Communications Security Contracts in the South East

Communications Security (COMSEC)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Communications Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Communications Security over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 200 217 263
Rank change year-on-year +17 +46 -42
Contract jobs citing Communications Security 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.018% 0.018% 0.026%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% 0.020% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £264
25th Percentile - - £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £393
75th Percentile - - £472
90th Percentile - - £519
England median daily rate £688 £518 £550
% change year-on-year +32.85% -5.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.50 -
Median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 -
75th Percentile £19.50 £19.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £19.00 £75.00 -
% change year-on-year -74.67% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Communications Security is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,626 5,077 6,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.35% 89.18% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,698 3,526 4,681
10th Percentile £250 £248 £226
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 223 280
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.37 £12.19
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.19
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +127.91% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.63 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.25% +49.36% +6.38%

Communications Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Communications Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Communications Security in the South East

Communications Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Communications Security in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Communications Security in the South East

Communications Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Communications Security in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Communications Security in the South East

Communications Security
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Communications Security within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +9 1 - - 2
Berkshire -9 1 - - 1
Communications Security
England

Communications Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) ADSL
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) DSL
1 1 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) PPP
1 1 (100.00%) RIP
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) TACACS
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Process Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) CCDP
1 1 (100.00%) CCIP
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ADVA
1 1 (100.00%) Alcatel-Lucent
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper