Data Protection Act Contracts in Edinburgh

Data Protection Act (DPA)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 22 21
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 57 117 163
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 6.99% 9.11% 8.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 20.73% 25.55% 22.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 51 95
10th Percentile £355 £406 £398
25th Percentile £411 £409 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.56% -
75th Percentile £556 £566 £569
90th Percentile £638 £625 £592
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £478
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.71% +19.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £52.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +162.50% -

All Generic Skills
Edinburgh

Data Protection Act is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 275 458 709
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 33.70% 35.67% 36.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 318 497
10th Percentile £321 £184 £313
25th Percentile £414 £412 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £477 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.50% -4.60% +17.65%
75th Percentile £602 £540 £575
90th Percentile £675 £625 £650
Scotland median daily rate £468 £480 £475
% change year-on-year -2.45% +1.05% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 9
10th Percentile £13.40 £21.34 £19.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £21.47 £40.25
Median hourly rate £18.27 £21.67 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.69% -54.38% +4.40%
75th Percentile £60.00 £37.71 £53.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £47.33 £54.15
Scotland median hourly rate £18.00 £13.40 £42.48
% change year-on-year +34.33% -68.45% -5.61%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Act in Edinburgh

Data Protection Act
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Act in Edinburgh

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in Edinburgh

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (1.75%) Apache
1 1 (1.75%) Cloud Foundry
1 1 (1.75%) Confluence
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.75%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) SAP MM
1 1 (1.75%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 16 (28.07%) Azure
2 7 (12.28%) AWS
3 4 (7.02%) Entra ID
4 3 (5.26%) SaaS
5 2 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (3.51%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.51%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.75%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.75%) Azure API Management
6 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.75%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.75%) GCP
6 1 (1.75%) GitHub
6 1 (1.75%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.02%) DNS
2 3 (5.26%) DHCP
3 1 (1.75%) Broadband
3 1 (1.75%) HTTP
3 1 (1.75%) NetScaler
3 1 (1.75%) Network Security
3 1 (1.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.26%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.51%) Star Schema
3 1 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.75%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (7.02%) Git
2 2 (3.51%) Cucumber
2 2 (3.51%) Maven
3 1 (1.75%) Capybara
3 1 (1.75%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.75%) GitLab
3 1 (1.75%) Gradle
3 1 (1.75%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.75%) JIRA
3 1 (1.75%) JUnit
3 1 (1.75%) Postman
3 1 (1.75%) Selenium
General
1 16 (28.07%) Finance
2 7 (12.28%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.26%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.75%) Law
4 1 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.75%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (17.54%) Analyst
2 7 (12.28%) Architect
2 7 (12.28%) Business Analyst
3 6 (10.53%) Developer
3 6 (10.53%) Senior
4 5 (8.77%) Consultant
5 4 (7.02%) Data Architect
6 3 (5.26%) Active Directory Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Pega Consultant
6 3 (5.26%) Security Analyst
7 2 (3.51%) Data Analyst
7 2 (3.51%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Java Developer
7 2 (3.51%) Security Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (3.51%) Senior Developer
7 2 (3.51%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (3.51%) Software Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.02%) React
1 4 (7.02%) Spring
2 3 (5.26%) REST
2 3 (5.26%) Spring Boot
2 3 (5.26%) XML
3 2 (3.51%) .NET
3 2 (3.51%) JSON
4 1 (1.75%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.75%) Apache Camel
4 1 (1.75%) CSS
4 1 (1.75%) Guice
4 1 (1.75%) HTML
4 1 (1.75%) J2EE
4 1 (1.75%) Kafka
4 1 (1.75%) OAuth
4 1 (1.75%) PySpark
4 1 (1.75%) RESTful
4 1 (1.75%) Spring Batch
4 1 (1.75%) Web Services
4 1 (1.75%) WebKit
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.26%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.51%) Algorithms
2 2 (3.51%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.75%) DataPower
3 1 (1.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (1.75%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (1.75%) Legacy Code
3 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.02%) Linux
2 3 (5.26%) Unix
3 2 (3.51%) Windows
4 1 (1.75%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 12 (21.05%) Agile
3 10 (17.54%) Value Proposition
4 7 (12.28%) Business Analysis
5 5 (8.77%) CI/CD
5 5 (8.77%) Migration
5 5 (8.77%) Scrum
6 4 (7.02%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (7.02%) Data Mapping
6 4 (7.02%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (5.26%) Computer Science
7 3 (5.26%) Data Modelling
7 3 (5.26%) DevOps
7 3 (5.26%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (5.26%) Microservices
7 3 (5.26%) OO
8 2 (3.51%) Customer Experience
8 2 (3.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (3.51%) Programme Management
8 2 (3.51%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.28%) Java
2 6 (10.53%) PowerShell
2 6 (10.53%) SQL
3 4 (7.02%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.26%) Perl
4 3 (5.26%) Python
5 2 (3.51%) C#
6 1 (1.75%) Bicep
6 1 (1.75%) Ruby
6 1 (1.75%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (5.26%) Degree
2 2 (3.51%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.51%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (1.75%) CCSP
3 1 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.75%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.75%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (1.75%) GDPR
1 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.75%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.75%) QA
System Software
1 4 (7.02%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.26%) Docker
3 1 (1.75%) ProxySG
3 1 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.75%) CASB
2 1 (1.75%) Kibana
2 1 (1.75%) Puppet
2 1 (1.75%) SCCM
2 1 (1.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.02%) Databricks
3 3 (5.26%) Pega
4 2 (3.51%) Informatica
4 2 (3.51%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.51%) Splunk
5 1 (1.75%) Blue Coat
5 1 (1.75%) Citrix
5 1 (1.75%) Foundry
5 1 (1.75%) IBM
5 1 (1.75%) IDERA
5 1 (1.75%) Oracle
5 1 (1.75%) SAP
5 1 (1.75%) Teradata
5 1 (1.75%) Tripwire
5 1 (1.75%) VMware