Data Protection Contracts in the Midlands

Data Protection
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Data Protection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection over the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 60 78
Rank change year-on-year -36 +18 +48
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 45 108 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.53% 3.36% 3.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 3.84% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 74 108
10th Percentile £125 £313 £213
25th Percentile £200 £322 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £448 £475
Median % change year-on-year -21.79% -5.79% +2.70%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £550
90th Percentile £556 £650 £620
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - £15.93 £16.60
25th Percentile - £21.81 -
Median hourly rate - £32.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +61.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile - £43.31 £24.59
90th Percentile - £49.58 £31.81
England median hourly rate £19.50 £38.02 £35.00
% change year-on-year -48.70% +8.61% +42.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Data Protection falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,373 2,816 4,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 80.50% 87.48% 87.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,577 1,978 3,231
10th Percentile £234 £258 £250
25th Percentile £358 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 101 130
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.50 £10.68
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £24.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +31.51% +24.91%
75th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £24.50
90th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Data Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in the Midlands

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in the Midlands

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in the Midlands

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in the Midlands

Data Protection
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Protection within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands -24 36 £320 -32.63% 49
East Midlands -8 9 £444 +18.33% 29
Data Protection
England

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.44%) Confluence
4 1 (2.22%) CMS
4 1 (2.22%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.22%) SAP HCM
1 1 (2.22%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.89%) Azure
2 3 (6.67%) AWS
2 3 (6.67%) Power Platform
3 2 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (4.44%) Amazon S3
3 2 (4.44%) GCP
4 1 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.22%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.22%) PowerApps
4 1 (2.22%) SaaS
4 1 (2.22%) Smartsheet
4 1 (2.22%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.56%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (11.11%) LAN
3 3 (6.67%) Fibre Channel
3 3 (6.67%) Firewall
4 2 (4.44%) Bluetooth
4 2 (4.44%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (4.44%) SAN
4 2 (4.44%) TCP/IP
4 2 (4.44%) WAN
5 1 (2.22%) DNS
5 1 (2.22%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (2.22%) Network Security
5 1 (2.22%) SDH
5 1 (2.22%) tcpdump
5 1 (2.22%) Wireless
5 1 (2.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) Power BI
2 2 (4.44%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.22%) Apache Hive
3 1 (2.22%) DB2
3 1 (2.22%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.22%) SAS Data Integration Studio
3 1 (2.22%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Git
1 2 (4.44%) JIRA
2 1 (2.22%) IDA Disassembler
2 1 (2.22%) Rational DOORS
General
1 7 (15.56%) Legal
2 4 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.67%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Marketing
4 2 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.22%) Aeronautics
5 1 (2.22%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.22%) Finance
5 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (13.33%) Developer
2 4 (8.89%) Data Protection Advisor
2 4 (8.89%) Deployment Engineer
3 3 (6.67%) Analyst
3 3 (6.67%) Architect
3 3 (6.67%) Support Analyst
4 2 (4.44%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (4.44%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 2 (4.44%) Consultant
4 2 (4.44%) Data Protection Engineer
4 2 (4.44%) Exchange Engineer
4 2 (4.44%) Implementation Engineer
4 2 (4.44%) Java Developer
4 2 (4.44%) Lead
4 2 (4.44%) Network Engineer
4 2 (4.44%) SharePoint Engineer
4 2 (4.44%) Technical Architect
4 2 (4.44%) Test Manager
4 2 (4.44%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (2.22%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.44%) Spring
2 1 (2.22%) .NET
2 1 (2.22%) CSS
2 1 (2.22%) CSS3
2 1 (2.22%) Guice
2 1 (2.22%) HTML
2 1 (2.22%) HTML5
2 1 (2.22%) Node.js
2 1 (2.22%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 22 (48.89%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (8.89%) Housing Association
3 2 (4.44%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.44%) Chip and PIN
3 2 (4.44%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.44%) HP Storage
3 2 (4.44%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.22%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.22%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.22%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.22%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.78%) Windows
2 5 (11.11%) Linux
3 4 (8.89%) Windows 10
4 2 (4.44%) AIX
4 2 (4.44%) Android
4 2 (4.44%) Solaris
4 2 (4.44%) Unix
5 1 (2.22%) VMS
5 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (13.33%) Migration
2 5 (11.11%) Agile
3 3 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (6.67%) Decision-Making
3 3 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (6.67%) Project Delivery
3 3 (6.67%) SDLC
3 3 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (6.67%) Time Management
4 2 (4.44%) Analytics
4 2 (4.44%) Data Integration
4 2 (4.44%) DevOps
4 2 (4.44%) E-Commerce
4 2 (4.44%) ITIL
4 2 (4.44%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (4.44%) Project Management
4 2 (4.44%) Software Architecture
4 2 (4.44%) Ticket Management
4 2 (4.44%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (4.44%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.56%) SQL
2 3 (6.67%) Java
2 3 (6.67%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.44%) Bash
3 2 (4.44%) Perl
4 1 (2.22%) C#
4 1 (2.22%) COBOL
4 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.22%) PHP
4 1 (2.22%) Python
4 1 (2.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 11 (24.44%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.89%) Degree
4 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.22%) CCNA
5 1 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.22%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.22%) MCSE
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.22%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) SLA
2 2 (4.44%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.44%) GDPR
3 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.22%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (8.89%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.22%) Firmware
2 1 (2.22%) Snort
Systems Management
1 2 (4.44%) EMC NetWorker
1 2 (4.44%) HP Data Protector
1 2 (4.44%) NetBackup
1 2 (4.44%) SCCM
1 2 (4.44%) vCenter Server
2 1 (2.22%) Kibana
2 1 (2.22%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 4 (8.89%) Cisco
2 2 (4.44%) Brocade
2 2 (4.44%) EMC
2 2 (4.44%) HP
2 2 (4.44%) IBM
2 2 (4.44%) Marketo
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.44%) Oracle
2 2 (4.44%) SAP
2 2 (4.44%) ServiceNow
2 2 (4.44%) Symantec
2 2 (4.44%) VMware
3 1 (2.22%) Aruba
3 1 (2.22%) Google
3 1 (2.22%) ICL
3 1 (2.22%) McAfee
3 1 (2.22%) Meraki
3 1 (2.22%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.22%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.22%) Splunk