The first table below looks at the demand for Communications Security skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Communications Security over the 3 months to 19 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 Processes & Methodologies category.

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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Communications Security (COMSEC)
Rank 539 559 580
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +21
Contract jobs citing Communications Security 2 11 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.004% 0.019% 0.034%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.006% 0.028% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 7
Average daily rate £330 £500 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-34.00% +88.67%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £500 £265
% change year-on-year
- +88.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £14.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
34218 39623 41917
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 71.12% 68.27% 67.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 20499 22617 23889
Average daily rate £413 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.12% -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £275 £273
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £580 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 979 1259 1448
Average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.83 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £45.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%

Communications Security
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Communications Security within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Communications Security Jobs Demand Trend

Communications Security
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Communications Security within the UK.

Communications Security Daily Rate Trend

Communications Security
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Communications Security within the UK.

Communications Security Hourly Rate Trend

Communications Security
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Communications Security within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +24 2 £330 -48.63%
England +4 2 £330 -34.00%
East of England - - - -
Basingstoke - - - -
Birmingham - - - -
Blackburn - - - -
Cambridge - - - -
Cheadle - - - -
Crawley - - - -
Croydon - - - -
Doncaster - - - -
Leeds - - - -
Liverpool - - - -
Manchester - - - -
Oxford - - - -
Reading - - - -
Rochdale - - - -
Stockport - - - -
Stoke-on-Trent - - - -
Twickenham - - - -
Warrington - - - -
Weybridge - - - -
Wokingham - - - -
Berkshire - - - -
Cambridgeshire - - - -
Cheshire - - - -
Hampshire - - - -
Kent - - - -
Lancashire - - - -
Oxfordshire - - - -

Communications Security
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Communications 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 Communications Security.

1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) Service Management
3 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery
3 3 (30.00%) CA
3 3 (30.00%) Unicenter
3 3 (30.00%) ITIL
3 3 (30.00%) SLA
3 3 (30.00%) Electronics
3 3 (30.00%) Telecoms
3 3 (30.00%) Aerospace
3 3 (30.00%) Military
3 3 (30.00%) Risk Assessment
3 3 (30.00%) Information Management
3 3 (30.00%) CESG
3 3 (30.00%) Incident Management
3 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (30.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (20.00%) Cyber Security
4 2 (20.00%) QA
4 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (20.00%) Chip and PIN
4 2 (20.00%) ITSM
5 1 (10.00%) Security Management
5 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
5 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (10.00%) Blackberry
5 1 (10.00%) Red Hat

Communications Security
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Communications 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 Communications Security. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) IBM Notes
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (10.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 5.5
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Office
1 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (10.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MySQL
General
1 3 (30.00%) Electronics
1 3 (30.00%) Telecoms
1 3 (30.00%) Aerospace
1 3 (30.00%) Military
2 1 (10.00%) Legal
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Consultant
1 3 (30.00%) Service Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Auditor
2 2 (20.00%) Security Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) PHP Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Cisco Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) CESG
2 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (20.00%) Chip and PIN
3 1 (10.00%) Blackberry
3 1 (10.00%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows NT
1 1 (10.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Service Management
2 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (30.00%) ITIL
2 3 (30.00%) Risk Assessment
2 3 (30.00%) Information Management
2 3 (30.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (20.00%) Cyber Security
3 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) ITSM
4 1 (10.00%) Security Management
4 1 (10.00%) Information Security
4 1 (10.00%) Supply Chain Management
4 1 (10.00%) Network Design
4 1 (10.00%) Problem Management
4 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) C
1 1 (10.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (10.00%) CCIE
4 1 (10.00%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) SLA
1 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Unicenter
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) CA
2 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (10.00%) Lotus
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Citrix
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) F5