The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in IT contracts advertised for the 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 23 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Protection Act (DPA)
Rank - 109 -
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire - 0.045% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category - 0.314% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £500 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £400 £500
% change year-on-year
-3.12% -20.00%
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
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
392 318 373
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 21.08% 14.15% 20.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 170 155
Average daily rate £310 £338 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.14% +12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £203 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £466 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 9 30
Average hourly rate £12.50 £21.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-40.47% +5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.05 £11.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.00 £30.00 £47.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
Data Protection Act
England

Data Protection Act
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 Yorkshire region.

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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Data Protection Act Hourly Rate Trend

Data Protection Act
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 4 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (75.00%) Information Governance
2 3 (75.00%) NHS
3 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 2 (50.00%) PMI
3 2 (50.00%) PMI Certification
3 2 (50.00%) Degree
4 1 (25.00%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (25.00%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (25.00%) Data Management
4 1 (25.00%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (25.00%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (25.00%) Informatica
4 1 (25.00%) Siebel
4 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (25.00%) ETL
4 1 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (25.00%) Oracle
4 1 (25.00%) XML
4 1 (25.00%) ERwin
4 1 (25.00%) Change Management
4 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution

Data Protection Act
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 (25.00%) XML
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Spreadsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle BI EE
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) ERwin
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Systems Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Information Governance Officer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) NHS
2 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (50.00%) PMI
3 1 (25.00%) Freedom of Information Act
3 1 (25.00%) Freedom of Information
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (75.00%) Information Governance
3 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (25.00%) Data Management
4 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (25.00%) ETL
4 1 (25.00%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 2 (50.00%) PMI Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Informatica
1 1 (25.00%) Siebel
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle