Data Protection Contracts in the South West

Data Protection
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 134 100
Rank change year-on-year +57 -34 +15
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 76 40 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.38% 1.09% 1.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.88% 1.22% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 31 60
10th Percentile £200 £180 £322
25th Percentile £481 £483 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £593 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.39% +31.67% -
75th Percentile £638 £711 £541
90th Percentile £650 £814 £627
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +17.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 1 3
10th Percentile £12.81 - £16.20
25th Percentile - - £16.69
Median hourly rate £25.00 £66.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.12% +277.14% -
75th Percentile £40.00 - £19.31
90th Percentile - - £19.73
England median hourly rate £21.00 £52.50 £21.25
% change year-on-year -60.00% +147.06% -3.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,642 3,282 3,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.87% 89.53% 88.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,701 2,410 2,334
10th Percentile £220 £311 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +8.00% +6.95%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £719 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 344 193
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.75 £17.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £47.92 £61.50 £48.48
Median % change year-on-year -22.09% +26.86% +7.73%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.37 £69.97
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Data Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in the South West

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in the South West

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in the South West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in the South West

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in the South West

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Protection in the South West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Protection in the South West

Data Protection
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 25 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
Bristol +33 38 £525 -11.58% 12
Somerset +23 22 - - 10
Wiltshire +3 8 £313 -50.00%
Gloucestershire +7 4 - - 7
Devon - 3 £298 - 1
Cornwall - 1 £158 -
Data Protection
England

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 8 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.63%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (9.21%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 15 (19.74%) Azure
2 6 (7.89%) AWS
2 6 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (6.58%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (5.26%) Azure Stack
4 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.11%) WAN
2 12 (15.79%) LAN
2 12 (15.79%) SAN
3 9 (11.84%) PBX
3 9 (11.84%) VoIP
4 8 (10.53%) DHCP
4 8 (10.53%) DNS
4 8 (10.53%) MPLS
4 8 (10.53%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (5.26%) Firewall
5 4 (5.26%) FTP
6 1 (1.32%) 4G
6 1 (1.32%) 5G
6 1 (1.32%) HTTP
6 1 (1.32%) SDH
6 1 (1.32%) SIGTRAN
6 1 (1.32%) SS7
6 1 (1.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (22.37%) SQL Server
2 9 (11.84%) Oracle Database
3 4 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (5.26%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.32%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 6 (7.89%) Artifactory
1 6 (7.89%) SonarQube
2 2 (2.63%) JIRA
3 1 (1.32%) Rational DOORS
General
1 21 (27.63%) Legal
1 21 (27.63%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.79%) Telecoms
3 10 (13.16%) Aerospace
4 9 (11.84%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (7.89%) Public Sector
7 5 (6.58%) Law
8 1 (1.32%) Aeronautics
8 1 (1.32%) Finance
8 1 (1.32%) Local Government
8 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.32%) Military
8 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (27.63%) Architect
2 13 (17.11%) Solutions Architect
3 9 (11.84%) IT Support
3 9 (11.84%) IT Support Specialist
3 9 (11.84%) Support Specialist
4 8 (10.53%) Analyst
4 8 (10.53%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 8 (10.53%) IT Analyst
4 8 (10.53%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
4 8 (10.53%) Project Manager
5 5 (6.58%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (6.58%) Network Engineer
5 5 (6.58%) Oracle Architect
6 4 (5.26%) Data Architect
6 4 (5.26%) Lead
6 4 (5.26%) SC Cleared Project Manager
7 3 (3.95%) Field Engineer
7 3 (3.95%) IT Engineer
8 2 (2.63%) Desktop Engineer
8 2 (2.63%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.89%) YAML
2 5 (6.58%) XML
3 4 (5.26%) JSON
3 4 (5.26%) REST
4 1 (1.32%) SPML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (23.68%) Data Protection Act
2 13 (17.11%) Replication
3 9 (11.84%) Blog
4 8 (10.53%) Client/Server
4 8 (10.53%) Clustering
4 8 (10.53%) Data Centre
5 4 (5.26%) Data Structures
5 4 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 4 (5.26%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.32%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.32%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 14 (18.42%) Windows
2 9 (11.84%) Unix
3 5 (6.58%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.26%) Linux
5 1 (1.32%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (21.05%) ITIL
2 15 (19.74%) Value Proposition
3 14 (18.42%) Analytics
4 10 (13.16%) Change Management
4 10 (13.16%) Presales
4 10 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (11.84%) Agile
5 9 (11.84%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (11.84%) Data Analysis
5 9 (11.84%) Data Strategy
5 9 (11.84%) Disaster Recovery
5 9 (11.84%) Incident Management
5 9 (11.84%) Knowledge Management
5 9 (11.84%) Migration
5 9 (11.84%) Problem Management
5 9 (11.84%) Security Management
5 9 (11.84%) User Experience
6 8 (10.53%) Capacity Planning
6 8 (10.53%) Data Migration
6 8 (10.53%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (18.42%) PowerShell
2 7 (9.21%) PL/SQL
2 7 (9.21%) SQL
3 6 (7.89%) Bash
Qualifications
1 36 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 16 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 15 (19.74%) DV Cleared
4 9 (11.84%) Degree
4 9 (11.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 5 (6.58%) SAP Certification
6 1 (1.32%) HNC
6 1 (1.32%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.26%) Data Quality
1 4 (5.26%) GDPR
System Software
1 18 (23.68%) Active Directory
2 8 (10.53%) Virtual Servers
2 8 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (10.53%) VMware Workstation
3 6 (7.89%) Docker
4 4 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (5.26%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (10.53%) Microsoft Clustering
1 8 (10.53%) Nagios
1 8 (10.53%) NetBackup
1 8 (10.53%) SCCM
2 7 (9.21%) Terraform
3 6 (7.89%) Ansible
4 4 (5.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (15.79%) VMware
2 9 (11.84%) Oracle
3 8 (10.53%) Hitachi
3 8 (10.53%) NetApp
3 8 (10.53%) SAP
4 7 (9.21%) Microsoft
5 5 (6.58%) Cisco
6 4 (5.26%) CheckPoint
6 4 (5.26%) Palo Alto
6 4 (5.26%) Veeam
7 2 (2.63%) Nokia
8 1 (1.32%) Citrix
8 1 (1.32%) IBM
8 1 (1.32%) Juniper