Data Protection Contracts

Data Protection
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 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 89 93 104
Rank change year-on-year +4 +11 +170
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 1,049 1,432 2,256
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.43% 2.54% 2.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.85% 2.83% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 906 1,578
10th Percentile £213 £288 £325
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £601 £655 £638
90th Percentile £725 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £451 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 21 39
10th Percentile £12.43 £15.40 £15.34
25th Percentile £16.06 £21.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £44.53 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.84% +122.65% -16.67%
75th Percentile £27.59 £60.55 £47.94
90th Percentile £41.13 £66.00 £75.06
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.50 £31.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -38.10% +57.50% -16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in the UK

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in the UK

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in the UK

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in the UK

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Protection over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Protection in the UK

Data Protection
Top 17 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England +2 882 £500 -4.76% 527
UK excluding London -6 547 £451 -5.00% 372
London +21 441 £538 -8.90% 182
Work from Home +18 299 £500 -1.96% 182
North of England -18 141 £525 +23.53% 87
South East +15 132 £444 -11.25% 108
Scotland +1 107 £450 -10.00% 23
North West -21 97 £550 +32.53% 48
South West +32 71 £525 -19.23% 38
Midlands -29 48 £335 -23.43% 74
East of England +14 43 £410 -13.68% 47
Yorkshire +12 42 £525 +10.53% 27
West Midlands -25 39 £320 -32.63% 47
Wales +6 10 £128 -71.56% 6
East Midlands -8 9 £444 +18.33% 27
North East +10 6 - - 14
Northern Ireland +6 4 £513 +28.13% 1

Data Protection
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:

Application Platforms
1 28 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 28 (2.67%) SharePoint
2 20 (1.91%) Confluence
3 8 (0.76%) Apache
3 8 (0.76%) SAS
4 4 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.38%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.38%) govService
5 2 (0.19%) CMS
5 2 (0.19%) Gunicorn
5 2 (0.19%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.095%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.095%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.095%) IBM Notes
6 1 (0.095%) Mule
6 1 (0.095%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.095%) WebSphere
Applications
1 61 (5.82%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (1.43%) Spreadsheet
4 10 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.57%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.19%) Adobe Captivate
6 2 (0.19%) Camtasia
6 2 (0.19%) Lectora
6 2 (0.19%) Mingle
7 1 (0.095%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.095%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 17 (1.62%) Teamcenter
2 7 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.29%) Endur
4 3 (0.29%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.19%) SAP CRM
5 2 (0.19%) SAP IS-U
5 2 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.095%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.095%) Relativity
6 1 (0.095%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.095%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.095%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.095%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.095%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.095%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.095%) SAP WM
6 1 (0.095%) Shopify
6 1 (0.095%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 125 (11.92%) Azure
2 96 (9.15%) AWS
3 49 (4.67%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (3.15%) Power Platform
5 27 (2.57%) GCP
6 25 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (2.38%) SaaS
7 20 (1.91%) Taleo
8 19 (1.81%) Amazon S3
8 19 (1.81%) Entra ID
9 18 (1.72%) Microsoft Purview
10 17 (1.62%) Amazon EC2
10 17 (1.62%) Azure Stack
11 11 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
11 11 (1.05%) GitHub
11 11 (1.05%) OneDrive
11 11 (1.05%) OpenShift
12 10 (0.95%) PowerApps
12 10 (0.95%) Serverless
12 10 (0.95%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.76%) WAN
2 28 (2.67%) Firewall
2 28 (2.67%) SAN
3 27 (2.57%) DNS
4 24 (2.29%) LAN
4 24 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
5 19 (1.81%) DHCP
6 17 (1.62%) Network Security
6 17 (1.62%) TCP/IP
7 14 (1.33%) MPLS
7 14 (1.33%) VoIP
8 13 (1.24%) PBX
9 12 (1.14%) Intranet
10 11 (1.05%) 5G
10 11 (1.05%) NAS
10 11 (1.05%) VLAN
11 10 (0.95%) HTTP
11 10 (0.95%) VPN
12 7 (0.67%) Wireless
13 6 (0.57%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
2 39 (3.72%) SQL Server
3 27 (2.57%) Power BI
4 19 (1.81%) Big Data
5 18 (1.72%) Snowflake Schema
6 16 (1.53%) Oracle Database
7 15 (1.43%) Metadata
7 15 (1.43%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.14%) Data Lake
9 11 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (0.86%) Hadoop
10 9 (0.86%) Tableau
11 8 (0.76%) MongoDB
11 8 (0.76%) NoSQL
12 7 (0.67%) MySQL
13 6 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.57%) Apache Hive
13 6 (0.57%) Star Schema
14 5 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.48%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 47 (4.48%) Git
2 43 (4.10%) JIRA
3 26 (2.48%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.05%) ERwin
5 9 (0.86%) Artifactory
6 8 (0.76%) Postman
7 7 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (0.67%) Visual Studio
8 6 (0.57%) JUnit
8 6 (0.57%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.48%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.48%) GitLab
9 5 (0.48%) XCTest
10 4 (0.38%) IDA Disassembler
10 4 (0.38%) Selenium
11 3 (0.29%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.29%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.29%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (0.29%) SpecFlow
11 3 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 245 (23.36%) Social Skills
2 131 (12.49%) Finance
3 122 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
4 118 (11.25%) Legal
5 100 (9.53%) Public Sector
6 56 (5.34%) Banking
7 51 (4.86%) Telecoms
8 38 (3.62%) Marketing
9 35 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
9 35 (3.34%) Presentation Skills
10 32 (3.05%) Manufacturing
11 28 (2.67%) Law
12 22 (2.10%) Local Government
13 21 (2.00%) Aerospace
14 17 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
15 15 (1.43%) Retail
16 14 (1.33%) Police
17 12 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
18 10 (0.95%) Billing
19 9 (0.86%) Games
Job Titles
1 153 (14.59%) Architect
2 120 (11.44%) Analyst
3 101 (9.63%) Developer
4 77 (7.34%) Lead
5 63 (6.01%) Senior
6 61 (5.82%) Project Manager
7 47 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
8 46 (4.39%) Consultant
9 42 (4.00%) Business Analyst
10 37 (3.53%) Data Architect
11 27 (2.57%) Administrator
12 25 (2.38%) Network Engineer
13 22 (2.10%) Java Developer
14 21 (2.00%) Support Engineer
15 19 (1.81%) IT Support
16 18 (1.72%) Security Architect
16 18 (1.72%) Technical Architect
17 17 (1.62%) Data Manager
18 16 (1.53%) Security Analyst
18 16 (1.53%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (3.53%) REST
2 33 (3.15%) XML
3 28 (2.67%) JSON
4 18 (1.72%) Spring
5 16 (1.53%) Kafka
6 15 (1.43%) CSS
6 15 (1.43%) HTML
6 15 (1.43%) React
7 14 (1.33%) Spring Boot
8 11 (1.05%) Node.js
9 10 (0.95%) .NET
10 8 (0.76%) RESTful
11 7 (0.67%) AngularJS
11 7 (0.67%) SwiftUI
11 7 (0.67%) YAML
12 6 (0.57%) AWS CDK
12 6 (0.57%) Middleware
12 6 (0.57%) Vue
12 6 (0.57%) Web Services
13 5 (0.48%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 536 (51.10%) Data Protection Act
2 54 (5.15%) Management Information System
3 35 (3.34%) Freedom of Information
4 33 (3.15%) Replication
5 30 (2.86%) Data Centre
6 28 (2.67%) Product Ownership
7 27 (2.57%) Data Structures
8 18 (1.72%) Freedom of Information Act
9 17 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.43%) Reference Data
10 15 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (1.33%) Blog
12 13 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
12 13 (1.24%) Mobile App
12 13 (1.24%) Security Posture
13 10 (0.95%) Algorithms
13 10 (0.95%) Cloud Native
13 10 (0.95%) Clustering
13 10 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
13 10 (0.95%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 92 (8.77%) Windows
2 76 (7.24%) Linux
3 28 (2.67%) Unix
4 20 (1.91%) Windows Server
5 14 (1.33%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.95%) Windows 10
7 9 (0.86%) Android
8 7 (0.67%) Solaris
9 5 (0.48%) AIX
10 4 (0.38%) VMS
11 3 (0.29%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.19%) zOS
13 1 (0.095%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.095%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.095%) ThreadX
13 1 (0.095%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (16.11%) Agile
2 103 (9.82%) Problem-Solving
3 93 (8.87%) Project Management
4 91 (8.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 87 (8.29%) Value Proposition
6 82 (7.82%) Decision-Making
7 81 (7.72%) Analytics
7 81 (7.72%) Cybersecurity
8 75 (7.15%) Migration
9 68 (6.48%) Information Security
10 66 (6.29%) DevOps
11 63 (6.01%) CI/CD
11 63 (6.01%) Continuous Improvement
12 61 (5.82%) Data Modelling
13 60 (5.72%) Change Management
14 59 (5.62%) Data Governance
15 53 (5.05%) Risk Management
16 52 (4.96%) Roadmaps
17 50 (4.77%) Microservices
18 46 (4.39%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 103 (9.82%) Python
2 96 (9.15%) SQL
3 71 (6.77%) Java
4 42 (4.00%) PowerShell
5 29 (2.76%) JavaScript
6 27 (2.57%) C#
7 23 (2.19%) C++
8 22 (2.10%) Bash
8 22 (2.10%) Perl
9 14 (1.33%) PL/SQL
10 12 (1.14%) PHP
10 12 (1.14%) TypeScript
11 10 (0.95%) Scala
11 10 (0.95%) Swift
12 9 (0.86%) C
13 7 (0.67%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.48%) Ruby
14 5 (0.48%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.38%) X++
16 3 (0.29%) F#
Qualifications
1 124 (11.82%) Degree
2 110 (10.49%) Security Cleared
3 74 (7.05%) SC Cleared
4 32 (3.05%) DV Cleared
5 31 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 24 (2.29%) CISSP
7 18 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
8 16 (1.53%) CISM
9 12 (1.14%) IIBA
10 10 (0.95%) DBS Check
10 10 (0.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 9 (0.86%) ISEB
12 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (0.57%) CCNP
13 6 (0.57%) SAP Certification
14 5 (0.48%) Azure Certification
14 5 (0.48%) CISA
14 5 (0.48%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (13.16%) GDPR
2 55 (5.24%) Data Quality
3 49 (4.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 46 (4.39%) QA
5 45 (4.29%) NIST
6 28 (2.67%) Accessibility
7 13 (1.24%) GxP
7 13 (1.24%) SLA
8 12 (1.14%) Good Clinical Practice
8 12 (1.14%) PCI DSS
9 11 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.76%) GRC
11 7 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 7 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
11 7 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 5 (0.48%) PMO
13 4 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 4 (0.38%) NCSC
13 4 (0.38%) PSD2
14 3 (0.29%) IASME
System Software
1 66 (6.29%) Active Directory
2 38 (3.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (3.15%) Docker
4 11 (1.05%) vSphere
5 9 (0.86%) VMware Workstation
6 8 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
7 7 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.38%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.38%) Snort
8 4 (0.38%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.29%) Firmware
9 3 (0.29%) SRDF
10 2 (0.19%) NFS
10 2 (0.19%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.095%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.095%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 42 (4.00%) Terraform
2 36 (3.43%) Ansible
2 36 (3.43%) Kubernetes
3 32 (3.05%) NetBackup
4 22 (2.10%) SCCM
5 14 (1.33%) vCenter Server
6 13 (1.24%) Grafana
7 12 (1.14%) Puppet
8 10 (0.95%) Prometheus
9 9 (0.86%) Nagios
10 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Clustering
11 6 (0.57%) Kibana
11 6 (0.57%) VxRail
12 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.29%) CASB
13 3 (0.29%) EMC TimeFinder
13 3 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
14 2 (0.19%) Nessus
14 2 (0.19%) Oozie
Vendors
1 130 (12.39%) Microsoft
2 56 (5.34%) VMware
3 52 (4.96%) Cisco
4 44 (4.19%) SAP
5 42 (4.00%) Oracle
6 33 (3.15%) ServiceNow
7 23 (2.19%) Google
8 20 (1.91%) Veritas
9 16 (1.53%) Dell
10 14 (1.33%) Splunk
11 11 (1.05%) IBM
11 11 (1.05%) Salesforce
12 10 (0.95%) NetApp
12 10 (0.95%) OneTrust
13 9 (0.86%) Apple
13 9 (0.86%) EMC
13 9 (0.86%) Informatica
14 8 (0.76%) Cadence
14 8 (0.76%) Hitachi
14 8 (0.76%) Sparx