Data Protection Act Contract Job Trends in East Yorkshire

Data Protection Act (DPA)
Yorkshire > East Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies in East Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months leading up to 24 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in East Yorkshire 1.67% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.26% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £531 £425
% change year-on-year -10.59% +25.00% -19.05%

All Generic Skills
East Yorkshire

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 East Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 19 2 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Yorkshire 31.67% 33.33% 31.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £480 - £188
25th Percentile £488 - £228
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £180 £360
Median % change year-on-year +177.78% -50.00% +3.60%
75th Percentile £550 - £425
90th Percentile £565 - £538
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 2
10th Percentile £54.40 - -
25th Percentile £55.75 - £61.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £62.50
75th Percentile £68.75 - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £54.00 £36.91 £14.63
% change year-on-year +46.32% +152.34% +37.58%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in East Yorkshire

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

Data Protection Act job vacancy trend in East Yorkshire

Data Protection Act
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Yorkshire 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (100.00%) SELinux
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat