Data Protection Act Contract Job Trends in Belfast

Data Protection Act (DPA)
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies in Belfast. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months leading up to 9 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 - 23
Rank change year-on-year - - +1
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 6 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Belfast 4.03% - 1.64%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.34% - 6.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £102 - -
25th Percentile £103 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £109 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +31.25%
75th Percentile £118 - £538
90th Percentile £121 - -
County Antrim median daily rate £109 - £525
% change year-on-year - - +31.25%

All Generic Skills
Belfast

Data Protection Act falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Belfast.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 58 76 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 38.93% 37.81% 23.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 36 11
10th Percentile £263 £286 £155
25th Percentile £356 £362 £186
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +14.29% +9.38%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £472
90th Percentile £663 £606 £488
County Antrim median daily rate £400 £500 £438
% change year-on-year -20.00% +14.29% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 6
10th Percentile £17.22 - -
25th Percentile - £12.31 £12.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £15.05 £17.41
Median % change year-on-year +192.09% -13.53% -
75th Percentile - £15.33 £23.94
90th Percentile - £15.33 -
County Antrim median hourly rate £43.96 £15.05 £22.56
% change year-on-year +192.09% -33.29% -

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Protection Act relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Data Protection Act job vacancy trend in Belfast

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Data Protection Act.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Data Protection Act

Data Protection Act
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Coordinator
1 1 (16.67%) Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Project Coordinator
1 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (16.67%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (33.33%) Logistics
4 2 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) Project Management
4 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Value Proposition
5 1 (16.67%) Change Management
5 1 (16.67%) Data Management
5 1 (16.67%) ITIL
5 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
5 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Go
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Huawei