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 30 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 67 61
Rank change year-on-year -11 -6 -20
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 44 21 23
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 2.20% 2.06% 1.92%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.33% 6.09% 7.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 14
10th Percentile - £406 £313
25th Percentile £413 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +30.00%
75th Percentile £488 £538 £592
90th Percentile £575 £613 £648
North West median daily rate £450 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +5.88% -19.05% +31.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.50
Median hourly rate - - £21.00
75th Percentile - - £21.50
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate - - £21.00

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 695 345 326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 34.73% 33.92% 27.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 233 190
10th Percentile £359 £313 £313
25th Percentile £421 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £690 £675 £828
North West median daily rate £500 £453 £494
% change year-on-year +10.38% -8.25% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 17 23
10th Percentile £19.46 £18.72 £16.11
25th Percentile £28.75 £34.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £45.50 £49.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +8.89% +55.17%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £57.75
90th Percentile £87.50 £78.00 £86.90
North West median hourly rate £43.96 £43.86 £27.25
% change year-on-year +0.24% +60.94% -32.42%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Protection Act relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Data Protection Act job vacancy trend 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 30 August 2026.

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 & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.55%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) nginx
Business Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.27%) Cloudability
2 1 (2.27%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (2.27%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.91%) AWS
1 7 (15.91%) Azure
2 5 (11.36%) GCP
3 3 (6.82%) SaaS
3 3 (6.82%) Serverless
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.27%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.27%) Azure Functions
4 1 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (2.27%) Azure Storage
4 1 (2.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (2.27%) dbt
4 1 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.27%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (2.27%) Kong
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (2.27%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.82%) Firewall
2 2 (4.55%) Network Security
2 2 (4.55%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.27%) DNS
3 1 (2.27%) Internet
3 1 (2.27%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (2.27%) SSL
3 1 (2.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.55%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.27%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.27%) Looker
3 1 (2.27%) Metadata
3 1 (2.27%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.27%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (2.27%) Power BI
3 1 (2.27%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (2.27%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (2.27%) Flyway
2 1 (2.27%) Git
2 1 (2.27%) Liquibase
2 1 (2.27%) Postman
2 1 (2.27%) TestRail
General
1 12 (27.27%) Finance
1 12 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.55%) Digital Health
3 2 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (4.55%) Marketing
3 2 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.27%) Billing
4 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (27.27%) Architect
2 4 (9.09%) Analyst
2 4 (9.09%) Consultant
2 4 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (6.82%) Developer
3 3 (6.82%) Lead
4 2 (4.55%) Data Architect
4 2 (4.55%) IT Analyst
4 2 (4.55%) Senior
4 2 (4.55%) Technical Leader
5 1 (2.27%) AWS Architect
5 1 (2.27%) Azure Architect
5 1 (2.27%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Officer
5 1 (2.27%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (2.27%) Product Owner
5 1 (2.27%) Salesforce Developer
5 1 (2.27%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (2.27%) Technical Product Owner
5 1 (2.27%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (4.55%) Terraform
2 1 (2.27%) .NET
2 1 (2.27%) .NET Framework
2 1 (2.27%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.27%) CSS
2 1 (2.27%) Entity Framework
2 1 (2.27%) Flash
2 1 (2.27%) HTML
2 1 (2.27%) JDBC
2 1 (2.27%) Kafka
2 1 (2.27%) LDAP
2 1 (2.27%) OpenID
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (2.27%) React
2 1 (2.27%) REST
2 1 (2.27%) RESTful
2 1 (2.27%) SailPoint
2 1 (2.27%) Semantic HTML
2 1 (2.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.82%) CMDB
1 3 (6.82%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (6.82%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.55%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.55%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.55%) Life Science
2 2 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (4.55%) PKI
2 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.55%) Replication
3 1 (2.27%) Clustering
3 1 (2.27%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (2.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.27%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (2.27%) Freedom of Information Act
3 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.27%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.09%) Linux
2 3 (6.82%) Windows
3 1 (2.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 11 (25.00%) Migration
3 10 (22.73%) Roadmaps
4 9 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (15.91%) Data Modelling
7 6 (13.64%) Agile
7 6 (13.64%) Asset Management
7 6 (13.64%) Decision-Making
7 6 (13.64%) Service Management
7 6 (13.64%) Strategic Roadmap
8 5 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (11.36%) Data Migration
8 5 (11.36%) Data Pipeline
8 5 (11.36%) ERP
8 5 (11.36%) Workflow
9 4 (9.09%) Data Integration
9 4 (9.09%) DevOps
9 4 (9.09%) ITSM
9 4 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (18.18%) SQL
2 7 (15.91%) Python
3 5 (11.36%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.27%) Apex Code
5 1 (2.27%) Bash
5 1 (2.27%) C#
5 1 (2.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (13.64%) SC Cleared
1 6 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.55%) Degree
3 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.27%) CCA
3 1 (2.27%) CCNP
3 1 (2.27%) CEH
3 1 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.27%) CISSP
3 1 (2.27%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (2.27%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (2.27%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.27%) SANS
3 1 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.45%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.82%) GDPR
3 2 (4.55%) GRC
3 2 (4.55%) NIST
3 2 (4.55%) QA
4 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.27%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.27%) CDISC
4 1 (2.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.27%) Docker
2 1 (2.27%) GPFS
2 1 (2.27%) NFS
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (6.82%) Ansible
2 2 (4.55%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.27%) Data Guard
3 1 (2.27%) Istio
3 1 (2.27%) Network Intrusion Detection System
3 1 (2.27%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (2.27%) vRealize
3 1 (2.27%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 6 (13.64%) Microsoft
1 6 (13.64%) ServiceNow
2 5 (11.36%) Oracle
3 3 (6.82%) Google
4 2 (4.55%) CheckPoint
4 2 (4.55%) Cisco
4 2 (4.55%) IBM
4 2 (4.55%) Optimizely
4 2 (4.55%) SAP
4 2 (4.55%) VMware
4 2 (4.55%) Zscaler
5 1 (2.27%) Adobe
5 1 (2.27%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (2.27%) BMC
5 1 (2.27%) Databricks
5 1 (2.27%) Intel
5 1 (2.27%) OpenText
5 1 (2.27%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.27%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.27%) Snow
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