The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey 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 20 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 Surrey 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Protection Act (DPA)
Rank 78 - 99
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 1 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 0.088% - 0.108%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.397% - 0.559%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £400 £600
% change year-on-year
-3.12% -33.33%
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
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
252 273 358
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 22.11% 16.82% 19.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 131 202
Average daily rate £400 £325 £380
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -14.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £160 £284
10% offered a daily rate of more than £501 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £343 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.18% +0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 17 12
Average hourly rate £35.00 £33.25 £31.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% +6.40%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £24.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year
-8.16% -9.25%
Data Protection Act
South East

Data Protection Act
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey Data Protection Act Hourly Rate Trend

Data Protection Act
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Data Extraction
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Market Research
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (33.33%) LDAP
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) SAS
2 1 (33.33%) Kerberos
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Law
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Teradata
2 1 (33.33%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Freedom of Information Act
2 1 (33.33%) Database Marketing

Data Protection Act
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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%) SharePoint
1 1 (33.33%) SAS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
1 1 (33.33%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Data Services
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Law
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Applications Support
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Security Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Design Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Freedom of Information
1 1 (33.33%) Freedom of Information Act
1 1 (33.33%) Data Extraction
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Market Research
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Database Marketing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Teradata