The first table below looks at the demand for Network Security 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 Network Security 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 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
Network Security
Rank 84 77 99
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +22
Contract jobs citing Network Security 19 17 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 1.245% 1.069% 0.324%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.032% 5.556% 2.190%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 1
Average daily rate £400 £406 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.53% +47.72%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £375 £365
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 4
Average hourly rate - £21.50 £34.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -38.12%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £25.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+30.00% +25.00%
All Communications & Networking
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
315 306 274
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 20.64% 19.23% 14.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 128 81
Average daily rate £340 £361 £311
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +16.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £488 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 53 75
Average hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.71% +11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £21.50 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
Network Security
South East

Network Security
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire Network Security Jobs Demand Trend

Network Security
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hampshire Network Security Daily Rate Trend

Network Security
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Hampshire Network Security Daily Rate Histogram

Network Security
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hampshire Network Security Hourly Rate Trend

Network Security
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Security 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 +1 4 £365 -
Winchester -1 1 £440 -
Andover - 1 - -
Network Security
South East

Network Security
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing Network Security 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 Network Security.

1 13 (40.63%) Cisco
2 11 (34.38%) Firewall
2 11 (34.38%) Security Cleared
2 11 (34.38%) SC Cleared
3 9 (28.13%) Disaster Recovery
3 9 (28.13%) VPN
4 7 (21.88%) DNS
4 7 (21.88%) LAN
4 7 (21.88%) Active Directory
5 6 (18.75%) SAN
5 6 (18.75%) WAN
5 6 (18.75%) Network Design
6 5 (15.63%) Telecoms
6 5 (15.63%) Replication
6 5 (15.63%) VMware
6 5 (15.63%) SharePoint
6 5 (15.63%) Windows
6 5 (15.63%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
6 5 (15.63%) Juniper
6 5 (15.63%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (15.63%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (12.50%) CheckPoint
7 4 (12.50%) CCNP
7 4 (12.50%) Citrix
7 4 (12.50%) PRINCE2
7 4 (12.50%) MS Exchange
7 4 (12.50%) SSL
7 4 (12.50%) Migration
7 4 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection

Network Security
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (3.125%) Ajax
1 1 (3.125%) .NET Framework
1 1 (3.125%) WCF
1 1 (3.125%) WF
1 1 (3.125%) LINQ
1 1 (3.125%) jQuery
1 1 (3.125%) WinForms
1 1 (3.125%) DHTML
1 1 (3.125%) .NET
1 1 (3.125%) ADO.NET
1 1 (3.125%) ASP.NET
1 1 (3.125%) COM
1 1 (3.125%) CSS
1 1 (3.125%) SOAP
1 1 (3.125%) Web Services
1 1 (3.125%) XML
1 1 (3.125%) XSL
1 1 (3.125%) XSLT
1 1 (3.125%) SAML
1 1 (3.125%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 5 (15.63%) SharePoint
2 4 (12.50%) MS Exchange
3 2 (6.250%) Apache
4 1 (3.125%) ESB
4 1 (3.125%) GlassFish
4 1 (3.125%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (3.125%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (34.38%) Firewall
2 9 (28.13%) VPN
3 7 (21.88%) DNS
3 7 (21.88%) LAN
4 6 (18.75%) SAN
4 6 (18.75%) WAN
5 5 (15.63%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (12.50%) SSL
6 4 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (9.375%) IPsec
7 3 (9.375%) DHCP
7 3 (9.375%) HTTP
7 3 (9.375%) BGP
8 2 (6.250%) MPLS
8 2 (6.250%) OSPF
8 2 (6.250%) EIGRP
9 1 (3.125%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (3.125%) LDAP
9 1 (3.125%) RIP
9 1 (3.125%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.125%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (3.125%) GIS
1 1 (3.125%) SQL Server
1 1 (3.125%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (3.125%) Visual Studio
1 1 (3.125%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (15.63%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.125%) Banking
2 1 (3.125%) Finance
2 1 (3.125%) Military
2 1 (3.125%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Network Engineer
2 7 (21.88%) Architect
3 6 (18.75%) Design Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) Network Security Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) Security Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Network Design Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure Architect
4 5 (15.63%) Project Manager
5 4 (12.50%) Analyst
6 3 (9.375%) Network Security Analyst
6 3 (9.375%) Network Analyst
6 3 (9.375%) Security Analyst
6 3 (9.375%) Programme Manager
7 2 (6.250%) IT Project Manager
7 2 (6.250%) Firewall Engineer
7 2 (6.250%) Firewall Analyst
8 1 (3.125%) Technical Engineer
8 1 (3.125%) Linux Engineer
8 1 (3.125%) Server Analyst
8 1 (3.125%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Replication
2 2 (6.250%) Digital Media
2 2 (6.250%) Clustering
3 1 (3.125%) Statistics
3 1 (3.125%) Remote Sensing
3 1 (3.125%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.125%) PMI
3 1 (3.125%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.125%) Open Source
3 1 (3.125%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.63%) Windows
2 3 (9.375%) Windows 7
3 2 (6.250%) Linux
4 1 (3.125%) UNIX
4 1 (3.125%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (28.13%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (18.75%) Network Design
3 4 (12.50%) PRINCE2
3 4 (12.50%) Migration
3 4 (12.50%) Content Management
4 3 (9.375%) Data Migration
4 3 (9.375%) Operations Management
4 3 (9.375%) Project Management
4 3 (9.375%) ITIL
5 2 (6.250%) Information Security
5 2 (6.250%) Workflow
5 2 (6.250%) Business Analysis
6 1 (3.125%) Web Development
6 1 (3.125%) Software Engineering
6 1 (3.125%) Zachman Framework
6 1 (3.125%) TOGAF
6 1 (3.125%) Time Management
6 1 (3.125%) Load Balancing
6 1 (3.125%) Validation
6 1 (3.125%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.125%) C#
1 1 (3.125%) Java
1 1 (3.125%) JavaScript
1 1 (3.125%) Perl
1 1 (3.125%) PHP
1 1 (3.125%) SQL
1 1 (3.125%) T-SQL
1 1 (3.125%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (34.38%) Security Cleared
1 11 (34.38%) SC Cleared
2 5 (15.63%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (12.50%) CCNP
4 2 (6.250%) CCSP
4 2 (6.250%) CCNA
5 1 (3.125%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (3.125%) CCSA
5 1 (3.125%) CCDP
5 1 (3.125%) PMI Certification
5 1 (3.125%) CCIP
5 1 (3.125%) CCIE
5 1 (3.125%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Active Directory
2 5 (15.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.125%) ISA Server
3 1 (3.125%) Shibboleth
3 1 (3.125%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (6.250%) SCCM
2 1 (3.125%) SCOM
2 1 (3.125%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (3.125%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (3.125%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 13 (40.63%) Cisco
2 5 (15.63%) VMware
2 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.63%) Juniper
3 4 (12.50%) CheckPoint
3 4 (12.50%) Citrix
4 3 (9.375%) IBM
5 2 (6.250%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.125%) BT
6 1 (3.125%) Oracle
6 1 (3.125%) Red Hat
Southampton, Hampshire
Server Engineer / Server Supoprt: *Core infrastructure hardware including server, storage, network, security *Core logical infrastructure including server operating systems, Directory Services, file, print *Management of DFS, DNS, DHCP...
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Posted: 20 May 2013