Data Protection Contracts in London

Data Protection
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 109 113
Rank change year-on-year +11 +4 +116
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 437 582 935
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.49% 2.31% 2.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.82% 2.55% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 387 651
10th Percentile £246 £363 £380
25th Percentile £413 £463 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% -2.08% +11.63%
75th Percentile £663 £738 £725
90th Percentile £775 £818 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 7
10th Percentile £11.95 £53.00 £16.95
25th Percentile £12.69 £55.63 £29.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £62.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +56.25% +81.82%
75th Percentile £51.25 £70.63 £47.94
90th Percentile £68.13 £74.00 £59.06
England median hourly rate £21.00 £38.02 £35.00
% change year-on-year -44.76% +8.61% +40.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,493 22,867 35,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.25% 90.91% 92.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,090 16,561 26,167
10th Percentile £340 £375 £393
25th Percentile £445 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £778
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 265 394
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +9.09% +8.83%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.00 £51.26
90th Percentile £68.30 £82.40 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in London

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in London

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in London

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in London

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Protection in London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Protection in London

Data Protection
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Central London +35 28 £620 +7.83% 17
East London +5 11 £629 +56.54% 6
West London +21 7 £288 -46.51% 5
South London +7 5 £488 -26.42% 10
Data Protection
England

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 15 (3.43%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.60%) Confluence
4 5 (1.14%) Apache
5 4 (0.92%) govService
6 3 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.69%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.69%) SAS
7 2 (0.46%) Gunicorn
8 1 (0.23%) IBM Notes
8 1 (0.23%) Mule
8 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (4.58%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.46%) Mingle
3 2 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Endur
1 3 (0.69%) ION MarketView
2 2 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.23%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) iTrent
3 1 (0.23%) Relativity
3 1 (0.23%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.23%) SAP MDM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.23%) Shopify
3 1 (0.23%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 54 (12.36%) AWS
2 44 (10.07%) Azure
3 24 (5.49%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (3.66%) GCP
5 15 (3.43%) Power Platform
6 12 (2.75%) SaaS
7 11 (2.52%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (2.52%) Amazon S3
8 10 (2.29%) Entra ID
8 10 (2.29%) OneDrive
9 9 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (2.06%) Serverless
10 7 (1.60%) Microsoft Purview
10 7 (1.60%) WhatsApp
11 6 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (1.37%) GitHub
11 6 (1.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (0.92%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (0.92%) Azure Stack
12 4 (0.92%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.97%) DNS
2 9 (2.06%) DHCP
3 8 (1.83%) Firewall
3 8 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (1.60%) 5G
4 7 (1.60%) HTTP
5 6 (1.37%) Network Security
5 6 (1.37%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.37%) VPN
6 5 (1.14%) SAN
6 5 (1.14%) Wireless
7 4 (0.92%) BGP
8 3 (0.69%) LAN
8 3 (0.69%) WAN
9 2 (0.46%) Cisco IPT
9 2 (0.46%) EIGRP
9 2 (0.46%) Internet
9 2 (0.46%) Intranet
9 2 (0.46%) OSPF
9 2 (0.46%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.81%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (4.12%) Big Data
3 13 (2.97%) Power BI
4 9 (2.06%) Relational Database
5 8 (1.83%) SQL Server
6 7 (1.60%) Data Lake
6 7 (1.60%) Metadata
7 6 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (1.37%) MongoDB
7 6 (1.37%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.14%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.92%) BigQuery
9 4 (0.92%) Hadoop
9 4 (0.92%) KDB
9 4 (0.92%) Star Schema
10 3 (0.69%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.69%) Parquet
10 3 (0.69%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 25 (5.72%) Git
2 15 (3.43%) JIRA
3 14 (3.20%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.83%) ERwin
5 6 (1.37%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (1.14%) XCTest
7 4 (0.92%) JUnit
7 4 (0.92%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.69%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.69%) Selenium
8 3 (0.69%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.46%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.46%) FitNesse
9 2 (0.46%) GitLab
9 2 (0.46%) JMeter
9 2 (0.46%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.46%) Postman
10 1 (0.23%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.23%) HP UFT
10 1 (0.23%) webpack
General
1 90 (20.59%) Social Skills
2 78 (17.85%) Finance
3 46 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 36 (8.24%) Banking
5 34 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (7.78%) Legal
6 14 (3.20%) Telecoms
7 13 (2.97%) Marketing
8 10 (2.29%) Retail
9 9 (2.06%) Billing
9 9 (2.06%) Games
9 9 (2.06%) Local Government
10 7 (1.60%) Back Office
11 6 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.37%) Law
11 6 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.14%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.14%) Police
12 5 (1.14%) Publishing
13 4 (0.92%) Military
Job Titles
1 68 (15.56%) Architect
2 58 (13.27%) Developer
3 44 (10.07%) Lead
4 42 (9.61%) Analyst
5 35 (8.01%) Senior
6 29 (6.64%) Project Manager
7 24 (5.49%) Consultant
8 15 (3.43%) QA Engineer
9 14 (3.20%) Data Architect
10 13 (2.97%) QA Leader
10 13 (2.97%) Solutions Architect
11 12 (2.75%) Technical Architect
12 11 (2.52%) Business Analyst
12 11 (2.52%) Java Developer
12 11 (2.52%) Python Developer
12 11 (2.52%) Senior Manager
13 10 (2.29%) Security Architect
14 9 (2.06%) Network Engineer
14 9 (2.06%) Software Engineer
14 9 (2.06%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.75%) Kafka
1 12 (2.75%) REST
2 10 (2.29%) JSON
2 10 (2.29%) XML
3 8 (1.83%) React
4 7 (1.60%) Flask
4 7 (1.60%) SwiftUI
5 6 (1.37%) Spring
6 5 (1.14%) AngularJS
6 5 (1.14%) Middleware
6 5 (1.14%) Node.js
6 5 (1.14%) RESTful
7 4 (0.92%) CSS
7 4 (0.92%) FastAPI
8 3 (0.69%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (0.69%) ARM Templates
8 3 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.69%) HTML
8 3 (0.69%) PySpark
8 3 (0.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 284 (64.99%) Data Protection Act
2 32 (7.32%) Management Information System
3 23 (5.26%) Freedom of Information
4 16 (3.66%) Freedom of Information Act
5 12 (2.75%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.29%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.06%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.06%) FPGA
8 8 (1.83%) Derivative
8 8 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.60%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.60%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.60%) NHS
9 7 (1.60%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.37%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.14%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.92%) Reference Data
12 4 (0.92%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 33 (7.55%) Windows
2 28 (6.41%) Linux
3 14 (3.20%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.83%) Android
5 7 (1.60%) Unix
6 5 (1.14%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.14%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.69%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.46%) VMS
9 1 (0.23%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (18.08%) Agile
2 43 (9.84%) Cybersecurity
2 43 (9.84%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (8.47%) Analytics
3 37 (8.47%) Project Management
4 34 (7.78%) Information Security
5 32 (7.32%) CI/CD
6 30 (6.86%) Data Modelling
7 29 (6.64%) Migration
7 29 (6.64%) Risk Management
7 29 (6.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 29 (6.64%) Test Automation
7 29 (6.64%) Value Proposition
8 28 (6.41%) Roadmaps
9 26 (5.95%) Decision-Making
10 25 (5.72%) Business Intelligence
11 24 (5.49%) Change Management
11 24 (5.49%) Microservices
12 23 (5.26%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (5.26%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 71 (16.25%) Python
2 41 (9.38%) Java
3 39 (8.92%) SQL
4 18 (4.12%) PowerShell
5 15 (3.43%) C++
6 13 (2.97%) JavaScript
7 11 (2.52%) Bash
8 10 (2.29%) Scala
8 10 (2.29%) Swift
9 9 (2.06%) Perl
9 9 (2.06%) TypeScript
10 5 (1.14%) C#
10 5 (1.14%) PHP
11 4 (0.92%) C
11 4 (0.92%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.46%) Bicep
12 2 (0.46%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.46%) U-SQL
13 1 (0.23%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.23%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 40 (9.15%) Degree
2 23 (5.26%) Security Cleared
3 18 (4.12%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.43%) CISSP
5 10 (2.29%) CISM
6 8 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.14%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.92%) CCNP
9 4 (0.92%) CISA
9 4 (0.92%) CTC Cleared
9 4 (0.92%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.69%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.69%) CCSK
11 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.46%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.46%) CCNA
11 2 (0.46%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (8.70%) QA
2 37 (8.47%) GDPR
3 34 (7.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (5.72%) Data Quality
4 25 (5.72%) NIST
5 11 (2.52%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.60%) GRC
7 6 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 6 (1.37%) SLA
8 4 (0.92%) PMO
9 3 (0.69%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.69%) NCSC
9 3 (0.69%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.46%) HL7
10 2 (0.46%) ISAE 3402
10 2 (0.46%) MiFID
11 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 14 (3.20%) Docker
3 13 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.14%) vSphere
5 3 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.23%) NFS
Systems Management
1 23 (5.26%) Terraform
2 18 (4.12%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.52%) Ansible
3 11 (2.52%) SCCM
4 4 (0.92%) Grafana
4 4 (0.92%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.92%) vCenter Server
5 3 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.46%) Ambari
6 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.46%) Nessus
6 2 (0.46%) NetBackup
6 2 (0.46%) Oozie
6 2 (0.46%) VxRail
7 1 (0.23%) CASB
7 1 (0.23%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.23%) Packer
7 1 (0.23%) Podman
7 1 (0.23%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 54 (12.36%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.35%) Cisco
3 16 (3.66%) Google
4 14 (3.20%) Oracle
4 14 (3.20%) VMware
5 10 (2.29%) SAP
6 9 (2.06%) Apple
7 8 (1.83%) Cadence
7 8 (1.83%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.83%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.60%) Splunk
9 6 (1.37%) Okta
9 6 (1.37%) Sparx
10 5 (1.14%) Dell
10 5 (1.14%) ION Trading
11 4 (0.92%) IBM
12 3 (0.69%) Informatica
12 3 (0.69%) Murex
12 3 (0.69%) OneTrust
12 3 (0.69%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud