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 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 109 127 127
Rank change year-on-year +18 0 +167
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 299 478 938
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.04% 1.97% 2.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 2.20% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 296 660
10th Percentile £244 £300 £350
25th Percentile £403 £412 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -4.67% +12.63%
75th Percentile £629 £631 £625
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 10 13
10th Percentile £17.81 £20.32 £16.93
25th Percentile £19.25 £35.88 £20.00
Median hourly rate £24.75 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.86% +50.00% -40.68%
75th Percentile £27.76 £62.94 £57.38
90th Percentile £43.75 £66.00 £75.51
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £44.53 £20.00
% change year-on-year -52.84% +122.65% -16.67%

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 12,824 21,734 40,250
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.57% 89.66% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,646 15,426 29,289
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 503 517
10th Percentile £14.89 £18.49 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.19 £25.85 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £58.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.60 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 (2.34%) Confluence
2 6 (2.01%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.00%) SAS
4 2 (0.67%) CMS
4 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.33%) IBM Notes
5 1 (0.33%) Mule
5 1 (0.33%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (3.34%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.00%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.67%) Adobe Captivate
5 2 (0.67%) Camtasia
5 2 (0.67%) Lectora
5 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.34%) Teamcenter
2 2 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.33%) Relativity
3 1 (0.33%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.33%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.33%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 43 (14.38%) Azure
2 25 (8.36%) AWS
3 12 (4.01%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (3.68%) Azure Stack
5 10 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (3.01%) Power Platform
7 8 (2.68%) Microsoft Purview
7 8 (2.68%) SaaS
8 7 (2.34%) GCP
9 6 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (2.01%) PowerApps
10 5 (1.67%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (1.67%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.67%) OpenShift
10 5 (1.67%) Power Automate
10 5 (1.67%) Smartsheet
11 4 (1.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (1.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.34%) Firewall
2 6 (2.01%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.67%) Network Security
3 5 (1.67%) VLAN
4 4 (1.34%) DNS
4 4 (1.34%) Intranet
4 4 (1.34%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (1.34%) MPLS
4 4 (1.34%) tcpdump
4 4 (1.34%) VSAN
4 4 (1.34%) Wireshark
5 3 (1.00%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (1.00%) SD-WAN
5 3 (1.00%) WAN
6 2 (0.67%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.67%) HTTP
6 2 (0.67%) NAS
6 2 (0.67%) SWIFTNet
6 2 (0.67%) VPN
6 2 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.36%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (3.68%) Metadata
2 11 (3.68%) Snowflake Schema
3 9 (3.01%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.34%) Oracle Database
5 6 (2.01%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.67%) Big Data
6 5 (1.67%) Hadoop
6 5 (1.67%) Tableau
7 4 (1.34%) Apache Hive
7 4 (1.34%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.34%) Power BI
7 4 (1.34%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.00%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.00%) QlikView
9 2 (0.67%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.67%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (0.67%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (6.02%) JIRA
2 7 (2.34%) Git
2 7 (2.34%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.01%) ERwin
4 4 (1.34%) IDA Disassembler
5 2 (0.67%) Selenium
5 2 (0.67%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.33%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.33%) GitLab
6 1 (0.33%) HP UFT
6 1 (0.33%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (0.33%) Postman
6 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 49 (16.39%) Social Skills
2 46 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 46 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 40 (13.38%) Finance
4 27 (9.03%) Legal
5 16 (5.35%) Banking
6 10 (3.34%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.01%) Law
7 9 (3.01%) Marketing
7 9 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (3.01%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.68%) Police
9 7 (2.34%) Retail
10 6 (2.01%) Local Government
11 5 (1.67%) Electronics
11 5 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.00%) Military
13 2 (0.67%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 62 (20.74%) Architect
2 31 (10.37%) Project Manager
3 29 (9.70%) Developer
4 20 (6.69%) Analyst
5 19 (6.35%) Data Architect
6 17 (5.69%) Consultant
6 17 (5.69%) Lead
7 15 (5.02%) Senior
8 14 (4.68%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (3.01%) Junior
10 8 (2.68%) Junior Project Manager
11 7 (2.34%) Data Consultant
11 7 (2.34%) Oracle Architect
11 7 (2.34%) Security Architect
11 7 (2.34%) Storage Engineer
12 6 (2.01%) Business Analyst
12 6 (2.01%) Enterprise Architect
12 6 (2.01%) IT Trainer
12 6 (2.01%) Technical Architect
12 6 (2.01%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.35%) XML
2 17 (5.69%) REST
3 16 (5.35%) JSON
4 9 (3.01%) HTML
5 8 (2.68%) CSS
5 8 (2.68%) Spring
6 6 (2.01%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.34%) .NET
7 4 (1.34%) ADO
7 4 (1.34%) AWS CDK
7 4 (1.34%) Node.js
7 4 (1.34%) OLE
7 4 (1.34%) RESTful
8 3 (1.00%) Spring MVC
8 3 (1.00%) Spring Web Flow
8 3 (1.00%) Thymeleaf
9 2 (0.67%) ARM Templates
9 2 (0.67%) FIDO
9 2 (0.67%) Guice
9 2 (0.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 125 (41.81%) Data Protection Act
2 15 (5.02%) Data Structures
3 12 (4.01%) Freedom of Information
3 12 (4.01%) Management Information System
3 12 (4.01%) Replication
4 9 (3.01%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.68%) Reference Data
6 7 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (2.34%) Blog
6 7 (2.34%) Wiki
7 6 (2.01%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.01%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 5 (1.67%) Freedom of Information Act
8 5 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.67%) NHS
9 4 (1.34%) Life Science
9 4 (1.34%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.34%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 4 (1.34%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.02%) Windows
2 17 (5.69%) Linux
3 6 (2.01%) Unix
4 4 (1.34%) Android
5 3 (1.00%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.00%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.67%) VMS
7 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (19.06%) Agile
2 44 (14.72%) Project Management
3 36 (12.04%) Stakeholder Management
4 34 (11.37%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (9.36%) Data Modelling
5 28 (9.36%) Value Proposition
6 27 (9.03%) Analytics
6 27 (9.03%) DevOps
7 26 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
8 25 (8.36%) Data Governance
9 24 (8.03%) Change Management
9 24 (8.03%) Decision-Making
9 24 (8.03%) Information Security
9 24 (8.03%) Microservices
10 23 (7.69%) Migration
11 21 (7.02%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (6.69%) Data Management
12 20 (6.69%) Data Privacy
13 18 (6.02%) CI/CD
13 18 (6.02%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 33 (11.04%) SQL
2 19 (6.35%) Python
3 17 (5.69%) Java
4 14 (4.68%) JavaScript
5 10 (3.34%) C#
6 8 (2.68%) PowerShell
7 7 (2.34%) PL/SQL
8 6 (2.01%) Perl
9 5 (1.67%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.34%) C++
10 4 (1.34%) PHP
10 4 (1.34%) X++
11 3 (1.00%) Bicep
12 2 (0.67%) Bash
12 2 (0.67%) C
12 2 (0.67%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.33%) COBOL
13 1 (0.33%) F#
13 1 (0.33%) Go
13 1 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 47 (15.72%) Degree
2 36 (12.04%) Security Cleared
3 34 (11.37%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.01%) CISSP
5 7 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.67%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.34%) CTC Cleared
9 3 (1.00%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.00%) CISM
9 3 (1.00%) ISEB
9 3 (1.00%) SAP Certification
10 2 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.67%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.67%) CCNP
10 2 (0.67%) CEH
10 2 (0.67%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (17.39%) GDPR
2 24 (8.03%) Data Quality
3 19 (6.35%) NIST
4 12 (4.01%) Accessibility
4 12 (4.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.34%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (1.67%) QA
8 4 (1.34%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (1.34%) PSD2
9 3 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (1.00%) GRC
9 3 (1.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (1.00%) NCSC
9 3 (1.00%) SLA
10 2 (0.67%) COBIT
10 2 (0.67%) ISAE 3402
10 2 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.67%) PMO
11 1 (0.33%) SEPA
System Software
1 17 (5.69%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.68%) Docker
3 7 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.34%) Snort
4 4 (1.34%) vSphere
5 3 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (3.01%) NetBackup
1 9 (3.01%) Terraform
2 8 (2.68%) Ansible
3 6 (2.01%) Grafana
3 6 (2.01%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.67%) Puppet
5 4 (1.34%) Kibana
5 4 (1.34%) vCenter Server
5 4 (1.34%) VxRail
6 3 (1.00%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.67%) CASB
7 2 (0.67%) McAfee ePO
7 2 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.33%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.33%) SCCM
8 1 (0.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (7.36%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.35%) SAP
3 15 (5.02%) Oracle
4 11 (3.68%) Cisco
5 9 (3.01%) Google
6 8 (2.68%) Veritas
6 8 (2.68%) VMware
7 6 (2.01%) OneTrust
7 6 (2.01%) Sparx
8 5 (1.67%) Dell
8 5 (1.67%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.67%) Splunk
9 4 (1.34%) IBM
9 4 (1.34%) Informatica
9 4 (1.34%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.00%) Adobe
10 3 (1.00%) Okta
11 2 (0.67%) Liquidlogic
11 2 (0.67%) PayPal
11 2 (0.67%) Snow