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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 626 523 746
Rank change year-on-year -103 +223 -58
Permanent jobs citing Data Loss Prevention 219 409 584
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.51% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.53% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 164 306 386
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £84,688
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -16.00%

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 73,969 76,929 168,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.84% 95.34% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 48,628 50,249 85,709
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

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 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Loss Prevention in the UK

Data Loss Prevention
Top 14 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 26 July 2024. 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 -106 202 £72,500 +16.00% 34
London -12 122 £85,000 +25.93% 16
UK excluding London -96 80 £57,500 +4.55% 22
Work from Home -36 38 £82,500 +32.00% 22
South East -5 24 £68,750 +44.74% 1
South West +11 22 £47,500 +2.70% 5
North of England -5 19 £60,000 -25.00% 6
Yorkshire +46 15 £58,750 -30.88% 2
West Midlands -26 6 £72,500 +26.09% 5
Midlands -49 6 £72,500 +26.09% 5
East of England -11 5 £57,662 +0.28% 1
Scotland -40 4 £44,500 -19.09% 3
North West -11 3 £85,000 +70.00% 3
North East - 1 £85,000 - 1

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 30 (13.70%) SharePoint
2 23 (10.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.46%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (6.39%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.46%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 105 (47.95%) Azure
2 76 (34.70%) Microsoft 365
3 48 (21.92%) AWS
4 31 (14.16%) Entra ID
5 25 (11.42%) Power Platform
6 23 (10.50%) OneDrive
7 15 (6.85%) Microsoft Purview
8 14 (6.39%) IaaS
8 14 (6.39%) SaaS
9 12 (5.48%) Azure Sentinel
10 8 (3.65%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (3.65%) PaaS
11 7 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (3.20%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (2.74%) PowerApps
13 5 (2.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (2.28%) Mimecast
14 4 (1.83%) GCP
15 3 (1.37%) Azure Storage
15 3 (1.37%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 69 (31.51%) Firewall
2 24 (10.96%) Network Security
3 22 (10.05%) DNS
4 21 (9.59%) DHCP
5 18 (8.22%) Intrusion Detection
6 15 (6.85%) VPN
7 14 (6.39%) LAN
8 13 (5.94%) WAN
9 12 (5.48%) TCP/IP
9 12 (5.48%) VoIP
10 10 (4.57%) VLAN
10 10 (4.57%) Wireshark
11 9 (4.11%) Structured Cabling
12 6 (2.74%) Internet
13 5 (2.28%) SSL
14 3 (1.37%) Wireless
14 3 (1.37%) WLAN
15 2 (0.91%) OSPF
15 2 (0.91%) SD-WAN
16 1 (0.46%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.76%) Power BI
2 6 (2.74%) Metadata
3 3 (1.37%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.91%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.91%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.46%) Big Data
5 1 (0.46%) EDRMS
5 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Burp Suite
2 2 (0.91%) Git
3 1 (0.46%) JIRA
General
1 56 (25.57%) Finance
2 47 (21.46%) Social Skills
3 25 (11.42%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (9.13%) Legal
5 13 (5.94%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (5.48%) Retail
7 10 (4.57%) Law
8 9 (4.11%) Banking
8 9 (4.11%) Games
9 4 (1.83%) Automotive
9 4 (1.83%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.91%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.91%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.46%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 63 (28.77%) Analyst
2 51 (23.29%) Security Analyst
2 51 (23.29%) Senior
3 45 (20.55%) Security Engineer
4 29 (13.24%) IT Analyst
5 25 (11.42%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 25 (11.42%) Senior Analyst
6 21 (9.59%) Senior Security Analyst
7 20 (9.13%) IT Security Analyst
7 20 (9.13%) Senior Security Engineer
8 18 (8.22%) IT Support
9 17 (7.76%) Information Analyst
9 17 (7.76%) Information Security Analyst
9 17 (7.76%) Security Manager
10 16 (7.31%) Architect
11 13 (5.94%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
12 11 (5.02%) Lead
12 11 (5.02%) Operations Analyst
12 11 (5.02%) Security Operations Analyst
12 11 (5.02%) Senior Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.74%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (1.83%) Web Services
3 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (0.91%) REST
4 1 (0.46%) ADO
4 1 (0.46%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.70%) Security Posture
2 24 (10.96%) Management Information System
3 22 (10.05%) Security Operations Centre
4 18 (8.22%) Cloud Native
5 15 (6.85%) Cyber Threat
5 15 (6.85%) Onboarding
6 12 (5.48%) Cyber Defence
7 11 (5.02%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (4.57%) Operational Technology
9 9 (4.11%) SCADA
9 9 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (3.65%) Replication
11 7 (3.20%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (2.74%) Cloud Security Posture
12 6 (2.74%) Data Centre
13 4 (1.83%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 4 (1.83%) Cyberattack
13 4 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (1.83%) NHS
14 3 (1.37%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 63 (28.77%) Windows
2 25 (11.42%) Windows Server
3 20 (9.13%) Linux
4 15 (6.85%) Windows 10
5 10 (4.57%) Apple iOS
5 10 (4.57%) Unix
6 9 (4.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (3.65%) Windows Server 2008
8 4 (1.83%) Kali Linux
8 4 (1.83%) Windows XP
9 1 (0.46%) Android
9 1 (0.46%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.46%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (57.53%) Cybersecurity
2 105 (47.95%) SIEM
3 104 (47.49%) Information Security
4 71 (32.42%) Incident Response
5 64 (29.22%) Cloud Security
6 62 (28.31%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (24.66%) Security Operations
8 51 (23.29%) Vulnerability Management
9 34 (15.53%) Identity Access Management
10 33 (15.07%) Penetration Testing
11 32 (14.61%) Data Protection
11 32 (14.61%) Risk Management
12 31 (14.16%) Data Security
13 24 (10.96%) Incident Management
14 23 (10.50%) Kalman Filter
15 22 (10.05%) Cryptography
15 22 (10.05%) Security Monitoring
16 20 (9.13%) Change Management
17 19 (8.68%) OWASP
17 19 (8.68%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 45 (20.55%) PowerShell
2 27 (12.33%) Python
3 11 (5.02%) Bash
4 4 (1.83%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (1.37%) SQL
6 1 (0.46%) Perl
Qualifications
1 79 (36.07%) CISSP
2 46 (21.00%) Degree
3 36 (16.44%) CISM
4 27 (12.33%) CEH
5 25 (11.42%) CISA
6 22 (10.05%) Cisco Certification
7 21 (9.59%) CCSP
8 20 (9.13%) CompTIA CySA+
9 17 (7.76%) GCIH
9 17 (7.76%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (6.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 14 (6.39%) AWS Certification
12 12 (5.48%) Master's Degree
13 11 (5.02%) GCIA
14 9 (4.11%) GCFA
14 9 (4.11%) OSCP
15 8 (3.65%) CREST Certified
15 8 (3.65%) MCSA
16 7 (3.20%) GIAC
16 7 (3.20%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (28.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 53 (24.20%) NIST
3 31 (14.16%) GDPR
4 24 (10.96%) Cyber Essentials
4 24 (10.96%) PCI DSS
5 20 (9.13%) GRC
6 16 (7.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 9 (4.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (4.11%) SOC 2
8 7 (3.20%) Data Quality
9 6 (2.74%) COBIT
9 6 (2.74%) NIST 800
10 5 (2.28%) NCSC
10 5 (2.28%) QA
11 4 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (1.83%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.91%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (21.46%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.11%) Virtual Desktop
2 9 (4.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.46%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.46%) Snort
4 1 (0.46%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 21 (9.59%) CASB
2 19 (8.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (5.02%) Kubernetes
4 10 (4.57%) QRadar
5 9 (4.11%) Terraform
6 7 (3.20%) Ansible
6 7 (3.20%) CSIRT
6 7 (3.20%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.83%) Grafana
7 4 (1.83%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.83%) Suricata
8 3 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.37%) Nessus
9 2 (0.91%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.91%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.91%) Puppet
10 1 (0.46%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 1 (0.46%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.46%) Host Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.46%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 121 (55.25%) Microsoft
2 27 (12.33%) Cisco
3 22 (10.05%) VMware
4 14 (6.39%) Citrix
5 12 (5.48%) Splunk
6 10 (4.57%) CyberArk
7 9 (4.11%) Adobe
7 9 (4.11%) Avaya
7 9 (4.11%) Darktrace
8 8 (3.65%) Bloomberg
8 8 (3.65%) FactSet
8 8 (3.65%) MobileIron
8 8 (3.65%) Palo Alto
8 8 (3.65%) Refinitiv
9 6 (2.74%) CA
10 5 (2.28%) CheckPoint
10 5 (2.28%) Rapid7
11 4 (1.83%) iManage
11 4 (1.83%) Juniper
11 4 (1.83%) Varonis