ISO/IEC 27001 Contracts in England

The first table below looks at the demand for ISO/IEC 27001 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 ISO/IEC 27001 over the 3 months to 17 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 Quality Assurance & Compliance 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.

3 months to
17 May 2013

Same period 2012

Same period 2011

ISO/IEC 27001

Rank

327

376

468

Rank change year-on-year

+49

+92

Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001

192

184

104

As % of all contract IT jobs located in England

0.462%

0.345%

0.184%

As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category

6.551%

4.565%

2.552%

Number of daily rates quoted

116

Average daily rate

£450

£475

£450

Average daily rate % change year-on-year

-5.26%

+5.55%

90% offered a daily rate of more than

£285

£230

£325

10% offered a daily rate of more than

£600

£575

£573

UK excluding London average daily rate

£429

£500

£400

% change year-on-year

-14.20%

+25.00%

Number of hourly rates quoted

Average hourly rate

£14.00

UK excluding London average hourly rate

£14.00

All Quality Assurance & Compliance
England

Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category

2931

4031

4075

As % of all contract IT jobs located in England

7.051%

7.555%

7.222%

Number of daily rates quoted

1784

2135

2241

Average daily rate

£413

£425

£450

Average daily rate % change year-on-year

-2.94%

-5.55%

90% offered a daily rate of more than

£228

£225

£250

10% offered a daily rate of more than

£550

£600

£610

UK excluding London average daily rate

£340

£350

£375

% change year-on-year

-2.85%

-6.66%

Number of hourly rates quoted

100

221

223

Average hourly rate

£20.00

£16.72

£27.00

Average hourly rate % change year-on-year

+19.61%

-38.07%

90% offered a hourly rate of more than

£11.00

£11.50

£11.00

10% offered a hourly rate of more than

£116.25

£37.00

£40.00

UK excluding London average hourly rate

£17.50

£16.35

£29.00

% change year-on-year

+7.03%

-43.62%

ISO/IEC 27001
UK

ISO/IEC 27001
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 across the England region.

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

ISO/IEC 27001
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 across the England region.

ISO/IEC 27001
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 within the England region over the 3 months to 17 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	+68	114	£455	+7.05%
South East	+26	31	£475	-4.90%
South West	+19	24	£440	-23.47%
West Midlands	+14	11	£365	-
East of England	+11	7	£293	-36.75%
North West	-12	5	£488	+150.00%
Yorkshire	0	4	£325	-35.00%
ISO/IEC 27001 UK

ISO/IEC 27001
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing ISO/IEC 27001 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 ISO/IEC 27001.

1	172 (47.51%)	Information Security
2	120 (33.15%)	ITIL
3	115 (31.77%)	Security Cleared
4	98 (27.07%)	SC Cleared
5	70 (19.34%)	CISSP
6	64 (17.68%)	Finance
7	61 (16.85%)	Information Assurance
8	60 (16.57%)	PCI DSS
9	56 (15.47%)	Risk Management
10	53 (14.64%)	Risk Assessment
10	53 (14.64%)	Microsoft
11	52 (14.36%)	Firewall
11	52 (14.36%)	Incident Management
12	50 (13.81%)	Management Information System
12	50 (13.81%)	Windows

13	46 (12.71%)	Active Directory
14	44 (12.15%)	CISM
14	44 (12.15%)	Security Management
15	41 (11.33%)	MS Office
16	40 (11.05%)	VPN
16	40 (11.05%)	Citrix
17	38 (10.50%)	Change Management
18	37 (10.22%)	Cisco
19	36 (9.945%)	Data Protection
19	36 (9.945%)	ISMS
20	34 (9.392%)	Linux
20	34 (9.392%)	MS Excel
21	31 (8.564%)	MS Visio
22	30 (8.287%)	Information Security Management
23	29 (8.011%)	Legal

ISO/IEC 27001
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing ISO/IEC 27001 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 ISO/IEC 27001. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1	22 (6.077%)	HTML
1	22 (6.077%)	XML
1	22 (6.077%)	CSS
2	6 (1.657%)	.NET
3	5 (1.381%)	ASP
3	5 (1.381%)	XSL
3	5 (1.381%)	.NET Framework
4	3 (0.829%)	WCF
4	3 (0.829%)	WPF
4	3 (0.829%)	WF
4	3 (0.829%)	J2EE
5	2 (0.552%)	ASP.NET
5	2 (0.552%)	JSP
6	1 (0.276%)	Flash
6	1 (0.276%)	Hibernate
6	1 (0.276%)	Spring
6	1 (0.276%)	LINQ
6	1 (0.276%)	jQuery
6	1 (0.276%)	ASP.NET MVC
6	1 (0.276%)	ADO.NET Entity Framework

Application Platforms
1	18 (4.972%)	IIS
2	16 (4.420%)	MS Exchange
2	16 (4.420%)	CMS
2	16 (4.420%)	Adobe CQ
3	11 (3.039%)	SharePoint
4	10 (2.762%)	Lotus Notes
5	7 (1.934%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server
6	6 (1.657%)	Oracle Application Server
7	4 (1.105%)	SharePoint 2010
7	4 (1.105%)	LiveLink
8	3 (0.829%)	WebLogic
8	3 (0.829%)	Exchange Server 2010
8	3 (0.829%)	Exchange Server 2003
9	2 (0.552%)	Exchange Server 2007
10	1 (0.276%)	Apache

Applications
1	41 (11.33%)	MS Office
2	34 (9.392%)	MS Excel
3	31 (8.564%)	MS Visio
4	10 (2.762%)	MS PowerPoint
5	7 (1.934%)	MS Project
6	1 (0.276%)	Photoshop
6	1 (0.276%)	Fireworks
6	1 (0.276%)	Stata

Business Applications
1	3 (0.829%)	SAP Oil and Gas
1	3 (0.829%)	Remedy ITSM

Communications & Networking
1	52 (14.36%)	Firewall
2	40 (11.05%)	VPN
3	27 (7.459%)	Network Security
4	23 (6.354%)	TCP/IP
5	17 (4.696%)	LAN
6	12 (3.315%)	WAN
6	12 (3.315%)	Internet
7	11 (3.039%)	Wireless
8	8 (2.210%)	Intrusion Detection
8	8 (2.210%)	MPLS
8	8 (2.210%)	VoIP
9	7 (1.934%)	ATM
9	7 (1.934%)	DNS
9	7 (1.934%)	Intranet
10	5 (1.381%)	SAN
10	5 (1.381%)	SDH
11	4 (1.105%)	DHCP
11	4 (1.105%)	IPsec
11	4 (1.105%)	IP Telephony
12	2 (0.552%)	Cisco ASA

Database & Business Intelligence
1	8 (2.210%)	SQL Server
2	3 (0.829%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
2	3 (0.829%)	SQL Server Integration Services
3	2 (0.552%)	MySQL
4	1 (0.276%)	SQL Server 2008
4	1 (0.276%)	Hadoop
4	1 (0.276%)	Big Data

Development Applications
1	20 (5.525%)	Subversion
2	17 (4.696%)	TeamCity
3	16 (4.420%)	Git (software)
3	16 (4.420%)	Selenium
3	16 (4.420%)	Atlassian Bamboo
3	16 (4.420%)	JUnit
3	16 (4.420%)	Mockito
3	16 (4.420%)	Cucumber
3	16 (4.420%)	Hudson
3	16 (4.420%)	JBehave
3	16 (4.420%)	WebDriver
4	5 (1.381%)	Visual Studio
5	4 (1.105%)	InstallShield
6	2 (0.552%)	Team Foundation Server
7	1 (0.276%)	NUnit
7	1 (0.276%)	VSS/SourceSafe
7	1 (0.276%)	MSTest
7	1 (0.276%)	Jenkins

General
1	64 (17.68%)	Finance
2	29 (8.011%)	Legal
3	25 (6.906%)	Telecoms
4	21 (5.801%)	Banking
5	15 (4.144%)	Law
6	12 (3.315%)	Retail
7	10 (2.762%)	Local Government
8	7 (1.934%)	Manufacturing
9	6 (1.657%)	Advertising
10	4 (1.105%)	Publishing
11	3 (0.829%)	Games
11	3 (0.829%)	Financial Institution
11	3 (0.829%)	Electronics
12	2 (0.552%)	Marketing

Job Titles
1	106 (29.28%)	Analyst
2	65 (17.96%)	Consultant
3	52 (14.36%)	Security Analyst
4	46 (12.71%)	Security Consultant
5	32 (8.840%)	Architect
6	29 (8.011%)	Business Analyst
7	24 (6.630%)	Security Manager
8	23 (6.354%)	Security Architect
9	22 (6.077%)	Information Security Consultant
10	20 (5.525%)	Project Manager
11	19 (5.249%)	Change Analyst
12	18 (4.972%)	Senior Analyst
12	18 (4.972%)	Security Officer
13	17 (4.696%)	Business Change Analyst
13	17 (4.696%)	Developer
14	16 (4.420%)	Information Analyst
14	16 (4.420%)	Information Security Analyst
15	13 (3.591%)	Information Manager
15	13 (3.591%)	Help Desk Support
16	11 (3.039%)	Security Specialist

Miscellaneous
1	50 (13.81%)	Management Information System
2	28 (7.735%)	CESG
3	23 (6.354%)	Data Protection Act
4	20 (5.525%)	RMADS
5	16 (4.420%)	Enterprise Software
5	16 (4.420%)	Freedom of Information
6	14 (3.867%)	PKI
7	13 (3.591%)	Statistics
8	10 (2.762%)	CESG CLAS
9	9 (2.486%)	Freedom of Information Act
10	8 (2.210%)	Computer Science
11	7 (1.934%)	NHS
12	5 (1.381%)	Handset
12	5 (1.381%)	Blackberry
13	3 (0.829%)	Thin Client
13	3 (0.829%)	iSeries
13	3 (0.829%)	Fat Client
13	3 (0.829%)	Online Games
14	2 (0.552%)	SaaS
14	2 (0.552%)	DTV

Operating Systems
1	50 (13.81%)	Windows
2	34 (9.392%)	Linux
3	23 (6.354%)	UNIX
4	16 (4.420%)	Windows XP
4	16 (4.420%)	Windows 7
5	15 (4.144%)	Windows Server 2008
6	13 (3.591%)	Windows NT
7	12 (3.315%)	Windows Server 2003
8	5 (1.381%)	Solaris
9	2 (0.552%)	AIX
9	2 (0.552%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9	2 (0.552%)	Windows Server 2012
10	1 (0.276%)	zOS

Processes & Methodologies
1	172 (47.51%)	Information Security
2	120 (33.15%)	ITIL
3	61 (16.85%)	Information Assurance
4	56 (15.47%)	Risk Management
5	53 (14.64%)	Risk Assessment
6	52 (14.36%)	Incident Management
7	44 (12.15%)	Security Management
8	38 (10.50%)	Change Management
9	36 (9.945%)	ISMS
9	36 (9.945%)	Data Protection
10	30 (8.287%)	Information Security Management
11	28 (7.735%)	Business Continuity
12	27 (7.459%)	PRINCE2
13	23 (6.354%)	TOGAF
13	23 (6.354%)	Stakeholder Engagement
14	19 (5.249%)	SOA
14	19 (5.249%)	Service Delivery
15	18 (4.972%)	OO
15	18 (4.972%)	Vulnerability Management
16	17 (4.696%)	Continuous Integration

Programming Languages
1	23 (6.354%)	C
2	22 (6.077%)	JavaScript
3	19 (5.249%)	Java
4	14 (3.867%)	SQL
5	6 (1.657%)	C#
5	6 (1.657%)	VB
6	5 (1.381%)	VB6
6	5 (1.381%)	VBScript
7	1 (0.276%)	T-SQL

Qualifications
1	115 (31.77%)	Security Cleared
2	98 (27.07%)	SC Cleared
3	70 (19.34%)	CISSP
4	44 (12.15%)	CISM
5	28 (7.735%)	CISA
6	25 (6.906%)	DV Cleared
7	17 (4.696%)	Microsoft Certification
8	16 (4.420%)	Degree
9	11 (3.039%)	MCSE
10	10 (2.762%)	ISEB
10	10 (2.762%)	MCDST
11	9 (2.486%)	Cisco Certification
12	8 (2.210%)	PRINCE2 Certification
13	7 (1.934%)	MCP
13	7 (1.934%)	MCITP
14	5 (1.381%)	ISEB Practitioner
14	5 (1.381%)	JNCIE
14	5 (1.381%)	CRISC
14	5 (1.381%)	CCIE
15	4 (1.105%)	MCSD

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	60 (16.57%)	PCI DSS
2	25 (6.906%)	ISO 9000
3	22 (6.077%)	ISO 9001
4	16 (4.420%)	SLA
5	14 (3.867%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
5	14 (3.867%)	COBIT
6	9 (2.486%)	QA
6	9 (2.486%)	BS25999
6	9 (2.486%)	TickIT
7	4 (1.105%)	ISO/IEC 20000
8	2 (0.552%)	JSP 440
8	2 (0.552%)	ISO/IEC 17799
9	1 (0.276%)	GAMP
9	1 (0.276%)	BS7799

System Software
1	46 (12.71%)	Active Directory
2	14 (3.867%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	9 (2.486%)	XenApp
4	7 (1.934%)	XenDesktop
5	6 (1.657%)	Terminal Services
6	5 (1.381%)	vSphere
7	4 (1.105%)	Forefront TMG
7	4 (1.105%)	UAG
7	4 (1.105%)	Microsoft App-V
8	2 (0.552%)	Oracle RAC
8	2 (0.552%)	Hyper-V
8	2 (0.552%)	RACF
8	2 (0.552%)	VMware ESX
8	2 (0.552%)	vCloud
9	1 (0.276%)	XenServer
9	1 (0.276%)	Citrix Presentation Server

Systems Management
1	9 (2.486%)	Tivoli
2	8 (2.210%)	OpenView
3	7 (1.934%)	ServiceCenter
4	4 (1.105%)	SCCM
5	2 (0.552%)	WSUS
5	2 (0.552%)	Norton AntiVirus
6	1 (0.276%)	Nessus
6	1 (0.276%)	SCOM
6	1 (0.276%)	SolarWinds Orion
6	1 (0.276%)	Splunk

Vendors
1	53 (14.64%)	Microsoft
2	40 (11.05%)	Citrix
3	37 (10.22%)	Cisco
4	25 (6.906%)	Oracle
4	25 (6.906%)	VMware
5	18 (4.972%)	Juniper
6	17 (4.696%)	Adobe
6	17 (4.696%)	HP
7	13 (3.591%)	Remedy
8	12 (3.315%)	Symantec
9	10 (2.762%)	CA
9	10 (2.762%)	Lotus
10	7 (1.934%)	SAP
11	6 (1.657%)	IBM
11	6 (1.657%)	CheckPoint
11	6 (1.657%)	Riverbed
12	5 (1.381%)	Nortel
12	5 (1.381%)	Alcatel-Lucent
13	4 (1.105%)	Avaya
13	4 (1.105%)	NetApp

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