Basildon Information Security Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Information Security (INFOSEC) skills within the Basildon region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Information Security over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Information Security (INFOSEC)
Location Basildon Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bristol Camberley Canary Wharf Cheltenham City of London Coventry Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucestershire Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Poole Preston Reading Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Solihull South East South Wales South West Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	10	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	7	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	16.28 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£418	£402
% change on same period last year	+4.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.48	£39.56
% change on same period last year	-22.95 %
Processes & Methodologies Basildon
Matching contract IT job ads	43	41
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.057 %	0.041 %
Daily rates quoted	8	6
Average minimum daily rate	£425	£306
Average daily rate	£428	£316
% change on same period last year	+35.57 %
Average maximum daily rate	£431	£325
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.60	£38.34
Average hourly rate	£36.60	£38.54
% change on same period last year	-5.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.60	£38.74
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.30	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.42 %
Information Security Essex

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Information Security
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Information Security across the Basildon region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Information Security
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Basildon region citing Information Security also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Information Security.

1 7 (100.00 %) Data Security 2 5 (71.43 %) PCI DSS 2 5 (71.43 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 5 (71.43 %) PMI 2 5 (71.43 %) PRINCE 3 2 (28.57 %) CISA 3 2 (28.57 %) CISM 3 2 (28.57 %) Firewall 3 2 (28.57 %) SSCP 3 2 (28.57 %) Mainframe 3 2 (28.57 %) Management Information System 3 2 (28.57 %) VPN 3 2 (28.57 %) CISSP

Information Security
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Basildon region citing Information Security also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Information Security. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 2 (28.57 %) Firewall 1 2 (28.57 %) VPN	Job Titles 1 5 (71.43 %) Project Manager 2 2 (28.57 %) Consultant 2 2 (28.57 %) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 5 (71.43 %) PMI 2 2 (28.57 %) Mainframe 2 2 (28.57 %) Management Information System	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (100.00 %) Data Security 2 5 (71.43 %) PRINCE
Qualifications 1 5 (71.43 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 2 (28.57 %) CISA 2 2 (28.57 %) CISM 2 2 (28.57 %) SSCP 2 2 (28.57 %) CISSP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (71.43 %) PCI DSS