Data Protection Act Contracts in Reading

Data Protection Act (DPA)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies advertised in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 56 44
Rank change year-on-year -22 -12 -
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 22 32 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.89% 3.16% 4.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.14% 9.91% 14.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 24 40
10th Percentile £211 £229 £381
25th Percentile £263 £372 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £519 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.25% -1.19% -
75th Percentile £475 £660 £638
90th Percentile £518 £675 £690
Berkshire median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +151.26%

All Generic Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 308 323 402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 26.46% 31.85% 29.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 223 256
10th Percentile £205 £363 £261
25th Percentile £272 £463 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £656 £625
90th Percentile £650 £721 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 1
10th Percentile £42.31 £45.70 -
25th Percentile £52.90 £63.14 £25.50
Median hourly rate £60.89 £70.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.01% +169.23% -40.23%
75th Percentile £63.29 £79.19 £26.50
90th Percentile £69.62 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £42.50 £64.68 £21.97
% change year-on-year -34.29% +194.38% -36.32%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Act in Reading

Data Protection Act
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Act in Reading

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in Reading over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in Reading

Data Protection Act
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection Act in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) Azure
2 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (13.64%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (13.64%) PaaS
3 2 (9.09%) AWS
3 2 (9.09%) Azure AKS
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) MPLS
2 2 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (9.09%) Firewall
3 1 (4.55%) BGP
3 1 (4.55%) GGSN
3 1 (4.55%) Internet
3 1 (4.55%) PBX
3 1 (4.55%) SD-WAN
3 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.55%) VoIP
3 1 (4.55%) VPN
3 1 (4.55%) WAN
3 1 (4.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.55%) MySQL
2 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) JIRA
2 1 (4.55%) Selenium
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Law
2 6 (27.27%) Legal
2 6 (27.27%) Marketing
3 5 (22.73%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Developer
2 4 (18.18%) C# Developer
2 4 (18.18%) Network Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Architect
3 2 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Officer
4 1 (4.55%) DBA
4 1 (4.55%) Junior
4 1 (4.55%) Junior Project Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Lead Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Network Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Network Operations Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Project Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Senior C# Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Site Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) CSS
1 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Linux
2 3 (13.64%) Windows
3 2 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 6 (27.27%) B2C
2 6 (27.27%) Collaborative Working
2 6 (27.27%) Data Management
2 6 (27.27%) Data Privacy
2 6 (27.27%) Data Sharing
2 6 (27.27%) Impact Assessments
2 6 (27.27%) Information Security
3 4 (18.18%) Scrum
3 4 (18.18%) Test Automation
3 4 (18.18%) Value Proposition
4 3 (13.64%) Change Control
4 3 (13.64%) DevOps
5 2 (9.09%) Mentoring
5 2 (9.09%) Microservices
5 2 (9.09%) Migration
5 2 (9.09%) Performance Testing
5 2 (9.09%) Project Management
6 1 (4.55%) OO
6 1 (4.55%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) C#
1 5 (22.73%) SQL
2 3 (13.64%) Java
2 3 (13.64%) Python
3 2 (9.09%) T-SQL
4 1 (4.55%) F#
4 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) ISEB
2 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
3 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 2 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (9.09%) Degree
5 1 (4.55%) CEH
5 1 (4.55%) CISSP
5 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) GDPR
2 2 (9.09%) QA
3 1 (4.55%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Ansible
1 1 (4.55%) Grafana
1 1 (4.55%) Graylog
1 1 (4.55%) Nagios
1 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
1 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Cisco
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) F5
3 1 (4.55%) Dell
3 1 (4.55%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.55%) Splunk
3 1 (4.55%) VMware