The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in IT contracts advertised for the St Albans 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 19 June 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 St Albans 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Protection Act (DPA)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in St Albans - - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £400 £470
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -14.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £8.00 - £14.00
All of the Miscellaneous Category
St Albans
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
10 14 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in St Albans 37.04% 37.84% 29.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 8
Average daily rate £320 £350 £495
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.57% -29.29%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £318 £464
10% offered a daily rate of more than £495 £465 £609
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £328
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £23.25 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.63 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-3.88% -10.00%
Data Protection Act
Hertfordshire

Data Protection Act
Jobs Demand Trend

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

St Albans 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 St Albans region.

St Albans Data Protection Act Daily Rate Trend

Data Protection Act
Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the St Albans 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%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) Sybase IQ
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (100.00%) Database Security

Data Protection Act
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the St Albans 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.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) Sybase IQ
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Consultant
2 2 (66.67%) Database Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (100.00%) Database Security
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL