Data Protection Act Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Protection Act (DPA)
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 180 99 98
Rank change year-on-year -81 -1 +285
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 245 569 842
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.18% 2.48% 2.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.10% 7.71% 8.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 327 592
10th Percentile £213 £288 £307
25th Percentile £305 £359 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £575
90th Percentile £600 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +22.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 18
10th Percentile £20.50 £19.96 £19.01
25th Percentile £22.50 £21.06 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £23.75 £23.37
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +1.63% -56.42%
75th Percentile £28.75 £53.75 £67.36
90th Percentile - - £77.32
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £38.75 £23.37
% change year-on-year -29.03% +65.81% -4.61%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,976 7,381 9,790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.66% 32.21% 32.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,568 4,949 6,853
10th Percentile £208 £220 £208
25th Percentile £375 £384 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £586
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 743 412 428
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.64
25th Percentile £14.12 £10.63 £15.93
Median hourly rate £35.00 £21.88 £21.30
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% +2.70% -7.39%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.00 £44.16
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £22.00 £26.98
% change year-on-year +59.09% -18.46% +5.80%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Act in the UK excluding London

Data Protection Act
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Act in the UK excluding London

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in the UK excluding London

Data Protection Act
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection Act in the UK excluding London

Data Protection Act
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Protection Act in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Protection Act in the UK excluding London

Data Protection Act
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South East +7 75 £425 -18.07% 11
Scotland -2 71 £438 -13.37%
North of England -86 41 £513 +22.02% 26
North West -74 26 £513 +28.13% 16
Midlands -23 23 £425 - 16
West Midlands -20 18 £425 -2.86% 6
South West -6 14 £110 -85.33% 17
Yorkshire -7 11 £500 +11.11% 8
East of England -3 10 £275 -46.99% 10
Wales +4 7 £425 -10.53% 4
East Midlands -6 5 £538 +65.38% 10
North East +10 4 - - 2
Northern Ireland +6 4 £513 +28.13% 1
Data Protection Act
UK

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (2.04%) Confluence
1 5 (2.04%) SAS
2 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.63%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.22%) Apache
4 2 (0.82%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.41%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.41%) SAP EWM
1 1 (0.41%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.41%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 34 (13.88%) Azure
2 25 (10.20%) AWS
3 13 (5.31%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (3.27%) GCP
5 6 (2.45%) Amazon S3
6 5 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.04%) GitHub
6 5 (2.04%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.04%) SaaS
7 4 (1.63%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.63%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.22%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.22%) PaaS
9 2 (0.82%) Azure AKS
9 2 (0.82%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (0.82%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (0.82%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.82%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.71%) VoIP
2 13 (5.31%) PBX
3 11 (4.49%) WAN
4 9 (3.67%) Firewall
5 5 (2.04%) DNS
5 5 (2.04%) MPLS
5 5 (2.04%) Network Security
5 5 (2.04%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.63%) SDH
6 4 (1.63%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.22%) 5G
7 3 (1.22%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (1.22%) HTTP
7 3 (1.22%) Internet
7 3 (1.22%) LAN
8 2 (0.82%) 4G
8 2 (0.82%) BGP
8 2 (0.82%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.82%) GGSN
8 2 (0.82%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.45%) Relational Database
1 6 (2.45%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.04%) Power BI
3 3 (1.22%) MySQL
4 2 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.82%) Metadata
4 2 (0.82%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.41%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.41%) DataStage
5 1 (0.41%) DB2
5 1 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.41%) Looker
5 1 (0.41%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.41%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.41%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.41%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 15 (6.12%) Git
2 10 (4.08%) JIRA
3 5 (2.04%) Postman
4 4 (1.63%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.22%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.22%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.22%) IntelliJ
5 3 (1.22%) JUnit
5 3 (1.22%) Maven
5 3 (1.22%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (1.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.82%) Capybara
6 2 (0.82%) ERwin
6 2 (0.82%) GitLab
6 2 (0.82%) Gradle
6 2 (0.82%) Storybook
7 1 (0.41%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.41%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 32 (13.06%) Social Skills
1 32 (13.06%) Telecoms
2 26 (10.61%) Finance
3 19 (7.76%) Marketing
4 16 (6.53%) Presentation Skills
5 12 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.08%) Legal
7 8 (3.27%) Law
8 7 (2.86%) Banking
8 7 (2.86%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.22%) Aeronautics
9 3 (1.22%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.82%) Electronics
10 2 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.82%) Italian Language
10 2 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.82%) Retail
11 1 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Police
Job Titles
1 38 (15.51%) Architect
2 31 (12.65%) Developer
3 28 (11.43%) Analyst
4 22 (8.98%) Solutions Architect
5 16 (6.53%) Project Manager
5 16 (6.53%) Senior
6 14 (5.71%) Business Analyst
7 9 (3.67%) Business Development Manager
7 9 (3.67%) Business Manager
7 9 (3.67%) Development Manager
7 9 (3.67%) Java Developer
7 9 (3.67%) Network Engineer
8 8 (3.27%) Consultant
8 8 (3.27%) Lead
8 8 (3.27%) Support Engineer
9 7 (2.86%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (2.86%) Junior
10 6 (2.45%) Data Analyst
10 6 (2.45%) Junior Project Manager
10 6 (2.45%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.27%) Spring
1 8 (3.27%) Spring Boot
2 6 (2.45%) HTML
2 6 (2.45%) React
2 6 (2.45%) XML
3 5 (2.04%) .NET
3 5 (2.04%) CSS
3 5 (2.04%) J2EE
3 5 (2.04%) REST
4 3 (1.22%) Apache Camel
4 3 (1.22%) JSP
4 3 (1.22%) Kafka
4 3 (1.22%) Laravel
4 3 (1.22%) Playwright
4 3 (1.22%) Vue
5 2 (0.82%) Guice
5 2 (0.82%) ISPF
5 2 (0.82%) Jest
5 2 (0.82%) WebKit
6 1 (0.41%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 7 (2.86%) Product Ownership
2 6 (2.45%) Data Centre
3 5 (2.04%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.04%) Freedom of Information
3 5 (2.04%) Mainframe
3 5 (2.04%) Mobile App
4 4 (1.63%) Algorithms
4 4 (1.63%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.63%) Public Cloud
4 4 (1.63%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.82%) CMDB
6 2 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.82%) Freedom of Information Act
6 2 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.82%) HP Storage
6 2 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.41%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.76%) Linux
2 13 (5.31%) Windows
3 9 (3.67%) Unix
4 6 (2.45%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.22%) Solaris
6 2 (0.82%) AIX
6 2 (0.82%) VMS
6 2 (0.82%) zOS
7 1 (0.41%) ThreadX
7 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.41%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 46 (18.78%) Value Proposition
3 36 (14.69%) Agile
4 22 (8.98%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (8.57%) Project Management
6 18 (7.35%) DevOps
7 17 (6.94%) Computer Science
7 17 (6.94%) Scrum
8 16 (6.53%) Presales
9 15 (6.12%) Migration
9 15 (6.12%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (5.71%) CI/CD
11 13 (5.31%) Data Privacy
12 12 (4.90%) Software Engineering
13 11 (4.49%) Data Management
13 11 (4.49%) Information Security
14 10 (4.08%) Customer Value Proposition
14 10 (4.08%) Digital Marketing
15 9 (3.67%) Business Analysis
15 9 (3.67%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 26 (10.61%) SQL
2 20 (8.16%) Java
3 17 (6.94%) Python
4 13 (5.31%) C#
5 10 (4.08%) JavaScript
6 9 (3.67%) PowerShell
7 8 (3.27%) Perl
8 7 (2.86%) C++
9 4 (1.63%) C
10 3 (1.22%) Bash
10 3 (1.22%) F#
10 3 (1.22%) PHP
10 3 (1.22%) Rust
10 3 (1.22%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.82%) Assembly Language
11 2 (0.82%) CLIST
11 2 (0.82%) JCL
11 2 (0.82%) REXX
11 2 (0.82%) Ruby
11 2 (0.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (18.78%) Security Cleared
2 31 (12.65%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.98%) Degree
4 17 (6.94%) DV Cleared
5 8 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.86%) ISEB
7 5 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.22%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.82%) CCNA
9 2 (0.82%) CISSP
10 1 (0.41%) CCIE
10 1 (0.41%) CCNP
10 1 (0.41%) CCSP
10 1 (0.41%) CISM
10 1 (0.41%) ISEB Practitioner
10 1 (0.41%) MCSE
10 1 (0.41%) PhD
10 1 (0.41%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (11.84%) GDPR
2 8 (3.27%) QA
3 3 (1.22%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.22%) SLA
4 2 (0.82%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.82%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (4.49%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.04%) Docker
4 3 (1.22%) Firmware
5 2 (0.82%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.41%) NFS
6 1 (0.41%) ProxySG
6 1 (0.41%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (2.45%) Terraform
2 5 (2.04%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.63%) Ansible
4 3 (1.22%) NetBackup
5 2 (0.82%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (0.82%) HP Data Protector
5 2 (0.82%) Kibana
5 2 (0.82%) OMEGAMON
6 1 (0.41%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.41%) CASB
6 1 (0.41%) Grafana
6 1 (0.41%) Graylog
6 1 (0.41%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.41%) Nagios
6 1 (0.41%) Nessus
6 1 (0.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (8.98%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.16%) Cisco
3 7 (2.86%) IBM
4 6 (2.45%) OneTrust
4 6 (2.45%) SAP
4 6 (2.45%) VMware
5 4 (1.63%) Databricks
5 4 (1.63%) Juniper
5 4 (1.63%) Nokia
5 4 (1.63%) Oracle
5 4 (1.63%) Splunk
6 3 (1.22%) Adobe
6 3 (1.22%) EMC
6 3 (1.22%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.22%) Pega
6 3 (1.22%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.82%) CA
7 2 (0.82%) HP
7 2 (0.82%) Informatica
7 2 (0.82%) Salesforce