Data Protection Act Contract Job Trends in County Antrim

Data Protection Act (DPA)
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies in County Antrim. 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 24 - 24
Rank change year-on-year - - +2
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 6 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in County Antrim 3.45% - 1.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.17% - 6.45%
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 - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £103 - £525
% change year-on-year - - +31.25%

All Generic Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 59 77 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 33.91% 33.62% 24.22%
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
Northern Ireland median daily rate £390 £500 £438
% change year-on-year -22.00% +14.29% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 8
10th Percentile £17.22 - -
25th Percentile - £12.31 £12.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £15.05 £22.56
Median % change year-on-year +192.09% -33.29% -
75th Percentile - £15.33 £25.92
90th Percentile - £15.33 £31.88
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £43.96 £15.05 £22.56
% change year-on-year +192.09% -33.29% -

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Data Protection Act job vacancy trend in County Antrim

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

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

Data Protection Act
Contract Job Locations in County Antrim

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 County Antrim region over the 6 months to 9 August 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
Belfast - 6 £109 - 1
Data Protection Act
Northern Ireland

Data Protection Act
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Antrim 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