Data Protection Act Contracts in Wiltshire

Data Protection Act (DPA)
South West > Wiltshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies in Wiltshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 82 89
Rank change year-on-year +26 +7 -12
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 1 7 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 0.22% 0.74% 0.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.76% 1.59% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £413 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -19.05% +1.20%
75th Percentile - £438 £538
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £438 £180 £621
% change year-on-year +143.06% -71.03% +30.79%

All Generic Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 131 440 318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 29.18% 46.61% 28.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 330 273
10th Percentile £382 £463 £413
25th Percentile £502 £494 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £579
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.01% +15.80%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £675
90th Percentile £688 £700 £735
South West median daily rate £535 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -1.83% -0.91% +10.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 4
10th Percentile £18.55 £14.40 £32.88
25th Percentile £18.60 - £50.31
Median hourly rate £18.69 £14.54 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.54% -75.77% -13.11%
75th Percentile £18.78 £17.25 £61.13
90th Percentile £18.83 £30.25 £63.15
South West median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £9.80
% change year-on-year +11.11% +359.18% -80.30%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Act in Wiltshire

Data Protection Act
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Act in Wiltshire

Data Protection Act
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Swindon -1 1 - -
Data Protection Act
South West

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) BASE24
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NonStop SQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) EMV
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 8583
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) HP