The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Data Protection Act over the 3 months to 17 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 Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Protection Act (DPA)
Rank 191 169 171
Rank change year-on-year
-22 +2
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection Act 3 6 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.074% 0.165% 0.051%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.257% 0.610% 0.191%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 2
Average salary £29,712 £52,500 £35,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-43.40% +48.93%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,542 £52,500 £27,450
10% offered a salary of more than £30,282 £52,500 £43,050
UK excluding London average salary £38,250 £43,750 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-12.57% -2.77%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
1169 983 1046
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 28.81% 27.11% 26.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1050 803 934
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £23,500 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £57,500 £50,250
UK excluding London average salary £38,815 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.96% +6.66%
Data Protection Act
North West

Data Protection Act
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 17 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
Salford - 2 £30,068 -
Data Protection Act
North West

Data Protection Act
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 10 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 4 (40.00%) Firewall
2 4 (40.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (30.00%) Information Security
3 3 (30.00%) Freedom of Information
3 3 (30.00%) Freedom of Information Act
3 3 (30.00%) Copywriting
4 2 (20.00%) Legal
4 2 (20.00%) Statistics
5 1 (10.00%) Service Management
5 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
5 1 (10.00%) SEO
5 1 (10.00%) Information Security Management
5 1 (10.00%) Security Management
5 1 (10.00%) HTML
5 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (10.00%) SQL
5 1 (10.00%) SAP
5 1 (10.00%) ITIL
5 1 (10.00%) CRM
5 1 (10.00%) EDI
5 1 (10.00%) RFID
5 1 (10.00%) Retail
5 1 (10.00%) Supplier Management
5 1 (10.00%) Web Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) Google
5 1 (10.00%) Pay per click
5 1 (10.00%) Marketing
5 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (10.00%) Business Continuity

Data Protection Act
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 1 (10.00%) HTML
1 1 (10.00%) EDI
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) RFID
General
1 2 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Analyst
1 2 (20.00%) Data Analyst
1 2 (20.00%) Team Leader
1 2 (20.00%) IT Security Officer
1 2 (20.00%) Security Officer
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing Executive
2 1 (10.00%) Systems Support Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Head of IT
2 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Systems Support
2 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (30.00%) Freedom of Information
2 3 (30.00%) Freedom of Information Act
2 3 (30.00%) Copywriting
3 2 (20.00%) Statistics
4 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (10.00%) FMCG
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (10.00%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (30.00%) Information Security
3 1 (10.00%) Supplier Management
3 1 (10.00%) Web Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) Pay per click
3 1 (10.00%) Search Engine Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) ISMS
3 1 (10.00%) Online Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (10.00%) Network Management
3 1 (10.00%) SIEM
3 1 (10.00%) Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL
3 1 (10.00%) CRM
3 1 (10.00%) Service Management
3 1 (10.00%) Information Security Management
3 1 (10.00%) Security Management
3 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (10.00%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) SAP
1 1 (10.00%) Google