Data Protection Contracts in the Midlands

Data Protection
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Data Protection skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Protection over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 60 58
Rank change year-on-year -21 -2 +71
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 54 125 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.98% 3.66% 3.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 4.14% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 79 119
10th Percentile £200 £288 £198
25th Percentile £313 £331 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £544
90th Percentile £608 £650 £690
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +15.79%
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 £21.00 £48.52 £21.25
% change year-on-year -56.71% +128.31% +1.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Data Protection is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,250 3,018 4,423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.30% 88.43% 88.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,505 2,107 3,273
10th Percentile £250 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £370 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +4.21% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £566
90th Percentile £700 £680 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 122 147
10th Percentile £11.06 £12.05 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.60 £15.13 £13.73
Median hourly rate £19.00 £18.43 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% +5.33% +10.34%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.69 £22.18
90th Percentile £55.00 £53.53 £34.70
England median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -14 47 £425 -10.53% 30
East Midlands +3 7 £538 +43.33% 34
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 6 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.70%) Confluence
4 1 (1.85%) CMS
4 1 (1.85%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (5.56%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.85%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.85%) SAP HCM
2 1 (1.85%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 9 (16.67%) Azure
2 5 (9.26%) Power Platform
3 3 (5.56%) AWS
3 3 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (3.70%) Amazon S3
4 2 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (3.70%) GCP
5 1 (1.85%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.85%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.85%) SaaS
5 1 (1.85%) Smartsheet
5 1 (1.85%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.11%) LAN
1 6 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (7.41%) WAN
3 3 (5.56%) Fibre Channel
3 3 (5.56%) Firewall
3 3 (5.56%) Network Security
4 2 (3.70%) SAN
4 2 (3.70%) SD-WAN
4 2 (3.70%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.85%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (1.85%) DNS
5 1 (1.85%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.85%) MPLS
5 1 (1.85%) SDH
5 1 (1.85%) tcpdump
5 1 (1.85%) VoIP
5 1 (1.85%) VPN
5 1 (1.85%) Wireless
5 1 (1.85%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.26%) Power BI
2 2 (3.70%) Big Data
2 2 (3.70%) Data Lake
2 2 (3.70%) Delta Lake
2 2 (3.70%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.70%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.85%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.85%) DB2
3 1 (1.85%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.85%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.85%) SAS Data Integration Studio
3 1 (1.85%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 1 (1.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Git
1 2 (3.70%) JIRA
2 1 (1.85%) IDA Disassembler
2 1 (1.85%) Rational DOORS
General
1 14 (25.93%) Legal
2 6 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.26%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.41%) Police
5 3 (5.56%) Finance
6 2 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.70%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.85%) Aeronautics
7 1 (1.85%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (16.67%) Developer
2 8 (14.81%) Consultant
3 5 (9.26%) Architect
3 5 (9.26%) Network Engineer
3 5 (9.26%) Support Engineer
4 4 (7.41%) Deployment Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Administrator
5 3 (5.56%) Data Administrator
5 3 (5.56%) Data Consultant
5 3 (5.56%) Data Protection Consultant
5 3 (5.56%) Java Developer
5 3 (5.56%) Network Support
5 3 (5.56%) Network Support Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 2 (3.70%) Data Protection Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Exchange Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Implementation Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Security Consultant
6 2 (3.70%) SharePoint Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.70%) .NET
1 2 (3.70%) PySpark
1 2 (3.70%) Spring
2 1 (1.85%) CSS
2 1 (1.85%) CSS3
2 1 (1.85%) Guice
2 1 (1.85%) HTML
2 1 (1.85%) HTML5
2 1 (1.85%) Kafka
2 1 (1.85%) Node.js
2 1 (1.85%) OLE
2 1 (1.85%) SOAP
2 1 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (38.89%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (5.56%) Freedom of Information
3 2 (3.70%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.70%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.70%) HP Storage
3 2 (3.70%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.85%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.85%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.85%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.85%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.96%) Windows
2 5 (9.26%) Linux
3 3 (5.56%) Windows 10
4 2 (3.70%) AIX
4 2 (3.70%) Solaris
4 2 (3.70%) Unix
5 1 (1.85%) VMS
5 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (14.81%) Agile
2 7 (12.96%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (12.96%) Information Security
3 6 (11.11%) Data Modelling
3 6 (11.11%) Migration
4 5 (9.26%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (7.41%) Analytics
5 4 (7.41%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (5.56%) Data Architecture
6 3 (5.56%) Data Cleansing
6 3 (5.56%) Data Enrichment
6 3 (5.56%) Decision-Making
6 3 (5.56%) DevOps
6 3 (5.56%) Master Data Management
6 3 (5.56%) Project Delivery
6 3 (5.56%) Scrum
6 3 (5.56%) SDLC
6 3 (5.56%) Time Management
6 3 (5.56%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (14.81%) SQL
2 5 (9.26%) Python
3 4 (7.41%) Java
4 3 (5.56%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.70%) Bash
5 2 (3.70%) C#
5 2 (3.70%) Perl
6 1 (1.85%) COBOL
6 1 (1.85%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.85%) PHP
6 1 (1.85%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.85%) VB
6 1 (1.85%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 14 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 9 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.56%) CISSP
3 3 (5.56%) Degree
4 2 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.70%) CISM
4 2 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.85%) CCNA
5 1 (1.85%) CCSP
5 1 (1.85%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.85%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.85%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.85%) MCSE
5 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.85%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.11%) GDPR
2 2 (3.70%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.70%) Government Security Classifications
2 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.70%) NCSC
3 1 (1.85%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.85%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.85%) Snort
Systems Management
1 2 (3.70%) EMC NetWorker
1 2 (3.70%) HP Data Protector
1 2 (3.70%) NetBackup
1 2 (3.70%) vCenter Server
2 1 (1.85%) Kibana
2 1 (1.85%) McAfee ePO
2 1 (1.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (11.11%) Cisco
2 5 (9.26%) HP
3 4 (7.41%) Aruba
4 2 (3.70%) Brocade
4 2 (3.70%) Databricks
4 2 (3.70%) EMC
4 2 (3.70%) IBM
4 2 (3.70%) Juniper
4 2 (3.70%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.70%) Oracle
4 2 (3.70%) SAP
4 2 (3.70%) Splunk
4 2 (3.70%) Symantec
4 2 (3.70%) VMware
5 1 (1.85%) Google
5 1 (1.85%) ICL
5 1 (1.85%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.85%) Nokia
5 1 (1.85%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.85%) UiPath