Data Protection Act Contracts in Scotland

Data Protection Act (DPA)
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 53 43 39
Rank change year-on-year -10 -4 +123
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 82 155 195
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.77% 5.61% 5.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.20% 15.45% 16.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 74 110
10th Percentile £308 £406 £406
25th Percentile £402 £425 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £566 £609 £550
90th Percentile £638 £645 £588
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +162.50% -
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £38.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -29.03% +93.75% -4.76%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 732 1,003 1,162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.62% 36.33% 33.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 683 804
10th Percentile £200 £233 £258
25th Percentile £363 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% +1.05% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £553 £553
90th Percentile £649 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 25 24
10th Percentile £13.33 - £15.54
25th Percentile £16.25 £10.63 £19.45
Median hourly rate £18.13 £13.16 £42.48
Median % change year-on-year +37.77% -69.02% -6.65%
75th Percentile £44.75 £22.63 £53.75
90th Percentile £60.53 £51.34 £55.75
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Act in Scotland

Data Protection Act
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Act in Scotland

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in Scotland

Data Protection Act
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection Act in Scotland

Data Protection Act
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh -2 56 £450 -7.69% 3
West Lothian -3 9 £463 -13.95%
Glasgow -7 8 £471 -9.38% 1
Renfrewshire -2 1 £120 -
Aberdeen - 1 - -
Data Protection Act
UK

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 7 (8.54%) Confluence
2 4 (4.88%) Apache
3 1 (1.22%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.22%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) SAP MM
1 1 (1.22%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 18 (21.95%) Azure
2 9 (10.98%) AWS
3 4 (4.88%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.66%) Amazon S3
4 3 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (3.66%) SaaS
5 2 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.44%) GCP
5 2 (2.44%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.22%) Akamai
6 1 (1.22%) Amazon CloudSearch
6 1 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.22%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.22%) Datadog
6 1 (1.22%) GitHub
6 1 (1.22%) IaaS
6 1 (1.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.10%) DNS
2 4 (4.88%) DHCP
3 2 (2.44%) Firewall
3 2 (2.44%) Network Security
3 2 (2.44%) WAN
4 1 (1.22%) Broadband
4 1 (1.22%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (1.22%) iSCSI
4 1 (1.22%) LAN
4 1 (1.22%) NAS
4 1 (1.22%) NetScaler
4 1 (1.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.44%) Relational Database
1 2 (2.44%) Star Schema
2 1 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.22%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (13.41%) Git
2 8 (9.76%) Jenkins
3 7 (8.54%) JIRA
3 7 (8.54%) Postman
4 6 (7.32%) Cucumber
4 6 (7.32%) JUnit
5 4 (4.88%) IntelliJ
6 3 (3.66%) Maven
7 2 (2.44%) Capybara
7 2 (2.44%) Gradle
8 1 (1.22%) ER Studio
General
1 23 (28.05%) Finance
2 10 (12.20%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.10%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.44%) Banking
4 2 (2.44%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.22%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.22%) Law
5 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.22%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (15.85%) Analyst
1 13 (15.85%) Developer
2 10 (12.20%) Senior
3 8 (9.76%) Business Analyst
4 7 (8.54%) Architect
4 7 (8.54%) Java Developer
5 5 (6.10%) Consultant
6 4 (4.88%) Data Architect
6 4 (4.88%) Project Manager
7 3 (3.66%) Active Directory Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) Data Analyst
7 3 (3.66%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) Pega Consultant
7 3 (3.66%) Security Analyst
7 3 (3.66%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (3.66%) Senior Developer
7 3 (3.66%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (3.66%) Software Engineer
8 2 (2.44%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
8 2 (2.44%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.98%) Spring Boot
2 8 (9.76%) REST
3 6 (7.32%) Apache Camel
3 6 (7.32%) Kafka
3 6 (7.32%) Spring
4 4 (4.88%) React
5 3 (3.66%) J2EE
6 2 (2.44%) .NET
6 2 (2.44%) CSS
6 2 (2.44%) HTML
6 2 (2.44%) Middleware
6 2 (2.44%) WebKit
6 2 (2.44%) XML
7 1 (1.22%) Guice
7 1 (1.22%) Java EE
7 1 (1.22%) JSON
7 1 (1.22%) Node.js
7 1 (1.22%) POSIX
7 1 (1.22%) SAML
7 1 (1.22%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.66%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.44%) Algorithms
2 2 (2.44%) Data Structures
2 2 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (2.44%) Private Cloud
2 2 (2.44%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.22%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.22%) DataPower
3 1 (1.22%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (1.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.22%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (1.22%) Legacy Code
3 1 (1.22%) NVMe
3 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.22%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.22%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.76%) Linux
2 3 (3.66%) Unix
3 1 (1.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 18 (21.95%) Agile
3 14 (17.07%) Value Proposition
4 8 (9.76%) Migration
5 6 (7.32%) Business Analysis
5 6 (7.32%) Computer Science
5 6 (7.32%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (7.32%) DevOps
5 6 (7.32%) Scrum
6 5 (6.10%) CI/CD
6 5 (6.10%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (4.88%) Data Mapping
7 4 (4.88%) Data Modelling
8 3 (3.66%) Configuration Management
8 3 (3.66%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (3.66%) ETL
8 3 (3.66%) Information Security
8 3 (3.66%) OO
8 3 (3.66%) Project Management
8 3 (3.66%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (17.07%) SQL
2 13 (15.85%) Java
3 9 (10.98%) Python
4 7 (8.54%) Perl
5 5 (6.10%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.10%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.44%) Ruby
6 2 (2.44%) Rust
7 1 (1.22%) Bicep
7 1 (1.22%) C#
7 1 (1.22%) PHP
7 1 (1.22%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (6.10%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (6.10%) Degree
2 4 (4.88%) SC Cleared
2 4 (4.88%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (1.22%) CCSP
3 1 (1.22%) CISA
3 1 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.22%) CISM
3 1 (1.22%) CISSP
3 1 (1.22%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.44%) GDPR
1 2 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.44%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.22%) COBIT
2 1 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (1.22%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.22%) GRC
2 1 (1.22%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (8.54%) Docker
2 4 (4.88%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.22%) NFS
4 1 (1.22%) ProxySG
4 1 (1.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (7.32%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.10%) Terraform
3 3 (3.66%) Ansible
3 3 (3.66%) Kibana
4 2 (2.44%) Puppet
5 1 (1.22%) CASB
5 1 (1.22%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.22%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (7.32%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.88%) Databricks
3 3 (3.66%) Oracle
3 3 (3.66%) Pega
3 3 (3.66%) VMware
4 2 (2.44%) Informatica
4 2 (2.44%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.44%) Splunk
5 1 (1.22%) Blue Coat
5 1 (1.22%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.22%) Cisco
5 1 (1.22%) Citrix
5 1 (1.22%) EMC
5 1 (1.22%) Foundry
5 1 (1.22%) IBM
5 1 (1.22%) NetApp
5 1 (1.22%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.22%) SAP
5 1 (1.22%) Teradata
5 1 (1.22%) Tripwire