City of London Intrusion Detection Contracts

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

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Location Berkshire Bicester Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham City of London Crawley Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Gloucestershire Hampshire London Manchester Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Reading Scotland South Coast South East South West Suffolk Surrey Tyne and Wear UK West Sussex Winchester	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	212	192
Rank change on same period last year	-20
Matching contract IT job ads	11	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	1.140 %	0.822 %
Daily rates quoted	6	3
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£450
Average daily rate	£417	£500
% change on same period last year	-16.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£433	£550
UK excluding London average daily rate	£342	£375
% change on same period last year	-8.72 %
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	£27.50	£27.50
% change on same period last year	-
Communications & Networking City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	965	852
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.281 %	0.874 %
Daily rates quoted	460	349
Average minimum daily rate	£378	£402
Average daily rate	£400	£423
% change on same period last year	-5.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£423	£443
UK excluding London average daily rate	£334	£343
% change on same period last year	-2.65 %
Hourly rates quoted	67	67
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.54	£20.11
Average hourly rate	£29.09	£21.29
% change on same period last year	+36.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.64	£22.48
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.96	£28.60
% change on same period last year	-9.22 %
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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 Intrusion Detection across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking 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 Intrusion Detection across the City of London region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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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 Intrusion Detection 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 Intrusion Detection.

1 19 (73.08 %) Firewall 2 15 (57.69 %) Finance 3 10 (38.46 %) VPN 4 9 (34.62 %) Network Security 5 8 (30.77 %) CheckPoint 6 6 (23.08 %) Project Management 6 6 (23.08 %) Telecoms 6 6 (23.08 %) Cisco 7 5 (19.23 %) Cisco Certification 7 5 (19.23 %) CCTV 8 4 (15.38 %) Risk Analysis 8 4 (15.38 %) Qualys 8 4 (15.38 %) UNIX 8 4 (15.38 %) Solaris 8 4 (15.38 %) Banking

8 4 (15.38 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 9 3 (11.54 %) Construction 9 3 (11.54 %) Electric 9 3 (11.54 %) CCSE 9 3 (11.54 %) HNC 9 3 (11.54 %) HND 9 3 (11.54 %) CCNP 9 3 (11.54 %) Degree 10 2 (7.692 %) CCIE 10 2 (7.692 %) TCP/IP 10 2 (7.692 %) CISSP 10 2 (7.692 %) DNS 10 2 (7.692 %) Nokia 10 2 (7.692 %) PKI 10 2 (7.692 %) Internet

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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 Intrusion Detection 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 Intrusion Detection. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 19 (73.08 %) Firewall 2 10 (38.46 %) VPN 3 9 (34.62 %) Network Security 4 2 (7.692 %) TCP/IP 4 2 (7.692 %) DNS 4 2 (7.692 %) Internet 5 1 (3.846 %) LAN 5 1 (3.846 %) WAN	General 1 15 (57.69 %) Finance 2 6 (23.08 %) Telecoms 3 4 (15.38 %) Banking 4 3 (11.54 %) Construction 4 3 (11.54 %) Electric 5 1 (3.846 %) Financial Institution 5 1 (3.846 %) Investment Banking
Job Titles 1 7 (26.92 %) Network Engineer 2 6 (23.08 %) Network Security Engineer 2 6 (23.08 %) Security Engineer 3 4 (15.38 %) Solutions Architect 3 4 (15.38 %) Security Architect 3 4 (15.38 %) Security Consultant 3 4 (15.38 %) Architect 3 4 (15.38 %) Analyst 3 4 (15.38 %) Consultant 3 4 (15.38 %) Lead Architect 4 3 (11.54 %) Project Manager 5 2 (7.692 %) Security Analyst 5 2 (7.692 %) Security Manager 5 2 (7.692 %) Firewall Analyst 6 1 (3.846 %) Network Specialist 6 1 (3.846 %) Network Security Specialist 6 1 (3.846 %) Technical Manager 6 1 (3.846 %) Security Specialist 6 1 (3.846 %) Systems Administrator 6 1 (3.846 %) Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 5 (19.23 %) CCTV 2 2 (7.692 %) PKI 3 1 (3.846 %) Asset Management
Operating Systems 1 4 (15.38 %) UNIX 1 4 (15.38 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (23.08 %) Project Management 2 4 (15.38 %) Risk Analysis 3 1 (3.846 %) Information Security 3 1 (3.846 %) Technical Architecture 3 1 (3.846 %) Load Balancing
Qualifications 1 5 (19.23 %) Cisco Certification 2 3 (11.54 %) CCSE 2 3 (11.54 %) Degree 2 3 (11.54 %) HNC 2 3 (11.54 %) HND 2 3 (11.54 %) CCNP 3 2 (7.692 %) CCIE 3 2 (7.692 %) CISSP 4 1 (3.846 %) CCNA 4 1 (3.846 %) Check Point Certification 4 1 (3.846 %) CCSA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (15.38 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 1 (3.846 %) ISO27001 2 1 (3.846 %) ISO17799 2 1 (3.846 %) BS7799
System Software 1 1 (3.846 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 8 (30.77 %) CheckPoint 2 6 (23.08 %) Cisco 3 4 (15.38 %) Qualys 4 2 (7.692 %) Nokia