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 11 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 59 55
Rank change year-on-year -26 -4 -1
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 41 26 32
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 2.04% 2.56% 2.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.50% 7.39% 8.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 16 18
10th Percentile - £384 £313
25th Percentile £413 £411 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +39.29%
75th Percentile £488 £600 £584
90th Percentile £609 £613 £628
North West median daily rate £475 £445 £488
% change year-on-year +6.74% -8.72% +39.29%

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 745 352 367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 37.05% 34.71% 31.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 246 189
10th Percentile £375 £309 £294
25th Percentile £425 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £618 £600 £588
90th Percentile £700 £670 £688
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £490
% change year-on-year +11.11% -8.16% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 16 19
10th Percentile £18.75 £18.50 £16.66
25th Percentile £30.00 £19.53 £21.63
Median hourly rate £64.50 £35.25 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +82.98% +8.46% -20.00%
75th Percentile £77.00 £56.25 £60.25
90th Percentile £88.13 £69.38 £94.40
North West median hourly rate £43.96 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +25.60% +7.69% -23.30%

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 11 October 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 3 (7.32%) Confluence
2 1 (2.44%) nginx
Business Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.44%) Cloudability
2 1 (2.44%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (2.44%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 9 (21.95%) Azure
2 7 (17.07%) AWS
3 6 (14.63%) GCP
4 3 (7.32%) SaaS
5 2 (4.88%) Serverless
6 1 (2.44%) Akamai
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.44%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (2.44%) dbt
6 1 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.44%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.44%) Kong
6 1 (2.44%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.44%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.44%) Stripe
6 1 (2.44%) Veeva
6 1 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.32%) Firewall
1 3 (7.32%) Network Security
2 2 (4.88%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.44%) DNS
3 1 (2.44%) Internet
3 1 (2.44%) Kerberos
3 1 (2.44%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (2.44%) SSL
3 1 (2.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.44%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.44%) Looker
2 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.44%) Power BI
2 1 (2.44%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (2.44%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (12.20%) JIRA
2 1 (2.44%) Git
2 1 (2.44%) Postman
2 1 (2.44%) TestRail
General
1 15 (36.59%) Finance
2 13 (31.71%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.88%) Banking
4 2 (4.88%) Digital Health
4 2 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (4.88%) Marketing
4 2 (4.88%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.44%) Billing
5 1 (2.44%) Military
5 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (26.83%) Architect
2 5 (12.20%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (9.76%) Consultant
3 4 (9.76%) Lead
4 2 (4.88%) Analyst
4 2 (4.88%) Technical Leader
5 1 (2.44%) Configuration Analyst
5 1 (2.44%) Data Architect
5 1 (2.44%) Design Engineer
5 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (2.44%) Functional Consultant
5 1 (2.44%) Hardware Architect
5 1 (2.44%) Information Security Consultant
5 1 (2.44%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (2.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.44%) IT Architect
5 1 (2.44%) Product Manager
5 1 (2.44%) Security Engineer
5 1 (2.44%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (2.44%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.88%) OAuth
1 2 (4.88%) OpenID
1 2 (4.88%) SAML
1 2 (4.88%) Terraform
2 1 (2.44%) CSS
2 1 (2.44%) Flash
2 1 (2.44%) HTML
2 1 (2.44%) JWT
2 1 (2.44%) Kafka
2 1 (2.44%) OAuth2
2 1 (2.44%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (2.44%) RESTful
2 1 (2.44%) SailPoint
2 1 (2.44%) Semantic HTML
2 1 (2.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.32%) CMDB
2 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.88%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.88%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.88%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (4.88%) Life Science
2 2 (4.88%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (4.88%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.88%) PKI
2 2 (4.88%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.44%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (2.44%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.44%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (2.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.32%) Linux
1 3 (7.32%) Windows
2 1 (2.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 12 (29.27%) Roadmaps
2 12 (29.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (21.95%) Migration
3 9 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (19.51%) Strategic Roadmap
5 6 (14.63%) Agile
5 6 (14.63%) Asset Management
5 6 (14.63%) Decision-Making
6 5 (12.20%) AI
6 5 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (12.20%) ERP
6 5 (12.20%) Service Management
7 4 (9.76%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (9.76%) Data Modelling
7 4 (9.76%) Enterprise Architecture
7 4 (9.76%) Identity Access Management
7 4 (9.76%) ITSM
7 4 (9.76%) Software Engineering
7 4 (9.76%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.20%) SQL
2 3 (7.32%) Python
3 2 (4.88%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (9.76%) SC Cleared
1 4 (9.76%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.32%) Degree
3 2 (4.88%) CISSP
3 2 (4.88%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (2.44%) CCA
4 1 (2.44%) CCNP
4 1 (2.44%) CEH
4 1 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.44%) CISM
4 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.44%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (19.51%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.88%) GDPR
2 2 (4.88%) NIST
3 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.44%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.44%) CDISC
3 1 (2.44%) GRC
3 1 (2.44%) QA
3 1 (2.44%) SEPA
3 1 (2.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.44%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) GPFS
2 1 (2.44%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (7.32%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.88%) Ansible
3 1 (2.44%) Istio
3 1 (2.44%) Network Intrusion Detection System
3 1 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.44%) vRealize
3 1 (2.44%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 5 (12.20%) Microsoft
1 5 (12.20%) ServiceNow
2 4 (9.76%) Oracle
3 3 (7.32%) Google
4 2 (4.88%) CheckPoint
4 2 (4.88%) Cisco
4 2 (4.88%) IBM
4 2 (4.88%) Optimizely
4 2 (4.88%) VMware
4 2 (4.88%) Zscaler
5 1 (2.44%) Adobe
5 1 (2.44%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (2.44%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (2.44%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.44%) Databricks
5 1 (2.44%) F5
5 1 (2.44%) Okta
5 1 (2.44%) Palantir
5 1 (2.44%) Ping Identity
5 1 (2.44%) Snow