The first table below looks at the demand for Data Protection skills 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 over the 3 months to 17 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 of the Processes & Methodologies 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Protection (Data Privacy)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in St Albans - - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £425
% change year-on-year
-12.50% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £22.00 £19.75
% change year-on-year
-27.27% +11.39%
All Processes & Methodologies
St Albans
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
28 18 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in St Albans 90.32% 66.67% 74.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 11 15
Average daily rate £375 £350 £490
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -28.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £250 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £25.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Data Protection
Hertfordshire

Data Protection
Jobs Demand Trend

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

St Albans Data Protection Jobs Demand Trend

Data Protection
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Data Protection across the St Albans region.

St Albans Data Protection Daily Rate Trend

Data Protection
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the St Albans region citing Data Protection 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.

1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (60.00%) Sybase IQ
2 3 (60.00%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (60.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (60.00%) Database Security
3 2 (40.00%) QA
3 2 (40.00%) Time Management
3 2 (40.00%) Marketing
3 2 (40.00%) Degree
3 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (40.00%) CRM

Data Protection
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the St Albans region citing Data Protection 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (60.00%) Sybase IQ
General
1 2 (40.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Database Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Campaign Executive
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (60.00%) Database Security
2 2 (40.00%) CRM
2 2 (40.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA