Data Protection Act Contracts in the North of England

Data Protection Act (DPA)
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 137 51 59
Rank change year-on-year -86 +8 +121
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 41 207 273
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.86% 3.73% 3.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.29% 12.29% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 126 218
10th Percentile £359 £263 £300
25th Percentile £425 £306 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £420 £525
Median % change year-on-year +22.02% -20.00% +22.81%
75th Percentile £588 £508 £588
90th Percentile £640 £631 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +25.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £21.34 -
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.47 £16.69
Median hourly rate £21.00 £22.38 £16.93
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +32.16% +25.41%
75th Percentile £21.50 £23.41 £17.18
90th Percentile - £23.61 -
England median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £29.62
% change year-on-year -26.67% +26.60% +20.90%

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,245 1,684 2,459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 26.23% 30.37% 34.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 751 1,128 1,872
10th Percentile £263 £281 £205
25th Percentile £400 £401 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £503 £483
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +4.15% +10.48%
75th Percentile £585 £606 £575
90th Percentile £656 £688 £657
England median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 82 96
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £11.43
25th Percentile £13.00 £10.63 £14.25
Median hourly rate £15.05 £16.85 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% -11.32% +8.57%
75th Percentile £32.32 £40.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £48.75 £66.62 £44.03
England median hourly rate £36.00 £22.49 £26.39
% change year-on-year +60.11% -14.78% +3.47%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Act in the North of England

Data Protection Act
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Protection Act in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Act in the North of England

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in the North of England

Data Protection Act
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Protection Act in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection Act in the North of England

Data Protection Act
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West -74 26 £513 +28.13% 16
Yorkshire -7 11 £500 +11.11% 8
North East +10 4 - - 2
Data Protection Act
England

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (4.88%) SAS
1 2 (4.88%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.44%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (2.44%) Chatbot
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) SAP EWM
1 1 (2.44%) SAP MDG
1 1 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.44%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 6 (14.63%) AWS
2 4 (9.76%) Azure
3 3 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (7.32%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.88%) GCP
4 2 (4.88%) SaaS
5 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.44%) GitHub
5 1 (2.44%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.32%) Power BI
2 2 (4.88%) Metadata
3 1 (2.44%) Data Vault
3 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.44%) DataStage
3 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (4.88%) ERwin
2 1 (2.44%) Git
2 1 (2.44%) JIRA
General
1 7 (17.07%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.20%) Finance
3 4 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.32%) Banking
5 2 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (4.88%) Legal
5 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.88%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.44%) Electronics
6 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.44%) Marketing
6 1 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (24.39%) Analyst
2 6 (14.63%) Business Analyst
2 6 (14.63%) Developer
3 4 (9.76%) Senior
4 3 (7.32%) Data Analyst
4 3 (7.32%) Java Developer
4 3 (7.32%) Project Manager
5 2 (4.88%) Architect
5 2 (4.88%) Exchange Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Programmer
5 2 (4.88%) Systems Programmer
5 2 (4.88%) z/OS Systems Programmer
6 1 (2.44%) Angular Developer
6 1 (2.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Data Governance Analyst
6 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared Project Manager
6 1 (2.44%) Senior Quality Analyst
6 1 (2.44%) SOX Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.76%) .NET
2 3 (7.32%) HTML
2 3 (7.32%) J2EE
2 3 (7.32%) JSP
2 3 (7.32%) XML
3 2 (4.88%) ISPF
3 2 (4.88%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.44%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.44%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.44%) LangChain
4 1 (2.44%) Laravel
4 1 (2.44%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) Mainframe
2 2 (4.88%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.88%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.44%) CMDB
3 1 (2.44%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (2.44%) Freedom of Information Act
3 1 (2.44%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.44%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.44%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (2.44%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.44%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.20%) Windows
2 3 (7.32%) Unix
3 2 (4.88%) zOS
4 1 (2.44%) Linux
4 1 (2.44%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.44%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.44%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 10 (24.39%) Agile
3 6 (14.63%) Data Modelling
4 5 (12.20%) DevOps
4 5 (12.20%) TDD
5 4 (9.76%) Computer Science
5 4 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (9.76%) Waterfall
6 3 (7.32%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (7.32%) Data Governance
6 3 (7.32%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (7.32%) Product Requirements
6 3 (7.32%) Project Management
6 3 (7.32%) Software Engineering
6 3 (7.32%) Value Proposition
7 2 (4.88%) Analytical Thinking
7 2 (4.88%) DevSecOps
7 2 (4.88%) Requirements Gathering
7 2 (4.88%) Scenario Testing
7 2 (4.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.20%) Java
1 5 (12.20%) SQL
2 4 (9.76%) JavaScript
3 3 (7.32%) C
3 3 (7.32%) C++
4 2 (4.88%) Assembly Language
4 2 (4.88%) CLIST
4 2 (4.88%) JCL
4 2 (4.88%) Python
4 2 (4.88%) REXX
5 1 (2.44%) PHP
5 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (12.20%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.76%) Degree
2 4 (9.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.44%) CCNA
3 1 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.44%) MCSE
3 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.44%) SAP Certification
3 1 (2.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.76%) GDPR
2 3 (7.32%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.44%) QA
4 1 (2.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (4.88%) Active Directory
1 2 (4.88%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.44%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 2 (4.88%) OMEGAMON
1 2 (4.88%) Terraform
2 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (12.20%) SAP
2 3 (7.32%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.88%) CA
3 2 (4.88%) IBM
4 1 (2.44%) Adobe
4 1 (2.44%) Avaloq
4 1 (2.44%) Embarcadero
4 1 (2.44%) Google
4 1 (2.44%) Sparx
4 1 (2.44%) VMware