Data Protection Act Contracts in South Wales

Data Protection Act (DPA)
Wales > South Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies in South Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 43 56
Rank change year-on-year +13 +13 -
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 8 14 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 2.37% 2.93% 2.02%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.11% 7.25% 5.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 13
10th Percentile £129 £141 £439
25th Percentile £134 £420 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £281 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -51.22% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £441 £639 £590
90th Percentile £446 £678 £622
Wales median daily rate £281 £494 £550
% change year-on-year -43.19% -10.23% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £25.00 -
Wales median hourly rate - £25.00 £13.00
% change year-on-year - +92.31% -

All Generic Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 131 193 298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 38.76% 40.38% 35.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 137 204
10th Percentile £133 £180 £259
25th Percentile £327 £275 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £451
Median % change year-on-year - +10.86% +7.38%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £550
90th Percentile £575 £643 £625
Wales median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 12
10th Percentile £14.61 £12.59 £11.15
25th Percentile £18.89 £15.89 £14.29
Median hourly rate £52.50 £18.82 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +179.03% +14.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £73.75 £22.75 £20.94
90th Percentile £81.10 £32.93 £24.88
Wales median hourly rate £18.95 £18.10 £16.50
% change year-on-year +4.67% +9.70% +10.00%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Act in South Wales

Data Protection Act
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Act in South Wales

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in South Wales over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in South Wales

Data Protection Act
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Cardiff +6 7 £281 -51.22%
Newport +7 1 - -
Data Protection Act
Wales

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) GitHub
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) PBX
1 2 (25.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Cypress.io
2 2 (25.00%) Storybook
3 1 (12.50%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) Postman
General
1 2 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 2 (25.00%) Service Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Full Stack PHP Developer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) PHP Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Vue
2 2 (25.00%) Laravel
2 2 (25.00%) Playwright
3 1 (12.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Product Ownership
2 2 (25.00%) CMDB
2 2 (25.00%) Freedom of Information
2 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Project Management
2 4 (50.00%) Value Proposition
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
4 2 (25.00%) ITIL
4 2 (25.00%) Line Management
4 2 (25.00%) Objectives and Key Results
4 2 (25.00%) Presales
4 2 (25.00%) Service Management
4 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Budgeting
5 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (12.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) ISEB
1 2 (25.00%) ISEB Practitioner
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
2 2 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory