Data Loss Prevention Contract Job Trends in the South West

Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Data Loss Prevention skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 122 149
Rank change year-on-year -4 +27 +3
Contract jobs citing Data Loss Prevention 5 7 9
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.22% 0.29% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.34% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile £287 £534 £516
25th Percentile £306 £566 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £353 £638 £588
Median % change year-on-year -44.71% +8.51% +11.90%
75th Percentile £444 £716 £703
90th Percentile £489 £751 £756
England median daily rate £520 £567 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% -1.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £63.50 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +41.11% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,937 2,036 2,697
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 86.86% 85.15% 87.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,140 1,215 1,809
10th Percentile £250 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £425 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £719
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 146 282
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.95 £20.03
25th Percentile £18.87 £33.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £64.13 £70.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £74.22 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.03% -17.78% +26.90%

Data Loss Prevention
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Data Loss Prevention job vacancy trend in the South West

Data Loss Prevention
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Data Loss Prevention.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Data Loss Prevention

Data Loss Prevention
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Loss Prevention in the South West over the 6 months to 20 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Loss Prevention in the South West

Data Loss Prevention
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Data Loss Prevention.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Data Loss Prevention

Data Loss Prevention
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 20 November 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
Gloucestershire -8 2 £326 -37.86%
Bristol - 2 £513 - 4
Somerset - 1 - - 1
Data Loss Prevention
England

Data Loss Prevention
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (60.00%) OneDrive
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (20.00%) AWS
4 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
4 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Maven
2 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Administrator
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
1 1 (20.00%) Lead
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Power Apps Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Power Apps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) CSS3
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
1 1 (20.00%) HTML5
1 1 (20.00%) HTML5 Canvas
1 1 (20.00%) JAX-RS
1 1 (20.00%) LESS
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) Sass
1 1 (20.00%) Spring
1 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (40.00%) Identity Management
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) ITSM
3 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (20.00%) Progressive Enhancement
3 1 (20.00%) Responsive Web Design
3 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
3 1 (20.00%) UX Design
3 1 (20.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (20.00%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow