Data Protection Act Contracts in Leicestershire

Data Protection Act (DPA)
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies in Leicestershire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 24 32
Rank change year-on-year +7 +8 -6
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 2 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicestershire 2.00% 1.26% 1.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.88% 4.08% 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £363 - £325
25th Percentile £363 - £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £374 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - +150.00%
75th Percentile £385 - £469
90th Percentile £387 - £495
East Midlands median daily rate £375 £569 £325
% change year-on-year -34.07% +75.00% +4.00%

All Generic Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34 49 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 34.00% 30.82% 22.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 34 33
10th Percentile £250 £160 £333
25th Percentile £308 £223 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £323 £395
Median % change year-on-year +43.41% -18.35% -8.14%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £469
90th Percentile £636 £625 £510
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £410 £436
% change year-on-year +9.76% -5.86% -3.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £13.81 £14.00 £21.97
% change year-on-year -1.36% -36.26% +28.41%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Act in Leicestershire

Data Protection Act
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Act in Leicestershire

Data Protection Act
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection Act in Leicestershire

Data Protection Act
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Leicester +1 1 £375 -
Data Protection Act
East Midlands

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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