Data Protection Contracts in Scotland

Data Protection
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 35 24
Rank change year-on-year +4 -11 +93
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 103 165 258
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.81% 6.18% 7.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.55% 6.72% 8.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 88 147
10th Percentile £178 £269 £363
25th Percentile £306 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.20% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £553
90th Percentile £643 £627 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £52.18 £18.32
25th Percentile - £53.58 £18.95
Median hourly rate - £56.53 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +182.63% -
75th Percentile - £58.85 £40.00
90th Percentile - £59.87 £52.00
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -56.21% +97.91% -6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,857 2,457 3,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 86.65% 91.95% 93.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,150 1,716 2,260
10th Percentile £221 £258 £250
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £573 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 57 54
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.07 £11.25 £17.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £43.75 £50.27
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.63 £57.05
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Data Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in Scotland

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in Scotland

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in Scotland

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in Scotland

Data Protection
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Protection within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +2 68 £450 -7.69% 6
Glasgow +10 20 £525 -4.55% 6
West Lothian +2 5 £425 -20.93%
Renfrewshire 0 1 £120 - 1
Data Protection
UK

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (0.97%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (0.97%) Apache
1 1 (0.97%) Cloud Foundry
1 1 (0.97%) CMS
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.94%) Adobe Captivate
2 2 (1.94%) Camtasia
2 2 (1.94%) Lectora
2 2 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 15 (14.56%) Azure
2 13 (12.62%) AWS
3 8 (7.77%) OpenShift
4 6 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (3.88%) Amazon S3
5 4 (3.88%) SaaS
6 2 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.94%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.94%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.94%) GCP
6 2 (1.94%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.97%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.97%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.97%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.97%) Datadog
7 1 (0.97%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (0.97%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.97%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.85%) Intranet
1 5 (4.85%) NAS
2 4 (3.88%) SAN
2 4 (3.88%) VSAN
3 3 (2.91%) DNS
4 2 (1.94%) DHCP
4 2 (1.94%) Firewall
4 2 (1.94%) Network Security
4 2 (1.94%) WAN
5 1 (0.97%) Broadband
5 1 (0.97%) LAN
5 1 (0.97%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.91%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.94%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (1.94%) Crystal Reports
2 2 (1.94%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.94%) Star Schema
3 1 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.97%) Looker
3 1 (0.97%) MySQL
3 1 (0.97%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.97%) Power BI
3 1 (0.97%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (5.83%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.85%) Git
3 4 (3.88%) JIRA
4 3 (2.91%) Maven
5 2 (1.94%) Capybara
5 2 (1.94%) Gradle
6 1 (0.97%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.97%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 24 (23.30%) Public Sector
2 23 (22.33%) Finance
3 20 (19.42%) Social Skills
4 8 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.85%) Legal
5 5 (4.85%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (4.85%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.88%) Banking
6 4 (3.88%) Law
7 2 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.97%) German Language
8 1 (0.97%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.97%) Italian Language
8 1 (0.97%) Publishing
8 1 (0.97%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.97%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 14 (13.59%) Senior
2 12 (11.65%) Analyst
3 10 (9.71%) Architect
4 9 (8.74%) Consultant
4 9 (8.74%) Developer
5 7 (6.80%) Business Analyst
6 6 (5.83%) Project Manager
7 5 (4.85%) IT Manager
7 5 (4.85%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.88%) Data Analyst
8 4 (3.88%) Data Architect
8 4 (3.88%) Data Manager
9 3 (2.91%) Data Protection Manager
9 3 (2.91%) Information Officer
9 3 (2.91%) Pega Consultant
9 3 (2.91%) Security Analyst
9 3 (2.91%) Security Consultant
9 3 (2.91%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (2.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 3 (2.91%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.80%) REST
2 6 (5.83%) Spring
2 6 (5.83%) Spring Boot
3 5 (4.85%) HTML
4 4 (3.88%) CSS
4 4 (3.88%) React
5 3 (2.91%) AWS CDK
5 3 (2.91%) Node.js
5 3 (2.91%) Spring MVC
5 3 (2.91%) Spring Web Flow
5 3 (2.91%) Thymeleaf
6 2 (1.94%) Flash
6 2 (1.94%) WebKit
7 1 (0.97%) CakePHP
7 1 (0.97%) Guice
7 1 (0.97%) Java EE
7 1 (0.97%) PySpark
7 1 (0.97%) SAML
7 1 (0.97%) Spring Batch
7 1 (0.97%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 69 (66.99%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (4.85%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.88%) Freedom of Information
3 4 (3.88%) VxBlock/Vblock
4 3 (2.91%) Cyber Security Posture
4 3 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.91%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.91%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.94%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.94%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.94%) e-Learning
5 2 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.94%) Learning Management System
5 2 (1.94%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.94%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.94%) Video Editing
6 1 (0.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.97%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.85%) Linux
2 4 (3.88%) Unix
3 2 (1.94%) Windows
3 2 (1.94%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.97%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (20.39%) Agile
2 11 (10.68%) Migration
3 9 (8.74%) CI/CD
4 7 (6.80%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (6.80%) Decision-Making
4 7 (6.80%) DevOps
4 7 (6.80%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (5.83%) Information Security
5 6 (5.83%) Mentoring
5 6 (5.83%) Project Management
5 6 (5.83%) Scrum
5 6 (5.83%) Value Proposition
6 5 (4.85%) Business Analysis
6 5 (4.85%) Computer Science
6 5 (4.85%) Data Migration
6 5 (4.85%) Data Modelling
6 5 (4.85%) Microservices
6 5 (4.85%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (4.85%) User Experience
7 4 (3.88%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (9.71%) Java
2 9 (8.74%) SQL
3 8 (7.77%) JavaScript
3 8 (7.77%) Python
4 6 (5.83%) Perl
5 3 (2.91%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.94%) Ruby
6 2 (1.94%) Rust
7 1 (0.97%) C
7 1 (0.97%) C#
7 1 (0.97%) C++
7 1 (0.97%) Embedded C
7 1 (0.97%) PHP
7 1 (0.97%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (12.62%) Degree
2 5 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.91%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.91%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (0.97%) CCSP
4 1 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.97%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.74%) Accessibility
2 8 (7.77%) Disclosure Scotland
3 6 (5.83%) GDPR
4 4 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.91%) NIST
5 3 (2.91%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.94%) COBIT
6 2 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.94%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (5.83%) Docker
2 5 (4.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.88%) vSphere
4 3 (2.91%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.97%) Firmware
5 1 (0.97%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 8 (7.77%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.83%) Grafana
3 4 (3.88%) Terraform
3 4 (3.88%) vCenter Server
3 4 (3.88%) VxRail
4 3 (2.91%) Ansible
4 3 (2.91%) NetBackup
4 3 (2.91%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.97%) CASB
Vendors
1 9 (8.74%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.85%) VMware
3 4 (3.88%) Databricks
3 4 (3.88%) Dell
4 3 (2.91%) Adobe
4 3 (2.91%) Cisco
4 3 (2.91%) Pega
5 2 (1.94%) Informatica
5 2 (1.94%) Splunk
5 2 (1.94%) Veritas
6 1 (0.97%) Blue Coat
6 1 (0.97%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.97%) Citrix
6 1 (0.97%) EMC
6 1 (0.97%) IDERA
6 1 (0.97%) NetApp
6 1 (0.97%) Oracle
6 1 (0.97%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.97%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.97%) Teradata