Data Loss Prevention Jobs

Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Data Loss Prevention skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Loss Prevention over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 579 689 608
Rank change year-on-year +110 -81 +99
Permanent jobs citing Data Loss Prevention 131 226 389
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.22% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.26% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 91 175 283
10th Percentile £45,750 £35,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,625 £45,000 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £92,500 £79,375 £80,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £96,500 £92,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,058 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.49% -13.64% -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,902 86,889 92,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.67% 84.13% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,611 60,763 54,796
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Loss Prevention in the UK

Data Loss Prevention
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Loss Prevention over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Loss Prevention in the UK

Data Loss Prevention
Top 13 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 30 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +76 128 £75,000 +20.00% 700
London +73 82 £80,000 +10.34% 68
UK excluding London +150 44 £51,058 +7.49% 723
Work from Home +92 37 £53,750 -17.75% 378
Midlands +92 15 £53,974 +34.93% 141
West Midlands +65 15 £53,974 +34.93% 75
South West +96 9 £51,058 +4.73% 84
North of England +39 9 £51,250 -9.29% 158
South East +72 7 - - 187
North West +5 5 £48,250 +7.22% 71
Yorkshire +51 4 £52,500 -7.08% 67
East of England +39 4 £60,000 +84.62% 117
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 10

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 19 (14.50%) SharePoint
2 18 (13.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.53%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.76%) Apache
5 1 (0.76%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 64 (48.85%) Azure
2 44 (33.59%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (21.37%) AWS
3 28 (21.37%) GCP
4 21 (16.03%) Entra ID
5 19 (14.50%) Microsoft Purview
6 15 (11.45%) OneDrive
7 14 (10.69%) Power Platform
8 10 (7.63%) Power Automate
8 10 (7.63%) PowerApps
9 8 (6.11%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (5.34%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (5.34%) Azure Sentinel
10 7 (5.34%) SaaS
11 6 (4.58%) GitHub
11 6 (4.58%) IaaS
12 5 (3.82%) PaaS
13 4 (3.05%) Cloud Composer
14 3 (2.29%) Azure Logic Apps
14 3 (2.29%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 48 (36.64%) Firewall
2 29 (22.14%) Network Security
3 22 (16.79%) VPN
4 14 (10.69%) DNS
5 7 (5.34%) Wireshark
6 6 (4.58%) DHCP
7 5 (3.82%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (3.82%) TCP/IP
7 5 (3.82%) WAN
7 5 (3.82%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (2.29%) LAN
9 2 (1.53%) DKIM
9 2 (1.53%) DMARC
9 2 (1.53%) NAS
9 2 (1.53%) SAN
9 2 (1.53%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.53%) VLAN
10 1 (0.76%) Cisco Firepower
10 1 (0.76%) Internet
10 1 (0.76%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.82%) Data Lake
1 5 (3.82%) Power BI
2 4 (3.05%) BigQuery
2 4 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.29%) Looker
4 2 (1.53%) Metadata
5 1 (0.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (5.34%) Burp Suite
2 4 (3.05%) Git
2 4 (3.05%) JIRA
3 3 (2.29%) CircleCI
3 3 (2.29%) Cypress.io
3 3 (2.29%) JMeter
3 3 (2.29%) Mocha
3 3 (2.29%) MSTest
3 3 (2.29%) NUnit
3 3 (2.29%) Postman
3 3 (2.29%) Selenium
3 3 (2.29%) SoapUI
3 3 (2.29%) SpecFlow
General
1 35 (26.72%) Legal
2 30 (22.90%) Social Skills
3 22 (16.79%) Finance
3 22 (16.79%) Retail
4 17 (12.98%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (7.63%) Banking
5 10 (7.63%) Law
6 6 (4.58%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.29%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.29%) Marketing
7 3 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.53%) Games
8 2 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.76%) Automotive
9 1 (0.76%) Military
9 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 31 (23.66%) Analyst
2 25 (19.08%) Security Analyst
3 20 (15.27%) Security Engineer
3 20 (15.27%) Senior
4 14 (10.69%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 14 (10.69%) Information Analyst
4 14 (10.69%) Information Security Analyst
5 13 (9.92%) Lead
6 9 (6.87%) Head of Security
6 9 (6.87%) Security Manager
7 6 (4.58%) Head of Information
7 6 (4.58%) Head of Information Security
7 6 (4.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (4.58%) Senior Manager
8 5 (3.82%) Architect
8 5 (3.82%) Incident Engineer
8 5 (3.82%) IT Engineer
8 5 (3.82%) IT Security Engineer
8 5 (3.82%) Operations Engineer
8 5 (3.82%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.29%) Jest
1 3 (2.29%) Playwright
1 3 (2.29%) Swagger
1 3 (2.29%) Web Services
1 3 (2.29%) WebdriverIO
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (0.76%) REST
2 1 (0.76%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 44 (33.59%) Security Posture
2 36 (27.48%) Management Information System
3 17 (12.98%) PKI
4 15 (11.45%) Security Operations Centre
5 12 (9.16%) Cloud Security Posture
6 10 (7.63%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (5.34%) Cloud Native
8 5 (3.82%) Cyber Defence
8 5 (3.82%) Cyber Security Posture
9 4 (3.05%) Product Ownership
10 3 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (2.29%) Freedom of Information
10 3 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (2.29%) Onboarding
10 3 (2.29%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.53%) Biopharmaceutical
11 2 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.53%) Replication
12 1 (0.76%) Hedge funds
12 1 (0.76%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 33 (25.19%) Windows
2 19 (14.50%) Linux
3 8 (6.11%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.82%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (3.05%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (2.29%) Apple iOS
6 3 (2.29%) CentOS
6 3 (2.29%) Ubuntu
6 3 (2.29%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.53%) Android
7 2 (1.53%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (51.15%) Cybersecurity
2 64 (48.85%) Information Security
3 63 (48.09%) SIEM
4 47 (35.88%) Vulnerability Management
5 45 (34.35%) Incident Response
5 45 (34.35%) Security Operations
6 36 (27.48%) Risk Management
7 30 (22.90%) Cloud Security
8 29 (22.14%) Data Protection
8 29 (22.14%) Data Security
9 27 (20.61%) Identity Access Management
10 23 (17.56%) Threat Intelligence
11 22 (16.79%) Data Privacy
11 22 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (16.03%) Incident Management
13 20 (15.27%) Security Monitoring
13 20 (15.27%) Vulnerability Scanning
14 19 (14.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 19 (14.50%) DevOps
15 18 (13.74%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 30 (22.90%) PowerShell
2 18 (13.74%) Python
3 9 (6.87%) Bash
4 8 (6.11%) SQL
5 6 (4.58%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.29%) C#
6 3 (2.29%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.76%) VB
7 1 (0.76%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 33 (25.19%) Degree
2 25 (19.08%) CISSP
3 16 (12.21%) Security Cleared
4 13 (9.92%) SC Cleared
5 11 (8.40%) GCIH
6 10 (7.63%) CISM
7 9 (6.87%) GCIA
7 9 (6.87%) GIAC
8 8 (6.11%) CEH
9 7 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (5.34%) GCFA
9 7 (5.34%) SANS
10 6 (4.58%) Azure Certification
10 6 (4.58%) CCSP
10 6 (4.58%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (4.58%) OSCP
11 4 (3.05%) AWS Certification
11 4 (3.05%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (2.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (2.29%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (27.48%) GDPR
2 32 (24.43%) NIST
3 30 (22.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (12.98%) PCI DSS
5 16 (12.21%) Cyber Essentials
6 12 (9.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (4.58%) HIPAA
7 6 (4.58%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 4 (3.05%) NCSC
8 4 (3.05%) QA
8 4 (3.05%) SLA
9 3 (2.29%) COBIT
9 3 (2.29%) GRC
10 2 (1.53%) JSP 440
10 2 (1.53%) NIST 800
10 2 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (1.53%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 27 (20.61%) Active Directory
2 8 (6.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.58%) Docker
4 5 (3.82%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.05%) BitLocker
6 3 (2.29%) Dovecot
6 3 (2.29%) Postfix
7 2 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.76%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (12.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (9.16%) CASB
3 8 (6.11%) Kubernetes
3 8 (6.11%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (6.11%) Terraform
4 4 (3.05%) CSIRT
5 3 (2.29%) Ansible
5 3 (2.29%) Nessus
5 3 (2.29%) Progress Chef
5 3 (2.29%) Puppet
5 3 (2.29%) QRadar
6 2 (1.53%) Host Intrusion Detection System
6 2 (1.53%) SCCM
7 1 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.76%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.76%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.76%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 57 (43.51%) Microsoft
2 17 (12.98%) VMware
3 7 (5.34%) Google
4 6 (4.58%) Cisco
5 5 (3.82%) Palo Alto
5 5 (3.82%) Proofpoint
5 5 (3.82%) Splunk
5 5 (3.82%) Tenable
6 4 (3.05%) Okta
6 4 (3.05%) Symantec
6 4 (3.05%) Zscaler
7 3 (2.29%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (2.29%) Ping Identity
7 3 (2.29%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.29%) Snowplow
7 3 (2.29%) Varonis
8 2 (1.53%) Dell
8 2 (1.53%) EMC
8 2 (1.53%) SAP
8 2 (1.53%) SonicWALL