Data Loss Prevention Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Data Loss Prevention skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 114 129
Rank change year-on-year +10 +15 +30
Contract jobs citing Data Loss Prevention 3 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.18% 0.29% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.32% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £459 £395 -
25th Percentile £509 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +28.95% - -
75th Percentile £709 £713 -
90th Percentile £756 £788 -
UK median daily rate £525 £591 £600
% change year-on-year -11.09% -1.58% +9.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,358 1,577 2,061
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 83.57% 92.71% 88.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 757 955 1,256
10th Percentile £240 £243 £263
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £570 £538 £588
90th Percentile £674 £625 £686
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 40 91
10th Percentile £12.60 £16.05 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.34 £19.32 £16.13
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.88 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.57% +17.31% +10.05%
75th Percentile £50.00 £24.18 £53.13
90th Percentile £64.80 £35.11 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £32.81 £32.50
% change year-on-year -14.66% +0.95% -7.14%

Data Loss Prevention
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Data Loss Prevention job vacancy trend in Scotland

Data Loss Prevention
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Data Loss Prevention
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Loss Prevention in Scotland over the 6 months to 7 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Loss Prevention in Scotland

Data Loss Prevention
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 7 March 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
Glasgow +10 3 £613 +32.43% 1
Data Loss Prevention
UK

Data Loss Prevention
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) SABSA
2 1 (33.33%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CISA
1 1 (33.33%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) PagerDuty
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk