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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 57 63
Rank change year-on-year +14 +6 -18
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 25 35 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 4.31% 3.16% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.67% 3.68% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 24
10th Percentile £407 £440 £263
25th Percentile £422 £481 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.88% +13.89% -18.18%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £538
90th Percentile £660 £615 £646
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £513 £425
% change year-on-year +7.32% +20.59% -17.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £69.38 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £65.00 £25.12
% change year-on-year - +158.81% -

All Process and 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 535 951 1,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.24% 85.99% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 508 665
10th Percentile £350 £356 £313
25th Percentile £450 £481 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £582 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% +5.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £712 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £508 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -7.73% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 32 20
10th Percentile - £15.13 £18.40
25th Percentile £14.75 £55.41 £52.23
Median hourly rate £27.50 £61.60 £65.56
Median % change year-on-year -55.36% -6.04% +87.91%
75th Percentile £55.00 £75.40 £74.20
90th Percentile £58.00 £87.46 £75.42
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.31 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -47.55% +2.67% +45.65%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection 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 17 September 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 and Capabilities in Reading 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 3 (12.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (4.00%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (4.00%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.00%) Azure
1 5 (20.00%) OCI
2 3 (12.00%) AWS
2 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (12.00%) GitHub
3 2 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.00%) GCP
4 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.00%) PowerApps
4 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) Network Security
2 1 (4.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (4.00%) DWDM
2 1 (4.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (4.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (4.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) iSCSI
2 1 (4.00%) LAN
2 1 (4.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (12.00%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Git
2 2 (8.00%) GitLab
3 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 13 (52.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.00%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.00%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.00%) Marketing
4 1 (4.00%) Retail
4 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (16.00%) Lead
2 3 (12.00%) Analyst
2 3 (12.00%) Architect
2 3 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 3 (12.00%) Data Migration Lead
2 3 (12.00%) Project Manager
2 3 (12.00%) Security Architect
2 3 (12.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Consultant
3 2 (8.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 2 (8.00%) Oracle Analyst
3 2 (8.00%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
3 2 (8.00%) Security Manager
3 2 (8.00%) Security Project Manager
3 2 (8.00%) Senior
3 2 (8.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Fibre Designer
4 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) Google JAX
1 3 (12.00%) JAX
1 3 (12.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (12.00%) scikit-learn
1 3 (12.00%) TensorFlow
1 3 (12.00%) Web Services
2 2 (8.00%) HTML
2 2 (8.00%) OAuth
3 1 (4.00%) .NET
3 1 (4.00%) CSS
3 1 (4.00%) JSON
3 1 (4.00%) OAuth2
3 1 (4.00%) React
3 1 (4.00%) REST
3 1 (4.00%) RESTful
3 1 (4.00%) SOAP
3 1 (4.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Data Protection Act
1 7 (28.00%) Data Structures
2 3 (12.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.00%) EPoS
4 1 (4.00%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (4.00%) FlexPod
4 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (32.00%) DevOps
3 7 (28.00%) Migration
4 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (24.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 5 (20.00%) Agile
5 5 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 5 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
6 4 (16.00%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (16.00%) Data Mapping
6 4 (16.00%) Data Migration
6 4 (16.00%) Data Modelling
6 4 (16.00%) Validation
6 4 (16.00%) Workflow
7 3 (12.00%) Containerisation
7 3 (12.00%) Data Loss Prevention
7 3 (12.00%) Data Science
7 3 (12.00%) Impact Analysis
7 3 (12.00%) Impact Assessments
7 3 (12.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) Java
1 4 (16.00%) Python
2 3 (12.00%) C
2 3 (12.00%) C++
2 3 (12.00%) PL/SQL
2 3 (12.00%) R
2 3 (12.00%) SQL
3 1 (4.00%) C#
3 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
1 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.00%) CCSP
3 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.00%) CISSP
3 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) OSCP
3 1 (4.00%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.00%) PMP
3 1 (4.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (4.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (40.00%) GDPR
2 4 (16.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (12.00%) Data Quality
3 3 (12.00%) EU AI Act
3 3 (12.00%) GRC
3 3 (12.00%) NIST
3 3 (12.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (8.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) Terraform
3 1 (4.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (4.00%) Ansible
3 1 (4.00%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Oracle
2 3 (12.00%) Cisco
3 2 (8.00%) Juniper
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.00%) Aruba
4 1 (4.00%) Commvault
4 1 (4.00%) F5
4 1 (4.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (4.00%) HP
4 1 (4.00%) IBM
4 1 (4.00%) NetApp
4 1 (4.00%) Nokia
4 1 (4.00%) Pega
4 1 (4.00%) Progress
4 1 (4.00%) Rapid7
4 1 (4.00%) VMware