Midlands Information Security Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Information Security (INFOSEC) skills within the Midlands region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Information Security over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Information Security (INFOSEC)
Location Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bristol Camberley Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Coventry Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Preston Reading Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Solihull South East South Wales South West Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	69	82
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	6	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.861 %	0.368 %
Daily rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum daily rate	£467	-
Average daily rate	£467	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£467	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£412	£414
% change on same period last year	-0.36 %
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	£24.88	£42.00
% change on same period last year	-40.75 %
Processes & Methodologies Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	697	816
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.929 %	0.826 %
Daily rates quoted	164	157
Average minimum daily rate	£389	£374
Average daily rate	£409	£395
% change on same period last year	+3.47 %
Average maximum daily rate	£429	£417
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	61
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£28.21
Average hourly rate	£27.35	£29.23
% change on same period last year	-6.43 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.69	£30.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
Information Security England

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.

Information Security
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Information Security across the Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Information Security
Daily Rate Trend

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

Information Security
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Information Security across the Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Information Security
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Information Security
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region citing Information 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 Information Security.

1 6 (50.00 %) Government 2 5 (41.67 %) ITIL 2 5 (41.67 %) ISO27001 2 5 (41.67 %) SC Cleared 2 5 (41.67 %) Security Cleared 3 4 (33.33 %) COBIT 3 4 (33.33 %) NHS 4 2 (16.67 %) Health 5 1 (8.333 %) Information Security Management 5 1 (8.333 %) Security Management 5 1 (8.333 %) Management Information System 5 1 (8.333 %) BS7799 5 1 (8.333 %) Project Management 5 1 (8.333 %) Local Government 5 1 (8.333 %) CESG

5 1 (8.333 %) CESG CLAS 5 1 (8.333 %) Data Protection Act 5 1 (8.333 %) Performance Management 5 1 (8.333 %) ISMS 5 1 (8.333 %) Data Protection 5 1 (8.333 %) Data Mapping

Information Security
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region citing Information 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 Information Security. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

General 1 6 (50.00 %) Government 2 2 (16.67 %) Health 3 1 (8.333 %) Local Government	Job Titles 1 4 (33.33 %) Analyst 1 4 (33.33 %) Consultant 1 4 (33.33 %) Security Analyst 1 4 (33.33 %) Risk Analyst 2 2 (16.67 %) Security Consultant 2 2 (16.67 %) Governance Consultant 3 1 (8.333 %) Information Manager 3 1 (8.333 %) Information Security Consultant 3 1 (8.333 %) Information Security Manager 3 1 (8.333 %) Security Manager 3 1 (8.333 %) Process Manager
Miscellaneous 1 4 (33.33 %) NHS 2 1 (8.333 %) Management Information System 2 1 (8.333 %) CESG 2 1 (8.333 %) CESG CLAS 2 1 (8.333 %) Data Protection Act	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (41.67 %) ITIL 1 5 (41.67 %) SC Cleared 1 5 (41.67 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (8.333 %) Project Management 2 1 (8.333 %) Information Security Management 2 1 (8.333 %) Security Management 2 1 (8.333 %) Performance Management 2 1 (8.333 %) ISMS 2 1 (8.333 %) Data Protection 2 1 (8.333 %) Data Mapping
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (41.67 %) ISO27001 2 4 (33.33 %) COBIT 3 1 (8.333 %) BS7799