The first table below looks at the demand for the Security Specialist role in IT contracts advertised for the Colchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Security Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Colchester 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Specialist
Rank 13 19 -
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -
Contract jobs requiring a Security Specialist 5 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Colchester 9.804% 2.326% -
As % of the Job Titles category 9.804% 2.326% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
Average daily rate £413 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £435 £420
% change year-on-year
-5.17% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
Colchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
51 43 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Colchester 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 27 25
Average daily rate £395 £170 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+132.35% -59.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £140 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £451 £450 £462
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 2
Average hourly rate £9.00 £17.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-47.05% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Security Specialist
Essex

Security Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Colchester Security Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Security Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Security Specialist across the Colchester region.

Colchester Security Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Security Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Colchester 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 5 (100.00%) C
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 5 (100.00%) VoIP
1 5 (100.00%) DHCP
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
1 5 (100.00%) CCIE
1 5 (100.00%) CCNP
1 5 (100.00%) HP
1 5 (100.00%) Citrix
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (100.00%) Juniper
1 5 (100.00%) Thin Client
1 5 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 5 (100.00%) OSPF
1 5 (100.00%) Project Management
1 5 (100.00%) NetScreen
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
1 5 (100.00%) Blue Coat
1 5 (100.00%) ProxySG
1 5 (100.00%) CCSE
1 5 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 5 (100.00%) Fat Client
1 5 (100.00%) Network Security
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 5 (100.00%) Infoblox

Security Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Colchester 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.

Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) VoIP
1 5 (100.00%) DHCP
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) OSPF
1 5 (100.00%) NetScreen
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 5 (100.00%) Network Security
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 5 (100.00%) DMVPN
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Thin Client
1 5 (100.00%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 5 (100.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) CCIE
1 5 (100.00%) CCNP
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (100.00%) CCSE
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) ProxySG
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco UCCX
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
1 5 (100.00%) HP
1 5 (100.00%) Citrix
1 5 (100.00%) Juniper
1 5 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
1 5 (100.00%) Blue Coat
1 5 (100.00%) Infoblox
1 5 (100.00%) Imperva
1 5 (100.00%) F5