City of London Data Security Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Data Security skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Data Security over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basildon Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Brentford Brighton Bristol Cheshire Chester City of London East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Lancashire London Lytham St Annes Manchester North West Northampton Northamptonshire Reading Scotland Somerset South East South West Swindon UK West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	216	190
Rank change on same period last year	-26
Matching contract IT job ads	7	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	0.149 %	0.268 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£270	£300
Average daily rate	£338	£300
% change on same period last year	+12.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£405	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£475	£378
% change on same period last year	+25.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.50	-
Average hourly rate	£25.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.50	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.50	£22.33
% change on same period last year	+0.74 %
Processes & Methodologies City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	4701	3363
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	6.243 %	3.451 %
Daily rates quoted	2632	1566
Average minimum daily rate	£425	£450
Average daily rate	£466	£487
% change on same period last year	-4.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£506	£523
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£375
% change on same period last year	+1.52 %
Hourly rates quoted	107	74
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.46	£26.50
Average hourly rate	£30.87	£28.77
% change on same period last year	+7.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.28	£31.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.43	£30.35
% change on same period last year	-3.02 %
Data Security London

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 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.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Data Security across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, 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 12 (52.17 %) UNIX 2 9 (39.13 %) DNS 3 7 (30.43 %) TCP/IP 3 7 (30.43 %) Firewall 3 7 (30.43 %) Finance 4 6 (26.09 %) Internet 5 5 (21.74 %) CISSP 5 5 (21.74 %) CISA 5 5 (21.74 %) CISM 5 5 (21.74 %) Project Management 5 5 (21.74 %) VPN 5 5 (21.74 %) SSL 5 5 (21.74 %) LAN 5 5 (21.74 %) WAN 6 4 (17.39 %) SC Cleared

6 4 (17.39 %) Security Cleared 6 4 (17.39 %) Apache 6 4 (17.39 %) Sun 6 4 (17.39 %) C 6 4 (17.39 %) Perl 6 4 (17.39 %) MySQL 6 4 (17.39 %) Solaris 6 4 (17.39 %) Linux 6 4 (17.39 %) Management Information System 6 4 (17.39 %) Risk Assessment 6 4 (17.39 %) Information Security 7 3 (13.04 %) Banking 7 3 (13.04 %) Government 7 3 (13.04 %) Mainframe 7 3 (13.04 %) RACF

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, 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 %) ISPF 2 1 (4.348 %) .NET 2 1 (4.348 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (4.348 %) WebServices 2 1 (4.348 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 4 (17.39 %) Apache 2 3 (13.04 %) MQSeries 2 3 (13.04 %) CICS 3 2 (8.696 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 1 (4.348 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 9 (39.13 %) DNS 2 7 (30.43 %) TCP/IP 2 7 (30.43 %) Firewall 3 6 (26.09 %) Internet 4 5 (21.74 %) SSL 4 5 (21.74 %) VPN 4 5 (21.74 %) LAN 4 5 (21.74 %) WAN 5 2 (8.696 %) Intranet 5 2 (8.696 %) Extranet 6 1 (4.348 %) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (17.39 %) MySQL 2 3 (13.04 %) DB2 3 1 (4.348 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (4.348 %) SQL Server	General 1 7 (30.43 %) Finance 2 3 (13.04 %) Government 2 3 (13.04 %) Banking 3 2 (8.696 %) Investment Banking 4 1 (4.348 %) Insurance 4 1 (4.348 %) Criminal Justice 4 1 (4.348 %) Financial Institution 4 1 (4.348 %) Front Office
Job Titles 1 5 (21.74 %) Consultant 1 5 (21.74 %) Security Engineer 2 4 (17.39 %) Senior Security Engineer 2 4 (17.39 %) Support Engineer 3 2 (8.696 %) Security Consultant 3 2 (8.696 %) Technical Support 3 2 (8.696 %) Project Manager 3 2 (8.696 %) Analyst 3 2 (8.696 %) UNIX Support 3 2 (8.696 %) UNIX Engineer 3 2 (8.696 %) UNIX Support Engineer 3 2 (8.696 %) Technical Support Engineer 3 2 (8.696 %) Technical Analyst 3 2 (8.696 %) Technical Engineer 3 2 (8.696 %) Linux Engineer 3 2 (8.696 %) Linux Support 3 2 (8.696 %) Data Consultant 4 1 (4.348 %) Information Security Engineer 4 1 (4.348 %) Auditor 4 1 (4.348 %) Data Manager	Miscellaneous 1 4 (17.39 %) Management Information System 2 3 (13.04 %) Mainframe 3 1 (4.348 %) Asset Management
Operating Systems 1 12 (52.17 %) UNIX 2 4 (17.39 %) Solaris 2 4 (17.39 %) Linux 3 3 (13.04 %) zOS 3 3 (13.04 %) MVS 4 2 (8.696 %) Windows 2000 4 2 (8.696 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (21.74 %) Project Management 2 4 (17.39 %) Risk Assessment 2 4 (17.39 %) Information Security 2 4 (17.39 %) SC Cleared 2 4 (17.39 %) Security Cleared 3 3 (13.04 %) Risk Analysis 4 1 (4.348 %) TDD 4 1 (4.348 %) Data Analysis 4 1 (4.348 %) Migration 4 1 (4.348 %) Scrum 4 1 (4.348 %) Business Continuity 4 1 (4.348 %) OO 4 1 (4.348 %) CRM 4 1 (4.348 %) SOA 4 1 (4.348 %) BCP
Programming Languages 1 4 (17.39 %) C 1 4 (17.39 %) Perl 2 3 (13.04 %) JCL 3 2 (8.696 %) SQL 4 1 (4.348 %) PL/SQL 4 1 (4.348 %) C#	Qualifications 1 5 (21.74 %) CISSP 1 5 (21.74 %) CISA 1 5 (21.74 %) CISM 2 3 (13.04 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (8.696 %) ISO27001 2 1 (4.348 %) PCI DSS	System Software 1 3 (13.04 %) RACF 2 2 (8.696 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 4 (17.39 %) Sun 2 3 (13.04 %) IBM 2 3 (13.04 %) Microsoft 3 1 (4.348 %) Cisco 3 1 (4.348 %) HP 3 1 (4.348 %) Intel 3 1 (4.348 %) VMware 3 1 (4.348 %) Northgate