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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 186 154 179
Rank change year-on-year -32 +25 +399
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 470 882 1,191
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.27% 1.77% 1.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.13% 5.25% 4.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 561 963
10th Percentile £225 £300 £313
25th Percentile £350 £408 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% +42.67%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £638
90th Percentile £738 £788 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 8 19
10th Percentile £11.95 £19.96 £17.34
25th Percentile £21.50 £21.06 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £24.24
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +54.70% +15.43%
75th Percentile £35.00 £53.75 £67.80
90th Percentile £62.50 £60.50 £77.32
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £38.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -29.03% +93.75% -4.76%

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 11,389 16,804 24,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.72% 33.64% 33.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,486 11,666 17,145
10th Percentile £263 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £573 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £694 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 819 591 637
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.63
Median hourly rate £31.50 £22.49 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.09% -15.15% +1.09%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £66.69
UK median hourly rate £30.12 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +33.96% -18.24% +4.47%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 6 May 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 +18 288 £531 -8.60% 16
South East +15 77 £425 -22.73% 42
North of England -89 47 £500 +17.65% 20
North West -69 34 £513 +20.59% 9
Midlands -28 21 £428 +0.59% 53
West Midlands -24 17 £425 -1.16% 6
East of England +7 16 £413 -27.47% 13
South West +9 15 £180 -74.60% 12
North East +18 7 - - 1
Yorkshire -19 6 £475 - 10
East Midlands 0 4 £569 +75.00% 47
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 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (1.70%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.06%) Confluence
3 5 (1.06%) SAS
4 3 (0.64%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.21%) CMS
5 1 (0.21%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.21%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.70%) 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%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.21%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (0.85%) Endur
2 3 (0.64%) ION MarketView
2 3 (0.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
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 (11.06%) AWS
2 47 (10.00%) Azure
3 16 (3.40%) GCP
4 13 (2.77%) Amazon EC2
5 12 (2.55%) Amazon S3
5 12 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (2.34%) Power Platform
7 8 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (1.70%) GitHub
8 7 (1.49%) SaaS
8 7 (1.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (1.28%) PaaS
10 5 (1.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (0.85%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (0.85%) Entra ID
11 4 (0.85%) OneDrive
11 4 (0.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.77%) DNS
1 13 (2.77%) WAN
2 11 (2.34%) Firewall
2 11 (2.34%) PBX
2 11 (2.34%) VoIP
3 9 (1.91%) DHCP
3 9 (1.91%) VPN
4 8 (1.70%) 5G
4 8 (1.70%) TCP/IP
4 8 (1.70%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (1.49%) HTTP
5 7 (1.49%) SAN
6 6 (1.28%) LAN
6 6 (1.28%) Wireless
7 5 (1.06%) BGP
7 5 (1.06%) MPLS
7 5 (1.06%) Network Security
8 4 (0.85%) Cisco ISE
8 4 (0.85%) Internet
8 4 (0.85%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.40%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (2.98%) Big Data
2 14 (2.98%) Metadata
3 13 (2.77%) SQL Server
4 11 (2.34%) Power BI
4 11 (2.34%) Relational Database
5 6 (1.28%) MongoDB
5 6 (1.28%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.85%) KDB
7 4 (0.85%) MySQL
7 4 (0.85%) Star Schema
8 3 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.64%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.64%) Parquet
8 3 (0.64%) Tableau
9 2 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.43%) PolyBase
9 2 (0.43%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 27 (5.74%) Git
2 19 (4.04%) JIRA
3 17 (3.62%) ERwin
4 14 (2.98%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.28%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (1.06%) 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%) Selenium
8 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.21%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.21%) HP UFT
9 1 (0.21%) JUnit
General
1 77 (16.38%) Social Skills
2 61 (12.98%) Finance
3 44 (9.36%) Telecoms
4 34 (7.23%) Marketing
5 33 (7.02%) Public Sector
6 32 (6.81%) Analytical Skills
7 29 (6.17%) Banking
8 25 (5.32%) Presentation Skills
9 22 (4.68%) Legal
10 16 (3.40%) Retail
11 12 (2.55%) Electronics
12 11 (2.34%) Manufacturing
13 10 (2.13%) Law
14 9 (1.91%) Games
15 6 (1.28%) Back Office
15 6 (1.28%) Police
16 5 (1.06%) Publishing
17 4 (0.85%) Billing
17 4 (0.85%) Local Government
18 3 (0.64%) German Language
Job Titles
1 72 (15.32%) Architect
2 61 (12.98%) Developer
3 40 (8.51%) Analyst
4 36 (7.66%) Lead
5 35 (7.45%) Project Manager
6 27 (5.74%) Solutions Architect
7 22 (4.68%) Senior
8 19 (4.04%) Data Architect
9 18 (3.83%) Enterprise Architect
10 17 (3.62%) Business Analyst
10 17 (3.62%) Network Engineer
11 15 (3.19%) Consultant
11 15 (3.19%) QA Engineer
12 14 (2.98%) Junior
12 14 (2.98%) Support Engineer
13 13 (2.77%) QA Leader
14 12 (2.55%) Java Developer
15 11 (2.34%) Enterprise Data Architect
16 9 (1.91%) Business Development Manager
16 9 (1.91%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.98%) Kafka
2 8 (1.70%) Spring
3 7 (1.49%) RESTful
3 7 (1.49%) SwiftUI
3 7 (1.49%) XML
4 6 (1.28%) JSON
4 6 (1.28%) React
4 6 (1.28%) REST
5 5 (1.06%) .NET
5 5 (1.06%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (1.06%) Node.js
6 4 (0.85%) AngularJS
6 4 (0.85%) CSS
7 3 (0.64%) Apache Avro
7 3 (0.64%) Guice
7 3 (0.64%) LangChain
7 3 (0.64%) TensorFlow
8 2 (0.43%) HTML
8 2 (0.43%) Hugging Face
8 2 (0.43%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (4.47%) Management Information System
2 20 (4.26%) Freedom of Information
3 18 (3.83%) Freedom of Information Act
4 17 (3.62%) Data Centre
5 15 (3.19%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.55%) Wiki
7 9 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.70%) Derivative
9 6 (1.28%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.28%) Cloud Native
9 6 (1.28%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.28%) FPGA
9 6 (1.28%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.28%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.06%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.85%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 49 (10.43%) Linux
2 30 (6.38%) Windows
3 11 (2.34%) Unix
4 10 (2.13%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.28%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.06%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.64%) Android
7 3 (0.64%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.64%) Solaris
7 3 (0.64%) VMS
8 2 (0.43%) AIX
8 2 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.21%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.21%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.21%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 470 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 73 (15.53%) Agile
3 54 (11.49%) Value Proposition
4 49 (10.43%) Project Management
5 43 (9.15%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (7.66%) Data Modelling
6 36 (7.66%) Scrum
7 31 (6.60%) Business Intelligence
8 30 (6.38%) CI/CD
8 30 (6.38%) DevOps
8 30 (6.38%) Migration
9 29 (6.17%) Analytics
9 29 (6.17%) Stakeholder Management
10 28 (5.96%) Test Automation
11 25 (5.32%) Data Management
11 25 (5.32%) User Acceptance Testing
12 24 (5.11%) Computer Science
13 22 (4.68%) Microservices
14 21 (4.47%) Data Governance
15 20 (4.26%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 66 (14.04%) Python
2 48 (10.21%) SQL
3 40 (8.51%) Java
4 19 (4.04%) C++
5 18 (3.83%) C#
6 16 (3.40%) PowerShell
7 14 (2.98%) Bash
8 10 (2.13%) Swift
9 9 (1.91%) Perl
9 9 (1.91%) Scala
10 8 (1.70%) TypeScript
11 6 (1.28%) JavaScript
12 4 (0.85%) C
12 4 (0.85%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.64%) F#
13 3 (0.64%) PHP
13 3 (0.64%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.64%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.43%) Go
14 2 (0.43%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 68 (14.47%) Security Cleared
2 50 (10.64%) Degree
3 39 (8.30%) SC Cleared
4 29 (6.17%) DV Cleared
5 11 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.28%) ISEB
8 5 (1.06%) CISM
8 5 (1.06%) 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 (9.57%) GDPR
2 34 (7.23%) QA
3 23 (4.89%) Data Quality
4 14 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.28%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.06%) NIST
6 5 (1.06%) 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 (5.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (3.83%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.77%) Docker
4 6 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.06%) 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 (5.32%) Terraform
2 16 (3.40%) Ansible
2 16 (3.40%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.28%) vCenter Server
4 3 (0.64%) Grafana
4 3 (0.64%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.43%) Ambari
5 2 (0.43%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (0.43%) Graylog
5 2 (0.43%) HP Data Protector
5 2 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.43%) Nagios
5 2 (0.43%) Nessus
5 2 (0.43%) NetBackup
5 2 (0.43%) Oozie
5 2 (0.43%) SCCM
5 2 (0.43%) vRealize
6 1 (0.21%) OMEGAMON
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 45 (9.57%) Microsoft
2 37 (7.87%) Cisco
3 26 (5.53%) VMware
4 22 (4.68%) SAP
5 15 (3.19%) Oracle
5 15 (3.19%) Sparx
6 11 (2.34%) Google
7 9 (1.91%) IBM
7 9 (1.91%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.49%) OneTrust
8 7 (1.49%) Splunk
9 6 (1.28%) ION Trading
9 6 (1.28%) Juniper
10 5 (1.06%) Apple
10 5 (1.06%) Cadence
10 5 (1.06%) Nokia
11 4 (0.85%) Dell
11 4 (0.85%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.64%) Aruba
12 3 (0.64%) F5
147 Data Protection Act jobs Nationwide