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 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 62 51
Rank change year-on-year +5 -11 -12
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 35 26 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 3.20% 2.42% 3.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.61% 2.66% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 22 28
10th Percentile £400 £268 £348
25th Percentile £466 £413 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £450 £589
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -23.57% +47.19%
75th Percentile £547 £549 £653
90th Percentile £613 £649 £679
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £438 £550
% change year-on-year +17.14% -20.45% +29.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £69.06 - -
Median hourly rate £69.38 - -
75th Percentile £69.69 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £20.00 £25.12 -
% change year-on-year -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 969 977 1,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 88.49% 90.97% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 635 785
10th Percentile £350 £239 £338
25th Percentile £450 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £540 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +7.95% +0.05% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 14 8
10th Percentile £18.88 £29.04 £30.80
25th Percentile £45.94 £59.32 £46.60
Median hourly rate £60.53 £63.40 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.52% +15.26% +17.65%
75th Percentile £64.40 £67.42 £75.75
90th Percentile £78.66 £75.18 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £60.46 £61.72 £50.00
% change year-on-year -2.05% +23.44% +6.95%

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 14 November 2024.

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 (2.86%) Anypoint
1 1 (2.86%) Confluence
1 1 (2.86%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.00%) Azure
2 4 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (8.57%) Azure AKS
4 2 (5.71%) AWS
4 2 (5.71%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.86%) IaaS
5 1 (2.86%) PaaS
5 1 (2.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) Unified Communications
1 2 (5.71%) VoIP
1 2 (5.71%) WAN
2 1 (2.86%) 5G
2 1 (2.86%) Ethernet
2 1 (2.86%) LAN
2 1 (2.86%) PBX
2 1 (2.86%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) Big Data
1 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Git
2 2 (5.71%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (2.86%) GitLab
3 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 20 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 17 (48.57%) Legal
2 17 (48.57%) Marketing
2 17 (48.57%) Telecoms
3 14 (40.00%) Law
4 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Finance
5 2 (5.71%) Retail
6 1 (2.86%) Advertising
6 1 (2.86%) Billing
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) Architect
2 5 (14.29%) Consultant
2 5 (14.29%) Data Protection Officer
3 3 (8.57%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 3 (8.57%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (8.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (8.57%) Security Architect
4 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Network Architect
5 1 (2.86%) Active Directory Consultant
5 1 (2.86%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Applications Support Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Architect
5 1 (2.86%) Business Consultant
5 1 (2.86%) Data Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) DevOps Consultant
5 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (2.86%) Support Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Telecoms Consultant
5 1 (2.86%) Unified Communications Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) Google JAX
1 3 (8.57%) PyTorch
1 3 (8.57%) scikit-learn
1 3 (8.57%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 30 (85.71%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (8.57%) Algorithms
2 3 (8.57%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.86%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (2.86%) TM Forum
3 1 (2.86%) Video\Live Streaming
3 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Linux
1 2 (5.71%) Windows
1 2 (5.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (42.86%) B2C
1 15 (42.86%) Data Privacy
1 15 (42.86%) Impact Assessments
2 13 (37.14%) Data Management
2 13 (37.14%) Data Sharing
2 13 (37.14%) Information Security
3 9 (25.71%) Collaborative Working
4 8 (22.86%) DevOps
5 7 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (11.43%) Data Science
9 3 (8.57%) Data Pipeline
9 3 (8.57%) DataOps
9 3 (8.57%) Incident Response
9 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (8.57%) LLM
9 3 (8.57%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 3 (8.57%) MLOps
9 3 (8.57%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.29%) Python
2 3 (8.57%) C
2 3 (8.57%) C++
2 3 (8.57%) Java
2 3 (8.57%) PowerShell
2 3 (8.57%) R
3 1 (2.86%) C#
Qualifications
1 15 (42.86%) ISEB
2 6 (17.14%) Security Cleared
3 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) CCIE
4 1 (2.86%) CCNA
4 1 (2.86%) CCNP
4 1 (2.86%) CCVP
4 1 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (45.71%) GDPR
2 3 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (8.57%) NIST
3 1 (2.86%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (17.14%) Kubernetes
2 4 (11.43%) Terraform
3 1 (2.86%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 3 (8.57%) Cisco
2 2 (5.71%) Meraki
3 1 (2.86%) Databricks
3 1 (2.86%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.86%) Salesforce