Data Protection Act Contracts 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 72 36
Rank change year-on-year +2 -36 -8
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 11 20 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.15% 1.39% 5.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.77% 5.36% 16.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 56
10th Percentile £358 £307 £308
25th Percentile £406 £425 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £451 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.59% +0.28% -10.00%
75th Percentile £488 £584 £588
90th Percentile £585 £607 £675
North West median daily rate £425 £500 £415
% change year-on-year -15.00% +20.48% -17.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.00 -
North West median hourly rate £31.76 £21.00 £22.38
% change year-on-year +51.24% -6.15% -

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 292 373 548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 30.48% 25.97% 30.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 235 385
10th Percentile £267 £302 £313
25th Percentile £375 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £495 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -3.41% +4.97%
75th Percentile £612 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £750 £700
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 39 20
10th Percentile £34.50 £13.21 £16.56
25th Percentile £34.69 £16.39 £16.85
Median hourly rate £61.25 £26.00 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year +135.58% -2.80% +64.82%
75th Percentile £73.75 £57.50 £57.75
90th Percentile £78.63 £71.60 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £27.84
% change year-on-year +36.54% -6.61% +48.48%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Act in Manchester

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in Manchester

Data Protection Act
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection Act in Manchester

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 (18.18%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) SAP APO
1 1 (9.09%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub
2 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (9.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (18.18%) Manufacturing
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Aerospace
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Data Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Data Quality Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Data Scientist
3 1 (9.09%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Quality Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) SAP SCM Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Software Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) FastAPI
1 1 (9.09%) Qt
1 1 (9.09%) React
1 1 (9.09%) SAP Core Interface
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
1 2 (18.18%) Manufacturing Execution System
1 2 (18.18%) SCADA
2 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
2 2 (18.18%) ERP
2 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
2 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (18.18%) SDLC
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security
3 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
3 1 (9.09%) Conversational UI
3 1 (9.09%) Data Modelling
3 1 (9.09%) Data Science
3 1 (9.09%) Event-Driven
3 1 (9.09%) Event-Driven Programming
3 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (9.09%) Logistics
3 1 (9.09%) Project Management
3 1 (9.09%) Requirements Workshops
3 1 (9.09%) Supply Chain Management
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) C++
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) AVEVA
1 2 (18.18%) Rockwell
1 2 (18.18%) Siemens
2 1 (9.09%) IBM
2 1 (9.09%) SAP