The first table below looks at the demand for Snort 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 Snort 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 System Software 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
Sourcefire Snort
Rank 501 547 567
Rank change year-on-year
+46 +20
Contract jobs citing Snort 12 12 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.029% 0.022% 0.007%
As % of the System Software category 0.301% 0.281% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 0
Average daily rate £450 £281 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+60.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £250 -
% change year-on-year
+80.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £45.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 - -
All System Software
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
3981 4264 4033
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 9.575% 7.994% 7.178%
Number of daily rates quoted 1941 2071 1786
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £460 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 570 595 619
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £35.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
Snort
UK

Snort
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Snort across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

England Snort Jobs Demand Trend

Snort
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Snort Daily Rate Trend

Snort
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England Snort Daily Rate Histogram

Snort
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Snort Hourly Rate Trend

Snort
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Snort 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 +18 7 - -
London +35 3 £350 +21.21%
East Midlands - 2 £450 -
Snort
UK

Snort
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 8 (61.54%) Sourcefire
1 8 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 6 (46.15%) Windows
2 6 (46.15%) SIEM
2 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
3 5 (38.46%) Firewall
4 4 (30.77%) VPN
4 4 (30.77%) Linux
4 4 (30.77%) DV Cleared
5 3 (23.08%) Network Security
5 3 (23.08%) Use Case
5 3 (23.08%) Information Security
5 3 (23.08%) Law
5 3 (23.08%) ArcSight
5 3 (23.08%) Information Assurance
5 3 (23.08%) ITIL
5 3 (23.08%) Cisco
5 3 (23.08%) Management Information System
5 3 (23.08%) Internet
5 3 (23.08%) GIAC
5 3 (23.08%) Juniper
6 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
6 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (15.38%) Symantec
6 2 (15.38%) Military
6 2 (15.38%) LDAP
6 2 (15.38%) Windows XP
6 2 (15.38%) VMS
6 2 (15.38%) UNIX

Snort
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (7.692%) Regular Expression
1 1 (7.692%) ASP
1 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET
1 1 (7.692%) CSS
1 1 (7.692%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.692%) IIS
1 1 (7.692%) Apache
1 1 (7.692%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) Firewall
2 4 (30.77%) VPN
3 3 (23.08%) Network Security
3 3 (23.08%) Internet
4 2 (15.38%) LDAP
4 2 (15.38%) VLAN
4 2 (15.38%) Wireshark
5 1 (7.692%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (7.692%) FWSM
5 1 (7.692%) tcpdump
5 1 (7.692%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (7.692%) WAAS
5 1 (7.692%) SMTP
5 1 (7.692%) FTP
5 1 (7.692%) HTTP
5 1 (7.692%) RIP
5 1 (7.692%) TCP/IP
5 1 (7.692%) LAN
5 1 (7.692%) WAN
5 1 (7.692%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
1 1 (7.692%) MySQL
1 1 (7.692%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 3 (23.08%) Law
2 2 (15.38%) Military
3 1 (7.692%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Analyst
2 5 (38.46%) Security Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Network Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Network Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Security Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Administrator
3 2 (15.38%) Installations Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Network Administrator
4 1 (7.692%) Incident Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) SQL DBA
4 1 (7.692%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (7.692%) Forensic Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Management Information System
2 2 (15.38%) Mathematics
3 1 (7.692%) Fat Client
3 1 (7.692%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Linux
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (15.38%) Windows XP
3 2 (15.38%) VMS
3 2 (15.38%) UNIX
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (7.692%) Ubuntu
4 1 (7.692%) Windows 2000 Server
4 1 (7.692%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (7.692%) Solaris
4 1 (7.692%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) SIEM
2 3 (23.08%) Use Case
2 3 (23.08%) Information Security
2 3 (23.08%) Information Assurance
2 3 (23.08%) ITIL
3 2 (15.38%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (15.38%) Change Control
3 2 (15.38%) Change Management
3 2 (15.38%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (15.38%) Incident Management
4 1 (7.692%) Load Balancing
4 1 (7.692%) Web Development
4 1 (7.692%) Release Management
4 1 (7.692%) Business Analysis
4 1 (7.692%) Network Design
4 1 (7.692%) Build Automation
4 1 (7.692%) Digital Forensics
4 1 (7.692%) Security Architecture
4 1 (7.692%) SSADM
4 1 (7.692%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) C
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
2 1 (7.692%) Bash shell
2 1 (7.692%) VBScript
2 1 (7.692%) VB
2 1 (7.692%) VB.NET
2 1 (7.692%) C#
2 1 (7.692%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
3 4 (30.77%) DV Cleared
4 3 (23.08%) GIAC
5 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (15.38%) MCSE
5 2 (15.38%) GCIA
5 2 (15.38%) Degree
6 1 (7.692%) ACSA
6 1 (7.692%) JNCIA
6 1 (7.692%) GCIH
6 1 (7.692%) CCSE
6 1 (7.692%) CCSP
6 1 (7.692%) CCNP
6 1 (7.692%) CCNA
6 1 (7.692%) CCSA
6 1 (7.692%) CISSP
6 1 (7.692%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.692%) COBIT
1 1 (7.692%) PCI DSS
1 1 (7.692%) HIPAA
1 1 (7.692%) SLA
1 1 (7.692%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
1 2 (15.38%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (7.692%) Nmap
2 1 (7.692%) ProxySG
2 1 (7.692%) NFS
2 1 (7.692%) Samba
2 1 (7.692%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Nessus
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Sourcefire
2 3 (23.08%) ArcSight
2 3 (23.08%) Cisco
2 3 (23.08%) Juniper
3 2 (15.38%) Symantec
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 2 (15.38%) LogLogic
3 2 (15.38%) Q1 Labs
4 1 (7.692%) Crossbeam
4 1 (7.692%) Blue Coat
4 1 (7.692%) F5
4 1 (7.692%) SAP
4 1 (7.692%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.692%) VMware
4 1 (7.692%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.692%) CheckPoint
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