Data Loss Prevention Job Trends in Wales

Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Data Loss Prevention skills. It covers permanent 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 76 - 72
Rank change year-on-year - - +37
Permanent jobs citing Data Loss Prevention 1 0 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.090% - 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% - 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £44,414
Median % change year-on-year - - +36.66%
75th Percentile - - £50,000
90th Percentile - - £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 870 767 754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 78.10% 81.60% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 605 394 594
10th Percentile £25,500 £31,250 £30,825
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,122 £49,104 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +3.38% -2.06%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,233 £75,000 £72,433
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.60%

Data Loss Prevention
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Data Loss Prevention job vacancy trend in Wales

Data Loss Prevention
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Data Loss Prevention.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Data Loss Prevention

Data Loss Prevention
Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Wales - 1 £55,000 - 1
Data Loss Prevention
UK

Data Loss Prevention
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft