Data Protection Act Contracts in London

Data Protection Act (DPA)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 155 175 233
Rank change year-on-year +20 +58 +196
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 283 398 495
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.62% 1.56% 1.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.86% 4.33% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 259 399
10th Percentile £225 £375 £373
25th Percentile £395 £469 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +40.52%
75th Percentile £666 £750 £705
90th Percentile £750 £825 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +24.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 2
10th Percentile - £53.00 £24.95
25th Percentile £11.95 £55.63 £32.38
Median hourly rate £27.84 £62.50 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.46% +35.87% +166.94%
75th Percentile £62.50 £70.63 £60.88
90th Percentile £71.88 £74.00 £69.05
England median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £29.62
% change year-on-year -26.67% +26.60% +20.90%

All Generic Skills
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 London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,826 9,183 14,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.27% 36.10% 36.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,107 6,671 10,256
10th Percentile £315 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £743 £714
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 106 202
10th Percentile £15.49 £17.88 £17.01
25th Percentile £18.79 £21.24 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.00 £34.81 £42.26
Median % change year-on-year -22.44% -17.63% +23.60%
75th Percentile £50.25 £62.81 £51.31
90th Percentile £71.25 £86.65 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.00 £22.49 £26.14
% change year-on-year +60.11% -13.97% +2.49%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Act in London

Data Protection Act
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Act in London

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in London

Data Protection Act
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection Act in London

Data Protection Act
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Protection Act in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Protection Act in London

Data Protection Act
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 1 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
East London - 9 £608 - 1
West London +15 4 £250 -47.37% 1
South London +6 4 £488 -26.42% 2
Central London +34 3 £500 -23.08% 2
Data Protection Act
England

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 6 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.77%) Confluence
3 4 (1.41%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.06%) SAS
5 2 (0.71%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.71%) Gunicorn
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.35%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.71%) Mingle
4 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Endur
1 3 (1.06%) ION MarketView
2 2 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 40 (14.13%) AWS
2 21 (7.42%) Azure
3 10 (3.53%) GCP
4 9 (3.18%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (3.18%) Amazon S3
5 8 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (2.47%) Power Platform
7 6 (2.12%) GitHub
7 6 (2.12%) SaaS
7 6 (2.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (1.77%) Serverless
9 4 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.06%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.06%) Datadog
10 3 (1.06%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.06%) OneDrive
10 3 (1.06%) PaaS
11 2 (0.71%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.89%) DNS
2 9 (3.18%) DHCP
3 8 (2.83%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (2.47%) 5G
5 5 (1.77%) HTTP
5 5 (1.77%) VPN
6 4 (1.41%) BGP
6 4 (1.41%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.06%) LAN
7 3 (1.06%) Network Security
7 3 (1.06%) SAN
7 3 (1.06%) WAN
8 2 (0.71%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.71%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.71%) EIGRP
8 2 (0.71%) OSPF
8 2 (0.71%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.71%) SWIFTNet
8 2 (0.71%) VXLAN
8 2 (0.71%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.95%) Big Data
2 12 (4.24%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (2.47%) Power BI
3 7 (2.47%) Relational Database
4 6 (2.12%) Metadata
5 5 (1.77%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.77%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (1.41%) BigQuery
6 4 (1.41%) Hadoop
6 4 (1.41%) KDB
6 4 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.41%) Star Schema
7 3 (1.06%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.06%) Parquet
7 3 (1.06%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.71%) MySQL
8 2 (0.71%) PowerCenter
8 2 (0.71%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (7.42%) Git
2 13 (4.59%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.53%) JIRA
4 9 (3.18%) ERwin
5 6 (2.12%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (1.77%) XCTest
7 3 (1.06%) SpecFlow
7 3 (1.06%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.71%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.71%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.71%) FitNesse
8 2 (0.71%) GitLab
8 2 (0.71%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.35%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.35%) Babel
9 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.35%) JUnit
9 1 (0.35%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.35%) Selenium
9 1 (0.35%) webpack
General
1 49 (17.31%) Social Skills
2 45 (15.90%) Finance
3 23 (8.13%) Banking
4 22 (7.77%) Public Sector
5 21 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.59%) Marketing
6 13 (4.59%) Telecoms
7 11 (3.89%) Legal
8 9 (3.18%) Games
9 8 (2.83%) Retail
10 6 (2.12%) Back Office
10 6 (2.12%) Billing
11 5 (1.77%) Police
11 5 (1.77%) Publishing
12 4 (1.41%) Electronics
12 4 (1.41%) Law
12 4 (1.41%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.06%) Local Government
14 2 (0.71%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 50 (17.67%) Developer
2 37 (13.07%) Architect
3 32 (11.31%) Lead
4 25 (8.83%) Analyst
5 19 (6.71%) Project Manager
6 17 (6.01%) Senior
7 15 (5.30%) QA Engineer
8 13 (4.59%) QA Leader
9 12 (4.24%) Data Architect
10 11 (3.89%) Java Developer
11 10 (3.53%) Business Analyst
12 9 (3.18%) Network Engineer
12 9 (3.18%) Python Developer
12 9 (3.18%) Support Engineer
13 8 (2.83%) Administrator
13 8 (2.83%) Consultant
13 8 (2.83%) Enterprise Architect
13 8 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (2.83%) Verification Engineer
14 7 (2.47%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.89%) Kafka
2 7 (2.47%) SwiftUI
3 6 (2.12%) React
3 6 (2.12%) Spring
4 5 (1.77%) JSON
4 5 (1.77%) REST
4 5 (1.77%) XML
5 4 (1.41%) AngularJS
5 4 (1.41%) Node.js
5 4 (1.41%) RESTful
6 3 (1.06%) Apache Avro
6 3 (1.06%) CSS
6 3 (1.06%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.06%) Flask
7 2 (0.71%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (0.71%) ARM Templates
7 2 (0.71%) Celery
7 2 (0.71%) FastAPI
7 2 (0.71%) HTML
7 2 (0.71%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.36%) Management Information System
2 17 (6.01%) Freedom of Information
3 16 (5.65%) Freedom of Information Act
4 9 (3.18%) FPGA
5 8 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (2.83%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.47%) Derivative
7 6 (2.12%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.12%) Mobile App
7 6 (2.12%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.77%) Wiki
9 4 (1.41%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.41%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.41%) Social Media
10 3 (1.06%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.06%) Mobile Games
10 3 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.48%) Linux
2 18 (6.36%) Windows
3 11 (3.89%) Apple iOS
4 8 (2.83%) Android
5 6 (2.12%) Unix
6 3 (1.06%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.06%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.71%) VMS
7 2 (0.71%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.35%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 63 (22.26%) Agile
3 28 (9.89%) Value Proposition
4 26 (9.19%) Data Modelling
5 25 (8.83%) CI/CD
5 25 (8.83%) Project Management
6 24 (8.48%) Analytics
7 23 (8.13%) Test Automation
8 22 (7.77%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (7.77%) Scrum
9 21 (7.42%) Business Intelligence
10 19 (6.71%) Stakeholder Management
10 19 (6.71%) User Acceptance Testing
11 18 (6.36%) Migration
12 17 (6.01%) Microservices
13 16 (5.65%) Computer Science
14 14 (4.95%) DevOps
15 13 (4.59%) Continuous Integration
15 13 (4.59%) Risk Management
16 12 (4.24%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 55 (19.43%) Python
2 36 (12.72%) Java
3 29 (10.25%) SQL
4 15 (5.30%) C++
5 10 (3.53%) Bash
5 10 (3.53%) Swift
6 9 (3.18%) PowerShell
6 9 (3.18%) Scala
7 8 (2.83%) Perl
7 8 (2.83%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.47%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.41%) C
9 4 (1.41%) C#
9 4 (1.41%) PHP
9 4 (1.41%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.71%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.71%) U-SQL
11 1 (0.35%) Go
11 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.35%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 33 (11.66%) Degree
2 12 (4.24%) Security Cleared
3 10 (3.53%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.41%) CCNP
7 3 (1.06%) CISSP
8 2 (0.71%) CCIE
8 2 (0.71%) CCNA
8 2 (0.71%) CISM
8 2 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.71%) MCSA
8 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.35%) CCA
9 1 (0.35%) CCSP
9 1 (0.35%) CEH
9 1 (0.35%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.35%) JNCIA
9 1 (0.35%) JNCIP
9 1 (0.35%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.89%) QA
2 13 (4.59%) GDPR
3 11 (3.89%) Data Quality
3 11 (3.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.41%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.41%) NIST
5 3 (1.06%) PMO
5 3 (1.06%) SLA
6 2 (0.71%) MiFID
7 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.35%) GRC
7 1 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.35%) ISO 31000
7 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.35%) NCSC
7 1 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 15 (5.30%) Active Directory
2 12 (4.24%) Docker
3 9 (3.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.06%) vSphere
6 1 (0.35%) NFS
Systems Management
1 18 (6.36%) Terraform
2 17 (6.01%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.18%) Ansible
4 3 (1.06%) Grafana
4 3 (1.06%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (1.06%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.71%) Ambari
5 2 (0.71%) Oozie
5 2 (0.71%) SCCM
5 2 (0.71%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.35%) Nessus
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.35%) Packer
6 1 (0.35%) Podman
6 1 (0.35%) Puppet
6 1 (0.35%) systemd
Vendors
1 23 (8.13%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.01%) Cisco
3 11 (3.89%) Oracle
4 10 (3.53%) Google
5 9 (3.18%) VMware
6 8 (2.83%) Cadence
7 7 (2.47%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.47%) SAP
7 7 (2.47%) Sparx
8 6 (2.12%) Apple
9 5 (1.77%) ION Trading
9 5 (1.77%) Splunk
10 4 (1.41%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.06%) IBM
11 3 (1.06%) Murex
11 3 (1.06%) Okta
11 3 (1.06%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 2 (0.71%) Adobe
12 2 (0.71%) Dell
12 2 (0.71%) Informatica