Data Protection Act Contracts in Northern Ireland

Data Protection Act (DPA)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 29 33
Rank change year-on-year +9 +4 -
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 4 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 2.76% 0.50% 1.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.11% 1.69% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £501 - £280
25th Percentile £503 - £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £400 £300
Median % change year-on-year +28.13% +33.33% -
75th Percentile £528 - £343
90th Percentile £534 - £353
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +40.00%

All Generic Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 36 59 80
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 24.83% 29.65% 37.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 33 39
10th Percentile £168 £172 £145
25th Percentile £198 £313 £146
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £310
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +29.03% -28.24%
75th Percentile £500 £475 £474
90th Percentile £515 £616 £528
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 2 6
10th Percentile - £13.33 £13.89
25th Percentile £12.25 £13.46 £14.67
Median hourly rate £12.62 £13.84 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.83% -27.14% +80.95%
75th Percentile £23.54 £14.15 £21.00
90th Percentile £31.88 £14.22 -
UK median hourly rate £30.14 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +34.04% -18.24% +4.05%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Data Protection Act as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Act in Northern Ireland

Data Protection Act
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Protection Act in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Act in Northern Ireland

Data Protection Act
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim +9 4 £513 +28.13%
Data Protection Act
UK

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (25.00%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) HTTP
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) Skype
2 1 (25.00%) VoIP
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Lead Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Coaching
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) VMware