The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Data Protection Act over the 3 months to 18 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.

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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Protection Act (DPA)
Rank 459 507 532
Rank change year-on-year
+48 +25
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 95 82 55
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.195% 0.141% 0.088%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.725% 0.575% 0.318%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 58 31
Average daily rate £382 £365 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.65% +0.68%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £199 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £493 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £400 £470
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -14.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
Average hourly rate £22.50 £13.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+66.66% -3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.90 £13.50 £12.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.70 £13.50 £16.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £8.00 - £14.00
All of the Miscellaneous Category
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
13101 14266 17321
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 26.91% 24.57% 27.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7882 8276 10455
Average daily rate £425 £425 £513
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -17.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £601 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £340 £330
% change year-on-year
+2.94% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 581 698 695
Average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £22.63
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.22% -0.55%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £12.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -10.00%

Data Protection Act
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Data Protection Act Daily Rate Trend

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Data Protection Act within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Data Protection Act Daily Rate Histogram

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 within the UK.

Data Protection Act Hourly Rate Trend

Data Protection Act
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Data Protection Act within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Data Protection Act Hourly Rate Histogram

Data Protection Act
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Protection Act within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +21 87 £408 +11.64% 28
London +17 60 £382 +4.65% 7
South East +30 18 £431 -4.16% 7
City of London +8 11 £441 +19.18%
East of England +18 5 £313 - 4
Scotland -9 5 £150 +53.84% 1
Reading - 5 £500 - 2
Berkshire - 5 £500 - 2
Hampshire -4 4 £388 +19.23% 3
East Sussex - 3 £500 -
Brighton - 3 £500 -
North West - 2 - - 2
South West +26 1 £300 - 2
Nottinghamshire +1 1 - -
Nottingham -5 1 - -
East Midlands -9 1 - - 1
Suffolk - 1 - -
Essex - 1 £410 - 1
Gloucestershire - - - -
Buckinghamshire - - - -
Devon - - - -
South Yorkshire - - - -
Staffordshire - - - - 1
Hertfordshire - - - - 2
North Yorkshire - - - - 1
Salford - - - -
Sheffield - - - -
Stirling - - - -
Stowmarket - - - -
Tamworth - - - -

Data Protection Act
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 200 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 62 (31.00%) Freedom of Information
3 54 (27.00%) Freedom of Information Act
4 49 (24.50%) ITIL
5 47 (23.50%) Information Security
6 45 (22.50%) Management Information System
7 37 (18.50%) Risk Management
8 36 (18.00%) PRINCE2
9 35 (17.50%) SQL
10 33 (16.50%) Service Management
10 33 (16.50%) Degree
10 33 (16.50%) PCI DSS
11 32 (16.00%) Legal
12 29 (14.50%) Microsoft
12 29 (14.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 28 (14.00%) Project Management
14 26 (13.00%) Service Delivery
15 25 (12.50%) Finance
15 25 (12.50%) Information Assurance
16 22 (11.00%) Windows
17 20 (10.00%) CISSP
17 20 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
18 19 (9.500%) Stakeholder Management
19 18 (9.000%) Security Cleared
19 18 (9.000%) Security Architecture
20 17 (8.500%) Information Governance
20 17 (8.500%) Security Management
20 17 (8.500%) SQL Server
21 16 (8.000%) Information Security Management
22 15 (7.500%) ISMS

Data Protection Act
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 Development
1 11 (5.500%) HTML
1 11 (5.500%) Web Services
2 10 (5.000%) XML
3 4 (2.000%) CSS
3 4 (2.000%) Spring
4 3 (1.500%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (1.500%) JSP
4 3 (1.500%) JMS
4 3 (1.500%) .NET
4 3 (1.500%) J2EE
5 2 (1.000%) SAP Basis
5 2 (1.000%) RESTful
6 1 (0.500%) Synon Analyst Programmer
6 1 (0.500%) REST
6 1 (0.500%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.500%) JSON
6 1 (0.500%) Middleware
6 1 (0.500%) SAP XI
6 1 (0.500%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.500%) COM
Application Platforms
1 6 (3.000%) SharePoint
1 6 (3.000%) MS Exchange
2 4 (2.000%) Tomcat
3 3 (1.500%) IIS
3 3 (1.500%) Exchange Server 2003
3 3 (1.500%) Confluence
4 2 (1.000%) SAP Portal
4 2 (1.000%) NetWeaver
4 2 (1.000%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (1.000%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (1.000%) Exchange Server 2000
5 1 (0.500%) CM System
5 1 (0.500%) CMS
5 1 (0.500%) SAP EP
5 1 (0.500%) Apache
5 1 (0.500%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.500%) Amazon AWS
5 1 (0.500%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.500%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.500%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (6.500%) MS Office
2 12 (6.000%) MS Excel
3 4 (2.000%) MS PowerPoint
4 3 (1.500%) FastStats
5 1 (0.500%) MS Project
5 1 (0.500%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.500%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.000%) SAP SD
1 2 (1.000%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.500%) Google Analytics
2 1 (0.500%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.500%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.500%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.500%) SAP CO
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.000%) TCP/IP
2 11 (5.500%) Firewall
3 9 (4.500%) VPN
4 6 (3.000%) Network Security
5 4 (2.000%) Internet
5 4 (2.000%) VoIP
5 4 (2.000%) HTTP
5 4 (2.000%) Kerberos
6 3 (1.500%) POP3
6 3 (1.500%) SMTP
6 3 (1.500%) FTP
6 3 (1.500%) LDAP
6 3 (1.500%) 3G
6 3 (1.500%) HTTPS
6 3 (1.500%) IMAP
6 3 (1.500%) 4G
7 2 (1.000%) SAN
7 2 (1.000%) DNS
7 2 (1.000%) DECnet
7 2 (1.000%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.500%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.500%) MySQL
3 4 (2.000%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.000%) SAP BI
3 4 (2.000%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (2.000%) SAP Data Services
4 3 (1.500%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (1.500%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (1.500%) Sybase IQ
4 3 (1.500%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (1.500%) SAP BW
5 2 (1.000%) SQL Server 2000
5 2 (1.000%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (1.000%) Oracle 8/8i
5 2 (1.000%) Oracle 11g
5 2 (1.000%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.000%) MarkLogic
6 1 (0.500%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.500%) QlikView
6 1 (0.500%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (2.500%) Subversion
2 4 (2.000%) Maven
2 4 (2.000%) ClearCase
2 4 (2.000%) ClearQuest
3 3 (1.500%) Bugzilla
3 3 (1.500%) JUnit
3 3 (1.500%) JIRA
3 3 (1.500%) Git (software)
3 3 (1.500%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.000%) Ant
5 1 (0.500%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.500%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.500%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.500%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.500%) Synon
General
1 32 (16.00%) Legal
2 25 (12.50%) Finance
3 12 (6.000%) Telecoms
4 8 (4.000%) Law
5 6 (3.000%) Marketing
6 4 (2.000%) Music Industry
7 3 (1.500%) Retail
8 2 (1.000%) Back Office
9 1 (0.500%) Local Government
9 1 (0.500%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 56 (28.00%) Analyst
2 21 (10.50%) Project Manager
2 21 (10.50%) Security Analyst
3 18 (9.000%) Consultant
4 15 (7.500%) Architect
5 13 (6.500%) Developer
6 11 (5.500%) Risk Consultant
7 9 (4.500%) Support Analyst
7 9 (4.500%) Senior Analyst
8 8 (4.000%) Data Manager
8 8 (4.000%) Senior Security Analyst
9 7 (3.500%) Information Security Consultant
9 7 (3.500%) Security Architect
9 7 (3.500%) Security Consultant
9 7 (3.500%) Business Analyst
10 5 (2.500%) Trainer
10 5 (2.500%) Service Analyst
10 5 (2.500%) Java Developer
10 5 (2.500%) Security Manager
10 5 (2.500%) Information Manager
Miscellaneous
1 62 (31.00%) Freedom of Information
2 54 (27.00%) Freedom of Information Act
3 45 (22.50%) Management Information System
4 12 (6.000%) NHS
5 9 (4.500%) Open Source
6 6 (3.000%) Computer Science
7 5 (2.500%) Statistics
7 5 (2.500%) CESG
8 4 (2.000%) Social Media
9 3 (1.500%) Wiki
9 3 (1.500%) Psychology
10 2 (1.000%) RMADS
10 2 (1.000%) Data Extraction
10 2 (1.000%) PMI
10 2 (1.000%) Mathematics
10 2 (1.000%) Clustering
11 1 (0.500%) E-Learning
11 1 (0.500%) Replication
11 1 (0.500%) W3C
11 1 (0.500%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.00%) Windows
2 13 (6.500%) Linux
3 7 (3.500%) Windows XP
4 6 (3.000%) UNIX
5 5 (2.500%) Windows 7
6 4 (2.000%) Solaris
7 3 (1.500%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (1.500%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.500%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (1.000%) Windows 2000 Server
8 2 (1.000%) VMS
8 2 (1.000%) OpenVMS
8 2 (1.000%) Windows 2000
9 1 (0.500%) SUSE
9 1 (0.500%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 49 (24.50%) ITIL
3 47 (23.50%) Information Security
4 37 (18.50%) Risk Management
5 36 (18.00%) PRINCE2
6 33 (16.50%) Service Management
7 28 (14.00%) Project Management
8 26 (13.00%) Service Delivery
9 25 (12.50%) Information Assurance
10 20 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
11 19 (9.500%) Stakeholder Management
12 18 (9.000%) Security Architecture
13 17 (8.500%) Information Governance
13 17 (8.500%) Security Management
14 16 (8.000%) Information Security Management
15 15 (7.500%) ISMS
16 14 (7.000%) Incident Management
17 13 (6.500%) Information Management
18 12 (6.000%) Technical Architecture
18 12 (6.000%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 35 (17.50%) SQL
2 11 (5.500%) Java
3 9 (4.500%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.500%) C
4 3 (1.500%) PHP
5 2 (1.000%) COBOL
5 2 (1.000%) C#
5 2 (1.000%) Perl
5 2 (1.000%) VB
5 2 (1.000%) ABAP
5 2 (1.000%) Python
5 2 (1.000%) DCL
6 1 (0.500%) Ruby
6 1 (0.500%) Lua
6 1 (0.500%) Bash shell
6 1 (0.500%) Embedded C
6 1 (0.500%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.500%) ActionScript
6 1 (0.500%) C++
6 1 (0.500%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (16.50%) Degree
2 20 (10.00%) CISSP
3 18 (9.000%) Security Cleared
4 14 (7.000%) SC Cleared
5 10 (5.000%) CISM
6 8 (4.000%) CISA
7 6 (3.000%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 6 (3.000%) BC Cleared
8 4 (2.000%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.000%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (1.500%) ISEB
9 3 (1.500%) Postgraduate
9 3 (1.500%) MCSE
9 3 (1.500%) PCI QSA
9 3 (1.500%) ISACA
10 2 (1.000%) CRISC
10 2 (1.000%) CITP
10 2 (1.000%) MOS
10 2 (1.000%) MCDST
10 2 (1.000%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (16.50%) PCI DSS
2 29 (14.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (4.000%) SLA
4 7 (3.500%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (3.000%) QA
6 4 (2.000%) COBIT
7 3 (1.500%) JSP 440
7 3 (1.500%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.500%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 12 (6.000%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.000%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.500%) XenApp
4 2 (1.000%) Terminal Services
4 2 (1.000%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.500%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.500%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 1 (0.500%) IAG
5 1 (0.500%) UAG
Systems Management
1 2 (1.000%) Norton AntiVirus
1 2 (1.000%) DameWare
1 2 (1.000%) SCCM
1 2 (1.000%) SCOM
1 2 (1.000%) Backup Exec
1 2 (1.000%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (0.500%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (0.500%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (0.500%) McAfee ePO
2 1 (0.500%) YUM
2 1 (0.500%) Ionix
2 1 (0.500%) Puppet
2 1 (0.500%) Splunk
2 1 (0.500%) NetBackup
2 1 (0.500%) Foglight
Vendors
1 29 (14.50%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.500%) Symantec
2 11 (5.500%) Remedy
3 9 (4.500%) SAP
4 8 (4.000%) VMware
5 7 (3.500%) Oracle
6 6 (3.000%) Citrix
7 4 (2.000%) Cisco
7 4 (2.000%) Teradata
8 3 (1.500%) Facebook
8 3 (1.500%) Twitter
8 3 (1.500%) Business Objects
8 3 (1.500%) HP
8 3 (1.500%) Novell
8 3 (1.500%) Veritas
8 3 (1.500%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.000%) Juniper
9 2 (1.000%) Qualys
10 1 (0.500%) TippingPoint
10 1 (0.500%) ArcSight
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Rate: £350 - £375 per day
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Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £90.00 - £120 per day
Posted: 30 May 2013
South West London
Our client an NHS Trust based in Kent are currently recruiting a EPR support AnalystTo take a key role within the EPR Team in the delivery of the...
E-Resourcing
Rate: £200 per annum
Posted: 11 June 2013
London
This is a great opportunity for a bright and self-motivated DevOps Manager (ideal from an Agile Development Background) to work within a leading Music company in a...
Personnel IT
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
London
This is an exciting and challenging opportunity to participate in the transformation of IM's service delivery as described in the IM Sourcing Strategy... Project Governance: a. ccountable...
Experis IT
Posted: 11 June 2013
Havant, Hampshire
Advanced Resource Managers
Rate: £450 - £475 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
West Sussex
Clearwater People Solutions
Rate: £425 - 450 Per Day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Hemel Hempstead, South East
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Rate: £38000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
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Rate: £350 - £375 per day
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Rate: £200 - £230 per day
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