Data Loss Prevention Contracts

Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 390 404 486
Rank change year-on-year +14 +82 -7
Contract jobs citing Data Loss Prevention 204 328 420
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.55% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.62% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 226 291
10th Percentile £425 £425 £385
25th Percentile £475 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £734 £688 £650
90th Percentile £813 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £40.98
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £41.95
Median % change year-on-year - +66.87% +4.88%
75th Percentile - - £42.93
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £70.00 £41.95
% change year-on-year - +66.87% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,452 53,231 80,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.33% 89.85% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,130 36,930 56,488
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,454 1,752 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Data Loss Prevention
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Loss Prevention in the UK

Data Loss Prevention
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Loss Prevention.

Daily rate trend for Data Loss Prevention in the UK

Data Loss Prevention
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Loss Prevention over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Loss Prevention in the UK

Data Loss Prevention
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Loss Prevention.

Hourly rate trend for Data Loss Prevention in the UK

Data Loss Prevention
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 May 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
England +49 189 £600 +6.19% 68
London +67 129 £625 +2.46% 36
Work from Home +19 60 £475 -17.39% 30
UK excluding London -15 51 £475 -9.52% 36
South East +16 31 £450 -10.00% 15
East of England +4 6 £650 +20.93% 4
Midlands +22 4 - - 1
South West +16 4 £700 +40.00% 8
Scotland +25 3 - - 2
West Midlands +17 3 - -
North of England -6 3 £620 +24.00% 5
North West -10 3 £620 +24.00% 2
East Midlands - 1 - - 1

Data Loss Prevention
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 30 (14.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (10.29%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.94%) Confluence
4 5 (2.45%) IBM Notes
5 4 (1.96%) IBM Domino
6 3 (1.47%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.98%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.98%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.49%) Apache
8 1 (0.49%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 7 (3.43%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.49%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 70 (34.31%) Azure
2 67 (32.84%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (19.12%) Microsoft Purview
4 33 (16.18%) Entra ID
5 24 (11.76%) IaaS
6 22 (10.78%) AWS
7 15 (7.35%) SaaS
8 10 (4.90%) Mimecast
9 8 (3.92%) OneDrive
10 7 (3.43%) GCP
11 6 (2.94%) Power Platform
12 5 (2.45%) Alation
12 5 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
14 3 (1.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 2 (0.98%) Amazon Cognito
15 2 (0.98%) Amazon EMR
15 2 (0.98%) Amazon Kinesis
15 2 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
15 2 (0.98%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 49 (24.02%) Firewall
2 21 (10.29%) DNS
3 13 (6.37%) Network Security
3 13 (6.37%) TCP/IP
4 10 (4.90%) MPLS
5 8 (3.92%) Intrusion Detection
5 8 (3.92%) SMTP
6 5 (2.45%) DHCP
7 4 (1.96%) FTP
7 4 (1.96%) HTTP
7 4 (1.96%) ICMP
7 4 (1.96%) Internet
7 4 (1.96%) POP3
7 4 (1.96%) SSH
7 4 (1.96%) SSL
7 4 (1.96%) Unified Communications
8 3 (1.47%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (1.47%) LAN
8 3 (1.47%) NGFW
8 3 (1.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.43%) NoSQL
2 6 (2.94%) Big Data
2 6 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (2.45%) Metadata
4 3 (1.47%) Power BI
5 2 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.98%) Apache Hive
5 2 (0.98%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.98%) Bigtable
5 2 (0.98%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.98%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.98%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.98%) HBase
5 2 (0.98%) IBM BigInsights
5 2 (0.98%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.98%) Parquet
5 2 (0.98%) PolyBase
5 2 (0.98%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 3 (1.47%) Artifactory
1 3 (1.47%) Git
1 3 (1.47%) Visual Studio
2 2 (0.98%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.98%) Liquibase
2 2 (0.98%) Subversion
3 1 (0.49%) JIRA
General
1 76 (37.25%) Finance
2 55 (26.96%) Banking
3 39 (19.12%) Social Skills
4 21 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (8.33%) Legal
6 9 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (4.41%) Financial Institution
7 8 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (3.43%) French Language
8 7 (3.43%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.43%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.45%) Electronics
9 5 (2.45%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.45%) Marketing
10 4 (1.96%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.96%) Law
11 3 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.98%) German Language
13 1 (0.49%) Italian Language
13 1 (0.49%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 51 (25.00%) Architect
2 32 (15.69%) Security Architect
3 26 (12.75%) Consultant
3 26 (12.75%) Senior
4 23 (11.27%) Analyst
5 16 (7.84%) Project Manager
6 14 (6.86%) Microsoft 365 Architect
7 12 (5.88%) Security Engineer
8 10 (4.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (4.90%) Security Analyst
8 10 (4.90%) Security Specialist
8 10 (4.90%) SOC Analyst
9 9 (4.41%) Microsoft Consultant
9 9 (4.41%) Security Consultant
9 9 (4.41%) Senior Architect
9 9 (4.41%) Senior Security Architect
10 8 (3.92%) IT Security Specialist
10 8 (3.92%) Security Operations Specialist
11 7 (3.43%) Security Manager
11 7 (3.43%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.96%) .NET
1 4 (1.96%) .NET Framework
1 4 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (1.96%) OAuth
2 3 (1.47%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (1.47%) CSS
2 3 (1.47%) HTML5 Canvas
2 3 (1.47%) jQuery
2 3 (1.47%) Kafka
2 3 (1.47%) Microsoft Graph
2 3 (1.47%) SAML
3 2 (0.98%) Apache Avro
3 2 (0.98%) LDAP
3 2 (0.98%) OpenID
3 2 (0.98%) SPML
4 1 (0.49%) JSON
4 1 (0.49%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.49%) XML
4 1 (0.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (17.16%) Management Information System
2 16 (7.84%) Security Posture
3 15 (7.35%) PKI
4 8 (3.92%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (3.43%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (2.94%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.45%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.96%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.47%) Insider Threat
9 3 (1.47%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.47%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.98%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.98%) Cyberattack
10 2 (0.98%) IoT
10 2 (0.98%) PMI
10 2 (0.98%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.49%) Clustering
11 1 (0.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 34 (16.67%) Windows
2 15 (7.35%) Linux
3 13 (6.37%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.43%) Unix
5 5 (2.45%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.96%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.96%) Windows 7
6 4 (1.96%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (1.96%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.98%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (28.92%) Cybersecurity
2 53 (25.98%) SIEM
3 41 (20.10%) Incident Response
4 38 (18.63%) Data Security
5 34 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 34 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
6 32 (15.69%) Information Security
6 32 (15.69%) Security Operations
7 31 (15.20%) Agile
8 26 (12.75%) Migration
9 24 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (11.27%) Project Management
11 21 (10.29%) PRINCE2
11 21 (10.29%) Roadmaps
12 19 (9.31%) Stakeholder Management
13 17 (8.33%) Change Management
13 17 (8.33%) Data Protection
13 17 (8.33%) Project Delivery
13 17 (8.33%) Risk Management
14 16 (7.84%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 22 (10.78%) PowerShell
2 9 (4.41%) Python
3 5 (2.45%) Kusto Query Language
3 5 (2.45%) SQL
4 4 (1.96%) Search Processing Language
4 4 (1.96%) VBScript
5 3 (1.47%) Bash
5 3 (1.47%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.98%) Perl
6 2 (0.98%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (17.16%) Degree
2 23 (11.27%) CISSP
3 17 (8.33%) CISM
4 13 (6.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.90%) ITIL Certification
6 9 (4.41%) Security Cleared
7 6 (2.94%) SC Cleared
8 5 (2.45%) CISA
8 5 (2.45%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.47%) FFIEC
9 3 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.47%) PMP
10 2 (0.98%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.98%) CCSK
10 2 (0.98%) CEH
10 2 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.98%) CRISC
10 2 (0.98%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.98%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.31%) GDPR
2 13 (6.37%) NIST
3 10 (4.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.45%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (1.96%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.96%) SLA
6 3 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.47%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (1.47%) GRC
7 2 (0.98%) COBIT
7 2 (0.98%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.98%) QA
8 1 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.49%) GLBA
8 1 (0.49%) GxP
8 1 (0.49%) ISAE 3402
8 1 (0.49%) NCSC
8 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (15.20%) Active Directory
2 10 (4.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.94%) XenApp
4 2 (0.98%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 2 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.98%) vSphere
5 1 (0.49%) DFS Replication
5 1 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.49%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (10.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (4.41%) SCCM
3 8 (3.92%) PingFederate
4 6 (2.94%) CASB
5 5 (2.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (2.45%) Ansible
5 5 (2.45%) QRadar
6 4 (1.96%) Kibana
6 4 (1.96%) logstash
7 3 (1.47%) McAfee ePO
8 2 (0.98%) Ambari
8 2 (0.98%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 2 (0.98%) Nessus
8 2 (0.98%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 2 (0.98%) Oozie
8 2 (0.98%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (0.98%) SELinux
9 1 (0.49%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.49%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 107 (52.45%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.29%) Varonis
3 19 (9.31%) Forcepoint
4 16 (7.84%) LogRhythm
4 16 (7.84%) Qualys
4 16 (7.84%) Symantec
5 12 (5.88%) Splunk
6 11 (5.39%) Cisco
6 11 (5.39%) Citrix
6 11 (5.39%) VMware
7 9 (4.41%) Okta
8 8 (3.92%) IBM
9 7 (3.43%) Proofpoint
9 7 (3.43%) SAP
10 6 (2.94%) Zscaler
11 5 (2.45%) CheckPoint
11 5 (2.45%) Informatica
11 5 (2.45%) Lotus
11 5 (2.45%) Talend
12 4 (1.96%) McAfee