Data Protection Act Contract Job Trends 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 30 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 68 59
Rank change year-on-year -2 -9 +4
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 10 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.87% 0.13% 0.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.62% 0.39% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £233 - £366
25th Percentile £263 £363 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £375 £538
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -30.23% +43.33%
75th Percentile £388 £388 £572
90th Percentile £418 - £589
England median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £19.69 - -
25th Percentile £23.43 - -
Median hourly rate £25.50 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £28.00 £15.25 £27.50
% change year-on-year +83.61% -44.55% -26.42%

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 276 254 230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 24.06% 33.42% 29.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 180 151
10th Percentile £253 £305 £240
25th Percentile £400 £358 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £437 £455
Median % change year-on-year +14.35% -3.90% -4.21%
75th Percentile £600 £525 £550
90th Percentile £669 £626 £619
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 21 9
10th Percentile £12.76 £13.81 £11.15
25th Percentile £13.51 £15.09 £12.28
Median hourly rate £17.92 £20.83 £15.10
Median % change year-on-year -13.97% +37.95% -74.83%
75th Percentile £25.75 £21.39 £20.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £25.11 £28.38
England median hourly rate £43.96 £32.05 £45.00
% change year-on-year +37.16% -28.78% +12.04%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Data Protection Act job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Protection Act.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Protection Act

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 30 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in the East Midlands

Data Protection Act
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Protection Act.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Protection Act

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 30 July 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
Northamptonshire - 5 - - 2
Nottinghamshire - 4 £425 -
Leicestershire -5 1 £225 -40.00%
Data Protection Act
England

Data Protection Act
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) GitHub
2 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Metadata
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
1 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
1 3 (30.00%) GitLab
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
2 2 (20.00%) Gatling
2 2 (20.00%) Gradle
2 2 (20.00%) JMeter
2 2 (20.00%) JUnit
2 2 (20.00%) Maven
2 2 (20.00%) Postman
2 2 (20.00%) REST Assured
2 2 (20.00%) TestNG
General
1 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Fire and Rescue
2 3 (30.00%) Police
2 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Information Assurance Manager
1 3 (30.00%) Information Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Report Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Site Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) JSON
1 2 (20.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (20.00%) Playwright
1 2 (20.00%) REST
1 2 (20.00%) Swagger
1 2 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (10.00%) Hedge funds
1 1 (10.00%) NHS
1 1 (10.00%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) CentOS
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 4 (40.00%) Change Management
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Compliance Audit
3 3 (30.00%) Information Assurance
3 3 (30.00%) Information Security
3 3 (30.00%) Innovative Thinking
3 3 (30.00%) Observability
3 3 (30.00%) Validation
4 2 (20.00%) API Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (20.00%) Dependency Management
4 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) OOP
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
5 1 (10.00%) Agile
5 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) QA
2 3 (30.00%) GDPR
3 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Databricks
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (10.00%) SAP
1 1 (10.00%) Workday