Data Protection Act Contracts in London

Data Protection Act (DPA)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 158 168 223
Rank change year-on-year +10 +55 +190
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 279 398 510
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.58% 1.58% 1.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.77% 4.40% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 259 411
10th Percentile £225 £375 £363
25th Percentile £389 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £644 £738 £700
90th Percentile £748 £825 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 2
10th Percentile - £53.00 £24.95
25th Percentile £11.95 £55.63 £32.38
Median hourly rate £27.84 £62.50 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.46% +35.87% +166.94%
75th Percentile £62.50 £70.63 £60.88
90th Percentile £71.88 £74.00 £69.05
England median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £29.62
% change year-on-year -26.67% +26.60% +15.67%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,844 9,036 14,051
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.05% 35.93% 36.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,106 6,567 10,276
10th Percentile £315 £364 £400
25th Percentile £450 £495 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £743 £725
90th Percentile £850 £838 £813
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 104 201
10th Percentile £15.45 £18.28 £17.13
25th Percentile £18.41 £21.24 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.92 £34.81 £42.02
Median % change year-on-year -19.79% -17.16% +20.47%
75th Percentile £50.38 £60.94 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £84.63 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Act in London

Data Protection Act
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Act in London

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in London over the 6 months to 18 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in London

Data Protection Act
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection Act in London

Data Protection Act
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Protection Act in London over the 6 months to 18 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Protection Act in London

Data Protection Act
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 18 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
East London - 8 £575 - 2
West London +17 4 £250 -47.37%
South London +8 4 £488 -26.42% 4
Central London +37 3 £500 -23.08% 4
Data Protection Act
England

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 6 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.79%) Confluence
3 4 (1.43%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.72%) Gunicorn
4 2 (0.72%) SAS
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.36%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (3.58%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.72%) Mingle
4 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Endur
1 3 (1.08%) ION MarketView
2 2 (0.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.36%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 36 (12.90%) AWS
2 17 (6.09%) Azure
3 9 (3.23%) GCP
4 8 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (2.51%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (2.51%) Amazon S3
6 6 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (2.15%) Serverless
7 5 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (1.79%) GitHub
7 5 (1.79%) Power Platform
7 5 (1.79%) SaaS
8 4 (1.43%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (1.08%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (1.08%) Datadog
9 3 (1.08%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.08%) PaaS
10 2 (0.72%) IaaS
10 2 (0.72%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.58%) DNS
2 9 (3.23%) DHCP
3 8 (2.87%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (2.51%) 5G
5 5 (1.79%) HTTP
5 5 (1.79%) VPN
6 4 (1.43%) BGP
6 4 (1.43%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.08%) LAN
7 3 (1.08%) WAN
8 2 (0.72%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.72%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.72%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.72%) EIGRP
8 2 (0.72%) Firewall
8 2 (0.72%) Multicast
8 2 (0.72%) Network Security
8 2 (0.72%) OSPF
8 2 (0.72%) SWIFTNet
8 2 (0.72%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.66%) Big Data
2 10 (3.58%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (2.51%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.79%) Metadata
4 5 (1.79%) Power BI
5 4 (1.43%) KDB
5 4 (1.43%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.43%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.43%) Star Schema
6 3 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.08%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.08%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.08%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.72%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.72%) Parquet
7 2 (0.72%) Redis
7 2 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (7.53%) Git
2 12 (4.30%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.58%) JIRA
4 8 (2.87%) ERwin
5 6 (2.15%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (1.79%) XCTest
7 3 (1.08%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.08%) SpecFlow
7 3 (1.08%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.72%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.72%) FitNesse
8 2 (0.72%) GitLab
9 1 (0.36%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.36%) Babel
9 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.36%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.36%) HP UFT
9 1 (0.36%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.36%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.36%) webpack
General
1 51 (18.28%) Social Skills
2 41 (14.70%) Finance
3 24 (8.60%) Banking
4 21 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (7.17%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.30%) Marketing
6 12 (4.30%) Telecoms
7 10 (3.58%) Legal
8 9 (3.23%) Games
9 7 (2.51%) Retail
10 6 (2.15%) Billing
11 5 (1.79%) Back Office
11 5 (1.79%) Police
11 5 (1.79%) Publishing
12 4 (1.43%) Law
12 4 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.08%) Electronics
13 3 (1.08%) Local Government
13 3 (1.08%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.72%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 52 (18.64%) Developer
2 33 (11.83%) Architect
3 31 (11.11%) Lead
4 26 (9.32%) Analyst
5 19 (6.81%) Project Manager
5 19 (6.81%) Senior
6 15 (5.38%) QA Engineer
7 13 (4.66%) QA Leader
8 11 (3.94%) Java Developer
9 10 (3.58%) Business Analyst
9 10 (3.58%) Data Architect
10 9 (3.23%) Python Developer
10 9 (3.23%) Software Engineer
11 8 (2.87%) Administrator
11 8 (2.87%) Consultant
11 8 (2.87%) Network Engineer
11 8 (2.87%) Support Engineer
11 8 (2.87%) Verification Engineer
12 7 (2.51%) Junior
12 7 (2.51%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.58%) Kafka
2 7 (2.51%) React
2 7 (2.51%) SwiftUI
3 6 (2.15%) Spring
4 5 (1.79%) Flask
4 5 (1.79%) JSON
4 5 (1.79%) REST
4 5 (1.79%) XML
5 4 (1.43%) AngularJS
5 4 (1.43%) Node.js
5 4 (1.43%) RESTful
6 3 (1.08%) CSS
6 3 (1.08%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.08%) WebGL
7 2 (0.72%) ARM Templates
7 2 (0.72%) AWS CDK
7 2 (0.72%) Celery
7 2 (0.72%) FastAPI
7 2 (0.72%) HTML
7 2 (0.72%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.45%) Management Information System
2 16 (5.73%) Freedom of Information
3 15 (5.38%) Freedom of Information Act
4 9 (3.23%) FPGA
5 8 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (2.87%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.51%) Derivative
6 7 (2.51%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.79%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.43%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.43%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.43%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.43%) Social Media
9 4 (1.43%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.43%) Wiki
10 3 (1.08%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.08%) Mobile Games
11 2 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.53%) Linux
2 20 (7.17%) Windows
3 13 (4.66%) Apple iOS
4 9 (3.23%) Android
5 4 (1.43%) Unix
6 3 (1.08%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.08%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.72%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.36%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.36%) VMS
8 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 62 (22.22%) Agile
3 24 (8.60%) Project Management
4 23 (8.24%) Analytics
4 23 (8.24%) Value Proposition
5 22 (7.89%) CI/CD
5 22 (7.89%) Data Modelling
5 22 (7.89%) Test Automation
6 21 (7.53%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (7.17%) Scrum
8 19 (6.81%) Stakeholder Management
8 19 (6.81%) User Acceptance Testing
9 18 (6.45%) Migration
10 17 (6.09%) Business Intelligence
10 17 (6.09%) Computer Science
10 17 (6.09%) Microservices
11 14 (5.02%) Full Stack Development
12 13 (4.66%) Continuous Integration
13 12 (4.30%) Cybersecurity
13 12 (4.30%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 53 (19.00%) Python
2 36 (12.90%) Java
3 27 (9.68%) SQL
4 15 (5.38%) C++
5 11 (3.94%) PowerShell
6 10 (3.58%) JavaScript
6 10 (3.58%) Swift
7 9 (3.23%) Bash
7 9 (3.23%) Scala
7 9 (3.23%) TypeScript
8 8 (2.87%) Perl
9 5 (1.79%) C#
10 4 (1.43%) C
10 4 (1.43%) PHP
11 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.36%) Korn
11 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.36%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.36%) tcsh
11 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (12.19%) Degree
2 11 (3.94%) Security Cleared
3 9 (3.23%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (1.79%) CCNP
5 5 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.72%) CCIE
6 2 (0.72%) CCNA
6 2 (0.72%) CISSP
6 2 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.72%) MCSA
6 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.36%) CCA
7 1 (0.36%) CCSP
7 1 (0.36%) CEH
7 1 (0.36%) CISM
7 1 (0.36%) JNCIA
7 1 (0.36%) JNCIP
7 1 (0.36%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.39%) QA
2 11 (3.94%) GDPR
2 11 (3.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (3.58%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.43%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.08%) PMO
5 3 (1.08%) SLA
6 2 (0.72%) MiFID
6 2 (0.72%) NIST
7 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.36%) GRC
7 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.36%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 15 (5.38%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.58%) Docker
3 7 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.36%) NFS
5 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (5.38%) Terraform
2 14 (5.02%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.51%) Ansible
4 4 (1.43%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (1.08%) Grafana
5 3 (1.08%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.72%) SCCM
7 1 (0.36%) Ambari
7 1 (0.36%) Nessus
7 1 (0.36%) Oozie
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.36%) Packer
7 1 (0.36%) Podman
7 1 (0.36%) Puppet
7 1 (0.36%) systemd
Vendors
1 25 (8.96%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.38%) Cisco
3 9 (3.23%) Google
4 8 (2.87%) Cadence
4 8 (2.87%) Oracle
5 7 (2.51%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.51%) VMware
6 6 (2.15%) Apple
6 6 (2.15%) SAP
6 6 (2.15%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.15%) Sparx
7 5 (1.79%) ION Trading
7 5 (1.79%) Splunk
8 3 (1.08%) Nokia
8 3 (1.08%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.72%) BeyondTrust
9 2 (0.72%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.72%) Okta
9 2 (0.72%) Snow
9 2 (0.72%) TOWER Software