Data Loss Prevention Contracts in the City of London

Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Data Loss Prevention skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Loss Prevention over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 83 142
Rank change year-on-year -23 +59 +31
Contract jobs citing Data Loss Prevention 16 42 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.91% 1.92% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 2.13% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 36 19
10th Percentile £275 £475 £444
25th Percentile £550 £547 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year +20.17% -2.92% +20.00%
75th Percentile £701 £675 £766
90th Percentile £763 £869 £813
Central London median daily rate £600 £583 £600
% change year-on-year +3.00% -2.92% +16.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,638 1,975 3,332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.28% 90.51% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,036 1,399 2,240
10th Percentile £363 £361 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £568 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -5.42% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 25
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.35
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -13.58%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -13.58%

Data Loss Prevention
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Data Loss Prevention as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Loss Prevention in the City of London

Data Loss Prevention
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Loss Prevention in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Data Loss Prevention in the City of London

Data Loss Prevention
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Loss Prevention in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Loss Prevention in the City of London

Data Loss Prevention
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (31.25%) Azure
3 3 (18.75%) AWS
3 3 (18.75%) Entra ID
3 3 (18.75%) IaaS
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Copilot
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon Macie
4 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (12.50%) AWS KMS
4 2 (12.50%) Serverless
5 1 (6.25%) GCP
5 1 (6.25%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) Firewall
2 3 (18.75%) DNS
2 3 (18.75%) MPLS
3 2 (12.50%) VoIP
3 2 (12.50%) VPN
4 1 (6.25%) Network Security
General
1 6 (37.50%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Spanish Language
4 1 (6.25%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Law
4 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Designer
2 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Security Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Solutions Designer
3 2 (12.50%) Active Directory Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Architect
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Security Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Integration Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) IT Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) IT Support
3 2 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Security Technical Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Architect
4 1 (6.25%) IT Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Junior Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 2 (12.50%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (6.25%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 4 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
3 3 (18.75%) Generative AI
3 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (18.75%) Microservices
3 3 (18.75%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (18.75%) Project Delivery
3 3 (18.75%) Time Management
4 2 (12.50%) Asset Management
4 2 (12.50%) Data Security
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Inventory Management
4 2 (12.50%) Programme Delivery
4 2 (12.50%) Security Architecture
4 2 (12.50%) Security Operations
4 2 (12.50%) SIEM
4 2 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 2 (12.50%) CISSP
3 1 (6.25%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (6.25%) NIST
2 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) CASB
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Cisco
2 2 (12.50%) Forcepoint
2 2 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto