Data Protection Contracts in Wales

Data Protection
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring Data Protection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection 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 29 39 51
Rank change year-on-year +10 +12 +10
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 12 23 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 2.93% 3.95% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.11% 4.49% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 16
10th Percentile £91 £157 £288
25th Percentile £100 £288 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £132 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -72.21% -9.52% +23.53%
75th Percentile £362 £588 £579
90th Percentile £444 £656 £618
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £25.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year - +92.31% -12.61%
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -56.21% +97.91% -6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

Data Protection falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 292 512 796
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 71.22% 87.82% 85.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 390 574
10th Percentile £143 £180 £201
25th Percentile £297 £314 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £553 £586 £575
90th Percentile £642 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 26 28
10th Percentile £11.75 £14.63 £12.78
25th Percentile £15.41 £16.98 £16.08
Median hourly rate £19.09 £18.14 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +5.21% -15.11% +4.12%
75th Percentile £51.75 £22.93 £28.38
90th Percentile £85.50 £49.38 £47.03
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in Wales

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in Wales

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in Wales

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in Wales

Data Protection
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Protection within the Wales 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 Wales +15 10 £132 -77.04% 3
North Wales +3 2 - - 1
Data Protection
UK

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) GitHub
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) PBX
1 2 (16.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) MySQL
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
1 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (16.67%) Storybook
3 1 (8.33%) GitLab
3 1 (8.33%) JIRA
3 1 (8.33%) Postman
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Mandarin Language
3 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 2 (16.67%) Welsh Language
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Digital Transformation
2 2 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 2 (16.67%) Service Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Full Stack PHP Developer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) PHP Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Vue
2 2 (16.67%) Laravel
2 2 (16.67%) Playwright
3 1 (8.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 3 (25.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (16.67%) CMDB
4 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
4 2 (16.67%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Agile
1 4 (33.33%) Project Delivery
1 4 (33.33%) Project Management
1 4 (33.33%) Value Proposition
2 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 2 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis
3 2 (16.67%) Data Interpretation
3 2 (16.67%) Front End Development
3 2 (16.67%) Line Management
3 2 (16.67%) Presales
3 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) Systems Thinking
3 2 (16.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 2 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (8.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) HND
2 2 (16.67%) ISEB
2 2 (16.67%) ISEB Practitioner
2 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) SLA
2 3 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Huawei
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft