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 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 140 53
Rank change year-on-year +58 -87 +6
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 90 41 206
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.70% 0.86% 3.74%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.68% 3.29% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 26 125
10th Percentile £376 £359 £263
25th Percentile £413 £425 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £513 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.15% +20.59% -19.05%
75th Percentile £586 £588 £515
90th Percentile £625 £640 £631
England median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £20.25 - £21.34
25th Percentile £21.75 £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 £28.26 £21.50 £23.41
90th Percentile £30.36 - £23.61
England median hourly rate £26.07 £27.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -5.20% -26.67% +26.60%

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 1,037 1,248 1,671
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 31.11% 26.32% 30.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 672 751 1,119
10th Percentile £230 £263 £281
25th Percentile £375 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £503
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.89% +4.69%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £606
90th Percentile £642 £656 £688
England median daily rate £533 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -3.18% -3.51% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 153 83
10th Percentile £20.28 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £23.93 £13.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £29.90 £15.17 £16.85
Median % change year-on-year +97.10% -9.97% -11.32%
75th Percentile £58.02 £34.21 £42.19
90th Percentile £76.00 £48.24 £66.55
England median hourly rate £33.91 £35.65 £22.49
% change year-on-year -4.88% +58.55% -15.15%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 June 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 53 £525 +5.00% 16
North East +17 19 £413 - 7
North West +3 18 £488 -4.88% 12
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 4 (4.44%) Confluence
2 2 (2.22%) CMS
2 2 (2.22%) FactoryTalk
2 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.11%) Apache
3 1 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Chatbot
1 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.22%) MadCap Flare
2 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) SAP APO
1 1 (1.11%) SAP PM
1 1 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.11%) SAP SCM
1 1 (1.11%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 8 (8.89%) AWS
2 7 (7.78%) GCP
3 6 (6.67%) Azure
4 3 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (3.33%) GitHub
4 3 (3.33%) Serverless
5 2 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (2.22%) dbt
5 2 (2.22%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.22%) Google Compute Engine
5 2 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.22%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.22%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.11%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 1 (1.11%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 1 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.11%) SaaS
6 1 (1.11%) Smartsheet
6 1 (1.11%) Stitch
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.33%) Firewall
2 2 (2.22%) DNS
2 2 (2.22%) Network Security
3 1 (1.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (1.11%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.11%) NAS
3 1 (1.11%) NGN
3 1 (1.11%) SAN
3 1 (1.11%) SSH
3 1 (1.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.33%) BigQuery
1 3 (3.33%) Oracle Database
2 2 (2.22%) Power BI
2 2 (2.22%) Tableau
3 1 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.11%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.11%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.11%) Flink
3 1 (1.11%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.11%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 9 (10.00%) JIRA
2 4 (4.44%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.22%) Git
3 2 (2.22%) GitLab
4 1 (1.11%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.11%) Jaeger
4 1 (1.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (33.33%) Finance
2 21 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 17 (18.89%) Banking
4 9 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (3.33%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.22%) Marketing
7 2 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.11%) Legal
8 1 (1.11%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (1.11%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (14.44%) Analyst
2 10 (11.11%) Developer
3 8 (8.89%) Architect
3 8 (8.89%) Consultant
3 8 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (6.67%) Business Analyst
5 5 (5.56%) Data Engineer
5 5 (5.56%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 5 (5.56%) Security Engineer
6 4 (4.44%) Java Developer
7 3 (3.33%) Data Analyst
7 3 (3.33%) GCP Architect
7 3 (3.33%) IT Engineer
7 3 (3.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.33%) IT Security Engineer
7 3 (3.33%) Lead
7 3 (3.33%) Programme Manager
7 3 (3.33%) Project Manager
7 3 (3.33%) Senior
8 2 (2.22%) Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.33%) PySpark
1 3 (3.33%) React
2 2 (2.22%) Anaconda
2 2 (2.22%) Micronaut
2 2 (2.22%) Pandas
3 1 (1.11%) Apache Beam
3 1 (1.11%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.11%) GatsbyJS
3 1 (1.11%) HTML
3 1 (1.11%) JSON
3 1 (1.11%) Middleware
3 1 (1.11%) Next.js
3 1 (1.11%) OpenAPI
3 1 (1.11%) Playwright
3 1 (1.11%) SAP Core Interface
3 1 (1.11%) Spark Streaming
3 1 (1.11%) Spring
3 1 (1.11%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.11%) Swagger
3 1 (1.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.22%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.22%) Mainframe
3 2 (2.22%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 2 (2.22%) Robotics
3 2 (2.22%) SCADA
4 1 (1.11%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.11%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.11%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.11%) Equities
4 1 (1.11%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.11%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.11%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (14.44%) Linux
2 7 (7.78%) Windows
3 5 (5.56%) Unix
4 3 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (3.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.11%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 20 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (17.78%) Agile
4 11 (12.22%) CI/CD
5 10 (11.11%) Data Analysis
6 9 (10.00%) Project Management
7 8 (8.89%) Analytics
7 8 (8.89%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (7.78%) Artificial Intelligence
8 7 (7.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (6.67%) DevOps
10 5 (5.56%) Business Analysis
10 5 (5.56%) ERP
10 5 (5.56%) Information Security
10 5 (5.56%) Information Security Management
10 5 (5.56%) ISMS
10 5 (5.56%) Performance Optimisation
10 5 (5.56%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (17.78%) Python
2 5 (5.56%) Java
2 5 (5.56%) SQL
3 3 (3.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.22%) Bash
4 2 (2.22%) Go
4 2 (2.22%) Scala
5 1 (1.11%) ActionScript
5 1 (1.11%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (1.11%) C
5 1 (1.11%) C++
5 1 (1.11%) Groovy
5 1 (1.11%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.11%) JCL
5 1 (1.11%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.11%) REXX
5 1 (1.11%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (7.78%) Degree
2 3 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (3.33%) SC Cleared
2 3 (3.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.22%) SnowPro
4 1 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.11%) CCNP
4 1 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.11%) MCP
4 1 (1.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.44%) PMO
3 3 (3.33%) SLA
4 2 (2.22%) GDPR
4 2 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.11%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.11%) NEBOSH
5 1 (1.11%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.11%) QA
5 1 (1.11%) SEPA
5 1 (1.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (5.56%) Docker
3 3 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.33%) VMware NSX
3 3 (3.33%) vSphere
4 2 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (11.11%) Ansible
2 8 (8.89%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.67%) Terraform
4 4 (4.44%) Control-M
5 2 (2.22%) Grafana
5 2 (2.22%) vCenter Server
5 2 (2.22%) vRealize
6 1 (1.11%) Istio
6 1 (1.11%) Kiali
6 1 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (12.22%) VMware
2 8 (8.89%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.78%) Cisco
3 7 (7.78%) Google
3 7 (7.78%) Veeam
4 6 (6.67%) Databricks
5 5 (5.56%) Fortinet
5 5 (5.56%) HP
6 4 (4.44%) IBM
7 3 (3.33%) Oracle
7 3 (3.33%) Red Hat
7 3 (3.33%) SAP
8 2 (2.22%) AVEVA
8 2 (2.22%) Commvault
8 2 (2.22%) IBM Sterling
8 2 (2.22%) Rockwell
8 2 (2.22%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.22%) Siemens
8 2 (2.22%) Snow
8 2 (2.22%) Splunk