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 in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 96 60
Rank change year-on-year +17 -36 +69
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 60 52 126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.24% 1.81% 3.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.74% 5.56% 11.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 39 89
10th Percentile £233 £195 £305
25th Percentile £270 £353 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% +37.93%
75th Percentile £500 £603 £625
90th Percentile £568 £673 £715
South East median daily rate £425 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -17.07% +2.50% +37.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 4
10th Percentile - - £60.20
25th Percentile £22.50 - £64.80
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £67.76
75th Percentile £28.75 - £71.29
90th Percentile £29.00 - £76.75
South East median hourly rate £27.50 £52.50 £67.36
% change year-on-year -47.62% -22.06% +11.34%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 775 935 1,077
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 28.90% 32.50% 30.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 619 680
10th Percentile £205 £303 £226
25th Percentile £313 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £664
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 24 33
10th Percentile £11.79 £18.08 £16.12
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £60.88 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.00% +204.38% -42.03%
75th Percentile £59.57 £73.69 £29.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.93 £67.47
South East median hourly rate £54.00 £54.37 £21.50
% change year-on-year -0.68% +152.88% -40.45%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -8 42 £288 -32.35% 2
Buckinghamshire +30 14 £575 -3.16% 2
Oxfordshire - 4 £475 - 5
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%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.00%) Azure
2 6 (10.00%) AWS
3 3 (5.00%) GCP
4 2 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (3.33%) PaaS
5 1 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.67%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.67%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.67%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.33%) Firewall
1 5 (8.33%) MPLS
2 4 (6.67%) SD-WAN
2 4 (6.67%) WAN
3 3 (5.00%) Internet
3 3 (5.00%) Network Security
4 2 (3.33%) 5G
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
5 1 (1.67%) 4G
5 1 (1.67%) ATM
5 1 (1.67%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (1.67%) DMZ
5 1 (1.67%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (1.67%) SDH
5 1 (1.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.67%) Looker
2 1 (1.67%) MySQL
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (1.67%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Git
1 3 (5.00%) JIRA
1 3 (5.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 16 (26.67%) Marketing
2 11 (18.33%) Social Skills
3 9 (15.00%) Telecoms
4 7 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (10.00%) Law
5 6 (10.00%) Legal
6 4 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.33%) Finance
8 1 (1.67%) Advertising
8 1 (1.67%) Banking
8 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (15.00%) Architect
1 9 (15.00%) Business Development Manager
1 9 (15.00%) Business Manager
1 9 (15.00%) Development Manager
2 5 (8.33%) Developer
2 5 (8.33%) Network Architect
2 5 (8.33%) Network Engineer
3 4 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (5.00%) Analyst
4 3 (5.00%) C# Developer
4 3 (5.00%) Site Engineer
4 3 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (3.33%) Consultant
5 2 (3.33%) Project Manager
5 2 (3.33%) Security Analyst
6 1 (1.67%) DBA
6 1 (1.67%) Junior
6 1 (1.67%) Senior Developer
6 1 (1.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.67%) Anaconda
1 1 (1.67%) CSS
1 1 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (1.67%) Jest
1 1 (1.67%) React
1 1 (1.67%) RESTful
1 1 (1.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.67%) CSOC
3 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.67%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.67%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.67%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.00%) Linux
2 5 (8.33%) 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 11 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (16.67%) Value Proposition
5 9 (15.00%) Business Development
5 9 (15.00%) Digital Marketing
6 8 (13.33%) Data Management
6 8 (13.33%) Information Security
7 6 (10.00%) B2C
7 6 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (10.00%) Data Mapping
7 6 (10.00%) Data Sharing
7 6 (10.00%) Impact Assessments
7 6 (10.00%) Scrum
8 4 (6.67%) Computer Science
8 4 (6.67%) DevOps
8 4 (6.67%) Network Architecture
8 4 (6.67%) Project Management
9 3 (5.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (5.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (13.33%) C#
2 6 (10.00%) SQL
3 4 (6.67%) Python
4 3 (5.00%) F#
5 2 (3.33%) C++
5 2 (3.33%) Java
6 1 (1.67%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.67%) R
6 1 (1.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (18.33%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (13.33%) Degree
4 6 (10.00%) ISEB
5 4 (6.67%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
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%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (38.33%) GDPR
2 4 (6.67%) QA
3 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.67%) Amdocs OSS
1 1 (1.67%) Ansible
1 1 (1.67%) Grafana
1 1 (1.67%) Graylog
1 1 (1.67%) Nagios
1 1 (1.67%) Nessus
1 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
1 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (20.00%) Cisco
2 6 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.00%) OneTrust
3 2 (3.33%) F5
3 2 (3.33%) Palo Alto
3 2 (3.33%) VMware
4 1 (1.67%) Adobe
4 1 (1.67%) Cramer
4 1 (1.67%) Dell
4 1 (1.67%) Juniper
4 1 (1.67%) Meraki
4 1 (1.67%) ScienceLogic
4 1 (1.67%) Splunk
4 1 (1.67%) Tellabs