Data Protection Act Contracts in Scotland

Data Protection Act (DPA)
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies in Scotland. 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 49 52 40
Rank change year-on-year +3 -12 +122
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 69 126 199
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.22% 4.72% 5.84%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.16% 13.07% 16.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 61 104
10th Percentile £280 £406 £408
25th Percentile £388 £450 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +2.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £545 £613 £564
90th Percentile £638 £634 £605
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +162.50% -
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £38.75 £23.37
% change year-on-year -29.03% +65.81% -8.74%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 679 964 1,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 31.68% 36.08% 36.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 650 856
10th Percentile £205 £209 £300
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £488 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% - +14.71%
75th Percentile £561 £550 £564
90th Percentile £662 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 29 26
10th Percentile £12.68 - £16.56
25th Percentile £15.74 £10.63 £20.25
Median hourly rate £18.13 £14.50 £42.48
Median % change year-on-year +25.03% -65.86% +1.13%
75th Percentile £29.59 £21.67 £54.38
90th Percentile £59.45 £48.93 £57.50
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Act in Scotland

Data Protection Act
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Act in Scotland

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in Scotland

Data Protection Act
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection Act in Scotland

Data Protection Act
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh +6 53 £450 -10.00% 2
Glasgow +1 5 £524 -3.06%
West Lothian 0 3 £531 -1.16%
Renfrewshire - 1 £120 -
Data Protection Act
UK

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (1.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (1.45%) Apache
1 1 (1.45%) Cloud Foundry
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.45%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 15 (21.74%) Azure
2 10 (14.49%) AWS
3 4 (5.80%) SaaS
4 3 (4.35%) Amazon S3
4 3 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.90%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.90%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.90%) GCP
5 2 (2.90%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.45%) Akamai
6 1 (1.45%) Amazon CloudSearch
6 1 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.45%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.45%) Datadog
6 1 (1.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.35%) DNS
2 2 (2.90%) DHCP
2 2 (2.90%) Firewall
2 2 (2.90%) Network Security
2 2 (2.90%) WAN
3 1 (1.45%) Broadband
3 1 (1.45%) LAN
3 1 (1.45%) NAS
3 1 (1.45%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.90%) Relational Database
1 2 (2.90%) Star Schema
2 1 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.45%) MySQL
2 1 (1.45%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.45%) Power BI
2 1 (1.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Git
1 3 (4.35%) Maven
2 2 (2.90%) Capybara
2 2 (2.90%) Gradle
3 1 (1.45%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.45%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 19 (27.54%) Finance
2 6 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.25%) Telecoms
4 4 (5.80%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.45%) Banking
5 1 (1.45%) German Language
5 1 (1.45%) Italian Language
5 1 (1.45%) Law
5 1 (1.45%) Publishing
5 1 (1.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (14.49%) Analyst
1 10 (14.49%) Senior
2 8 (11.59%) Architect
3 7 (10.14%) Business Analyst
3 7 (10.14%) Consultant
4 5 (7.25%) Developer
5 4 (5.80%) Data Architect
5 4 (5.80%) Project Manager
6 3 (4.35%) Information Officer
6 3 (4.35%) Pega Consultant
6 3 (4.35%) Security Analyst
6 3 (4.35%) Security Consultant
6 3 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (4.35%) Software Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.90%) Active Directory Engineer
7 2 (2.90%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (2.90%) Information Security Officer
7 2 (2.90%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
7 2 (2.90%) Senior Information Security Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.35%) React
1 3 (4.35%) Spring
1 3 (4.35%) Spring Boot
2 2 (2.90%) WebKit
3 1 (1.45%) CakePHP
3 1 (1.45%) Guice
3 1 (1.45%) HTML
3 1 (1.45%) Java EE
3 1 (1.45%) JSON
3 1 (1.45%) PySpark
3 1 (1.45%) REST
3 1 (1.45%) SAML
3 1 (1.45%) Spring Batch
3 1 (1.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.35%) Cyber Security Posture
1 3 (4.35%) Mobile App
1 3 (4.35%) Security Posture
2 2 (2.90%) Algorithms
2 2 (2.90%) Data Structures
2 2 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (2.90%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.90%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.45%) Credit Risk
3 1 (1.45%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (1.45%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (1.45%) Legacy Code
3 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.80%) Linux
2 2 (2.90%) Unix
3 1 (1.45%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 13 (18.84%) Agile
3 7 (10.14%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (10.14%) Migration
4 6 (8.70%) Scrum
4 6 (8.70%) Value Proposition
5 5 (7.25%) Business Analysis
5 5 (7.25%) Information Security
5 5 (7.25%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (5.80%) Computer Science
7 3 (4.35%) CI/CD
7 3 (4.35%) Dashboard Development
7 3 (4.35%) Data Modelling
7 3 (4.35%) ETL
7 3 (4.35%) Incident Response
7 3 (4.35%) OO
8 2 (2.90%) DevOps
8 2 (2.90%) Mentoring
8 2 (2.90%) Microservices
8 2 (2.90%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.14%) SQL
2 6 (8.70%) Java
3 4 (5.80%) Perl
3 4 (5.80%) Python
4 3 (4.35%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.90%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.90%) Ruby
5 2 (2.90%) Rust
6 1 (1.45%) C
6 1 (1.45%) C#
6 1 (1.45%) C++
6 1 (1.45%) Embedded C
6 1 (1.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (5.80%) Degree
2 3 (4.35%) SC Cleared
2 3 (4.35%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (1.45%) CCSP
3 1 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.45%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.80%) GDPR
1 4 (5.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.35%) NIST
2 3 (4.35%) NIST 800
3 2 (2.90%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.90%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.90%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.90%) Docker
3 1 (1.45%) Firmware
3 1 (1.45%) ProxySG
3 1 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (5.80%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.45%) CASB
2 1 (1.45%) NetBackup
2 1 (1.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.80%) Databricks
3 3 (4.35%) Pega
4 2 (2.90%) Informatica
4 2 (2.90%) Splunk
5 1 (1.45%) Adobe
5 1 (1.45%) Blue Coat
5 1 (1.45%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.45%) Cisco
5 1 (1.45%) Citrix
5 1 (1.45%) EMC
5 1 (1.45%) Foundry
5 1 (1.45%) IDERA
5 1 (1.45%) NetApp
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle
5 1 (1.45%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.45%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.45%) Teradata
5 1 (1.45%) TSYS
5 1 (1.45%) VMware