The first table below looks at the demand for Network Security skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Network Security 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 Communications & Networking category for the Manchester 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
Network Security
Rank 74 71 70
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -1
Contract jobs citing Network Security 1 12 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.107% 0.929% 0.192%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.962% 4.959% 1.709%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
Average daily rate £425 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+41.66% -7.69%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £375 £365
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £25.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+30.00% +25.00%
All Communications & Networking
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
104 242 117
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 11.15% 18.73% 11.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 84 35
Average daily rate £299 £300 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.41% -1.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £160 £190 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £441 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 15
Average hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +60.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £14.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £32.50 £17.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
Network Security
North West

Network Security
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Network Security across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Manchester Network Security Jobs Demand Trend

Network Security
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Network Security Daily Rate Trend

Network Security
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester Network Security Hourly Rate Trend

Network Security
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Network Security 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 Network Security.

1 11 (91.67%) Windows
2 6 (50.00%) AIX
2 6 (50.00%) HPUX
2 6 (50.00%) Solaris
2 6 (50.00%) LDAP
2 6 (50.00%) Java
2 6 (50.00%) Perl
2 6 (50.00%) UNIX
2 6 (50.00%) SMS
2 6 (50.00%) Kerberos
2 6 (50.00%) IBM
2 6 (50.00%) Tivoli
2 6 (50.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 6 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 6 (50.00%) Middleware
2 6 (50.00%) X.509
2 6 (50.00%) Change Management
2 6 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 6 (50.00%) Banking
2 6 (50.00%) Retail
2 6 (50.00%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
2 6 (50.00%) SPNEGO
3 5 (41.67%) SAN
3 5 (41.67%) SCCM
3 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (41.67%) vSphere
3 5 (41.67%) VMware
3 5 (41.67%) VMware ESX
3 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (41.67%) Active Directory

Network Security
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 6 (50.00%) Middleware
1 6 (50.00%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
1 6 (50.00%) SPNEGO
Applications
1 5 (41.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) LDAP
1 6 (50.00%) SMS
1 6 (50.00%) Kerberos
1 6 (50.00%) X.509
2 5 (41.67%) SAN
2 5 (41.67%) DNS
2 5 (41.67%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (50.00%) Banking
1 6 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Systems Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 1 (8.333%) Security Architect
2 1 (8.333%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.333%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Windows
2 6 (50.00%) AIX
2 6 (50.00%) HPUX
2 6 (50.00%) Solaris
2 6 (50.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Change Management
1 6 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 4 (33.33%) Information Security
3 1 (8.333%) Information Security Management
3 1 (8.333%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Java
1 6 (50.00%) Perl
1 6 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (8.333%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.333%) CISSP
1 1 (8.333%) CISM
1 1 (8.333%) CRISC
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (41.67%) vSphere
1 5 (41.67%) VMware ESX
1 5 (41.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Tivoli
1 6 (50.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 5 (41.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) IBM
2 5 (41.67%) VMware
2 5 (41.67%) Microsoft