Data Protection Act Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Protection Act (DPA)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). 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 221 191 240
Rank change year-on-year -30 +49 +224
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 122 319 491
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.81% 1.27% 1.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.82% 4.04% 3.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 170 360
10th Percentile £213 £325 £325
25th Percentile £285 £403 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.75% -4.76% +40.00%
75th Percentile £725 £616 £583
90th Percentile £738 £701 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 6
10th Percentile £20.08 £19.60 £18.34
25th Percentile £22.50 £28.19 £20.59
Median hourly rate £25.00 £52.50 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -52.38% +28.85% -36.34%
75th Percentile £30.88 £53.75 £65.53
90th Percentile £41.05 - £72.78
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £38.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -29.03% +93.75% -4.76%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,326 7,897 13,802
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.70% 31.48% 31.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,958 5,553 9,859
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £431 £455 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £800 £793 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 154 221
10th Percentile £15.49 £19.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +23.60% +28.99%
75th Percentile £66.94 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £31.13 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.43% -18.24% +4.05%

Data Protection Act
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Protection Act as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Protection Act trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Protection Act.

Data Protection Act daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Protection Act over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Data Protection Act daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Protection Act
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Protection Act.

Data Protection Act hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Protection Act
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Protection Act over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Data Protection Act hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (2.46%) SAS
2 2 (1.64%) Confluence
3 1 (0.82%) CMS
3 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.82%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.82%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.82%) SAP MM
1 1 (0.82%) SAP PM
1 1 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (13.11%) Azure
2 11 (9.02%) AWS
3 5 (4.10%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (3.28%) Amazon S3
4 4 (3.28%) GCP
4 4 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.64%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.82%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 1 (0.82%) Amazon CloudSearch
6 1 (0.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.82%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (0.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.82%) Azure AKS
6 1 (0.82%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (0.82%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (0.82%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.82%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.82%) PaaS
6 1 (0.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.28%) SWIFTNet
2 3 (2.46%) DNS
2 3 (2.46%) Firewall
2 3 (2.46%) MPLS
3 2 (1.64%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (1.64%) HTTP
3 2 (1.64%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.64%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.64%) WAN
4 1 (0.82%) DMZ
4 1 (0.82%) Internet
4 1 (0.82%) LAN
4 1 (0.82%) NAS
4 1 (0.82%) NetScaler
4 1 (0.82%) Network Security
4 1 (0.82%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.82%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.84%) Metadata
2 5 (4.10%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.28%) Big Data
3 4 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.64%) MySQL
4 2 (1.64%) Power BI
4 2 (1.64%) SAS Data Integration Studio
4 2 (1.64%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 2 (1.64%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.64%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.82%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.82%) DB2
5 1 (0.82%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.82%) Parquet
5 1 (0.82%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (9.84%) ERwin
2 5 (4.10%) Git
2 5 (4.10%) JIRA
3 1 (0.82%) HP UFT
3 1 (0.82%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.82%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (0.82%) Selenium
3 1 (0.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 29 (23.77%) Finance
2 20 (16.39%) Public Sector
3 14 (11.48%) Marketing
4 13 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.66%) Telecoms
5 12 (9.84%) Retail
6 11 (9.02%) Electronics
6 11 (9.02%) Manufacturing
6 11 (9.02%) Social Skills
7 4 (3.28%) Legal
8 3 (2.46%) Banking
9 2 (1.64%) Advertising
10 1 (0.82%) Back Office
10 1 (0.82%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.82%) French Language
10 1 (0.82%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.82%) Local Government
10 1 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.82%) Publishing
10 1 (0.82%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 28 (22.95%) Architect
2 16 (13.11%) Project Manager
3 13 (10.66%) Data Architect
3 13 (10.66%) Developer
4 12 (9.84%) Enterprise Architect
5 11 (9.02%) Enterprise Data Architect
6 9 (7.38%) Junior
7 8 (6.56%) Analyst
7 8 (6.56%) Junior Project Manager
8 4 (3.28%) Java Developer
8 4 (3.28%) Network Architect
8 4 (3.28%) Senior
8 4 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.28%) Support Engineer
9 3 (2.46%) Business Manager
9 3 (2.46%) Consultant
9 3 (2.46%) Data Analyst
9 3 (2.46%) Development Manager
9 3 (2.46%) Lead
9 3 (2.46%) Product Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.10%) Spring
2 3 (2.46%) CSS
2 3 (2.46%) XML
3 2 (1.64%) Guice
3 2 (1.64%) HTML
3 2 (1.64%) Kafka
3 2 (1.64%) RESTful
4 1 (0.82%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.82%) Apache Avro
4 1 (0.82%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.82%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.82%) jQuery
4 1 (0.82%) JSON
4 1 (0.82%) JSON Schema
4 1 (0.82%) PySpark
4 1 (0.82%) REST
4 1 (0.82%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.82%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.82%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 1 (0.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.84%) Wiki
2 7 (5.74%) Freedom of Information
3 5 (4.10%) Freedom of Information Act
3 5 (4.10%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.28%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.28%) Security Posture
4 4 (3.28%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (2.46%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.46%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.46%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.82%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.82%) DataPower
6 1 (0.82%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.82%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.82%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.56%) Linux
2 6 (4.92%) Windows
3 4 (3.28%) Unix
4 2 (1.64%) VMS
4 2 (1.64%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.82%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 19 (15.57%) Data Modelling
3 17 (13.93%) Project Management
3 17 (13.93%) Value Proposition
4 16 (13.11%) Business Intelligence
5 14 (11.48%) Agile
5 14 (11.48%) Data Architecture
5 14 (11.48%) Data Governance
5 14 (11.48%) Data Management
5 14 (11.48%) Digital Marketing
5 14 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (11.48%) Programme Management
6 13 (10.66%) Data Flow Diagram
6 13 (10.66%) Data Strategy
6 13 (10.66%) Master Data Management
6 13 (10.66%) Migration
6 13 (10.66%) Physical Data Model
7 12 (9.84%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (9.84%) Domain Models
8 10 (8.20%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.20%) Python
1 10 (8.20%) SQL
2 6 (4.92%) Java
3 5 (4.10%) C#
4 4 (3.28%) Perl
5 3 (2.46%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.64%) C++
6 2 (1.64%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.82%) Bash
7 1 (0.82%) Bicep
7 1 (0.82%) COBOL
7 1 (0.82%) F#
7 1 (0.82%) Rust
7 1 (0.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (15.57%) Security Cleared
2 18 (14.75%) Degree
2 18 (14.75%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.64%) CISSP
5 1 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.82%) CISA
5 1 (0.82%) CISM
5 1 (0.82%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.82%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (19.67%) GDPR
2 14 (11.48%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.46%) QA
4 2 (1.64%) NIST
4 2 (1.64%) PMO
5 1 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.82%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (3.28%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.46%) Docker
3 2 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (3.28%) Terraform
2 3 (2.46%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.64%) Ansible
3 2 (1.64%) Grafana
3 2 (1.64%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.82%) Graylog
4 1 (0.82%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (0.82%) Nagios
4 1 (0.82%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 15 (12.30%) SAP
2 12 (9.84%) Sparx
3 8 (6.56%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.92%) Cisco
4 6 (4.92%) OneTrust
5 3 (2.46%) IBM
6 2 (1.64%) CheckPoint
6 2 (1.64%) F5
6 2 (1.64%) Okta
6 2 (1.64%) Oracle
6 2 (1.64%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.64%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.64%) Splunk
6 2 (1.64%) VMware
7 1 (0.82%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.82%) Avid
7 1 (0.82%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (0.82%) Databricks
7 1 (0.82%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.82%) Palo Alto