Data Protection Act Contracts in the City of London

Data Protection Act (DPA)
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 163 189
Rank change year-on-year +37 +26 -34
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 1 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.046% 0.088% 0.024%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% 0.25% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £735 -
25th Percentile £415 £750 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £800 -
Median % change year-on-year -46.25% - -
75th Percentile £445 £850 -
90th Percentile - £865 -
Central London median daily rate £500 £650 -
% change year-on-year -23.08% - -

All Generic Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 670 1,189 1,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 30.71% 34.71% 35.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 442 805 1,053
10th Percentile £285 £350 £405
25th Percentile £428 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £579
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.04% -3.58%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £701
90th Percentile £838 £857 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -9.60% +8.70% -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 15 30
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.06 £18.50
25th Percentile £13.56 £35.00 £30.50
Median hourly rate £20.00 £51.50 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.17% +7.29% +123.39%
75th Percentile £26.25 £86.02 £58.00
90th Percentile £38.63 £88.30 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £23.00 £37.42 £48.00
% change year-on-year -38.53% -22.05% +140.00%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Act in the City of London

Data Protection Act
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Protection Act in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Act in the City of London

Data Protection Act
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Protection Act in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection Act in the City of London

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform