The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Data Protection Act over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category for the West Yorkshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Protection Act (DPA)
Rank - 93 -
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire - 0.062% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category - 0.442% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £500 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £400 £600
% change year-on-year
-3.12% -33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £22.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year
- +25.71%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
249 226 223
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 19.62% 13.97% 19.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 120 95
Average daily rate £300 £338 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% +3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £219 £213 £224
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £452
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 19
Average hourly rate £15.00 £13.25 £11.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.20% +17.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £8.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.40 £27.50 £42.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
Data Protection Act
Yorkshire

Data Protection Act
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Data Protection Act across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

West Yorkshire Data Protection Act Jobs Demand Trend

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire Data Protection Act Daily Rate Trend

Data Protection Act
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Data Protection Act across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Data Protection Act Hourly Rate Trend

Data Protection Act
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Information Governance
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) Siebel
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Informatica
2 1 (50.00%) NHS
2 1 (50.00%) ERwin
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (50.00%) Freedom of Information Act
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle BI EE

Data Protection Act
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Spreadsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) ERwin
General
1 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Information Governance Officer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
1 1 (50.00%) Freedom of Information
1 1 (50.00%) Freedom of Information Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Information Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Siebel
1 1 (50.00%) Informatica