The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Data Protection Act over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category for the East of England region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Protection Act (DPA)
Rank 115 133 115
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -18
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 1 1 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.047% 0.034% 0.261%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.209% 0.162% 1.431%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £400 £500
% change year-on-year
-3.12% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £17.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £22.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year
- +25.71%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
478 616 489
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 22.55% 20.88% 18.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 271 192
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £200 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 £450 £490
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 65 68
Average hourly rate £33.00 £27.00 £25.69
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.22% +5.10%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.00 £13.00 £12.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £49.00 £37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
Data Protection Act
England

Data Protection Act
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Data Protection Act across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

East of England Data Protection Act Jobs Demand Trend

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Data Protection Act across the East of England region.

East of England Data Protection Act Daily Rate Trend

Data Protection Act
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Data Protection Act across the East of England region.

East of England Data Protection Act Hourly Rate Trend

Data Protection Act
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Protection Act within the East of England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Norfolk - 1 - -
Data Protection Act
England

Data Protection Act
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 7 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 3 (42.86%) Sybase IQ
3 3 (42.86%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (42.86%) Database Security
4 2 (28.57%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (28.57%) Legal
5 1 (14.29%) Validation
5 1 (14.29%) HTML
5 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 1 (14.29%) PHP
5 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
5 1 (14.29%) VB
5 1 (14.29%) MySQL
5 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Management
5 1 (14.29%) Local Government
5 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (14.29%) Information Security
5 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (14.29%) Service Management
5 1 (14.29%) TickIT
5 1 (14.29%) Change Management
5 1 (14.29%) ITSM
5 1 (14.29%) Finance
5 1 (14.29%) XML
5 1 (14.29%) ITIL

Data Protection Act
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) XML
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 3 (42.86%) Sybase IQ
3 1 (14.29%) MySQL
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 2 (28.57%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Local Government
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Coordinator
2 2 (28.57%) Database Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Change Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (42.86%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (42.86%) Database Security
3 1 (14.29%) Validation
3 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Management
3 1 (14.29%) Information Security
3 1 (14.29%) Service Management
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) ITSM
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
3 1 (14.29%) PRINCE
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) PHP
2 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
2 1 (14.29%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) TickIT
1 1 (14.29%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory