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

	6 months to 25 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	91	58	46
Rank change year-on-year	-33	-12	+16
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act	39	26	34
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester	1.91%	2.46%	2.95%
As % of the Miscellaneous category	5.08%	6.99%	9.26%
Number of daily rates quoted	12	16	17
10^th Percentile	-	£381	£313
25^th Percentile	£413	£411	£425
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£450	£450	£475
Median % change year-on-year	-	-5.26%	+52.00%
75^th Percentile	£514	£600	£538
90^th Percentile	£611	£613	£633
North West median daily rate	£475	£445	£475
% change year-on-year	+6.74%	-6.32%	+52.00%

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 citing generic IT skills in Manchester.

	6 months to 25 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing generic IT skills	767	372	367
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester	37.56%	35.16%	31.80%
Number of daily rates quoted	453	262	190
10^th Percentile	£369	£305	£294
25^th Percentile	£425	£377	£375
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£500	£463	£475
Median % change year-on-year	+8.11%	-2.63%	-
75^th Percentile	£600	£600	£575
90^th Percentile	£700	£674	£683
North West median daily rate	£500	£450	£477
% change year-on-year	+11.11%	-5.56%	-4.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted	87	21	17
10^th Percentile	£15.31	£18.50	£21.25
25^th Percentile	£29.96	£19.75	£29.50
Median hourly rate	£62.50	£35.00	£37.00
Median % change year-on-year	+78.57%	-5.41%	-1.33%
75^th Percentile	£77.00	£55.00	£62.50
90^th Percentile	£87.50	£73.75	£95.80
North West median hourly rate	£43.96	£35.00	£32.50
% change year-on-year	+25.60%	+7.69%	-22.16%

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 Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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 25 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.

Data Protection Act Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 25 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Data Protection Act also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region citing Data Protection Act.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Data Protection	100.0%	39
2	Roadmaps	28.2%	11
2	Stakeholder Management	28.2%	11
4	Azure	25.6%	10
5	Data Quality	20.5%	8
5	Problem-Solving	20.5%	8
5	Strategic Roadmap	20.5%	8
8	Migration	17.9%	7
9	Asset Management	15.4%	6
9	AWS	15.4%	6
9	Decision-Making	15.4%	6
9	GCP	15.4%	6
9	Microsoft	15.4%	6
14	Agile	12.8%	5
14	AI	12.8%	5
14	ERP	12.8%	5
14	JIRA	12.8%	5
14	Security Cleared	12.8%	5
14	SQL	12.8%	5
20	Cybersecurity	10.3%	4
20	Data Modelling	10.3%	4
20	Data Pipeline	10.3%	4
20	Enterprise Architecture	10.3%	4
20	Identity Access Management	10.3%	4
20	SC Cleared	10.3%	4
20	Service Management	10.3%	4
20	Software Engineering	10.3%	4
20	Workflow	10.3%	4
29	Application Security	7.7%	3
29	Budgeting	7.7%	3

Data Protection Act Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Miscellaneous

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Onboarding	10.3%	4
1	Product Ownership	10.3%	4
3	CMDB	7.7%	3
4	Cloud Native	5.1%	2
4	Data Centre	5.1%	2
4	Data Structures	5.1%	2
4	Distributed Systems	5.1%	2
4	Legacy Systems	5.1%	2
4	Life Science	5.1%	2
4	PKI	5.1%	2
11	AI Agents	2.6%	1
11	Distributed Architecture	2.6%	1
11	Distributed Denial-of-Service	2.6%	1
11	Freedom of Information	2.6%	1
11	Freedom of Information Act	2.6%	1
11	Hybrid Cloud	2.6%	1
11	Linux Command Line	2.6%	1
11	Self-Motivation	2.6%	1
11	SWIFT Messaging Network	2.6%	1
11	Virtual Team	2.6%	1