Chester Information Security Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Information Security (INFOSEC) skills within the Chester region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Information Security over the 3 months to 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Information Security (INFOSEC)
Location Aberdeen Barnsley Basildon Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Cambridgeshire Cheshire Chester City of London Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Home Counties Isle of Wight Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands North East North West North Yorkshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford UK Wakefield Wells West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	29	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	1.399 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£443	£439
% change on same period last year	+0.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.89	£29.00
% change on same period last year	+9.96 %
Processes & Methodologies Chester
Matching contract IT job ads	143	106
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.232 %	0.116 %
Daily rates quoted	17	15
Average minimum daily rate	£303	£268
Average daily rate	£306	£281
% change on same period last year	+9.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£310	£294
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£373
% change on same period last year	+2.16 %
Hourly rates quoted	39	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.98	£31.21
Average hourly rate	£26.12	£31.21
% change on same period last year	-16.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.27	£31.21
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.22	£29.56
% change on same period last year	-4.53 %
Information Security Cheshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Information Security
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Information Security across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Information Security
Daily Rate Trend

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

Information Security
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Information Security
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 4 (66.67 %) Finance 2 3 (50.00 %) ISO17799 3 1 (16.67 %) NHS 3 1 (16.67 %) Internet 3 1 (16.67 %) Financial Institution 3 1 (16.67 %) Telecoms 3 1 (16.67 %) Health 3 1 (16.67 %) Banking 3 1 (16.67 %) International Banking 3 1 (16.67 %) MS Office 3 1 (16.67 %) MS Access

Information Security
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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.

Applications 1 1 (16.67 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 1 (16.67 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (16.67 %) MS Access	General 1 4 (66.67 %) Finance 2 1 (16.67 %) Health 2 1 (16.67 %) Banking 2 1 (16.67 %) International Banking 2 1 (16.67 %) Financial Institution 2 1 (16.67 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 1 (16.67 %) Analyst 1 1 (16.67 %) Consultant 1 1 (16.67 %) Security Consultant 1 1 (16.67 %) Security Analyst 1 1 (16.67 %) Information Analyst 1 1 (16.67 %) Information Security Consultant 1 1 (16.67 %) Information Security Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 1 (16.67 %) NHS
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (50.00 %) ISO17799