Data Loss Prevention Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Data Loss Prevention skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 89 111
Rank change year-on-year -33 +22 +17
Contract jobs citing Data Loss Prevention 10 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.54% 0.17% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.20% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £499 - -
25th Percentile £510 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +13.64% +41.94%
75th Percentile £545 - -
90th Percentile £565 - -
England median daily rate £520 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -9.57% -4.17% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,665 997 1,617
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.32% 85.80% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,121 599 1,031
10th Percentile £252 £242 £300
25th Percentile £385 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £477 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -4.60% -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £682 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 29 25
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.06 £15.69
25th Percentile £17.48 £16.25 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +11.78% +5.58% +1.48%
75th Percentile £47.50 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £62.05 £64.33 £38.90
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Data Loss Prevention
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Loss Prevention relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Data Loss Prevention job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Data Loss Prevention
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Data Loss Prevention.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Data Loss Prevention

Data Loss Prevention
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Data Loss Prevention.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Data Loss Prevention

Data Loss Prevention
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
West Yorkshire - 7 £530 -
South Yorkshire -49 3 £550 -12.00% 1
Data Loss Prevention
England

Data Loss Prevention
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2013
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
1 6 (60.00%) Entra ID
1 6 (60.00%) GCP
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (30.00%) OCI
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (20.00%) ShareGate
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (10.00%) Azure AI
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (10.00%) Google Workspace
5 1 (10.00%) Power Automate
5 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) DKIM
2 2 (20.00%) DMARC
2 2 (20.00%) DNS
2 2 (20.00%) Network Security
2 2 (20.00%) SMTP
3 1 (10.00%) SCCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
General
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Legal
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Operations Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Security Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Security Operations Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Security Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Exchange Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Implementation Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Power Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Graph
1 2 (20.00%) OAuth
2 1 (10.00%) LDAP
2 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (20.00%) Public Cloud
1 2 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (60.00%) Cloud Security
2 6 (60.00%) SIEM
2 6 (60.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (40.00%) Zero Trust
4 3 (30.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Incident Response
4 3 (30.00%) Migration
4 3 (30.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 3 (30.00%) Process Improvement
4 3 (30.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (30.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (30.00%) Security Architecture
4 3 (30.00%) Security Operations
4 3 (30.00%) SOAR
4 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (30.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 2 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 3 (30.00%) GCIA
1 3 (30.00%) GCIH
1 3 (30.00%) GIAC
1 3 (30.00%) SSCP
2 2 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (20.00%) CCSP
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (20.00%) CISSP
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) PCI DSS
2 5 (50.00%) GDPR
2 5 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (50.00%) NIST
3 3 (30.00%) NIST 800
4 2 (20.00%) PSD2
5 1 (10.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (30.00%) Rapid7
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) OpenAI