Data Protection Act Contracts in the East Midlands

Data Protection Act (DPA)
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 65 68
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 +3
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 2 4 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.28% 0.46% 1.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.85% 1.59% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 13
10th Percentile £363 £366 -
25th Percentile £363 £428 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £374 £538 £325
Median % change year-on-year -30.47% +65.38% -33.67%
75th Percentile £385 £572 £388
90th Percentile £387 £589 £438
England median daily rate £459 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -8.20% -6.98% -2.27%

All Generic Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 236 252 292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 33.24% 29.00% 29.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 165 211
10th Percentile £302 £188 £213
25th Percentile £358 £305 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £449 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.12% -0.22% -2.70%
75th Percentile £537 £544 £578
90th Percentile £630 £611 £685
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 16 15
10th Percentile - £11.75 £19.40
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.28 £20.36
Median hourly rate £18.51 £14.00 £22.26
Median % change year-on-year +32.21% -37.11% +11.30%
75th Percentile £21.39 £20.43 £65.00
90th Percentile £25.11 £26.50 -
England median hourly rate £32.85 £36.50 £23.50
% change year-on-year -10.00% +55.32% -11.32%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Data Protection Act as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Act in the East Midlands

Data Protection Act
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Protection Act in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Act in the East Midlands

Data Protection Act
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Protection Act in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection Act in the East Midlands

Data Protection Act
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 July 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
Leicestershire +4 2 £374 -
Data Protection Act
England

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Junior
1 1 (50.00%) Junior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ADO
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Perforce