Data Protection Act Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Protection Act (DPA)
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 75 84
Rank change year-on-year -21 +9 +42
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 16 62 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.84% 2.66% 2.74%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.57% 8.15% 9.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 27 72
10th Percentile £336 £333 £357
25th Percentile £375 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £430 £499
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% -13.78% -
75th Percentile £523 £528 £538
90th Percentile £566 £621 £618
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% +42.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
England median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £24.24
% change year-on-year -26.67% +54.70% +15.43%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 622 761 1,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.60% 32.66% 28.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 511 723
10th Percentile £300 £263 £263
25th Percentile £363 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £635 £638 £581
90th Percentile £750 £700 £688
England median daily rate £550 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 22 23
10th Percentile £10.42 £17.63 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.71 £18.74 £12.38
Median hourly rate £22.50 £27.25 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.43% +75.81% -8.82%
75th Percentile £40.25 £52.06 £17.60
90th Percentile £58.75 £57.13 £17.70
England median hourly rate £32.00 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +42.32% -15.15% +1.50%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Act in the West Midlands

Data Protection Act
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Act in the West Midlands

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in the West Midlands

Data Protection Act
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection Act in the West Midlands

Data Protection Act
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 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
Birmingham -8 14 £426 -12.56% 3
Solihull -16 1 - -
Data Protection Act
England

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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%) CMS
1 1 (6.25%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) SDH
1 1 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.25%) DB2
2 1 (6.25%) SAS Data Integration Studio
2 1 (6.25%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) Rational DOORS
General
1 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
1 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
2 1 (6.25%) Aeronautics
2 1 (6.25%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Java Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Test Manager
4 1 (6.25%) COBOL Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) ERP Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) MuleSoft Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) SAS Developer
4 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Security Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Security Technical Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Assurance Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Spring
2 1 (6.25%) Guice
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Algorithms
1 2 (12.50%) Data Structures
1 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
1 2 (12.50%) Unix
2 1 (6.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 4 (25.00%) Migration
3 3 (18.75%) Agile
4 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
4 2 (12.50%) E-Commerce
4 2 (12.50%) OO
4 2 (12.50%) OOD
4 2 (12.50%) Project Management
4 2 (12.50%) Scrum
4 2 (12.50%) SDLC
4 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (6.25%) Commercial Awareness
5 1 (6.25%) Customer Requirements
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (6.25%) Multithreaded Programming
5 1 (6.25%) Presales
5 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (6.25%) Roadmaps
5 1 (6.25%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Java
2 2 (12.50%) Perl
3 1 (6.25%) COBOL
3 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) IBM
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco
2 1 (6.25%) ICL
2 1 (6.25%) ION Trading
2 1 (6.25%) Juniper
2 1 (6.25%) McAfee
2 1 (6.25%) MuleSoft
2 1 (6.25%) Nokia
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.25%) SAP