Data Protection Act Contracts in the South East

Data Protection Act (DPA)
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies advertised in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 129 114
Rank change year-on-year +1 -15 +87
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 77 88 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.38% 1.51% 2.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.84% 4.42% 6.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 64 134
10th Percentile £218 £324 £211
25th Percentile £270 £409 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +10.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £513 £650 £619
90th Percentile £551 £693 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +44.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 5
10th Percentile £21.69 - £28.24
25th Percentile £22.50 £51.25 £57.13
Median hourly rate £27.50 £52.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.62% -19.85% +2.34%
75th Percentile £28.75 £53.75 £68.25
90th Percentile £28.88 - £75.54
England median hourly rate £27.50 £52.50 £22.12
% change year-on-year -47.62% +137.34% +0.55%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,591 1,990 2,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 28.59% 34.10% 33.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 927 1,345 1,693
10th Percentile £205 £213 £213
25th Percentile £359 £388 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £600
90th Percentile £688 £734 £675
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 90 120
10th Percentile £11.73 £18.25 £16.06
25th Percentile £18.35 £20.48 £17.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £51.25 £21.74
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +135.79% -25.05%
75th Percentile £61.30 £67.41 £48.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.83
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year +33.33% -15.09% +1.92%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Act in the South East

Data Protection Act
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Protection Act in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Act in the South East

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in the South East over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in the South East

Data Protection Act
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Protection Act in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection Act in the South East

Data Protection Act
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Protection Act in the South East over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Protection Act in the South East

Data Protection Act
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Protection Act within the South East region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +5 60 £425 -19.05% 8
Berkshire -13 45 £425 -5.56% 5
Buckinghamshire +23 14 £638 +8.51% 2
Hampshire 0 14 £400 -27.27% 1
Surrey +14 2 £356 -58.09% 3
West Sussex +4 1 - - 1
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 1
Data Protection Act
England

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (15.58%) Azure
2 6 (7.79%) AWS
3 3 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (3.90%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (3.90%) PaaS
4 2 (2.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (2.60%) Amazon S3
4 2 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (2.60%) Azure AKS
4 2 (2.60%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.30%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.30%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.30%) GCP
5 1 (1.30%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.79%) Firewall
2 5 (6.49%) MPLS
2 5 (6.49%) WAN
3 3 (3.90%) Internet
3 3 (3.90%) SD-WAN
4 2 (2.60%) BGP
4 2 (2.60%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (2.60%) GGSN
4 2 (2.60%) PBX
4 2 (2.60%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.60%) VoIP
4 2 (2.60%) VPN
5 1 (1.30%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (1.30%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (1.30%) DMZ
5 1 (1.30%) LAN
5 1 (1.30%) Network Security
5 1 (1.30%) SDH
5 1 (1.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.60%) MySQL
3 2 (2.60%) RDBMS
3 2 (2.60%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.30%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.30%) Apache Zeppelin
4 1 (1.30%) Big Data
4 1 (1.30%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.30%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.30%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.30%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (7.79%) JIRA
2 3 (3.90%) Git
2 3 (3.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.30%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.30%) GitLab
3 1 (1.30%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (1.30%) Selenium
General
1 15 (19.48%) Marketing
2 14 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 9 (11.69%) Telecoms
4 7 (9.09%) Legal
4 7 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.79%) Law
6 2 (2.60%) Banking
7 1 (1.30%) Aeronautics
7 1 (1.30%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Finance
7 1 (1.30%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.30%) French Language
7 1 (1.30%) Italian Language
7 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.30%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 9 (11.69%) Architect
1 9 (11.69%) Business Development Manager
1 9 (11.69%) Business Manager
1 9 (11.69%) Development Manager
2 7 (9.09%) Developer
2 7 (9.09%) Network Engineer
2 7 (9.09%) Project Manager
3 6 (7.79%) Junior
3 6 (7.79%) Junior Project Manager
4 5 (6.49%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (5.19%) C# Developer
6 3 (3.90%) Consultant
6 3 (3.90%) Network Architect
6 3 (3.90%) Site Engineer
6 3 (3.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (3.90%) Test Engineer
7 2 (2.60%) DBA
7 2 (2.60%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (2.60%) Product Owner
7 2 (2.60%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.60%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.30%) Anaconda
2 1 (1.30%) CSS
2 1 (1.30%) Kafka
2 1 (1.30%) RESTful
2 1 (1.30%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.19%) Data Centre
1 4 (5.19%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.90%) PKI
2 3 (3.90%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.30%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.30%) Clustering
3 1 (1.30%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (1.30%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (1.30%) Freedom of Information Act
3 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.30%) Replication
3 1 (1.30%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.69%) Linux
2 6 (7.79%) Windows
3 4 (5.19%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 16 (20.78%) Value Proposition
3 12 (15.58%) Data Privacy
4 10 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (12.99%) Project Management
4 10 (12.99%) Scrum
5 9 (11.69%) Business Development
5 9 (11.69%) Digital Marketing
6 7 (9.09%) Data Management
6 7 (9.09%) DevOps
7 6 (7.79%) Agile
7 6 (7.79%) B2C
7 6 (7.79%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (7.79%) Customer Requirements
7 6 (7.79%) Customer Value Proposition
7 6 (7.79%) Data Mapping
7 6 (7.79%) Data Sharing
7 6 (7.79%) Impact Assessments
7 6 (7.79%) Information Security
7 6 (7.79%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.99%) SQL
2 9 (11.69%) C#
3 5 (6.49%) Python
4 3 (3.90%) F#
4 3 (3.90%) Java
4 3 (3.90%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.60%) C++
5 2 (2.60%) Scala
6 1 (1.30%) Bash
6 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.30%) R
Qualifications
1 25 (32.47%) Security Cleared
2 17 (22.08%) SC Cleared
3 9 (11.69%) DV Cleared
4 7 (9.09%) Degree
5 6 (7.79%) ISEB
6 2 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.30%) CCIE
7 1 (1.30%) CCNP
7 1 (1.30%) CEH
7 1 (1.30%) CISM
7 1 (1.30%) CISSP
7 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (28.57%) GDPR
2 5 (6.49%) QA
3 1 (1.30%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (5.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.30%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (5.19%) Ansible
2 3 (3.90%) Terraform
3 2 (2.60%) Grafana
3 2 (2.60%) Graylog
3 2 (2.60%) Nagios
3 2 (2.60%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.30%) Nessus
Vendors
1 13 (16.88%) Cisco
2 8 (10.39%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.79%) OneTrust
4 4 (5.19%) Juniper
4 4 (5.19%) VMware
5 2 (2.60%) F5
5 2 (2.60%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.60%) Splunk
6 1 (1.30%) Aruba
6 1 (1.30%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.30%) Databricks
6 1 (1.30%) Dell
6 1 (1.30%) IBM
6 1 (1.30%) Nokia
6 1 (1.30%) Oracle
6 1 (1.30%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.30%) ScienceLogic
6 1 (1.30%) SolarWinds