The first table below looks at the demand for Security+ Certification in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Security+ Certification over the 3 months to 18 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 Qualifications 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CompTIA Security+ Certification
Rank 386 405 -
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -
Contract jobs citing Security+ Certification 6 8 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.026% 0.030% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.178% 0.209% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 0
Average daily rate £325 £725 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-55.17% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £125 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Qualifications
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
3372 3832 4119
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 14.62% 14.39% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2016 2331 2405
Average daily rate £425 £425 £425
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 111 139
Average hourly rate £22.50 £19.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -2.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.25 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £41.00 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%
Security+ Certification
England

Security+ Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Security+ Certification Jobs Demand Trend

Security+ Certification
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Security+ Certification Daily Rate Trend

Security+ Certification
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security+ Certification within the London region over the 3 months to 18 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
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Job
Vacancies
City of London +4 1 £325 +8.33% 1
Security+ Certification
England

Security+ Certification
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Security+ Certification 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 Security+ Certification.

1 10 (100.00%) SQL
1 10 (100.00%) LDAP
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 10 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 10 (100.00%) CISSP
1 10 (100.00%) Security Management
1 10 (100.00%) SIEM
2 8 (80.00%) SecurID
2 8 (80.00%) McAfee ePO
2 8 (80.00%) Management Information System
2 8 (80.00%) LAN
2 8 (80.00%) WAN
2 8 (80.00%) McAfee
2 8 (80.00%) VBScript
3 7 (70.00%) VB
3 7 (70.00%) Perl
3 7 (70.00%) VPN
3 7 (70.00%) Network Design
4 6 (60.00%) MS Excel
4 6 (60.00%) Client/Server
4 6 (60.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (10.00%) Finance

Security+ Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Security+ Certification 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 Security+ Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 6 (60.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) LDAP
2 8 (80.00%) LAN
2 8 (80.00%) WAN
3 7 (70.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Administrator
1 10 (100.00%) Security Administrator
2 8 (80.00%) IT Security Administrator
2 8 (80.00%) IT Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Management Information System
1 8 (80.00%) SecurID
2 6 (60.00%) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Security Management
1 10 (100.00%) SIEM
2 7 (70.00%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
2 8 (80.00%) VBScript
3 7 (70.00%) VB
3 7 (70.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (80.00%) McAfee