Data Protection Contract Job Trends in Reading

Data Protection
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Data Protection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 50 65
Rank change year-on-year +3 +15 -18
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 28 35 21
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 3.83% 3.67% 2.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.31% 3.98% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 19
10th Percentile £412 £358 £303
25th Percentile £450 £481 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.60% +11.11% -23.40%
75th Percentile £611 £538 £519
90th Percentile £664 £560 £562
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £513 £450
% change year-on-year -12.20% +13.89% -18.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

Data Protection falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 650 880 916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 88.80% 92.24% 92.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 499 600
10th Percentile £350 £311 £213
25th Percentile £425 £450 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £571 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.98% +8.67% -
75th Percentile £614 £650 £615
90th Percentile £651 £677 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £533 £500
% change year-on-year -6.10% +6.50% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 7 17
10th Percentile £14.75 £27.90 £59.43
25th Percentile £27.25 £35.75 £61.04
Median hourly rate £75.00 £57.50 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -9.15% -2.63%
75th Percentile £95.00 £63.24 £66.44
90th Percentile £105.50 £68.78 £67.60
Berkshire median hourly rate £40.44 £61.50 £61.72
% change year-on-year -34.25% -0.36% +12.21%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Protection relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Data Protection job vacancy trend in Reading

Data Protection
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Data Protection.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Data Protection

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in Reading over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in Reading

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Data Protection.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Data Protection

Data Protection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.57%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (3.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (3.57%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (3.57%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (3.57%) Blender
1 1 (3.57%) CINEMA 4D
1 1 (3.57%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.57%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (3.57%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) OCI
2 2 (7.14%) AWS
2 2 (7.14%) Azure
2 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (7.14%) GitHub
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) Network Security
2 1 (3.57%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (3.57%) DWDM
2 1 (3.57%) Ethernet
2 1 (3.57%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (3.57%) iSCSI
2 1 (3.57%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.57%) Metadata
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.57%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) GitLab
2 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 19 (67.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.14%) Aerospace
4 2 (7.14%) Legal
5 1 (3.57%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Finance
5 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.57%) Marketing
5 1 (3.57%) Retail
5 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Lead
2 5 (17.86%) Data Migration Lead
3 3 (10.71%) Architect
3 3 (10.71%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 3 (10.71%) Developer
3 3 (10.71%) Project Manager
3 3 (10.71%) Security Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Data Protection Officer
4 2 (7.14%) Designer
4 2 (7.14%) Oracle Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
4 2 (7.14%) Report Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Security Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Security Project Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Senior
5 1 (3.57%) EPoS Project Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Fibre Designer
5 1 (3.57%) Motion Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) Google JAX
1 3 (10.71%) JAX
1 3 (10.71%) PyTorch
1 3 (10.71%) scikit-learn
1 3 (10.71%) TensorFlow
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (3.57%) HTML
3 1 (3.57%) JSON
3 1 (3.57%) OAuth
3 1 (3.57%) OAuth2
3 1 (3.57%) REST
3 1 (3.57%) RESTful
3 1 (3.57%) SOAP
3 1 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) Data Structures
2 8 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (10.71%) Algorithms
4 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
4 2 (7.14%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.57%) AI Agents
5 1 (3.57%) Animation
5 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.57%) EPoS
5 1 (3.57%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (3.57%) FlexPod
5 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.57%) Motion Graphics
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (35.71%) Migration
2 10 (35.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 8 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 7 (25.00%) DevOps
5 6 (21.43%) Collaborative Working
5 6 (21.43%) Data Analysis
5 6 (21.43%) Data Migration
6 5 (17.86%) Agile
6 5 (17.86%) AI
6 5 (17.86%) Data Cleansing
6 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (17.86%) Risk Management
7 4 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 4 (14.29%) Deep Learning
7 4 (14.29%) LLM
7 4 (14.29%) Machine Learning
7 4 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
7 4 (14.29%) Workflow
8 3 (10.71%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.86%) Python
2 4 (14.29%) Java
3 3 (10.71%) C
3 3 (10.71%) C++
3 3 (10.71%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (10.71%) Degree
1 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.57%) PMP
3 1 (3.57%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (46.43%) GDPR
2 6 (21.43%) Data Quality
3 4 (14.29%) EU AI Act
3 4 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (14.29%) NIST
4 3 (10.71%) GRC
5 2 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (3.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
1 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) Oracle
2 2 (7.14%) Cisco
3 1 (3.57%) Adobe
3 1 (3.57%) Commvault
3 1 (3.57%) IBM
3 1 (3.57%) Juniper
3 1 (3.57%) NetApp
3 1 (3.57%) Nokia
3 1 (3.57%) Pega
3 1 (3.57%) Progress
3 1 (3.57%) SAP
3 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.57%) VMware