Data Loss Prevention Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Data Loss Prevention skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 56 61
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 +14
Contract jobs citing Data Loss Prevention 3 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 0.66% 0.16% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.19% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 £525 £775
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £800
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -31.25% +60.00%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £888
90th Percentile - - £925
East of England median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
East of England median hourly rate - - £70.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 414 537 658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 91.59% 86.33% 87.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 161 356
10th Percentile £267 £240 £260
25th Percentile £425 £306 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +32.00% -27.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £675
90th Percentile £688 £638 £750
East of England median daily rate £500 £442 £500
% change year-on-year +13.12% -11.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 197 143
10th Percentile £16.51 £15.65 £17.76
25th Percentile £23.13 £38.12 £49.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -23.08% +16.07%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £74.25 £70.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £19.81
% change year-on-year -34.02% +92.43% -3.37%

Data Loss Prevention
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Loss Prevention in Hertfordshire

Data Loss Prevention
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

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

Data Loss Prevention
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Data Loss Prevention.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Data Loss Prevention

Data Loss Prevention
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 11 September 2025. 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
Watford - 2 £475 - 3
Data Loss Prevention
East of England

Data Loss Prevention
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) 1Password
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (66.67%) VLAN
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) IT Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) IT Security Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) CCTV Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (33.33%) Senior IT Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) CCTV
2 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) SDLC
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Environments
1 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Password Management
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) SOAR
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) CASB
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Netskope
2 1 (33.33%) Rapid7