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 27 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 61 60
Rank change year-on-year -17 -1 -10
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 40 26 26
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 2.03% 2.59% 2.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.65% 7.56% 7.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 15 15
10th Percentile - £380 £313
25th Percentile £413 £409 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% +44.83%
75th Percentile £488 £594 £591
90th Percentile £566 £608 £643
North West median daily rate £463 £440 £525
% change year-on-year +5.11% -16.19% +35.48%

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 708 344 358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 35.99% 34.30% 30.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 237 189
10th Percentile £367 £313 £294
25th Percentile £425 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -3.06% +1.03%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £655 £738
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £492
% change year-on-year +11.11% -8.44% -1.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 16 18
10th Percentile £21.00 £18.50 £15.92
25th Percentile £29.99 £30.59 £21.25
Median hourly rate £64.50 £41.50 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year +55.42% +30.71% -13.01%
75th Percentile £77.00 £60.94 £61.38
90th Percentile £87.50 £69.38 £95.10
North West median hourly rate £43.96 £35.25 £23.50
% change year-on-year +24.71% +50.00% -42.10%

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 27 September 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 (5.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) nginx
Business Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.50%) Cloudability
2 1 (2.50%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.50%) AWS
1 7 (17.50%) Azure
2 5 (12.50%) GCP
3 3 (7.50%) SaaS
4 2 (5.00%) Serverless
5 1 (2.50%) Akamai
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.50%) dbt
5 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.50%) Kong
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.50%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (2.50%) Veeva
5 1 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) Firewall
2 2 (5.00%) Network Security
2 2 (5.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.50%) DNS
3 1 (2.50%) Internet
3 1 (2.50%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (2.50%) SSL
3 1 (2.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.50%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.50%) Looker
2 1 (2.50%) Metadata
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.50%) Power BI
2 1 (2.50%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.50%) Postman
2 1 (2.50%) TestRail
General
1 13 (32.50%) Finance
1 13 (32.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.00%) Digital Health
3 2 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (5.00%) Marketing
3 2 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.50%) Banking
4 1 (2.50%) Billing
4 1 (2.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (27.50%) Architect
2 4 (10.00%) Consultant
2 4 (10.00%) Lead
2 4 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (5.00%) Analyst
3 2 (5.00%) Data Architect
3 2 (5.00%) Technical Leader
4 1 (2.50%) Configuration Analyst
4 1 (2.50%) Design Engineer
4 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (2.50%) Functional Consultant
4 1 (2.50%) Hardware Architect
4 1 (2.50%) Information Security Consultant
4 1 (2.50%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (2.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (2.50%) IT Architect
4 1 (2.50%) Network Engineer
4 1 (2.50%) Security Engineer
4 1 (2.50%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (2.50%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) CSS
1 1 (2.50%) Flash
1 1 (2.50%) HTML
1 1 (2.50%) JDBC
1 1 (2.50%) JWT
1 1 (2.50%) Kafka
1 1 (2.50%) LDAP
1 1 (2.50%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (2.50%) OpenID
1 1 (2.50%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (2.50%) REST
1 1 (2.50%) SailPoint
1 1 (2.50%) Semantic HTML
1 1 (2.50%) Terraform
1 1 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.50%) CMDB
1 3 (7.50%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.00%) Life Science
2 2 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (5.00%) PKI
3 1 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (2.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.50%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (2.50%) Freedom of Information Act
3 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.50%) Podcast
3 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.50%) Replication
3 1 (2.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Linux
1 3 (7.50%) Windows
2 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 10 (25.00%) Migration
2 10 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 9 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (22.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (15.00%) Asset Management
4 6 (15.00%) Data Modelling
4 6 (15.00%) Decision-Making
4 6 (15.00%) Service Management
4 6 (15.00%) Strategic Roadmap
5 5 (12.50%) Agile
5 5 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (12.50%) ERP
6 4 (10.00%) AI
6 4 (10.00%) ITSM
6 4 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (10.00%) Workflow
7 3 (7.50%) Data Integration
7 3 (7.50%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.00%) SQL
2 5 (12.50%) Python
3 4 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.50%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) Degree
3 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.50%) CCA
3 1 (2.50%) CCNP
3 1 (2.50%) CEH
3 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.50%) CISSP
3 1 (2.50%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.50%) SANS
3 1 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (22.50%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.50%) GDPR
3 2 (5.00%) NIST
4 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.50%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.50%) CDISC
4 1 (2.50%) GRC
4 1 (2.50%) QA
4 1 (2.50%) SEPA
4 1 (2.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.50%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) GPFS
2 1 (2.50%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) Ansible
1 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.50%) Istio
2 1 (2.50%) Network Intrusion Detection System
2 1 (2.50%) vRealize
2 1 (2.50%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 6 (15.00%) ServiceNow
2 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.00%) Oracle
4 3 (7.50%) Google
5 2 (5.00%) CheckPoint
5 2 (5.00%) Cisco
5 2 (5.00%) IBM
5 2 (5.00%) Optimizely
5 2 (5.00%) VMware
5 2 (5.00%) Zscaler
6 1 (2.50%) Adobe
6 1 (2.50%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (2.50%) BMC
6 1 (2.50%) Databricks
6 1 (2.50%) F5
6 1 (2.50%) Intel
6 1 (2.50%) Palantir
6 1 (2.50%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.50%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.50%) Snow
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