Data Protection Act Contracts

Data Protection Act (DPA)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 183 148 183
Rank change year-on-year -35 +35 +443
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 564 1,074 1,424
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.30% 1.80% 1.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.29% 5.39% 4.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 667 1,130
10th Percentile £228 £300 £313
25th Percentile £363 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +40.00%
75th Percentile £600 £673 £625
90th Percentile £729 £768 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -6.25% -4.00% +42.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 22
10th Percentile £11.95 £20.74 £13.37
25th Percentile £21.00 £22.13 -
Median hourly rate £27.50 £52.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.62% +162.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £29.69 £53.75 £67.08
90th Percentile £60.60 £58.25 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% +25.00% -20.34%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,143 19,914 29,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.35% 33.30% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,422 13,704 20,462
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £653
90th Percentile £788 £800 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 903 647 727
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.11
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.88
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Act in the UK

Data Protection Act
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Act in the UK

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in the UK

Data Protection Act
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection Act in the UK

Data Protection Act
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Protection Act over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Protection Act in the UK

Data Protection Act
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England -24 469 £500 -9.09% 63
London +14 279 £525 -11.02% 19
UK excluding London -55 278 £450 -6.25% 48
Work from Home -31 121 £450 -10.00% 31
Scotland -9 83 £488 -2.50% 3
South East +12 76 £425 -25.27% 18
North of England -82 51 £475 +11.76% 7
North West -68 38 £488 +14.71% 3
Midlands -31 21 £428 +0.59% 9
East of England +19 18 £475 -17.39% 4
South West +17 18 £180 -71.03% 8
West Midlands -10 17 £425 -1.16% 6
North East +21 7 - -
Wales +2 7 £525 +6.33% 1
Yorkshire -14 6 £475 -2.56% 4
Northern Ireland +11 4 £513 +28.13%
East Midlands +1 4 £569 +75.00% 3

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 13 (2.30%) Confluence
2 10 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.42%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.06%) SAS
5 3 (0.53%) Apache
5 3 (0.53%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.35%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.18%) CMS
7 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.35%) Mingle
5 1 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.18%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.18%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (0.71%) Endur
2 3 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.35%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.35%) Shopify
4 1 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.18%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.18%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.18%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.18%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.18%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 70 (12.41%) Azure
2 64 (11.35%) AWS
3 20 (3.55%) GCP
4 19 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (2.66%) Amazon EC2
5 15 (2.66%) Amazon S3
6 12 (2.13%) Power Platform
7 11 (1.95%) GitHub
8 10 (1.77%) SaaS
9 9 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (1.60%) Entra ID
10 7 (1.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (1.06%) PaaS
11 6 (1.06%) Snowflake
12 5 (0.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (0.89%) Azure AKS
12 5 (0.89%) OneDrive
12 5 (0.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.55%) DNS
2 15 (2.66%) WAN
3 14 (2.48%) Firewall
3 14 (2.48%) VoIP
4 13 (2.30%) DHCP
4 13 (2.30%) PBX
4 13 (2.30%) TCP/IP
5 12 (2.13%) HTTP
6 9 (1.60%) VPN
7 7 (1.24%) 5G
7 7 (1.24%) LAN
7 7 (1.24%) SAN
7 7 (1.24%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (1.24%) Wireless
8 6 (1.06%) Network Security
9 5 (0.89%) BGP
9 5 (0.89%) MPLS
10 4 (0.71%) Fibre Channel
10 4 (0.71%) Internet
10 4 (0.71%) SWIFTNet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (2.84%) SQL Server
3 15 (2.66%) Relational Database
4 14 (2.48%) Big Data
5 13 (2.30%) Metadata
6 12 (2.13%) Power BI
7 8 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.24%) MySQL
9 6 (1.06%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.06%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.06%) Star Schema
10 4 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.71%) Tableau
11 3 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.53%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.53%) Parquet
11 3 (0.53%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 41 (7.27%) Git
2 29 (5.14%) JIRA
3 25 (4.43%) Jenkins
4 16 (2.84%) ERwin
5 10 (1.77%) Postman
6 9 (1.60%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.24%) JUnit
8 6 (1.06%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (0.89%) GitLab
9 5 (0.89%) Maven
9 5 (0.89%) XCTest
10 4 (0.71%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.53%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (0.53%) Selenium
11 3 (0.53%) SpecFlow
11 3 (0.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.35%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.35%) Gradle
12 2 (0.35%) SoapUI
General
1 93 (16.49%) Social Skills
2 83 (14.72%) Finance
3 51 (9.04%) Telecoms
4 33 (5.85%) Marketing
4 33 (5.85%) Public Sector
5 32 (5.67%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (5.32%) Banking
7 29 (5.14%) Presentation Skills
8 22 (3.90%) Legal
9 14 (2.48%) Retail
10 11 (1.95%) Electronics
10 11 (1.95%) Law
11 10 (1.77%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.24%) Games
13 6 (1.06%) Back Office
13 6 (1.06%) Police
13 6 (1.06%) Publishing
14 5 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.71%) Billing
15 4 (0.71%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 79 (14.01%) Architect
2 78 (13.83%) Developer
3 50 (8.87%) Analyst
4 43 (7.62%) Project Manager
5 42 (7.45%) Lead
6 32 (5.67%) Senior
7 29 (5.14%) Solutions Architect
8 22 (3.90%) Business Analyst
8 22 (3.90%) Data Architect
9 21 (3.72%) Consultant
10 20 (3.55%) Java Developer
11 18 (3.19%) Network Engineer
12 17 (3.01%) Enterprise Architect
13 16 (2.84%) Support Engineer
14 15 (2.66%) QA Engineer
15 14 (2.48%) Junior
16 12 (2.13%) DevOps Engineer
16 12 (2.13%) QA Leader
17 11 (1.95%) Python Developer
18 10 (1.77%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.55%) Kafka
2 17 (3.01%) REST
3 14 (2.48%) Spring
4 12 (2.13%) Spring Boot
4 12 (2.13%) XML
5 11 (1.95%) React
6 8 (1.42%) .NET
6 8 (1.42%) CSS
6 8 (1.42%) JSON
6 8 (1.42%) Node.js
7 7 (1.24%) RESTful
7 7 (1.24%) SwiftUI
8 6 (1.06%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.06%) Apache Camel
9 5 (0.89%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (0.71%) HTML
11 3 (0.53%) GraphQL
11 3 (0.53%) Guice
11 3 (0.53%) J2EE
11 3 (0.53%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 22 (3.90%) Freedom of Information
2 20 (3.55%) Management Information System
3 19 (3.37%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.19%) Data Centre
4 18 (3.19%) Freedom of Information Act
5 11 (1.95%) Wiki
6 9 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.42%) Derivative
8 7 (1.24%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.24%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.24%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.06%) Cloud Native
9 6 (1.06%) FPGA
9 6 (1.06%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.06%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.06%) Security Posture
10 5 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 58 (10.28%) Linux
2 32 (5.67%) Windows
3 15 (2.66%) Unix
4 10 (1.77%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.24%) Windows 10
6 6 (1.06%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.71%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.53%) Android
8 3 (0.53%) Solaris
8 3 (0.53%) VMS
9 2 (0.35%) AIX
9 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.18%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.18%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.18%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 564 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 92 (16.31%) Agile
3 71 (12.59%) Value Proposition
4 57 (10.11%) Project Management
5 46 (8.16%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (7.09%) Scrum
7 38 (6.74%) CI/CD
7 38 (6.74%) Data Modelling
7 38 (6.74%) DevOps
8 37 (6.56%) Migration
9 33 (5.85%) Stakeholder Management
10 32 (5.67%) Business Intelligence
11 31 (5.50%) Analytics
11 31 (5.50%) Test Automation
12 28 (4.96%) Computer Science
12 28 (4.96%) Data Management
13 25 (4.43%) Microservices
14 24 (4.26%) Continuous Improvement
14 24 (4.26%) User Acceptance Testing
15 21 (3.72%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 74 (13.12%) Python
2 64 (11.35%) SQL
3 56 (9.93%) Java
4 22 (3.90%) PowerShell
5 20 (3.55%) C#
6 19 (3.37%) JavaScript
7 16 (2.84%) Perl
8 15 (2.66%) Bash
8 15 (2.66%) C++
9 10 (1.77%) Swift
10 9 (1.60%) Scala
10 9 (1.60%) TypeScript
11 6 (1.06%) PHP
12 4 (0.71%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.71%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.53%) C
13 3 (0.53%) F#
13 3 (0.53%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.35%) Groovy
14 2 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 76 (13.48%) Security Cleared
2 53 (9.40%) Degree
3 45 (7.98%) SC Cleared
4 31 (5.50%) DV Cleared
5 14 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (1.24%) ISEB
8 6 (1.06%) CISM
8 6 (1.06%) CISSP
9 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.53%) CCNP
10 3 (0.53%) CISA
10 3 (0.53%) CRISC
11 2 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.35%) CCIE
11 2 (0.35%) CCNA
11 2 (0.35%) CCSP
11 2 (0.35%) CEH
11 2 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (8.33%) GDPR
2 37 (6.56%) QA
3 23 (4.08%) Data Quality
4 16 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.06%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.06%) NIST
6 5 (0.89%) SLA
7 4 (0.71%) PMO
8 3 (0.53%) GRC
8 3 (0.53%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.35%) COBIT
9 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.35%) MiFID
10 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.18%) ISO 31000
10 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 29 (5.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (4.26%) Active Directory
3 20 (3.55%) Docker
4 6 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.89%) vSphere
6 4 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.53%) NFS
8 1 (0.18%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.18%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.18%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.18%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 30 (5.32%) Terraform
2 21 (3.72%) Kubernetes
3 19 (3.37%) Ansible
4 6 (1.06%) vCenter Server
5 3 (0.53%) Grafana
5 3 (0.53%) Kibana
5 3 (0.53%) NetBackup
5 3 (0.53%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.53%) Puppet
5 3 (0.53%) SCCM
6 2 (0.35%) Ambari
6 2 (0.35%) EMC NetWorker
6 2 (0.35%) Graylog
6 2 (0.35%) HP Data Protector
6 2 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.35%) Nagios
6 2 (0.35%) Nessus
6 2 (0.35%) Oozie
6 2 (0.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 57 (10.11%) Microsoft
2 37 (6.56%) Cisco
3 29 (5.14%) VMware
4 22 (3.90%) SAP
5 18 (3.19%) Oracle
6 14 (2.48%) Sparx
7 12 (2.13%) Google
8 10 (1.77%) IBM
9 9 (1.60%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.60%) Splunk
10 8 (1.42%) OneTrust
11 7 (1.24%) Juniper
12 6 (1.06%) Databricks
13 5 (0.89%) Apple
13 5 (0.89%) Cadence
13 5 (0.89%) F5
13 5 (0.89%) ION Trading
13 5 (0.89%) Nokia
14 4 (0.71%) Adobe
14 4 (0.71%) Informatica