The first table below looks at the demand for Information Assurance skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Information Assurance over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the London 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Information Assurance
Rank 311 337 409
Rank change year-on-year
+26 +72
Contract jobs citing Information Assurance 73 73 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.320% 0.275% 0.108%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.428% 0.383% 0.153%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 62 11
Average daily rate £475 £550 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.63% +107.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £395 £450 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £607 £643 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £440 £575 £425
% change year-on-year
-23.47% +35.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £27.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.50 £25.00 £33.50
% change year-on-year
+58.00% -25.37%
All Processes & Methodologies
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
17065 19078 22245
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 74.84% 71.75% 70.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11706 12560 14646
Average daily rate £450 £450 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £301
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 324 348
Average hourly rate £26.66 £26.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.53% +4.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.97 £15.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £55.00 £45.00 £53.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Information Assurance
England

Information Assurance
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Information Assurance across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

London Information Assurance Jobs Demand Trend

Information Assurance
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Information Assurance across the London region.

London Information Assurance Daily Rate Trend

Information Assurance
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Information Assurance across the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

London Information Assurance Daily Rate Histogram

Information Assurance
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Information Assurance across the London region.

London Information Assurance Hourly Rate Trend

Information Assurance
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Information Assurance within the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
City of London +7 39 £450 -14.28% 1
Hayes - - - -
Information Assurance
England

Information Assurance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Information Assurance 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 Assurance.

1 76 (69.09%) Security Cleared
2 57 (51.82%) SC Cleared
3 48 (43.64%) Information Security
4 47 (42.73%) ITIL
5 46 (41.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (28.18%) Finance
7 27 (24.55%) Management Information System
8 25 (22.73%) PRINCE2
9 23 (20.91%) Risk Assessment
10 22 (20.00%) Data Protection
11 21 (19.09%) Data Protection Act
12 20 (18.18%) Risk Management
13 19 (17.27%) Degree
13 19 (17.27%) DV Cleared
14 18 (16.36%) CISSP
15 17 (15.45%) Legal
16 15 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
17 14 (12.73%) Project Management
17 14 (12.73%) MS Office
18 13 (11.82%) CISA
18 13 (11.82%) Change Management
18 13 (11.82%) Banking
18 13 (11.82%) MS Visio
18 13 (11.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 13 (11.82%) Vulnerability Management
19 12 (10.91%) Penetration Testing
19 12 (10.91%) IBM
19 12 (10.91%) CISM
19 12 (10.91%) Service Management
20 10 (9.091%) PCI DSS

Information Assurance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Information Assurance 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 Assurance. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (0.909%) WebSphere
1 1 (0.909%) COM
1 1 (0.909%) Web Services
1 1 (0.909%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (1.818%) IBM Notes
1 2 (1.818%) IIS
2 1 (0.909%) CMS
2 1 (0.909%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (0.909%) Apache
2 1 (0.909%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (12.73%) MS Office
2 13 (11.82%) MS Visio
3 7 (6.364%) MS Excel
4 3 (2.727%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (0.909%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.273%) Firewall
2 3 (2.727%) Internet
3 2 (1.818%) HTTP
3 2 (1.818%) SAN
4 1 (0.909%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.909%) Hadoop
1 1 (0.909%) Big Data
General
1 31 (28.18%) Finance
2 17 (15.45%) Legal
3 13 (11.82%) Banking
4 9 (8.182%) Retail
5 7 (6.364%) Telecoms
6 6 (5.455%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.727%) Local Government
8 1 (0.909%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.909%) Back Office
8 1 (0.909%) Law
8 1 (0.909%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 30 (27.27%) Analyst
2 19 (17.27%) Consultant
3 15 (13.64%) Project Manager
4 14 (12.73%) Security Consultant
5 12 (10.91%) Architect
6 8 (7.273%) Business Analyst
6 8 (7.273%) Security Architect
6 8 (7.273%) Security Analyst
6 8 (7.273%) Change Analyst
6 8 (7.273%) Business Change Analyst
7 5 (4.545%) Information Assurance Consultant
7 5 (4.545%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (4.545%) Information Security Consultant
7 5 (4.545%) Technical Manager
8 4 (3.636%) IT Architect
8 4 (3.636%) Virtualisation Specialist
8 4 (3.636%) IT Security Architect
9 3 (2.727%) Security Officer
9 3 (2.727%) Information Security Specialist
9 3 (2.727%) IT Security Officer
Miscellaneous
1 27 (24.55%) Management Information System
2 21 (19.09%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (6.364%) CESG
4 6 (5.455%) CESG CLAS
4 6 (5.455%) SWIFT
4 6 (5.455%) Statistics
5 3 (2.727%) Freedom of Information Act
5 3 (2.727%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.818%) Replication
6 2 (1.818%) Open Source
6 2 (1.818%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (1.818%) Computer Science
7 1 (0.909%) RMADS
7 1 (0.909%) SaaS
7 1 (0.909%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.909%) IVR
7 1 (0.909%) PMI
7 1 (0.909%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.182%) Windows
2 6 (5.455%) HPUX
2 6 (5.455%) Windows Server 2003
2 6 (5.455%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (4.545%) Linux
4 4 (3.636%) Mac OS X
5 2 (1.818%) UNIX
5 2 (1.818%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.909%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.909%) Solaris
6 1 (0.909%) AIX
6 1 (0.909%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (43.64%) Information Security
2 47 (42.73%) ITIL
3 25 (22.73%) PRINCE2
4 23 (20.91%) Risk Assessment
5 22 (20.00%) Data Protection
6 20 (18.18%) Risk Management
7 15 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (12.73%) Project Management
9 13 (11.82%) Change Management
9 13 (11.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 13 (11.82%) Vulnerability Management
10 12 (10.91%) Penetration Testing
10 12 (10.91%) Service Management
11 9 (8.182%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (8.182%) SIEM
12 8 (7.273%) Service Delivery
12 8 (7.273%) Validation
12 8 (7.273%) Migration
13 7 (6.364%) Risk Analysis
13 7 (6.364%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (6.364%) C
2 2 (1.818%) SQL
3 1 (0.909%) Java
Qualifications
1 76 (69.09%) Security Cleared
2 57 (51.82%) SC Cleared
3 19 (17.27%) Degree
3 19 (17.27%) DV Cleared
4 18 (16.36%) CISSP
5 13 (11.82%) CISA
6 12 (10.91%) CISM
7 8 (7.273%) BC Cleared
8 5 (4.545%) MCITP
8 5 (4.545%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (4.545%) MCP
8 5 (4.545%) MCSE
9 4 (3.636%) MCSA
9 4 (3.636%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (3.636%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (3.636%) PCI QSA
10 3 (2.727%) CRISC
10 3 (2.727%) GIAC
11 2 (1.818%) Postgraduate
11 2 (1.818%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (41.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (9.091%) PCI DSS
3 6 (5.455%) COBIT
4 3 (2.727%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.818%) QA
6 1 (0.909%) HMG Infosec
System Software
1 4 (3.636%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (3.636%) Hyper-V
1 4 (3.636%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.909%) Forefront TMG
2 1 (0.909%) UAG
2 1 (0.909%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.818%) HP Data Protector
2 1 (0.909%) Splunk
Vendors
1 12 (10.91%) IBM
2 8 (7.273%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.455%) HP
3 6 (5.455%) Citrix
4 5 (4.545%) VMware
5 4 (3.636%) Juniper
5 4 (3.636%) Apple
5 4 (3.636%) Fortinet
6 3 (2.727%) ArcSight
7 2 (1.818%) Cisco
7 2 (1.818%) Oracle
7 2 (1.818%) Lotus
7 2 (1.818%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.818%) Veeam
7 2 (1.818%) Brocade
8 1 (0.909%) TIBCO