The first table below looks at the demand for Snort 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 Snort 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 of the System Software 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
Sourcefire Snort
Rank 374 409 438
Rank change year-on-year
+35 +29
Contract jobs citing Snort 3 6 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.014% 0.022% 0.013%
As % of the System Software category 0.182% 0.286% 0.214%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 0
Average daily rate £350 £289 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.21% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £250 -
% change year-on-year
+80.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 - -
All System Software
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
1648 2095 1868
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 7.610% 7.777% 6.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 973 1198 968
Average daily rate £375 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £488 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 180 204
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £12.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £36.70 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
Snort
England

Snort
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Snort Jobs Demand Trend

Snort
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Snort Daily Rate Trend

Snort
Daily Rate Histogram

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

London Snort Daily Rate Histogram

Snort
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Snort Hourly Rate Trend

Snort
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Snort 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
City of London - 2 £425 -
Snort
England

Snort
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) GCIA
2 2 (66.67%) UNIX
2 2 (66.67%) Windows XP
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (33.33%) Wireless
3 1 (33.33%) Legal
3 1 (33.33%) GIAC
3 1 (33.33%) Samba
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) VMware ESX
3 1 (33.33%) CISSP
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (33.33%) Mac OS X
3 1 (33.33%) PRINCE
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) RIP
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) MCSE
3 1 (33.33%) SSADM
3 1 (33.33%) Apache

Snort
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) ASP
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 1 (33.33%) Regular Expression
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless
2 1 (33.33%) RIP
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) LDAP
2 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
2 1 (33.33%) 802.11
2 1 (33.33%) OSPF
2 1 (33.33%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Forensic Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) DBA
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (33.33%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) UNIX
2 2 (66.67%) Windows XP
3 1 (33.33%) Mac OS X
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 2000 Server
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) PRINCE
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) SSADM
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Forensics
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Web Development
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) VBScript
1 1 (33.33%) VB
1 1 (33.33%) VB.NET
1 1 (33.33%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) GCIA
2 1 (33.33%) GIAC
2 1 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (33.33%) MCSE
2 1 (33.33%) GCIH
2 1 (33.33%) ACSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) HIPAA
1 1 (33.33%) COBIT
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
1 1 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Samba
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESX
2 1 (33.33%) Nmap
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) VMware
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) ArcSight
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