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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 46 68
Rank change year-on-year -7 +22 -19
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 20 35 20
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 2.78% 3.94% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.16% 4.27% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 17
10th Percentile £446 £358 £413
25th Percentile £463 £481 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.00% +11.11% -23.40%
75th Percentile £661 £538 £538
90th Percentile £664 £560 £572
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £506 £475
% change year-on-year -6.17% +6.58% -13.64%

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 633 820 913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 88.04% 92.24% 92.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 447 594
10th Percentile £326 £300 £213
25th Percentile £419 £431 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +7.62% -
75th Percentile £621 £650 £615
90th Percentile £664 £680 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 7 17
10th Percentile £14.60 £27.90 £56.41
25th Percentile £58.00 £35.75 £60.82
Median hourly rate £81.00 £57.50 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +40.87% -9.15% -9.91%
75th Percentile £95.00 £63.24 £66.00
90th Percentile £105.80 £68.78 £67.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.00 £59.00 £61.00
% change year-on-year -1.69% -3.28% -6.15%

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 13 January 2026.

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 (5.00%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (5.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (5.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (5.00%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (5.00%) Blender
1 1 (5.00%) CINEMA 4D
1 1 (5.00%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (35.00%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (5.00%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) OCI
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (5.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (5.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.00%) GitHub
2 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) DWDM
1 1 (5.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (5.00%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (15.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (5.00%) Metadata
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.00%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 12 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Legal
2 2 (10.00%) Marketing
2 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Digital Healthcare
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Retail
3 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Lead
2 5 (25.00%) Data Migration Lead
3 4 (20.00%) Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Officer
4 2 (10.00%) Designer
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Report Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) EPoS Manager
5 1 (5.00%) EPoS Project Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (5.00%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
5 1 (5.00%) Graphic Designer
5 1 (5.00%) Information Security Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Motion Graphics Designer
5 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS Project Manager
5 1 (5.00%) SAP Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) SAP Data Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (5.00%) CSS
2 1 (5.00%) HTML
2 1 (5.00%) Jest
2 1 (5.00%) JSON
2 1 (5.00%) Next.js
2 1 (5.00%) Node.js
2 1 (5.00%) OAuth
2 1 (5.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (5.00%) React
2 1 (5.00%) REST
2 1 (5.00%) RESTful
2 1 (5.00%) Sass
2 1 (5.00%) SOAP
2 1 (5.00%) Tailwind CSS
2 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Data Structures
2 7 (35.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.00%) AI Agents
4 1 (5.00%) Animation
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.00%) EPoS
4 1 (5.00%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.00%) Motion Graphics
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Cybersecurity
1 9 (45.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 8 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 7 (35.00%) Migration
4 6 (30.00%) Collaborative Working
4 6 (30.00%) Data Analysis
5 5 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
5 5 (25.00%) Data Migration
5 5 (25.00%) Risk Management
6 4 (20.00%) Agile
7 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (15.00%) ETL
8 2 (10.00%) AI
8 2 (10.00%) Computer Science
8 2 (10.00%) Data Governance
8 2 (10.00%) DevOps
8 2 (10.00%) Information Security
8 2 (10.00%) Roadmaps
9 1 (5.00%) Containerisation
9 1 (5.00%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) Java
2 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.00%) PMP
2 1 (5.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (50.00%) GDPR
2 6 (30.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (10.00%) NIST
4 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (5.00%) EU AI Act
4 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) Adobe
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco
2 1 (5.00%) Juniper
2 1 (5.00%) Nokia
2 1 (5.00%) Pega
2 1 (5.00%) SAP
2 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow