The first table below looks at the demand for GSAE in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited GSAE over the 3 months to 17 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 Qualifications for the Buckinghamshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
GIAC IT Security Audit Essentials (GSAE)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing GSAE 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire - - -
As % of the Qualifications category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Qualifications
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
213 206 225
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 27.03% 20.28% 21.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 84 98
Average daily rate £275 £258 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.79% -26.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £113 £142
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 16 18
Average hourly rate £18.55 £15.75 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.77% -4.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.10 £15.00 £9.46
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.55 £50.00 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
GSAE
South East

GSAE
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing GSAE across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Buckinghamshire GSAE Jobs Demand Trend

GSAE
Daily Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire GSAE Daily Rate Trend

GSAE
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing GSAE 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 GSAE.

1 5 (83.33%) PRINCE2
1 5 (83.33%) UML
1 5 (83.33%) ISEB
1 5 (83.33%) Business Analysis
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) DV Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Requirements Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Windows
3 1 (16.67%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing

GSAE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing GSAE 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 GSAE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Business Analyst
1 5 (83.33%) Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) Business Systems Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) PRINCE2
1 5 (83.33%) UML
1 5 (83.33%) Business Analysis
1 5 (83.33%) Requirements Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) ISEB
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) DV Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft