Data Loss Prevention Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 286 305 407
Rank change year-on-year +19 +102 -33
Contract jobs citing Data Loss Prevention 60 169 219
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.39% 0.66% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.74% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 118 168
10th Percentile - £425 £350
25th Percentile £425 £486 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £645
90th Percentile £868 £783 £763
UK median daily rate £600 £565 £550
% change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 £41.95
% change year-on-year - +66.87% +4.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,390 22,975 40,674
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.75% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,954 16,256 29,514
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £720
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 577 528 541
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.00 £30.54 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Data Loss Prevention
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Loss Prevention as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Loss Prevention trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Loss Prevention
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Loss Prevention.

Data Loss Prevention daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Loss Prevention
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Loss Prevention over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Data Loss Prevention daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Loss Prevention
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Loss Prevention.

Data Loss Prevention hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Loss Prevention
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.67%) Confluence
3 1 (1.67%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 21 (35.00%) Microsoft 365
2 18 (30.00%) Azure
3 8 (13.33%) Microsoft Purview
4 7 (11.67%) Entra ID
5 4 (6.67%) IaaS
6 3 (5.00%) AWS
6 3 (5.00%) SaaS
7 2 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (3.33%) Mimecast
7 2 (3.33%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.67%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (1.67%) AWS KMS
8 1 (1.67%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (20.00%) Firewall
2 6 (10.00%) DNS
3 5 (8.33%) DHCP
3 5 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (5.00%) LAN
4 3 (5.00%) Network Security
5 2 (3.33%) TCP/IP
5 2 (3.33%) WAN
6 1 (1.67%) MPLS
6 1 (1.67%) NetScaler
6 1 (1.67%) SSL
6 1 (1.67%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Git
2 1 (1.67%) JIRA
2 1 (1.67%) Subversion
General
1 7 (11.67%) Finance
1 7 (11.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.00%) Banking
3 2 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.33%) German Language
3 2 (3.33%) Law
4 1 (1.67%) French Language
4 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.67%) Italian Language
4 1 (1.67%) Legal
4 1 (1.67%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 10 (16.67%) Analyst
2 9 (15.00%) Architect
2 9 (15.00%) Senior
3 8 (13.33%) IT Security Specialist
3 8 (13.33%) Security Architect
3 8 (13.33%) Security Operations Specialist
3 8 (13.33%) Security Specialist
4 6 (10.00%) Consultant
4 6 (10.00%) SOC Analyst
5 5 (8.33%) Project Manager
6 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Architect
6 4 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (5.00%) Information Security Consultant
7 3 (5.00%) IT Manager
7 3 (5.00%) IT Project Manager
7 3 (5.00%) Security Analyst
7 3 (5.00%) Security Consultant
7 3 (5.00%) Security Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.67%) JSON
1 1 (1.67%) OAuth
1 1 (1.67%) OAuth2
1 1 (1.67%) SAML
1 1 (1.67%) XML
1 1 (1.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (38.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.33%) Cyberattack
2 2 (3.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.67%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (1.67%) Clustering
3 1 (1.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (1.67%) Insider Threat
3 1 (1.67%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.67%) PKI
3 1 (1.67%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.67%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.33%) Windows
2 5 (8.33%) Windows 10
3 4 (6.67%) Linux
3 4 (6.67%) Windows 7
3 4 (6.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (6.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (5.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.67%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.67%) Solaris
5 1 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (40.00%) Incident Response
1 24 (40.00%) Security Operations
2 23 (38.33%) SIEM
2 23 (38.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 20 (33.33%) Data Security
4 16 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
5 12 (20.00%) Information Security
6 8 (13.33%) Risk Management
6 8 (13.33%) Roadmaps
7 7 (11.67%) Cloud Security
7 7 (11.67%) Migration
8 6 (10.00%) Strategic Roadmap
9 5 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (8.33%) Project Management
9 5 (8.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 4 (6.67%) Agile
10 4 (6.67%) E-Discovery
10 4 (6.67%) Identity Access Management
10 4 (6.67%) Risk Assessment
10 4 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (11.67%) PowerShell
2 4 (6.67%) VBScript
3 3 (5.00%) Python
4 2 (3.33%) Bash
4 2 (3.33%) SQL
5 1 (1.67%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (11.67%) CISSP
1 7 (11.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.67%) CISM
4 3 (5.00%) Degree
5 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.33%) PMI Certification
5 2 (3.33%) PMP
6 1 (1.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.67%) CCSK
6 1 (1.67%) CCSP
6 1 (1.67%) CISA
6 1 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.67%) CRISC
6 1 (1.67%) FFIEC
6 1 (1.67%) GIAC
6 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.67%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.00%) GDPR
2 5 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (8.33%) NIST
3 3 (5.00%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.33%) GRC
4 2 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (1.67%) COBIT
5 1 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.67%) GLBA
5 1 (1.67%) ISAE 3402
5 1 (1.67%) NCSC
5 1 (1.67%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (10.00%) XenApp
3 1 (1.67%) DFS Replication
3 1 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.67%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (11.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (8.33%) SCCM
3 2 (3.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (3.33%) CASB
3 2 (3.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 2 (3.33%) Nessus
3 2 (3.33%) Network Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (1.67%) Ansible
4 1 (1.67%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (1.67%) SELinux
Vendors
1 39 (65.00%) Microsoft
2 18 (30.00%) Forcepoint
3 16 (26.67%) LogRhythm
3 16 (26.67%) Qualys
3 16 (26.67%) Varonis
4 7 (11.67%) Citrix
5 6 (10.00%) VMware
6 5 (8.33%) Symantec
7 4 (6.67%) Cisco
7 4 (6.67%) Ivanti
8 3 (5.00%) Splunk
9 2 (3.33%) CheckPoint
9 2 (3.33%) Palo Alto
10 1 (1.67%) Axway
10 1 (1.67%) Lotus
10 1 (1.67%) McAfee
10 1 (1.67%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.67%) SolarWinds
10 1 (1.67%) Trend Micro
10 1 (1.67%) Veritas