Data Protection Act Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Protection Act (DPA)
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 98 97
Rank change year-on-year -59 -1 +320
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 272 622 839
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.32% 2.60% 2.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.51% 8.03% 8.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 364 612
10th Percentile £263 £288 £300
25th Percentile £325 £386 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £550 £618 £575
90th Percentile £632 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 19
10th Percentile £20.50 £19.96 £15.95
25th Percentile £22.50 £21.06 -
Median hourly rate £27.50 £23.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +18.75% -20.34%
75th Percentile £28.75 £53.75 £66.81
90th Percentile - - £77.32
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £38.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -29.03% +93.75% -4.76%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,037 7,749 9,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.25% 32.44% 31.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,632 5,241 6,787
10th Percentile £210 £220 £205
25th Percentile £375 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £615 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 721 436 463
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.21
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.50
Median hourly rate £28.25 £22.00 £20.13
Median % change year-on-year +28.41% +9.29% -16.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £46.60
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £62.02
UK median hourly rate £30.12 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +33.96% -18.24% +4.47%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Protection Act as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Act in the UK excluding London

Data Protection Act
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Protection Act in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Act in the UK excluding London

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in the UK excluding London

Data Protection Act
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Protection Act in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection Act in the UK excluding London

Data Protection Act
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Protection Act in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Protection Act in the UK excluding London

Data Protection Act
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Scotland -9 86 £450 -10.00% 3
South East +15 77 £425 -22.73% 39
North of England -89 47 £500 +17.65% 20
North West -69 34 £513 +20.59% 9
Midlands -28 21 £428 +0.59% 49
West Midlands -24 17 £425 -1.16% 6
East of England +7 16 £413 -27.47% 13
South West +9 15 £180 -74.60% 12
North East +18 7 - - 1
Wales +1 6 £525 +6.33% 5
Yorkshire -19 6 £475 - 10
Northern Ireland +10 4 £513 +28.13%
East Midlands 0 4 £569 +75.00% 43
Data Protection Act
UK

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (2.94%) Confluence
2 5 (1.84%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.47%) Apache
3 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.10%) SAS
5 2 (0.74%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.37%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.74%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.37%) SAP EWM
1 1 (0.37%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.37%) SAP MM
1 1 (0.37%) SAP PM
1 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.37%) SAP WM
1 1 (0.37%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 42 (15.44%) Azure
2 27 (9.93%) AWS
3 11 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (2.57%) Amazon S3
4 7 (2.57%) GCP
4 7 (2.57%) Power Platform
5 6 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (1.84%) Entra ID
6 5 (1.84%) GitHub
7 4 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (1.47%) SaaS
7 4 (1.47%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.10%) Azure AKS
8 3 (1.10%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.10%) PaaS
9 2 (0.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (0.74%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.15%) VoIP
2 13 (4.78%) PBX
3 11 (4.04%) Firewall
4 10 (3.68%) WAN
5 8 (2.94%) TCP/IP
6 7 (2.57%) DNS
7 6 (2.21%) HTTP
8 5 (1.84%) MPLS
9 4 (1.47%) DHCP
9 4 (1.47%) Network Security
10 3 (1.10%) Fibre Channel
10 3 (1.10%) Internet
10 3 (1.10%) LAN
10 3 (1.10%) NetScaler
10 3 (1.10%) SDH
10 3 (1.10%) SD-WAN
10 3 (1.10%) Wireless
11 2 (0.74%) BGP
11 2 (0.74%) SAN
11 2 (0.74%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.31%) Relational Database
2 7 (2.57%) Power BI
2 7 (2.57%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.84%) Metadata
4 4 (1.47%) MySQL
5 3 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.10%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.74%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.74%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.37%) DataStage
7 1 (0.37%) DB2
7 1 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.37%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.37%) SAS Data Integration Studio
7 1 (0.37%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 1 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (7.35%) Git
2 16 (5.88%) JIRA
3 10 (3.68%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.94%) Postman
5 7 (2.57%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.21%) JUnit
7 5 (1.84%) ERwin
8 4 (1.47%) IntelliJ
9 3 (1.10%) GitLab
9 3 (1.10%) Maven
9 3 (1.10%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (1.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.74%) Capybara
10 2 (0.74%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.74%) Gradle
10 2 (0.74%) Selenium
11 1 (0.37%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.37%) ER Studio
11 1 (0.37%) Storybook
General
1 39 (14.34%) Social Skills
2 36 (13.24%) Finance
3 35 (12.87%) Telecoms
4 24 (8.82%) Presentation Skills
5 19 (6.99%) Marketing
6 8 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.94%) Legal
7 7 (2.57%) Law
7 7 (2.57%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.21%) Banking
9 5 (1.84%) Retail
10 4 (1.47%) Electronics
10 4 (1.47%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.10%) Aeronautics
11 3 (1.10%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.74%) Italian Language
12 2 (0.74%) Spanish Language
13 1 (0.37%) French Language
Job Titles
1 39 (14.34%) Architect
2 37 (13.60%) Developer
3 28 (10.29%) Analyst
4 22 (8.09%) Solutions Architect
5 18 (6.62%) Project Manager
6 15 (5.51%) Business Analyst
6 15 (5.51%) Senior
7 12 (4.41%) Consultant
8 11 (4.04%) Java Developer
9 9 (3.31%) Business Development Manager
9 9 (3.31%) Business Manager
9 9 (3.31%) Development Manager
9 9 (3.31%) Network Engineer
9 9 (3.31%) Server Engineer
10 8 (2.94%) Data Architect
10 8 (2.94%) Junior
11 7 (2.57%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (2.57%) Junior Project Manager
11 7 (2.57%) Lead
12 6 (2.21%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.04%) REST
2 9 (3.31%) Spring Boot
3 8 (2.94%) Spring
4 7 (2.57%) Kafka
4 7 (2.57%) React
4 7 (2.57%) XML
5 6 (2.21%) Apache Camel
6 5 (1.84%) .NET
6 5 (1.84%) CSS
7 3 (1.10%) J2EE
7 3 (1.10%) RESTful
8 2 (0.74%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.74%) Guice
8 2 (0.74%) HTML
8 2 (0.74%) JSON
8 2 (0.74%) Laravel
8 2 (0.74%) Middleware
8 2 (0.74%) TensorFlow
8 2 (0.74%) Twisted
8 2 (0.74%) WebKit
Miscellaneous
1 8 (2.94%) Product Ownership
2 7 (2.57%) Public Cloud
3 5 (1.84%) Data Centre
3 5 (1.84%) Mobile App
4 4 (1.47%) Algorithms
4 4 (1.47%) Data Structures
4 4 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.47%) Freedom of Information
4 4 (1.47%) Security Posture
4 4 (1.47%) Wiki
5 3 (1.10%) Clustering
5 3 (1.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (1.10%) Mainframe
5 3 (1.10%) PKI
6 2 (0.74%) Freedom of Information Act
6 2 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.74%) HP Storage
6 2 (0.74%) Private Cloud
6 2 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 32 (11.76%) Linux
2 13 (4.78%) Windows
3 9 (3.31%) Unix
4 5 (1.84%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.10%) Solaris
5 3 (1.10%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.74%) AIX
7 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.37%) VMS
7 1 (0.37%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.37%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 48 (17.65%) Value Proposition
3 38 (13.97%) Agile
4 26 (9.56%) Project Management
5 24 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (7.35%) DevOps
6 20 (7.35%) Migration
6 20 (7.35%) Scrum
7 16 (5.88%) Presales
8 15 (5.51%) CI/CD
8 15 (5.51%) Data Management
9 14 (5.15%) Data Privacy
10 13 (4.78%) Computer Science
10 13 (4.78%) Customer Requirements
10 13 (4.78%) Digital Marketing
11 11 (4.04%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (4.04%) Data Mapping
11 11 (4.04%) Information Security
11 11 (4.04%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (3.68%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 30 (11.03%) SQL
2 24 (8.82%) Python
3 23 (8.46%) Java
4 13 (4.78%) C#
5 12 (4.41%) PowerShell
6 11 (4.04%) JavaScript
6 11 (4.04%) Perl
7 5 (1.84%) Bash
8 3 (1.10%) C++
8 3 (1.10%) F#
8 3 (1.10%) PHP
9 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.74%) Ruby
9 2 (0.74%) Rust
9 2 (0.74%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.37%) Assembly Language
10 1 (0.37%) COBOL
10 1 (0.37%) Scala
10 1 (0.37%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 60 (22.06%) Security Cleared
2 31 (11.40%) SC Cleared
3 30 (11.03%) DV Cleared
4 20 (7.35%) Degree
5 9 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.21%) ISEB
7 5 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.74%) CCNA
9 2 (0.74%) CISM
9 2 (0.74%) CISSP
10 1 (0.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.37%) CCIE
10 1 (0.37%) CCNP
10 1 (0.37%) CCSP
10 1 (0.37%) CEH
10 1 (0.37%) CISA
10 1 (0.37%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.66%) GDPR
2 10 (3.68%) QA
3 7 (2.57%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.74%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.74%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.37%) COBIT
5 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.37%) GRC
5 1 (0.37%) NIST
5 1 (0.37%) PMO
5 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.94%) Docker
3 2 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.37%) NFS
4 1 (0.37%) ProxySG
4 1 (0.37%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.37%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (4.04%) Terraform
2 7 (2.57%) Ansible
2 7 (2.57%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.10%) Kibana
3 3 (1.10%) NetBackup
4 2 (0.74%) EMC NetWorker
4 2 (0.74%) Grafana
4 2 (0.74%) Graylog
4 2 (0.74%) HP Data Protector
4 2 (0.74%) Nagios
4 2 (0.74%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.74%) Puppet
4 2 (0.74%) vCenter Server
4 2 (0.74%) vRealize
5 1 (0.37%) CASB
5 1 (0.37%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.37%) OMEGAMON
5 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.37%) SCCM
Vendors
1 30 (11.03%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.99%) Cisco
3 17 (6.25%) VMware
4 12 (4.41%) SAP
5 7 (2.57%) OneTrust
6 6 (2.21%) IBM
6 6 (2.21%) Oracle
7 5 (1.84%) Juniper
7 5 (1.84%) Splunk
8 4 (1.47%) Databricks
8 4 (1.47%) F5
8 4 (1.47%) Nokia
8 4 (1.47%) Sparx
9 3 (1.10%) EMC
9 3 (1.10%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.10%) Pega
9 3 (1.10%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.74%) Brocade
10 2 (0.74%) Citrix
10 2 (0.74%) HP