Berkshire Security Architect Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Security Architect role in IT contracts within the Berkshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Security Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 20 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Security Architect
Location Berkshire Blackpool Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cheltenham City of London Croydon East of England England Essex Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Lancashire Liverpool London Lytham St Annes Merseyside Milton Keynes Newport North West Reading Shropshire South East South Wales South West Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Telford UK Uxbridge Wales West Midlands	3 months to 20 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	101	138
Rank change on same period last year	+37
Matching contract IT job ads	11	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	0.446 %	0.140 %
Daily rates quoted	5	1
Average minimum daily rate	£490	£500
Average daily rate	£512	£500
% change on same period last year	+2.34 %
Average maximum daily rate	£533	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£612	£550
% change on same period last year	+11.22 %
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	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Job Titles Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	2467	3564
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.868 %	3.878 %
Daily rates quoted	675	985
Average minimum daily rate	£342	£334
Average daily rate	£364	£354
% change on same period last year	+2.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£386	£374
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£350
% change on same period last year	+0.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	180	421
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.11	£25.95
Average hourly rate	£22.53	£27.42
% change on same period last year	-17.84 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.95	£28.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.38	£24.43
% change on same period last year	-4.32 %
Security Architect South East

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Security Architect across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Security Architect across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 November 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Architect within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Bracknell	-	6	£524	-
Reading	+13	2	-	-

Security Architect South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Security Architect in their job title 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 with Security Architect in their job title.

1 17 (56.67 %) Government 2 14 (46.67 %) Windows 3 11 (36.67 %) Firewall 4 10 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 5 9 (30.00 %) Network Security 6 8 (26.67 %) Windows Server 2003 7 6 (20.00 %) PKI 8 5 (16.67 %) ISO27001 8 5 (16.67 %) DV Cleared 8 5 (16.67 %) UNIX 9 4 (13.33 %) Aerospace 9 4 (13.33 %) Electronics 9 4 (13.33 %) Thin Client 9 4 (13.33 %) X.509 9 4 (13.33 %) Biometrics

9 4 (13.33 %) Fat Client 9 4 (13.33 %) SC Cleared 10 3 (10.00 %) CESG 11 2 (6.667 %) Risk Assessment 11 2 (6.667 %) Cisco 11 2 (6.667 %) Oracle 11 2 (6.667 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 12 1 (3.333 %) CheckPoint 12 1 (3.333 %) Financial Institution 12 1 (3.333 %) Disaster Recovery 12 1 (3.333 %) Workflow 12 1 (3.333 %) Finance 12 1 (3.333 %) IPsec 12 1 (3.333 %) Risk Management 12 1 (3.333 %) SAP

Security Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Security Architect in their job title 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 with Security Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (3.333 %) WebServices 1 1 (3.333 %) XML	Communications & Networking 1 11 (36.67 %) Firewall 2 9 (30.00 %) Network Security 3 4 (13.33 %) X.509 4 1 (3.333 %) IPsec 4 1 (3.333 %) VLAN 4 1 (3.333 %) LAN 4 1 (3.333 %) WAN 4 1 (3.333 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (3.333 %) MPLS
General 1 17 (56.67 %) Government 2 4 (13.33 %) Electronics 2 4 (13.33 %) Aerospace 3 1 (3.333 %) Financial Institution 3 1 (3.333 %) Finance 3 1 (3.333 %) Military	Miscellaneous 1 6 (20.00 %) PKI 2 4 (13.33 %) Fat Client 2 4 (13.33 %) Thin Client 2 4 (13.33 %) Biometrics 3 3 (10.00 %) CESG 4 1 (3.333 %) CESG CLAS 4 1 (3.333 %) Cryptography 4 1 (3.333 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 14 (46.67 %) Windows 2 8 (26.67 %) Windows Server 2003 3 5 (16.67 %) UNIX 4 1 (3.333 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 2 5 (16.67 %) DV Cleared 3 4 (13.33 %) SC Cleared 4 2 (6.667 %) Risk Assessment 5 1 (3.333 %) Information Security 5 1 (3.333 %) Technical Architecture 5 1 (3.333 %) Business Development 5 1 (3.333 %) CRAMM 5 1 (3.333 %) CAD 5 1 (3.333 %) Disaster Recovery 5 1 (3.333 %) Risk Management 5 1 (3.333 %) Workflow 5 1 (3.333 %) Migration
Qualifications 1 1 (3.333 %) ISEB 1 1 (3.333 %) CISSP 1 1 (3.333 %) ISTQB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (16.67 %) ISO27001 2 2 (6.667 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software 1 1 (3.333 %) NFS	Vendors 1 2 (6.667 %) Cisco 1 2 (6.667 %) Oracle 2 1 (3.333 %) SAP 2 1 (3.333 %) Nokia 2 1 (3.333 %) CheckPoint 2 1 (3.333 %) VMware 2 1 (3.333 %) Crossbeam