Data Protection Act Contracts in England

Data Protection Act (DPA)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 182 158 174
Rank change year-on-year -24 +16 +407
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 469 885 1,194
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.27% 1.75% 1.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.12% 5.20% 4.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 573 984
10th Percentile £229 £299 £313
25th Percentile £353 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +44.83%
75th Percentile £601 £675 £638
90th Percentile £738 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 7 20
10th Percentile £11.95 £20.23 £15.92
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.69 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £52.50 £22.12
Median % change year-on-year -47.62% +137.34% +0.55%
75th Percentile £29.69 £53.75 £67.58
90th Percentile £60.60 £62.75 £77.32
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £52.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -47.62% +162.50% -9.09%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,373 17,010 24,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.77% 33.65% 33.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,425 11,824 17,120
10th Percentile £263 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 818 598 643
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.16 £10.63 £16.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +1.24%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.15 £65.77
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Act in England

Data Protection Act
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Act in England

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in England

Data Protection Act
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Protection Act in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection Act in England

Data Protection Act
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Protection Act in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Protection Act in England

Data Protection Act
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
London +14 279 £525 -11.02% 19
South East +12 76 £425 -25.27% 18
North of England -82 51 £475 +11.76% 7
North West -68 38 £488 +14.71% 3
Midlands -31 21 £428 +0.59% 9
East of England +19 18 £475 -17.39% 4
South West +17 18 £180 -71.03% 8
West Midlands -10 17 £425 -1.16% 6
North East +21 7 - -
Yorkshire -14 6 £475 -2.56% 4
East Midlands +1 4 £569 +75.00% 3
Data Protection Act
UK

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 9 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (1.49%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.07%) Confluence
4 4 (0.85%) SAS
5 3 (0.64%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.21%) CMS
6 1 (0.21%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.21%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.43%) Mingle
3 2 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.21%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.21%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (0.85%) Endur
2 3 (0.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.43%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.43%) Shopify
4 1 (0.21%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.21%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.21%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.21%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 52 (11.09%) AWS
2 49 (10.45%) Azure
3 18 (3.84%) GCP
4 14 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (2.77%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (2.56%) Amazon S3
7 9 (1.92%) Power Platform
8 8 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (1.71%) GitHub
9 7 (1.49%) SaaS
9 7 (1.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (1.28%) PaaS
11 5 (1.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (1.07%) Entra ID
12 4 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (0.85%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (0.85%) OneDrive
12 4 (0.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.77%) DNS
1 13 (2.77%) WAN
2 12 (2.56%) Firewall
3 11 (2.35%) PBX
3 11 (2.35%) VoIP
4 9 (1.92%) DHCP
4 9 (1.92%) VPN
5 8 (1.71%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.49%) 5G
6 7 (1.49%) HTTP
6 7 (1.49%) SAN
6 7 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (1.49%) Wireless
7 6 (1.28%) LAN
8 5 (1.07%) BGP
8 5 (1.07%) MPLS
9 4 (0.85%) Internet
9 4 (0.85%) Network Security
9 4 (0.85%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.85%) SWIFTNet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (3.20%) SQL Server
3 14 (2.99%) Big Data
4 13 (2.77%) Metadata
5 10 (2.13%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.92%) Power BI
7 7 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (1.28%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.07%) MySQL
9 5 (1.07%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.85%) Star Schema
11 3 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.64%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.64%) KDB
11 3 (0.64%) Parquet
11 3 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.64%) Tableau
12 2 (0.43%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.43%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 27 (5.76%) Git
2 21 (4.48%) JIRA
3 16 (3.41%) ERwin
4 15 (3.20%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.28%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (1.07%) XCTest
7 3 (0.64%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.64%) GitLab
7 3 (0.64%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (0.64%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.43%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.43%) FitNesse
8 2 (0.43%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.43%) Maven
8 2 (0.43%) Postman
8 2 (0.43%) Selenium
8 2 (0.43%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.21%) JUnit
General
1 78 (16.63%) Social Skills
2 60 (12.79%) Finance
3 44 (9.38%) Telecoms
4 33 (7.04%) Marketing
5 32 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (6.40%) Public Sector
7 28 (5.97%) Banking
8 26 (5.54%) Presentation Skills
9 22 (4.69%) Legal
10 14 (2.99%) Retail
11 11 (2.35%) Electronics
12 10 (2.13%) Law
12 10 (2.13%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.49%) Games
14 6 (1.28%) Back Office
14 6 (1.28%) Police
15 5 (1.07%) Publishing
16 4 (0.85%) Billing
16 4 (0.85%) Local Government
17 3 (0.64%) German Language
Job Titles
1 68 (14.50%) Architect
2 60 (12.79%) Developer
3 38 (8.10%) Analyst
3 38 (8.10%) Project Manager
4 36 (7.68%) Lead
5 25 (5.33%) Solutions Architect
6 24 (5.12%) Senior
7 18 (3.84%) Data Architect
7 18 (3.84%) Network Engineer
8 17 (3.62%) Enterprise Architect
9 16 (3.41%) Consultant
10 15 (3.20%) QA Engineer
11 14 (2.99%) Business Analyst
11 14 (2.99%) Junior
12 13 (2.77%) Java Developer
12 13 (2.77%) Support Engineer
13 12 (2.56%) QA Leader
14 10 (2.13%) Enterprise Data Architect
15 9 (1.92%) Business Manager
15 9 (1.92%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.99%) Kafka
2 8 (1.71%) Spring
3 7 (1.49%) Node.js
3 7 (1.49%) SwiftUI
3 7 (1.49%) XML
4 6 (1.28%) JSON
4 6 (1.28%) REST
4 6 (1.28%) RESTful
5 5 (1.07%) .NET
5 5 (1.07%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (0.85%) AngularJS
6 4 (0.85%) CSS
6 4 (0.85%) React
7 3 (0.64%) Apache Avro
7 3 (0.64%) LangChain
7 3 (0.64%) Spring Boot
7 3 (0.64%) TensorFlow
8 2 (0.43%) Hugging Face
8 2 (0.43%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.43%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.26%) Freedom of Information
1 20 (4.26%) Management Information System
2 18 (3.84%) Freedom of Information Act
3 17 (3.62%) Data Centre
4 16 (3.41%) Product Ownership
5 11 (2.35%) Wiki
6 8 (1.71%) Derivative
7 7 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.28%) Cloud Native
8 6 (1.28%) FPGA
8 6 (1.28%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.28%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.07%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.07%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.07%) Onboarding
10 4 (0.85%) Clustering
10 4 (0.85%) Mobile App
10 4 (0.85%) PKI
10 4 (0.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 47 (10.02%) Linux
2 30 (6.40%) Windows
3 10 (2.13%) Unix
3 10 (2.13%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.28%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.28%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.85%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.64%) Android
6 3 (0.64%) Solaris
6 3 (0.64%) VMS
7 2 (0.43%) AIX
7 2 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.21%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.21%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.21%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 469 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 71 (15.14%) Agile
3 52 (11.09%) Value Proposition
4 50 (10.66%) Project Management
5 41 (8.74%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (7.46%) Data Modelling
6 35 (7.46%) Scrum
7 32 (6.82%) DevOps
8 30 (6.40%) Analytics
9 29 (6.18%) Business Intelligence
9 29 (6.18%) CI/CD
9 29 (6.18%) Migration
9 29 (6.18%) Stakeholder Management
10 26 (5.54%) Data Management
10 26 (5.54%) Test Automation
11 23 (4.90%) Computer Science
11 23 (4.90%) User Acceptance Testing
12 22 (4.69%) Microservices
13 21 (4.48%) Data Governance
14 19 (4.05%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 64 (13.65%) Python
2 50 (10.66%) SQL
3 40 (8.53%) Java
4 18 (3.84%) C#
5 16 (3.41%) PowerShell
6 15 (3.20%) C++
7 13 (2.77%) Bash
8 10 (2.13%) Swift
9 9 (1.92%) Scala
10 8 (1.71%) JavaScript
10 8 (1.71%) Perl
10 8 (1.71%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.85%) PHP
11 4 (0.85%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.64%) C
12 3 (0.64%) F#
12 3 (0.64%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.64%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.43%) Go
13 2 (0.43%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 69 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 48 (10.23%) Degree
3 40 (8.53%) SC Cleared
4 29 (6.18%) DV Cleared
5 10 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.28%) ISEB
8 5 (1.07%) CISM
8 5 (1.07%) CISSP
9 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.64%) CCNP
11 2 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.43%) CCIE
11 2 (0.43%) CCNA
11 2 (0.43%) CEH
11 2 (0.43%) CISA
11 2 (0.43%) CRISC
11 2 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.21%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (9.59%) GDPR
2 32 (6.82%) QA
3 23 (4.90%) Data Quality
4 14 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.28%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.07%) NIST
6 5 (1.07%) SLA
7 4 (0.85%) PMO
8 2 (0.43%) GRC
8 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.43%) MiFID
9 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.21%) COBIT
9 1 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.21%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.21%) NCSC
9 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 26 (5.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (4.05%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.56%) Docker
4 6 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.07%) vSphere
6 4 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.43%) NFS
8 1 (0.21%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.21%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 25 (5.33%) Terraform
2 16 (3.41%) Ansible
3 15 (3.20%) Kubernetes
4 6 (1.28%) vCenter Server
5 3 (0.64%) Grafana
5 3 (0.64%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.43%) Ambari
6 2 (0.43%) EMC NetWorker
6 2 (0.43%) Graylog
6 2 (0.43%) HP Data Protector
6 2 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.43%) Nagios
6 2 (0.43%) Nessus
6 2 (0.43%) NetBackup
6 2 (0.43%) Oozie
6 2 (0.43%) SCCM
6 2 (0.43%) vRealize
7 1 (0.21%) OMEGAMON
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 47 (10.02%) Microsoft
2 36 (7.68%) Cisco
3 26 (5.54%) VMware
4 21 (4.48%) SAP
5 14 (2.99%) Oracle
5 14 (2.99%) Sparx
6 12 (2.56%) Google
7 9 (1.92%) IBM
7 9 (1.92%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.49%) Juniper
8 7 (1.49%) OneTrust
8 7 (1.49%) Splunk
9 5 (1.07%) Apple
9 5 (1.07%) Cadence
9 5 (1.07%) ION Trading
9 5 (1.07%) Nokia
10 4 (0.85%) Adobe
10 4 (0.85%) Dell
11 3 (0.64%) HP
11 3 (0.64%) Murex