The first table below looks at the demand for Vulnerability Assessment 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 Vulnerability Assessment 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
Vulnerability Assessment
Rank 196 215 242
Rank change year-on-year
+19 +27
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 3 4 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.047% 0.051% 0.030%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.064% 0.071% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
Average daily rate £450 - £400
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 - £340
10% offered a daily rate of more than £482 - £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £343 £316 £251
% change year-on-year
+8.30% +25.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £62.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £28.00 -
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%
Vulnerability Assessment
London

Vulnerability Assessment
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Vulnerability Assessment Jobs Demand Trend

Vulnerability Assessment
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Vulnerability Assessment Daily Rate Trend

Vulnerability Assessment
Daily Rate Histogram

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

City of London Vulnerability Assessment Daily Rate Histogram

Vulnerability Assessment
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Vulnerability Assessment Hourly Rate Trend

Vulnerability Assessment
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 7 (70.00%) Firewall
2 5 (50.00%) HP
3 4 (40.00%) CISSP
3 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 4 (40.00%) J2EE
3 4 (40.00%) GAP Analysis
3 4 (40.00%) Information Security
3 4 (40.00%) CEH
3 4 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
3 4 (40.00%) Spring
3 4 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (30.00%) Security Architecture
4 3 (30.00%) Forefront TMG
4 3 (30.00%) UAG
4 3 (30.00%) JNCIE
4 3 (30.00%) PKI
4 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (30.00%) Security Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Network Security
4 3 (30.00%) Load Balancing
4 3 (30.00%) Riverbed
4 3 (30.00%) Banking
4 3 (30.00%) Migration
4 3 (30.00%) Identity Management
4 3 (30.00%) Java
4 3 (30.00%) Finance
4 3 (30.00%) Legal
4 3 (30.00%) LAN
4 3 (30.00%) WAN
4 3 (30.00%) Cisco

Vulnerability Assessment
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (40.00%) J2EE
1 4 (40.00%) Spring
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) Firewall
2 3 (30.00%) Network Security
2 3 (30.00%) LAN
2 3 (30.00%) WAN
3 2 (20.00%) Wireless
4 1 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) AppScan
General
1 3 (30.00%) Banking
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
1 3 (30.00%) Legal
2 2 (20.00%) Law
2 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 3 (30.00%) Security Specialist
1 3 (30.00%) Security Architect
1 3 (30.00%) Applications Specialist
1 3 (30.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Tester
2 2 (20.00%) Applications Tester
2 2 (20.00%) Penetration Tester
2 2 (20.00%) Security Tester
2 2 (20.00%) Web Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Banking Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Banking Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Web Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (30.00%) PKI
3 2 (20.00%) Open Source
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS
4 1 (10.00%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) GAP Analysis
1 4 (40.00%) Information Security
1 4 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (30.00%) Security Architecture
2 3 (30.00%) Security Testing
2 3 (30.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (30.00%) Migration
2 3 (30.00%) Identity Management
3 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Time Management
4 1 (10.00%) OWASP
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (10.00%) Asset Management
4 1 (10.00%) Ethical Hacking
4 1 (10.00%) Security Management
4 1 (10.00%) Validation
4 1 (10.00%) PRINCE
4 1 (10.00%) ITIL
4 1 (10.00%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) CISSP
1 4 (40.00%) CEH
2 3 (30.00%) JNCIE
2 3 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (30.00%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (10.00%) COBIT
2 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (10.00%) COSO
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Forefront TMG
1 3 (30.00%) UAG
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) HP
2 3 (30.00%) Riverbed
2 3 (30.00%) Cisco
2 3 (30.00%) Juniper
3 1 (10.00%) Twitter
3 1 (10.00%) IBM