The first table below looks at the demand for Intrusion Detection skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Intrusion Detection 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 South East 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
Intrusion Detection
Rank 195 237 253
Rank change year-on-year
+42 +16
Contract jobs citing Intrusion Detection 28 5 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.360% 0.049% 0.057%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.878% 0.232% 0.309%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 3
Average daily rate £462 £375 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.20% +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £375 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £375 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £344 £340
% change year-on-year
-8.36% +1.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 - £40.00
All Communications & Networking
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
1491 2153 1944
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 19.16% 21.17% 18.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 570 628 675
Average daily rate £315 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.07% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £188 £203
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £440 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 190 239
Average hourly rate £25.00 £32.50 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-23.07% +22.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.60 £13.42
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
Intrusion Detection
England

Intrusion Detection
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East Intrusion Detection Daily Rate Trend

Intrusion Detection
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Intrusion Detection across the South East region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

South East Intrusion Detection Daily Rate Histogram

Intrusion Detection
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Intrusion Detection across the South East region.

South East Intrusion Detection Hourly Rate Trend

Intrusion Detection
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Intrusion Detection within the South East 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
Berkshire - 13 £460 -
Surrey - 13 £500 -
Hampshire -4 1 £315 -16.00%
Middlesex - 1 - -
Intrusion Detection
England

Intrusion Detection
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 34 (75.56%) Firewall
2 29 (64.44%) Cisco
3 27 (60.00%) Internet
4 26 (57.78%) Security Cleared
5 24 (53.33%) SC Cleared
5 24 (53.33%) Juniper
6 22 (48.89%) McAfee
6 22 (48.89%) Solaris
7 19 (42.22%) SMTP
8 18 (40.00%) Network Security
9 17 (37.78%) Network Load Balancing
10 15 (33.33%) Radware
11 14 (31.11%) Telecoms
11 14 (31.11%) SAN
11 14 (31.11%) NAS
12 12 (26.67%) Finance
12 12 (26.67%) CRM
13 9 (20.00%) Oracle
13 9 (20.00%) Windows
13 9 (20.00%) Incident Management
14 8 (17.78%) Information Security
14 8 (17.78%) PCI DSS
15 7 (15.56%) CESG
15 7 (15.56%) UNIX
16 6 (13.33%) CISSP
16 6 (13.33%) Customer Engagement
16 6 (13.33%) Change Control
17 5 (11.11%) Security Testing
17 5 (11.11%) SIEM
17 5 (11.11%) CheckPoint

Intrusion Detection
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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.

Application Platforms
1 5 (11.11%) MS Exchange
2 4 (8.889%) SharePoint
2 4 (8.889%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 34 (75.56%) Firewall
2 27 (60.00%) Internet
3 19 (42.22%) SMTP
4 18 (40.00%) Network Security
5 14 (31.11%) SAN
5 14 (31.11%) NAS
6 5 (11.11%) DNS
7 4 (8.889%) TCP/IP
7 4 (8.889%) NetScreen
7 4 (8.889%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (6.667%) ICMP
9 1 (2.222%) Junos
9 1 (2.222%) SSL
9 1 (2.222%) VPN
9 1 (2.222%) HTTP
9 1 (2.222%) LAN
9 1 (2.222%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.222%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (2.222%) SQL Server
General
1 14 (31.11%) Telecoms
2 12 (26.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 18 (40.00%) Architect
2 16 (35.56%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (15.56%) Security Analyst
3 7 (15.56%) Analyst
4 5 (11.11%) Security Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Network Engineer
5 4 (8.889%) Design Engineer
5 4 (8.889%) Technical Analyst
5 4 (8.889%) Network Design Engineer
5 4 (8.889%) Technical Security Analyst
6 3 (6.667%) Security Operations Manager
6 3 (6.667%) Security Support Engineer
6 3 (6.667%) Security Manager
6 3 (6.667%) Integration Engineer
6 3 (6.667%) Operations Manager
6 3 (6.667%) Support Engineer
7 2 (4.444%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (4.444%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (4.444%) Systems Integration Engineer
8 1 (2.222%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) CESG
2 4 (8.889%) Management Information System
2 4 (8.889%) RMADS
3 3 (6.667%) PKI
4 2 (4.444%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.222%) Cryptography
Operating Systems
1 22 (48.89%) Solaris
2 9 (20.00%) Windows
3 7 (15.56%) UNIX
4 4 (8.889%) Linux
5 2 (4.444%) Windows XP
6 1 (2.222%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (37.78%) Network Load Balancing
2 12 (26.67%) CRM
3 9 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 8 (17.78%) Information Security
5 6 (13.33%) Customer Engagement
5 6 (13.33%) Change Control
6 5 (11.11%) Security Testing
6 5 (11.11%) SIEM
6 5 (11.11%) Service Delivery
7 4 (8.889%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (8.889%) Configuration Management
7 4 (8.889%) Ethical Hacking
7 4 (8.889%) Network Design
7 4 (8.889%) Penetration Testing
7 4 (8.889%) TOGAF
7 4 (8.889%) Technical Architecture
8 3 (6.667%) Security Architecture
9 2 (4.444%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (4.444%) Project Management
10 1 (2.222%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.889%) Java
2 1 (2.222%) Shell Script
2 1 (2.222%) Python
2 1 (2.222%) Perl
2 1 (2.222%) PHP
2 1 (2.222%) SQL
2 1 (2.222%) VB
2 1 (2.222%) C
2 1 (2.222%) C++
Qualifications
1 26 (57.78%) Security Cleared
2 24 (53.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (13.33%) CISSP
4 4 (8.889%) CCSA
4 4 (8.889%) CCSE
5 3 (6.667%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (6.667%) CCSP
6 1 (2.222%) MCTS
6 1 (2.222%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.78%) PCI DSS
2 4 (8.889%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (8.889%) Active Directory
1 4 (8.889%) Sendmail
2 1 (2.222%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (8.889%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 29 (64.44%) Cisco
2 24 (53.33%) Juniper
3 22 (48.89%) McAfee
4 15 (33.33%) Radware
5 9 (20.00%) Oracle
6 5 (11.11%) CheckPoint
7 4 (8.889%) Sun
7 4 (8.889%) CA
7 4 (8.889%) NetApp
7 4 (8.889%) Blue Coat
7 4 (8.889%) Qualys
8 1 (2.222%) Crossbeam
8 1 (2.222%) VMware
8 1 (2.222%) Citrix
8 1 (2.222%) Microsoft