Scotland Data Protection Act Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Data Protection Act (DPA) skills within the Scotland region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Data Protection Act over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Data Protection Act (DPA)
Location Bedfordshire Birmingham Bolton Bristol Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London Colchester East Midlands East of England England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Huntingdon Isle of Wight Leeds London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Norfolk North West Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Scotland South East South West Southampton Staines Suffolk Surrey UK West Midlands West Yorkshire Westminster Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	91	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.922 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£300	-
Average daily rate	£300	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£300	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£355
% change on same period last year	-2.00 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£10.90	£8.00
% change on same period last year	+36.29 %
Miscellaneous Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	217	397
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.349 %	0.426 %
Daily rates quoted	51	80
Average minimum daily rate	£276	£346
Average daily rate	£287	£366
% change on same period last year	-21.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£299	£385
UK excluding London average daily rate	£345	£345
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	23	44
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.79	£16.85
Average hourly rate	£23.27	£17.74
% change on same period last year	+31.13 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.75	£18.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.41	£25.59
% change on same period last year	-0.69 %
Data Protection Act UK

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Data Protection Act
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Data Protection Act across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Protection Act within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Glasgow	-	2	£300	-

Data Protection Act UK

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Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 3 (100.00 %) Data Protection 2 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) Transact-SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2 1 (33.33 %) Business Objects 2 1 (33.33 %) SAP 2 1 (33.33 %) ITIL 2 1 (33.33 %) PRINCE2 2 1 (33.33 %) Cognos 2 1 (33.33 %) Business Intelligence 2 1 (33.33 %) BusinessObjects 2 1 (33.33 %) Hyperion 2 1 (33.33 %) SAP BI 2 1 (33.33 %) BS7799

2 1 (33.33 %) Change Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Disaster Recovery 2 1 (33.33 %) Information Security Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Security Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Ab Initio 2 1 (33.33 %) Information Security 2 1 (33.33 %) Teradata 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (33.33 %) Resource Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 2 1 (33.33 %) ISMS

Data Protection Act
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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.

Business Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) Cognos Business Intelligence	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 1 1 (33.33 %) BusinessObjects 1 1 (33.33 %) SAP BI 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005
Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Developer 1 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Support Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Database Developer 1 1 (33.33 %) IT Security Manager 1 1 (33.33 %) Security Manager	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (100.00 %) Data Protection 2 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (33.33 %) ITIL 2 1 (33.33 %) PRINCE2 2 1 (33.33 %) Business Intelligence 2 1 (33.33 %) Change Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Disaster Recovery 2 1 (33.33 %) Information Security Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Security Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Information Security 2 1 (33.33 %) Resource Management 2 1 (33.33 %) ISMS
Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL 1 1 (33.33 %) Transact-SQL	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (33.33 %) BS7799
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Business Objects 1 1 (33.33 %) SAP 1 1 (33.33 %) Cognos 1 1 (33.33 %) Hyperion 1 1 (33.33 %) Ab Initio 1 1 (33.33 %) Teradata