The first table below looks at the demand for Network Security skills in IT contracts advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Network Security over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Southampton 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Security
Rank 35 32 23
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -9
Contract jobs citing Network Security 5 1 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 1.502% 0.398% 2.051%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.00% 2.703% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Average daily rate £330 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £375 £365
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Average hourly rate - £9.94 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -72.38%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £25.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+30.00% +25.00%
All Communications & Networking
Southampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
50 37 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 15.02% 14.74% 15.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 17 5
Average daily rate £330 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £164 £275 £193
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £350 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 13
Average hourly rate £19.75 £30.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.16% -7.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.14 £20.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £37.00 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.96%
Network Security
Hampshire

Network Security
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Network Security across the Southampton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Southampton Network Security Jobs Demand Trend

Network Security
Daily Rate Trend

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

Southampton Network Security Daily Rate Trend

Network Security
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Southampton Network Security Hourly Rate Trend

Network Security
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton region citing Network 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 Network Security.

1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
1 7 (87.50%) SC Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (50.00%) Windows
3 3 (37.50%) SharePoint
3 3 (37.50%) Citrix
3 3 (37.50%) DHCP
3 3 (37.50%) DNS
3 3 (37.50%) Migration
3 3 (37.50%) VMware
3 3 (37.50%) Operations Management
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (37.50%) Data Migration
3 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (37.50%) Windows 7
4 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (25.00%) JSP 440
4 2 (25.00%) Use Case
4 2 (25.00%) CESG
4 2 (25.00%) Network Design
4 2 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (25.00%) Business Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) Clustering
4 2 (25.00%) Cisco
4 2 (25.00%) Workflow
4 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (25.00%) MS Exchange
5 1 (12.50%) OOD
5 1 (12.50%) UML
5 1 (12.50%) Intranet

Network Security
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton region citing Network 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 Network Security. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (12.50%) DHTML
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) ADO.NET
1 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
1 1 (12.50%) CSS
1 1 (12.50%) SOAP
1 1 (12.50%) Web Services
1 1 (12.50%) XML
1 1 (12.50%) XSL
1 1 (12.50%) XSLT
1 1 (12.50%) WinForms
1 1 (12.50%) Ajax
1 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
1 1 (12.50%) WCF
1 1 (12.50%) WF
1 1 (12.50%) LINQ
1 1 (12.50%) jQuery
1 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (12.50%) HTML5
1 1 (12.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) SharePoint
2 2 (25.00%) MS Exchange
3 1 (12.50%) ESB
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DHCP
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
2 2 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (12.50%) Intranet
3 1 (12.50%) Internet
3 1 (12.50%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
1 1 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Network Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Security Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) Design Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Network Design Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Network Security Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Server Support Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Server Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Server Support
2 1 (12.50%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Clustering
1 2 (25.00%) CESG
2 1 (12.50%) Social Media
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Migration
1 3 (37.50%) Operations Management
1 3 (37.50%) Data Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Use Case
2 2 (25.00%) Network Design
2 2 (25.00%) Business Analysis
2 2 (25.00%) Workflow
2 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (12.50%) MVC
3 1 (12.50%) UML
3 1 (12.50%) OOD
3 1 (12.50%) Validation
3 1 (12.50%) Zachman Framework
3 1 (12.50%) TOGAF
3 1 (12.50%) Web Development
3 1 (12.50%) Software Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C#
1 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
1 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) SC Cleared
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) JSP 440
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (37.50%) Citrix
1 3 (37.50%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco
Southampton, Hampshire
The Network Security Consultant will be required to evaluate and audit my clients current network infrastructure through requirements gathering, site visits, use cases and business analysis... * Requirements gathering...
Haybrook IT Resourcing Ltd
Rate: Up to £330 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013