Data Protection Act Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Protection Act (DPA)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 165 97 98
Rank change year-on-year -68 +1 +319
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 248 579 844
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.22% 2.53% 2.78%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.21% 7.82% 8.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 339 604
10th Percentile £259 £288 £313
25th Percentile £316 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £538 £596 £575
90th Percentile £600 £675 £639
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 19
10th Percentile £20.50 £19.96 £15.95
25th Percentile £22.50 £21.06 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £23.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +5.56% -14.17%
75th Percentile £28.75 £53.75 £67.36
90th Percentile - - £77.32
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £38.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year -29.03% +72.22% +2.27%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,886 7,407 9,766
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.90% 32.33% 32.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,541 4,969 6,801
10th Percentile £213 £222 £205
25th Percentile £375 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £595 £611 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 728 417 455
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.48
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.62
Median hourly rate £31.25 £21.67 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.21% +3.19% -10.64%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.00 £46.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.66 £62.25
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £22.00 £26.98
% change year-on-year +47.73% -18.46% +3.77%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Protection Act as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Act in the UK excluding London

Data Protection Act
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Protection Act in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Act in the UK excluding London

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in the UK excluding London

Data Protection Act
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Protection Act in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection Act in the UK excluding London

Data Protection Act
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Protection Act in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Protection Act in the UK excluding London

Data Protection Act
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
South East +12 76 £425 -21.84% 19
Scotland -1 73 £438 -12.50% 1
North of England -83 42 £500 +17.65% 17
North West -74 27 £500 +24.61% 7
Midlands -19 22 £425 - 31
West Midlands -20 17 £425 -2.86% 9
South West -1 14 £110 -85.33% 16
East of England +6 11 £325 -42.86% 9
Yorkshire -10 11 £500 +8.11% 9
Wales +8 6 £438 -7.89% 3
East Midlands -2 5 £538 +65.38% 22
North East +9 4 - - 1
Northern Ireland +4 4 £513 +28.13% 1
Data Protection Act
UK

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (2.02%) Confluence
1 5 (2.02%) SAS
2 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.61%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.21%) Apache
4 2 (0.81%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.40%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.40%) SAP EWM
1 1 (0.40%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.40%) SAP WM
1 1 (0.40%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 35 (14.11%) Azure
2 26 (10.48%) AWS
3 12 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (3.23%) GCP
5 6 (2.42%) Amazon S3
6 5 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.02%) GitHub
6 5 (2.02%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.02%) SaaS
7 4 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (1.61%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.61%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.21%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.21%) PaaS
9 2 (0.81%) Azure AKS
9 2 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (0.81%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (0.81%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.81%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.65%) VoIP
2 13 (5.24%) PBX
3 10 (4.03%) Firewall
3 10 (4.03%) WAN
4 5 (2.02%) DNS
4 5 (2.02%) MPLS
4 5 (2.02%) Network Security
5 4 (1.61%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.21%) Fibre Channel
6 3 (1.21%) HTTP
6 3 (1.21%) Internet
6 3 (1.21%) LAN
6 3 (1.21%) SDH
6 3 (1.21%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.81%) BGP
7 2 (0.81%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.81%) DHCP
7 2 (0.81%) GGSN
7 2 (0.81%) SAN
7 2 (0.81%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.42%) Relational Database
1 6 (2.42%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.02%) Power BI
3 3 (1.21%) MySQL
4 2 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.81%) Metadata
4 2 (0.81%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.40%) DataStage
5 1 (0.40%) DB2
5 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.40%) SAS Data Integration Studio
5 1 (0.40%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (6.05%) Git
2 12 (4.84%) JIRA
3 5 (2.02%) Postman
4 4 (1.61%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.21%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.21%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.21%) IntelliJ
5 3 (1.21%) JUnit
5 3 (1.21%) Maven
5 3 (1.21%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (1.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.81%) Capybara
6 2 (0.81%) ERwin
6 2 (0.81%) GitLab
6 2 (0.81%) Gradle
6 2 (0.81%) Storybook
7 1 (0.40%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.40%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.40%) Selenium
7 1 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 32 (12.90%) Telecoms
2 30 (12.10%) Social Skills
3 27 (10.89%) Finance
4 19 (7.66%) Marketing
5 16 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.63%) Legal
8 7 (2.82%) Law
9 6 (2.42%) Banking
9 6 (2.42%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.21%) Aeronautics
10 3 (1.21%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.21%) Italian Language
11 2 (0.81%) Electronics
11 2 (0.81%) German Language
11 2 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.81%) Retail
11 2 (0.81%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (14.52%) Architect
2 31 (12.50%) Developer
3 28 (11.29%) Analyst
4 22 (8.87%) Solutions Architect
5 16 (6.45%) Project Manager
6 15 (6.05%) Business Analyst
6 15 (6.05%) Senior
7 10 (4.03%) Network Engineer
8 9 (3.63%) Business Development Manager
8 9 (3.63%) Business Manager
8 9 (3.63%) Development Manager
8 9 (3.63%) Java Developer
9 8 (3.23%) Consultant
9 8 (3.23%) Lead
10 7 (2.82%) Data Analyst
10 7 (2.82%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (2.82%) Junior
10 7 (2.82%) Support Engineer
11 6 (2.42%) Junior Project Manager
11 6 (2.42%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.23%) Spring
1 8 (3.23%) Spring Boot
1 8 (3.23%) XML
2 6 (2.42%) .NET
2 6 (2.42%) HTML
2 6 (2.42%) React
3 5 (2.02%) CSS
3 5 (2.02%) J2EE
3 5 (2.02%) REST
4 3 (1.21%) Apache Camel
4 3 (1.21%) JSP
4 3 (1.21%) Kafka
4 3 (1.21%) Laravel
4 3 (1.21%) Playwright
4 3 (1.21%) Vue
5 2 (0.81%) Guice
5 2 (0.81%) ISPF
5 2 (0.81%) Jest
5 2 (0.81%) WebKit
6 1 (0.40%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 7 (2.82%) Product Ownership
2 6 (2.42%) Data Centre
3 5 (2.02%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.02%) Mobile App
4 4 (1.61%) Algorithms
4 4 (1.61%) Freedom of Information
4 4 (1.61%) Mainframe
4 4 (1.61%) Public Cloud
4 4 (1.61%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.21%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (1.21%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.81%) Freedom of Information Act
6 2 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.81%) HP Storage
6 2 (0.81%) PKI
6 2 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.40%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 21 (8.47%) Linux
2 13 (5.24%) Windows
3 9 (3.63%) Unix
4 6 (2.42%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.21%) Solaris
6 2 (0.81%) AIX
6 2 (0.81%) VMS
6 2 (0.81%) zOS
7 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.40%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 47 (18.95%) Value Proposition
3 38 (15.32%) Agile
4 22 (8.87%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (8.47%) Project Management
6 18 (7.26%) DevOps
6 18 (7.26%) Scrum
7 17 (6.85%) Computer Science
7 17 (6.85%) Migration
8 16 (6.45%) Presales
9 14 (5.65%) CI/CD
9 14 (5.65%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (5.24%) Data Privacy
11 12 (4.84%) Software Engineering
12 11 (4.44%) Data Management
12 11 (4.44%) Information Security
13 10 (4.03%) Business Analysis
13 10 (4.03%) Data Mapping
13 10 (4.03%) Data Modelling
13 10 (4.03%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 26 (10.48%) SQL
2 21 (8.47%) Java
3 18 (7.26%) Python
4 13 (5.24%) C#
5 10 (4.03%) JavaScript
6 9 (3.63%) PowerShell
7 8 (3.23%) Perl
8 6 (2.42%) C++
9 3 (1.21%) Bash
9 3 (1.21%) C
9 3 (1.21%) F#
9 3 (1.21%) PHP
9 3 (1.21%) Rust
9 3 (1.21%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.81%) Assembly Language
10 2 (0.81%) CLIST
10 2 (0.81%) JCL
10 2 (0.81%) REXX
10 2 (0.81%) Ruby
10 2 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (20.56%) Security Cleared
2 32 (12.90%) SC Cleared
3 21 (8.47%) Degree
3 21 (8.47%) DV Cleared
4 8 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.42%) ISEB
6 5 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.81%) CCNA
8 2 (0.81%) CISSP
8 2 (0.81%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.40%) CEH
9 1 (0.40%) CISM
9 1 (0.40%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.40%) MCSE
9 1 (0.40%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (11.29%) GDPR
2 8 (3.23%) QA
3 3 (1.21%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.81%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.81%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.81%) SLA
5 1 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (3.63%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.02%) Docker
4 2 (0.81%) Firmware
4 2 (0.81%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.40%) NFS
5 1 (0.40%) ProxySG
5 1 (0.40%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (2.82%) Terraform
2 5 (2.02%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.61%) Ansible
4 3 (1.21%) NetBackup
5 2 (0.81%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (0.81%) HP Data Protector
5 2 (0.81%) Kibana
5 2 (0.81%) OMEGAMON
6 1 (0.40%) CASB
6 1 (0.40%) Grafana
6 1 (0.40%) Graylog
6 1 (0.40%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.40%) Nagios
6 1 (0.40%) Nessus
6 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (8.87%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.26%) Cisco
3 7 (2.82%) IBM
3 7 (2.82%) SAP
4 6 (2.42%) OneTrust
4 6 (2.42%) VMware
5 5 (2.02%) Juniper
6 4 (1.61%) Databricks
6 4 (1.61%) Nokia
6 4 (1.61%) Oracle
6 4 (1.61%) Splunk
7 3 (1.21%) Adobe
7 3 (1.21%) EMC
7 3 (1.21%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.21%) Pega
7 3 (1.21%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.81%) Brocade
8 2 (0.81%) CA
8 2 (0.81%) HP
8 2 (0.81%) Informatica