The first table below looks at the demand for the Network Security Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Network Security Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 Job Titles advertised for the Reading 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Security Engineer
Rank 64 75 -
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -
Contract jobs requiring a Network Security Engineer 1 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.119% 0.359% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.131% 0.389% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £400 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £375 £344
% change year-on-year
-12.00% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £21.50 -
All Job Titles
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
763 1027 937
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 90.94% 92.11% 87.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 344 419
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £219
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 60 43
Average hourly rate £18.00 £15.50 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.12% +24.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.70 £11.25 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £22.20 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Network Security Engineer
Berkshire

Network Security Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Network Security Engineer across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Reading Network Security Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Network Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Network Security Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Network Security Engineer
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region that cited Network Security Engineer 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 Network Security Engineer in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) JNCIS
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) FWSM

Network Security Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region that cited Network Security Engineer 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 Network Security Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) FWSM
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) JNCIS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) F5