Data Protection Contracts in Reading

Data Protection
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Data Protection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection over the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 67 39
Rank change year-on-year +21 -28 -7
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 19 28 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 3.07% 2.32% 4.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.26% 2.54% 5.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 31
10th Percentile £267 £121 £363
25th Percentile £450 £211 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £588
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -23.40% +13.75%
75th Percentile £588 £503 £675
90th Percentile £591 £545 £702
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £450 £538
% change year-on-year +16.67% -16.28% +7.50%

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 582 1,104 1,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 94.02% 91.54% 91.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 614 671
10th Percentile £316 £213 £363
25th Percentile £419 £400 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £615 £650
90th Percentile £700 £687 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £500 £524
% change year-on-year +0.70% -4.63% +5.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 45 16
10th Percentile £35.55 £20.17 £46.70
25th Percentile £45.38 £52.90 £60.48
Median hourly rate £61.76 £61.79 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -4.94% +116.67%
75th Percentile £69.48 £72.33 £76.61
90th Percentile £74.10 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.00 £56.89
% change year-on-year +0.81% +7.23% +170.24%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in Reading

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in Reading over the 6 months to 2 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in Reading

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in Reading

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 1 (5.26%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (15.79%) SonarCloud
3 2 (10.53%) AWS
3 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (5.26%) GCP
4 1 (5.26%) OCI
4 1 (5.26%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Network Security
1 1 (5.26%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Snyk
2 2 (10.53%) Burp Suite
2 2 (10.53%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) Metasploit
3 1 (5.26%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (5.26%) Selenium
3 1 (5.26%) SpecFlow
General
1 14 (73.68%) Social Skills
2 7 (36.84%) Legal
3 6 (31.58%) Marketing
3 6 (31.58%) Telecoms
4 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.79%) Law
5 2 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (5.26%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Data Protection Officer
2 3 (15.79%) Compliance Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Compliance Project Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Data Compliance Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Project Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Security Compliance Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Security Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Security Project Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Tester
3 2 (10.53%) Penetration Tester
3 2 (10.53%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Applications Support
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Hardware Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) SailPoint Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) .NET
1 1 (5.26%) CSS
1 1 (5.26%) HTML
1 1 (5.26%) OAuth
1 1 (5.26%) PySpark
1 1 (5.26%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 14 (73.68%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Artificial Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) B2C
1 6 (31.58%) Data Privacy
1 6 (31.58%) Impact Assessments
1 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (26.32%) Data Loss Prevention
2 5 (26.32%) OWASP
3 4 (21.05%) DevOps
3 4 (21.05%) Regulatory Compliance
4 3 (15.79%) Cloud Security
4 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
4 3 (15.79%) Information Security
5 2 (10.53%) Cryptography
5 2 (10.53%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (10.53%) Innovative Thinking
5 2 (10.53%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (10.53%) Reverse Engineering
5 2 (10.53%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (10.53%) Security Testing
5 2 (10.53%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) Python
2 2 (10.53%) C
2 2 (10.53%) C++
2 2 (10.53%) Java
2 2 (10.53%) Ruby
2 2 (10.53%) SQL
3 1 (5.26%) Bash
3 1 (5.26%) C#
3 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) ISEB
2 5 (26.32%) Degree
3 3 (15.79%) OSCP
4 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (10.53%) GPEN
4 2 (10.53%) GWAPT
4 2 (10.53%) Master's Degree
4 2 (10.53%) OSCE
4 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
4 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
5 1 (5.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (5.26%) CCSP
5 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (5.26%) CISSP
5 1 (5.26%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) GDPR
2 3 (15.79%) NIST
3 2 (10.53%) HIPAA
3 2 (10.53%) PCI DSS
4 1 (5.26%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Databricks
2 1 (5.26%) Okta
2 1 (5.26%) OpenAI
2 1 (5.26%) Rapid7