Wales Data Protection Act Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Data Protection Act (DPA) skills within the Wales region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Data Protection Act over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Data Protection Act (DPA)
Location Birmingham Bristol Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London Colchester East Midlands East of England England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Leeds London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Norfolk North East North West Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Scotland South East South West Suffolk Tyne and Wear UK Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	60
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.526 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£348
% change on same period last year	-13.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.22	£8.92
% change on same period last year	+81.96 %
Miscellaneous Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	134	190
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.189 %	0.192 %
Daily rates quoted	47	44
Average minimum daily rate	£359	£395
Average daily rate	£378	£425
% change on same period last year	-10.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£398	£455
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£344
% change on same period last year	+1.42 %
Hourly rates quoted	28	34
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.77	£18.76
Average hourly rate	£26.78	£23.57
% change on same period last year	+13.60 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.79	£28.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.09	£26.20
% change on same period last year	-4.24 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Data Protection Act across the Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Data Protection Act across the Wales region.

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Top 5 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 2 (100.00 %) Management Information System 1 2 (100.00 %) Risk Assessment 1 2 (100.00 %) Statistics 1 2 (100.00 %) Informatics 1 2 (100.00 %) Data Protection

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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.

Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) Analyst 1 2 (100.00 %) Data Analyst 2 1 (50.00 %) Senior Data Analyst 2 1 (50.00 %) Senior Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 2 (100.00 %) Management Information System 1 2 (100.00 %) Statistics 1 2 (100.00 %) Informatics
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (100.00 %) Risk Assessment 1 2 (100.00 %) Data Protection