Data Protection Act Contract Job Trends in Sutton

Data Protection Act (DPA)
South London > Sutton

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies in Sutton. 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 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sutton 20.00% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 33.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South London median daily rate £600 £475 £563
% change year-on-year +26.32% -15.56% -13.46%

All Generic Skills
Sutton

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 Sutton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3 5 2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sutton 60.00% 71.43% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile £189 - -
25th Percentile £243 £205 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £230 £425
Median % change year-on-year +47.83% -45.88% -15.00%
75th Percentile £443 £235 £438
90th Percentile £500 £364 -
South London median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +5.00%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in Sutton

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

Data Protection Act job vacancy trend in Sutton

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

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) PagerDuty