Data Protection Act Contracts in the South East

Data Protection Act (DPA)
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 134 114
Rank change year-on-year +8 -20 +80
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 74 82 162
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.29% 1.45% 2.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.56% 4.26% 6.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 60 117
10th Percentile £253 £256 £213
25th Percentile £270 £394 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% +2.50% +37.93%
75th Percentile £513 £631 £619
90th Percentile £578 £675 £705
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 5
10th Percentile £21.69 - £35.60
25th Percentile £22.50 £51.25 £57.13
Median hourly rate £27.50 £52.50 £67.36
Median % change year-on-year -47.62% -22.06% +11.34%
75th Percentile £28.75 £53.75 £68.25
90th Percentile £28.88 - £75.54
England median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £29.62
% change year-on-year -26.67% +26.60% +15.67%

All Generic Skills
South East

Data Protection Act falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,624 1,926 2,561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 28.23% 34.01% 33.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 963 1,308 1,650
10th Percentile £210 £205 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% +8.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £719 £675
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 93 117
10th Percentile £11.79 £17.82 £13.95
25th Percentile £18.35 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £54.00 £54.37 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% +152.88% -40.45%
75th Percentile £61.30 £67.50 £49.18
90th Percentile £75.16 £75.00 £63.25
England median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Act in the South East

Data Protection Act
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Act in the South East

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in the South East

Data Protection Act
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection Act in the South East

Data Protection Act
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Protection Act in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Protection Act in the South East

Data Protection Act
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 12 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
Thames Valley +17 60 £400 -11.11% 10
Berkshire -8 42 £288 -32.35% 2
Buckinghamshire +30 14 £575 -3.16% 2
Hampshire -18 10 £438 -20.45%
Oxfordshire - 4 £475 - 6
Surrey +15 3 £544 +1.16% 3
West Sussex +8 1 - -
Data Protection Act
England

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (1.35%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (12.16%) Azure
2 6 (8.11%) AWS
3 3 (4.05%) GCP
4 2 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.70%) PaaS
5 1 (1.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.35%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.35%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.35%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.35%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.35%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.11%) WAN
2 5 (6.76%) Firewall
2 5 (6.76%) MPLS
3 4 (5.41%) SD-WAN
4 3 (4.05%) Internet
4 3 (4.05%) Network Security
5 2 (2.70%) 5G
5 2 (2.70%) BGP
5 2 (2.70%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (2.70%) GGSN
5 2 (2.70%) PBX
5 2 (2.70%) SDH
5 2 (2.70%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.70%) VoIP
6 1 (1.35%) 4G
6 1 (1.35%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (1.35%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (1.35%) LTE
6 1 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.76%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.35%) Looker
2 1 (1.35%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.35%) MySQL
2 1 (1.35%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.35%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.35%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Git
1 3 (4.05%) JIRA
1 3 (4.05%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (1.35%) Artifactory
2 1 (1.35%) GitLab
2 1 (1.35%) Rational DOORS
General
1 16 (21.62%) Marketing
2 12 (16.22%) Social Skills
3 10 (13.51%) Telecoms
4 8 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (9.46%) Legal
6 6 (8.11%) Law
7 4 (5.41%) Banking
7 4 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.70%) Finance
9 1 (1.35%) Advertising
9 1 (1.35%) Aeronautics
9 1 (1.35%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.35%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (14.86%) Architect
2 9 (12.16%) Business Development Manager
2 9 (12.16%) Business Manager
2 9 (12.16%) Development Manager
3 7 (9.46%) Project Manager
4 6 (8.11%) Junior
4 6 (8.11%) Junior Project Manager
4 6 (8.11%) Network Engineer
5 5 (6.76%) Developer
5 5 (6.76%) Network Architect
5 5 (6.76%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.05%) Analyst
6 3 (4.05%) C# Developer
6 3 (4.05%) Site Engineer
6 3 (4.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (2.70%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (2.70%) Consultant
7 2 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (2.70%) Security Analyst
7 2 (2.70%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.70%) Middleware
2 1 (1.35%) Anaconda
2 1 (1.35%) CSS
2 1 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.35%) Jest
2 1 (1.35%) React
2 1 (1.35%) RESTful
2 1 (1.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.41%) Data Centre
2 2 (2.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.35%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.35%) Clustering
3 1 (1.35%) CSOC
3 1 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (1.35%) Equities
3 1 (1.35%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (1.35%) Freedom of Information Act
3 1 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.35%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.35%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.35%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.35%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.35%) Replication
3 1 (1.35%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.35%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.11%) Linux
2 5 (6.76%) Windows
3 4 (5.41%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 18 (24.32%) Value Proposition
3 12 (16.22%) Data Privacy
3 12 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (12.16%) Business Development
4 9 (12.16%) Digital Marketing
4 9 (12.16%) Project Management
5 8 (10.81%) Customer Value Proposition
5 8 (10.81%) Data Management
5 8 (10.81%) Information Security
6 7 (9.46%) Scrum
7 6 (8.11%) B2C
7 6 (8.11%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (8.11%) Data Mapping
7 6 (8.11%) Data Sharing
7 6 (8.11%) DevOps
7 6 (8.11%) Impact Assessments
8 4 (5.41%) CI/CD
8 4 (5.41%) Computer Science
8 4 (5.41%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.81%) C#
2 7 (9.46%) SQL
3 4 (5.41%) Python
4 3 (4.05%) F#
5 2 (2.70%) C++
5 2 (2.70%) Java
6 1 (1.35%) Bash
6 1 (1.35%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.35%) R
6 1 (1.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (25.68%) Security Cleared
2 17 (22.97%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.81%) Degree
4 6 (8.11%) ISEB
5 4 (5.41%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.35%) CCIE
7 1 (1.35%) CCNP
7 1 (1.35%) CEH
7 1 (1.35%) CISM
7 1 (1.35%) CISSP
7 1 (1.35%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.35%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (32.43%) GDPR
2 4 (5.41%) QA
3 1 (1.35%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (4.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.35%) Firmware
3 1 (1.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (4.05%) Ansible
2 2 (2.70%) Terraform
3 1 (1.35%) Amdocs OSS
3 1 (1.35%) Grafana
3 1 (1.35%) Graylog
3 1 (1.35%) Nagios
3 1 (1.35%) Nessus
3 1 (1.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (18.92%) Cisco
2 7 (9.46%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.11%) OneTrust
4 3 (4.05%) VMware
5 2 (2.70%) F5
5 2 (2.70%) Juniper
5 2 (2.70%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.35%) Adobe
6 1 (1.35%) Aruba
6 1 (1.35%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.35%) Cramer
6 1 (1.35%) Dell
6 1 (1.35%) IBM
6 1 (1.35%) Meraki
6 1 (1.35%) Nokia
6 1 (1.35%) Oracle
6 1 (1.35%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.35%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.35%) Splunk
6 1 (1.35%) Tellabs