Data Protection Act Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Protection Act (DPA)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 233 197 243
Rank change year-on-year -36 +46 +214
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 122 328 475
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.79% 1.26% 1.07%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.77% 4.01% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 182 360
10th Percentile £213 £314 £324
25th Percentile £270 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +31.25%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £581
90th Percentile £738 £712 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 7
10th Percentile £20.08 £31.72 £18.67
25th Percentile £22.50 £51.25 £21.18
Median hourly rate £25.00 £52.50 £57.25
Median % change year-on-year -52.38% -8.30% -10.55%
75th Percentile £30.88 £53.75 £67.25
90th Percentile £41.05 - £71.88
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £52.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -47.62% +162.50% -9.09%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,406 8,178 13,851
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.56% 31.42% 31.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,962 5,750 9,864
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £430 £455 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £638
90th Percentile £800 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 154 228
10th Percentile £15.42 £19.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.69 £20.56
Median hourly rate £48.00 £57.50 £44.23
Median % change year-on-year -16.52% +30.02% +42.66%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £57.41
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.08
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £22.49 £27.00
% change year-on-year +28.93% -16.69% +3.85%

Data Protection Act
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Protection Act as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Protection Act trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Protection Act.

Data Protection Act daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Protection Act over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Data Protection Act daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Protection Act
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Protection Act.

Data Protection Act hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Protection Act
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Protection Act over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Data Protection Act hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (2.46%) Confluence
1 3 (2.46%) SAS
2 1 (0.82%) CMS
2 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.82%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.82%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.82%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.82%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.82%) SAP MM
1 1 (0.82%) SAP PM
1 1 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (13.11%) Azure
2 12 (9.84%) AWS
3 6 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (4.10%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (3.28%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.46%) GCP
7 2 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.64%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.64%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.82%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 1 (0.82%) Amazon CloudSearch
8 1 (0.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.82%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.82%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.82%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.82%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.82%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.82%) PaaS
8 1 (0.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.28%) SWIFTNet
2 3 (2.46%) DNS
2 3 (2.46%) Firewall
2 3 (2.46%) MPLS
3 2 (1.64%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (1.64%) HTTP
3 2 (1.64%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.64%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.64%) WAN
4 1 (0.82%) DMZ
4 1 (0.82%) Internet
4 1 (0.82%) LAN
4 1 (0.82%) NetScaler
4 1 (0.82%) Network Security
4 1 (0.82%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.82%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.02%) Metadata
2 4 (3.28%) Big Data
2 4 (3.28%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.46%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.64%) MySQL
4 2 (1.64%) Power BI
4 2 (1.64%) SAS Data Integration Studio
4 2 (1.64%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 1 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.82%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.82%) DB2
5 1 (0.82%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.82%) Parquet
5 1 (0.82%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.82%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (9.02%) ERwin
2 6 (4.92%) JIRA
3 4 (3.28%) Git
4 1 (0.82%) HP UFT
4 1 (0.82%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.82%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (0.82%) Selenium
4 1 (0.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 28 (22.95%) Finance
2 19 (15.57%) Public Sector
3 13 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (10.66%) Marketing
4 11 (9.02%) Retail
4 11 (9.02%) Telecoms
5 10 (8.20%) Electronics
5 10 (8.20%) Manufacturing
5 10 (8.20%) Social Skills
6 4 (3.28%) Legal
7 2 (1.64%) Advertising
7 2 (1.64%) Banking
8 1 (0.82%) Back Office
8 1 (0.82%) Digital Economy
8 1 (0.82%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.82%) French Language
8 1 (0.82%) Italian Language
8 1 (0.82%) Local Government
8 1 (0.82%) Publishing
8 1 (0.82%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 25 (20.49%) Architect
2 16 (13.11%) Project Manager
3 13 (10.66%) Developer
4 12 (9.84%) Data Architect
5 11 (9.02%) Analyst
5 11 (9.02%) Enterprise Architect
6 10 (8.20%) Enterprise Data Architect
7 9 (7.38%) Junior
8 8 (6.56%) Junior Project Manager
9 5 (4.10%) Java Developer
10 4 (3.28%) Data Analyst
10 4 (3.28%) Support Engineer
11 3 (2.46%) Azure Engineer
11 3 (2.46%) Business Development Manager
11 3 (2.46%) Business Manager
11 3 (2.46%) Consultant
11 3 (2.46%) Development Manager
11 3 (2.46%) Network Architect
11 3 (2.46%) Product Architect
11 3 (2.46%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.10%) XML
2 3 (2.46%) .NET
2 3 (2.46%) CSS
2 3 (2.46%) HTML
2 3 (2.46%) Spring
3 2 (1.64%) Kafka
3 2 (1.64%) RESTful
3 2 (1.64%) SOAP
3 2 (1.64%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.82%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.82%) Apache Avro
4 1 (0.82%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.82%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.82%) JSON Schema
4 1 (0.82%) OpenAPI
4 1 (0.82%) REST
4 1 (0.82%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.82%) Struts
4 1 (0.82%) Swagger
4 1 (0.82%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.02%) Wiki
2 7 (5.74%) Freedom of Information
3 5 (4.10%) Freedom of Information Act
3 5 (4.10%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.28%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.28%) Security Posture
4 4 (3.28%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (2.46%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.46%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.64%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.82%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.82%) DataPower
7 1 (0.82%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.82%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.82%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.38%) Windows
2 7 (5.74%) Linux
3 4 (3.28%) Unix
4 2 (1.64%) VMS
4 2 (1.64%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.82%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.82%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 18 (14.75%) Data Modelling
2 18 (14.75%) Project Management
3 16 (13.11%) Value Proposition
4 15 (12.30%) Agile
4 15 (12.30%) Business Intelligence
5 14 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (10.66%) Data Architecture
6 13 (10.66%) Data Governance
6 13 (10.66%) Data Management
6 13 (10.66%) Digital Marketing
6 13 (10.66%) Migration
6 13 (10.66%) Programme Management
7 12 (9.84%) Data Flow Diagram
7 12 (9.84%) Data Strategy
7 12 (9.84%) Master Data Management
7 12 (9.84%) Physical Data Model
8 11 (9.02%) Analytics
8 11 (9.02%) DevOps
8 11 (9.02%) Domain Models
Programming Languages
1 11 (9.02%) SQL
2 8 (6.56%) Python
3 6 (4.92%) C#
3 6 (4.92%) Java
4 5 (4.10%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.46%) C++
5 3 (2.46%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.64%) Perl
7 1 (0.82%) Bash
7 1 (0.82%) Bicep
7 1 (0.82%) C
7 1 (0.82%) COBOL
7 1 (0.82%) F#
7 1 (0.82%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.82%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.82%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 20 (16.39%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.57%) SC Cleared
3 15 (12.30%) Degree
4 4 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.82%) CISSP
5 1 (0.82%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.82%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (19.67%) GDPR
2 13 (10.66%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.28%) QA
4 3 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.64%) NIST
5 2 (1.64%) PMO
6 1 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 5 (4.10%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.46%) Docker
3 2 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (4.10%) Terraform
2 3 (2.46%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.64%) Ansible
3 2 (1.64%) Grafana
3 2 (1.64%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.82%) Graylog
4 1 (0.82%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (0.82%) Nagios
4 1 (0.82%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.82%) SCCM
4 1 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (11.48%) SAP
2 11 (9.02%) Sparx
3 10 (8.20%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.92%) Cisco
4 6 (4.92%) OneTrust
5 3 (2.46%) IBM
6 2 (1.64%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.64%) CheckPoint
6 2 (1.64%) Citrix
6 2 (1.64%) F5
6 2 (1.64%) Okta
6 2 (1.64%) Oracle
6 2 (1.64%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.64%) Splunk
7 1 (0.82%) Avid
7 1 (0.82%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (0.82%) McAfee
7 1 (0.82%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.82%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.82%) ServiceNow