The first table below looks at the demand for Information Security 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 Information Security 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
Information Security (INFOSEC)
Rank 46 61 49
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -12
Contract jobs citing Information Security 4 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 0.729% 0.145% 0.382%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.290% 0.249% 0.588%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £225 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £423 £384
% change year-on-year
+0.59% +10.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.71 £43.75 £38.00
% change year-on-year
-59.52% +15.13%
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%
Information Security
East of England

Information Security
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Information Security across the Cambridgeshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Cambridgeshire Information Security Jobs Demand Trend

Information Security
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Information Security Daily Rate Trend

Information Security
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Information Security Hourly Rate Trend

Information Security
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Information Security within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Cambridge +11 4 - -
Information Security
East of England

Information Security
Top 21 Related IT Skills

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

1 13 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 13 (100.00%) Finance
1 13 (100.00%) Hedge funds
2 11 (84.62%) Middleware
2 11 (84.62%) Oracle
2 11 (84.62%) WebLogic
3 8 (61.54%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (46.15%) Oracle Identity Manager
4 6 (46.15%) IIS
5 5 (38.46%) BMC
5 5 (38.46%) Control-M
6 4 (30.77%) WebSphere
6 4 (30.77%) WebSphere Message Broker
7 3 (23.08%) SharePoint
7 3 (23.08%) IBM
8 2 (15.38%) WebCenter
9 1 (7.692%) BPMN
9 1 (7.692%) JRules
9 1 (7.692%) Incident Management
9 1 (7.692%) WebSphere MQ
9 1 (7.692%) Oracle 8/8i

Information Security
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 11 (84.62%) Middleware
2 8 (61.54%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (30.77%) WebSphere
4 2 (15.38%) WebCenter
5 1 (7.692%) JRules
Application Platforms
1 11 (84.62%) WebLogic
2 6 (46.15%) IIS
3 4 (30.77%) WebSphere Message Broker
4 3 (23.08%) SharePoint
5 1 (7.692%) WebSphere MQ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 13 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 13 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Support Engineer
2 7 (53.85%) Senior Support Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Consultant
5 1 (7.692%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Web Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Senior Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Messaging Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Web Support Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Web Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Messaging Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (100.00%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (7.692%) Incident Management
1 1 (7.692%) BPMN
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Oracle Identity Manager
2 5 (38.46%) Control-M
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Oracle
2 5 (38.46%) BMC
3 3 (23.08%) IBM