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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 65 51
Rank change year-on-year +20 -14 -19
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 14 31 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.58% 2.55% 3.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% 2.94% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 26
10th Percentile £280 £121 £219
25th Percentile £513 £185 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £338 £494
Median % change year-on-year +62.96% -31.65% -10.23%
75th Percentile £578 £538 £656
90th Percentile £589 £549 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +37.50% -11.11% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £69.38 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £42.50 -

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 503 1,056 977
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.80% 86.70% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 535 635
10th Percentile £330 £251 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £502 £519 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% -1.19% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 54 23
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.40 £23.80
25th Percentile £17.56 £51.86 £50.95
Median hourly rate £37.28 £60.83 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.71% -7.83% +135.71%
75th Percentile £61.88 £82.55 £74.90
90th Percentile £68.75 £87.52 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £56.25 £58.49 £58.75
% change year-on-year -3.83% -0.44% +179.76%

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 30 June 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 3 (21.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (21.43%) Entra ID
2 3 (21.43%) SonarCloud
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (7.14%) OCI
3 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.14%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) Network Security
1 1 (7.14%) Unified Communications
1 1 (7.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Snyk
2 1 (7.14%) Burp Suite
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) Metasploit
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
2 1 (7.14%) Marketing
2 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Compliance Manager
1 3 (21.43%) Compliance Project Manager
1 3 (21.43%) Data Compliance Manager
1 3 (21.43%) Project Manager
1 3 (21.43%) Security Compliance Manager
1 3 (21.43%) Security Manager
1 3 (21.43%) Security Project Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Consultant
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Security Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Graduate
3 1 (7.14%) Integration Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Support
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Web Services
2 2 (14.29%) OAuth
3 1 (7.14%) .NET
3 1 (7.14%) CSS
3 1 (7.14%) HTML
3 1 (7.14%) React
3 1 (7.14%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (21.43%) Data Structures
3 2 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (28.57%) DevOps
2 4 (28.57%) OWASP
3 3 (21.43%) Data Mapping
3 3 (21.43%) Data Transformation
3 3 (21.43%) Impact Analysis
3 3 (21.43%) Impact Assessments
3 3 (21.43%) Integration Testing
3 3 (21.43%) Regulatory Compliance
3 3 (21.43%) SOA
3 3 (21.43%) System Integration Testing
3 3 (21.43%) Validation
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (14.29%) Customer Service
4 2 (14.29%) DevSecOps
4 2 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (7.14%) Marketing Automation
5 1 (7.14%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) PL/SQL
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) C
2 1 (7.14%) C#
2 1 (7.14%) C++
2 1 (7.14%) Java
2 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.14%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
1 2 (14.29%) OSCP
2 1 (7.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (7.14%) CCSP
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.14%) CISSP
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) GPEN
2 1 (7.14%) GWAPT
2 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
2 1 (7.14%) OSCE
2 1 (7.14%) SANS
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) GDPR
2 3 (21.43%) NIST
2 3 (21.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (7.14%) EU AI Act
3 1 (7.14%) HIPAA
3 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Aruba
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco
2 1 (7.14%) F5
2 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
2 1 (7.14%) HP
2 1 (7.14%) Juniper
2 1 (7.14%) Okta
2 1 (7.14%) Rapid7