Data Loss Prevention Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Data Loss Prevention skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 67 -
Rank change year-on-year +7 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Loss Prevention 11 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.53% 0.14% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 0.17% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £300 -
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £563 £625 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +25.00% -13.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Data Loss Prevention 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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 644 602 611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 89.32% 87.25% 83.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 407 401
10th Percentile £219 £198 £275
25th Percentile £370 £381 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.34% +7.89% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £638 £738 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 16 18
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £13.03
25th Percentile £13.50 £21.63 £14.78
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.23 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.57% -49.63% +254.30%
75th Percentile £20.56 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £25.00 £56.25 £67.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.50 £23.89 £23.00
% change year-on-year -14.19% +3.87% +29.94%

Data Loss Prevention
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Loss Prevention relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Data Loss Prevention job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Data Loss Prevention
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Data Loss Prevention.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Data Loss Prevention

Data Loss Prevention
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Control Tower
2 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (9.09%) IaaS
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (9.09%) PaaS
2 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (81.82%) BIG-IP
1 9 (81.82%) DNS
1 9 (81.82%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 9 (81.82%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 9 (81.82%) HTTP
1 9 (81.82%) SSL
1 9 (81.82%) TCP/IP
1 9 (81.82%) Wireshark
2 1 (9.09%) DMZ
Development Applications
1 9 (81.82%) Fiddler
General
1 9 (81.82%) Banking
1 9 (81.82%) Investment Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Blue Coat Engineer
1 9 (81.82%) IP Network Engineer
1 9 (81.82%) Network Engineer
1 9 (81.82%) Web Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) DevSecOps Architect
2 1 (9.09%) DevSecOps Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) IAM Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 9 (81.82%) Management Information System
2 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Load Balancing
1 9 (81.82%) Malware Detection/Protection
2 1 (9.09%) Analytics
2 1 (9.09%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (9.09%) Coaching
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
2 1 (9.09%) DevSecOps
2 1 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (9.09%) ITSM
2 1 (9.09%) Migration
2 1 (9.09%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (9.09%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (9.09%) RBAC
2 1 (9.09%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (9.09%) Risk Register
2 1 (9.09%) Security Architecture
2 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (9.09%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (9.09%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (9.09%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (81.82%) Firmware
1 9 (81.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Blue Coat
1 9 (81.82%) F5
1 9 (81.82%) McAfee
1 9 (81.82%) NetApp
1 9 (81.82%) VMware
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) BeyondTrust