The first table below looks at the demand for Network Security 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 Network Security over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Security
Rank 71 63 -
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -
Contract jobs citing Network Security 3 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.409% 0.568% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.765% 4.065% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
Average daily rate £325 £365 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.95% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £375 £365
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £25.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+30.00% +25.00%
All Communications & Networking
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
170 123 62
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 23.16% 13.96% 9.657%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 57 22
Average daily rate £275 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £204 £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 £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
Network Security
West Yorkshire

Network Security
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Network Security Daily Rate Trend

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 Leeds region.

Leeds Network Security Hourly Rate Trend

Network Security
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 6 (100.00%) Firewall
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco
3 4 (66.67%) LAN
3 4 (66.67%) WAN
3 4 (66.67%) CheckPoint
4 3 (50.00%) CCSA
4 3 (50.00%) CCSE
4 3 (50.00%) CCNP
4 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (33.33%) Juniper
5 2 (33.33%) VPN
5 2 (33.33%) MPLS
5 2 (33.33%) OSPF
5 2 (33.33%) McAfee
5 2 (33.33%) BGP
5 2 (33.33%) EIGRP
5 2 (33.33%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 2 (33.33%) ITIL
5 2 (33.33%) Solaris
5 2 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (33.33%) Internet
5 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
5 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
5 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
5 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
5 2 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (33.33%) FWSM
5 2 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (16.67%) Requirements Analysis

Network Security
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) LAN
2 4 (66.67%) WAN
3 2 (33.33%) VPN
3 2 (33.33%) MPLS
3 2 (33.33%) OSPF
3 2 (33.33%) BGP
3 2 (33.33%) EIGRP
3 2 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (33.33%) Internet
3 2 (33.33%) FWSM
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (16.67%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (16.67%) NAS
4 1 (16.67%) SMTP
4 1 (16.67%) NetScreen
4 1 (16.67%) DNS
4 1 (16.67%) SAN
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) VSS/SourceSafe
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Network Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Solaris
2 1 (16.67%) Windows XP
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
1 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 2 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (16.67%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
2 1 (16.67%) CRM
2 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) C
1 1 (16.67%) C++
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) Perl
1 1 (16.67%) PHP
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
1 1 (16.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) CCSA
1 3 (50.00%) CCSE
1 3 (50.00%) CCNP
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Sendmail
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco
2 4 (66.67%) CheckPoint
3 2 (33.33%) Juniper
3 2 (33.33%) McAfee
4 1 (16.67%) Blue Coat
4 1 (16.67%) Oracle
4 1 (16.67%) Sun
4 1 (16.67%) NetApp
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Austin Fraser are currently looking for a Network Security Engineerbased in Leeds for an initial 6 month contract with view to extensions. The role of the Network Security...
Austin Fraser
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013