Data Loss Prevention Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Data Loss Prevention skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Loss Prevention over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 289 293 386
Rank change year-on-year +4 +93 -8
Contract jobs citing Data Loss Prevention 56 165 239
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.38% 0.67% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.75% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 112 180
10th Percentile £423 £425 £350
25th Percentile £425 £486 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -19.15% +6.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £645
90th Percentile £885 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £600 £565 £550
% change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 2
10th Percentile - - £56.35
25th Percentile - - £59.88
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year - +4.48% +67.50%
75th Percentile - - £75.38
90th Percentile - - £79.65
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - +29.63% +35.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Loss Prevention is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,973 22,093 40,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.88% 89.67% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,721 15,633 29,139
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% +3.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 507 534
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.08
25th Percentile £24.44 £26.25 £20.56
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Data Loss Prevention
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Loss Prevention as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Loss Prevention trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Loss Prevention
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Loss Prevention.

Data Loss Prevention daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Loss Prevention
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Loss Prevention over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Data Loss Prevention daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Loss Prevention
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Loss Prevention.

Data Loss Prevention hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Loss Prevention
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.79%) Confluence
3 1 (1.79%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.79%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (30.36%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (28.57%) Azure
3 7 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 6 (10.71%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (5.36%) AWS
5 3 (5.36%) IaaS
6 2 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (3.57%) OneDrive
6 2 (3.57%) SaaS
7 1 (1.79%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (1.79%) AWS KMS
7 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.79%) Mimecast
7 1 (1.79%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.79%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.79%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (19.64%) Firewall
2 5 (8.93%) DHCP
2 5 (8.93%) DNS
2 5 (8.93%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (5.36%) LAN
3 3 (5.36%) Network Security
4 2 (3.57%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.57%) WAN
5 1 (1.79%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.79%) SSL
5 1 (1.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.79%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Git
2 1 (1.79%) JIRA
2 1 (1.79%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.79%) Subversion
General
1 6 (10.71%) Finance
1 6 (10.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.36%) Banking
3 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.79%) German Language
4 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.79%) Law
4 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.79%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (17.86%) Analyst
2 9 (16.07%) Architect
2 9 (16.07%) Senior
3 8 (14.29%) IT Security Specialist
3 8 (14.29%) Security Operations Specialist
3 8 (14.29%) Security Specialist
4 7 (12.50%) Security Architect
5 6 (10.71%) SOC Analyst
6 5 (8.93%) Consultant
7 4 (7.14%) Microsoft 365 Architect
7 4 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (5.36%) Head of Security
8 3 (5.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) IT Manager
8 3 (5.36%) IT Project Manager
8 3 (5.36%) IT Security Manager
8 3 (5.36%) IT Security Project Manager
8 3 (5.36%) Security Analyst
8 3 (5.36%) Security Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.79%) .NET
1 1 (1.79%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (1.79%) HTML5 Canvas
1 1 (1.79%) JSON
1 1 (1.79%) OAuth
1 1 (1.79%) OAuth2
1 1 (1.79%) SAML
1 1 (1.79%) XML
1 1 (1.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (39.29%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.57%) Cyberattack
2 2 (3.57%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.79%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (1.79%) Clustering
3 1 (1.79%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (1.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (1.79%) Insider Threat
3 1 (1.79%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.79%) PKI
3 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.79%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.86%) Windows
2 5 (8.93%) Windows 10
3 4 (7.14%) Linux
3 4 (7.14%) Windows 7
3 4 (7.14%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (7.14%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (5.36%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.79%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.79%) Solaris
5 1 (1.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (42.86%) Incident Response
1 24 (42.86%) Security Operations
2 23 (41.07%) SIEM
2 23 (41.07%) Vulnerability Management
3 19 (33.93%) Data Security
4 15 (26.79%) Cybersecurity
5 10 (17.86%) Information Security
6 8 (14.29%) Risk Management
7 7 (12.50%) Roadmaps
8 6 (10.71%) Cloud Security
8 6 (10.71%) Strategic Roadmap
9 5 (8.93%) Identity Access Management
9 5 (8.93%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 4 (7.14%) Agile
10 4 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 4 (7.14%) Migration
10 4 (7.14%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 4 (7.14%) Project Management
10 4 (7.14%) Risk Assessment
10 4 (7.14%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 8 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 4 (7.14%) VBScript
3 3 (5.36%) Python
3 3 (5.36%) SQL
4 2 (3.57%) Bash
5 1 (1.79%) C#
5 1 (1.79%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.79%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.79%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.71%) CISSP
3 5 (8.93%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.36%) CISM
4 3 (5.36%) Degree
4 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.57%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.79%) CCSK
6 1 (1.79%) CISA
6 1 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.79%) CRISC
6 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.79%) FFIEC
6 1 (1.79%) GIAC
6 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.79%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.79%) PMP
6 1 (1.79%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.71%) GDPR
2 5 (8.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (8.93%) NIST
3 3 (5.36%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (1.79%) COBIT
5 1 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.79%) GLBA
5 1 (1.79%) GRC
5 1 (1.79%) ISAE 3402
5 1 (1.79%) NCSC
5 1 (1.79%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (23.21%) Active Directory
2 6 (10.71%) XenApp
3 4 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.79%) DFS Replication
4 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.79%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (10.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (7.14%) SCCM
3 2 (3.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (3.57%) CASB
3 2 (3.57%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 2 (3.57%) Nessus
3 2 (3.57%) Network Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (1.79%) Ansible
4 1 (1.79%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (1.79%) SELinux
Vendors
1 36 (64.29%) Microsoft
2 18 (32.14%) Forcepoint
3 16 (28.57%) LogRhythm
3 16 (28.57%) Qualys
3 16 (28.57%) Varonis
4 6 (10.71%) Citrix
5 5 (8.93%) Symantec
6 4 (7.14%) Cisco
6 4 (7.14%) Ivanti
6 4 (7.14%) VMware
7 3 (5.36%) Splunk
8 2 (3.57%) CheckPoint
8 2 (3.57%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.79%) Axway
9 1 (1.79%) Lotus
9 1 (1.79%) McAfee
9 1 (1.79%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.79%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.79%) Trend Micro
9 1 (1.79%) Veritas