) PCI DSS
6 7 (2.25%) QA
7 6 (1.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 6 (1.93%) NCSC
8 4 (1.29%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (1.29%) PSD2
9 3 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.96%) Government Security Classifications
9 3 (0.96%) GRC
9 3 (0.96%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.64%) COBIT
10 2 (0.64%) ISAE 3402
10 2 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.64%) PMO
11 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 14 (4.50%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.25%) Docker
2 7 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.29%) Snort
3 4 (1.29%) vSphere
4 2 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (2.89%) Ansible
1 9 (2.89%) NetBackup
2 8 (2.57%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.57%) Terraform
3 6 (1.93%) Grafana
4 5 (1.61%) Puppet
5 4 (1.29%) Kibana
5 4 (1.29%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.29%) vCenter Server
5 4 (1.29%) VxRail
6 2 (0.64%) CASB
6 2 (0.64%) McAfee ePO
6 2 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.32%) Graylog
7 1 (0.32%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.32%) Nagios
7 1 (0.32%) QRadar
7 1 (0.32%) SCCM
7 1 (0.32%) WSUS
Vendors
1 24 (7.72%) SAP
2 23 (7.40%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.50%) Oracle
4 12 (3.86%) Sparx
5 9 (2.89%) Cisco
5 9 (2.89%) Google
6 8 (2.57%) Veritas
6 8 (2.57%) VMware
7 6 (1.93%) OneTrust
7 6 (1.93%) Splunk
8 5 (1.61%) Dell
9 4 (1.29%) IBM
9 4 (1.29%) Informatica
9 4 (1.29%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.96%) Adobe
10 3 (0.96%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.64%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.64%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.64%) F5
11 2 (0.64%) McAfee