Network Security Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Network Security 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 Network Security 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 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Security
Rank 116 94 98
Rank change year-on-year
-22 +4
Contract jobs citing Network Security 4 14 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.164% 0.531% 0.640%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.556% 4.268% 6.767%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 11
Average daily rate £315 £410 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.17% +2.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £303 £336 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £327 £419 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £375 £365
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £25.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £25.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+30.00% +25.00%
All Communications & Networking
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 257 328 266
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 10.53% 12.43% 9.453%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 134 75
Average daily rate £361 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.21% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £239 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £436 £420 £455
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 31 26
Average hourly rate £32.00 £27.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.36% +44.73%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.60 £22.50 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £35.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
Network Security
UK

Network Security
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Network Security Jobs Demand Trend

Network Security
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Network Security Daily Rate Trend

Network Security
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Network Security across the Scotland region.

Scotland Network Security Hourly Rate Trend

Network Security
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Security within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Stirling - 2 - -
Edinburgh +5 1 £300 -20.00%
Aberdeen - 1 £330 -
Network Security
UK

Network Security
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Network 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 Network Security.

1 8 (72.73%) Firewall
2 4 (36.36%) Windows
2 4 (36.36%) Linux
2 4 (36.36%) TCP/IP
2 4 (36.36%) Cisco
3 3 (27.27%) UNIX
3 3 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (27.27%) Juniper
4 2 (18.18%) Wireless
4 2 (18.18%) Information Security
4 2 (18.18%) Network Design
4 2 (18.18%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (18.18%) Finance
4 2 (18.18%) VMware
4 2 (18.18%) WMI
4 2 (18.18%) Degree
4 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
4 2 (18.18%) HP
4 2 (18.18%) CISSP
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 2 (18.18%) Mac OS X
4 2 (18.18%) Terminal Services
4 2 (18.18%) CheckPoint
4 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (18.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
4 2 (18.18%) DNS
4 2 (18.18%) Windows 2000
4 2 (18.18%) MS Excel
4 2 (18.18%) LAN

Network Security
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Network 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 Network Security. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (9.091%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) WebLogic
1 1 (9.091%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) Firewall
2 4 (36.36%) TCP/IP
3 2 (18.18%) Wireless
3 2 (18.18%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (18.18%) DNS
3 2 (18.18%) LAN
3 2 (18.18%) WAN
4 1 (9.091%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (9.091%) HTTP
4 1 (9.091%) VRRP
4 1 (9.091%) NetScreen
4 1 (9.091%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle Reports
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Network Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Network Security Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Analyst
2 4 (36.36%) Security Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Security Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Network Operations Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Network Security Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) IT Security Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Network Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Technical Leader
4 1 (9.091%) IT Security Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Security Administrator
4 1 (9.091%) Network Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
2 3 (27.27%) UNIX
3 2 (18.18%) Mac OS X
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (18.18%) Windows 2000
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (9.091%) HPUX
4 1 (9.091%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) Information Security
1 2 (18.18%) Network Design
1 2 (18.18%) SIEM
2 1 (9.091%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (9.091%) ITIL
2 1 (9.091%) Performance Management
2 1 (9.091%) Incident Management
2 1 (9.091%) Risk Management
2 1 (9.091%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
1 2 (18.18%) VBScript
1 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.091%) Perl
2 1 (9.091%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) CISSP
3 1 (9.091%) CCIE
3 1 (9.091%) CCSP
3 1 (9.091%) CCNP
3 1 (9.091%) CCNA
3 1 (9.091%) JNCIS
3 1 (9.091%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) ISO/IEC 17799
1 1 (9.091%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
1 2 (18.18%) Terminal Services
1 2 (18.18%) DFS Replication
2 1 (9.091%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) WMI
1 2 (18.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Cisco
2 3 (27.27%) Juniper
3 2 (18.18%) VMware
3 2 (18.18%) HP
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 2 (18.18%) CheckPoint
4 1 (9.091%) Oracle
4 1 (9.091%) Sun
4 1 (9.091%) IBM
4 1 (9.091%) Blue Coat
4 1 (9.091%) Nokia
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