The first table below looks at the demand for the Security Analyst role 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 Security Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Analyst
Rank 178 180 213
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +33
Contract jobs requiring a Security Analyst 23 33 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.365% 0.424% 0.335%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.395% 0.463% 0.365%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 27 19
Average daily rate £440 £425 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.52% +9.67%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £392 £281 £345
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £281 £325
% change year-on-year
+24.44% -13.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £51.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £28.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year
- -8.19%
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5827 7127 9041
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.57% 91.61% 91.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4285 5101 6595
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 180 188
Average hourly rate £19.44 £19.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.31% -2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £41.50 £40.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Security Analyst
London

Security Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Security Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Security Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Security Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Security Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Security Analyst across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London Security Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Security Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Security Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Security Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Security Analyst 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 Analyst in their job title.

1 14 (41.18%) Information Security
2 11 (32.35%) Fixed Income
2 11 (32.35%) Data Protection
3 10 (29.41%) TeamCity
3 10 (29.41%) Continuous Integration
3 10 (29.41%) CruiseControl
3 10 (29.41%) Kerberos
3 10 (29.41%) CA
3 10 (29.41%) CA SiteMinder
4 9 (26.47%) Finance
5 8 (23.53%) Banking
5 8 (23.53%) ITIL
6 7 (20.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (20.59%) Security Cleared
7 5 (14.71%) SC Cleared
7 5 (14.71%) Information Assurance
8 4 (11.76%) Vulnerability Management
8 4 (11.76%) SQL
8 4 (11.76%) McAfee
9 3 (8.824%) CISSP
9 3 (8.824%) Symantec
9 3 (8.824%) Microsoft
9 3 (8.824%) .NET
9 3 (8.824%) C#
9 3 (8.824%) Windows
9 3 (8.824%) Risk Management
9 3 (8.824%) CISM
9 3 (8.824%) McAfee ePO
9 3 (8.824%) Customer Engagement
10 2 (5.882%) WSUS

Security Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Security Analyst 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 Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (8.824%) .NET
2 2 (5.882%) Software Packaging
3 1 (2.941%) JSON
Communications & Networking
1 10 (29.41%) Kerberos
2 1 (2.941%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.941%) Firewall
2 1 (2.941%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.941%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 10 (29.41%) CruiseControl
1 10 (29.41%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (26.47%) Finance
2 8 (23.53%) Banking
3 2 (5.882%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.941%) Retail
4 1 (2.941%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.941%) Front Office
4 1 (2.941%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 11 (32.35%) Fixed Income
2 1 (2.941%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (2.941%) Derivative
2 1 (2.941%) Equity Derivative
2 1 (2.941%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.941%) IIBA
2 1 (2.941%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.824%) Windows
2 1 (2.941%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (41.18%) Information Security
2 11 (32.35%) Data Protection
3 10 (29.41%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (23.53%) ITIL
5 5 (14.71%) Information Assurance
6 4 (11.76%) Vulnerability Management
7 3 (8.824%) Customer Engagement
7 3 (8.824%) Risk Management
8 2 (5.882%) Data Management
8 2 (5.882%) UML
8 2 (5.882%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (5.882%) Business Analysis
9 1 (2.941%) Incident Management
9 1 (2.941%) Use Case
9 1 (2.941%) User Acceptance Testing
9 1 (2.941%) Risk Assessment
9 1 (2.941%) ISMS
9 1 (2.941%) BPMN
9 1 (2.941%) SIEM
9 1 (2.941%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.76%) SQL
2 3 (8.824%) C#
3 1 (2.941%) C++
3 1 (2.941%) Java
3 1 (2.941%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.941%) PL/SQL
3 1 (2.941%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (20.59%) Security Cleared
2 5 (14.71%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.824%) CISSP
3 3 (8.824%) CISM
4 1 (2.941%) MCITP
4 1 (2.941%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.941%) ISEB
4 1 (2.941%) CGEIT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.941%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.941%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.882%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (29.41%) CA SiteMinder
2 3 (8.824%) McAfee ePO
3 2 (5.882%) WSUS
3 2 (5.882%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (29.41%) CA
2 4 (11.76%) McAfee
3 3 (8.824%) Symantec
3 3 (8.824%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.941%) EMC
4 1 (2.941%) Remedy
4 1 (2.941%) Qualys
4 1 (2.941%) UC4
4 1 (2.941%) Oracle