Data Protection Act Contracts in Sheffield

Data Protection Act (DPA)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies in Sheffield. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 52 30
Rank change year-on-year +39 -22 -13
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 40 3 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 12.54% 0.79% 5.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 32.79% 2.26% 21.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 3 19
10th Percentile £421 £363 £310
25th Percentile £463 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £546 £622
90th Percentile £625 £582 £659
South Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -6.98%

All Generic Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 122 133 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 38.24% 35.09% 26.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 76 99
10th Percentile £306 £395 £417
25th Percentile £375 £429 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -20.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £694
90th Percentile £650 £648 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £450 £600
% change year-on-year +5.56% -25.00% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £10.90 £17.50
Median hourly rate - £17.63 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - -11.88% +13.38%
75th Percentile - £23.75 £22.50
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £12.75 £10.63
% change year-on-year - +19.94% -44.41%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Act in Sheffield

Data Protection Act
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Act in Sheffield

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in Sheffield over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in Sheffield

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (2.50%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.50%) Confluence
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (2.50%) AWS
2 1 (2.50%) Azure
2 1 (2.50%) Google Compute Engine
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) DNS
1 2 (5.00%) Firewall
1 2 (5.00%) Network Security
2 1 (2.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (2.50%) HTTPS
2 1 (2.50%) NAS
2 1 (2.50%) NGN
2 1 (2.50%) SAN
2 1 (2.50%) SSH
2 1 (2.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.50%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.50%) Flink
Development Applications
1 6 (15.00%) JIRA
2 3 (7.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.50%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.50%) Git
3 1 (2.50%) GitLab
3 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (50.00%) Finance
2 14 (35.00%) Banking
3 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 7 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (12.50%) Architect
2 4 (10.00%) Developer
3 3 (7.50%) Analyst
3 3 (7.50%) Consultant
3 3 (7.50%) Senior
4 2 (5.00%) Administrator
4 2 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Database Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) IT Administrator
4 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Programme Manager
4 2 (5.00%) Technical Manager
5 1 (2.50%) Business Manager
5 1 (2.50%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (2.50%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (2.50%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (2.50%) Python Developer
5 1 (2.50%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (2.50%) Solutions Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) Anaconda
1 2 (5.00%) Pandas
1 2 (5.00%) PySpark
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Beam
2 1 (2.50%) Gherkin
2 1 (2.50%) Kafka
2 1 (2.50%) Middleware
2 1 (2.50%) React
2 1 (2.50%) Spark Streaming
2 1 (2.50%) Spring
2 1 (2.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (5.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (5.00%) Robotics
2 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.50%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.50%) Windows
2 4 (10.00%) Linux
2 4 (10.00%) Unix
3 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.50%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 15 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (17.50%) Agile
4 6 (15.00%) CI/CD
5 5 (12.50%) Data Analysis
6 4 (10.00%) Analytics
6 4 (10.00%) Data Management
6 4 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (7.50%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (7.50%) Mentoring
7 3 (7.50%) Project Management
7 3 (7.50%) Risk Management
7 3 (7.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (7.50%) Test Automation
8 2 (5.00%) Migration
8 2 (5.00%) Risk Assessment
8 2 (5.00%) Scrum
8 2 (5.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.50%) Python
2 2 (5.00%) Go
2 2 (5.00%) Java
3 1 (2.50%) ActionScript
3 1 (2.50%) ActionScript 2.0
3 1 (2.50%) C
3 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.50%) JCL
3 1 (2.50%) Kotlin
3 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.50%) REXX
3 1 (2.50%) Scala
3 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.50%) CCNP
2 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) PMO
1 2 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 2 (5.00%) SLA
2 1 (2.50%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.50%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (7.50%) vSphere
3 2 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.00%) Docker
4 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (25.00%) Ansible
2 4 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.50%) Control-M
4 2 (5.00%) Terraform
5 1 (2.50%) Grafana
5 1 (2.50%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.50%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (10.00%) VMware
2 3 (7.50%) Google
2 3 (7.50%) IBM
2 3 (7.50%) Oracle
3 2 (5.00%) Cisco
3 2 (5.00%) Commvault
3 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.00%) Snow
4 1 (2.50%) Databricks
4 1 (2.50%) F5
4 1 (2.50%) IBM Sterling
4 1 (2.50%) Splunk