Manchester Security Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Security Analyst role in IT contracts within the Manchester region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Security Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Security Analyst
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cheltenham City of London Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Manchester Midlands Milton Keynes North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Poole Reading Scotland Shropshire South East South West Staffordshire Telford UK Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Winchester Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	81	67
Rank change on same period last year	-14
Matching contract IT job ads	1	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.090 %	0.190 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£350	-
Average daily rate	£375	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£400	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£387	£288
% change on same period last year	+34.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.00	£24.88
% change on same period last year	+4.52 %
Job Titles Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	1114	1052
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.470 %	1.048 %
Daily rates quoted	204	209
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£325
Average daily rate	£330	£346
% change on same period last year	-4.81 %
Average maximum daily rate	£347	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	148	129
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.43	£17.79
Average hourly rate	£21.21	£19.54
% change on same period last year	+8.54 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.99	£21.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.60	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-8.13 %
Security Analyst North West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Security Analyst across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region that cited Security Analyst in their job title 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 with Security Analyst in their job title.

1 3 (100.00 %) Information Security 2 2 (66.67 %) CISSP 2 2 (66.67 %) Risk Analysis 3 1 (33.33 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (33.33 %) BS7799 3 1 (33.33 %) Intrusion Detection 3 1 (33.33 %) Penetration Testing 3 1 (33.33 %) ISO27001 3 1 (33.33 %) Firewall 3 1 (33.33 %) Risk Management 3 1 (33.33 %) Finance

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region that cited Security Analyst in their job title 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 with Security Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (33.33 %) Intrusion Detection 1 1 (33.33 %) Firewall	General 1 1 (33.33 %) Finance
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (100.00 %) Information Security 2 2 (66.67 %) Risk Analysis 3 1 (33.33 %) Penetration Testing 3 1 (33.33 %) Risk Management	Qualifications 1 2 (66.67 %) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (33.33 %) BS7799 1 1 (33.33 %) ISO27001