Data Protection Act Contracts in the Thames Valley

Data Protection Act (DPA)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 85 53
Rank change year-on-year +5 -32 +80
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 60 62 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.22% 2.12% 3.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.41% 6.52% 12.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 47 104
10th Percentile £233 £238 £231
25th Percentile £270 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +2.94% +45.71%
75th Percentile £500 £646 £625
90th Percentile £547 £685 £705
South East median daily rate £425 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -22.73% +10.00% +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 4
10th Percentile - - £59.41
25th Percentile £22.50 - £62.84
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £66.83
75th Percentile £28.75 - £71.29
90th Percentile £29.00 - £76.75
South East median hourly rate £27.50 £52.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year -47.62% -19.85% +2.34%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

Data Protection Act is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 810 951 1,071
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 29.98% 32.47% 30.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 626 689
10th Percentile £205 £278 £193
25th Percentile £280 £410 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £660
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 24 30
10th Percentile £11.79 £18.08 £17.42
25th Percentile £22.50 £19.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £48.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +143.75% -21.57%
75th Percentile £59.97 £70.90 £26.88
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.93 £67.57
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £51.25 £21.74
% change year-on-year -7.32% +135.79% -25.05%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Act in the Thames Valley

Data Protection Act
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Protection Act in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Act in the Thames Valley

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in the Thames Valley

Data Protection Act
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Protection Act in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection Act in the Thames Valley

Data Protection Act
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire -13 45 £425 -5.56% 5
Buckinghamshire +23 14 £638 +8.51% 2
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 1
Data Protection Act
South East

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (1.67%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.33%) Azure
2 4 (6.67%) AWS
3 3 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (5.00%) PaaS
4 2 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (3.33%) Amazon S3
4 2 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (3.33%) Azure AKS
4 2 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.67%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.00%) Firewall
2 5 (8.33%) MPLS
3 3 (5.00%) Internet
3 3 (5.00%) SD-WAN
3 3 (5.00%) WAN
4 2 (3.33%) BGP
4 2 (3.33%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (3.33%) GGSN
4 2 (3.33%) PBX
4 2 (3.33%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.33%) VoIP
4 2 (3.33%) VPN
5 1 (1.67%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (1.67%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (1.67%) DMZ
5 1 (1.67%) Network Security
5 1 (1.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.33%) MySQL
3 2 (3.33%) RDBMS
3 2 (3.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.67%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.67%) Apache Zeppelin
4 1 (1.67%) Big Data
4 1 (1.67%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.67%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Git
1 3 (5.00%) JIRA
1 3 (5.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (1.67%) Selenium
General
1 15 (25.00%) Marketing
2 13 (21.67%) Social Skills
3 8 (13.33%) Telecoms
4 7 (11.67%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (10.00%) Law
5 6 (10.00%) Legal
6 1 (1.67%) Banking
6 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Finance
6 1 (1.67%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.67%) French Language
6 1 (1.67%) Italian Language
6 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 9 (15.00%) Business Development Manager
1 9 (15.00%) Business Manager
1 9 (15.00%) Development Manager
2 8 (13.33%) Architect
3 7 (11.67%) Developer
4 6 (10.00%) Network Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) C# Developer
5 4 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.00%) Consultant
6 3 (5.00%) Network Architect
6 3 (5.00%) Site Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) DBA
7 2 (3.33%) Project Manager
7 2 (3.33%) Server Engineer
8 1 (1.67%) Junior Project Manager
8 1 (1.67%) Lead Developer
8 1 (1.67%) Network Analyst
8 1 (1.67%) Senior Developer
8 1 (1.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.67%) Anaconda
2 1 (1.67%) CSS
2 1 (1.67%) Kafka
2 1 (1.67%) RESTful
2 1 (1.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.00%) Linux
2 6 (10.00%) Windows
3 4 (6.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 12 (20.00%) Data Privacy
3 9 (15.00%) Business Development
3 9 (15.00%) Digital Marketing
3 9 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (15.00%) Value Proposition
4 7 (11.67%) Data Management
4 7 (11.67%) Scrum
5 6 (10.00%) B2C
5 6 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
5 6 (10.00%) Data Mapping
5 6 (10.00%) Data Sharing
5 6 (10.00%) Impact Assessments
5 6 (10.00%) Information Security
6 5 (8.33%) DevOps
6 5 (8.33%) Migration
6 5 (8.33%) Project Management
7 4 (6.67%) Change Control
7 4 (6.67%) Test Automation
8 3 (5.00%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.00%) C#
1 9 (15.00%) SQL
2 5 (8.33%) Python
3 3 (5.00%) F#
3 3 (5.00%) Java
3 3 (5.00%) T-SQL
4 2 (3.33%) C++
4 2 (3.33%) Scala
5 1 (1.67%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.67%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (21.67%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.67%) Degree
4 6 (10.00%) ISEB
5 5 (8.33%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.67%) CCIE
7 1 (1.67%) CCNP
7 1 (1.67%) CEH
7 1 (1.67%) CISM
7 1 (1.67%) CISSP
7 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (35.00%) GDPR
2 5 (8.33%) QA
3 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.33%) Ansible
1 2 (3.33%) Grafana
1 2 (3.33%) Graylog
1 2 (3.33%) Nagios
1 2 (3.33%) Prometheus
1 2 (3.33%) Terraform
2 1 (1.67%) Nessus
Vendors
1 10 (16.67%) Cisco
2 8 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.00%) OneTrust
4 3 (5.00%) Juniper
4 3 (5.00%) VMware
5 2 (3.33%) F5
5 2 (3.33%) Palo Alto
5 2 (3.33%) Splunk
6 1 (1.67%) Databricks
6 1 (1.67%) Dell
6 1 (1.67%) ScienceLogic