The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Data Protection Act over the 3 months to 22 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Manchester 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Protection Act (DPA)
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.106% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.442% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £400 £500
% change year-on-year
-3.12% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £22.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year
- +25.71%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
226 275 207
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 23.99% 20.94% 20.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 107 87
Average daily rate £300 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £174 £199 £212
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £426 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 23 21
Average hourly rate £13.50 £20.50 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.14% +57.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.08 £17.00 £9.74
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.75 £32.47 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.66
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -12.31%
Data Protection Act
North West

Data Protection Act
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Data Protection Act across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Manchester Data Protection Act Jobs Demand Trend

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Data Protection Act Daily Rate Trend

Data Protection Act
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester Data Protection Act Hourly Rate Trend

Data Protection Act
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Data Protection Act 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 Act.

1 4 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (75.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) MS Excel
2 3 (75.00%) Windows XP
2 3 (75.00%) MS Exchange
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) Change Control
3 2 (50.00%) MS Office
3 2 (50.00%) Statistics
3 2 (50.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (25.00%) Information Security
4 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
4 1 (25.00%) Market Research
4 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
4 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (25.00%) Information Security Management
4 1 (25.00%) Security Management

Data Protection Act
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Data Protection Act 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 Act. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 3 (75.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (50.00%) MS Office
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Project Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Help Desk Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Security Officer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Officer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (50.00%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (75.00%) Change Control
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) Market Research
3 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security Management
3 1 (25.00%) Security Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco