The first table below looks at the demand for Computer Forensics skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Computer Forensics 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Cambridgeshire 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
Computer Forensics
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Computer Forensics 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire - - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £85 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
310 402 340
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 56.47% 58.18% 64.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 202 172
Average daily rate £375 £395 £370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.06% +6.68%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £550 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 30 43
Average hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +41.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.00 £12.00 £12.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £56.50 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Computer Forensics
East of England

Computer Forensics
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing Computer Forensics 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 Computer Forensics.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) ASP
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) Reverse Engineering

Computer Forensics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) ASP
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS