The first table below looks at the demand for ISO/IEC 27001 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 ISO/IEC 27001 over the 3 months to 17 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 Quality Assurance & Compliance 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
ISO/IEC 27001
Rank 74 66 51
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -15
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 2 2 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.268% 0.225% 0.958%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.774% 3.571% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 6
Average daily rate £350 £500 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-30.00% +42.85%
UK excluding London average daily rate £429 £500 £400
% change year-on-year
-14.20% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £14.00 -
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
53 56 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 7.114% 6.292% 5.751%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 27 21
Average daily rate £325 £380 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.47% +1.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £200 £308
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £500 £493
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
-2.85% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 8
Average hourly rate £13.00 £12.00 £11.82
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% +1.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.40 £10.75 £6.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £37.25 £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.35 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+7.03% -43.62%
ISO/IEC 27001
West Yorkshire

ISO/IEC 27001
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 across the Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

Leeds ISO/IEC 27001 Jobs Demand Trend

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 across the Leeds region.

Leeds ISO/IEC 27001 Daily Rate Trend

ISO/IEC 27001
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 across the Leeds region.

Leeds ISO/IEC 27001 Hourly Rate Trend

ISO/IEC 27001
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing ISO/IEC 27001 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 ISO/IEC 27001.

1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) HP
1 1 (33.33%) Nokia
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (33.33%) NHS
1 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (33.33%) BCP
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) VMware
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESX
1 1 (33.33%) Stata
1 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security
1 1 (33.33%) Supplier Management
1 1 (33.33%) QA
1 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

ISO/IEC 27001
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing ISO/IEC 27001 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 ISO/IEC 27001. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Stata
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Contracts Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Network Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
1 1 (33.33%) BCP
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security
1 1 (33.33%) Supplier Management
1 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESX
1 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) HP
1 1 (33.33%) Nokia
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
1 1 (33.33%) VMware
1 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds