Data Protection Act Contract Job Trends in East Sussex

Data Protection Act (DPA)
South East > East Sussex

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies in East Sussex. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in East Sussex 1.23% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.76% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate £375 £300 £425
% change year-on-year +25.00% -29.41% -17.07%

All Generic Skills
East Sussex

Data Protection Act falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in East Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 21 9 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 25.93% 7.89% 12.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 4 4
10th Percentile £459 - £151
25th Percentile £488 £463 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £170
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% +179.41% -66.00%
75th Percentile £627 £522 £246
90th Percentile £636 £584 £384
South East median daily rate £500 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £50.50
Median hourly rate - - £51.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +106.06%
75th Percentile - - £51.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £67.50 £37.44 £51.00
% change year-on-year +80.28% -26.58% -4.56%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Protection Act relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex.

Data Protection Act job vacancy trend in East Sussex

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Data Protection Act.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Data Protection Act

Data Protection Act
Hourly Rate Trend in East Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Data Protection Act.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Data Protection Act

Data Protection Act
Contract Job Locations in East Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Protection Act within the East Sussex region over the 6 months to 9 June 2026. 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
Brighton - 1 - - 1
Hove - 1 - -
Data Protection Act
South East

Data Protection Act
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Sussex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Spreadsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Product Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Report Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) JSON Schema
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Change
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality