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 29 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 96 127
Rank change year-on-year -9 +31 +49
Contract jobs citing Data Loss Prevention 17 27 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.94% 1.30% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.42% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 25 23
10th Percentile £275 £505 £501
25th Percentile £347 £539 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% -5.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile £791 £619 £680
90th Percentile £875 £700 £810
Central London median daily rate £618 £565 £600
% change year-on-year +9.29% -5.83% +20.00%

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 1,697 1,907 2,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.28% 91.82% 90.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,120 1,251 1,981
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £419 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £775 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £595
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.28% +3.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 15
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £19.79 £14.75
Median hourly rate £28.33 £26.63 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -3.18% -36.40%
75th Percentile £53.50 £82.19 £47.41
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £62.45
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +7.67% -22.86% -17.65%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Loss Prevention.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Loss Prevention

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 29 August 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 6 (35.29%) SharePoint
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 15 (88.24%) Azure
2 11 (64.71%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (52.94%) Entra ID
4 7 (41.18%) Power Platform
5 6 (35.29%) Power Automate
5 6 (35.29%) PowerApps
6 4 (23.53%) ShareGate
7 3 (17.65%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (17.65%) GitHub
7 3 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (11.76%) AWS
8 2 (11.76%) Azure AI
8 2 (11.76%) Azure AKS
8 2 (11.76%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (11.76%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (11.76%) Copilot Studio
8 2 (11.76%) GCP
8 2 (11.76%) IaaS
8 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) Firewall
2 2 (11.76%) DNS
2 2 (11.76%) MPLS
2 2 (11.76%) VoIP
3 1 (5.88%) LAN
3 1 (5.88%) Network Security
3 1 (5.88%) WAN
3 1 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Power BI
2 1 (5.88%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Legal
3 1 (5.88%) Military
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Lead
2 3 (17.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 2 (11.76%) IT Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) IT Support
3 2 (11.76%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Project Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Security Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Operations Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Security Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Security Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Security Operations Manager
4 1 (5.88%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (11.76%) LangChain
3 1 (5.88%) Faiss
3 1 (5.88%) FastAPI
3 1 (5.88%) Semantic Kernel
3 1 (5.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Onboarding
2 3 (17.65%) AI Agents
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.88%) Low-Code
3 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.88%) STIX
3 1 (5.88%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Windows
2 3 (17.65%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Migration
2 5 (29.41%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (23.53%) Incident Response
4 3 (17.65%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
4 3 (17.65%) Data Governance
4 3 (17.65%) DevSecOps
4 3 (17.65%) RBAC
4 3 (17.65%) Use Case
5 2 (11.76%) Analytics
5 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (11.76%) DevOps
5 2 (11.76%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (11.76%) Machine Learning
5 2 (11.76%) Release Management
5 2 (11.76%) SIEM
5 2 (11.76%) Task Automation
5 2 (11.76%) Threat Detection
5 2 (11.76%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) PowerShell
2 3 (17.65%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) Bicep
3 1 (5.88%) C#
3 1 (5.88%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (11.76%) CISSP
3 1 (5.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (5.88%) CEH
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (5.88%) GCFA
3 1 (5.88%) GCIA
3 1 (5.88%) GCIH
3 1 (5.88%) MCP
3 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) NIST
2 4 (23.53%) GDPR
3 3 (17.65%) EU AI Act
3 3 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (5.88%) HIPAA
5 1 (5.88%) SLA
5 1 (5.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (11.76%) CASB
2 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Terraform
3 1 (5.88%) Grafana
3 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (94.12%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) Google
3 2 (11.76%) Cisco
3 2 (11.76%) OpenAI