Data Protection Act Contracts in Edinburgh

Data Protection Act (DPA)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 24 23
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 55 104 157
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 6.72% 8.41% 8.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 19.64% 23.85% 21.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 47 86
10th Percentile £299 £396 £419
25th Percentile £394 £406 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £496
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -1.76% -
75th Percentile £547 £544 £570
90th Percentile £638 £618 £600
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -10.00% +2.56% +21.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £52.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +162.50% -

All Generic Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 280 436 724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 34.23% 35.25% 37.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 297 502
10th Percentile £261 £175 £356
25th Percentile £410 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £479 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.38% -4.20% +12.36%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £575
90th Percentile £664 £624 £661
Scotland median daily rate £461 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -5.38% +2.63% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 7
10th Percentile £12.75 £21.34 £19.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £21.47 £30.13
Median hourly rate £18.13 £21.67 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.34% -54.38% +4.40%
75th Percentile £35.00 £37.71 £50.63
90th Percentile £60.75 £47.33 £53.80
Scotland median hourly rate £18.13 £12.73 £43.00
% change year-on-year +42.42% -70.40% -5.49%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Act in Edinburgh

Data Protection Act
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Act in Edinburgh

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in Edinburgh

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (1.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (1.82%) Apache
1 1 (1.82%) Cloud Foundry
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.82%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 14 (25.45%) Azure
2 7 (12.73%) AWS
3 3 (5.45%) Entra ID
3 3 (5.45%) SaaS
4 2 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (3.64%) Amazon S3
4 2 (3.64%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.64%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.82%) Akamai
5 1 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.82%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.82%) Datadog
5 1 (1.82%) GCP
5 1 (1.82%) GitHub
5 1 (1.82%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.45%) DNS
2 2 (3.64%) DHCP
3 1 (1.82%) Broadband
3 1 (1.82%) NetScaler
3 1 (1.82%) Network Security
3 1 (1.82%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.64%) Relational Database
1 2 (3.64%) Star Schema
2 1 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.82%) MySQL
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.82%) Power BI
2 1 (1.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Git
2 2 (3.64%) Maven
3 1 (1.82%) Capybara
3 1 (1.82%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.82%) Gradle
3 1 (1.82%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 16 (29.09%) Finance
2 4 (7.27%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.45%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.82%) German Language
5 1 (1.82%) Law
5 1 (1.82%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (20.00%) Analyst
2 7 (12.73%) Architect
2 7 (12.73%) Business Analyst
3 6 (10.91%) Senior
4 5 (9.09%) Consultant
5 4 (7.27%) Data Architect
5 4 (7.27%) Developer
6 3 (5.45%) Data Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) Pega Consultant
6 3 (5.45%) Security Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (3.64%) Active Directory Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Project Manager
7 2 (3.64%) Security Consultant
7 2 (3.64%) Senior Data Analyst
7 2 (3.64%) Software Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.82%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 1 (1.82%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.45%) Spring
2 2 (3.64%) HTML
2 2 (3.64%) React
2 2 (3.64%) Spring Boot
2 2 (3.64%) XML
3 1 (1.82%) .NET
3 1 (1.82%) CakePHP
3 1 (1.82%) CSS
3 1 (1.82%) Guice
3 1 (1.82%) Java EE
3 1 (1.82%) JSON
3 1 (1.82%) Middleware
3 1 (1.82%) PySpark
3 1 (1.82%) REST
3 1 (1.82%) SAML
3 1 (1.82%) Spring Batch
3 1 (1.82%) Web Services
3 1 (1.82%) WebKit
3 1 (1.82%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.45%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.64%) Algorithms
2 2 (3.64%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.64%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.82%) DataPower
3 1 (1.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (1.82%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (1.82%) Legacy Code
3 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.82%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.45%) Linux
2 2 (3.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 11 (20.00%) Agile
3 7 (12.73%) Value Proposition
4 6 (10.91%) Business Analysis
4 6 (10.91%) Migration
5 5 (9.09%) Scrum
6 4 (7.27%) CI/CD
6 4 (7.27%) Data Mapping
7 3 (5.45%) Computer Science
7 3 (5.45%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (5.45%) Data Modelling
7 3 (5.45%) DevOps
7 3 (5.45%) ETL
7 3 (5.45%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (5.45%) OO
7 3 (5.45%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (3.64%) CRM
8 2 (3.64%) E-Commerce
8 2 (3.64%) OOD
8 2 (3.64%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.91%) SQL
2 5 (9.09%) Java
3 4 (7.27%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.45%) Perl
4 3 (5.45%) Python
5 2 (3.64%) C#
5 2 (3.64%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.82%) Bicep
6 1 (1.82%) PHP
6 1 (1.82%) Ruby
6 1 (1.82%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (5.45%) Degree
2 1 (1.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (1.82%) CCSP
2 1 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (1.82%) CISSP
2 1 (1.82%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (1.82%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (1.82%) GDPR
1 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.82%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (5.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.64%) Docker
3 1 (1.82%) ProxySG
3 1 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (5.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.82%) CASB
2 1 (1.82%) Puppet
2 1 (1.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.27%) Databricks
3 3 (5.45%) Pega
4 2 (3.64%) Informatica
4 2 (3.64%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.64%) Splunk
5 1 (1.82%) Adobe
5 1 (1.82%) Blue Coat
5 1 (1.82%) Citrix
5 1 (1.82%) Foundry
5 1 (1.82%) IBM
5 1 (1.82%) IDERA
5 1 (1.82%) Oracle
5 1 (1.82%) Teradata
5 1 (1.82%) TSYS
5 1 (1.82%) VMware