The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Data Protection Act over the 3 months to 22 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 Bedfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Protection Act (DPA)
Rank 94 82 68
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -14
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection Act 1 3 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 0.092% 0.309% 0.710%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.330% 1.049% 2.174%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 6
Average salary - £70,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +100.00%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £43,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-11.49% -3.33%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
303 286 276
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 27.82% 29.42% 32.66%
Number of salaries quoted 272 235 261
Average salary £40,000 £41,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.61% +10.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,450 £26,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Data Protection Act
East of England

Data Protection Act
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire Data Protection Act Jobs Demand Trend

Data Protection Act
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Data Protection Act across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Data Protection Act Salary Trend

Data Protection Act
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Protection Act within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Luton -1 1 - -
Data Protection Act
East of England

Data Protection Act
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Data Protection Act.

1 6 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 5 (83.33%) Data Architecture
2 5 (83.33%) Quality Management
3 4 (66.67%) Data Governance
3 4 (66.67%) Change Control
3 4 (66.67%) Data Mapping
4 3 (50.00%) SQL
4 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (50.00%) Test Strategy
4 3 (50.00%) Talend
4 3 (50.00%) Talend Open Studio
4 3 (50.00%) Project Management
5 1 (16.67%) Signal Processing
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (16.67%) ETL
5 1 (16.67%) ISO 9001
5 1 (16.67%) Informatica
5 1 (16.67%) Firmware
5 1 (16.67%) C
5 1 (16.67%) C++
5 1 (16.67%) Information Management
5 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (16.67%) Project Planning
5 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
5 1 (16.67%) ISMS
5 1 (16.67%) QMS
5 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) Information Security Management
5 1 (16.67%) Data Security

Data Protection Act
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Data Protection Act. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 1 (16.67%) Electronics
1 1 (16.67%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Data Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Firmware Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Security Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Security Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Design Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Firmware
1 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) Device Driver
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 5 (83.33%) Data Architecture
2 5 (83.33%) Quality Management
3 4 (66.67%) Data Governance
3 4 (66.67%) Change Control
3 4 (66.67%) Data Mapping
4 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (50.00%) Test Strategy
4 3 (50.00%) Project Management
5 1 (16.67%) Signal Processing
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (16.67%) ETL
5 1 (16.67%) Information Management
5 1 (16.67%) Project Planning
5 1 (16.67%) ISMS
5 1 (16.67%) QMS
5 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) Information Security Management
5 1 (16.67%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) C
2 1 (16.67%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO 9001
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Talend
2 1 (16.67%) Informatica