Data Loss Prevention Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Data Loss Prevention skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 65 101
Rank change year-on-year -27 +36 +18
Contract jobs citing Data Loss Prevention 4 17 3
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.34% 1.61% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 1.78% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 3
10th Percentile £444 £535 £403
25th Percentile £484 £575 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 £425
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +58.82% +9.68%
75th Percentile £569 £756 £519
90th Percentile £580 £790 £568
North West median daily rate £418 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -30.33% - +45.45%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,055 954 1,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 90.51% 87.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 719 568 986
10th Percentile £306 £294 £302
25th Percentile £381 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 36 46
10th Percentile £17.30 £15.95 £14.89
25th Percentile £19.75 £20.75 £17.26
Median hourly rate £29.60 £32.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +6.67% -25.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £33.75 £59.38
90th Percentile £64.50 £62.50 £75.63
North West median hourly rate £41.03 £29.62 £38.00
% change year-on-year +38.54% -22.07% +15.61%

Data Loss Prevention
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Data Loss Prevention job vacancy trend in Manchester

Data Loss Prevention
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Data Loss Prevention.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Data Loss Prevention

Data Loss Prevention
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Loss Prevention in Manchester over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Loss Prevention in Manchester

Data Loss Prevention
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Data Loss Prevention.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Data Loss Prevention

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

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) BIG-IP
1 1 (25.00%) DMZ
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Security Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Web Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CISM
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) AlienVault
1 1 (25.00%) Blue Coat
1 1 (25.00%) F5
1 1 (25.00%) McAfee
1 1 (25.00%) Qualys
1 1 (25.00%) VMware