Data Protection Act Contracts in the Midlands

Data Protection Act (DPA)
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 83 90
Rank change year-on-year -36 +7 +56
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 20 85 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.74% 2.54% 2.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.42% 7.83% 8.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 44 87
10th Percentile £347 - £203
25th Percentile £400 £313 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.12% -10.53% -
75th Percentile £558 £514 £538
90th Percentile £587 £609 £613
England median daily rate £525 £544 £535
% change year-on-year -3.45% +1.64% +42.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £51.25 -
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +162.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £26.12
90th Percentile - - £32.95
England median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £24.24
% change year-on-year -26.67% +54.70% +15.43%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 826 1,086 1,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.42% 32.46% 29.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 536 723 1,049
10th Percentile £213 £238 £213
25th Percentile £350 £373 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +1.05% +15.85%
75th Percentile £603 £600 £575
90th Percentile £744 £700 £675
England median daily rate £550 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 43 52
10th Percentile £10.47 £16.88 £12.04
25th Percentile £13.93 £18.19 £14.77
Median hourly rate £19.50 £24.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +45.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £28.88 £53.13 £20.00
90th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £23.70
England median hourly rate £33.00 £22.49 £26.98
% change year-on-year +46.76% -16.66% +3.34%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Act in the Midlands

Data Protection Act
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Act in the Midlands

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in the Midlands over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in the Midlands

Data Protection Act
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection Act in the Midlands

Data Protection Act
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 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
West Midlands -27 16 £426 -0.87% 8
East Midlands +3 4 £569 +75.00% 22
Data Protection Act
England

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (5.00%) CMS
1 1 (5.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 2 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (10.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
1 2 (10.00%) SAN
1 2 (10.00%) WAN
2 1 (5.00%) LAN
2 1 (5.00%) SDH
2 1 (5.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.00%) DB2
2 1 (5.00%) SAS Data Integration Studio
2 1 (5.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.00%) Aeronautics
2 1 (5.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Developer
2 3 (15.00%) Architect
2 3 (15.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Test Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Backup Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) COBOL Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) ERP Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) SAS Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Security Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Security Technical Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Technical Assurance Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Spring
2 1 (5.00%) Guice
2 1 (5.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (10.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (10.00%) HP Storage
1 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) AIX
2 2 (10.00%) Solaris
2 2 (10.00%) Unix
2 2 (10.00%) Windows
3 1 (5.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 4 (20.00%) Migration
3 3 (15.00%) Agile
3 3 (15.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (10.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (10.00%) DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) E-Commerce
4 2 (10.00%) ITIL
4 2 (10.00%) OO
4 2 (10.00%) OOD
4 2 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (10.00%) Project Management
4 2 (10.00%) Scrum
4 2 (10.00%) SDLC
4 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (5.00%) ERP
5 1 (5.00%) Information Security
5 1 (5.00%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) Java
2 2 (10.00%) Bash
2 2 (10.00%) Perl
2 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) COBOL
3 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (10.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.00%) CCNA
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) EMC NetWorker
1 2 (10.00%) HP Data Protector
1 2 (10.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (5.00%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Cisco
2 2 (10.00%) Brocade
2 2 (10.00%) EMC
2 2 (10.00%) HP
2 2 (10.00%) IBM
2 2 (10.00%) Symantec
3 1 (5.00%) ICL
3 1 (5.00%) ION Trading
3 1 (5.00%) Juniper
3 1 (5.00%) McAfee
3 1 (5.00%) Meraki
3 1 (5.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.00%) Nokia
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.00%) SAP
3 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.00%) Splunk