Data Loss Prevention Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Data Loss Prevention skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 51 65
Rank change year-on-year -29 +14 +21
Contract jobs citing Data Loss Prevention 6 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.58% 0.19% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.23% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £403 - -
25th Percentile £428 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% - -
75th Percentile £468 £475 -
90th Percentile £525 - -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 839 443 606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 81.30% 86.35% 78.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 297 411
10th Percentile £199 £200 £188
25th Percentile £363 £320 £271
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £436 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +2.47% -5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £550
90th Percentile £625 £593 £625
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 22 64
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.81 £11.75
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.74 £12.75
Median hourly rate £22.00 £22.05 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% +25.97% -0.62%
75th Percentile £25.15 £25.03 £26.24
90th Percentile £30.25 £33.55 £51.26
England median hourly rate £40.54 £32.00 £34.21
% change year-on-year +26.69% -6.46% -8.77%

Data Loss Prevention
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Data Loss Prevention job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Data Loss Prevention
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Loss Prevention.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Loss Prevention

Data Loss Prevention
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Loss Prevention in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 12 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Loss Prevention in the East Midlands

Data Loss Prevention
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Loss Prevention within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 April 2026. 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
Northamptonshire -16 6 £442 -1.72% 1
Data Loss Prevention
England

Data Loss Prevention
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 3 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Network Security
1 3 (50.00%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Security Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Migration Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Product Owner
3 1 (16.67%) Security Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) OAuth
1 3 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 3 (50.00%) OpenID
1 3 (50.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (66.67%) Zero Trust
2 3 (50.00%) Application Security
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Data Flow Diagram
2 3 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Key Management
2 3 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 3 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Red Team
2 3 (50.00%) SBOM
2 3 (50.00%) Secrets Management
2 3 (50.00%) SOAR
2 3 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 3 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) GDPR
1 3 (50.00%) GRC
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 3 (50.00%) NIST
1 3 (50.00%) PCI DSS
1 3 (50.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Splunk
3 1 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (16.67%) Sophos