Data Protection Contracts in Wales

Data Protection
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for Data Protection skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Protection 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 35 38 57
Rank change year-on-year +3 +19 +5
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 11 23 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 2.81% 3.63% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.58% 4.16% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 12
10th Percentile - £157 £224
25th Percentile £91 £244 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £450 £584 £556
90th Percentile £540 £662 £589
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Median hourly rate £18.00 £25.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +92.31% -20.59%
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £52.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -60.00% +162.50% -13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

Data Protection is in the Processes and Methodologies 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 process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 307 553 829
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 78.52% 87.22% 83.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 426 605
10th Percentile £165 £184 £200
25th Percentile £359 £331 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.06% +7.78%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 28 31
10th Percentile £11.75 £14.78 £14.31
25th Percentile £14.78 £16.98 £19.02
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.82 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.59% -16.38% +15.38%
75th Percentile £51.75 £26.50 £29.25
90th Percentile £86.00 £49.13 £47.40
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in Wales

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in Wales

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in Wales over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in Wales

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in Wales

Data Protection
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 within the Wales region 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
South Wales +12 11 £375 -34.78% 6
Data Protection
UK

Data Protection
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 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (18.18%) GitHub
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) PBX
1 2 (18.18%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) MySQL
1 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
2 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (9.09%) Power BI
2 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Cypress.io
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Postman
2 1 (9.09%) Storybook
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Mandarin Language
2 2 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Telecoms
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Architect
1 2 (18.18%) Developer
1 2 (18.18%) Project Manager
1 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (9.09%) 1st Line Support
2 1 (9.09%) Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Specialist
2 1 (9.09%) DBA
2 1 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (9.09%) Full Stack Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Full Stack PHP Developer
2 1 (9.09%) MySQL Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) MySQL DBA
2 1 (9.09%) PHP Developer
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Vue
2 1 (9.09%) Laravel
2 1 (9.09%) Playwright
2 1 (9.09%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
3 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Project Management
2 4 (36.36%) Value Proposition
3 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (18.18%) Customer-Centricity
4 2 (18.18%) Presales
4 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
4 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
5 1 (9.09%) Budgeting
5 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (9.09%) Front End Development
5 1 (9.09%) Full Stack Development
5 1 (9.09%) Objectives and Key Results
5 1 (9.09%) Problem Management
5 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) PHP
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
1 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
2 2 (18.18%) SLA
3 1 (9.09%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Huawei