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 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 59 66
Rank change year-on-year +20 +7 -8
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 28 35 24
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 4.47% 3.22% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.96% 3.65% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 11 21
10th Percentile £409 £400 £263
25th Percentile £441 £466 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +13.89% -18.18%
75th Percentile £592 £547 £538
90th Percentile £664 £613 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £513 £425
% change year-on-year +7.32% +20.59% -19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £69.38 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £20.79 £20.00 £25.12
% change year-on-year +3.95% -20.37% -

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 565 958 982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.11% 88.21% 88.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 531 656
10th Percentile £349 £350 £250
25th Percentile £450 £463 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +6.98% +4.62%
75th Percentile £605 £650 £625
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £540 £520
% change year-on-year -6.71% +3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 21 14
10th Percentile - £14.50 £29.04
25th Percentile £14.75 £26.25 £59.32
Median hourly rate £37.28 £60.46 £63.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.33% -4.64% +15.26%
75th Percentile £58.00 £63.41 £67.42
90th Percentile £69.40 £74.87 £75.18
Berkshire median hourly rate £29.31 £58.49 £61.25
% change year-on-year -49.90% -4.51% +21.29%

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 25 October 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 3 (10.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (3.57%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (35.71%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.57%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) OCI
2 4 (14.29%) Azure
3 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (10.71%) GitHub
4 2 (7.14%) AWS
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.57%) PowerApps
5 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%) Firewall
2 1 (3.57%) iSCSI
2 1 (3.57%) LAN
2 1 (3.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (28.57%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (10.71%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) GitLab
3 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 17 (60.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.14%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.57%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.57%) Marketing
4 1 (3.57%) Retail
4 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (21.43%) Lead
2 5 (17.86%) Data Migration Lead
3 3 (10.71%) Analyst
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%) Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Oracle Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Oracle Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
4 2 (7.14%) Report Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Security Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Security Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Security Project Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Senior
4 2 (7.14%) Support Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Integration Analyst
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
1 3 (10.71%) Web Services
2 2 (7.14%) HTML
2 2 (7.14%) OAuth
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (3.57%) .NET
3 1 (3.57%) CSS
3 1 (3.57%) JSON
3 1 (3.57%) OAuth2
3 1 (3.57%) React
3 1 (3.57%) REST
3 1 (3.57%) RESTful
3 1 (3.57%) SOAP
3 1 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (39.29%) Data Structures
2 7 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (10.71%) Algorithms
4 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 2 (7.14%) Security Posture
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
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (46.43%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (39.29%) Migration
3 10 (35.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 8 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 8 (28.57%) DevOps
5 6 (21.43%) Collaborative Working
5 6 (21.43%) Data Migration
5 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (17.86%) Agile
6 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
6 5 (17.86%) Data Analysis
6 5 (17.86%) Data Cleansing
7 4 (14.29%) Data Mapping
7 4 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
7 4 (14.29%) Validation
7 4 (14.29%) Workflow
8 3 (10.71%) Data Loss Prevention
8 3 (10.71%) SDLC
8 3 (10.71%) Secure Coding
8 3 (10.71%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.29%) Java
1 4 (14.29%) Python
2 3 (10.71%) C
2 3 (10.71%) C++
2 3 (10.71%) PL/SQL
2 3 (10.71%) R
2 3 (10.71%) SQL
3 1 (3.57%) C#
3 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Degree
1 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
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 14 (50.00%) GDPR
2 5 (17.86%) Data Quality
3 4 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (10.71%) EU AI Act
4 3 (10.71%) GRC
4 3 (10.71%) NIST
4 3 (10.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (3.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.14%) Terraform
3 1 (3.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (3.57%) Ansible
3 1 (3.57%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 12 (42.86%) Oracle
2 3 (10.71%) Cisco
3 2 (7.14%) Juniper
3 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.57%) Aruba
4 1 (3.57%) Commvault
4 1 (3.57%) F5
4 1 (3.57%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.57%) HP
4 1 (3.57%) IBM
4 1 (3.57%) NetApp
4 1 (3.57%) Nokia
4 1 (3.57%) Pega
4 1 (3.57%) Progress
4 1 (3.57%) VMware