Data Loss Prevention Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Data Loss Prevention skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Loss Prevention over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 344 374
Rank change year-on-year +6 +30 -26
Contract jobs citing Data Loss Prevention 52 115 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.48% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.53% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 70 101
10th Percentile - £413 £375
25th Percentile £425 £436 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £529 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.17% +5.75% -4.76%
75th Percentile £594 £598 £595
90th Percentile £681 £753 £688
UK median daily rate £600 £570 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% +3.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data Loss Prevention is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,611 21,615 27,513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.77% 89.54% 88.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,550 14,981 19,185
10th Percentile £248 £252 £231
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,036 1,327 1,379
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.22 £16.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.34%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £45.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.23 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -

Data Loss Prevention
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Loss Prevention as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Loss Prevention in the UK excluding London

Data Loss Prevention
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Loss Prevention in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Loss Prevention in the UK excluding London

Data Loss Prevention
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Loss Prevention in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Loss Prevention in the UK excluding London

Data Loss Prevention
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Loss Prevention in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Loss Prevention in the UK excluding London

Data Loss Prevention
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
South East +24 31 £450 -10.00% 18
East of England +2 6 £650 +20.93% 4
Midlands +21 5 £550 -24.14% 2
West Midlands +24 4 £550 -24.14%
South West +20 4 £700 +40.00% 9
Scotland +22 3 - - 2
North West -1 3 £620 +15.13% 4
North of England -2 3 £620 +20.98% 6
East Midlands +22 1 - - 2
Data Loss Prevention
UK

Data Loss Prevention
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.92%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (17.31%) Azure
2 8 (15.38%) Microsoft Purview
3 4 (7.69%) AWS
3 4 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.85%) Mimecast
4 2 (3.85%) SaaS
5 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.92%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (25.00%) Firewall
2 6 (11.54%) DNS
3 5 (9.62%) DHCP
4 4 (7.69%) TCP/IP
5 3 (5.77%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (3.85%) Internet
6 2 (3.85%) LAN
6 2 (3.85%) Network Security
6 2 (3.85%) WAN
7 1 (1.92%) HTTPS
7 1 (1.92%) Intranet
7 1 (1.92%) MPLS
7 1 (1.92%) NetScaler
7 1 (1.92%) SSL
7 1 (1.92%) VPN
7 1 (1.92%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Git
1 2 (3.85%) Subversion
2 1 (1.92%) Fiddler
General
1 7 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (11.54%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.62%) Finance
4 4 (7.69%) Banking
5 2 (3.85%) Legal
6 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (26.92%) Analyst
2 8 (15.38%) IT Security Specialist
2 8 (15.38%) Security Operations Specialist
2 8 (15.38%) Security Specialist
2 8 (15.38%) SOC Analyst
3 5 (9.62%) Architect
3 5 (9.62%) Senior
4 4 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (7.69%) Security Analyst
5 3 (5.77%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 3 (5.77%) Lead
5 3 (5.77%) Project Manager
5 3 (5.77%) Security Architect
6 2 (3.85%) Business Analyst
6 2 (3.85%) Consultant
6 2 (3.85%) Security Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (3.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.92%) .NET
1 1 (1.92%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 20 (38.46%) Management Information System
2 6 (11.54%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (5.77%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.85%) IoT
4 2 (3.85%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.92%) Clustering
5 1 (1.92%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.92%) Insider Threat
5 1 (1.92%) PKI
5 1 (1.92%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (23.08%) Windows
2 7 (13.46%) Linux
3 4 (7.69%) Windows 10
3 4 (7.69%) Windows 7
3 4 (7.69%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (7.69%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.85%) Solaris
4 2 (3.85%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (53.85%) Incident Response
2 25 (48.08%) Security Operations
3 24 (46.15%) SIEM
4 22 (42.31%) Vulnerability Management
5 19 (36.54%) Data Security
6 12 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (15.38%) Information Security
7 8 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (9.62%) Analytics
9 5 (9.62%) Cloud Security
9 5 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (9.62%) Penetration Testing
10 4 (7.69%) Change Management
10 4 (7.69%) Computer Science
10 4 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (7.69%) Data Protection
10 4 (7.69%) Decision-Making
10 4 (7.69%) Project Delivery
10 4 (7.69%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.62%) PowerShell
2 4 (7.69%) VBScript
3 3 (5.77%) Python
4 2 (3.85%) Bash
4 2 (3.85%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (3.85%) Perl
4 2 (3.85%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 7 (13.46%) Degree
2 4 (7.69%) CISSP
3 3 (5.77%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.85%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.85%) PMP
4 2 (3.85%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.92%) CISM
5 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.92%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.38%) GDPR
2 2 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.85%) NIST
2 2 (3.85%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 6 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (11.54%) XenApp
3 2 (3.85%) vSphere
4 1 (1.92%) DFS Replication
4 1 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.92%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (9.62%) SCCM
2 2 (3.85%) Ansible
2 2 (3.85%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 2 (3.85%) Nessus
2 2 (3.85%) Network Intrusion Detection System
2 2 (3.85%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (3.85%) SELinux
3 1 (1.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.92%) CASB
3 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (61.54%) Microsoft
2 16 (30.77%) Forcepoint
2 16 (30.77%) LogRhythm
2 16 (30.77%) Qualys
2 16 (30.77%) Varonis
3 7 (13.46%) Citrix
3 7 (13.46%) Symantec
3 7 (13.46%) VMware
4 6 (11.54%) Splunk
5 4 (7.69%) Ivanti
6 3 (5.77%) Cisco
6 3 (5.77%) Zscaler
7 2 (3.85%) CheckPoint
7 2 (3.85%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.85%) SolarWinds
7 2 (3.85%) Veritas
8 1 (1.92%) Netskope
8 1 (1.92%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.92%) Proofpoint
8 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow