The first table below looks at the demand for Intrusion Detection skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Intrusion Detection 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 Leeds 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
Intrusion Detection
Rank 62 - 51
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Intrusion Detection 12 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 1.624% - 0.472%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.897% - 4.839%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 3
Average daily rate £275 - £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £344 £340
% change year-on-year
-8.36% +1.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 - £40.00
All Communications & Networking
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
174 119 62
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 23.55% 13.69% 9.748%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 55 22
Average daily rate £275 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £235 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £350 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 12
Average hourly rate £34.00 £13.75 £19.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+147.27% -30.37%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.90 £11.00 £11.93
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £115.00 £30.00 £31.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
Intrusion Detection
West Yorkshire

Intrusion Detection
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds Intrusion Detection Jobs Demand Trend

Intrusion Detection
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leeds Intrusion Detection Daily Rate Trend

Intrusion Detection
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Intrusion Detection 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 Intrusion Detection.

1 13 (92.86%) C++
1 13 (92.86%) PHP
1 13 (92.86%) Oracle
1 13 (92.86%) Apache
1 13 (92.86%) Python
1 13 (92.86%) Internet
1 13 (92.86%) Configuration Management
2 12 (85.71%) DNS
2 12 (85.71%) Client/Server
2 12 (85.71%) Web Services
2 12 (85.71%) Linux
2 12 (85.71%) MySQL
2 12 (85.71%) Telecoms
2 12 (85.71%) Load Balancing
2 12 (85.71%) Security Testing
2 12 (85.71%) Kanban
2 12 (85.71%) Ruby
2 12 (85.71%) Test Automation
2 12 (85.71%) nginx
2 12 (85.71%) Amazon EC2
2 12 (85.71%) Amazon S3
2 12 (85.71%) Amazon AWS
2 12 (85.71%) Bash shell
2 12 (85.71%) Puppet
2 12 (85.71%) MongoDB
2 12 (85.71%) Node.js
2 12 (85.71%) Redis
2 12 (85.71%) Route 53
2 12 (85.71%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (78.57%) TCP/IP

Intrusion Detection
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 12 (85.71%) Web Services
1 12 (85.71%) Node.js
2 2 (14.29%) LAMP
2 2 (14.29%) POSIX
2 2 (14.29%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 13 (92.86%) Apache
2 12 (85.71%) nginx
2 12 (85.71%) Amazon EC2
2 12 (85.71%) Amazon S3
2 12 (85.71%) Amazon AWS
2 12 (85.71%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 13 (92.86%) Internet
2 12 (85.71%) DNS
3 11 (78.57%) TCP/IP
3 11 (78.57%) SSL
3 11 (78.57%) DHCP
4 2 (14.29%) Network Security
4 2 (14.29%) Firewall
4 2 (14.29%) HTTP
5 1 (7.143%) SAN
5 1 (7.143%) NetScreen
5 1 (7.143%) SMTP
5 1 (7.143%) SSH
5 1 (7.143%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (7.143%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (85.71%) MySQL
1 12 (85.71%) MongoDB
1 12 (85.71%) Redis
1 12 (85.71%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 2 (14.29%) Couchbase
2 2 (14.29%) SimpleDB
2 2 (14.29%) RDBMS
General
1 12 (85.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Administrator
2 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (7.143%) Software Developer
3 1 (7.143%) Architect
3 1 (7.143%) Senior Security Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Security Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Developer
3 1 (7.143%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.143%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Senior Network Security Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Python Developer
3 1 (7.143%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (85.71%) Client/Server
2 1 (7.143%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 12 (85.71%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Solaris
3 1 (7.143%) Windows
3 1 (7.143%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Configuration Management
2 12 (85.71%) Load Balancing
2 12 (85.71%) Security Testing
2 12 (85.71%) Kanban
2 12 (85.71%) Test Automation
3 10 (71.43%) Incident Management
3 10 (71.43%) Capacity Management
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (14.29%) Network Design
4 2 (14.29%) TDD
5 1 (7.143%) CRM
5 1 (7.143%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) C++
1 13 (92.86%) PHP
1 13 (92.86%) Python
2 12 (85.71%) Ruby
2 12 (85.71%) Bash shell
3 11 (78.57%) Java
3 11 (78.57%) Perl
4 1 (7.143%) C
4 1 (7.143%) SQL
4 1 (7.143%) VB
4 1 (7.143%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (7.143%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 12 (85.71%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) Oracle
2 10 (71.43%) Percona
3 2 (14.29%) McAfee
3 2 (14.29%) Cisco
3 2 (14.29%) Juniper
4 1 (7.143%) NetApp
4 1 (7.143%) Sun
4 1 (7.143%) Blue Coat