The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Data Protection Act over the 3 months to 20 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 Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Protection Act (DPA)
Rank 141 147 162
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +15
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection Act 3 1 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.124% 0.040% 0.092%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.444% 0.146% 0.321%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 3
Average salary - £65,000 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +96.96%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £43,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-11.49% -3.33%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
676 686 935
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 27.84% 27.34% 28.82%
Number of salaries quoted 558 542 764
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +5.59%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,250 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,625 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-3.43% +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 Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Data Protection Act Salary Trend

Data Protection Act
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 9 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 8 (88.89%) Management Information System
3 5 (55.56%) Finance
3 5 (55.56%) Publishing
3 5 (55.56%) Games
3 5 (55.56%) GIAC
3 5 (55.56%) Information Security
3 5 (55.56%) Retail
3 5 (55.56%) CISSP
3 5 (55.56%) J2EE
3 5 (55.56%) PCI DSS
3 5 (55.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (55.56%) Nessus
3 5 (55.56%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 5 (55.56%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (33.33%) Intranet
4 3 (33.33%) Internet
4 3 (33.33%) Systems Analysis
4 3 (33.33%) Service Management
4 3 (33.33%) Service Delivery
4 3 (33.33%) Degree
4 3 (33.33%) Mathematics
4 3 (33.33%) Oracle OLAP
4 3 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (33.33%) Oracle
4 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 3 (33.33%) OLAP
4 3 (33.33%) C
4 3 (33.33%) C#

Data Protection Act
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 5 (55.56%) J2EE
2 3 (33.33%) ASP
2 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 3 (33.33%) Web Services
2 3 (33.33%) XML
2 3 (33.33%) .NET
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) MS Office
2 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
2 1 (11.11%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) SAP SD
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Intranet
1 3 (33.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 3 (33.33%) OLAP
1 3 (33.33%) OLTP
1 3 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle OLAP
2 1 (11.11%) MS Access
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
1 5 (55.56%) Publishing
1 5 (55.56%) Games
1 5 (55.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Analyst
1 5 (55.56%) Security Analyst
1 5 (55.56%) Information Analyst
1 5 (55.56%) Information Security Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) DBA
2 3 (33.33%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Management Information System
2 3 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 3 (33.33%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
1 3 (33.33%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 5 (55.56%) Vulnerability Management
2 5 (55.56%) Information Security
2 5 (55.56%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 3 (33.33%) Systems Analysis
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (33.33%) OOP
3 3 (33.33%) OO
3 3 (33.33%) ETL
3 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (33.33%) Service Management
3 3 (33.33%) Service Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Project Management
4 1 (11.11%) CRM
4 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
4 1 (11.11%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) C
1 3 (33.33%) C#
1 3 (33.33%) Delphi
1 3 (33.33%) Java
1 3 (33.33%) VB
1 3 (33.33%) VB.NET
1 3 (33.33%) VB6
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) CISSP
1 5 (55.56%) GIAC
2 3 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (55.56%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Nessus
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle
1 3 (33.33%) Progress
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) SAP