Lancashire Information Security Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Information Security (INFOSEC) skills within the Lancashire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Information Security over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Information Security (INFOSEC)
Location Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bristol Camberley Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Coventry Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Preston Reading Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Solihull South East South Wales South West Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	31	45
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching contract IT job ads	4	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	2.353 %	0.295 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£412	£414
% change on same period last year	-0.36 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	-
Average hourly rate	£27.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.88	£42.00
% change on same period last year	-40.75 %
Processes & Methodologies Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	170	339
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.227 %	0.343 %
Daily rates quoted	40	89
Average minimum daily rate	£381	£345
Average daily rate	£393	£354
% change on same period last year	+11.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£405	£363
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	31	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.43	£23.59
Average hourly rate	£24.39	£26.56
% change on same period last year	-8.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.36	£29.52
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
Information Security North West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Information Security
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Information Security across the Lancashire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Information Security
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Information Security across the Lancashire region.

Information Security
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Information Security across the Lancashire region.

Information Security
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Information Security across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Information Security
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Information Security within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Preston	-	4	-	-

Information Security North West

Information Security
Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region citing Information 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 Information Security.

1 11 (100.00 %) BS7799 1 11 (100.00 %) Management Information System 1 11 (100.00 %) Risk Management 1 11 (100.00 %) Risk Assessment 1 11 (100.00 %) ISO27001 2 10 (90.91 %) ISO17799 3 7 (63.64 %) CISSP

Information Security
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region citing Information 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 Information Security. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Job Titles 1 11 (100.00 %) Security Specialist 1 11 (100.00 %) IT Security Specialist	Miscellaneous 1 11 (100.00 %) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (100.00 %) Risk Management 1 11 (100.00 %) Risk Assessment	Qualifications 1 7 (63.64 %) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 11 (100.00 %) BS7799 1 11 (100.00 %) ISO27001 2 10 (90.91 %) ISO17799