The first table below looks at the demand for Data Protection skills 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 over the 3 months to 24 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 of the Processes & Methodologies 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Protection (Data Privacy)
Rank 104 108 96
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -12
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 6 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.323% 0.179% 0.109%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.469% 0.254% 0.173%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £348 £500 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-30.50% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £425
% change year-on-year
-12.50% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £27.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.50 £22.00 £19.75
% change year-on-year
-25.00% +11.39%
All Processes & Methodologies
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1278 1574 1154
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 68.78% 70.46% 63.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 712 868 548
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £455 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 40 60
Average hourly rate £26.00 £16.50 £23.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+57.57% -29.78%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.45 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £170.00 £32.50 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Data Protection
England

Data Protection
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire Data Protection Jobs Demand Trend

Data Protection
Daily Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire Data Protection Daily Rate Trend

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire Data Protection Hourly Rate Trend

Data Protection
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Protection within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
West Yorkshire +3 2 - -
East Yorkshire - 2 - -
South Yorkshire +3 1 £320 -
North Yorkshire - 1 £375 -
Data Protection
England

Data Protection
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Data Protection 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.

1 4 (33.33%) Oracle
1 4 (33.33%) NHS
1 4 (33.33%) SAN
1 4 (33.33%) VMware
1 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (33.33%) Information Governance
2 3 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (25.00%) PMI
2 3 (25.00%) PMI Certification
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 2 (16.67%) MS Visio
3 2 (16.67%) MS Exchange
3 2 (16.67%) DHCP
3 2 (16.67%) DNS
3 2 (16.67%) SSL
3 2 (16.67%) IIS
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2
3 2 (16.67%) Windows
3 2 (16.67%) HPUX
3 2 (16.67%) Linux
3 2 (16.67%) NetApp
3 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (16.67%) X-Windows
3 2 (16.67%) Migration
3 2 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003

Data Protection
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Data Protection 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (16.67%) X-Windows
2 1 (8.333%) LAMP
2 1 (8.333%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) MS Exchange
1 2 (16.67%) IIS
1 2 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (16.67%) Lync
1 2 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (8.333%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (8.333%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (8.333%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) SAN
2 2 (16.67%) DHCP
2 2 (16.67%) DNS
2 2 (16.67%) SSL
2 2 (16.67%) iSCSI
2 2 (16.67%) NAS
3 1 (8.333%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.333%) MySQL
General
1 1 (8.333%) Telecoms
1 1 (8.333%) Finance
1 1 (8.333%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) Administrator
1 2 (16.67%) Architect
1 2 (16.67%) Systems Manager
1 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (16.67%) Exchange Engineer
2 1 (8.333%) Information Governance Officer
2 1 (8.333%) Project Manager
2 1 (8.333%) Business Analyst
2 1 (8.333%) Analyst
2 1 (8.333%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) NHS
2 3 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (25.00%) PMI
3 1 (8.333%) Freedom of Information Act
3 1 (8.333%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (8.333%) NPfIT
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
1 2 (16.67%) HPUX
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Information Governance
2 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2
2 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (16.67%) Migration
2 2 (16.67%) Resource Management
2 2 (16.67%) Load Testing
2 2 (16.67%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (8.333%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (8.333%) Financial Analysis
3 1 (8.333%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (8.333%) Integration Testing
3 1 (8.333%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (8.333%) Load Balancing
3 1 (8.333%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (8.333%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (8.333%) Workflow
3 1 (8.333%) Project Management
3 1 (8.333%) Service Delivery
3 1 (8.333%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) PMI Certification
2 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) Data Quality
1 1 (8.333%) HL7
1 1 (8.333%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle
1 4 (33.33%) VMware
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) NetApp
2 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (16.67%) F5
3 1 (8.333%) IBM