Network Security Contracts in Berkshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Network Security skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Network Security over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Berkshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Security
Rank 90 118 118
Rank change year-on-year
+28 0
Contract jobs citing Network Security 32 18 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 1.305% 0.561% 0.410%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.063% 1.622% 1.796%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 6 5
Average daily rate £400 £375 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% +11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £311 £350 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £615 £400 £740
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £375 £365
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
Average hourly rate - £25.00 £7.19
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +247.70%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £25.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+30.00% +25.00%
All Communications & Networking
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 632 1110 668
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 25.76% 34.60% 22.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 220 189
Average daily rate £285 £300 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £200 £203
10% offered a daily rate of more than £437 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 47 54
Average hourly rate £18.75 £30.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-37.50% -14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.68 £14.50 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £93.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
Network Security
South East

Network Security
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Network Security across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Berkshire Network Security Jobs Demand Trend

Network Security
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Network Security across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Network Security Daily Rate Trend

Network Security
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Network Security across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Berkshire Network Security Daily Rate Histogram

Network Security
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Network Security across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Network Security Hourly Rate Trend

Network Security
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Security within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading +23 18 £475 +35.71%
Slough -6 8 £350 -
Network Security
South East

Network Security
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Network 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 Network Security.

1 29 (56.86%) Firewall
2 23 (45.10%) Cisco
3 19 (37.25%) Cisco Certification
3 19 (37.25%) CheckPoint
4 18 (35.29%) CCNP
5 15 (29.41%) Cisco IOS
6 12 (23.53%) Information Security
7 11 (21.57%) CISSP
7 11 (21.57%) Security Cleared
8 10 (19.61%) CCIE
8 10 (19.61%) Linux
8 10 (19.61%) Blue Coat
8 10 (19.61%) PCI DSS
9 9 (17.65%) VLAN
9 9 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (17.65%) Ethical Hacking
9 9 (17.65%) TOGAF
9 9 (17.65%) CESG
9 9 (17.65%) Tivoli
9 9 (17.65%) Oracle
9 9 (17.65%) TCP/IP
9 9 (17.65%) Windows
9 9 (17.65%) CA
10 8 (15.69%) CCNA
10 8 (15.69%) CCSA
10 8 (15.69%) Technical Architecture
10 8 (15.69%) SC Cleared
11 7 (13.73%) Intrusion Detection
11 7 (13.73%) VPN
11 7 (13.73%) Juniper

Network Security
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Network 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 Network Security. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (5.882%) CSS
2 1 (1.961%) jQuery
2 1 (1.961%) WAP
2 1 (1.961%) KnockoutJS
2 1 (1.961%) Node.js
Applications
1 2 (3.922%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 29 (56.86%) Firewall
2 15 (29.41%) Cisco IOS
3 9 (17.65%) VLAN
3 9 (17.65%) TCP/IP
4 7 (13.73%) Intrusion Detection
4 7 (13.73%) VPN
4 7 (13.73%) Internet
5 5 (9.804%) WAN
5 5 (9.804%) SSL
5 5 (9.804%) Kerberos
6 4 (7.843%) BGP
6 4 (7.843%) IPsec
6 4 (7.843%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (7.843%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (5.882%) HSRP
7 3 (5.882%) GLBP
7 3 (5.882%) VRRP
7 3 (5.882%) OSPF
7 3 (5.882%) DHCP
7 3 (5.882%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.961%) Neo4j
1 1 (1.961%) CouchDB
1 1 (1.961%) NoSQL
General
1 6 (11.76%) Finance
2 5 (9.804%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.961%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (19.61%) Architect
1 10 (19.61%) Trainer
1 10 (19.61%) Network Engineer
2 6 (11.76%) Security Architect
3 5 (9.804%) Security Engineer
3 5 (9.804%) Support Engineer
4 4 (7.843%) Security Consultant
4 4 (7.843%) Analyst
4 4 (7.843%) Technical Architect
4 4 (7.843%) Consultant
4 4 (7.843%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (7.843%) Security Analyst
5 3 (5.882%) Security Support Engineer
5 3 (5.882%) Technical Analyst
5 3 (5.882%) Network Security Consultant
5 3 (5.882%) Technical Security Analyst
5 3 (5.882%) Project Manager
5 3 (5.882%) Network Consultant
6 2 (3.922%) Network Support
6 2 (3.922%) Network Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.65%) CESG
2 5 (9.804%) CESG CLAS
3 4 (7.843%) SecurID
4 3 (5.882%) RMADS
5 1 (1.961%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.961%) PMI
5 1 (1.961%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.961%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 10 (19.61%) Linux
2 9 (17.65%) Windows
3 6 (11.76%) UNIX
4 5 (9.804%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (5.882%) VMS
6 1 (1.961%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (23.53%) Information Security
2 9 (17.65%) Ethical Hacking
2 9 (17.65%) TOGAF
3 8 (15.69%) Technical Architecture
4 6 (11.76%) Service Delivery
5 5 (9.804%) Change Control
5 5 (9.804%) Test Scripting
6 4 (7.843%) Security Testing
6 4 (7.843%) Load Balancing
6 4 (7.843%) Incident Management
6 4 (7.843%) Security Architecture
7 3 (5.882%) Network Management
8 2 (3.922%) PRINCE2
9 1 (1.961%) Risk Management
9 1 (1.961%) Validation
9 1 (1.961%) Migration
9 1 (1.961%) Risk Assessment
9 1 (1.961%) Programme Management
9 1 (1.961%) TDD
9 1 (1.961%) Computer Forensics
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.804%) Bash shell
1 5 (9.804%) Perl
1 5 (9.804%) Python
2 1 (1.961%) SQL
2 1 (1.961%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.961%) R
Qualifications
1 19 (37.25%) Cisco Certification
2 18 (35.29%) CCNP
3 11 (21.57%) CISSP
3 11 (21.57%) Security Cleared
4 10 (19.61%) CCIE
5 8 (15.69%) CCNA
5 8 (15.69%) CCSA
5 8 (15.69%) SC Cleared
6 5 (9.804%) CISA
6 5 (9.804%) CISM
7 3 (5.882%) CCSE
8 2 (3.922%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (1.961%) JNCIS
9 1 (1.961%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (19.61%) PCI DSS
2 9 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.961%) COBIT
3 1 (1.961%) ISO/IEC 17799
System Software
1 5 (9.804%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (9.804%) vSphere
1 5 (9.804%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 9 (17.65%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 23 (45.10%) Cisco
2 19 (37.25%) CheckPoint
3 10 (19.61%) Blue Coat
4 9 (17.65%) Oracle
4 9 (17.65%) CA
5 7 (13.73%) Juniper
6 6 (11.76%) Nokia
6 6 (11.76%) F5
7 5 (9.804%) VMware
7 5 (9.804%) Red Hat
8 4 (7.843%) TippingPoint
9 3 (5.882%) Sourcefire
9 3 (5.882%) NetScout
10 2 (3.922%) Citrix
10 2 (3.922%) Crossbeam
10 2 (3.922%) Redknee
11 1 (1.961%) Radware
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