Data Protection Act Contracts in South Yorkshire

Data Protection Act (DPA)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies in South Yorkshire. 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 53 31
Rank change year-on-year +40 -22 -11
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 40 3 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 10.72% 0.66% 4.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 29.63% 1.94% 15.57%
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% -6.98%
75th Percentile £613 £546 £622
90th Percentile £625 £582 £659
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - -9.52%

All Generic Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 135 155 167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 36.19% 33.92% 31.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 91 108
10th Percentile £263 £356 £317
25th Percentile £376 £414 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -25.00% +16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £678
90th Percentile £650 £645 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £538
% change year-on-year - -11.63% +9.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 36
10th Percentile - £10.90 -
25th Percentile - £11.04 £9.80
Median hourly rate - £12.75 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year - +19.94% -44.41%
75th Percentile - £23.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £36.91 £14.63 £10.63
% change year-on-year +152.34% +37.58% -43.16%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Act in South Yorkshire

Data Protection Act
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Act in South Yorkshire

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in South Yorkshire

Data Protection Act
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Sheffield +39 40 £525 +10.53% 1
Data Protection Act
Yorkshire

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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