Data Protection Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Protection
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 57 69
Rank change year-on-year -4 +12 +50
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 48 93 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.49% 3.91% 3.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.97% 4.41% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 56 86
10th Percentile £200 £275 £288
25th Percentile £307 £359 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% - +15.15%
75th Percentile £550 £627 £538
90th Percentile £606 £694 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +19.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £32.25 -
England median hourly rate £21.00 £52.50 £21.25
% change year-on-year -60.00% +147.06% -1.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,617 2,107 3,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.00% 88.53% 90.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 1,446 2,363
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £406 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +17.47%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 71
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.81
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.25
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Data Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in the West Midlands

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in the West Midlands

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in the West Midlands

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in the West Midlands

Data Protection
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 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
Birmingham -11 31 £428 -5.00% 7
Shropshire +34 4 £260 -20.00% 1
Staffordshire +8 3 £298 -20.53% 3
Warwickshire -2 3 £750 +3.45% 1
Worcestershire +10 2 £475 - 2
Coventry +4 1 £475 -2.56% 1
Wolverhampton +4 1 £320 +155.49% 1
Solihull -15 1 - - 1
Data Protection
England

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 5 (10.42%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.17%) Confluence
4 1 (2.08%) CMS
4 1 (2.08%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (6.25%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (2.08%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.08%) SAP HCM
2 1 (2.08%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 9 (18.75%) Azure
2 5 (10.42%) Power Platform
3 3 (6.25%) AWS
3 3 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (4.17%) Amazon S3
4 2 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (4.17%) GCP
5 1 (2.08%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.08%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.08%) SaaS
5 1 (2.08%) Smartsheet
5 1 (2.08%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.33%) LAN
1 4 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (6.25%) WAN
3 2 (4.17%) Firewall
3 2 (4.17%) Network Security
3 2 (4.17%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.08%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (2.08%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.08%) MPLS
4 1 (2.08%) SDH
4 1 (2.08%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.08%) tcpdump
4 1 (2.08%) VoIP
4 1 (2.08%) VPN
4 1 (2.08%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.42%) Power BI
2 2 (4.17%) Big Data
2 2 (4.17%) Data Lake
2 2 (4.17%) Delta Lake
2 2 (4.17%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.08%) Apache Hive
3 1 (2.08%) DB2
3 1 (2.08%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.08%) SAS Data Integration Studio
3 1 (2.08%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 1 (2.08%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Git
1 2 (4.17%) JIRA
2 1 (2.08%) IDA Disassembler
2 1 (2.08%) Rational DOORS
General
1 14 (29.17%) Legal
2 6 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.42%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.33%) Police
5 3 (6.25%) Finance
6 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.17%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.08%) Aeronautics
7 1 (2.08%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (16.67%) Consultant
2 7 (14.58%) Developer
3 5 (10.42%) Architect
3 5 (10.42%) Support Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Deployment Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Network Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Administrator
5 3 (6.25%) Data Administrator
5 3 (6.25%) Data Consultant
5 3 (6.25%) Data Protection Consultant
5 3 (6.25%) Java Developer
5 3 (6.25%) Network Support
5 3 (6.25%) Network Support Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 2 (4.17%) Data Protection Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Security Consultant
6 2 (4.17%) SharePoint Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.17%) Technical Architect
6 2 (4.17%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.17%) .NET
1 2 (4.17%) PySpark
1 2 (4.17%) Spring
2 1 (2.08%) Guice
2 1 (2.08%) Kafka
2 1 (2.08%) OLE
2 1 (2.08%) SOAP
2 1 (2.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (35.42%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (6.25%) Freedom of Information
3 2 (4.17%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.17%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.17%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.08%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.08%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.08%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.42%) Windows
2 3 (6.25%) Linux
3 2 (4.17%) Unix
3 2 (4.17%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.08%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (16.67%) Agile
2 7 (14.58%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (14.58%) Information Security
3 6 (12.50%) Data Modelling
3 6 (12.50%) Migration
4 5 (10.42%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (8.33%) Analytics
5 4 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (6.25%) Data Architecture
6 3 (6.25%) Data Cleansing
6 3 (6.25%) Data Enrichment
6 3 (6.25%) Decision-Making
6 3 (6.25%) Information Management
6 3 (6.25%) Master Data Management
6 3 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (6.25%) Project Management
6 3 (6.25%) Scrum
6 3 (6.25%) SDLC
6 3 (6.25%) Time Management
7 2 (4.17%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.50%) SQL
2 4 (8.33%) Java
2 4 (8.33%) Python
3 2 (4.17%) C#
3 2 (4.17%) Perl
4 1 (2.08%) COBOL
4 1 (2.08%) PHP
4 1 (2.08%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.08%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 13 (27.08%) Security Cleared
2 9 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.25%) CISSP
3 3 (6.25%) Degree
4 2 (4.17%) CISM
4 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (2.08%) CCSP
5 1 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.08%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) GDPR
2 2 (4.17%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.17%) Government Security Classifications
2 2 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.17%) NCSC
3 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.08%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.08%) Snort
Systems Management
1 2 (4.17%) SCCM
1 2 (4.17%) vCenter Server
2 1 (2.08%) Kibana
2 1 (2.08%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 4 (8.33%) Aruba
2 3 (6.25%) Cisco
2 3 (6.25%) HP
3 2 (4.17%) Databricks
3 2 (4.17%) IBM
3 2 (4.17%) Juniper
3 2 (4.17%) SAP
3 2 (4.17%) VMware
4 1 (2.08%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.08%) Google
4 1 (2.08%) ICL
4 1 (2.08%) ION Trading
4 1 (2.08%) McAfee
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.08%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.08%) Nokia
4 1 (2.08%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.08%) Splunk
4 1 (2.08%) UiPath