Data Protection Act Contracts in the North of England

Data Protection Act (DPA)
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 135 51
Rank change year-on-year +53 -84 +11
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 87 50 231
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.64% 1.05% 3.96%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.63% 3.84% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 33 145
10th Percentile £365 £254 £288
25th Percentile £419 £338 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -19.05%
75th Percentile £619 £588 £544
90th Percentile £655 £685 £667
England median daily rate £475 £500 £544
% change year-on-year -5.00% -8.05% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £21.25 - £21.34
25th Percentile £24.25 £20.50 £21.47
Median hourly rate £24.50 £21.00 £22.38
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -6.15% +32.16%
75th Percentile £24.75 £21.50 £23.41
90th Percentile £28.96 - £23.61
England median hourly rate £28.32 £27.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +2.98% -47.62% +137.34%

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,008 1,302 1,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 30.59% 27.31% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 801 1,220
10th Percentile £220 £263 £285
25th Percentile £367 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £582 £584 £623
90th Percentile £665 £653 £688
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 154 88
10th Percentile £21.00 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £24.25 £13.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £30.88 £15.14 £18.62
Median % change year-on-year +104.00% -18.70% +0.11%
75th Percentile £44.08 £26.62 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £47.98 £66.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Act in the North of England

Data Protection Act
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Protection Act in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Act in the North of England

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in the North of England

Data Protection Act
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Protection Act in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection Act in the North of England

Data Protection Act
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Protection Act in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Protection Act in the North of England

Data Protection Act
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Protection Act within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Yorkshire +48 46 £525 +10.53% 16
North West +1 21 £500 -1.23% 8
North East +13 20 £425 -
Data Protection Act
England

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (2.30%) FactoryTalk
1 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.15%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.15%) CMS
2 1 (1.15%) Confluence
2 1 (1.15%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Chatbot
1 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.15%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) SAP APO
1 1 (1.15%) SAP PM
1 1 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.15%) SAP SCM
1 1 (1.15%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 9 (10.34%) AWS
2 6 (6.90%) GCP
3 5 (5.75%) Azure
4 3 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (3.45%) Serverless
5 2 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (2.30%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.30%) Google Compute Engine
5 2 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.30%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.30%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.15%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (1.15%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (1.15%) dbt
6 1 (1.15%) GitHub
6 1 (1.15%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.15%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.15%) Stitch
6 1 (1.15%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.30%) DNS
1 2 (2.30%) Firewall
1 2 (2.30%) Network Security
2 1 (1.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (1.15%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.15%) NAS
2 1 (1.15%) NGN
2 1 (1.15%) SAN
2 1 (1.15%) SSH
2 1 (1.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.75%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.45%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.30%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.30%) Redis
4 1 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.15%) Flink
4 1 (1.15%) Power BI
4 1 (1.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (9.20%) JIRA
2 4 (4.60%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.45%) Git
3 3 (3.45%) Visual Studio
4 2 (2.30%) GitLab
4 2 (2.30%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.15%) Cucumber
General
1 25 (28.74%) Finance
2 20 (22.99%) Social Skills
3 14 (16.09%) Banking
4 8 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (5.75%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (3.45%) Mandarin Language
7 3 (3.45%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.30%) French Language
9 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.15%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.15%) German Language
9 1 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.15%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.15%) Marketing
9 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.15%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (17.24%) Developer
2 9 (10.34%) Analyst
3 8 (9.20%) Architect
3 8 (9.20%) Consultant
4 7 (8.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (5.75%) Data Engineer
5 5 (5.75%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 5 (5.75%) Security Engineer
6 4 (4.60%) Lead
6 4 (4.60%) Senior
6 4 (4.60%) Support Analyst
7 3 (3.45%) GCP Architect
7 3 (3.45%) IT Engineer
7 3 (3.45%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.45%) IT Security Engineer
7 3 (3.45%) Java Developer
7 3 (3.45%) Programme Manager
8 2 (2.30%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (2.30%) Database Engineer
8 2 (2.30%) Oracle Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.45%) CSS
1 3 (3.45%) HTML
2 2 (2.30%) .NET
2 2 (2.30%) Anaconda
2 2 (2.30%) Micronaut
2 2 (2.30%) Pandas
2 2 (2.30%) PySpark
2 2 (2.30%) React
2 2 (2.30%) RESTful
3 1 (1.15%) Apache Beam
3 1 (1.15%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.15%) Gherkin
3 1 (1.15%) Kafka
3 1 (1.15%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (1.15%) Middleware
3 1 (1.15%) Qt
3 1 (1.15%) SAP Core Interface
3 1 (1.15%) Spark Streaming
3 1 (1.15%) Spring
3 1 (1.15%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (4.60%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.30%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.30%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.30%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 2 (2.30%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.30%) Robotics
4 2 (2.30%) SCADA
5 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.15%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.15%) PMI
5 1 (1.15%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (14.94%) Linux
2 9 (10.34%) Windows
3 4 (4.60%) Unix
4 3 (3.45%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.15%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 18 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (16.09%) Agile
4 11 (12.64%) CI/CD
5 8 (9.20%) Project Management
6 7 (8.05%) Data Analysis
7 6 (6.90%) Analytics
7 6 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (6.90%) SDLC
7 6 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (5.75%) Information Security
8 5 (5.75%) Information Security Management
8 5 (5.75%) ISMS
8 5 (5.75%) Performance Optimisation
8 5 (5.75%) Security Management
8 5 (5.75%) Zero Trust
9 4 (4.60%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (4.60%) Data Management
9 4 (4.60%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (18.39%) Python
2 4 (4.60%) Java
3 3 (3.45%) C++
3 3 (3.45%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.30%) C#
4 2 (2.30%) Go
4 2 (2.30%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.30%) Scala
4 2 (2.30%) SQL
5 1 (1.15%) ActionScript
5 1 (1.15%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (1.15%) C
5 1 (1.15%) JCL
5 1 (1.15%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.15%) REXX
5 1 (1.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (4.60%) Degree
2 3 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (3.45%) SC Cleared
2 3 (3.45%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.30%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.30%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.30%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.15%) CCNP
4 1 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.15%) PMP
4 1 (1.15%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.60%) PMO
3 3 (3.45%) QA
3 3 (3.45%) SLA
4 2 (2.30%) GDPR
4 2 (2.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.15%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.15%) NEBOSH
5 1 (1.15%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (4.60%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.60%) Docker
3 3 (3.45%) VMware NSX
3 3 (3.45%) vSphere
4 2 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.30%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (11.49%) Ansible
2 7 (8.05%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.90%) Terraform
4 3 (3.45%) Control-M
5 2 (2.30%) vCenter Server
5 2 (2.30%) vRealize
6 1 (1.15%) Grafana
6 1 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (12.64%) Microsoft
1 11 (12.64%) VMware
2 7 (8.05%) Cisco
2 7 (8.05%) Veeam
3 6 (6.90%) Google
4 5 (5.75%) Fortinet
4 5 (5.75%) HP
5 4 (4.60%) Databricks
5 4 (4.60%) IBM
6 3 (3.45%) New Relic
6 3 (3.45%) Oracle
6 3 (3.45%) SAP
7 2 (2.30%) AVEVA
7 2 (2.30%) Commvault
7 2 (2.30%) IBM Sterling
7 2 (2.30%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.30%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.30%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.30%) Siemens
7 2 (2.30%) Snow