The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in IT jobs advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Data Protection Act 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the East of England region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Protection Act (DPA)
Rank 231 239 243
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +4
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection Act 33 28 35
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 0.399% 0.322% 0.367%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.339% 1.068% 1.164%
Number of salaries quoted 28 25 29
Average salary £33,750 £27,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.72% -21.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,550 £19,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £42,500 £40,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-10.58% -5.55%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
2465 2622 3008
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 29.82% 30.14% 31.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2141 2106 2562
Average salary £39,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,350 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,950 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Data Protection Act
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 East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England Data Protection Act Salary Trend

Data Protection Act
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Data Protection Act across the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

East of England Data Protection Act Salary Histogram

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 East of England 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Suffolk -11 17 £32,500 -
Essex +19 10 £50,000 +88.67%
Hertfordshire +11 3 - -
Bedfordshire -15 2 £36,500 -47.85%
Norfolk - 1 £18,000 -
Data Protection Act
England

Data Protection Act
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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 64 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 27 (42.19%) C#
3 26 (40.63%) SQL
4 24 (37.50%) .NET
5 19 (29.69%) SQL Server
6 14 (21.88%) OO
6 14 (21.88%) Finance
7 13 (20.31%) Microsoft
8 12 (18.75%) MS Excel
9 10 (15.63%) T-SQL
9 10 (15.63%) Management Information System
9 10 (15.63%) Silverlight
10 9 (14.06%) WCF
10 9 (14.06%) WPF
10 9 (14.06%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (14.06%) Replication
10 9 (14.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (10.94%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (10.94%) Java
11 7 (10.94%) CSS
11 7 (10.94%) SQL Server 2005
11 7 (10.94%) Games
11 7 (10.94%) Disaster Recovery
11 7 (10.94%) SQL Server 2008
12 6 (9.375%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (9.375%) Windows
13 5 (7.813%) PHP
13 5 (7.813%) MS Office
13 5 (7.813%) HTML
13 5 (7.813%) MCTS

Data Protection Act
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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.

Application Development
1 24 (37.50%) .NET
2 10 (15.63%) Silverlight
3 9 (14.06%) WCF
3 9 (14.06%) WPF
4 7 (10.94%) CSS
5 5 (7.813%) HTML
5 5 (7.813%) HTML5
6 4 (6.250%) J2EE
6 4 (6.250%) ASP.NET
6 4 (6.250%) Web Services
7 3 (4.688%) XML
7 3 (4.688%) ASP
8 2 (3.125%) CSS3
8 2 (3.125%) Middleware
9 1 (1.563%) .NET Framework
9 1 (1.563%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 1 (1.563%) Unity DI Container
Application Platforms
1 5 (7.813%) CMS
1 5 (7.813%) Drupal
2 1 (1.563%) Site Server
Applications
1 12 (18.75%) MS Excel
2 5 (7.813%) MS Office
3 1 (1.563%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.563%) SAP SD
1 1 (1.563%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.563%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.250%) Internet
2 3 (4.688%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (29.69%) SQL Server
2 9 (14.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (10.94%) SQL Server 2005
3 7 (10.94%) SQL Server 2008
4 6 (9.375%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (4.688%) OLTP
5 3 (4.688%) RDBMS
5 3 (4.688%) OLAP
5 3 (4.688%) Oracle OLAP
6 2 (3.125%) DTS
6 2 (3.125%) SQL Server 2000
7 1 (1.563%) MS Access
7 1 (1.563%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (1.563%) Talend Open Studio
1 1 (1.563%) MSTest
1 1 (1.563%) Rhino Mocks
General
1 14 (21.88%) Finance
2 7 (10.94%) Games
3 4 (6.250%) Publishing
3 4 (6.250%) Retail
4 1 (1.563%) Marketing
4 1 (1.563%) Advertising
4 1 (1.563%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 28 (43.75%) Developer
2 15 (23.44%) Analyst
3 13 (20.31%) DBA
4 9 (14.06%) Administrator
4 9 (14.06%) C# Developer
5 8 (12.50%) Software Developer
6 7 (10.94%) SQL DBA
6 7 (10.94%) Senior Developer
7 5 (7.813%) Technical Analyst
7 5 (7.813%) Analyst Developer
7 5 (7.813%) Drupal Developer
7 5 (7.813%) Teradata DBA
8 4 (6.250%) Technical Developer
8 4 (6.250%) Security Analyst
8 4 (6.250%) Information Analyst
8 4 (6.250%) Information Security Analyst
9 3 (4.688%) Design Engineer
10 2 (3.125%) Designer
10 2 (3.125%) UI Designer
10 2 (3.125%) Software Design Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.63%) Management Information System
2 9 (14.06%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (14.06%) Replication
3 5 (7.813%) Mathematics
4 3 (4.688%) Firmware
4 3 (4.688%) Device Driver
4 3 (4.688%) Mobile Games
4 3 (4.688%) Visualisation
4 3 (4.688%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.563%) Computer Science
5 1 (1.563%) CMDB
5 1 (1.563%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.375%) Windows
2 3 (4.688%) Windows CE
2 3 (4.688%) UNIX
2 3 (4.688%) Linux
3 2 (3.125%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 14 (21.88%) OO
3 7 (10.94%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (7.813%) Information Security
4 5 (7.813%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (6.250%) Vulnerability Management
5 4 (6.250%) Service Delivery
5 4 (6.250%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 4 (6.250%) OOP
5 4 (6.250%) ETL
6 3 (4.688%) Project Management
6 3 (4.688%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (4.688%) Systems Analysis
6 3 (4.688%) Service Management
6 3 (4.688%) Quality Management
6 3 (4.688%) Data Architecture
6 3 (4.688%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (4.688%) Game Development
7 2 (3.125%) Data Governance
7 2 (3.125%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 27 (42.19%) C#
2 26 (40.63%) SQL
3 10 (15.63%) T-SQL
4 7 (10.94%) Java
5 5 (7.813%) PHP
6 4 (6.250%) C
7 3 (4.688%) C++
7 3 (4.688%) Delphi
7 3 (4.688%) VB
7 3 (4.688%) VB.NET
7 3 (4.688%) ActionScript
7 3 (4.688%) VB6
7 3 (4.688%) ActionScript 3.0
8 2 (3.125%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.563%) XAML
Qualifications
1 7 (10.94%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (7.813%) MCTS
2 5 (7.813%) Degree
3 4 (6.250%) GIAC
3 4 (6.250%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.813%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.250%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.563%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.563%) Solvency II
Systems Management
1 4 (6.250%) Nessus
Vendors
1 13 (20.31%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.250%) Oracle
3 3 (4.688%) Progress
4 2 (3.125%) QNX
4 2 (3.125%) Intel
5 1 (1.563%) Informatica
5 1 (1.563%) SAP
5 1 (1.563%) Google
5 1 (1.563%) Talend