Data Protection Act Contract Job Trends in North Wales

Data Protection Act (DPA)
Wales > North Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies in North Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in North Wales 2.63% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 16.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Wales median daily rate £265 £413 £305
% change year-on-year -35.76% +35.25% -40.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.50 - -
Median hourly rate £23.00 - -
75th Percentile £24.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median hourly rate £23.00 - -

All Generic Skills
North Wales

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 North Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12 9 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in North Wales 15.79% 20.93% 20.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £194 £210 -
25th Percentile £225 £218 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £234 £134
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% +73.84% -43.27%
75th Percentile £275 £253 £191
90th Percentile £289 £262 £225
Wales median daily rate £425 £331 £488
% change year-on-year +28.33% -32.07% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 2
10th Percentile - £19.22 £20.06
25th Percentile £13.81 £20.50 £22.93
Median hourly rate £18.41 £21.00 £28.30
Median % change year-on-year -12.36% -25.79% +82.56%
75th Percentile £24.50 £21.50 £33.08
90th Percentile - - £35.60
Wales median hourly rate £43.96 £20.50 £25.60
% change year-on-year +114.44% -19.92% +11.30%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in North Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Protection Act relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in North Wales.

Data Protection Act job vacancy trend in North Wales

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Trend in North Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in North Wales citing Data Protection Act.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in North Wales citing Data Protection Act

Data Protection Act
Contract Job Locations in North Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 20 September 2026. 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
Wrexham - 2 - -
Data Protection Act
Wales

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

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) BrowserStack
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) QA Tester
1 2 (100.00%) Tester
2 1 (50.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Tester
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation Tester
2 1 (50.00%) QA Manual Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Entry
2 1 (50.00%) Exploratory Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA