Data Protection Act Contracts in Yorkshire

Data Protection Act (DPA)
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 46 94 82
Rank change year-on-year +48 -12 -1
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 46 6 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 4.52% 0.36% 1.95%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 13.29% 1.28% 6.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 5 29
10th Percentile £415 £368 £343
25th Percentile £463 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £575
90th Percentile £638 £578 £651
England median daily rate £475 £500 £544
% change year-on-year -5.00% -8.05% +3.57%

All Generic Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 346 467 655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 34.02% 27.65% 28.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 254 458
10th Percentile £263 £265 £279
25th Percentile £375 £400 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -11.63% +9.97%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £618
90th Percentile £668 £645 £700
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 69 41
10th Percentile £23.63 - -
25th Percentile £27.56 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £36.91 £14.63 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +152.34% +37.58% -43.16%
75th Percentile £82.86 £15.25 -
90th Percentile £97.60 £24.17 £22.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Act in Yorkshire

Data Protection Act
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Act in Yorkshire

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in Yorkshire

Data Protection Act
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection Act in Yorkshire

Data Protection Act
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
South Yorkshire +40 40 £525 +10.53% 2
West Yorkshire +18 6 £625 +31.58% 9
Data Protection Act
England

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.17%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.04%) GCP
2 3 (6.52%) AWS
2 3 (6.52%) Azure
3 2 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (4.35%) Entra ID
3 2 (4.35%) Google Compute Engine
3 2 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) DNS
1 2 (4.35%) Firewall
1 2 (4.35%) Network Security
2 1 (2.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (2.17%) HTTPS
2 1 (2.17%) NAS
2 1 (2.17%) NGN
2 1 (2.17%) SAN
2 1 (2.17%) SSH
2 1 (2.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.52%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.35%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.17%) Flink
Development Applications
1 6 (13.04%) JIRA
2 3 (6.52%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.17%) Git
3 1 (2.17%) GitLab
3 1 (2.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (45.65%) Finance
2 14 (30.43%) Banking
3 11 (23.91%) Social Skills
4 7 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.17%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (15.22%) Architect
2 4 (8.70%) Consultant
2 4 (8.70%) Developer
3 3 (6.52%) Analyst
3 3 (6.52%) GCP Architect
3 3 (6.52%) Senior
4 2 (4.35%) Administrator
4 2 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (4.35%) Business Consultant
4 2 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Consultant
4 2 (4.35%) Data Engineer
4 2 (4.35%) Database Engineer
4 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (4.35%) IT Administrator
4 2 (4.35%) Oracle Database Engineer
4 2 (4.35%) Programme Manager
4 2 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.35%) Technical Manager
5 1 (2.17%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (2.17%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) Anaconda
1 2 (4.35%) Pandas
1 2 (4.35%) PySpark
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Beam
2 1 (2.17%) Gherkin
2 1 (2.17%) Kafka
2 1 (2.17%) Middleware
2 1 (2.17%) React
2 1 (2.17%) Spark Streaming
2 1 (2.17%) Spring
2 1 (2.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.35%) Data Centre
1 2 (4.35%) Mainframe
1 2 (4.35%) Robotics
2 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.17%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.22%) Windows
2 6 (13.04%) Linux
3 4 (8.70%) Unix
4 3 (6.52%) Windows Server
5 2 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 16 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (15.22%) Agile
4 6 (13.04%) CI/CD
5 5 (10.87%) Analytics
5 5 (10.87%) Data Analysis
5 5 (10.87%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (8.70%) Data Management
6 4 (8.70%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (8.70%) Project Management
7 3 (6.52%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (6.52%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (6.52%) Data Engineering
7 3 (6.52%) DevOps
7 3 (6.52%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (6.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (6.52%) Mentoring
7 3 (6.52%) Risk Management
7 3 (6.52%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (6.52%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (17.39%) Python
2 3 (6.52%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.35%) Go
3 2 (4.35%) Java
3 2 (4.35%) Scala
4 1 (2.17%) ActionScript
4 1 (2.17%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (2.17%) C
4 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.17%) JCL
4 1 (2.17%) Kotlin
4 1 (2.17%) REXX
4 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (4.35%) Degree
2 1 (2.17%) CCNP
2 1 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.35%) PMO
1 2 (4.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 2 (4.35%) SLA
2 1 (2.17%) GDPR
2 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.17%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.17%) QA
2 1 (2.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (8.70%) Active Directory
3 3 (6.52%) VMware NSX
3 3 (6.52%) vSphere
4 2 (4.35%) Docker
4 2 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (21.74%) Ansible
2 4 (8.70%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.70%) Terraform
3 3 (6.52%) Control-M
4 2 (4.35%) vCenter Server
4 2 (4.35%) vRealize
5 1 (2.17%) Grafana
5 1 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (13.04%) VMware
2 5 (10.87%) Google
3 4 (8.70%) Databricks
4 3 (6.52%) IBM
4 3 (6.52%) Oracle
5 2 (4.35%) Cisco
5 2 (4.35%) Commvault
5 2 (4.35%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.35%) Red Hat
5 2 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.35%) Snow
5 2 (4.35%) Veeam
6 1 (2.17%) F5
6 1 (2.17%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (2.17%) Splunk