Data Protection Act Contract Job Trends in Chester

Data Protection Act (DPA)
Cheshire > Chester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies in Chester. 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 November 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 14 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	21	20	16
Rank change year-on-year	-1	-4	-4
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act	9	4	1
As % of all contract jobs in Chester	5.08%	3.39%	1.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category	20.45%	12.12%	3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted	1	4	0
10^th Percentile	-	£346	-
25^th Percentile	£313	£397	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£325	£450	-
Median % change year-on-year	-27.78%	-	-
75^th Percentile	£338	£494	-
90^th Percentile	-	£528	-
Cheshire median daily rate	£563	£450	£450
% change year-on-year	+25.00%	-	-12.20%

All Generic Skills
Chester

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 citing generic IT skills in Chester.

	6 months to 14 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing generic IT skills	44	33	30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Chester	24.86%	27.97%	42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted	18	24	6
10^th Percentile	£346	£192	£463
25^th Percentile	£406	£422	£513
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£550	£539
Median % change year-on-year	-4.55%	+2.14%	-1.64%
75^th Percentile	£569	£638	£571
90^th Percentile	£830	£688	£594
Cheshire median daily rate	£475	£447	£500
% change year-on-year	+6.26%	-10.60%	-6.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted	2	0	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£19.50	-	-
Median hourly rate	£21.00	-	-
75^th Percentile	£22.50	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
Cheshire median hourly rate	£26.00	£16.00	£24.18
% change year-on-year	+62.50%	-33.83%	+9.91%

Data Protection Act Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Data Protection Act Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

Data Protection Act Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester

For the 6 months to 14 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Data Protection Act also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Chester region citing Data Protection Act.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Data Protection	100.0%	9
2	Migration	66.7%	6
2	Virtual Desktop	66.7%	6
2	VMware	66.7%	6
2	VMware Infrastructure	66.7%	6
6	Azure	55.6%	5
6	Citrix	55.6%	5
8	SQL	33.3%	3
9	Analytics	22.2%	2
9	Incident Management	22.2%	2
9	PowerShell	22.2%	2
9	Python	22.2%	2
9	Root Cause Analysis	22.2%	2
9	SEPA	22.2%	2
9	Splunk	22.2%	2
9	Stakeholder Management	22.2%	2
9	Windows	22.2%	2
18	Active Directory	11.1%	1
18	Apache	11.1%	1
18	Application Virtualisation	11.1%	1
18	AWS	11.1%	1
18	AWS Certification	11.1%	1
18	Azure Certification	11.1%	1
18	Business Intelligence	11.1%	1
18	CISSP	11.1%	1
18	Data Analytics	11.1%	1
18	Firewall	11.1%	1
18	Identity Management	11.1%	1
18	IIS	11.1%	1
18	Information Security	11.1%	1

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

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Miscellaneous

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	SWIFT Messaging Network	22.2%	2
2	Client/Server	11.1%	1