Data Protection Act Contracts in the North West

Data Protection Act (DPA)
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies advertised in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 31 51
Rank change year-on-year -70 +20 +83
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 40 181 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.44% 5.61% 4.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.33% 16.56% 12.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 114 153
10th Percentile £252 £266 £270
25th Percentile £341 £313 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +19.12% -15.00% +145.10%
75th Percentile £591 £519 £575
90th Percentile £686 £675 £628
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +44.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £21.34 -
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.47 -
Median hourly rate £21.00 £22.38 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% - -
75th Percentile £21.50 £23.41 -
90th Percentile - £23.61 -
England median hourly rate £27.50 £52.50 £22.12
% change year-on-year -47.62% +137.34% +0.55%

All Generic Skills
North West

Data Protection Act is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 751 1,093 1,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 27.03% 33.86% 34.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 737 1,056
10th Percentile £297 £295 £213
25th Percentile £419 £400 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £466
Median % change year-on-year - +7.24% +20.87%
75th Percentile £582 £626 £586
90th Percentile £672 £680 £671
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 49 64
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.68 £11.36
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.22 £12.39
Median hourly rate £25.25 £27.98 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +49.23% +4.75%
75th Percentile £37.50 £65.00 £38.59
90th Percentile £46.18 £70.00 £48.01
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year +33.33% -15.09% +1.92%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Act in the North West

Data Protection Act
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Act in the North West

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in the North West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in the North West

Data Protection Act
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection Act in the North West

Data Protection Act
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Manchester -48 28 £451 +0.28% 1
Cheshire -15 8 £519 +59.62% 1
Lancashire -11 3 £600 +73.91%
Merseyside +9 1 £250 -23.08%
Data Protection Act
England

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.50%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (2.50%) SAP EWM
1 1 (2.50%) SAP MDG
1 1 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.50%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (7.50%) Azure
3 2 (5.00%) AWS
3 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.50%) ChatGPT
4 1 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.50%) GCP
4 1 (2.50%) Snowflake
4 1 (2.50%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) Firewall
1 2 (5.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) Metadata
2 2 (5.00%) Power BI
2 2 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.50%) Data Vault
3 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.50%) DataStage
3 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) ERwin
2 1 (2.50%) Git
2 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.50%) JIRA
2 1 (2.50%) Maven
2 1 (2.50%) Postman
2 1 (2.50%) SoapUI
General
1 13 (32.50%) Finance
2 5 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 5 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 4 (10.00%) Electronics
3 4 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 4 (10.00%) Marketing
3 4 (10.00%) Retail
3 4 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Banking
5 2 (5.00%) Digital Economy
5 2 (5.00%) Legal
6 1 (2.50%) German Language
6 1 (2.50%) Italian Language
6 1 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 6 (15.00%) Analyst
2 5 (12.50%) Architect
3 4 (10.00%) Data Architect
3 4 (10.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 4 (10.00%) Enterprise Data Architect
3 4 (10.00%) Senior
4 3 (7.50%) Business Analyst
4 3 (7.50%) Developer
4 3 (7.50%) IT Support
4 3 (7.50%) Lead
4 3 (7.50%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Data Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Exchange Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Technical Leader
6 1 (2.50%) Consultant
6 1 (2.50%) Data Quality Analyst
6 1 (2.50%) IT Director
6 1 (2.50%) IT Manager
6 1 (2.50%) SAP Manager
6 1 (2.50%) Senior QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) .NET
1 1 (2.50%) Hugging Face
1 1 (2.50%) LangChain
1 1 (2.50%) Node.js
1 1 (2.50%) PyTorch
1 1 (2.50%) RESTful
1 1 (2.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Wiki
2 2 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.50%) CMDB
3 1 (2.50%) Educational Technology
3 1 (2.50%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (2.50%) Freedom of Information Act
3 1 (2.50%) IoT
3 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.50%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.50%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Windows
2 3 (7.50%) Windows 10
3 2 (5.00%) Linux
3 2 (5.00%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.50%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 7 (17.50%) Data Governance
3 6 (15.00%) Agile
3 6 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (12.50%) Data Management
4 5 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 5 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (10.00%) Data Architecture
5 4 (10.00%) Data Flow Diagram
5 4 (10.00%) Data Strategy
5 4 (10.00%) Digital Marketing
5 4 (10.00%) Domain Models
5 4 (10.00%) Master Data Management
5 4 (10.00%) Physical Data Model
5 4 (10.00%) Programme Management
5 4 (10.00%) Project Management
6 3 (7.50%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (7.50%) DevOps
6 3 (7.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.00%) SQL
2 3 (7.50%) Python
3 2 (5.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.50%) Java
4 1 (2.50%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.00%) Degree
2 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) CCNA
3 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) MCSE
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.50%) SAP Certification
3 1 (2.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 5 (12.50%) GDPR
3 2 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.50%) QA
4 1 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.50%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (22.50%) SAP
2 6 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.00%) Sparx
4 1 (2.50%) Adobe
4 1 (2.50%) Avaloq
4 1 (2.50%) Cisco
4 1 (2.50%) Embarcadero
4 1 (2.50%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle
4 1 (2.50%) VMware