The first table below looks at the demand for Data Security skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Data Security over the 3 months to 23 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 City of London 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Security
Rank 183 202 234
Rank change year-on-year
+19 +32
Contract jobs citing Data Security 16 17 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.252% 0.216% 0.110%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.343% 0.301% 0.154%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 16 5
Average daily rate £425 £413 £505
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.03% -18.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £228 £431
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £625 £534
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £350 £425
% change year-on-year
+10.71% -17.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.25 £15.00 £34.19
% change year-on-year
+1.66% -56.12%
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
4658 5642 7164
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 73.33% 71.67% 71.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3513 4087 5301
Average daily rate £450 £460 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 94 100
Average hourly rate £41.50 £22.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+84.44% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.90 £15.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £47.50 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Data Security
London

Data Security
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Data Security Jobs Demand Trend

Data Security
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Data Security across the City of London region.

City of London Data Security Daily Rate Trend

Data Security
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Data Security across the City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London Data Security Daily Rate Histogram

Data Security
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Data Security across the City of London region.

City of London Data Security Hourly Rate Trend

Data Security
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Data 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 Data Security.

1 11 (47.83%) SQL
2 9 (39.13%) ETL
3 8 (34.78%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (34.78%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (30.43%) Data Modelling
4 7 (30.43%) Windows
4 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
4 7 (30.43%) Banking
5 5 (21.74%) Data Protection
5 5 (21.74%) Informatica
5 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (21.74%) Finance
5 5 (21.74%) Oracle
5 5 (21.74%) Metadata Management
6 4 (17.39%) Kindle
6 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
6 4 (17.39%) OLAP
6 4 (17.39%) OLTP
6 4 (17.39%) ISO 9001
6 4 (17.39%) Data Mining
6 4 (17.39%) SQL Server 2008
6 4 (17.39%) Release Management
6 4 (17.39%) SQL Server 2005
6 4 (17.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (17.39%) Degree
6 4 (17.39%) Subversion
7 3 (13.04%) Data Analysis
7 3 (13.04%) Teradata
7 3 (13.04%) Data Extraction
7 3 (13.04%) Oracle Discoverer

Data Security
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Data 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 Data Security. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (13.04%) Web Services
2 2 (8.696%) .NET
3 1 (4.348%) Spring
3 1 (4.348%) Hibernate
3 1 (4.348%) Spring MVC
3 1 (4.348%) JSON
3 1 (4.348%) Apache CXF
3 1 (4.348%) OAuth
3 1 (4.348%) ASP.NET
3 1 (4.348%) Struts
3 1 (4.348%) XML
3 1 (4.348%) JAX-RS
3 1 (4.348%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.696%) MS Exchange
1 2 (8.696%) IIS
2 1 (4.348%) Apache
2 1 (4.348%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.348%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) MS Excel
2 1 (4.348%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.696%) HTTP
2 1 (4.348%) VoIP
2 1 (4.348%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
2 4 (17.39%) OLAP
2 4 (17.39%) OLTP
2 4 (17.39%) Data Mining
2 4 (17.39%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (17.39%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (17.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (13.04%) Oracle Discoverer
4 2 (8.696%) Oracle 8/8i
4 2 (8.696%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (8.696%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (8.696%) Oracle OLAP
4 2 (8.696%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (4.348%) dBASE
5 1 (4.348%) MySQL
5 1 (4.348%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Subversion
2 2 (8.696%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (4.348%) Maven
3 1 (4.348%) Selenium
3 1 (4.348%) JIRA
3 1 (4.348%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (4.348%) Eclipse
3 1 (4.348%) ERwin
3 1 (4.348%) JUnit
3 1 (4.348%) Mockito
General
1 7 (30.43%) Banking
2 5 (21.74%) Finance
3 3 (13.04%) Law
4 2 (8.696%) Legal
4 2 (8.696%) Financial Institution
4 2 (8.696%) Investment Banking
4 2 (8.696%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Developer
2 5 (21.74%) DBA
3 4 (17.39%) Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) Teradata DBA
5 2 (8.696%) Teradata Developer
5 2 (8.696%) Systems Analyst
5 2 (8.696%) Systems Support
5 2 (8.696%) Support Analyst
5 2 (8.696%) Oracle Developer
5 2 (8.696%) SQL Developer
5 2 (8.696%) Senior DBA
5 2 (8.696%) SQL Server Developer
5 2 (8.696%) Systems Support Analyst
6 1 (4.348%) ETL Developer
6 1 (4.348%) Informatica Developer
6 1 (4.348%) Change Manager
6 1 (4.348%) Systems Manager
6 1 (4.348%) Security Analyst
6 1 (4.348%) Senior Oracle DBA
6 1 (4.348%) Sybase DBA
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Kindle
2 3 (13.04%) Data Extraction
3 2 (8.696%) Digital Media
3 2 (8.696%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.696%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.348%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (4.348%) Online Banking
4 1 (4.348%) Informatics
4 1 (4.348%) NHS
4 1 (4.348%) Client/Server
4 1 (4.348%) Health Informatics
4 1 (4.348%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 7 (30.43%) Windows
2 3 (13.04%) UNIX
2 3 (13.04%) Linux
3 1 (4.348%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) ETL
2 8 (34.78%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (30.43%) Data Modelling
4 5 (21.74%) Data Protection
4 5 (21.74%) Metadata Management
5 4 (17.39%) Release Management
6 3 (13.04%) Data Analysis
6 3 (13.04%) Security Architecture
7 2 (8.696%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (8.696%) E-Commerce
7 2 (8.696%) Project Management
7 2 (8.696%) Performance Management
7 2 (8.696%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (8.696%) Information Security
7 2 (8.696%) Information Management
7 2 (8.696%) Document Management
7 2 (8.696%) Agile Software Development
8 1 (4.348%) TDD
8 1 (4.348%) Asset Management
8 1 (4.348%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) SQL
2 2 (8.696%) T-SQL
2 2 (8.696%) VBA
2 2 (8.696%) PL/SQL
2 2 (8.696%) Korn
3 1 (4.348%) C#
3 1 (4.348%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (17.39%) Degree
3 1 (4.348%) ECDL
3 1 (4.348%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) ISO 9001
2 2 (8.696%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.348%) QA
3 1 (4.348%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (8.696%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.696%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 1 (4.348%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (21.74%) Informatica
2 5 (21.74%) Oracle
3 3 (13.04%) Teradata
3 3 (13.04%) NCR
3 3 (13.04%) Sybase
4 1 (4.348%) VMware
4 1 (4.348%) CA
4 1 (4.348%) Business Objects
4 1 (4.348%) JBoss