Data Protection Act Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Protection Act (DPA)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 182 99 95
Rank change year-on-year -83 -4 +259
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 247 557 849
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.16% 2.45% 2.79%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.07% 7.66% 8.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 330 592
10th Percentile £213 £288 £306
25th Percentile £305 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £458 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% -8.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £575
90th Percentile £600 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 18
10th Percentile £17.10 £19.96 £19.01
25th Percentile £22.00 £21.06 £20.00
Median hourly rate £26.25 £23.75 £23.37
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +1.63% -56.42%
75th Percentile £28.75 £53.75 £67.36
90th Percentile - - £77.32
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £38.75 £23.37
% change year-on-year -29.03% +65.81% -8.74%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,066 7,275 9,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.45% 32.06% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,573 4,875 6,837
10th Percentile £210 £220 £208
25th Percentile £375 £381 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £600 £602 £586
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 764 409 422
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.90
25th Percentile £14.36 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £22.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.23% +2.33% -4.44%
75th Percentile £62.81 £62.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £70.13 £74.40 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Act in the UK excluding London

Data Protection Act
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Act in the UK excluding London

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in the UK excluding London

Data Protection Act
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection Act in the UK excluding London

Data Protection Act
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Protection Act in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Protection Act in the UK excluding London

Data Protection Act
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
South East +8 74 £425 -17.07% 16
Scotland +3 69 £450 -12.20% 2
North of England -92 41 £525 +23.53% 26
North West -76 24 £513 +27.73% 13
Midlands -28 22 £425 - 18
West Midlands -16 18 £425 -5.03% 10
East of England +1 15 £295 -47.56% 16
South West -18 14 £110 -83.52% 17
Yorkshire -15 11 £538 +19.44% 11
Wales +7 8 £281 -43.19%
North East +9 6 - - 2
Northern Ireland 0 4 £513 +28.13% 1
East Midlands -7 4 £538 +65.38% 8
Data Protection Act
UK

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 4 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (1.62%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.21%) SAS
3 2 (0.81%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.40%) Apache
4 1 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.40%) CMS
4 1 (0.40%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.40%) SAP EWM
1 1 (0.40%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.40%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 32 (12.96%) Azure
2 27 (10.93%) AWS
3 14 (5.67%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (3.64%) GCP
5 6 (2.43%) Amazon S3
5 6 (2.43%) SaaS
6 5 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (2.02%) GitHub
6 5 (2.02%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.62%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.21%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.21%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (0.81%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (0.81%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (0.81%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.81%) OneDrive
9 2 (0.81%) PaaS
10 1 (0.40%) Akamai
10 1 (0.40%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.67%) VoIP
2 13 (5.26%) PBX
3 11 (4.45%) WAN
4 9 (3.64%) Firewall
5 5 (2.02%) DNS
5 5 (2.02%) MPLS
5 5 (2.02%) Network Security
5 5 (2.02%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.62%) SDH
6 4 (1.62%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.21%) 5G
7 3 (1.21%) HTTP
7 3 (1.21%) Internet
7 3 (1.21%) LAN
8 2 (0.81%) BGP
8 2 (0.81%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.81%) DHCP
8 2 (0.81%) GGSN
8 2 (0.81%) SAN
8 2 (0.81%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.43%) Relational Database
1 6 (2.43%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.02%) Power BI
3 3 (1.21%) MySQL
4 2 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.81%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.40%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.40%) DataStage
5 1 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.40%) Looker
5 1 (0.40%) Metadata
5 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.40%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (3.64%) Git
2 6 (2.43%) JIRA
3 3 (1.21%) Cypress.io
3 3 (1.21%) Maven
3 3 (1.21%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (1.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.81%) Capybara
4 2 (0.81%) GitLab
4 2 (0.81%) Gradle
4 2 (0.81%) Storybook
5 1 (0.40%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.40%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.40%) ERwin
5 1 (0.40%) Postman
5 1 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 31 (12.55%) Telecoms
2 29 (11.74%) Social Skills
3 26 (10.53%) Finance
4 18 (7.29%) Marketing
5 16 (6.48%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (4.45%) Legal
7 11 (4.45%) Public Sector
8 9 (3.64%) Banking
8 9 (3.64%) Law
9 4 (1.62%) Local Government
10 3 (1.21%) Aeronautics
10 3 (1.21%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.81%) Police
11 2 (0.81%) Retail
11 2 (0.81%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 38 (15.38%) Architect
2 30 (12.15%) Analyst
3 25 (10.12%) Developer
4 23 (9.31%) Solutions Architect
5 19 (7.69%) Project Manager
6 17 (6.88%) Senior
7 15 (6.07%) Business Analyst
8 10 (4.05%) Consultant
9 9 (3.64%) Business Development Manager
9 9 (3.64%) Business Manager
9 9 (3.64%) Development Manager
9 9 (3.64%) Network Engineer
10 8 (3.24%) Support Engineer
11 7 (2.83%) Junior
11 7 (2.83%) Lead
12 6 (2.43%) Data Analyst
12 6 (2.43%) DevOps Engineer
12 6 (2.43%) Java Developer
12 6 (2.43%) Junior Project Manager
12 6 (2.43%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.43%) Spring
1 6 (2.43%) Spring Boot
1 6 (2.43%) XML
2 5 (2.02%) React
3 4 (1.62%) .NET
3 4 (1.62%) HTML
4 3 (1.21%) CSS
4 3 (1.21%) J2EE
4 3 (1.21%) JSP
4 3 (1.21%) Laravel
4 3 (1.21%) Vue
5 2 (0.81%) Guice
5 2 (0.81%) Middleware
5 2 (0.81%) Playwright
5 2 (0.81%) WebKit
6 1 (0.40%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.40%) REST
6 1 (0.40%) RESTful
6 1 (0.40%) SPML
6 1 (0.40%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 7 (2.83%) Security Posture
2 6 (2.43%) Data Centre
2 6 (2.43%) Freedom of Information
2 6 (2.43%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.02%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.02%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.02%) Mobile App
4 4 (1.62%) Algorithms
4 4 (1.62%) Mainframe
4 4 (1.62%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.21%) Cyber Security Posture
5 3 (1.21%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.81%) CMDB
6 2 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.81%) Freedom of Information Act
6 2 (0.81%) HP Storage
6 2 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.40%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.88%) Linux
2 13 (5.26%) Windows
3 9 (3.64%) Unix
4 6 (2.43%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.21%) Solaris
6 2 (0.81%) AIX
6 2 (0.81%) VMS
7 1 (0.40%) ThreadX
7 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.40%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.40%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (99.19%) Data Protection
2 43 (17.41%) Value Proposition
3 35 (14.17%) Agile
4 23 (9.31%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (8.91%) Project Management
6 18 (7.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (6.48%) Computer Science
7 16 (6.48%) Migration
7 16 (6.48%) Presales
7 16 (6.48%) Scrum
8 15 (6.07%) DevOps
8 15 (6.07%) Information Security
9 13 (5.26%) Data Privacy
10 12 (4.86%) CI/CD
10 12 (4.86%) Software Engineering
11 11 (4.45%) Cybersecurity
11 11 (4.45%) Data Management
12 10 (4.05%) Customer Value Proposition
13 9 (3.64%) Business Analysis
13 9 (3.64%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 21 (8.50%) SQL
2 15 (6.07%) Java
3 13 (5.26%) Python
4 11 (4.45%) C#
5 8 (3.24%) JavaScript
5 8 (3.24%) PowerShell
6 7 (2.83%) C++
7 6 (2.43%) Perl
8 4 (1.62%) C
9 3 (1.21%) Bash
9 3 (1.21%) F#
9 3 (1.21%) PHP
9 3 (1.21%) Rust
9 3 (1.21%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.81%) Ruby
11 1 (0.40%) Assembly Language
11 1 (0.40%) CLIST
11 1 (0.40%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.40%) R
11 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (18.62%) Security Cleared
2 31 (12.55%) SC Cleared
3 23 (9.31%) Degree
4 17 (6.88%) DV Cleared
5 8 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.24%) ISEB
6 5 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.21%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.81%) CCNA
8 2 (0.81%) CISSP
8 2 (0.81%) ISEB Practitioner
9 1 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.40%) CEH
9 1 (0.40%) CISM
9 1 (0.40%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.40%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (13.36%) GDPR
2 8 (3.24%) QA
3 6 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.62%) SLA
5 3 (1.21%) NIST
5 3 (1.21%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.81%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.81%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.81%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (4.86%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.21%) Firmware
4 2 (0.81%) Docker
5 1 (0.40%) ProxySG
5 1 (0.40%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.40%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (2.02%) Kubernetes
1 5 (2.02%) Terraform
2 3 (1.21%) Ansible
2 3 (1.21%) NetBackup
3 2 (0.81%) EMC NetWorker
3 2 (0.81%) HP Data Protector
4 1 (0.40%) Amdocs OSS
4 1 (0.40%) CASB
4 1 (0.40%) Grafana
4 1 (0.40%) Graylog
4 1 (0.40%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.40%) Nagios
4 1 (0.40%) Nessus
4 1 (0.40%) OMEGAMON
4 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (8.91%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.10%) Cisco
3 6 (2.43%) OneTrust
3 6 (2.43%) VMware
4 5 (2.02%) IBM
4 5 (2.02%) SAP
5 4 (1.62%) Databricks
5 4 (1.62%) Juniper
5 4 (1.62%) Nokia
6 3 (1.21%) Adobe
6 3 (1.21%) EMC
6 3 (1.21%) Oracle
6 3 (1.21%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.21%) Pega
6 3 (1.21%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.21%) Splunk
7 2 (0.81%) Brocade
7 2 (0.81%) HP
7 2 (0.81%) Informatica
7 2 (0.81%) Symantec