Data Protection Contracts in the Thames Valley

Data Protection
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 48 68
Rank change year-on-year -14 +20 -23
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 43 98 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.87% 3.67% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.08% 4.32% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 40 59
10th Percentile £300 £180 £263
25th Percentile £475 £250 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £413 £450
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -8.33% -15.09%
75th Percentile £581 £500 £556
90th Percentile £595 £539 £673
South East median daily rate £525 £444 £495
% change year-on-year +18.31% -10.35% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 24 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.13 £19.25 -
Median hourly rate £15.25 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -44.55% - -
75th Percentile £15.38 £43.75 -
90th Percentile - £65.70 -
South East median hourly rate £15.25 £26.25 £42.00
% change year-on-year -41.90% -37.50% +1.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,396 2,270 2,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.07% 85.11% 90.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 840 1,234 1,799
10th Percentile £293 £232 £320
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +3.54%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £615
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £511
% change year-on-year -2.44% +0.24% +2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 176 76
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.50 £16.33
25th Percentile £14.75 £19.25 £22.29
Median hourly rate £24.91 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.57% -5.00% +194.12%
75th Percentile £62.44 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.65 £78.09
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £47.78 £52.10
% change year-on-year -49.77% -8.29% +131.56%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Data Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in the Thames Valley

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in the Thames Valley

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in the Thames Valley

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in the Thames Valley

Data Protection
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 25 June 2025. 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
Berkshire -3 33 £550 +33.33% 26
Buckinghamshire +3 6 - - 3
Oxfordshire -9 4 £613 +240.28% 9
Data Protection
South East

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (6.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (4.65%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.33%) Confluence
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.33%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (13.95%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (2.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.33%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 10 (23.26%) Azure
2 4 (9.30%) AWS
2 4 (9.30%) Entra ID
3 3 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (6.98%) Power Platform
3 3 (6.98%) SonarCloud
4 2 (4.65%) GCP
4 2 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.65%) SaaS
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.33%) GitHub
5 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.33%) OCI
5 1 (2.33%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.33%) Slack
5 1 (2.33%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.63%) SD-WAN
2 4 (9.30%) Firewall
3 2 (4.65%) BGP
3 2 (4.65%) Ethernet
3 2 (4.65%) HTTP
3 2 (4.65%) Network Security
3 2 (4.65%) WAN
4 1 (2.33%) DNS
4 1 (2.33%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.33%) MPLS
4 1 (2.33%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (2.33%) Unified Communications
4 1 (2.33%) VLAN
4 1 (2.33%) VPN
4 1 (2.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.98%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (6.98%) Oracle Reports
1 3 (6.98%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.65%) Power BI
2 2 (4.65%) Tableau
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (2.33%) Power Query
3 1 (2.33%) Sisense
3 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Snyk
2 1 (2.33%) Burp Suite
2 1 (2.33%) Fiddler
2 1 (2.33%) Git
2 1 (2.33%) GitLab
2 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.33%) JIRA
2 1 (2.33%) Metasploit
General
1 12 (27.91%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.98%) Finance
3 3 (6.98%) Telecoms
4 2 (4.65%) Marketing
4 2 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Aviation
5 1 (2.33%) French Language
5 1 (2.33%) Games
5 1 (2.33%) Italian Language
5 1 (2.33%) Law
5 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Social Science
5 1 (2.33%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 10 (23.26%) Architect
2 7 (16.28%) Analyst
3 6 (13.95%) Administrator
4 5 (11.63%) Project Manager
4 5 (11.63%) Support Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Security Manager
6 3 (6.98%) Compliance Manager
6 3 (6.98%) Compliance Project Manager
6 3 (6.98%) Data Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) Data Compliance Manager
6 3 (6.98%) Product Architect
6 3 (6.98%) Security Compliance Manager
6 3 (6.98%) Security Project Manager
6 3 (6.98%) Technical Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Technical Support
6 3 (6.98%) Technical Support Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Consultant
7 2 (4.65%) Data Protection Analyst
7 2 (4.65%) Network Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.98%) OAuth
1 3 (6.98%) Web Services
2 2 (4.65%) .NET
3 1 (2.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.33%) CSS
3 1 (2.33%) HTML
3 1 (2.33%) MDX
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (2.33%) React
3 1 (2.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 29 (67.44%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (6.98%) Data Structures
2 3 (6.98%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.65%) CCTV
3 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.33%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.33%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (2.33%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.33%) PKI
4 1 (2.33%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.33%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.30%) Windows
2 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (20.93%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (20.93%) Customer Service
3 8 (18.60%) Collaborative Working
4 7 (16.28%) Agile
4 7 (16.28%) Project Management
4 7 (16.28%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (13.95%) Process Management
5 6 (13.95%) Records Management
5 6 (13.95%) Service Delivery
6 5 (11.63%) Analytics
6 5 (11.63%) Roadmaps
7 4 (9.30%) Customer Engagement
7 4 (9.30%) Data Mapping
7 4 (9.30%) DevOps
7 4 (9.30%) Identity Access Management
7 4 (9.30%) OWASP
7 4 (9.30%) Product Management
7 4 (9.30%) Product Roadmap
7 4 (9.30%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.30%) SQL
2 3 (6.98%) PL/SQL
3 2 (4.65%) Python
4 1 (2.33%) C
4 1 (2.33%) C#
4 1 (2.33%) C++
4 1 (2.33%) Java
4 1 (2.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (11.63%) Degree
2 3 (6.98%) CISSP
2 3 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.65%) Master's Degree
3 2 (4.65%) OSCP
3 2 (4.65%) SANS
4 1 (2.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (2.33%) CCNP
4 1 (2.33%) CCSK
4 1 (2.33%) CCSP
4 1 (2.33%) CEH
4 1 (2.33%) CISM
4 1 (2.33%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (2.33%) GIAC
4 1 (2.33%) GPEN
4 1 (2.33%) GWAPT
4 1 (2.33%) OSCE
4 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (37.21%) GDPR
2 5 (11.63%) NIST
3 3 (6.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (4.65%) PMO
5 1 (2.33%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (2.33%) EU AI Act
5 1 (2.33%) GRC
5 1 (2.33%) HIPAA
5 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.33%) PCI DSS
5 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (9.30%) Active Directory
1 4 (9.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (4.65%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.33%) Ansible
2 1 (2.33%) CASB
2 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (13.95%) Cisco
1 6 (13.95%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.63%) Oracle
3 4 (9.30%) VMware
4 2 (4.65%) Google
4 2 (4.65%) Meraki
5 1 (2.33%) Adobe
5 1 (2.33%) Ariba
5 1 (2.33%) Aruba
5 1 (2.33%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.33%) Databricks
5 1 (2.33%) F5
5 1 (2.33%) Forcepoint
5 1 (2.33%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.33%) HP
5 1 (2.33%) Juniper
5 1 (2.33%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (2.33%) Okta
5 1 (2.33%) Rapid7
5 1 (2.33%) SAP
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