The first table below looks at the demand for Vulnerability Management 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 Vulnerability Management over the 3 months to 22 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 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Vulnerability Management
Rank 360 412 431
Rank change year-on-year
+52 +19
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 27 6 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.123% 0.022% 0.007%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.165% 0.031% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 1
Average daily rate £525 £638 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.64% +41.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £438 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+34.61% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £33.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
16410 19631 21812
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 74.61% 71.81% 71.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11259 12893 14383
Average daily rate £450 £450 £485
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.21%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 338 344
Average hourly rate £32.00 £27.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.36% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.00 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Vulnerability Management
England

Vulnerability Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Vulnerability Management Jobs Demand Trend

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Vulnerability Management Daily Rate Trend

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Vulnerability Management across the London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

London Vulnerability Management Daily Rate Histogram

Vulnerability Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Vulnerability Management Hourly Rate Trend

Vulnerability Management
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Management within the London region over the 3 months to 22 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 - 13 £525 -
Hammersmith - 2 £425 -
Bromley - 1 £550 -
Vulnerability Management
England

Vulnerability Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Vulnerability Management 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 Vulnerability Management.

1 22 (48.89%) Information Security
2 19 (42.22%) CISSP
3 18 (40.00%) ITIL
4 16 (35.56%) Penetration Testing
5 15 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (33.33%) Finance
6 13 (28.89%) PCI DSS
6 13 (28.89%) Information Assurance
7 11 (24.44%) Project Management
7 11 (24.44%) Microsoft
8 10 (22.22%) Windows
8 10 (22.22%) Change Management
9 9 (20.00%) Management Information System
9 9 (20.00%) CISM
9 9 (20.00%) Firewall
9 9 (20.00%) Asset Management
9 9 (20.00%) Incident Management
10 8 (17.78%) Degree
10 8 (17.78%) PRINCE2
11 7 (15.56%) SQL
11 7 (15.56%) MS Office
11 7 (15.56%) MS Excel
11 7 (15.56%) TCP/IP
11 7 (15.56%) McAfee
11 7 (15.56%) Banking
11 7 (15.56%) SC Cleared
11 7 (15.56%) Security Cleared
11 7 (15.56%) Security Architecture
12 6 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 6 (13.33%) SCCM

Vulnerability Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Vulnerability Management 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 Vulnerability Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (8.889%) Software Packaging
2 2 (4.444%) COM
3 1 (2.222%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 2 (4.444%) SharePoint
1 2 (4.444%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 7 (15.56%) MS Office
1 7 (15.56%) MS Excel
2 6 (13.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.222%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 9 (20.00%) Firewall
2 7 (15.56%) TCP/IP
3 3 (6.667%) Internet
3 3 (6.667%) VPN
3 3 (6.667%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (4.444%) HTTP
5 1 (2.222%) Wireless
5 1 (2.222%) LAN
5 1 (2.222%) WAN
General
1 15 (33.33%) Finance
2 7 (15.56%) Banking
3 4 (8.889%) Retail
3 4 (8.889%) Financial Institution
4 3 (6.667%) Games
5 1 (2.222%) Front Office
5 1 (2.222%) Advertising
5 1 (2.222%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.222%) Turkish Language
5 1 (2.222%) International Banking
5 1 (2.222%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (42.22%) Analyst
2 13 (28.89%) Security Analyst
3 8 (17.78%) Security Architect
3 8 (17.78%) Architect
4 5 (11.11%) IT Architect
4 5 (11.11%) Security Manager
4 5 (11.11%) IT Security Architect
5 4 (8.889%) Business Analyst
5 4 (8.889%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (6.667%) Project Manager
6 3 (6.667%) Operations Analyst
6 3 (6.667%) Senior Security Analyst
7 2 (4.444%) Security Operations Analyst
7 2 (4.444%) Business Change Analyst
7 2 (4.444%) IT Security Officer
7 2 (4.444%) Security Officer
7 2 (4.444%) Security Project Manager
7 2 (4.444%) Change Analyst
7 2 (4.444%) Security Specialist
7 2 (4.444%) Information Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (6.667%) Freedom of Information
2 3 (6.667%) Online Games
2 3 (6.667%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (6.667%) Freedom of Information Act
3 2 (4.444%) Blackberry
4 1 (2.222%) PKI
4 1 (2.222%) Statistics
4 1 (2.222%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 10 (22.22%) Windows
2 6 (13.33%) UNIX
3 5 (11.11%) Linux
4 2 (4.444%) Windows 7
4 2 (4.444%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.222%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (2.222%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (48.89%) Information Security
2 18 (40.00%) ITIL
3 16 (35.56%) Penetration Testing
4 13 (28.89%) Information Assurance
5 11 (24.44%) Project Management
6 10 (22.22%) Change Management
7 9 (20.00%) Asset Management
7 9 (20.00%) Incident Management
8 8 (17.78%) PRINCE2
9 7 (15.56%) Security Architecture
10 6 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 6 (13.33%) Risk Assessment
10 6 (13.33%) Service Delivery
11 5 (11.11%) Risk Management
11 5 (11.11%) Problem Management
11 5 (11.11%) SIEM
12 4 (8.889%) Stakeholder Management
13 3 (6.667%) Security Management
13 3 (6.667%) Vulnerability Assessment
13 3 (6.667%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.56%) SQL
2 4 (8.889%) C
Qualifications
1 19 (42.22%) CISSP
2 9 (20.00%) CISM
3 8 (17.78%) Degree
4 7 (15.56%) SC Cleared
4 7 (15.56%) Security Cleared
5 6 (13.33%) CISA
6 2 (4.444%) GIAC
7 1 (2.222%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (2.222%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (28.89%) PCI DSS
3 5 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (11.11%) HIPAA
4 2 (4.444%) SLA
5 1 (2.222%) COBIT
System Software
1 6 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.222%) Nmap
Systems Management
1 6 (13.33%) SCCM
1 6 (13.33%) WSUS
2 5 (11.11%) McAfee ePO
3 2 (4.444%) Norton AntiVirus
4 1 (2.222%) Nessus
Vendors
1 11 (24.44%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.56%) McAfee
3 5 (11.11%) VMware
3 5 (11.11%) Symantec
4 4 (8.889%) Qualys
5 2 (4.444%) Cisco
5 2 (4.444%) IBM
5 2 (4.444%) HP
5 2 (4.444%) Dell
5 2 (4.444%) Remedy
5 2 (4.444%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.222%) Websense
6 1 (2.222%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.222%) Intel
6 1 (2.222%) Citrix
6 1 (2.222%) NetApp
6 1 (2.222%) Oracle
6 1 (2.222%) Tripwire
6 1 (2.222%) Lumension
6 1 (2.222%) ArcSight