The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in IT jobs advertised for the Northern Ireland 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 Northern Ireland region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Protection Act (DPA)
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection Act 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northern Ireland - - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-10.58% -5.55%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Northern Ireland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
91 80 67
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northern Ireland 35.41% 34.33% 29.00%
Number of salaries quoted 49 43 34
Average salary £45,000 £37,500 £29,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.00% +27.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,000 £22,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £42,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Data Protection Act
UK

Data Protection Act
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northern Ireland 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 Northern Ireland region.

Northern Ireland Data Protection Act Salary Trend

Data Protection Act
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northern Ireland 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 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Mining
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (100.00%) MDX
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) LogiXML

Data Protection Act
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northern Ireland 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 (100.00%) MDX
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Data Mining
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) LogiXML