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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 85 101
Rank change year-on-year +4 +16 +28
Contract jobs citing Data Loss Prevention 4 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.39% 0.17% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.19% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £555 £522 £431
25th Percentile £563 £524 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £558 £513
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% +8.78% +26.15%
75th Percentile £588 £599 £559
90th Percentile £595 £607 £584
North West median daily rate £431 £567 £486
% change year-on-year -23.94% +16.67% -2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
North West median hourly rate - - £70.00

All Process and 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 910 1,037 1,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.83% 87.29% 88.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 591 632 1,050
10th Percentile £308 £313 £276
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 35 59
10th Percentile £15.28 £15.95 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.07 £21.63 £16.74
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +79.49% -1.27%
75th Percentile £46.94 £62.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £74.38 £85.60 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.83% +21.43% +55.56%

Data Loss Prevention
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Data Loss Prevention as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Data Loss Prevention 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
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 and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Security Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Data Management
2 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Thycotic
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft