Manchester Security Specialist Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Security Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Security Specialist
Location Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Dorset East of England Edinburgh England Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Lancashire Leeds London Manchester Middlesex Midlands North West Portsmouth Preston Reading Scotland Shropshire South East South Wales South West Stevenage Swansea Swindon Telford UK Wales West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	68
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.095 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£419	£385
% change on same period last year	+8.78 %
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	£35.39	-
% change on same period last year	-
Job Titles Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	1116	1052
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.473 %	1.048 %
Daily rates quoted	204	209
Average minimum daily rate	£314	£325
Average daily rate	£331	£346
% change on same period last year	-4.39 %
Average maximum daily rate	£349	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	149	129
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.26	£17.79
Average hourly rate	£20.99	£19.54
% change on same period last year	+7.43 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.73	£21.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.68	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.85 %
Security Specialist 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 Specialist 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 Specialist 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 Specialist across the Manchester region.

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Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region that cited Security Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title.

1 2 (66.67 %) Network Security 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2 1 (33.33 %) HPUX 2 1 (33.33 %) Solaris 2 1 (33.33 %) HTTP 2 1 (33.33 %) VPN 2 1 (33.33 %) SSL 2 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 2 1 (33.33 %) NHS 2 1 (33.33 %) CheckPoint 2 1 (33.33 %) Internet 2 1 (33.33 %) MPLS 2 1 (33.33 %) Mainframe

2 1 (33.33 %) Firewall 2 1 (33.33 %) Identity Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Workflow 2 1 (33.33 %) Stakeholder Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Replication 2 1 (33.33 %) Risk Assessment 2 1 (33.33 %) Information Security 2 1 (33.33 %) BIG-IP 2 1 (33.33 %) PKI 2 1 (33.33 %) VLAN

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking 1 2 (66.67 %) Network Security 2 1 (33.33 %) HTTP 2 1 (33.33 %) VPN 2 1 (33.33 %) SSL 2 1 (33.33 %) Internet 2 1 (33.33 %) MPLS 2 1 (33.33 %) Firewall 2 1 (33.33 %) BIG-IP 2 1 (33.33 %) VLAN	Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) NHS 1 1 (33.33 %) Mainframe 1 1 (33.33 %) Replication 1 1 (33.33 %) PKI
Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 1 1 (33.33 %) HPUX 1 1 (33.33 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Identity Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Workflow 1 1 (33.33 %) Stakeholder Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Risk Assessment 1 1 (33.33 %) Information Security
Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 1 1 (33.33 %) CheckPoint