The first table below looks at the demand for Intrusion Detection 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 Intrusion Detection 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 of the Communications & Networking 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Intrusion Detection
Rank 456 492 546
Rank change year-on-year
+36 +54
Contract jobs citing Intrusion Detection 57 67 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.137% 0.126% 0.044%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.933% 0.799% 0.339%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 37 9
Average daily rate £350 £453 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.65% +33.08%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £250 £308
10% offered a daily rate of more than £495 £610 £480
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £344 £340
% change year-on-year
-8.36% +1.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
Average hourly rate £40.00 - £34.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 - £40.00
All Communications & Networking
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6108 8385 7368
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 14.69% 15.72% 13.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3064 3932 3397
Average daily rate £350 £365 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.10% +4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 500 561 752
Average hourly rate £21.50 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.81 £12.21
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.50 £45.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
Intrusion Detection
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Intrusion Detection
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Intrusion Detection Jobs Demand Trend

Intrusion Detection
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Intrusion Detection Daily Rate Trend

Intrusion Detection
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Intrusion Detection across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Intrusion Detection Daily Rate Histogram

Intrusion Detection
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Intrusion Detection Hourly Rate Trend

Intrusion Detection
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Intrusion Detection within the England region over the 3 months to 24 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
South East +37 28 £462 +23.20%
Yorkshire - 14 £275 -
London +5 10 £388 -22.50%
North West +13 4 £175 -53.33%
South West +24 1 £413 -
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Intrusion Detection
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Intrusion Detection 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 Intrusion Detection.

1 58 (53.70%) Firewall
2 53 (49.07%) Internet
3 46 (42.59%) Cisco
4 34 (31.48%) Juniper
5 31 (28.70%) Telecoms
6 30 (27.78%) Security Cleared
7 29 (26.85%) CISSP
8 27 (25.00%) Finance
8 27 (25.00%) McAfee
8 27 (25.00%) SC Cleared
9 26 (24.07%) Network Security
9 26 (24.07%) TCP/IP
10 24 (22.22%) Solaris
11 22 (20.37%) Oracle
11 22 (20.37%) DNS
11 22 (20.37%) Incident Management
12 20 (18.52%) Information Security
12 20 (18.52%) SMTP
12 20 (18.52%) Linux
13 19 (17.59%) SAN
13 19 (17.59%) CEH
13 19 (17.59%) PCI DSS
14 17 (15.74%) Security Testing
14 17 (15.74%) Load Balancing
14 17 (15.74%) Network Load Balancing
14 17 (15.74%) Configuration Management
14 17 (15.74%) Apache
15 15 (13.89%) Java
15 15 (13.89%) Radware
15 15 (13.89%) NAS

Intrusion Detection
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Intrusion Detection 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 Intrusion Detection. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (11.11%) Web Services
1 12 (11.11%) Node.js
2 2 (1.852%) LAMP
2 2 (1.852%) POSIX
2 2 (1.852%) ASP
2 2 (1.852%) CSS
3 1 (0.926%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 17 (15.74%) Apache
2 12 (11.11%) nginx
2 12 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
2 12 (11.11%) Amazon S3
2 12 (11.11%) Amazon AWS
2 12 (11.11%) Route 53
3 6 (5.556%) MS Exchange
4 4 (3.704%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.926%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (0.926%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 58 (53.70%) Firewall
2 53 (49.07%) Internet
3 26 (24.07%) Network Security
3 26 (24.07%) TCP/IP
4 22 (20.37%) DNS
5 20 (18.52%) SMTP
6 19 (17.59%) SAN
7 15 (13.89%) NAS
8 13 (12.04%) DHCP
8 13 (12.04%) SSL
9 9 (8.333%) BGP
9 9 (8.333%) VPN
10 8 (7.407%) MPLS
10 8 (7.407%) OSPF
11 7 (6.481%) LAN
12 6 (5.556%) NetScreen
12 6 (5.556%) EIGRP
13 5 (4.630%) OpenLDAP
14 4 (3.704%) IP Telephony
14 4 (3.704%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.11%) MySQL
1 12 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 12 (11.11%) Redis
1 12 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.852%) Couchbase
2 2 (1.852%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.852%) SimpleDB
2 2 (1.852%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.926%) GIS
3 1 (0.926%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.926%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 31 (28.70%) Telecoms
2 27 (25.00%) Finance
3 4 (3.704%) Investment Banking
3 4 (3.704%) Banking
3 4 (3.704%) Legal
4 3 (2.778%) Games
5 2 (1.852%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 25 (23.15%) Architect
2 17 (15.74%) Solutions Architect
3 15 (13.89%) Analyst
4 12 (11.11%) Security Analyst
5 10 (9.259%) Network Engineer
6 9 (8.333%) Consultant
6 9 (8.333%) Security Engineer
7 8 (7.407%) Penetration Tester
7 8 (7.407%) Tester
7 8 (7.407%) Security Consultant
8 5 (4.630%) Network Security Engineer
8 5 (4.630%) Security Manager
8 5 (4.630%) Technical Analyst
9 4 (3.704%) Design Engineer
9 4 (3.704%) Network Architect
9 4 (3.704%) Infrastructure Architect
9 4 (3.704%) Network Design Engineer
9 4 (3.704%) Technical Security Analyst
9 4 (3.704%) Operations Manager
9 4 (3.704%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.96%) Client/Server
2 8 (7.407%) Management Information System
3 7 (6.481%) CESG
4 4 (3.704%) PKI
4 4 (3.704%) Data Integration
4 4 (3.704%) RMADS
5 3 (2.778%) Computer Science
5 3 (2.778%) Online Games
6 1 (0.926%) Blackberry
6 1 (0.926%) Thin Client
6 1 (0.926%) Open Source
6 1 (0.926%) SaaS
6 1 (0.926%) Fat Client
6 1 (0.926%) Cryptography
6 1 (0.926%) Device Driver
6 1 (0.926%) Clustering
6 1 (0.926%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 24 (22.22%) Solaris
2 20 (18.52%) Linux
3 14 (12.96%) Windows
4 13 (12.04%) UNIX
5 4 (3.704%) Windows XP
6 1 (0.926%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.926%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.926%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (20.37%) Incident Management
2 20 (18.52%) Information Security
3 17 (15.74%) Security Testing
3 17 (15.74%) Load Balancing
3 17 (15.74%) Network Load Balancing
3 17 (15.74%) Configuration Management
4 15 (13.89%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 14 (12.96%) Reverse Engineering
6 13 (12.04%) CRM
7 12 (11.11%) Test Automation
7 12 (11.11%) Kanban
7 12 (11.11%) Penetration Testing
8 10 (9.259%) Capacity Management
8 10 (9.259%) SIEM
9 8 (7.407%) Ethical Hacking
9 8 (7.407%) Project Management
10 7 (6.481%) Service Delivery
10 7 (6.481%) Network Design
10 7 (6.481%) TOGAF
11 6 (5.556%) Computer Security
Programming Languages
1 15 (13.89%) Java
2 14 (12.96%) C++
2 14 (12.96%) PHP
2 14 (12.96%) Python
3 12 (11.11%) Perl
3 12 (11.11%) Bash shell
3 12 (11.11%) Ruby
4 2 (1.852%) C
4 2 (1.852%) SQL
4 2 (1.852%) VB
4 2 (1.852%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 29 (26.85%) CISSP
3 27 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 19 (17.59%) CEH
5 14 (12.96%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (8.333%) Degree
7 6 (5.556%) CCSA
7 6 (5.556%) CCSE
7 6 (5.556%) CCIE
7 6 (5.556%) CCNA
8 4 (3.704%) EnCE
8 4 (3.704%) CCSP
8 4 (3.704%) CCNP
9 3 (2.778%) ISEB
9 3 (2.778%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (1.852%) GCIA
10 2 (1.852%) JNCIE
11 1 (0.926%) MCP
11 1 (0.926%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.926%) CCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (17.59%) PCI DSS
2 8 (7.407%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.704%) QA
4 1 (0.926%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (5.556%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.630%) Sendmail
3 1 (0.926%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.926%) XenApp
3 1 (0.926%) XenDesktop
3 1 (0.926%) Forefront TMG
3 1 (0.926%) UAG
3 1 (0.926%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.926%) Snort
Systems Management
1 12 (11.11%) Puppet
2 4 (3.704%) Tivoli
3 2 (1.852%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (0.926%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 46 (42.59%) Cisco
2 34 (31.48%) Juniper
3 27 (25.00%) McAfee
4 22 (20.37%) Oracle
5 15 (13.89%) Radware
6 10 (9.259%) Percona
7 9 (8.333%) CheckPoint
8 7 (6.481%) Blue Coat
9 5 (4.630%) NetApp
9 5 (4.630%) Sun
9 5 (4.630%) Qualys
10 4 (3.704%) HP
10 4 (3.704%) CA
11 3 (2.778%) Nokia
11 3 (2.778%) Brocade
12 2 (1.852%) Q1 Labs
12 2 (1.852%) F5
12 2 (1.852%) ArcSight
12 2 (1.852%) Sourcefire
12 2 (1.852%) Crossbeam
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