Network Security Contracts in Edinburgh
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Network Security skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Network Security over the 3 months to 21 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 Communications & Networking category for the Edinburgh 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Security
Rank 56 60 66
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +6
Contract jobs citing Network Security 1 5 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.122% 0.456% 0.463%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.124% 3.597% 5.660%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 5
Average daily rate £300 £375 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% -31.81%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £375 £365
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £25.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year
+30.00% +28.20%
All Communications & Networking
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 89 139 106
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 10.87% 12.67% 8.173%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 55 30
Average daily rate £350 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 11
Average hourly rate £9.20 £27.50 £15.58
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-66.54% +76.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
Network Security
Scotland

Network Security
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Network Security across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Edinburgh Network Security Jobs Demand Trend

Network Security
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Network Security Daily Rate Trend

Network Security
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Network Security 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 Network Security.

1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
2 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) TCP/IP
3 2 (28.57%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
3 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
3 2 (28.57%) HP
3 2 (28.57%) Terminal Services
3 2 (28.57%) CheckPoint
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (28.57%) DNS
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco
3 2 (28.57%) Linux
3 2 (28.57%) Windows 2000
3 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
3 2 (28.57%) VBScript
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (28.57%) Information Security
3 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 2 (28.57%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (28.57%) WMI
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (28.57%) DFS Replication
3 2 (28.57%) SIEM
3 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 1 (14.29%) WebSphere

Network Security
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Network Security 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 Network Security. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) WebLogic
1 1 (14.29%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
2 4 (57.14%) TCP/IP
3 2 (28.57%) DNS
3 2 (28.57%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (14.29%) Internet
4 1 (14.29%) VRRP
4 1 (14.29%) NetScreen
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Network Security Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Security Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) IT Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Leader
3 1 (14.29%) IT Security Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Network Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Security Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Network Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Windows 2000
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (14.29%) UNIX
3 1 (14.29%) HPUX
3 1 (14.29%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Information Security
1 2 (28.57%) SIEM
2 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
2 1 (14.29%) Performance Management
2 1 (14.29%) Network Design
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL
2 1 (14.29%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
1 2 (28.57%) VBScript
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Perl
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CCIE
1 1 (14.29%) CISSP
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (14.29%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 17799
1 1 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 2 (28.57%) Terminal Services
1 2 (28.57%) DFS Replication
2 1 (14.29%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 2 (28.57%) WMI
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) HP
1 2 (28.57%) CheckPoint
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Blue Coat
2 1 (14.29%) Sun
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Juniper
2 1 (14.29%) Nokia
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