The first table below looks at the demand for Information Assurance skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Information Assurance 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the Hampshire 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
Information Assurance
Rank 97 91 104
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +13
Contract jobs citing Information Assurance 6 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.393% 0.189% 0.054%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.581% 0.296% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £420 - £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £426 £575 £463
% change year-on-year
-25.86% +24.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.00 £25.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year
+16.00% +42.85%
All Processes & Methodologies
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1032 1014 1189
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 67.63% 63.73% 64.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 583 476 533
Average daily rate £370 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £265 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 99 130
Average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.90% -11.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.20 £14.43 £13.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Information Assurance
South East

Information Assurance
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire Information Assurance Daily 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 Hampshire 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
Southampton - 3 - -
Gosport - 1 - -
Information Assurance
South East

Information Assurance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 8 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 6 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 5 (55.56%) SIEM
4 4 (44.44%) Management Information System
5 3 (33.33%) Information Security
5 3 (33.33%) Law
5 3 (33.33%) Sourcefire
5 3 (33.33%) Snort
5 3 (33.33%) Use Case
5 3 (33.33%) JSP 440
5 3 (33.33%) JSP
6 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
6 2 (22.22%) Citrix
6 2 (22.22%) CISSP
6 2 (22.22%) Internet
6 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
6 2 (22.22%) Change Management
6 2 (22.22%) Windows
6 2 (22.22%) LAN
6 2 (22.22%) WAN
6 2 (22.22%) RMADS
6 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
6 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
6 2 (22.22%) TOGAF
6 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
6 2 (22.22%) Change Control
7 1 (11.11%) HP UCMDB
7 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (11.11%) Finance
7 1 (11.11%) Service Management

Information Assurance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 3 (33.33%) JSP
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) Middleware
2 1 (11.11%) XML
2 1 (11.11%) XSL
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Internet
1 2 (22.22%) LAN
1 2 (22.22%) WAN
2 1 (11.11%) tcpdump
2 1 (11.11%) Wireshark
2 1 (11.11%) SMTP
2 1 (11.11%) FTP
2 1 (11.11%) HTTP
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) LDAP
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Discoverer
1 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (33.33%) Law
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Security Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Security Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Security Operations Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Security Manager
3 1 (11.11%) CLAS Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Information Assurance Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Operations Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Management Information System
2 2 (22.22%) RMADS
3 1 (11.11%) CESG
3 1 (11.11%) PKI
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (11.11%) CMDB
3 1 (11.11%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Solaris
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) SIEM
2 3 (33.33%) Information Security
2 3 (33.33%) Use Case
3 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Change Management
3 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
3 2 (22.22%) TOGAF
3 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
3 2 (22.22%) Change Control
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Service Management
4 1 (11.11%) Asset Management
4 1 (11.11%) Security Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Management
4 1 (11.11%) Security Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
4 1 (11.11%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) XPath
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
1 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 6 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) CISSP
3 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) GCIA
4 1 (11.11%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) JSP 440
2 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Snort
2 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) HP UCMDB
1 1 (11.11%) Netcool
1 1 (11.11%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Sourcefire
2 2 (22.22%) Citrix
3 1 (11.11%) ArcSight
3 1 (11.11%) TippingPoint
3 1 (11.11%) Compuware
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) TIBCO
3 1 (11.11%) CA
3 1 (11.11%) Veritas
3 1 (11.11%) HP