Data Loss Prevention Job Trends in the West Midlands

Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Data Loss Prevention skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 185 164
Rank change year-on-year +26 -21 +96
Permanent jobs citing Data Loss Prevention 11 20 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.21% 0.48% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.53% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 5 13 17
10th Percentile - £40,800 -
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +11.11% -38.36%
75th Percentile £81,250 £72,500 £54,000
90th Percentile £82,750 £77,500 £58,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,314 3,806 3,278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.12% 91.45% 87.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,238 1,700 2,744
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
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 West Midlands

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

Data Loss Prevention job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Data Loss Prevention
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Data Loss Prevention.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Data Loss Prevention

Data Loss Prevention
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Loss Prevention in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Loss Prevention in the West Midlands

Data Loss Prevention
Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 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
Birmingham +24 7 £65,000 +41.30% 1
Coventry - 2 £65,000 - 1
Warwickshire +15 1 - -
Solihull - 1 - -
Data Loss Prevention
England

Data Loss Prevention
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (18.18%) SharePoint
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) Azure
2 6 (54.55%) Entra ID
3 5 (45.45%) AWS
4 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (18.18%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (18.18%) GCP
5 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (18.18%) OneDrive
5 2 (18.18%) Power Automate
5 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
5 2 (18.18%) PowerApps
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (9.09%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
6 1 (9.09%) IaaS
6 1 (9.09%) PaaS
6 1 (9.09%) SaaS
6 1 (9.09%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) Firewall
2 4 (36.36%) VPN
3 3 (27.27%) Internet
4 2 (18.18%) DNS
4 2 (18.18%) HTTP
4 2 (18.18%) SSH
4 2 (18.18%) SSL
4 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Information Security Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Security Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Security Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security Architect
4 1 (9.09%) DevSecOps Architect
4 1 (9.09%) DevSecOps Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Head of Information
4 1 (9.09%) Head of Information Security
4 1 (9.09%) Head of Security
4 1 (9.09%) Information Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Information Security Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Security Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) SOC Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Security Posture
2 4 (36.36%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (27.27%) PKI
4 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
4 2 (18.18%) Cyber Security Posture
4 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
5 1 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Incident Response
1 6 (54.55%) Security Architecture
1 6 (54.55%) SIEM
2 5 (45.45%) Information Security
2 5 (45.45%) Zero Trust
3 4 (36.36%) SDLC
3 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (27.27%) Cloud Security
4 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (27.27%) DevSecOps
4 3 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (27.27%) Migration
4 3 (27.27%) Risk Management
4 3 (27.27%) Security Operations
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (18.18%) Cryptography
5 2 (18.18%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (18.18%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) CEH
1 2 (18.18%) CISSP
1 2 (18.18%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (18.18%) GSEC
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (18.18%) OSCP
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (36.36%) NIST
3 3 (27.27%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (18.18%) PCI DSS
4 2 (18.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (9.09%) GDPR
5 1 (9.09%) HIPAA
5 1 (9.09%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (18.18%) CASB
2 2 (18.18%) Nessus
3 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (9.09%) QRadar
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Google
3 2 (18.18%) Netskope
3 2 (18.18%) Qualys
3 2 (18.18%) Splunk
4 1 (9.09%) Varonis