Information Assurance Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Information Assurance skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Information Assurance 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 England 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
Information Assurance
Rank 386 457 529
Rank change year-on-year
+71 +72
Contract jobs citing Information Assurance 132 105 44
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.318% 0.197% 0.077%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.445% 0.288% 0.113%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 58 15
Average daily rate £440 £575 £418
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.47% +37.72%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £500 £164
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £643 £580
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £575 £463
% change year-on-year
-26.08% +24.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 1
Average hourly rate £29.00 £25.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.00% +42.85%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.00 £25.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year
+16.00% +42.85%
All Processes & Methodologies
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 29662 36514 38847
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 71.44% 68.38% 68.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 18132 21436 22477
Average daily rate £420 £413 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.81% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £588 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 906 1198 1411
Average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £28.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.00% -12.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £13.27 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Information Assurance
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Information Assurance
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Information Assurance across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

England Information Assurance Jobs Demand Trend

Information Assurance
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Information Assurance across the England region.

England Information Assurance Daily Rate Trend

Information Assurance
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Information Assurance across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England Information Assurance Daily Rate Histogram

Information Assurance
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Information Assurance across the England region.

England Information Assurance Hourly Rate Trend

Information Assurance
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Information Assurance within the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +58 80 £475 -14.79%
South West +39 34 £425 -26.08%
South East +17 12 £373 -37.91%
North West +9 4 £438 -28.27%
West Midlands - 3 £538 -
Yorkshire - 1 £450 -
Information Assurance
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Information Assurance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Information Assurance 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 Information Assurance.

1 132 (64.71%) Security Cleared
2 91 (44.61%) SC Cleared
3 71 (34.80%) Information Security
4 67 (32.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 65 (31.86%) Finance
6 58 (28.43%) ITIL
7 53 (25.98%) Management Information System
8 51 (25.00%) PRINCE2
9 50 (24.51%) Risk Management
10 43 (21.08%) DV Cleared
11 31 (15.20%) CISSP
11 31 (15.20%) Risk Assessment
12 30 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
13 29 (14.22%) Change Management
14 28 (13.73%) Change Control
15 25 (12.25%) CESG
15 25 (12.25%) Continuous Improvement
15 25 (12.25%) RMADS
16 23 (11.27%) Data Protection
17 22 (10.78%) Project Management
18 20 (9.804%) Oracle
18 20 (9.804%) WAN
18 20 (9.804%) VMware
18 20 (9.804%) Data Protection Act
18 20 (9.804%) VMware Infrastructure
19 19 (9.314%) C
20 18 (8.824%) LAN
20 18 (8.824%) Service Management
20 18 (8.824%) SAN
20 18 (8.824%) Degree

Information Assurance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Information Assurance 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 Information Assurance. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (4.412%) Middleware
2 6 (2.941%) JSP
3 4 (1.961%) WebCenter
4 2 (0.980%) Web Services
4 2 (0.980%) XML
5 1 (0.490%) HTML
5 1 (0.490%) .NET
5 1 (0.490%) XSL
5 1 (0.490%) COM
Application Platforms
1 11 (5.392%) IIS
2 7 (3.431%) Oracle Application Server
2 7 (3.431%) Oracle 10gAS
3 2 (0.980%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.490%) TIBCO EMS
4 1 (0.490%) CMS
4 1 (0.490%) MS Exchange
4 1 (0.490%) Apache
Applications
1 14 (6.863%) MS Office
2 13 (6.373%) MS Visio
3 9 (4.412%) MS Excel
4 4 (1.961%) MS Project
4 4 (1.961%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (3.922%) Oracle EBS
1 8 (3.922%) Oracle EBS R12
2 7 (3.431%) Oracle 11i
3 3 (1.471%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.980%) Sentinel
5 1 (0.490%) Summit
5 1 (0.490%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 20 (9.804%) WAN
2 18 (8.824%) LAN
2 18 (8.824%) SAN
3 17 (8.333%) Firewall
4 15 (7.353%) NAS
4 15 (7.353%) VPN
5 6 (2.941%) Internet
6 4 (1.961%) HTTP
7 2 (0.980%) ICMP
7 2 (0.980%) SMTP
7 2 (0.980%) DNS
7 2 (0.980%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.980%) Network Security
8 1 (0.490%) tcpdump
8 1 (0.490%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.490%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.490%) FTP
8 1 (0.490%) LDAP
8 1 (0.490%) L2TP
8 1 (0.490%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.412%) Oracle 10g
2 8 (3.922%) Oracle BI EE
3 6 (2.941%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.471%) Oracle 11g
4 3 (1.471%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.471%) Oracle 8/8i
5 2 (0.980%) Oracle Discoverer
5 2 (0.980%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.490%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.490%) Big Data
6 1 (0.490%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (0.980%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.490%) StarTeam
General
1 65 (31.86%) Finance
2 17 (8.333%) Legal
3 13 (6.373%) Banking
3 13 (6.373%) Retail
4 7 (3.431%) Financial Institution
5 6 (2.941%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.471%) Local Government
6 3 (1.471%) Law
7 2 (0.980%) Aerospace
7 2 (0.980%) Avionics
8 1 (0.490%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.490%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 44 (21.57%) Analyst
2 36 (17.65%) Consultant
3 26 (12.75%) Project Manager
4 22 (10.78%) Architect
5 18 (8.824%) Security Analyst
6 17 (8.333%) Security Architect
7 16 (7.843%) Security Consultant
8 13 (6.373%) CLAS Consultant
9 12 (5.882%) Team Leader
9 12 (5.882%) Security Officer
9 12 (5.882%) Infrastructure Team Leader
10 11 (5.392%) Business Analyst
10 11 (5.392%) IT Security Officer
11 8 (3.922%) Senior Analyst
11 8 (3.922%) Change Analyst
11 8 (3.922%) Project Support Officer
11 8 (3.922%) Business Change Analyst
11 8 (3.922%) Project Officer
11 8 (3.922%) Information Assurance Leader
12 7 (3.431%) Information Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 53 (25.98%) Management Information System
2 25 (12.25%) CESG
2 25 (12.25%) RMADS
3 20 (9.804%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (3.431%) Cryptography
4 7 (3.431%) CESG CLAS
5 6 (2.941%) Statistics
5 6 (2.941%) SWIFT
6 4 (1.961%) NHS
6 4 (1.961%) PKI
7 3 (1.471%) Freedom of Information
7 3 (1.471%) Freedom of Information Act
8 2 (0.980%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.980%) Replication
8 2 (0.980%) Computer Science
8 2 (0.980%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (0.980%) Open Source
9 1 (0.490%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.490%) CMDB
9 1 (0.490%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.353%) Linux
2 11 (5.392%) Windows
3 8 (3.922%) Oracle Linux
4 6 (2.941%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (2.941%) HPUX
4 6 (2.941%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (1.961%) Mac OS X
5 4 (1.961%) UNIX
6 2 (0.980%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.490%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.490%) Windows Vista
7 1 (0.490%) Windows XP
7 1 (0.490%) AIX
7 1 (0.490%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (34.80%) Information Security
2 58 (28.43%) ITIL
3 51 (25.00%) PRINCE2
4 50 (24.51%) Risk Management
5 31 (15.20%) Risk Assessment
6 30 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
7 29 (14.22%) Change Management
8 28 (13.73%) Change Control
9 25 (12.25%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (11.27%) Data Protection
11 22 (10.78%) Project Management
12 18 (8.824%) Service Management
13 17 (8.333%) Service Delivery
14 16 (7.843%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 15 (7.353%) SIEM
15 15 (7.353%) Requirements Management
15 15 (7.353%) Document Management
16 14 (6.863%) Penetration Testing
16 14 (6.863%) Incident Management
16 14 (6.863%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (9.314%) C
2 4 (1.961%) SQL
3 2 (0.980%) Java
4 1 (0.490%) XPath
4 1 (0.490%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.490%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.490%) VB
Qualifications
1 132 (64.71%) Security Cleared
2 91 (44.61%) SC Cleared
3 43 (21.08%) DV Cleared
4 31 (15.20%) CISSP
5 18 (8.824%) Degree
6 13 (6.373%) CISM
7 12 (5.882%) CISA
8 11 (5.392%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 8 (3.922%) BC Cleared
10 6 (2.941%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (2.941%) CCSP
11 5 (2.451%) MCITP
11 5 (2.451%) MCSE
11 5 (2.451%) MCP
11 5 (2.451%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.961%) MCSA
12 4 (1.961%) GIAC
12 4 (1.961%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (1.961%) PCI QSA
13 3 (1.471%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (32.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (5.392%) JSP 440
3 10 (4.902%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.941%) SLA
4 6 (2.941%) COBIT
5 5 (2.451%) QA
5 5 (2.451%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.490%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 20 (9.804%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (3.922%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (1.961%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.961%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (1.961%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.471%) Snort
Systems Management
1 2 (0.980%) HP Data Protector
2 1 (0.490%) Splunk
2 1 (0.490%) HP UCMDB
2 1 (0.490%) Netcool
2 1 (0.490%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 20 (9.804%) Oracle
1 20 (9.804%) VMware
2 12 (5.882%) Microsoft
3 11 (5.392%) IBM
4 9 (4.412%) Citrix
5 7 (3.431%) HP
6 6 (2.941%) Informatica
7 5 (2.451%) ArcSight
7 5 (2.451%) Juniper
8 4 (1.961%) Hyperion
8 4 (1.961%) Apple
8 4 (1.961%) Siebel
8 4 (1.961%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.471%) Sourcefire
9 3 (1.471%) Primavera
10 2 (0.980%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.980%) TIBCO
10 2 (0.980%) Brocade
10 2 (0.980%) Veeam
10 2 (0.980%) TippingPoint
SC Security Officer
Taunton, South West
SC clearance is required... Work with project teams to produce the Risk Management Accredited Document Set (RMADS) required for successful accreditation... Experience of producing and maintaining Risk Management...
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £400 - £410 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
CLAS Consultant- CISSP, Security, CESG, HMG
Devon
The successful CLAS Consultant wll need to have SC Clearance as an Immediate start is required... * Able to provide a level of technical expertise commensurate with that of...
Rullion IT Plus
Posted: 20 May 2013
IT Security Officer
Taunton, South West
Work with project teams to produce the Risk Management Accredited Document Set (RMADS) required for successful accreditation... * Experience of producing and maintaining Risk Management Accredited Document Sets (RMADS)...
Capita Resourcing
Posted: 15 May 2013
Information Assurance Manager
London
A leading Public sector client is looking for a contract Information Assurance Manager to support the programme's security accreditation activities... The suitable candidate will have proven demonstrable...
Reed Technology
Posted: 21 May 2013
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