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 advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 158 167 225
Rank change year-on-year +9 +58 +222
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 289 421 502
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.63% 1.60% 1.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.91% 4.47% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 275 417
10th Percentile £218 £355 £413
25th Percentile £375 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% -2.08% +60.00%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £712
90th Percentile £750 £825 £775
England median daily rate £525 £544 £535
% change year-on-year -3.45% +1.64% +42.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 2
10th Percentile - £53.00 £24.95
25th Percentile £11.95 £55.63 £32.38
Median hourly rate £33.92 £62.50 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.73% +35.87% +166.94%
75th Percentile £62.50 £70.63 £60.88
90th Percentile £70.94 £74.00 £69.05
England median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £24.24
% change year-on-year -26.67% +54.70% +15.43%

All Generic Skills
London

Data Protection Act is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,883 9,412 14,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.27% 35.84% 36.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,164 6,764 10,223
10th Percentile £313 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £744 £713
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 111 197
10th Percentile £15.49 £18.93 £18.50
25th Percentile £17.64 £21.46 £23.91
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £43.80
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -20.09% +32.73%
75th Percentile £49.88 £65.00 £55.25
90th Percentile £69.00 £85.00 £71.85
England median hourly rate £32.75 £22.49 £26.98
% change year-on-year +45.65% -16.66% +2.92%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +5 9 £608 +15.71% 1
West London +15 6 £250 -47.37% 2
Central London +44 4 £513 -21.15% 3
South London +7 3 £500 -16.67% 1
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 7 (2.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.73%) Confluence
3 4 (1.38%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.04%) SAS
5 2 (0.69%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.69%) Gunicorn
6 1 (0.35%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (4.15%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.69%) Mingle
4 1 (0.35%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.35%) Revit
4 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.38%) Endur
2 3 (1.04%) ION MarketView
2 3 (1.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 38 (13.15%) AWS
2 24 (8.30%) Azure
3 8 (2.77%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (2.77%) Amazon S3
3 8 (2.77%) GCP
4 7 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (2.08%) GitHub
5 6 (2.08%) Power Platform
5 6 (2.08%) SaaS
5 6 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (1.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (1.38%) Serverless
7 3 (1.04%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (1.04%) Datadog
7 3 (1.04%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.04%) Nutanix
7 3 (1.04%) OneDrive
7 3 (1.04%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.15%) DNS
2 9 (3.11%) DHCP
3 8 (2.77%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (2.42%) 5G
4 7 (2.42%) VPN
5 6 (2.08%) HTTP
6 5 (1.73%) SAN
6 5 (1.73%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.38%) SWIFTNet
8 3 (1.04%) BGP
8 3 (1.04%) LAN
8 3 (1.04%) Network Security
8 3 (1.04%) WAN
8 3 (1.04%) Wireless
9 2 (0.69%) Broadband
9 2 (0.69%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.69%) EIGRP
9 2 (0.69%) Firewall
9 2 (0.69%) OSPF
9 2 (0.69%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (4.50%) Big Data
3 9 (3.11%) Metadata
4 7 (2.42%) Relational Database
5 6 (2.08%) Power BI
6 5 (1.73%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.73%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.73%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.38%) KDB
7 4 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.38%) Star Schema
8 3 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.04%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.04%) Parquet
9 2 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.69%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.69%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.69%) IBM BigInsights
Development Applications
1 21 (7.27%) Git
2 13 (4.50%) Jenkins
3 12 (4.15%) ERwin
4 11 (3.81%) JIRA
5 6 (2.08%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (1.73%) XCTest
7 3 (1.04%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.69%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.69%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.69%) FitNesse
8 2 (0.69%) GitLab
8 2 (0.69%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.69%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.35%) Babel
9 1 (0.35%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.35%) HP UFT
9 1 (0.35%) JUnit
9 1 (0.35%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.35%) Selenium
9 1 (0.35%) webpack
General
1 51 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 50 (17.30%) Finance
3 28 (9.69%) Public Sector
4 25 (8.65%) Banking
5 23 (7.96%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (5.19%) Marketing
6 15 (5.19%) Telecoms
7 14 (4.84%) Legal
8 12 (4.15%) Retail
9 9 (3.11%) Games
10 8 (2.77%) Electronics
11 7 (2.42%) Manufacturing
12 6 (2.08%) Back Office
12 6 (2.08%) Police
13 5 (1.73%) Publishing
14 4 (1.38%) Billing
14 4 (1.38%) Law
14 4 (1.38%) Local Government
14 4 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (15.92%) Developer
2 42 (14.53%) Architect
3 33 (11.42%) Lead
4 26 (9.00%) Analyst
5 21 (7.27%) Project Manager
6 16 (5.54%) Senior
7 15 (5.19%) Data Architect
7 15 (5.19%) QA Engineer
8 13 (4.50%) Enterprise Architect
8 13 (4.50%) QA Leader
9 11 (3.81%) Business Analyst
10 10 (3.46%) Support Engineer
11 9 (3.11%) Python Developer
11 9 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (2.77%) Administrator
12 8 (2.77%) Consultant
12 8 (2.77%) Java Developer
12 8 (2.77%) Network Engineer
13 7 (2.42%) Enterprise Data Architect
14 6 (2.08%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.81%) Kafka
2 7 (2.42%) SwiftUI
3 6 (2.08%) JSON
3 6 (2.08%) React
3 6 (2.08%) REST
3 6 (2.08%) Spring
4 5 (1.73%) Node.js
4 5 (1.73%) XML
5 4 (1.38%) AngularJS
5 4 (1.38%) RESTful
6 3 (1.04%) .NET
6 3 (1.04%) Apache Avro
6 3 (1.04%) CSS
6 3 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.69%) ARM Templates
7 2 (0.69%) Celery
7 2 (0.69%) FastAPI
7 2 (0.69%) Flask
7 2 (0.69%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.57%) Management Information System
2 17 (5.88%) Freedom of Information
3 16 (5.54%) Freedom of Information Act
4 13 (4.50%) Data Centre
5 10 (3.46%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.77%) Derivative
6 8 (2.77%) Wiki
7 7 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (2.08%) FPGA
9 5 (1.73%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.73%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.38%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.38%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 3 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.04%) Mobile Games
11 3 (1.04%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 29 (10.03%) Linux
2 20 (6.92%) Windows
3 7 (2.42%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.42%) Unix
4 5 (1.73%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.38%) Android
6 3 (1.04%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.69%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.69%) VMS
8 1 (0.35%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 61 (21.11%) Agile
3 30 (10.38%) Data Modelling
4 29 (10.03%) Project Management
5 25 (8.65%) Analytics
5 25 (8.65%) CI/CD
6 24 (8.30%) Value Proposition
7 23 (7.96%) Business Intelligence
7 23 (7.96%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (7.96%) Test Automation
8 22 (7.61%) Scrum
9 21 (7.27%) Stakeholder Management
10 19 (6.57%) Microservices
10 19 (6.57%) User Acceptance Testing
11 18 (6.23%) Computer Science
11 18 (6.23%) Migration
12 15 (5.19%) DevOps
13 13 (4.50%) Continuous Integration
13 13 (4.50%) Master Data Management
14 12 (4.15%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 52 (17.99%) Python
2 32 (11.07%) Java
3 29 (10.03%) SQL
4 16 (5.54%) C++
5 11 (3.81%) Bash
6 10 (3.46%) Swift
7 9 (3.11%) PowerShell
8 8 (2.77%) Perl
8 8 (2.77%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.42%) C#
9 7 (2.42%) Scala
10 6 (2.08%) JavaScript
11 4 (1.38%) C
11 4 (1.38%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.69%) Go
12 2 (0.69%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.69%) U-SQL
13 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.35%) Solidity
13 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (12.11%) Degree
2 13 (4.50%) Security Cleared
3 11 (3.81%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.04%) CISSP
7 2 (0.69%) CCIE
7 2 (0.69%) CCNP
7 2 (0.69%) CISM
7 2 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.35%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.35%) CCA
8 1 (0.35%) CCSP
8 1 (0.35%) CEH
8 1 (0.35%) MBA
8 1 (0.35%) MCSA
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.35%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.35%) Server+ Certification
8 1 (0.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.69%) QA
2 16 (5.54%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.54%) GDPR
3 13 (4.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.38%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.38%) NIST
4 4 (1.38%) SLA
5 3 (1.04%) PMO
6 2 (0.69%) MiFID
7 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.35%) GRC
7 1 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.35%) ISO 31000
7 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.35%) NCSC
7 1 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (5.54%) Active Directory
2 13 (4.50%) Docker
2 13 (4.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (1.38%) vSphere
4 2 (0.69%) NFS
5 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (6.23%) Terraform
2 15 (5.19%) Kubernetes
3 11 (3.81%) Ansible
4 4 (1.38%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.69%) Ambari
5 2 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.69%) Oozie
5 2 (0.69%) SCCM
6 1 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.35%) Grafana
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.35%) Nessus
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.35%) Packer
6 1 (0.35%) Podman
6 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.35%) Puppet
6 1 (0.35%) systemd
Vendors
1 25 (8.65%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.23%) Cisco
3 13 (4.50%) VMware
4 12 (4.15%) Oracle
5 11 (3.81%) SAP
5 11 (3.81%) Sparx
6 8 (2.77%) Google
7 7 (2.42%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.08%) Apple
9 5 (1.73%) Cadence
9 5 (1.73%) ION Trading
9 5 (1.73%) Splunk
10 4 (1.38%) IBM
11 3 (1.04%) BiZZdesign
11 3 (1.04%) Dell
11 3 (1.04%) Murex
11 3 (1.04%) Okta
11 3 (1.04%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 3 (1.04%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.69%) CA Agile Central