Data Protection Act Contracts in England

Data Protection Act (DPA)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies in 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 15 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 199 149 167
Rank change year-on-year -50 +18 +301
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 452 820 1,199
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.21% 1.74% 1.71%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.98% 5.19% 5.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 521 941
10th Percentile £222 £288 £313
25th Percentile £353 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £638
90th Percentile £725 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 8 18
10th Percentile £11.95 £19.96 -
25th Percentile £18.61 £21.06 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £29.62
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +26.60% +15.67%
75th Percentile £29.38 £53.75 £68.03
90th Percentile £62.50 £60.50 £77.32
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £38.75 £23.37
% change year-on-year -29.03% +65.81% -8.74%

All Generic Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,349 15,786 23,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.26% 33.56% 33.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,319 11,005 17,096
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 850 549 600
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.39 £10.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.04
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Act in England

Data Protection Act
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Act in England

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in England over the 6 months to 15 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in England

Data Protection Act
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection Act in England

Data Protection Act
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Protection Act in England over the 6 months to 15 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Protection Act in England

Data Protection Act
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 15 June 2024. 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
London +10 279 £525 -12.50% 19
South East +8 74 £425 -17.07% 13
North of England -92 41 £525 +23.53% 26
North West -76 24 £513 +27.73% 10
Midlands -28 22 £425 - 20
West Midlands -16 18 £425 -5.03% 9
East of England +1 15 £295 -47.56% 13
South West -18 14 £110 -83.52% 16
Yorkshire -15 11 £538 +19.44% 13
North East +9 6 - - 3
East Midlands -7 4 £538 +65.38% 11
Data Protection Act
UK

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (1.55%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.11%) Confluence
3 5 (1.11%) SAS
4 2 (0.44%) Gunicorn
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.22%) CMS
5 1 (0.22%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.44%) Mingle
3 2 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.66%) Endur
1 3 (0.66%) ION MarketView
2 2 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.22%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.22%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.22%) SAP WM
3 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 52 (11.50%) AWS
2 34 (7.52%) Azure
3 17 (3.76%) GCP
3 17 (3.76%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (2.21%) Amazon S3
5 8 (1.77%) Power Platform
6 7 (1.55%) GitHub
6 7 (1.55%) SaaS
7 6 (1.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (1.33%) Serverless
8 5 (1.11%) Entra ID
8 5 (1.11%) PaaS
9 4 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (0.88%) OneDrive
9 4 (0.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (0.66%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (0.66%) Datadog
10 3 (0.66%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.10%) WAN
2 11 (2.43%) PBX
2 11 (2.43%) VoIP
3 10 (2.21%) 5G
3 10 (2.21%) DNS
4 9 (1.99%) DHCP
4 9 (1.99%) Firewall
4 9 (1.99%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (1.55%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.33%) BGP
6 6 (1.33%) HTTP
6 6 (1.33%) LAN
6 6 (1.33%) MPLS
6 6 (1.33%) VPN
7 5 (1.11%) Network Security
7 5 (1.11%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.88%) Cisco ISE
8 4 (0.88%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (0.88%) SDH
8 4 (0.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.88%) Big Data
2 11 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (2.21%) Relational Database
4 8 (1.77%) Power BI
4 8 (1.77%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.33%) Metadata
6 5 (1.11%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.88%) KDB
7 4 (0.88%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.88%) Star Schema
8 3 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.66%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.66%) Hadoop
8 3 (0.66%) MySQL
9 2 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.44%) Parquet
9 2 (0.44%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 2 (0.44%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (5.97%) Git
2 15 (3.32%) JIRA
3 12 (2.65%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.99%) ERwin
5 6 (1.33%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (1.11%) XCTest
7 4 (0.88%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.66%) GitLab
8 3 (0.66%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (0.66%) SpecFlow
8 3 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.66%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.44%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.44%) FitNesse
10 1 (0.22%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.22%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.22%) HP UFT
10 1 (0.22%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.22%) Selenium
General
1 75 (16.59%) Social Skills
2 47 (10.40%) Finance
3 37 (8.19%) Telecoms
4 33 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (7.08%) Banking
6 30 (6.64%) Marketing
7 24 (5.31%) Public Sector
8 21 (4.65%) Legal
9 18 (3.98%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (2.65%) Law
11 9 (1.99%) Games
11 9 (1.99%) Retail
12 7 (1.55%) Local Government
12 7 (1.55%) Police
13 6 (1.33%) Billing
14 5 (1.11%) Back Office
14 5 (1.11%) Publishing
15 4 (0.88%) Electronics
15 4 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (15.27%) Developer
2 61 (13.50%) Architect
3 45 (9.96%) Analyst
4 34 (7.52%) Lead
5 33 (7.30%) Project Manager
6 26 (5.75%) Senior
7 25 (5.53%) Solutions Architect
8 18 (3.98%) Business Analyst
9 17 (3.76%) Network Engineer
10 16 (3.54%) Java Developer
11 15 (3.32%) QA Engineer
12 14 (3.10%) Junior
12 14 (3.10%) Support Engineer
13 13 (2.88%) Consultant
13 13 (2.88%) QA Leader
14 11 (2.43%) Software Engineer
15 10 (2.21%) Administrator
15 10 (2.21%) Data Architect
15 10 (2.21%) Python Developer
16 9 (1.99%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.21%) Kafka
2 9 (1.99%) Spring
2 9 (1.99%) XML
3 8 (1.77%) React
4 7 (1.55%) SwiftUI
5 5 (1.11%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.11%) Flask
5 5 (1.11%) HTML
5 5 (1.11%) JSON
5 5 (1.11%) REST
5 5 (1.11%) RESTful
5 5 (1.11%) Spring Boot
6 4 (0.88%) .NET
6 4 (0.88%) CSS
6 4 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (0.88%) Node.js
7 3 (0.66%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.66%) J2EE
7 3 (0.66%) JSP
7 3 (0.66%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 21 (4.65%) Management Information System
2 19 (4.20%) Freedom of Information
3 17 (3.76%) Freedom of Information Act
4 11 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.21%) FPGA
5 10 (2.21%) Mobile App
6 9 (1.99%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.77%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.55%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.55%) Derivative
9 6 (1.33%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.33%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.11%) Mainframe
10 5 (1.11%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.11%) Social Media
10 5 (1.11%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.88%) Cloud Native
11 4 (0.88%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 33 (7.30%) Linux
1 33 (7.30%) Windows
2 13 (2.88%) Apple iOS
3 11 (2.43%) Unix
4 9 (1.99%) Android
4 9 (1.99%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.66%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.66%) Solaris
5 3 (0.66%) VMS
5 3 (0.66%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.44%) AIX
6 2 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.22%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.22%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (99.56%) Data Protection
2 80 (17.70%) Agile
3 56 (12.39%) Value Proposition
4 42 (9.29%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (8.85%) Project Management
6 32 (7.08%) Stakeholder Management
7 30 (6.64%) Scrum
8 29 (6.42%) Computer Science
9 28 (6.19%) CI/CD
9 28 (6.19%) Migration
10 27 (5.97%) Analytics
10 27 (5.97%) Data Modelling
11 25 (5.53%) DevOps
11 25 (5.53%) Test Automation
11 25 (5.53%) User Acceptance Testing
12 20 (4.42%) Business Intelligence
12 20 (4.42%) Software Engineering
13 19 (4.20%) Customer Service
13 19 (4.20%) Information Security
13 19 (4.20%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 63 (13.94%) Python
2 45 (9.96%) Java
3 41 (9.07%) SQL
4 21 (4.65%) C++
5 16 (3.54%) PowerShell
6 15 (3.32%) C#
7 14 (3.10%) JavaScript
8 12 (2.65%) Bash
9 10 (2.21%) Perl
9 10 (2.21%) Swift
9 10 (2.21%) TypeScript
10 9 (1.99%) Scala
11 7 (1.55%) C
12 5 (1.11%) PHP
13 3 (0.66%) F#
14 2 (0.44%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.22%) Assembly Language
15 1 (0.22%) COBOL
15 1 (0.22%) REXX
15 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 53 (11.73%) Security Cleared
2 52 (11.50%) Degree
3 38 (8.41%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.54%) DV Cleared
5 11 (2.43%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.55%) CCNP
8 6 (1.33%) ISEB
9 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.88%) CCNA
10 4 (0.88%) CISSP
11 3 (0.66%) CCIE
11 3 (0.66%) CISM
11 3 (0.66%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.66%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.44%) CEH
12 2 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.44%) MCSA
12 2 (0.44%) MCSE
13 1 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (9.07%) GDPR
2 34 (7.52%) QA
3 14 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.43%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.33%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.11%) SLA
7 3 (0.66%) PMO
8 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.44%) MiFID
8 2 (0.44%) NIST
9 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.22%) GRC
9 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 21 (4.65%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.21%) Docker
4 5 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.44%) Firmware
5 2 (0.44%) vSphere
6 1 (0.22%) NFS
6 1 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 19 (4.20%) Terraform
2 15 (3.32%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.21%) Ansible
4 4 (0.88%) Grafana
4 4 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (0.88%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.44%) EMC NetWorker
6 2 (0.44%) HP Data Protector
6 2 (0.44%) Nessus
6 2 (0.44%) NetBackup
6 2 (0.44%) SCCM
7 1 (0.22%) Ambari
7 1 (0.22%) Graylog
7 1 (0.22%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.22%) OMEGAMON
7 1 (0.22%) Oozie
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.22%) Puppet
7 1 (0.22%) systemd
Vendors
1 38 (8.41%) Microsoft
2 36 (7.96%) Cisco
3 11 (2.43%) SAP
3 11 (2.43%) VMware
4 10 (2.21%) Google
4 10 (2.21%) Oracle
4 10 (2.21%) Salesforce
5 8 (1.77%) Cadence
6 7 (1.55%) Nokia
7 6 (1.33%) Apple
7 6 (1.33%) IBM
7 6 (1.33%) OneTrust
7 6 (1.33%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.33%) Sparx
7 6 (1.33%) Splunk
8 5 (1.11%) ION Trading
9 4 (0.88%) Aruba
9 4 (0.88%) F5
9 4 (0.88%) Juniper
10 3 (0.66%) Meraki