Data Protection Act Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Data Protection Act (DPA)
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 72 82
Rank change year-on-year -1 +10 -11
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 27 37 39
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 2.07% 2.31% 2.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.48% 7.64% 6.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 29
10th Percentile £222 £400 £263
25th Percentile £400 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +17.65% -20.93%
75th Percentile £450 £542 £538
90th Percentile £585 £594 £608
South East median daily rate £413 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -15.38% -2.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £18.88 -
25th Percentile - £19.06 £24.34
Median hourly rate - £20.00 £25.12
Median % change year-on-year - -20.37% -
75th Percentile - £45.16 £25.89
90th Percentile - £59.88 -
South East median hourly rate £15.25 £20.00 £25.12
% change year-on-year -23.75% -20.37% +11.62%

All Generic Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 493 484 601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 37.84% 30.16% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 249 361
10th Percentile £292 £315 £210
25th Percentile £406 £406 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £620 £620
90th Percentile £670 £689 £700
South East median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 19 24
10th Percentile £20.56 £19.25 £21.08
25th Percentile £20.79 £34.38 £41.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £62.13
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -7.44% +6.65%
75th Percentile £67.63 £60.83 £68.81
90th Percentile £86.00 £63.73 £80.45
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £52.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -52.38% - +54.41%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Data Protection Act job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in Berkshire over the 6 months to 2 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in Berkshire

Data Protection Act
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Data Protection Act.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Data Protection Act

Data Protection Act
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Protection Act within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 2 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bracknell +3 15 £650 +52.94%
Reading 0 7 £425 -17.07% 1
Slough -3 1 £400 - 1
Data Protection Act
South East

Data Protection Act
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 5 (18.52%) Confluence
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.70%) nginx
3 1 (3.70%) SAS
3 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (3.70%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) Azure
2 4 (14.81%) AWS
3 3 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
4 2 (7.41%) GitHub
4 2 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.41%) SaaS
4 2 (7.41%) Slack
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.70%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.70%) Serverless
5 1 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) Firewall
1 3 (11.11%) HTTP
2 2 (7.41%) BGP
2 2 (7.41%) Ethernet
2 2 (7.41%) Wireshark
3 1 (3.70%) DNS
3 1 (3.70%) DWDM
3 1 (3.70%) LAN
3 1 (3.70%) Network Security
3 1 (3.70%) SD-WAN
3 1 (3.70%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.70%) VLAN
3 1 (3.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.70%) Power BI
3 1 (3.70%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) JIRA
2 2 (7.41%) Fiddler
3 1 (3.70%) GitLab
General
1 14 (51.85%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 2 (7.41%) Aerospace
3 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (7.41%) General Ledger
3 2 (7.41%) Marketing
3 2 (7.41%) Publishing
4 1 (3.70%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (3.70%) French Language
4 1 (3.70%) German Language
4 1 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Support Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Technical Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Technical Support
2 5 (18.52%) Technical Support Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Business Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Network Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Oracle Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Oracle Business Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Product Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Project Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Senior
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Business Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Oracle Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Security Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Fibre Designer
5 1 (3.70%) Graduate Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Power BI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) OAuth
2 3 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (11.11%) PySpark
3 2 (7.41%) HTML
3 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (3.70%) .NET
4 1 (3.70%) CSS
4 1 (3.70%) JSON
4 1 (3.70%) MDX
4 1 (3.70%) OAuth2
4 1 (3.70%) React
4 1 (3.70%) REST
4 1 (3.70%) RESTful
4 1 (3.70%) SOAP
4 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
1 1 (3.70%) Cyberattack
1 1 (3.70%) Fibre Optics
1 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Windows
2 2 (7.41%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 9 (33.33%) Agile
3 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (18.52%) Analytics
4 5 (18.52%) Migration
4 5 (18.52%) Roadmaps
5 4 (14.81%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (14.81%) Mentoring
5 4 (14.81%) Project Management
5 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (11.11%) Customer Engagement
6 3 (11.11%) Customer Experience
6 3 (11.11%) DevOps
6 3 (11.11%) Product Management
6 3 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (11.11%) User Stories
7 2 (7.41%) BPMN
7 2 (7.41%) Data Migration
7 2 (7.41%) Kanban
7 2 (7.41%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.11%) TypeScript
2 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.70%) C#
3 1 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (3.70%) Java
3 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.70%) Python
3 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Degree
2 2 (7.41%) AWS Certification
2 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.70%) NIST
1 1 (3.70%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Cisco
1 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) Oracle
3 3 (11.11%) Foundry
3 3 (11.11%) Palantir
4 2 (7.41%) Fortinet
4 2 (7.41%) Juniper
4 2 (7.41%) Meraki
5 1 (3.70%) Aruba
5 1 (3.70%) F5
5 1 (3.70%) HP
5 1 (3.70%) IBM
5 1 (3.70%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (3.70%) Nokia
5 1 (3.70%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.70%) Pega
5 1 (3.70%) Progress
5 1 (3.70%) Zscaler