The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in IT contracts advertised for the South West 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 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the South West 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 Act (DPA)
Rank 107 134 121
Rank change year-on-year
+27 -13
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 1 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.050% 0.062% 0.035%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.248% 0.317% 0.198%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £300 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £500
% change year-on-year
-12.50% -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
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
404 631 504
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 20.03% 19.51% 17.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 335 215
Average daily rate £350 £390 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.25% +11.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £264 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £510 £525 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 42 56
Average hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+36.36% -24.13%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.70 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £44.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Data Protection Act
England

Data Protection Act
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region.

South West Data Protection Act Hourly Rate Trend

Data Protection Act
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (33.33%) Contact Management
3 1 (33.33%) Law
3 1 (33.33%) CMS
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Content Management
3 1 (33.33%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (33.33%) Google
3 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) Marketing
3 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 1 (33.33%) Google Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Email Marketing
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) MS Office
3 1 (33.33%) UNIX
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
3 1 (33.33%) B2B
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Data Security
3 1 (33.33%) Online Marketing
3 1 (33.33%) Web Marketing

Data Protection Act
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 1 (33.33%) CMS
1 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
1 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (33.33%) CM System
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Google Analytics
General
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
1 1 (33.33%) Law
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Information Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Coordinator
1 1 (33.33%) Server Support
1 1 (33.33%) Information Governance Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Governance Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (33.33%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) UNIX
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Contact Management
2 1 (33.33%) Content Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) Email Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) B2B
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Data Security
2 1 (33.33%) Online Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Web Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Information Governance
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) VMware
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix