Data Loss Prevention Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Loss Prevention skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Loss Prevention over the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 351 315 342
Rank change year-on-year -36 +27 +18
Contract jobs citing Data Loss Prevention 50 115 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.51% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.57% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 68 119
10th Percentile - £425 £385
25th Percentile £425 £486 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £579 £650 £595
90th Percentile £675 £775 £700
UK median daily rate £583 £570 £550
% change year-on-year +2.19% +3.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £40.98
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £41.95
Median % change year-on-year - +66.87% -
75th Percentile - - £42.93
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - +29.63% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 +21 29 £450 -18.18% 11
North West -9 8 £568 +16.77% 3
North of England -15 8 £568 +15.11% 11
Midlands +4 4 - - 7
Scotland +37 3 - -
West Midlands +5 3 - - 5
South West -1 3 £675 +17.39% 8
East of England -7 3 £650 -18.75% 1
East Midlands +7 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 4 (8.00%) Confluence
2 2 (4.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.00%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 5 (10.00%) Azure
3 4 (8.00%) AWS
4 1 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (22.00%) Firewall
2 5 (10.00%) DHCP
2 5 (10.00%) DNS
3 3 (6.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (4.00%) LAN
4 2 (4.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (4.00%) WAN
5 1 (2.00%) Intranet
5 1 (2.00%) NetScaler
5 1 (2.00%) Network Security
5 1 (2.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Bitbucket
1 4 (8.00%) JIRA
2 2 (4.00%) Git
2 2 (4.00%) Subversion
General
1 10 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (12.00%) Finance
3 5 (10.00%) Banking
3 5 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (22.00%) Analyst
2 8 (16.00%) IT Security Specialist
2 8 (16.00%) Security Operations Specialist
2 8 (16.00%) Security Specialist
2 8 (16.00%) SOC Analyst
3 5 (10.00%) Senior
4 4 (8.00%) Architect
4 4 (8.00%) Consultant
4 4 (8.00%) Data Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Lead
5 3 (6.00%) Project Manager
5 3 (6.00%) Security Analyst
5 3 (6.00%) Security Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Head of Information
6 2 (4.00%) IT Project Manager
6 2 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (4.00%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
6 2 (4.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.00%) .NET
1 1 (2.00%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 20 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 6 (12.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (6.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.00%) Clustering
4 1 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.00%) Insider Threat
4 1 (2.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (28.00%) Windows
2 6 (12.00%) Linux
3 5 (10.00%) Unix
4 4 (8.00%) Windows 10
4 4 (8.00%) Windows 7
4 4 (8.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (8.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.00%) Solaris
5 2 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (56.00%) Incident Response
2 24 (48.00%) Security Operations
3 22 (44.00%) SIEM
3 22 (44.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 17 (34.00%) Data Security
5 15 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
6 10 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (16.00%) Change Management
7 8 (16.00%) Computer Science
7 8 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (12.00%) Security Monitoring
9 5 (10.00%) Analytics
9 5 (10.00%) Penetration Testing
10 4 (8.00%) Data Protection
10 4 (8.00%) Information Security
10 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 4 (8.00%) Observability
11 3 (6.00%) Blue Team
11 3 (6.00%) Decision-Making
11 3 (6.00%) Red Team
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (8.00%) VBScript
3 2 (4.00%) Bash
3 2 (4.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (4.00%) Perl
3 2 (4.00%) Python
3 2 (4.00%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 9 (18.00%) Degree
2 4 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.00%) CISSP
4 2 (4.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.00%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.00%) GDPR
2 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.00%) NIST
2 2 (4.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (12.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (12.00%) XenApp
2 4 (8.00%) Docker
2 4 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.00%) vSphere
4 1 (2.00%) DFS Replication
4 1 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (8.00%) SCCM
2 2 (4.00%) Ansible
2 2 (4.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 2 (4.00%) Nessus
2 2 (4.00%) Network Intrusion Detection System
2 2 (4.00%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (4.00%) SELinux
3 1 (2.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (2.00%) CASB
Vendors
1 29 (58.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (32.00%) Forcepoint
2 16 (32.00%) LogRhythm
2 16 (32.00%) Qualys
2 16 (32.00%) Varonis
3 7 (14.00%) Symantec
4 6 (12.00%) Citrix
4 6 (12.00%) Splunk
5 5 (10.00%) VMware
6 4 (8.00%) Atlassian
6 4 (8.00%) Ivanti
7 3 (6.00%) Cisco
8 2 (4.00%) CheckPoint
8 2 (4.00%) Red Hat
8 2 (4.00%) SolarWinds
8 2 (4.00%) Veritas
9 1 (2.00%) Imperva
9 1 (2.00%) Proofpoint
9 1 (2.00%) SAP
9 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow