The first table below looks at the demand for Security Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Security Management 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the Midlands 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
Security Management
Rank - - 34
Contract jobs citing Security Management 0 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands - - 0.583%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - 0.901%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £270
UK excluding London average daily rate £405 £461 £375
% change year-on-year
-12.19% +23.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £37.50
All Processes & Methodologies
Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
112 131 222
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 65.12% 49.25% 64.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 55 52
Average daily rate £450 £375 £445
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £250 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 58
Average hourly rate £32.00 £21.00 £24.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+52.38% -15.15%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Security Management
England

Security Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Midlands Security Management Jobs Demand Trend

Security Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Midlands Security Management Daily Rate Trend

Security Management
Top 15 Related IT Skills

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

1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) Blue Coat
1 1 (100.00%) ProxySG
1 1 (100.00%) Sourcefire
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) FWSM

Security Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) FWSM
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Implementation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Implementation Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) ProxySG
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Blue Coat
1 1 (100.00%) Sourcefire