Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for COPPA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited COPPA over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 599 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing COPPA 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.016% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £189 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £193 - -
75th Percentile £196 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

COPPA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,170 7,903 11,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.30% 13.38% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,917 5,433 8,103
10th Percentile £297 £280 £297
25th Percentile £403 £413 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £514
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +2.24% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £623
90th Percentile £750 £738 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £479 £450
% change year-on-year +1.77% +6.44% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 383 236 302
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.29 £12.02
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.50 £16.50
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +27.27% +30.95%
75th Percentile £45.00 £59.46 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.50 £77.50 £66.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £32.50 £21.05
% change year-on-year -44.62% +54.43% +0.10%

COPPA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing COPPA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for COPPA in the UK

COPPA
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing COPPA within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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
London - 1 £193 -
England - 1 £193 - 1
Work from Home - 1 £193 - 1

COPPA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle