Intrusion Detection Contracts in the UK excluding London

Intrusion Detection
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Intrusion Detection skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Intrusion Detection over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 333 357 462
Rank change year-on-year +24 +105 -51
Contract jobs citing Intrusion Detection 63 90 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.38% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.89% 2.57% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 64 26
10th Percentile £459 £319 £423
25th Percentile £550 £459 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £516 £528
Median % change year-on-year +14.77% -2.13% +30.25%
75th Percentile £763 £625 £588
90th Percentile £850 £671 £644
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £550
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.88 £62.75 £63.30
Median hourly rate £87.46 £70.25 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year +24.50% +6.76% +258.10%
75th Percentile £87.53 £77.50 £72.90
90th Percentile - £77.58 £75.66
UK median hourly rate £87.46 £70.25 £65.80
% change year-on-year +24.50% +6.76% +258.10%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

Intrusion Detection is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,328 3,498 4,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.25% 14.91% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,904 2,201 2,615
10th Percentile £201 £210 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £545
90th Percentile £675 £690 £638
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.49% +3.65% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 321 234
10th Percentile £13.43 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £16.01
Median hourly rate £46.14 £18.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +149.38% -13.95% -10.42%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.50 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.41
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.88% +5.22%

Intrusion Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Intrusion Detection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Intrusion Detection in the UK excluding London

Intrusion Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Intrusion Detection in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Intrusion Detection in the UK excluding London

Intrusion Detection
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Intrusion Detection in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Intrusion Detection in the UK excluding London

Intrusion Detection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Intrusion Detection in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Intrusion Detection in the UK excluding London

Intrusion Detection
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Intrusion Detection within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East +36 34 £450 -25.00% 5
Midlands +47 23 £617 +14.77% 6
West Midlands +38 20 £650 -1.89% 3
East of England +8 3 £663 -14.52% 4
South West +1 3 £550 +4.76% 4
East Midlands - 3 £575 - 3
Intrusion Detection
UK

Intrusion Detection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.59%) Confluence
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (6.35%) Azure
2 3 (4.76%) AWS
3 1 (1.59%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.59%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 44 (69.84%) Firewall
2 19 (30.16%) Network Security
3 5 (7.94%) TCP/IP
4 4 (6.35%) VPN
5 3 (4.76%) BGP
5 3 (4.76%) MPLS
5 3 (4.76%) OSPF
5 3 (4.76%) WAN
6 2 (3.17%) LAN
6 2 (3.17%) SD-WAN
6 2 (3.17%) VoIP
6 2 (3.17%) Wireless
7 1 (1.59%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (1.59%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (1.59%) SSL
7 1 (1.59%) tcpdump
7 1 (1.59%) Unified Communications
7 1 (1.59%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (23.81%) Big Data
2 1 (1.59%) Apache Hive
2 1 (1.59%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.59%) GitLab
1 1 (1.59%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (1.59%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.59%) JIRA
1 1 (1.59%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (30.16%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (23.81%) Public Sector
3 3 (4.76%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.17%) Finance
4 2 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.17%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.59%) Legal
5 1 (1.59%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 36 (57.14%) Architect
2 32 (50.79%) Security Architect
3 24 (38.10%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 6 (9.52%) Analyst
5 5 (7.94%) Senior
6 3 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Security Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) SOC Analyst
7 2 (3.17%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 2 (3.17%) IT Architect
7 2 (3.17%) Network Architect
7 2 (3.17%) Network Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Security Analyst
7 2 (3.17%) Security Manager
7 2 (3.17%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (3.17%) Senior Architect
7 2 (3.17%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
7 2 (3.17%) Senior Security Analyst
7 2 (3.17%) Senior Security Architect
8 1 (1.59%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (23.81%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (1.59%) Keycloak
2 1 (1.59%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 15 (23.81%) Cyber Defence
1 15 (23.81%) Distributed Applications
2 13 (20.63%) Management Information System
3 6 (9.52%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (3.17%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.17%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.59%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.59%) iPad
5 1 (1.59%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.59%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 18 (28.57%) Linux
1 18 (28.57%) Windows
2 13 (20.63%) Android
2 13 (20.63%) Apple iOS
2 13 (20.63%) Unix
3 1 (1.59%) Mac OS X
3 1 (1.59%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (76.19%) Cybersecurity
2 37 (58.73%) Security Architecture
3 30 (47.62%) DevOps
4 19 (30.16%) SIEM
5 18 (28.57%) Information Security
6 16 (25.40%) Security Operations
6 16 (25.40%) Stakeholder Management
7 15 (23.81%) Actionable Insight
7 15 (23.81%) Data Engineering
7 15 (23.81%) Data Management
8 14 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
9 13 (20.63%) Kalman Filter
10 11 (17.46%) Data Analysis
11 10 (15.87%) Analytics
12 6 (9.52%) Incident Response
13 5 (7.94%) Risk Management
14 4 (6.35%) Information Assurance
15 3 (4.76%) Capacity Planning
15 3 (4.76%) Mentoring
15 3 (4.76%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 51 (80.95%) Security Cleared
2 43 (68.25%) DV Cleared
3 10 (15.87%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.17%) CISSP
4 2 (3.17%) Degree
5 1 (1.59%) CCNP
5 1 (1.59%) CCSP
5 1 (1.59%) CEH
5 1 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.59%) CREST Certified
5 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.59%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (23.81%) Actionable Recommendations
2 4 (6.35%) HIPAA
2 4 (6.35%) PCI DSS
3 3 (4.76%) NIST
4 2 (3.17%) GDPR
5 1 (1.59%) GRC
5 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.59%) NCSC
5 1 (1.59%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (3.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.59%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (1.59%) Kibana
1 1 (1.59%) SCCM
1 1 (1.59%) SCOM
1 1 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (17.46%) Red Hat
2 5 (7.94%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.35%) Cisco
4 3 (4.76%) Palo Alto
5 2 (3.17%) Google
5 2 (3.17%) Splunk
6 1 (1.59%) Cadence
6 1 (1.59%) VMware