Scotland Security Consultant Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Security Consultant role in IT contracts within the Scotland region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Security Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 7 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheltenham City of London Corsham Crawley Croydon Derbyshire East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Newport North East North West Reading Scotland Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Swindon Thames Valley UK Wales Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	76	108
Rank change on same period last year	+32
Matching contract IT job ads	6	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.424 %	0.082 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£400	-
Average daily rate	£425	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£450	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£433	£404
% change on same period last year	+7.15 %
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	£40.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Job Titles Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	1414	2440
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.823 %	3.053 %
Daily rates quoted	337	469
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£314
Average daily rate	£348	£331
% change on same period last year	+5.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£372	£348
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£357
% change on same period last year	-2.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	116	243
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.49	£16.84
Average hourly rate	£22.04	£18.07
% change on same period last year	+21.97 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.59	£19.31
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.14	£23.50
% change on same period last year	-1.52 %
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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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Security Consultant across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Security Consultant across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 7 January 2009.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Consultant within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 7 January 2009. 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	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
Glasgow	-	4	£400	-
Edinburgh	-	2	£450	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Security Consultant 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 Security Consultant in their job title.

1 3 (25.00 %) Risk Management 1 3 (25.00 %) Finance 1 3 (25.00 %) BS7799 1 3 (25.00 %) Security Management 2 2 (16.67 %) ISO27001 2 2 (16.67 %) Degree 2 2 (16.67 %) Data Security 2 2 (16.67 %) Project Management 2 2 (16.67 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 2 (16.67 %) Windows 2 2 (16.67 %) AIX 2 2 (16.67 %) Linux 2 2 (16.67 %) Risk Assessment 2 2 (16.67 %) Information Security 2 2 (16.67 %) Disaster Recovery

3 1 (8.333 %) CESG 3 1 (8.333 %) Information Management 3 1 (8.333 %) Vulnerability Assessment 3 1 (8.333 %) Penetration Testing 3 1 (8.333 %) GAP Analysis 3 1 (8.333 %) Information Security Management 3 1 (8.333 %) ISO17799 3 1 (8.333 %) FTP 3 1 (8.333 %) HTTP 3 1 (8.333 %) Business Intelligence 3 1 (8.333 %) Actuate 3 1 (8.333 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 3 1 (8.333 %) SAP BW 3 1 (8.333 %) Shell Script 3 1 (8.333 %) Java

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Security Consultant 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 Security Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 1 (8.333 %) FTP 1 1 (8.333 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (8.333 %) Crystal Reports 1 1 (8.333 %) SAP BW
General 1 3 (25.00 %) Finance	Miscellaneous 1 1 (8.333 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 1 1 (8.333 %) Management Information System 1 1 (8.333 %) CESG 1 1 (8.333 %) PKI
Operating Systems 1 2 (16.67 %) Windows 1 2 (16.67 %) AIX 1 2 (16.67 %) Linux 2 1 (8.333 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (25.00 %) Security Management 1 3 (25.00 %) Risk Management 2 2 (16.67 %) Risk Assessment 2 2 (16.67 %) Information Security 2 2 (16.67 %) Project Management 2 2 (16.67 %) Disaster Recovery 2 2 (16.67 %) Data Security 3 1 (8.333 %) ITIL 3 1 (8.333 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (8.333 %) Business Intelligence 3 1 (8.333 %) GAP Analysis 3 1 (8.333 %) Information Security Management 3 1 (8.333 %) Information Management 3 1 (8.333 %) Vulnerability Assessment 3 1 (8.333 %) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages 1 1 (8.333 %) Java 1 1 (8.333 %) Perl 1 1 (8.333 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 2 (16.67 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (25.00 %) BS7799 2 2 (16.67 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 2 (16.67 %) ISO27001 3 1 (8.333 %) ISO17799	Vendors 1 1 (8.333 %) SAP 1 1 (8.333 %) Actuate 1 1 (8.333 %) Tumbleweed