City of London Security Specialist Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Security Specialist role in IT contracts within the City of London region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Security Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Security Specialist
Location Berkshire Bicester Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cheshire Chester City of London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Farnborough Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Milton Keynes North East North West Oxfordshire Scotland Shropshire South East South Wales South West Stevenage Swansea Telford UK Wales West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wirral Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	172	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	6	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.104 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	5	0
Average minimum daily rate	£440	-
Average daily rate	£451	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£462	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£444
% change on same period last year	-25.61 %
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	£38.25	-
% change on same period last year	-
Job Titles City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	5770	5867
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	9.088 %	6.287 %
Daily rates quoted	3026	2493
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£451
Average daily rate	£433	£477
% change on same period last year	-9.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£467	£503
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£351
% change on same period last year	+0.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	267	232
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.85	£22.62
Average hourly rate	£24.72	£23.87
% change on same period last year	+3.56 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.60	£25.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.37	£24.42
% change on same period last year	-4.31 %
Security Specialist 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 Security Specialist across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles 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 Security Specialist 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 Security Specialist across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Security Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title.

1 17 (70.83 %) Firewall 2 15 (62.50 %) Cisco 3 12 (50.00 %) Insurance 3 12 (50.00 %) Blue Coat 4 11 (45.83 %) CCSE 4 11 (45.83 %) CCSA 4 11 (45.83 %) CheckPoint 4 11 (45.83 %) VoIP 4 11 (45.83 %) DHCP 4 11 (45.83 %) DNS 5 10 (41.67 %) CCNP 5 10 (41.67 %) CCNA 5 10 (41.67 %) Nokia 5 10 (41.67 %) Cisco Certification 5 10 (41.67 %) OSPF

5 10 (41.67 %) BGP 5 10 (41.67 %) Cisco IOS 6 6 (25.00 %) Network Security 7 5 (20.83 %) Fat Client 7 5 (20.83 %) Network Design 7 5 (20.83 %) VMware 7 5 (20.83 %) CCIE 7 5 (20.83 %) Thin Client 8 4 (16.67 %) Internet 8 4 (16.67 %) Cisco PIX 9 3 (12.50 %) Websense 9 3 (12.50 %) Active Directory 9 3 (12.50 %) VPN 9 3 (12.50 %) SAP 9 3 (12.50 %) Windows

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Security Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (4.167 %) J2EE	Communications & Networking 1 17 (70.83 %) Firewall 2 11 (45.83 %) VoIP 2 11 (45.83 %) DHCP 2 11 (45.83 %) DNS 3 10 (41.67 %) OSPF 3 10 (41.67 %) BGP 3 10 (41.67 %) Cisco IOS 4 6 (25.00 %) Network Security 5 4 (16.67 %) Cisco PIX 5 4 (16.67 %) Internet 6 3 (12.50 %) VPN 7 2 (8.333 %) Intrusion Detection 8 1 (4.167 %) VLAN 8 1 (4.167 %) DMZ 8 1 (4.167 %) LAN 8 1 (4.167 %) NetScreen
General 1 12 (50.00 %) Insurance 2 2 (8.333 %) Finance 3 1 (4.167 %) Legal 3 1 (4.167 %) Banking 3 1 (4.167 %) Retail 3 1 (4.167 %) Investment Banking	Miscellaneous 1 5 (20.83 %) Thin Client 1 5 (20.83 %) Fat Client 2 1 (4.167 %) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems 1 3 (12.50 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (20.83 %) Network Design 2 2 (8.333 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (8.333 %) E-Commerce 2 2 (8.333 %) Security Management 2 2 (8.333 %) Online Security 3 1 (4.167 %) Information Security 3 1 (4.167 %) Information Assurance 3 1 (4.167 %) Data Protection
Programming Languages 1 1 (4.167 %) Java	Qualifications 1 11 (45.83 %) CCSA 1 11 (45.83 %) CCSE 2 10 (41.67 %) Cisco Certification 2 10 (41.67 %) CCNP 2 10 (41.67 %) CCNA 3 5 (20.83 %) CCIE 4 2 (8.333 %) MCSE 4 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft Certification 5 1 (4.167 %) Check Point Certification 5 1 (4.167 %) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (12.50 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 2 (8.333 %) ISO27001 3 1 (4.167 %) PCI DSS 3 1 (4.167 %) ISO17799 3 1 (4.167 %) SLA 3 1 (4.167 %) BS7799	System Software 1 3 (12.50 %) Active Directory 2 2 (8.333 %) ISA Server
Systems Management 1 2 (8.333 %) MAILsweeper 1 2 (8.333 %) WSUS	Vendors 1 15 (62.50 %) Cisco 2 12 (50.00 %) Blue Coat 3 11 (45.83 %) CheckPoint 4 10 (41.67 %) Nokia 5 5 (20.83 %) VMware 6 3 (12.50 %) Websense 6 3 (12.50 %) SAP 7 2 (8.333 %) Juniper 7 2 (8.333 %) Sophos 7 2 (8.333 %) IronPort 8 1 (4.167 %) Crossbeam 8 1 (4.167 %) BT 8 1 (4.167 %) Nortel