Data Loss Prevention Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 106 117
Rank change year-on-year +18 +11 +47
Contract jobs citing Data Loss Prevention 11 3 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.79% 0.16% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 0.19% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £638 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - £725
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.27%
75th Percentile £713 - £750
90th Percentile - - £813
England median daily rate £595 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -0.79% +5.26% +6.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,236 1,583 2,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 89.05% 83.71% 88.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 808 1,056 1,364
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +4.59%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £662 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 114 51
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.08 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.03 £13.51
Median hourly rate £18.13 £22.50 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year -19.42% +7.30% +24.64%
75th Percentile £25.76 £40.38 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.00 £47.50
England median hourly rate £28.41 £36.50 £36.54
% change year-on-year -22.16% -0.11% +46.16%

Data Loss Prevention
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Data Loss Prevention as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Loss Prevention in the West Midlands

Data Loss Prevention
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Loss Prevention in the West Midlands

Data Loss Prevention
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
Coventry - 6 - - 2
Warwickshire - 3 - - 3
Birmingham +9 1 - - 1
Worcestershire - 1 £675 - 2
Data Loss Prevention
England

Data Loss Prevention
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (36.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (18.18%) OneDrive
2 2 (18.18%) Power Automate
2 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
2 2 (18.18%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Firewall
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco Firepower
2 2 (18.18%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Power BI
2 1 (9.09%) Data Mining
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Security Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Service Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Junior
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
1 2 (18.18%) Security Posture
2 1 (9.09%) CCTV
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (45.45%) SIEM
3 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
5 2 (18.18%) Data Security
5 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) ITIL
5 2 (18.18%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (18.18%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (18.18%) Patch Management
5 2 (18.18%) Problem Management
5 2 (18.18%) RBAC
5 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
5 2 (18.18%) Risk Register
5 2 (18.18%) Security Patching
5 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
2 2 (18.18%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) CISM
1 4 (36.36%) CISSP
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) CEH
3 2 (18.18%) CISA
3 2 (18.18%) GIAC
3 2 (18.18%) ISACA
3 2 (18.18%) SANS
4 1 (9.09%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) FortiGate
1 2 (18.18%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (9.09%) Nessus
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Tenable
3 2 (18.18%) Cisco
3 2 (18.18%) Proofpoint