The first table below looks at the demand for Network Security skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Network Security over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Cambridge 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Security
Rank - 47 -
Contract jobs citing Network Security 0 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge - 0.448% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 1.980% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £375 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £365 £365
% change year-on-year
+9.58% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £26.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+25.00% +30.00%
All Communications & Networking
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
53 101 48
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 17.04% 22.65% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 51 14
Average daily rate £285 £315 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.52% +14.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £200 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £375 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 28 11
Average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +196.29%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £12.05 £12.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £52.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
Network Security
Cambridgeshire

Network Security
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge Network Security Daily Rate Trend

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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge Network Security Hourly Rate Trend

Network Security
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 2 (66.67%) LAN
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) CheckPoint
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Load Balancing
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco PIX
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (66.67%) BIG-IP
1 2 (66.67%) F5
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) ISA Server
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) IIS
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) Windows

Network Security
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) LAN
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco PIX
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (66.67%) BIG-IP
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Applications Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Applications Support
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (33.33%) ISA Server
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) CheckPoint
1 2 (66.67%) F5
2 1 (33.33%) VMware