Data Loss Prevention Contracts

Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 5 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 396 386 444
Rank change year-on-year -10 +58 +36
Contract jobs citing Data Loss Prevention 189 317 480
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.57% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.64% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 215 335
10th Percentile £425 £436 £385
25th Percentile £475 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £564 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.28% +2.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £650
90th Percentile £800 £775 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 5
10th Percentile - - £46.19
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year - +29.63% -
75th Percentile - - £82.50
90th Percentile - - £84.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £70.00 £41.95
% change year-on-year - +66.87% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,767 49,750 79,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.37% 89.73% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,536 34,430 55,867
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,538 1,657 1,878
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.51
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +10.64%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

Data Loss Prevention
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Loss Prevention in the UK

Data Loss Prevention
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Loss Prevention.

Daily rate trend for Data Loss Prevention in the UK

Data Loss Prevention
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Loss Prevention over the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Loss Prevention in the UK

Data Loss Prevention
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Loss Prevention.

Hourly rate trend for Data Loss Prevention in the UK

Data Loss Prevention
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Loss Prevention within the UK over the 6 months to 5 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -15 173 £575 - 50
London +35 118 £613 +2.08% 19
Work from Home +14 55 £475 -19.15% 17
UK excluding London -27 48 £475 -13.64% 31
South East +34 30 £450 -18.18% 8
North West -13 5 £575 +18.31% 3
North of England -19 5 £575 +16.63% 12
Midlands +7 4 - - 1
Scotland +33 3 - - 2
South West +4 3 £675 +17.39% 6
West Midlands +3 3 - -
East of England -7 3 £650 +8.33% 1
East Midlands +10 1 - - 1

Data Loss Prevention
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 25 (13.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (12.70%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.70%) Confluence
4 3 (1.59%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.06%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (1.06%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.53%) Apache
6 1 (0.53%) IBM Notes
6 1 (0.53%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.65%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.53%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 62 (32.80%) Azure
2 52 (27.51%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (21.16%) Microsoft Purview
4 27 (14.29%) Entra ID
5 20 (10.58%) AWS
5 20 (10.58%) IaaS
6 15 (7.94%) SaaS
7 9 (4.76%) OneDrive
8 7 (3.70%) Mimecast
8 7 (3.70%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.17%) GCP
10 4 (2.12%) Alation
11 3 (1.59%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (1.59%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (1.59%) PowerApps
12 2 (1.06%) Amazon Cognito
12 2 (1.06%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.06%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 46 (24.34%) Firewall
2 14 (7.41%) Network Security
3 12 (6.35%) DNS
4 9 (4.76%) Intrusion Detection
5 8 (4.23%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.65%) DHCP
6 5 (2.65%) MPLS
7 4 (2.12%) Internet
7 4 (2.12%) WAN
8 3 (1.59%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (1.59%) FTP
8 3 (1.59%) HTTP
8 3 (1.59%) ICMP
8 3 (1.59%) LAN
8 3 (1.59%) NGFW
8 3 (1.59%) POP3
8 3 (1.59%) SMTP
8 3 (1.59%) SSH
8 3 (1.59%) VPN
8 3 (1.59%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (3.17%) NoSQL
2 5 (2.65%) Big Data
2 5 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.12%) Metadata
3 4 (2.12%) Power BI
4 2 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.06%) Apache Hive
4 2 (1.06%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.06%) Bigtable
4 2 (1.06%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.06%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.06%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.06%) HBase
4 2 (1.06%) IBM BigInsights
4 2 (1.06%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.06%) Parquet
4 2 (1.06%) PolyBase
4 2 (1.06%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 4 (2.12%) Git
2 3 (1.59%) Artifactory
2 3 (1.59%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.06%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.06%) JIRA
3 2 (1.06%) Liquibase
3 2 (1.06%) Subversion
4 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 71 (37.57%) Finance
2 55 (29.10%) Banking
3 40 (21.16%) Social Skills
4 20 (10.58%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (8.47%) Legal
6 9 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.70%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.70%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.17%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.65%) Electronics
9 5 (2.65%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.65%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.65%) Marketing
10 4 (2.12%) French Language
11 3 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.53%) Law
12 1 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 45 (23.81%) Architect
2 30 (15.87%) Security Architect
3 28 (14.81%) Consultant
4 24 (12.70%) Senior
5 21 (11.11%) Analyst
6 14 (7.41%) Project Manager
6 14 (7.41%) Security Engineer
7 11 (5.82%) Microsoft 365 Architect
7 11 (5.82%) Microsoft Consultant
8 10 (5.29%) Security Specialist
8 10 (5.29%) SOC Analyst
9 9 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (4.76%) Security Analyst
10 8 (4.23%) IT Security Specialist
10 8 (4.23%) Security Consultant
10 8 (4.23%) Security Operations Specialist
10 8 (4.23%) Senior Architect
10 8 (4.23%) Senior Security Architect
11 7 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (3.17%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.65%) .NET
2 4 (2.12%) .NET Framework
2 4 (2.12%) HTML5 Canvas
2 4 (2.12%) OAuth
3 3 (1.59%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (1.59%) CSS
3 3 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.59%) jQuery
3 3 (1.59%) Kafka
3 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (1.59%) SAML
4 2 (1.06%) Apache Avro
4 2 (1.06%) LDAP
4 2 (1.06%) OpenID
4 2 (1.06%) SPML
5 1 (0.53%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.53%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (0.53%) JSON
5 1 (0.53%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.53%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (18.52%) Management Information System
2 16 (8.47%) Security Posture
3 14 (7.41%) PKI
4 9 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.65%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.12%) Cyber Defence
7 4 (2.12%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (1.59%) Insider Threat
8 3 (1.59%) Reinsurance
9 2 (1.06%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.06%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.06%) PMI
9 2 (1.06%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.53%) Clustering
10 1 (0.53%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 1 (0.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 27 (14.29%) Windows
2 14 (7.41%) Linux
3 10 (5.29%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.70%) Unix
5 5 (2.65%) Windows 10
6 4 (2.12%) Mac OS
6 4 (2.12%) Windows 7
6 4 (2.12%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (2.12%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.06%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (31.75%) Cybersecurity
2 53 (28.04%) SIEM
3 45 (23.81%) Incident Response
4 37 (19.58%) Cloud Security
4 37 (19.58%) Vulnerability Management
5 36 (19.05%) Data Security
6 34 (17.99%) Security Operations
7 33 (17.46%) Information Security
8 30 (15.87%) Agile
9 26 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (12.70%) Migration
11 22 (11.64%) Project Management
12 19 (10.05%) Data Protection
13 18 (9.52%) PRINCE2
13 18 (9.52%) Risk Management
13 18 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
14 17 (8.99%) Penetration Testing
15 16 (8.47%) Identity Access Management
15 16 (8.47%) Security Architecture
16 15 (7.94%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 25 (13.23%) PowerShell
2 7 (3.70%) Python
3 6 (3.17%) SQL
4 5 (2.65%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (2.12%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.12%) Search Processing Language
5 4 (2.12%) VBScript
6 3 (1.59%) Bash
7 2 (1.06%) Perl
7 2 (1.06%) U-SQL
8 1 (0.53%) Bicep
8 1 (0.53%) C#
Qualifications
1 31 (16.40%) Degree
2 21 (11.11%) CISSP
3 15 (7.94%) CISM
4 12 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (5.29%) ITIL Certification
6 8 (4.23%) Security Cleared
7 5 (2.65%) CISA
7 5 (2.65%) SC Cleared
8 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.59%) CEH
9 3 (1.59%) FFIEC
9 3 (1.59%) GIAC
9 3 (1.59%) PMI Certification
10 2 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.06%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.06%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.06%) CCSK
10 2 (1.06%) CRISC
10 2 (1.06%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.64%) GDPR
2 13 (6.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (6.88%) NIST
3 6 (3.17%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (2.12%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.12%) SLA
6 3 (1.59%) COBIT
6 3 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.59%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (1.59%) NCSC
7 2 (1.06%) GRC
7 2 (1.06%) NIST 800
7 2 (1.06%) QA
8 1 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.53%) GLBA
8 1 (0.53%) ISAE 3402
8 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 26 (13.76%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (3.17%) XenApp
3 3 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.06%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 2 (1.06%) vSphere
5 1 (0.53%) DFS Replication
5 1 (0.53%) Docker
5 1 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.53%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (8.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (4.76%) CASB
3 8 (4.23%) PingFederate
3 8 (4.23%) SCCM
4 5 (2.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 5 (2.65%) Ansible
5 4 (2.12%) QRadar
6 3 (1.59%) Kibana
6 3 (1.59%) logstash
6 3 (1.59%) McAfee ePO
6 3 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.06%) Ambari
7 2 (1.06%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 2 (1.06%) Nessus
7 2 (1.06%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 2 (1.06%) Oozie
7 2 (1.06%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (1.06%) SCOrch
7 2 (1.06%) SELinux
8 1 (0.53%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 97 (51.32%) Microsoft
2 20 (10.58%) Varonis
3 19 (10.05%) Forcepoint
4 16 (8.47%) LogRhythm
4 16 (8.47%) Qualys
4 16 (8.47%) Symantec
5 11 (5.82%) Splunk
6 8 (4.23%) Citrix
7 7 (3.70%) Cisco
7 7 (3.70%) Palo Alto
7 7 (3.70%) SAP
7 7 (3.70%) VMware
8 6 (3.17%) Okta
9 5 (2.65%) CheckPoint
9 5 (2.65%) Zscaler
10 4 (2.12%) Imperva
10 4 (2.12%) McAfee
10 4 (2.12%) Netskope
10 4 (2.12%) Proofpoint
10 4 (2.12%) Talend