Data Protection Contracts in Wales

Data Protection
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for Data Protection skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Protection over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 38 66
Rank change year-on-year +6 +28 -6
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 16 24 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 3.92% 3.74% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.94% 4.34% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 9
10th Percentile £91 £157 £193
25th Percentile £185 £244 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £255 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year -43.33% -7.69% +14.71%
75th Percentile £434 £584 £550
90th Percentile £544 £662 £578
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £18.00 £25.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% - -
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £52.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -62.86% +162.50% -9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

Data Protection is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 324 553 840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 79.41% 86.27% 83.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 424 610
10th Percentile £171 £181 £200
25th Percentile £316 £333 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.56%
75th Percentile £570 £573 £575
90th Percentile £658 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 30 31
10th Percentile £11.75 £14.13 £14.31
25th Percentile £14.78 £16.98 £19.02
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.82 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.59% -24.74% +31.58%
75th Percentile £51.75 £25.00 £29.25
90th Percentile £86.00 £48.88 £47.40
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Data Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in Wales

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in Wales.

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in Wales

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in Wales over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in Wales

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in Wales

Data Protection
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Protection within the Wales region over the 6 months to 23 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
South Wales +18 16 £255 -55.65% 1
Data Protection
UK

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 (6.25%) Confluence
1 1 (6.25%) Mendix
1 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (12.50%) GitHub
3 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
4 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) PBX
1 2 (12.50%) VoIP
2 1 (6.25%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) MySQL
1 3 (18.75%) Relational Database
2 2 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (12.50%) Power BI
2 2 (12.50%) RDBMS
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Cypress.io
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Postman
2 1 (6.25%) Storybook
General
1 4 (25.00%) Legal
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Mandarin Language
2 2 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Consultant
2 2 (12.50%) DBA
2 2 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.25%) 1st Line Support
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (6.25%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Full Stack PHP Developer
3 1 (6.25%) IMAC Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Low-Code Developer
3 1 (6.25%) MySQL Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) MySQL DBA
3 1 (6.25%) PHP Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Vue
2 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.25%) Laravel
2 1 (6.25%) Playwright
2 1 (6.25%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 2 (12.50%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Low-Code
3 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Project Management
2 4 (25.00%) Agile
2 4 (25.00%) Value Proposition
3 3 (18.75%) Service Delivery
3 3 (18.75%) Tech Ops
4 2 (12.50%) Analytics
4 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 2 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (12.50%) Customer-Centricity
4 2 (12.50%) Presales
4 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (12.50%) Project Delivery
4 2 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
4 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
5 1 (6.25%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (6.25%) API Integration
5 1 (6.25%) Decision-Making
5 1 (6.25%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) PHP
2 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) QA
2 2 (12.50%) SLA
3 1 (6.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
1 1 (6.25%) Grafana
1 1 (6.25%) Graylog
1 1 (6.25%) Nagios
1 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) ServiceNow
2 2 (12.50%) Huawei
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Splunk