The first table below looks at the demand for Data Protection skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Data Protection over the 3 months to 24 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Gloucestershire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Protection (Data Privacy)
Rank 29 45 -
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 9 22 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 3.321% 3.416% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.028% 4.612% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 22 0
Average daily rate £450 £400 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £425
% change year-on-year
-12.50% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.50 £22.00 £19.75
% change year-on-year
-25.00% +11.39%
All Processes & Methodologies
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
179 477 274
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 66.05% 74.07% 62.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 288 110
Average daily rate £375 £425 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.76% +17.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £320 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £520 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 20 37
Average hourly rate £29.00 £25.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.00% -28.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.90 £25.00 £20.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £37.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Data Protection
South West

Data Protection
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Data Protection across the Gloucestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Gloucestershire Data Protection Jobs Demand Trend

Data Protection
Daily Rate Trend

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

Gloucestershire Data Protection Daily Rate Trend

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Gloucestershire Data Protection Hourly Rate Trend

Data Protection
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing Data Protection 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.

1 18 (100.00%) UNIX
1 18 (100.00%) Windows
2 17 (94.44%) Linux
2 17 (94.44%) C
2 17 (94.44%) HP
2 17 (94.44%) SAN
2 17 (94.44%) NetApp
2 17 (94.44%) Symantec
2 17 (94.44%) NetBackup
2 17 (94.44%) DV Cleared
2 17 (94.44%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.556%) Service Delivery
3 1 (5.556%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.556%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.556%) VMware
3 1 (5.556%) Project Management
3 1 (5.556%) Citrix
3 1 (5.556%) SQL
3 1 (5.556%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.556%) MS Exchange
3 1 (5.556%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.556%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (5.556%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.556%) Problem Management

Data Protection
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing Data Protection 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.556%) SharePoint
1 1 (5.556%) MS Exchange
1 1 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2003
Communications & Networking
1 17 (94.44%) SAN
General
1 1 (5.556%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (94.44%) Storage Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) Storage Support Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) Support Engineer
3 1 (5.556%) Server Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.556%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.556%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) UNIX
1 18 (100.00%) Windows
2 17 (94.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (5.556%) Service Delivery
1 1 (5.556%) Project Management
1 1 (5.556%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (94.44%) C
2 1 (5.556%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (94.44%) DV Cleared
1 17 (94.44%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (5.556%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (94.44%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 17 (94.44%) HP
1 17 (94.44%) NetApp
1 17 (94.44%) Symantec
2 1 (5.556%) VMware
2 1 (5.556%) Citrix
2 1 (5.556%) Microsoft