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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 40 60
Rank change year-on-year +4 +20 -
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 7 21 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 1.78% 3.62% 2.09%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.90% 8.75% 5.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 15
10th Percentile £184 £163 £400
25th Percentile £270 £288 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £444 £581 £583
90th Percentile £448 £631 £619
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +22.59%
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 £38.75 £23.37
% change year-on-year -29.03% +65.81% -4.61%

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 143 240 336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 36.39% 41.38% 35.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 166 236
10th Percentile £135 £163 £165
25th Percentile £359 £246 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +2.78% +5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £541
90th Percentile £580 £628 £625
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 14
10th Percentile - £12.61 £11.15
25th Percentile £11.75 £15.25 £11.61
Median hourly rate £18.95 £18.10 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% +12.74% +5.28%
75th Percentile £45.06 £21.50 £19.25
90th Percentile £74.98 £27.64 £23.50
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £22.13 £26.98
% change year-on-year +58.19% -17.99% +5.80%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 £425 -26.09% 4
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 3 (42.86%) GitHub
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) PBX
1 2 (28.57%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Cypress.io
2 2 (28.57%) Storybook
3 1 (14.29%) GitLab
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) Postman
General
1 2 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Full Stack PHP Developer
3 1 (14.29%) PHP Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Service Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Vue
2 2 (28.57%) Laravel
2 2 (28.57%) Playwright
3 1 (14.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) CMDB
2 1 (14.29%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Project Management
2 4 (57.14%) Value Proposition
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Front End Development
4 2 (28.57%) Objectives and Key Results
4 2 (28.57%) Presales
4 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Budgeting
5 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (14.29%) ITIL
5 1 (14.29%) Line Management
5 1 (14.29%) Service Management
5 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
2 1 (14.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) ISEB
2 1 (14.29%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory