North East CISSP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) in IT contracts within the North East region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited CISSP over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
Location Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Cambridgeshire Cheltenham City of London Dorset East Midlands East of England England Essex Farnborough Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrogate Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands North East North West North Yorkshire Peterborough Reading Salisbury Shropshire South East South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Swansea Telford Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	47	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	2.985 %	0.000 %
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	£429	£388
% change on same period last year	+10.52 %
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	£35.42	£32.00
% change on same period last year	+10.67 %
Qualifications North East
Matching contract IT job ads	67	110
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.106 %	0.118 %
Daily rates quoted	15	44
Average minimum daily rate	£242	£296
Average daily rate	£258	£301
% change on same period last year	-14.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£275	£306
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£325
% change on same period last year	+2.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.32	£18.54
Average hourly rate	£16.30	£20.04
% change on same period last year	-18.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.29	£21.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.56	£25.68
% change on same period last year	-0.47 %
CISSP 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.

CISSP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing CISSP across the North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

CISSP
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CISSP across the North East region.

CISSP
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East region citing CISSP 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 CISSP.

1 2 (66.67 %) ISO17799 1 2 (66.67 %) ISO27001 2 1 (33.33 %) Cisco PIX 2 1 (33.33 %) Network Security 2 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2 1 (33.33 %) Linux 2 1 (33.33 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (33.33 %) VPN 2 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 2 1 (33.33 %) CCIE 2 1 (33.33 %) CCSP 2 1 (33.33 %) CCNP 2 1 (33.33 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (33.33 %) Juniper

2 1 (33.33 %) Nokia 2 1 (33.33 %) CheckPoint 2 1 (33.33 %) Project Management 2 1 (33.33 %) NetScreen 2 1 (33.33 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 1 (33.33 %) Firewall 2 1 (33.33 %) Security Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Education 2 1 (33.33 %) GIAC 2 1 (33.33 %) CCSA 2 1 (33.33 %) CCSE 2 1 (33.33 %) Snort 2 1 (33.33 %) Intrusion Detection

CISSP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East region citing CISSP 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 CISSP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (33.33 %) VPN 1 1 (33.33 %) NetScreen 1 1 (33.33 %) Firewall 1 1 (33.33 %) Intrusion Detection 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco PIX 1 1 (33.33 %) Network Security	General 1 1 (33.33 %) Education
Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Consultant 1 1 (33.33 %) Systems Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Security Consultant 1 1 (33.33 %) Security Specialist 1 1 (33.33 %) Security Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) IT Security Specialist	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 1 1 (33.33 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Project Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Security Management	Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) CCIE 1 1 (33.33 %) CCSP 1 1 (33.33 %) CCNP 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco Certification 1 1 (33.33 %) GIAC 1 1 (33.33 %) CCSA 1 1 (33.33 %) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (66.67 %) ISO17799 1 2 (66.67 %) ISO27001 2 1 (33.33 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) Snort
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 1 1 (33.33 %) Juniper 1 1 (33.33 %) Nokia 1 1 (33.33 %) CheckPoint