Data Loss Prevention Job Trends in the North of England

Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Data Loss Prevention skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 238 262
Rank change year-on-year -4 +24 +134
Permanent jobs citing Data Loss Prevention 15 34 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.14% 0.37% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.41% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 7 22 18
10th Percentile - £41,250 £39,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £52,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% -2.33% -19.48%
75th Percentile £43,000 £64,250 £57,250
90th Percentile £49,450 £80,000 £57,875
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

Data Loss Prevention falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,548 8,253 7,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 80.28% 90.50% 88.37%
Number of salaries quoted 4,558 3,684 5,843
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -1.87%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Loss Prevention
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Data Loss Prevention job vacancy trend in the North of England

Data Loss Prevention
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Loss Prevention.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Loss Prevention

Data Loss Prevention
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Loss Prevention within the North of England region over the 6 months to 10 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +31 15 £40,500 -38.87% 1
Data Loss Prevention
England

Data Loss Prevention
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 9 (60.00%) SharePoint
2 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 14 (93.33%) Entra ID
1 14 (93.33%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (86.67%) Azure
3 9 (60.00%) OneDrive
3 9 (60.00%) Power Platform
4 8 (53.33%) Azure Monitor
4 8 (53.33%) Microsoft Purview
4 8 (53.33%) SaaS
5 5 (33.33%) IaaS
6 1 (6.67%) ChatGPT
6 1 (6.67%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) Firewall
1 5 (33.33%) SSL
1 5 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 5 (33.33%) VLAN
1 5 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 14 (93.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (53.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
2 5 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support Technician
2 5 (33.33%) Support Technician
3 1 (6.67%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Software Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 9 (60.00%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) CCTV
3 1 (6.67%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Windows
1 5 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (60.00%) AI
3 8 (53.33%) Agile
3 8 (53.33%) BPR
3 8 (53.33%) Change Management
3 8 (53.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 8 (53.33%) DevOps
3 8 (53.33%) E-Discovery
3 8 (53.33%) Identity Access Management
3 8 (53.33%) Incident Response
3 8 (53.33%) Observability
3 8 (53.33%) Platform Engineering
3 8 (53.33%) Proactive Monitoring
3 8 (53.33%) RBAC
3 8 (53.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 8 (53.33%) User Experience
4 6 (40.00%) Customer Service
5 5 (33.33%) Information Security Management
5 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (33.33%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Degree
2 5 (33.33%) CCNA
2 5 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (33.33%) DBS Check
System Software
1 13 (86.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (86.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (60.00%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (53.33%) Terraform
4 5 (33.33%) Autotask
Vendors
1 14 (93.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (53.33%) New Relic
2 8 (53.33%) Splunk