The first table below looks at the demand for Intrusion Detection skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Intrusion Detection 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 Communications & Networking category for the Scotland 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
Intrusion Detection
Rank - 104 109
Contract jobs citing Intrusion Detection 0 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland - 0.038% 0.073%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 0.315% 0.784%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £281 £338
% change year-on-year
+12.00% -16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 - £40.00
All Communications & Networking
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
260 317 255
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 10.71% 11.94% 9.266%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 125 74
Average daily rate £363 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.07% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £243 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £420 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 32 28
Average hourly rate £32.00 £27.50 £17.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.36% +54.92%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.88 £22.50 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £35.25 £35.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
Intrusion Detection
UK

Intrusion Detection
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Intrusion Detection across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Scotland Intrusion Detection Jobs Demand Trend

Intrusion Detection
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Intrusion Detection across the Scotland region.

Scotland Intrusion Detection Daily Rate Trend

Intrusion Detection
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Intrusion Detection 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 Intrusion Detection.

1 17 (100.00%) Firewall
1 17 (100.00%) Information Security
2 15 (88.24%) SIEM
3 14 (82.35%) Incident Management
4 9 (52.94%) ArcSight
5 8 (47.06%) CISSP
6 6 (35.29%) PMP
6 6 (35.29%) PMI Certification
6 6 (35.29%) Project Management
6 6 (35.29%) GIAC
7 5 (29.41%) UNIX
7 5 (29.41%) Windows
7 5 (29.41%) Linux
7 5 (29.41%) TCP/IP
7 5 (29.41%) Management Information System
8 3 (17.65%) Service Management
8 3 (17.65%) Banking
8 3 (17.65%) Vulnerability Management
9 2 (11.76%) Network Security
10 1 (5.882%) Finance
10 1 (5.882%) Splunk

Intrusion Detection
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Intrusion Detection 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 Intrusion Detection. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 17 (100.00%) Firewall
2 5 (29.41%) TCP/IP
3 2 (11.76%) Network Security
General
1 3 (17.65%) Banking
2 1 (5.882%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (70.59%) Analyst
2 5 (29.41%) Security Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Security Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Information Specialist
3 2 (11.76%) Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Security Specialist
4 1 (5.882%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Information Security Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Security Administrator
4 1 (5.882%) IT Security Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) IT Security Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Network Administrator
4 1 (5.882%) Information Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) UNIX
1 5 (29.41%) Windows
1 5 (29.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Information Security
2 15 (88.24%) SIEM
3 14 (82.35%) Incident Management
4 6 (35.29%) Project Management
5 3 (17.65%) Service Management
5 3 (17.65%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) CISSP
2 6 (35.29%) PMP
2 6 (35.29%) PMI Certification
2 6 (35.29%) GIAC
Systems Management
1 1 (5.882%) Splunk
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) ArcSight