The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term SecurID in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SecurID 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RSA SecurID
Rank 367 384 415
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +31
Contract jobs citing SecurID 10 31 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.046% 0.115% 0.087%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.139% 0.358% 0.229%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 21 23
Average daily rate £325 £425 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.52% +30.76%
UK excluding London average daily rate £206 £301 £438
% change year-on-year
-31.36% -31.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
7191 8651 11771
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 33.20% 32.11% 37.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4968 5870 7935
Average daily rate £475 £475 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £283 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 209 196
Average hourly rate £23.00 £22.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.22% +7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £13.49 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £52.40 £52.50 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
SecurID
England

SecurID
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SecurID across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

London SecurID Jobs Demand Trend

SecurID
Daily Rate Trend

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

London SecurID Daily Rate Trend

SecurID
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SecurID across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London SecurID Daily Rate Histogram

SecurID
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London SecurID Hourly Rate Trend

SecurID
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SecurID within the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Croydon - 2 £325 -
City of London +10 1 £275 -4.34%
SecurID
England

SecurID
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing SecurID 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 SecurID.

1 11 (73.33%) Active Directory
2 7 (46.67%) VPN
3 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (40.00%) SQL
3 6 (40.00%) VBScript
3 6 (40.00%) LDAP
3 6 (40.00%) LAN
3 6 (40.00%) WAN
3 6 (40.00%) CISSP
3 6 (40.00%) Security Management
3 6 (40.00%) Management Information System
3 6 (40.00%) Security+ Certification
3 6 (40.00%) SIEM
4 5 (33.33%) McAfee ePO
4 5 (33.33%) Network Design
4 5 (33.33%) Firewall
4 5 (33.33%) McAfee
4 5 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (33.33%) MS Excel
4 5 (33.33%) Client/Server
4 5 (33.33%) VB
4 5 (33.33%) Perl
4 5 (33.33%) CheckPoint
5 4 (26.67%) Juniper
5 4 (26.67%) Law
6 3 (20.00%) Blackberry
6 3 (20.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 3 (20.00%) Citrix
6 3 (20.00%) 3G
6 3 (20.00%) SSL

SecurID
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 3 (20.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (13.33%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 1 (6.667%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) VPN
2 6 (40.00%) LDAP
2 6 (40.00%) LAN
2 6 (40.00%) WAN
3 5 (33.33%) Firewall
4 3 (20.00%) 3G
4 3 (20.00%) SSL
5 2 (13.33%) Cisco PIX
5 2 (13.33%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (13.33%) NAS
5 2 (13.33%) VLAN
5 2 (13.33%) WLAN
5 2 (13.33%) SAN
5 2 (13.33%) OSPF
5 2 (13.33%) BGP
6 1 (6.667%) Wireless
6 1 (6.667%) EIGRP
6 1 (6.667%) TACACS
6 1 (6.667%) VRRP
6 1 (6.667%) MPLS
General
1 4 (26.67%) Law
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 1 (6.667%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.667%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Administrator
1 6 (40.00%) Security Administrator
2 5 (33.33%) IT Security Administrator
2 5 (33.33%) IT Administrator
3 3 (20.00%) Team Leader
4 2 (13.33%) Operations Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Security Specialist
5 1 (6.667%) Consultant
5 1 (6.667%) Network Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Architect
5 1 (6.667%) Senior Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 5 (33.33%) Client/Server
3 3 (20.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (6.667%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Security Management
1 6 (40.00%) SIEM
2 5 (33.33%) Network Design
3 2 (13.33%) Network Management
3 2 (13.33%) ITIL
4 1 (6.667%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (6.667%) Migration
4 1 (6.667%) Project Management
4 1 (6.667%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (6.667%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) SQL
1 6 (40.00%) VBScript
2 5 (33.33%) VB
2 5 (33.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) CISSP
1 6 (40.00%) Security+ Certification
2 2 (13.33%) CCNP
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (6.667%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (73.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (13.33%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) McAfee ePO
2 1 (6.667%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (33.33%) McAfee
2 5 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 4 (26.67%) Juniper
4 3 (20.00%) Citrix
4 3 (20.00%) Cisco
4 3 (20.00%) Cognos
4 3 (20.00%) SolarWinds
5 2 (13.33%) HP
5 2 (13.33%) NetApp
6 1 (6.667%) VMware
6 1 (6.667%) Radware
6 1 (6.667%) Nokia
6 1 (6.667%) Redback
6 1 (6.667%) Blue Coat
6 1 (6.667%) Proofpoint