Data Protection Act Contract Job Trends in Durham

Data Protection Act (DPA)
North East > Durham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies in Durham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Durham 10.00% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 33.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £273 - -
25th Percentile £288 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
75th Percentile £363 - -
90th Percentile £378 - -
North East median daily rate £375 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -11.76% +6.25% +8.11%

All Generic Skills
Durham

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 Durham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9 15 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Durham 30.00% 28.30% 12.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 4
10th Percentile £197 £415 £222
25th Percentile £231 £438 £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £460 £432
Median % change year-on-year -18.48% +6.55% +29.85%
75th Percentile £650 £524 £471
90th Percentile £750 £565 £503
North East median daily rate £400 £495 £445
% change year-on-year -19.19% +11.36% -18.44%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

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

Data Protection Act job vacancy trend in Durham

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Trend in Durham

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

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

Data Protection Act
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Durham 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:

General
1 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Deployment Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Operations Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Robotics Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (100.00%) Mechatronics
2 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA