Data Protection Act Contracts in Wales

Data Protection Act (DPA)
UK > Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies advertised in Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 42 67
Rank change year-on-year +4 +25 -
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 7 21 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 1.74% 3.30% 1.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.00% 7.92% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 8
10th Percentile £465 £175 £366
25th Percentile £488 £288 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £494 £494
Median % change year-on-year +6.33% - -
75th Percentile £563 £598 £556
90th Percentile £585 £671 £580
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £25.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year - +92.31% -
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £52.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -47.62% +162.50% -9.09%

All Generic Skills
Wales

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 Wales with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 140 265 344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 34.74% 41.60% 34.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 187 244
10th Percentile £166 £160 £155
25th Percentile £359 £215 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £425 £445
Median % change year-on-year +15.29% -4.55% -1.06%
75th Percentile £531 £538 £538
90th Percentile £572 £618 £638
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 15
10th Percentile - £12.61 -
25th Percentile £11.75 £15.25 £11.15
Median hourly rate £13.50 £17.03 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year -20.73% +6.07% +5.28%
75th Percentile £19.00 £19.81 £22.46
90th Percentile £45.80 £27.64 £27.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £22.49 £27.00
% change year-on-year +28.93% -16.69% +3.85%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Data Protection Act as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Act in Wales

Data Protection Act
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Protection Act in Wales.

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Act in Wales

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in Wales over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in Wales

Data Protection Act
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 25 April 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 Wales +8 7 £525 -8.70% 1
Data Protection Act
UK

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) PBX
1 2 (28.57%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MySQL
1 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
2 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Cypress.io
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Postman
2 1 (14.29%) Storybook
General
1 2 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Project Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) DBA
2 1 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (14.29%) Full Stack Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Full Stack PHP Developer
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL DBA
2 1 (14.29%) PHP Developer
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Vue
2 1 (14.29%) Laravel
2 1 (14.29%) Playwright
2 1 (14.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 5 (71.43%) Project Management
3 4 (57.14%) Value Proposition
4 3 (42.86%) Agile
5 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (28.57%) Presales
5 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
6 1 (14.29%) Budgeting
6 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (14.29%) Front End Development
6 1 (14.29%) Full Stack Development
6 1 (14.29%) Objectives and Key Results
6 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
6 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PHP
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
1 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA