Data Protection Contracts in Scotland

Data Protection
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 29 25
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 +80
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 126 203 251
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 5.80% 7.21% 7.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.55% 7.79% 7.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 109 156
10th Percentile £185 £269 £363
25th Percentile £340 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.20% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £580 £538
90th Percentile £638 £637 £588
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £56.53 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +182.63% -
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £52.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -60.00% +162.50% -4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,924 2,605 3,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.58% 92.54% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,868 2,327
10th Percentile £225 £260 £249
25th Percentile £389 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £587 £560 £550
90th Percentile £663 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 55 47
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.32
25th Percentile £15.84 £11.78 £20.38
Median hourly rate £18.41 £17.21 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.97% -56.98% -
75th Percentile £40.94 £50.74 £49.15
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.94 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in Scotland

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in Scotland

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in Scotland over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in Scotland

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in Scotland

Data Protection
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh -2 74 £450 -2.70% 3
Glasgow +2 27 £525 -4.55% 5
West Lothian +2 11 £450 -16.28% 1
South Lanarkshire -2 2 £275 -40.22%
Renfrewshire -2 2 £120 -
Aberdeen - 1 - - 1
Data Protection
UK

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 7 (5.56%) Confluence
2 3 (2.38%) Apache
3 1 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.79%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.79%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.79%) CMS
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.79%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.59%) Adobe Captivate
2 2 (1.59%) Camtasia
2 2 (1.59%) Lectora
2 2 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) SAP MM
1 1 (0.79%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 20 (15.87%) Azure
2 15 (11.90%) AWS
3 11 (8.73%) OpenShift
4 6 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (3.17%) Amazon S3
5 4 (3.17%) Entra ID
5 4 (3.17%) SaaS
6 3 (2.38%) GCP
7 2 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.59%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.59%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.59%) Serverless
7 2 (1.59%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.79%) Akamai
8 1 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.79%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.79%) Azure API Management
8 1 (0.79%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.79%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.35%) NAS
2 7 (5.56%) SAN
3 5 (3.97%) DNS
4 4 (3.17%) DHCP
4 4 (3.17%) VSAN
5 3 (2.38%) HTTP
5 3 (2.38%) NetScaler
5 3 (2.38%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.59%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (1.59%) Firewall
6 2 (1.59%) Intranet
6 2 (1.59%) Network Security
6 2 (1.59%) SSL
6 2 (1.59%) WAN
7 1 (0.79%) Broadband
7 1 (0.79%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.79%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.79%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (2.38%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.59%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (1.59%) Crystal Reports
3 2 (1.59%) Power BI
3 2 (1.59%) Star Schema
4 1 (0.79%) Big Data
4 1 (0.79%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.79%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.79%) Looker
4 1 (0.79%) Metadata
4 1 (0.79%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (14.29%) Git
1 18 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 11 (8.73%) JIRA
3 7 (5.56%) Cucumber
3 7 (5.56%) Postman
4 6 (4.76%) JUnit
5 4 (3.17%) IntelliJ
6 3 (2.38%) Maven
7 2 (1.59%) Capybara
7 2 (1.59%) Gradle
8 1 (0.79%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.79%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.79%) GitLab
8 1 (0.79%) Selenium
General
1 28 (22.22%) Finance
1 28 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 22 (17.46%) Public Sector
3 8 (6.35%) Banking
4 7 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.76%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.38%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.59%) Law
9 1 (0.79%) Electronics
9 1 (0.79%) Legal
9 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.79%) Marketing
9 1 (0.79%) Publishing
9 1 (0.79%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 23 (18.25%) Developer
2 12 (9.52%) Analyst
2 12 (9.52%) Senior
3 11 (8.73%) Architect
4 8 (6.35%) Business Analyst
4 8 (6.35%) Java Developer
4 8 (6.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 7 (5.56%) Consultant
6 5 (3.97%) Data Architect
6 5 (3.97%) Project Manager
7 4 (3.17%) Data Manager
7 4 (3.17%) Full Stack Developer
7 4 (3.17%) IT Manager
7 4 (3.17%) Python Developer
7 4 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.38%) Active Directory Engineer
8 3 (2.38%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (2.38%) Data Protection Manager
8 3 (2.38%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.38%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (15.87%) REST
2 13 (10.32%) Spring Boot
3 10 (7.94%) Spring
4 9 (7.14%) React
5 7 (5.56%) CSS
5 7 (5.56%) HTML
6 6 (4.76%) Apache Camel
6 6 (4.76%) Kafka
7 4 (3.17%) Node.js
7 4 (3.17%) Spring MVC
7 4 (3.17%) Spring Web Flow
7 4 (3.17%) Thymeleaf
8 3 (2.38%) .NET
8 3 (2.38%) AWS CDK
8 3 (2.38%) Flash
8 3 (2.38%) J2EE
8 3 (2.38%) XML
9 2 (1.59%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.59%) Middleware
9 2 (1.59%) Twisted
Miscellaneous
1 85 (67.46%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (3.97%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.17%) Freedom of Information
3 4 (3.17%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.17%) VxBlock/Vblock
4 2 (1.59%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.59%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.59%) e-Learning
4 2 (1.59%) Learning Management System
4 2 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.59%) Private Cloud
4 2 (1.59%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.59%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.59%) Video Editing
5 1 (0.79%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (0.79%) Legacy Code
5 1 (0.79%) NVMe
5 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.52%) Linux
2 9 (7.14%) Unix
3 6 (4.76%) Windows
4 4 (3.17%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.79%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (24.60%) Agile
2 18 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 15 (11.90%) Value Proposition
4 13 (10.32%) Migration
5 12 (9.52%) DevOps
6 10 (7.94%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (7.14%) Data Modelling
7 9 (7.14%) Decision-Making
7 9 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 8 (6.35%) Microservices
8 8 (6.35%) Observability
9 7 (5.56%) Business Analysis
9 7 (5.56%) Computer Science
9 7 (5.56%) Data Deduplication
9 7 (5.56%) Test Automation
9 7 (5.56%) User Experience
10 6 (4.76%) Project Management
10 6 (4.76%) Scrum
10 6 (4.76%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 22 (17.46%) Java
2 21 (16.67%) Python
3 17 (13.49%) JavaScript
3 17 (13.49%) SQL
4 14 (11.11%) Perl
5 6 (4.76%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.59%) Bash
6 2 (1.59%) C#
6 2 (1.59%) Ruby
6 2 (1.59%) Rust
6 2 (1.59%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.79%) Bicep
7 1 (0.79%) PHP
7 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (12.70%) Degree
2 6 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.17%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.17%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (0.79%) CCSP
4 1 (0.79%) CISA
4 1 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.79%) CISM
4 1 (0.79%) CISSP
4 1 (0.79%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.52%) Accessibility
2 7 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (2.38%) COBIT
4 2 (1.59%) GDPR
4 2 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.59%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.79%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.79%) GRC
5 1 (0.79%) NIST
5 1 (0.79%) QA
System Software
1 12 (9.52%) Docker
2 7 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.17%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.17%) vSphere
4 1 (0.79%) NFS
4 1 (0.79%) ProxySG
4 1 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (10.32%) Kubernetes
2 11 (8.73%) Terraform
3 10 (7.94%) Grafana
4 9 (7.14%) Ansible
5 6 (4.76%) NetBackup
5 6 (4.76%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.17%) vCenter Server
6 4 (3.17%) VxRail
7 3 (2.38%) Kibana
8 2 (1.59%) Avamar
8 2 (1.59%) Puppet
9 1 (0.79%) CASB
9 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.79%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (7.94%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.56%) VMware
3 5 (3.97%) Veritas
4 4 (3.17%) Databricks
4 4 (3.17%) Dell
5 3 (2.38%) Cisco
5 3 (2.38%) Oracle
5 3 (2.38%) Pega
6 2 (1.59%) Adobe
6 2 (1.59%) F5
6 2 (1.59%) Google
6 2 (1.59%) Informatica
6 2 (1.59%) SAP
6 2 (1.59%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.59%) Splunk
7 1 (0.79%) Citrix
7 1 (0.79%) IDERA
7 1 (0.79%) NetApp
7 1 (0.79%) OneTrust
7 1 (0.79%) Palo Alto