The first table below looks at the demand for Data Security skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Data Security over the 3 months to 17 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the South West 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Security
Rank 104 125 109
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -16
Contract jobs citing Data Security 11 14 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.537% 0.422% 0.286%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.812% 0.621% 0.445%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 6
Average daily rate £350 £335 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.47% -23.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £298 £298 £355
10% offered a daily rate of more than £464 £394 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £350 £425
% change year-on-year
+10.71% -17.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.25 £18.25 £34.19
% change year-on-year
-16.43% -46.62%
All Processes & Methodologies
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1354 2256 1796
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 66.11% 68.07% 64.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 846 1389 926
Average daily rate £375 £390 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% +0.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 109 125
Average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+24.00% -16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.25 £18.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £37.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Data Security
England

Data Security
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Data Security across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

South West Data Security Jobs Demand Trend

Data Security
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West Data Security Daily Rate Trend

Data Security
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Data Security across the South West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South West Data Security Daily Rate Histogram

Data Security
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West Data Security Hourly Rate Trend

Data Security
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Security within the South West region over the 3 months to 17 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
Bristol +13 4 £330 +14.78%
Wiltshire +8 4 £444 +5.97%
Devon -2 1 £350 +4.47%
Data Security
England

Data Security
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Data 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 Data Security.

1 15 (46.88%) SQL
1 15 (46.88%) .NET
1 15 (46.88%) ASP.NET
2 14 (43.75%) UML
2 14 (43.75%) C#
3 13 (40.63%) Microsoft
3 13 (40.63%) .NET Framework
4 12 (37.50%) MVC
4 12 (37.50%) SharePoint
5 11 (34.38%) Degree
5 11 (34.38%) ASP.NET MVC
6 10 (31.25%) Visualfiles
6 10 (31.25%) Legal
7 9 (28.13%) Finance
8 8 (25.00%) Oracle
9 6 (18.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (15.63%) ITIL
11 4 (12.50%) UNIX
11 4 (12.50%) Solaris
11 4 (12.50%) Linux
11 4 (12.50%) VBScript
11 4 (12.50%) VB
11 4 (12.50%) Project Management
11 4 (12.50%) Service Management
11 4 (12.50%) Test Scripting
11 4 (12.50%) Oracle Application Server
11 4 (12.50%) Business Continuity
11 4 (12.50%) ITSM
11 4 (12.50%) Management Information System
11 4 (12.50%) Information Security

Data Security
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Data 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 Data Security. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (46.88%) .NET
1 15 (46.88%) ASP.NET
2 13 (40.63%) .NET Framework
3 11 (34.38%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (6.250%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (6.250%) Middleware
5 1 (3.125%) Ajax
5 1 (3.125%) jQuery
5 1 (3.125%) CSS
5 1 (3.125%) XSLT
5 1 (3.125%) HTML
5 1 (3.125%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 12 (37.50%) SharePoint
2 4 (12.50%) Oracle Application Server
3 3 (9.375%) WebLogic
4 1 (3.125%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (3.125%) ESB
4 1 (3.125%) Oracle 10gAS
4 1 (3.125%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 3 (9.375%) MS Excel
2 2 (6.250%) MS Office
3 1 (3.125%) MS Project
3 1 (3.125%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (31.25%) Visualfiles
2 3 (9.375%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (9.375%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (3.125%) Oracle HRMS
3 1 (3.125%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (3.125%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.250%) HTTP
2 1 (3.125%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.375%) SQL Server
1 3 (9.375%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (6.250%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (3.125%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.125%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (3.125%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (3.125%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (3.125%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.125%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (3.125%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (3.125%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (3.125%) Visual Studio
1 1 (3.125%) JDeveloper
General
1 10 (31.25%) Legal
2 9 (28.13%) Finance
3 1 (3.125%) Financial Institution
3 1 (3.125%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.125%) Banking
3 1 (3.125%) Retail
3 1 (3.125%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (46.88%) Developer
2 4 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
2 4 (12.50%) Programmer
2 4 (12.50%) .NET Developer
2 4 (12.50%) UNIX Systems Administrator
2 4 (12.50%) UNIX Administrator
3 3 (9.375%) Consultant
3 3 (9.375%) ASP.NET Developer
3 3 (9.375%) Information Security Consultant
3 3 (9.375%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 3 (9.375%) ASP.NET Programmer
3 3 (9.375%) Technical Developer
3 3 (9.375%) C# Programmer
3 3 (9.375%) C# Developer
3 3 (9.375%) Security Consultant
3 3 (9.375%) Analyst
4 2 (6.250%) Administrator
4 2 (6.250%) Solaris Administrator
4 2 (6.250%) Solaris Systems Administrator
5 1 (3.125%) Information Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.250%) SaaS
3 1 (3.125%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (3.125%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.125%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.125%) N-Tier
3 1 (3.125%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.50%) UNIX
1 4 (12.50%) Solaris
1 4 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) UML
2 12 (37.50%) MVC
3 5 (15.63%) ITIL
4 4 (12.50%) Project Management
4 4 (12.50%) Service Management
4 4 (12.50%) ITSM
4 4 (12.50%) Business Continuity
4 4 (12.50%) Information Security
4 4 (12.50%) Test Scripting
5 3 (9.375%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (9.375%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (9.375%) Data Protection
5 3 (9.375%) PRINCE2
6 2 (6.250%) CRM
6 2 (6.250%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (6.250%) Scrum
6 2 (6.250%) Project Planning
7 1 (3.125%) Data Validation
7 1 (3.125%) Waterfall
7 1 (3.125%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 15 (46.88%) SQL
2 14 (43.75%) C#
3 4 (12.50%) VBScript
3 4 (12.50%) VB
4 2 (6.250%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.125%) C
5 1 (3.125%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.125%) PHP
5 1 (3.125%) VB.NET
5 1 (3.125%) VBA
5 1 (3.125%) XQuery
5 1 (3.125%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.125%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.125%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (34.38%) Degree
2 3 (9.375%) CISSP
2 3 (9.375%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (6.250%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 2 (6.250%) Sun Certification
3 2 (6.250%) PCI QSA
3 2 (6.250%) CISA
3 2 (6.250%) CISM
3 2 (6.250%) SCSA
4 1 (3.125%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.125%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.125%) CRISC
4 1 (3.125%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (9.375%) PCI DSS
3 2 (6.250%) SLA
4 1 (3.125%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.125%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.125%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 13 (40.63%) Microsoft
2 8 (25.00%) Oracle
3 2 (6.250%) Sun
4 1 (3.125%) Informatica
4 1 (3.125%) Siebel
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