Data Protection Act Contracts in the Thames Valley

Data Protection Act (DPA)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 95 56
Rank change year-on-year +27 -39 +80
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 62 50 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.35% 1.75% 3.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.09% 5.39% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 37 94
10th Percentile £238 £190 £377
25th Percentile £270 £356 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +55.56%
75th Percentile £500 £606 £625
90th Percentile £581 £675 £713
South East median daily rate £425 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -18.07% +3.75% +45.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 4
10th Percentile - - £60.20
25th Percentile £22.50 - £64.80
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £67.76
75th Percentile £28.75 - £71.29
90th Percentile £29.00 - £76.75
South East median hourly rate £27.50 £52.50 £67.36
% change year-on-year -47.62% -22.06% +8.65%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 766 928 1,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 29.05% 32.42% 30.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 614 675
10th Percentile £205 £301 £225
25th Percentile £306 £410 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +3.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £662
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 24 32
10th Percentile £11.79 £18.08 £17.42
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £60.88 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.36% +204.38% -42.03%
75th Percentile £59.64 £73.69 £35.50
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.93 £67.49
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -4.76% +144.19% -41.58%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Act in the Thames Valley

Data Protection Act
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Act in the Thames Valley

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in the Thames Valley

Data Protection Act
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection Act in the Thames Valley

Data Protection Act
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 31 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
Berkshire -2 45 £350 -17.65% 2
Buckinghamshire +33 14 £575 -2.13% 2
Oxfordshire - 3 - - 4
Data Protection Act
South East

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (1.61%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (17.74%) Azure
2 6 (9.68%) AWS
3 3 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (4.84%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (4.84%) GCP
3 3 (4.84%) PaaS
4 2 (3.23%) Azure AKS
4 2 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.61%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.61%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.06%) Firewall
1 5 (8.06%) MPLS
2 4 (6.45%) SD-WAN
2 4 (6.45%) WAN
3 3 (4.84%) Internet
3 3 (4.84%) Network Security
4 2 (3.23%) 5G
4 2 (3.23%) BGP
4 2 (3.23%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (3.23%) GGSN
4 2 (3.23%) PBX
4 2 (3.23%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.23%) VoIP
5 1 (1.61%) 4G
5 1 (1.61%) ATM
5 1 (1.61%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (1.61%) LTE
5 1 (1.61%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (1.61%) SDH
5 1 (1.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.61%) Looker
2 1 (1.61%) MySQL
2 1 (1.61%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.61%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (1.61%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Git
2 3 (4.84%) JIRA
2 3 (4.84%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 16 (25.81%) Marketing
2 11 (17.74%) Social Skills
3 9 (14.52%) Telecoms
4 7 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (9.68%) Law
5 6 (9.68%) Legal
6 4 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.23%) Finance
8 1 (1.61%) Advertising
8 1 (1.61%) Banking
8 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.61%) French Language
8 1 (1.61%) Italian Language
8 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.61%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 10 (16.13%) Architect
2 9 (14.52%) Business Development Manager
2 9 (14.52%) Business Manager
2 9 (14.52%) Development Manager
3 7 (11.29%) Developer
4 5 (8.06%) Network Architect
4 5 (8.06%) Network Engineer
4 5 (8.06%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (6.45%) C# Developer
6 3 (4.84%) Analyst
6 3 (4.84%) Site Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Consultant
7 2 (3.23%) Project Manager
7 2 (3.23%) Security Analyst
8 1 (1.61%) Data Centre Engineer
8 1 (1.61%) Junior Project Manager
8 1 (1.61%) Linux Engineer
8 1 (1.61%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.61%) Anaconda
1 1 (1.61%) CSS
1 1 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (1.61%) Jest
1 1 (1.61%) React
1 1 (1.61%) RESTful
1 1 (1.61%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.45%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.23%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.61%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.61%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.61%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.61%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.29%) Linux
2 5 (8.06%) Windows
3 4 (6.45%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 12 (19.35%) Data Privacy
3 11 (17.74%) Value Proposition
4 10 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (14.52%) Business Development
5 9 (14.52%) Digital Marketing
6 7 (11.29%) Data Management
6 7 (11.29%) Information Security
6 7 (11.29%) Scrum
7 6 (9.68%) B2C
7 6 (9.68%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (9.68%) Data Mapping
7 6 (9.68%) Data Sharing
7 6 (9.68%) Impact Assessments
8 5 (8.06%) DevOps
9 4 (6.45%) Computer Science
9 4 (6.45%) Network Architecture
9 4 (6.45%) Project Management
10 3 (4.84%) Test Automation
10 3 (4.84%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.52%) C#
2 8 (12.90%) SQL
3 5 (8.06%) Python
4 3 (4.84%) F#
4 3 (4.84%) Java
5 2 (3.23%) C++
5 2 (3.23%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.61%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.61%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.90%) Degree
2 8 (12.90%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.68%) ISEB
4 4 (6.45%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.61%) CCIE
6 1 (1.61%) CCNP
6 1 (1.61%) CEH
6 1 (1.61%) CISM
6 1 (1.61%) CISSP
6 1 (1.61%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (35.48%) GDPR
2 4 (6.45%) QA
3 1 (1.61%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.61%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.61%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.61%) Amdocs OSS
1 1 (1.61%) Ansible
1 1 (1.61%) Grafana
1 1 (1.61%) Graylog
1 1 (1.61%) Nagios
1 1 (1.61%) Nessus
1 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
1 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (19.35%) Cisco
2 6 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.68%) OneTrust
3 2 (3.23%) F5
3 2 (3.23%) Palo Alto
3 2 (3.23%) VMware
4 1 (1.61%) Adobe
4 1 (1.61%) Cramer
4 1 (1.61%) Dell
4 1 (1.61%) Juniper
4 1 (1.61%) Meraki
4 1 (1.61%) ScienceLogic
4 1 (1.61%) Splunk
4 1 (1.61%) Tellabs