Data Protection Act Contracts in the East of England

Data Protection Act (DPA)
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 85 97
Rank change year-on-year +1 +12 +23
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 11 15 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.88% 0.93% 1.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.51% 4.11% 3.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 9
10th Percentile £340 £233 £393
25th Percentile £400 £263 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £315 £550
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -42.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £513 £356 £588
90th Percentile - £375 £589
England median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £19.06
25th Percentile - £16.72 £19.60
Median hourly rate - £17.47 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - -16.81% -72.84%
75th Percentile - £18.22 £21.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £15.25 £27.50 £37.38
% change year-on-year -44.55% -26.42% +66.11%

All Generic Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 438 365 606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 34.87% 22.64% 31.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 181 346
10th Percentile £195 £178 £189
25th Percentile £379 £300 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £591 £550 £584
90th Percentile £669 £650 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 72 48
10th Percentile £16.95 £25.10 £20.50
25th Percentile £27.74 £46.25 £32.71
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +76.47%
75th Percentile £76.25 £65.00 £65.25
90th Percentile £87.50 £85.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £31.00 £47.50 £40.46
% change year-on-year -34.74% +17.41% +55.61%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Act in the East of England

Data Protection Act
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Act in the East of England

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in the East of England over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in the East of England

Data Protection Act
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection Act in the East of England

Data Protection Act
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 4 August 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
Cambridgeshire +3 6 £475 +37.68% 1
Hertfordshire +8 3 £400 +45.45% 1
Essex +3 2 £300 -
Data Protection Act
England

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (18.18%) Slack
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Wireless
2 1 (9.09%) 4G
2 1 (9.09%) 5G
2 1 (9.09%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) GitLab
General
1 1 (9.09%) Aerospace
1 1 (9.09%) Electronics
1 1 (9.09%) Finance
1 1 (9.09%) Health Technology
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
1 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Data Centre Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Electrical Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Electronics Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Electronics Hardware Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Electronics Test Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Hardware Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Hardware Test Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Project Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Service Delivery Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Service Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
1 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) AI Agents
2 1 (9.09%) Driving Licence
2 1 (9.09%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) Migration
2 3 (27.27%) Observability
3 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (18.18%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (18.18%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Preventative Maintenance
3 2 (18.18%) RBAC
3 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
4 1 (9.09%) Data Centre Operations
4 1 (9.09%) Machine Learning
4 1 (9.09%) Network Architecture
4 1 (9.09%) Performance Testing
4 1 (9.09%) Problem Management
4 1 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Java
1 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (9.09%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Dynatrace
2 1 (9.09%) EMC
2 1 (9.09%) Ericsson
2 1 (9.09%) IBM
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Nokia
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
2 1 (9.09%) VMware