The first table below looks at the demand for Communications Security skills in IT contracts advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Communications Security over the 3 months to 20 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 Middlesex 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Communications Security (COMSEC)
Rank - - 38
Contract jobs citing Communications Security 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex - - 0.291%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - 0.358%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £490
UK excluding London average daily rate - £500 £490
% change year-on-year
- +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Middlesex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
149 212 279
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 73.76% 67.09% 81.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 110 117
Average daily rate £383 £375 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.00% -10.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £253 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £545 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 11
Average hourly rate £16.00 £39.00 £36.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-58.97% +6.12%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.40 £27.00 £29.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.60 £50.50 £39.21
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Communications Security
South East

Communications Security
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex Communications Security Jobs Demand Trend

Communications Security
Daily Rate Trend

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

Middlesex Communications Security Daily Rate Trend

Communications Security
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex region citing Communications 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 Communications Security.

1 1 (100.00%) Tcl
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
1 1 (100.00%) VHDL
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
1 1 (100.00%) Xilinx
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Actel
1 1 (100.00%) EMB Igloo

Communications Security
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) EMB Igloo
General
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
1 1 (100.00%) VHDL
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Xilinx
1 1 (100.00%) Actel