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 21 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 68 82
Rank change year-on-year -2 +14 -49
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 51 14 18
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 2.77% 1.53% 1.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.61% 5.22% 4.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 6 12
10th Percentile - £406 £317
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £488 £464
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% +5.12% +9.12%
75th Percentile £530 £619 £589
90th Percentile £575 £650 £600
North West median daily rate £463 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -2.63% -9.52% +30.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £19.25 £20.50
Median hourly rate - £19.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% -
75th Percentile - £19.75 £21.50
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate - £25.63 £21.00
% change year-on-year - +22.05% -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 592 268 379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 32.19% 29.32% 25.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 198 242
10th Percentile £325 £290 £301
25th Percentile £400 £376 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -9.09% -3.41%
75th Percentile £577 £600 £594
90th Percentile £650 £693 £749
North West median daily rate £475 £450 £493
% change year-on-year +5.56% -8.72% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 10 38
10th Percentile £20.23 £33.20 £13.19
25th Percentile £28.88 £49.13 £16.15
Median hourly rate £56.25 £63.75 £25.63
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +148.78% -1.44%
75th Percentile £85.00 £76.25 £55.00
90th Percentile £136.88 £79.33 £64.41
North West median hourly rate £43.96 £40.59 £25.25
% change year-on-year +8.30% +60.75% -8.18%

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 21 June 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 1 (1.96%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.96%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (1.96%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 6 (11.76%) Azure
2 5 (9.80%) AWS
3 3 (5.88%) GCP
4 2 (3.92%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (3.92%) SaaS
4 2 (3.92%) Serverless
5 1 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.96%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.96%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.96%) Azure Storage
5 1 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.96%) dbt
5 1 (1.96%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.96%) PaaS
5 1 (1.96%) Rubrik
5 1 (1.96%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.92%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.96%) DNS
2 1 (1.96%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (1.96%) Firewall
2 1 (1.96%) iSCSI
2 1 (1.96%) NAS
2 1 (1.96%) Network Security
2 1 (1.96%) SAN
2 1 (1.96%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.92%) Metadata
2 2 (3.92%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.92%) Oracle Database
2 2 (3.92%) Oracle Exadata
2 2 (3.92%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.96%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.96%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.96%) Looker
3 1 (1.96%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (1.96%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (5.88%) JIRA
2 2 (3.92%) Flyway
2 2 (3.92%) Git
2 2 (3.92%) Liquibase
3 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.96%) Postman
3 1 (1.96%) TestRail
General
1 12 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.65%) Finance
3 3 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.92%) Digital Health
4 2 (3.92%) Marketing
4 2 (3.92%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.96%) General Ledger
5 1 (1.96%) Law
5 1 (1.96%) Legal
5 1 (1.96%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (17.65%) Architect
2 7 (13.73%) Consultant
3 6 (11.76%) Analyst
4 5 (9.80%) Lead
5 4 (7.84%) Developer
5 4 (7.84%) Senior
5 4 (7.84%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.88%) Information Security Consultant
6 3 (5.88%) Principal Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Security Consultant
6 3 (5.88%) Technical Leader
7 2 (3.92%) .NET Developer
7 2 (3.92%) Data Architect
7 2 (3.92%) Data Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Database Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) IT Analyst
7 2 (3.92%) Product Owner
7 2 (3.92%) Project Manager
7 2 (3.92%) Senior .NET Developer
7 2 (3.92%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.88%) .NET
1 3 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (3.92%) .NET Core
2 2 (3.92%) .NET Framework
2 2 (3.92%) AngularJS
2 2 (3.92%) Entity Framework
2 2 (3.92%) React
2 2 (3.92%) REST
2 2 (3.92%) RESTful
2 2 (3.92%) SailPoint
2 2 (3.92%) YAML
3 1 (1.96%) CSS
3 1 (1.96%) Flash
3 1 (1.96%) HTML
3 1 (1.96%) JDBC
3 1 (1.96%) Kafka
3 1 (1.96%) LDAP
3 1 (1.96%) PySpark
3 1 (1.96%) Semantic HTML
3 1 (1.96%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.80%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.84%) Onboarding
2 4 (7.84%) Replication
3 3 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.92%) Clustering
4 2 (3.92%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (3.92%) Life Science
4 2 (3.92%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.96%) Culture of Ownership
5 1 (1.96%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.96%) EMC VMAX
5 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.96%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.96%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.96%) PKI
5 1 (1.96%) Podcast
5 1 (1.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.84%) Linux
2 3 (5.88%) Windows
3 1 (1.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 13 (25.49%) Migration
3 9 (17.65%) DevOps
4 8 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (15.69%) Roadmaps
5 7 (13.73%) Agile
5 7 (13.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (13.73%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (13.73%) Technical Leadership
6 6 (11.76%) Data Migration
6 6 (11.76%) Data Modelling
6 6 (11.76%) Risk Management
7 5 (9.80%) CI/CD
7 5 (9.80%) CRM
7 5 (9.80%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (9.80%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (9.80%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (9.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (9.80%) Test Automation
7 5 (9.80%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (19.61%) SQL
2 9 (17.65%) Python
3 6 (11.76%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.92%) Bash
4 2 (3.92%) C#
4 2 (3.92%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.92%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.96%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 5 (9.80%) SC Cleared
1 5 (9.80%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.88%) CISSP
3 1 (1.96%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.96%) CCA
3 1 (1.96%) CCNP
3 1 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.96%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (1.96%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.96%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.96%) PMP
3 1 (1.96%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.80%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.84%) GRC
3 3 (5.88%) NIST
4 2 (3.92%) GDPR
4 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.92%) QA
5 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.96%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.96%) CDISC
5 1 (1.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (3.92%) Oracle RAC
1 2 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.96%) Docker
2 1 (1.96%) GPFS
2 1 (1.96%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (7.84%) Ansible
1 4 (7.84%) Terraform
2 2 (3.92%) Data Guard
2 2 (3.92%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.92%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (1.96%) NetBackup
3 1 (1.96%) vRealize
3 1 (1.96%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 5 (9.80%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.88%) Databricks
2 3 (5.88%) Oracle
2 3 (5.88%) Salesforce
2 3 (5.88%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.92%) Optimizely
3 2 (3.92%) SAP
3 2 (3.92%) Veeam
3 2 (3.92%) VMware
4 1 (1.96%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.96%) Cisco
4 1 (1.96%) Commvault
4 1 (1.96%) Dell
4 1 (1.96%) EMC
4 1 (1.96%) Google
4 1 (1.96%) IBM
4 1 (1.96%) Informatica
4 1 (1.96%) OpenText
4 1 (1.96%) Palantir
4 1 (1.96%) Red Hat