Data Protection Act Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Data Protection Act (DPA)
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies in Manchester. 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 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 64 45
Rank change year-on-year +2 -19 -7
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 23 23 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.27% 1.94% 4.04%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.73% 6.53% 14.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 48
10th Percentile £406 £313 -
25th Percentile £411 £420 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £481 £388
Median % change year-on-year -6.49% +24.19% -26.19%
75th Percentile £513 £592 £538
90th Percentile £610 £648 £645
North West median daily rate £433 £525 £400
% change year-on-year -17.62% +31.25% -23.81%

All Generic Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 342 352 459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 33.76% 29.63% 27.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 201 330
10th Percentile £315 £294 £225
25th Percentile £401 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.05% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £599 £638 £588
90th Percentile £651 £750 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 16
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.92 £16.31
25th Percentile £34.50 £21.25 £16.85
Median hourly rate £48.25 £38.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.97% +4.11% +87.18%
75th Percentile £64.69 £61.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.88 £95.10 £71.88
North West median hourly rate £41.94 £23.50 £40.80
% change year-on-year +78.47% -42.39% +102.66%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Act in Manchester

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Data Protection Act.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Data Protection Act

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in Manchester over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in Manchester

Data Protection Act
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Data Protection Act.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Data Protection Act

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (8.70%) FactoryTalk
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) nginx
2 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Chatbot
1 1 (4.35%) InVision
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.35%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) AWS
2 3 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (13.04%) Serverless
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon S3
3 2 (8.70%) GitHub
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (4.35%) Azure
4 1 (4.35%) Figma
4 1 (4.35%) GCP
4 1 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.35%) OneDrive
4 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) SSL
1 1 (4.35%) VPN
1 1 (4.35%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.35%) BigQuery
2 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.35%) MySQL
2 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.35%) Power BI
2 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) GitLab
1 2 (8.70%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
3 2 (8.70%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.35%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.35%) Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Italian Language
4 1 (4.35%) Polish Language
4 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Developer
2 4 (17.39%) Lead
3 2 (8.70%) Data Scientist
3 2 (8.70%) Java Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Lead Developer
4 1 (4.35%) 1st Line Support Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) COBOL Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Data Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Data Quality Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Designer
4 1 (4.35%) Engineering Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Interaction Designer
4 1 (4.35%) Project Leader
4 1 (4.35%) Quality Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Business Intelligence Consultant
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (4.35%) Technical Leader
4 1 (4.35%) UI Developer
4 1 (4.35%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) React
2 2 (8.70%) OAuth
2 2 (8.70%) REST
2 2 (8.70%) RESTful
3 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.35%) CrewAI
3 1 (4.35%) FastAPI
3 1 (4.35%) HTML
3 1 (4.35%) Hugging Face
3 1 (4.35%) JSON
3 1 (4.35%) Kafka
3 1 (4.35%) OAuth2
3 1 (4.35%) PyTorch
3 1 (4.35%) Semantic Kernel
3 1 (4.35%) SOAP
3 1 (4.35%) Spring
3 1 (4.35%) TensorFlow
3 1 (4.35%) XML
3 1 (4.35%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
1 2 (8.70%) Manufacturing Execution System
1 2 (8.70%) SCADA
2 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Android
1 1 (4.35%) VME
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 5 (21.74%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (17.39%) Computer Science
3 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (13.04%) Agile
4 3 (13.04%) CI/CD
4 3 (13.04%) Containerisation
4 3 (13.04%) ERP
4 3 (13.04%) Mentoring
4 3 (13.04%) Microservices
5 2 (8.70%) Data Science
5 2 (8.70%) Machine Learning
5 2 (8.70%) Migration
5 2 (8.70%) Natural Language Processing
5 2 (8.70%) Project Management
5 2 (8.70%) Scrum
5 2 (8.70%) SDLC
5 2 (8.70%) Software Engineering
5 2 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) Python
2 4 (17.39%) Java
2 4 (17.39%) SQL
3 1 (4.35%) C#
3 1 (4.35%) COBOL
3 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) Degree
2 4 (17.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) AVEVA
1 2 (8.70%) Google
1 2 (8.70%) Rockwell
1 2 (8.70%) Siemens
2 1 (4.35%) Adobe
2 1 (4.35%) Apple
2 1 (4.35%) Cisco
2 1 (4.35%) IBM
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) OpenAI
2 1 (4.35%) Pega
2 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.35%) Wonderware
2 1 (4.35%) Xamarin
2 1 (4.35%) Zscaler