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 14 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 72 80
Rank change year-on-year -8 +8 +2
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 36 24 35
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 2.00% 2.05% 2.06%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.71% 5.45% 7.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 3 11
10th Percentile £305 £165 £400
25th Percentile £350 £258 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £425 £513
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% -17.07% +20.59%
75th Percentile £400 £444 £547
90th Percentile £486 £448 £613
South East median daily rate £375 £428 £500
% change year-on-year -12.28% -14.50% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £18.88
25th Percentile - - £19.06
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
75th Percentile - - £45.16
90th Percentile - - £59.88
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £15.25 £19.38
% change year-on-year +260.66% -21.29% -50.07%

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 631 440 489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 35.02% 37.64% 28.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 380 274 252
10th Percentile £319 £290 £281
25th Percentile £400 £376 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £546
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -8.47% +6.33%
75th Percentile £613 £575 £628
90th Percentile £700 £650 £692
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 17 25
10th Percentile £16.01 £32.05 £19.00
25th Percentile £27.20 £42.50 £27.75
Median hourly rate £68.00 £58.00 £47.25
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% +22.76% -26.28%
75th Percentile £85.00 £87.25 £61.06
90th Percentile £100.42 £88.87 £69.98
South East median hourly rate £38.49 £33.05 £57.35
% change year-on-year +16.44% -42.37% +5.48%

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 14 September 2026.

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 14 September 2026. 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
Reading -6 33 £371 -12.65% 1
Bracknell -10 1 - -
Maidenhead - 1 - -
Wokingham - 1 £360 -
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 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.78%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.89%) Azure
2 3 (8.33%) AWS
3 2 (5.56%) GCP
4 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.78%) GitHub
4 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.78%) SaaS
4 1 (2.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.67%) Firewall
1 6 (16.67%) VoIP
2 4 (11.11%) MPLS
2 4 (11.11%) Network Security
2 4 (11.11%) Unified Communications
2 4 (11.11%) WAN
3 3 (8.33%) VPN
4 2 (5.56%) 4G
4 2 (5.56%) 5G
4 2 (5.56%) Broadband
4 2 (5.56%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (5.56%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 2 (5.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (5.56%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (5.56%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (5.56%) SD-WAN
4 2 (5.56%) SMS
4 2 (5.56%) SSL
4 2 (5.56%) VoLTE
5 1 (2.78%) DMVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (2.78%) Big Data
1 1 (2.78%) BigQuery
1 1 (2.78%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.78%) Data Mining
1 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.78%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (2.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Git
1 1 (2.78%) GitLab
1 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (52.78%) Social Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Finance
3 4 (11.11%) Telecoms
4 3 (8.33%) Retail
5 2 (5.56%) Billing
5 2 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (25.00%) Architect
1 9 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
2 4 (11.11%) Network Architect
3 3 (8.33%) Analyst
3 3 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 3 (8.33%) Project Manager
3 3 (8.33%) Security Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) Senior
3 3 (8.33%) Support Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Consultant
4 2 (5.56%) Designer
4 2 (5.56%) Finance Business Analyst
4 2 (5.56%) Financial Analyst
4 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Network Designer
4 2 (5.56%) Project Consultant
4 2 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Solutions Designer
5 1 (2.78%) EPoS Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) EPoS Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) .NET
1 1 (2.78%) 802.1X
1 1 (2.78%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (2.78%) REST
1 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.56%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.78%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.78%) EPoS
2 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 11 (30.56%) Value Proposition
3 8 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (19.44%) Project Management
4 7 (19.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 6 (16.67%) Agile
5 6 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (16.67%) Migration
6 5 (13.89%) Service Delivery
7 4 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
7 4 (11.11%) Customer Service
7 4 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (11.11%) Data Engineering
7 4 (11.11%) Data Science
7 4 (11.11%) DevOps
7 4 (11.11%) Network Architecture
8 3 (8.33%) Analytics
8 3 (8.33%) CI/CD
8 3 (8.33%) Decision-Making
8 3 (8.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.33%) Python
1 3 (8.33%) SQL
2 2 (5.56%) Java
3 1 (2.78%) Apex Code
3 1 (2.78%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 14 (38.89%) SC Cleared
1 14 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 9 (25.00%) Cisco
2 6 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (13.89%) F5
4 3 (8.33%) SAP
5 2 (5.56%) CheckPoint
5 2 (5.56%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.78%) Blue Coat
6 1 (2.78%) Concur
6 1 (2.78%) Databricks
6 1 (2.78%) Google
6 1 (2.78%) Juniper
6 1 (2.78%) Oracle
6 1 (2.78%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.78%) Workday
6 1 (2.78%) Zoho
6 1 (2.78%) Zscaler