Data Protection Contracts in Northern Ireland

Data Protection
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland with a requirement for Data Protection skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Protection over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 32 23
Rank change year-on-year +11 -9 +6
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 4 1 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 2.70% 0.49% 4.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.57% 0.64% 5.20%
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% -40.00%
75th Percentile £528 - £343
90th Percentile £534 - £353
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.00
Median hourly rate - - £19.00
75th Percentile - - £21.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £20.25 £52.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -61.43% +162.50% -6.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

Data Protection is in the Processes and Methodologies 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 process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 112 156 173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 75.68% 76.85% 81.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 81 90
10th Percentile £210 £165 £145
25th Percentile £331 £270 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £435
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -8.05% +5.78%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £500
90th Percentile £660 £623 £550
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 14 11
10th Percentile - £13.40 £10.22
25th Percentile £12.25 £13.91 £10.26
Median hourly rate £13.94 £15.25 £15.74
Median % change year-on-year -8.59% -3.11% +12.43%
75th Percentile £23.54 £16.78 £21.00
90th Percentile £31.88 £18.12 -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in Northern Ireland

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in Northern Ireland

Data Protection
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 within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 26 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
County Antrim +5 4 £513 +28.13% 3
Data Protection
UK

Data Protection
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
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Coaching
1 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
1 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