Data Protection Act Contract Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Data Protection Act (DPA)
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies in Nottinghamshire. 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 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 20 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	36	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act	1	0	0
As % of all contract jobs in Nottinghamshire	0.25%	-	-
As % of the Miscellaneous category	1.52%	-	-
Number of daily rates quoted	1	0	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£413	-	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£425	-	-
75^th Percentile	£438	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
East Midlands median daily rate	£425	-	£350
% change year-on-year	-	-	-17.65%

All Generic Skills
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

	6 months to 20 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills	66	55	60
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire	16.62%	32.74%	35.93%
Number of daily rates quoted	28	33	30
10^th Percentile	£190	£218	£180
25^th Percentile	£260	£400	£308
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£425	£465	£488
Median % change year-on-year	-8.60%	-4.62%	-2.50%
75^th Percentile	£466	£550	£509
90^th Percentile	£570	£697	£579
East Midlands median daily rate	£450	£440	£445
% change year-on-year	+2.39%	-1.24%	-6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted	12	2	0
10^th Percentile	-	£14.51	-
25^th Percentile	£13.51	£15.57	-
Median hourly rate	£14.01	£17.32	-
Median % change year-on-year	-19.14%	-	-
75^th Percentile	£24.99	£19.08	-
90^th Percentile	£142.00	£20.13	-
East Midlands median hourly rate	£19.29	£21.35	£50.00
% change year-on-year	-9.63%	-57.31%	+138.10%

Data Protection Act Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Data Protection Act Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Data Protection Act Hourly Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Data Protection Act.

Data Protection Act Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
Nottingham	-	1	£425	-	3
Data Protection Act East Midlands

Data Protection Act Top 25 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire

For the 6 months to 20 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Data Protection Act also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Nottinghamshire region with a requirement for Data Protection Act.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Agile	100.0%	1
1	Ansible	100.0%	1
1	AWS	100.0%	1
1	CentOS	100.0%	1
1	CI/CD	100.0%	1
1	Collaborative Engineering	100.0%	1
1	Containerisation	100.0%	1
1	Continuous Improvement	100.0%	1
1	Data Protection	100.0%	1
1	Docker	100.0%	1
1	GitHub	100.0%	1
1	GitLab	100.0%	1
1	Graceful Degradation	100.0%	1
1	Incident Response	100.0%	1
1	Infrastructure Automation	100.0%	1
1	Linux	100.0%	1
1	Observability	100.0%	1
1	Problem-Solving	100.0%	1
1	Python	100.0%	1
1	Red Hat	100.0%	1
1	Red Hat Enterprise Linux	100.0%	1
1	Root Cause Analysis	100.0%	1
1	Site Reliability Engineering	100.0%	1
1	Terraform	100.0%	1
1	User Stories	100.0%	1

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

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Miscellaneous

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Cloud Native	100.0%	1