Bristol Data Protection Act Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Data Protection Act (DPA) skills within the Bristol region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Data Protection Act over the 3 months to 8 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Data Protection Act (DPA)
Location Bedfordshire Birmingham Bolton Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London East Midlands East of England England Hampshire Huntingdon Isle of Wight Leeds London Manchester Middlesex Midlands North West Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Shropshire Somerset South East South West Southampton Staines Surrey Telford UK West Midlands West Yorkshire Westminster Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	-	58
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.917 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£366	£343
% change on same period last year	+6.70 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.86	£10.00
% change on same period last year	+58.60 %
Miscellaneous Bristol
Matching contract IT job ads	70	109
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.140 %	0.136 %
Daily rates quoted	14	38
Average minimum daily rate	£259	£296
Average daily rate	£296	£313
% change on same period last year	-5.48 %
Average maximum daily rate	£333	£330
UK excluding London average daily rate	£342	£351
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.25	£19.49
Average hourly rate	£31.50	£23.03
% change on same period last year	+36.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.75	£26.57
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.98	£25.61
% change on same period last year	+1.43 %
Data Protection Act South West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Data Protection Act
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Data Protection Act across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Data Protection Act across the Bristol region.

Data Protection Act
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Data Protection Act across the Bristol region.

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Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Data Protection Act also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Data Protection Act.

1 3 (100.00 %) Data Protection 2 2 (66.67 %) WinForms 2 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 2 2 (66.67 %) C# 2 2 (66.67 %) SQL 2 2 (66.67 %) .NET 2 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2 2 (66.67 %) ASP.NET 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows 3 1 (33.33 %) Firewall 3 1 (33.33 %) Security Management 3 1 (33.33 %) Management Information System 3 1 (33.33 %) AS400 3 1 (33.33 %) Finance 3 1 (33.33 %) ISO17799

3 1 (33.33 %) IBM 3 1 (33.33 %) Intel 3 1 (33.33 %) CISSP 3 1 (33.33 %) Mainframe 3 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 3 1 (33.33 %) Insurance 3 1 (33.33 %) Technical Architecture 3 1 (33.33 %) IBM Mainframe 3 1 (33.33 %) Information Security 3 1 (33.33 %) Tandem 3 1 (33.33 %) Content Management

Data Protection Act
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Data Protection Act also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Data Protection Act. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (66.67 %) .NET 1 2 (66.67 %) ASP.NET 1 2 (66.67 %) WinForms	Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server Reporting Services	General 1 1 (33.33 %) Finance 1 1 (33.33 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Developer 1 2 (66.67 %) .NET Developer 1 2 (66.67 %) ASP.NET Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) .NET Programmer 2 1 (33.33 %) C# ASP.NET Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) C# Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Programmer 2 1 (33.33 %) Senior Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) Mainframe 1 1 (33.33 %) Management Information System 1 1 (33.33 %) AS400 1 1 (33.33 %) Tandem 1 1 (33.33 %) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows 2 1 (33.33 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (100.00 %) Data Protection 2 1 (33.33 %) Security Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Information Security 2 1 (33.33 %) Content Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) C# 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (33.33 %) ISO17799	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) IBM 1 1 (33.33 %) Intel