Security Specialist Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Security Specialist role in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Security Specialist 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 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
Security Specialist
Rank - 107 109
Contract jobs requiring a Security Specialist 0 1 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland - 0.038% 0.249%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.040% 0.265%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 4
Average daily rate - - £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £435 £420
% change year-on-year
-5.17% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 2266 2473 2646
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 92.83% 93.71% 94.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1095 1199 1298
Average daily rate £350 £340 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £215 £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 112 100
Average hourly rate £14.50 £22.50 £15.44
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.55% +45.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £10.00 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.60 £34.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Security Specialist
UK

Security Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Security Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Security Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Security Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Security Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland Security Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

Security Specialist
Top 17 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) UNIX
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (66.67%) ArcSight
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (66.67%) CISSP
3 1 (33.33%) IronPort
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) EMC
3 1 (33.33%) Blue Coat

Security Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) UNIX
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CISSP
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) ArcSight
2 1 (33.33%) IronPort
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) EMC
2 1 (33.33%) Blue Coat
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