Security Consultant Contracts in Cheshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Security Consultant role in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Security Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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 Job Titles advertised for the Cheshire 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Consultant
Rank 48 57 75
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +18
Contract jobs requiring a Security Consultant 13 12 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 1.801% 1.476% 0.206%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.973% 1.615% 0.224%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 2
Average daily rate £420 £308 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+36.58% -35.26%
UK excluding London average daily rate £430 £425 £425
% change year-on-year
+1.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 659 743 891
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 91.27% 91.39% 91.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 381 493
Average daily rate £372 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.35% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £249 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 20 36
Average hourly rate £37.50 £25.00 £15.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% +61.29%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.50 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £34.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Security Consultant
North West

Security Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Security Consultant across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Cheshire Security Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Security Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cheshire Security Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Security Consultant
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Consultant within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Chester +2 8 - -
Knutsford -9 1 £420 +36.58%
Security Consultant
North West

Security Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region that cited Security Consultant 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 Consultant in their job title.

1 18 (64.29%) Information Security
2 16 (57.14%) Risk Assessment
2 16 (57.14%) CISSP
3 15 (53.57%) ITIL
4 13 (46.43%) Risk Analysis
5 10 (35.71%) Service Management
6 7 (25.00%) Legal
6 7 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 6 (21.43%) UNIX
7 6 (21.43%) Cisco
8 5 (17.86%) Blackberry
8 5 (17.86%) Android
8 5 (17.86%) Apple iOS
9 4 (14.29%) Security Architecture
9 4 (14.29%) Finance
9 4 (14.29%) BS7799
9 4 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (14.29%) TCP/IP
10 3 (10.71%) HTML
10 3 (10.71%) J2EE
10 3 (10.71%) Hyperion
10 3 (10.71%) CheckPoint
10 3 (10.71%) Mobile App
11 2 (7.143%) Windows 8
11 2 (7.143%) Forefront TMG
11 2 (7.143%) M86 Security
11 2 (7.143%) Mobile Device Management
11 2 (7.143%) Banking
11 2 (7.143%) Blue Coat
11 2 (7.143%) Cryptography

Security Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region that cited Security Consultant 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 Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (10.71%) HTML
1 3 (10.71%) J2EE
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 2 (7.143%) Firewall
2 2 (7.143%) NFC
3 1 (3.571%) VPN
3 1 (3.571%) SAN
General
1 7 (25.00%) Legal
2 4 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (7.143%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Blackberry
2 3 (10.71%) Mobile App
3 2 (7.143%) Cryptography
3 2 (7.143%) PKI
4 1 (3.571%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 6 (21.43%) UNIX
2 5 (17.86%) Android
2 5 (17.86%) Apple iOS
3 2 (7.143%) Windows 8
3 2 (7.143%) Windows
3 2 (7.143%) AIX
4 1 (3.571%) Linux
4 1 (3.571%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (64.29%) Information Security
2 16 (57.14%) Risk Assessment
3 15 (53.57%) ITIL
4 13 (46.43%) Risk Analysis
5 10 (35.71%) Service Management
6 7 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 4 (14.29%) Security Architecture
8 2 (7.143%) Mobile Device Management
8 2 (7.143%) Security Testing
8 2 (7.143%) Stakeholder Management
9 1 (3.571%) Programme Management
9 1 (3.571%) TOGAF
9 1 (3.571%) Quality Management
9 1 (3.571%) Security Management
9 1 (3.571%) Risk Management
Qualifications
1 16 (57.14%) CISSP
2 4 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (7.143%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.143%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.571%) CISM
4 1 (3.571%) CEH
4 1 (3.571%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.571%) CCIE
4 1 (3.571%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) BS7799
2 2 (7.143%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.571%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (7.143%) Squid
1 2 (7.143%) Forefront TMG
2 1 (3.571%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Cisco
2 3 (10.71%) Hyperion
2 3 (10.71%) CheckPoint
3 2 (7.143%) Websense
3 2 (7.143%) Blue Coat
3 2 (7.143%) Finjan
3 2 (7.143%) M86 Security
3 2 (7.143%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.571%) Citrix
4 1 (3.571%) ArcSight
4 1 (3.571%) VMware
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