Data Protection Act Contracts in England

Data Protection Act (DPA)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 194 149 176
Rank change year-on-year -45 +27 +407
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 456 879 1,170
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.24% 1.79% 1.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.04% 5.33% 4.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 558 944
10th Percentile £228 £300 £313
25th Percentile £363 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £535
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +1.64% +42.67%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £638
90th Percentile £738 £788 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 8 17
10th Percentile £11.95 £19.96 £18.67
25th Percentile £21.50 £21.06 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £24.24
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +54.70% +15.43%
75th Percentile £35.00 £53.75 £68.25
90th Percentile £62.50 £60.50 £77.32
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £38.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -29.03% +93.75% -4.76%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,287 16,502 23,737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.68% 33.64% 33.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,398 11,457 16,868
10th Percentile £268 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 816 584 625
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.16 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £32.75 £22.49 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +45.65% -16.66% +2.92%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £65.76
UK median hourly rate £31.13 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.43% -18.24% +4.05%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Act in England

Data Protection Act
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Act in England

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in England

Data Protection Act
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection Act in England

Data Protection Act
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Protection Act in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Protection Act in England

Data Protection Act
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
London +9 289 £525 -10.64% 15
South East +13 73 £425 -22.73% 9
North of England -86 45 £525 +23.53% 17
North West -74 31 £538 +26.47% 7
Midlands -28 20 £464 +9.12% 29
West Midlands -23 16 £426 -0.87% 7
South West -2 12 £158 -77.69% 12
East of England +1 11 £413 -27.47% 12
North East +14 7 - - 1
Yorkshire -19 7 £500 +5.26% 9
East Midlands +5 4 £569 +75.00% 22
Data Protection Act
UK

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 10 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (1.54%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.10%) Confluence
3 5 (1.10%) SAS
4 2 (0.44%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.44%) Gunicorn
5 1 (0.22%) CMS
5 1 (0.22%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.44%) Mingle
3 2 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.22%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.22%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (0.88%) Endur
2 3 (0.66%) ION MarketView
2 3 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.44%) Shopify
4 1 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.22%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.22%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.22%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 54 (11.84%) AWS
2 43 (9.43%) Azure
3 15 (3.29%) GCP
4 12 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
4 12 (2.63%) Amazon S3
5 11 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (2.41%) Power Platform
6 8 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (1.75%) GitHub
7 7 (1.54%) SaaS
8 6 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (1.32%) PaaS
8 6 (1.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (0.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (0.88%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (0.88%) Entra ID
9 4 (0.88%) OneDrive
9 4 (0.88%) Serverless
9 4 (0.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.85%) WAN
2 12 (2.63%) DNS
3 11 (2.41%) PBX
3 11 (2.41%) VoIP
4 10 (2.19%) Firewall
5 9 (1.97%) DHCP
5 9 (1.97%) VPN
6 8 (1.75%) 5G
6 8 (1.75%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (1.54%) HTTP
7 7 (1.54%) SAN
8 6 (1.32%) LAN
9 5 (1.10%) BGP
9 5 (1.10%) MPLS
9 5 (1.10%) Network Security
9 5 (1.10%) Wireless
10 4 (0.88%) Cisco ISE
10 4 (0.88%) Internet
10 4 (0.88%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (3.07%) Metadata
3 13 (2.85%) Big Data
4 11 (2.41%) Power BI
4 11 (2.41%) Relational Database
4 11 (2.41%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.32%) MongoDB
5 6 (1.32%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.88%) KDB
7 4 (0.88%) MySQL
7 4 (0.88%) Star Schema
8 3 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.66%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.66%) Parquet
8 3 (0.66%) Tableau
9 2 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.44%) IBM BigInsights
9 2 (0.44%) PolyBase
Development Applications
1 27 (5.92%) Git
2 19 (4.17%) JIRA
3 17 (3.73%) ERwin
4 13 (2.85%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.32%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (1.10%) XCTest
7 3 (0.66%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.66%) GitLab
7 3 (0.66%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (0.66%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.44%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.44%) FitNesse
8 2 (0.44%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.44%) Selenium
8 2 (0.44%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.22%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.22%) HP UFT
9 1 (0.22%) JUnit
General
1 69 (15.13%) Social Skills
2 61 (13.38%) Finance
3 43 (9.43%) Telecoms
4 34 (7.46%) Marketing
5 33 (7.24%) Public Sector
6 32 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
7 29 (6.36%) Banking
8 22 (4.82%) Legal
9 18 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
10 17 (3.73%) Retail
11 13 (2.85%) Electronics
12 11 (2.41%) Manufacturing
13 10 (2.19%) Law
14 9 (1.97%) Games
15 6 (1.32%) Back Office
15 6 (1.32%) Police
16 5 (1.10%) Billing
16 5 (1.10%) Publishing
17 4 (0.88%) Local Government
18 3 (0.66%) German Language
Job Titles
1 72 (15.79%) Architect
2 64 (14.04%) Developer
3 42 (9.21%) Analyst
4 36 (7.89%) Lead
5 33 (7.24%) Project Manager
6 27 (5.92%) Solutions Architect
7 22 (4.82%) Senior
8 19 (4.17%) Data Architect
9 18 (3.95%) Business Analyst
9 18 (3.95%) Enterprise Architect
10 17 (3.73%) Network Engineer
11 15 (3.29%) Consultant
11 15 (3.29%) QA Engineer
12 13 (2.85%) Java Developer
12 13 (2.85%) Junior
12 13 (2.85%) QA Leader
13 12 (2.63%) Support Engineer
14 11 (2.41%) Enterprise Data Architect
15 10 (2.19%) Python Developer
16 9 (1.97%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.63%) Kafka
2 9 (1.97%) Spring
3 7 (1.54%) SwiftUI
4 6 (1.32%) JSON
4 6 (1.32%) React
4 6 (1.32%) REST
4 6 (1.32%) XML
5 5 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (1.10%) Node.js
5 5 (1.10%) RESTful
6 4 (0.88%) .NET
6 4 (0.88%) AngularJS
6 4 (0.88%) CSS
7 3 (0.66%) Apache Avro
7 3 (0.66%) Guice
8 2 (0.44%) Celery
8 2 (0.44%) Flask
8 2 (0.44%) HTML
8 2 (0.44%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.44%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 21 (4.61%) Management Information System
2 20 (4.39%) Freedom of Information
3 18 (3.95%) Freedom of Information Act
4 17 (3.73%) Data Centre
5 13 (2.85%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.63%) Wiki
7 9 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.75%) Derivative
9 7 (1.54%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.54%) FPGA
10 6 (1.32%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.32%) Cloud Native
10 6 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.32%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.10%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.10%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.88%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 4 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 44 (9.65%) Linux
2 30 (6.58%) Windows
3 11 (2.41%) Unix
4 10 (2.19%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.54%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.88%) Android
6 4 (0.88%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.66%) Solaris
7 3 (0.66%) VMS
8 2 (0.44%) AIX
8 2 (0.44%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.22%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.22%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 456 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 77 (16.89%) Agile
3 51 (11.18%) Value Proposition
4 47 (10.31%) Project Management
5 42 (9.21%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (8.11%) Data Modelling
7 35 (7.68%) Scrum
8 31 (6.80%) Business Intelligence
9 30 (6.58%) CI/CD
10 29 (6.36%) Analytics
10 29 (6.36%) DevOps
10 29 (6.36%) Migration
10 29 (6.36%) Stakeholder Management
11 28 (6.14%) Test Automation
12 27 (5.92%) Computer Science
13 26 (5.70%) User Acceptance Testing
14 25 (5.48%) Data Management
15 22 (4.82%) Microservices
16 20 (4.39%) Digital Marketing
17 19 (4.17%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 66 (14.47%) Python
2 42 (9.21%) SQL
3 40 (8.77%) Java
4 19 (4.17%) C++
5 18 (3.95%) C#
6 14 (3.07%) Bash
6 14 (3.07%) PowerShell
7 10 (2.19%) Perl
7 10 (2.19%) Swift
8 8 (1.75%) Scala
8 8 (1.75%) TypeScript
9 6 (1.32%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.88%) C
10 4 (0.88%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.66%) F#
11 3 (0.66%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.44%) Go
12 2 (0.44%) PHP
12 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.44%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 59 (12.94%) Security Cleared
2 52 (11.40%) Degree
3 37 (8.11%) SC Cleared
4 22 (4.82%) DV Cleared
5 10 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.32%) ISEB
8 5 (1.10%) CISSP
9 4 (0.88%) CCNP
9 4 (0.88%) CISM
9 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.66%) CCIE
11 2 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.44%) CCNA
11 2 (0.44%) CEH
11 2 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.44%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.22%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (9.65%) GDPR
2 34 (7.46%) QA
3 23 (5.04%) Data Quality
4 14 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.32%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.10%) SLA
7 4 (0.88%) NIST
7 4 (0.88%) PMO
8 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.44%) MiFID
9 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.22%) GRC
9 1 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.22%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.22%) NCSC
9 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 19 (4.17%) Active Directory
1 19 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (2.85%) Docker
3 6 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (1.10%) vSphere
5 4 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.44%) NFS
7 1 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 23 (5.04%) Terraform
2 16 (3.51%) Kubernetes
3 15 (3.29%) Ansible
4 6 (1.32%) vCenter Server
5 3 (0.66%) Grafana
5 3 (0.66%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.44%) Ambari
6 2 (0.44%) EMC NetWorker
6 2 (0.44%) Graylog
6 2 (0.44%) HP Data Protector
6 2 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.44%) Nagios
6 2 (0.44%) Nessus
6 2 (0.44%) NetBackup
6 2 (0.44%) Oozie
6 2 (0.44%) SCCM
6 2 (0.44%) vRealize
7 1 (0.22%) OMEGAMON
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 37 (8.11%) Cisco
2 36 (7.89%) Microsoft
3 22 (4.82%) SAP
4 19 (4.17%) VMware
5 15 (3.29%) Oracle
5 15 (3.29%) Sparx
6 9 (1.97%) Google
6 9 (1.97%) IBM
6 9 (1.97%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.75%) Splunk
8 6 (1.32%) Apple
8 6 (1.32%) ION Trading
8 6 (1.32%) Juniper
8 6 (1.32%) OneTrust
9 5 (1.10%) Cadence
9 5 (1.10%) Nokia
10 4 (0.88%) Dell
10 4 (0.88%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.66%) Palo Alto
11 3 (0.66%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud