The first table below looks at the demand for Intrusion Detection skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Intrusion Detection over the 3 months to 21 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 Communications & Networking 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Intrusion Detection
Rank 477 516 552
Rank change year-on-year
+39 +36
Contract jobs citing Intrusion Detection 63 65 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.133% 0.111% 0.047%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.917% 0.709% 0.361%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 33 9
Average daily rate £350 £475 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.31% +39.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £250 £308
10% offered a daily rate of more than £498 £620 £480
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £281 £338
% change year-on-year
+12.00% -16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 4
Average hourly rate £15.25 - £34.50
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 - £18.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.65 - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 - £40.00
All Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6868 9171 7760
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 14.55% 15.69% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3354 4160 3539
Average daily rate £350 £365 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.10% +4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 546 614 779
Average hourly rate £22.00 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.50 £45.00 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%

Intrusion Detection
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Intrusion Detection Jobs Demand Trend

Intrusion Detection
Daily Rate Trend

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

Intrusion Detection Daily Rate Trend

Intrusion Detection
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Intrusion Detection within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Intrusion Detection Daily Rate Histogram

Intrusion Detection
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Intrusion Detection Hourly Rate Trend

Intrusion Detection
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Intrusion Detection within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Intrusion Detection Hourly Rate Histogram

Intrusion Detection
Top 28 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Intrusion Detection within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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
England +35 54 £350 -26.31%
South East +46 27 £462 +25.71%
Yorkshire - 14 £275 -
Berkshire - 13 £460 -
Reading - 13 £460 -
Leeds - 12 £275 -
West Yorkshire - 12 £275 -
Surrey - 12 £500 -
London -17 8 £425 -19.04%
North West +14 4 £175 -
South Wales - 4 - -
Wales - 4 - -
Torfaen - 4 - -
Camberley - 4 £456 -
Cwmbran - 4 - -
South Yorkshire - 2 £437 -
Cheshire - 2 £175 -
Chester - 2 £175 -
Guildford - 2 £550 -
Doncaster - 2 £437 -
Hammersmith - 2 £425 -
South West +22 1 £413 -
Manchester +16 1 £175 -
Southampton -3 1 £315 -
Hampshire -12 1 £315 -
Somerset - 1 £413 -
Middlesex - 1 - -
Bath - 1 £413 -

Intrusion Detection
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Intrusion Detection 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 Intrusion Detection.

1 84 (63.16%) Firewall
2 59 (44.36%) Internet
3 51 (38.35%) Cisco
4 40 (30.08%) Incident Management
5 37 (27.82%) CISSP
6 35 (26.32%) Juniper
6 35 (26.32%) Information Security
7 34 (25.56%) Telecoms
7 34 (25.56%) TCP/IP
8 31 (23.31%) Security Cleared
9 29 (21.80%) SIEM
10 28 (21.05%) SC Cleared
10 28 (21.05%) McAfee
11 27 (20.30%) DNS
11 27 (20.30%) Network Security
11 27 (20.30%) Finance
12 25 (18.80%) Solaris
13 24 (18.05%) PCI DSS
14 23 (17.29%) Linux
14 23 (17.29%) Windows
14 23 (17.29%) Oracle
15 22 (16.54%) Security Testing
16 21 (15.79%) Load Balancing
16 21 (15.79%) Management Information System
17 20 (15.04%) SMTP
18 19 (14.29%) Client/Server
18 19 (14.29%) CEH
19 18 (13.53%) Apache
19 18 (13.53%) Configuration Management
19 18 (13.53%) SAN

Intrusion Detection
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Intrusion Detection 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 Intrusion Detection. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (9.023%) Web Services
1 12 (9.023%) Node.js
2 2 (1.504%) LAMP
2 2 (1.504%) POSIX
2 2 (1.504%) ASP
2 2 (1.504%) CSS
3 1 (0.752%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 18 (13.53%) Apache
2 12 (9.023%) nginx
2 12 (9.023%) Amazon EC2
2 12 (9.023%) Amazon S3
2 12 (9.023%) Amazon AWS
2 12 (9.023%) Route 53
3 6 (4.511%) MS Exchange
4 4 (3.008%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.752%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (0.752%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 84 (63.16%) Firewall
2 59 (44.36%) Internet
3 34 (25.56%) TCP/IP
4 27 (20.30%) DNS
4 27 (20.30%) Network Security
5 20 (15.04%) SMTP
6 18 (13.53%) SAN
7 14 (10.53%) NAS
8 13 (9.774%) DHCP
8 13 (9.774%) SSL
9 11 (8.271%) LAN
10 9 (6.767%) VPN
10 9 (6.767%) BGP
11 8 (6.015%) MPLS
11 8 (6.015%) OSPF
11 8 (6.015%) WAN
12 7 (5.263%) NetScreen
13 6 (4.511%) OpenLDAP
13 6 (4.511%) EIGRP
14 4 (3.008%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.023%) MySQL
1 12 (9.023%) MongoDB
1 12 (9.023%) Redis
1 12 (9.023%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.504%) Couchbase
2 2 (1.504%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.504%) SimpleDB
2 2 (1.504%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.752%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.752%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (0.752%) GIS
General
1 34 (25.56%) Telecoms
2 27 (20.30%) Finance
3 7 (5.263%) Banking
4 4 (3.008%) Investment Banking
4 4 (3.008%) Legal
5 3 (2.256%) Games
6 1 (0.752%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 30 (22.56%) Analyst
2 25 (18.80%) Architect
3 21 (15.79%) Security Analyst
4 17 (12.78%) Solutions Architect
5 11 (8.271%) Consultant
6 10 (7.519%) Network Engineer
6 10 (7.519%) Security Consultant
7 9 (6.767%) Security Engineer
8 8 (6.015%) Penetration Tester
8 8 (6.015%) Tester
9 6 (4.511%) Administrator
10 5 (3.759%) Network Security Engineer
10 5 (3.759%) Technical Analyst
10 5 (3.759%) Operations Analyst
10 5 (3.759%) Security Manager
11 4 (3.008%) Network Design Engineer
11 4 (3.008%) Security Specialist
11 4 (3.008%) Network Architect
11 4 (3.008%) Integration Engineer
11 4 (3.008%) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.79%) Management Information System
2 19 (14.29%) Client/Server
3 7 (5.263%) Computer Science
3 7 (5.263%) CESG
4 4 (3.008%) Data Integration
4 4 (3.008%) RMADS
4 4 (3.008%) PKI
5 3 (2.256%) Online Games
6 1 (0.752%) Blackberry
6 1 (0.752%) Thin Client
6 1 (0.752%) Fat Client
6 1 (0.752%) Device Driver
6 1 (0.752%) Clustering
6 1 (0.752%) Cryptography
6 1 (0.752%) Open Source
6 1 (0.752%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 25 (18.80%) Solaris
2 23 (17.29%) Linux
2 23 (17.29%) Windows
3 16 (12.03%) UNIX
4 4 (3.008%) Windows 7
4 4 (3.008%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (3.008%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (3.008%) Windows XP
5 1 (0.752%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (30.08%) Incident Management
2 35 (26.32%) Information Security
3 29 (21.80%) SIEM
4 22 (16.54%) Security Testing
5 21 (15.79%) Load Balancing
6 18 (13.53%) Configuration Management
7 17 (12.78%) Network Load Balancing
8 15 (11.28%) Project Management
8 15 (11.28%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 14 (10.53%) Reverse Engineering
10 13 (9.774%) CRM
11 12 (9.023%) Test Automation
11 12 (9.023%) Kanban
11 12 (9.023%) Penetration Testing
12 11 (8.271%) Change Control
12 11 (8.271%) Network Design
13 10 (7.519%) Capacity Management
14 9 (6.767%) Data Protection
15 8 (6.015%) Ethical Hacking
15 8 (6.015%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 16 (12.03%) Java
2 15 (11.28%) C++
2 15 (11.28%) PHP
2 15 (11.28%) Python
3 13 (9.774%) Perl
4 12 (9.023%) Ruby
4 12 (9.023%) Bash shell
5 3 (2.256%) C
5 3 (2.256%) SQL
5 3 (2.256%) VB
5 3 (2.256%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 37 (27.82%) CISSP
2 31 (23.31%) Security Cleared
3 28 (21.05%) SC Cleared
4 19 (14.29%) CEH
5 14 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (9.774%) Degree
7 6 (4.511%) CCSE
7 6 (4.511%) CCSA
7 6 (4.511%) GIAC
7 6 (4.511%) PMP
7 6 (4.511%) PMI Certification
7 6 (4.511%) CCIE
7 6 (4.511%) CCNA
8 5 (3.759%) MCP
8 5 (3.759%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (3.008%) EnCE
9 4 (3.008%) CCSP
9 4 (3.008%) CCNP
10 3 (2.256%) ISEB
10 3 (2.256%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (18.05%) PCI DSS
2 8 (6.015%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.008%) QA
4 1 (0.752%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (7.519%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.511%) Sendmail
3 1 (0.752%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.752%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.752%) XenApp
3 1 (0.752%) XenDesktop
3 1 (0.752%) Forefront TMG
3 1 (0.752%) UAG
Systems Management
1 12 (9.023%) Puppet
2 4 (3.008%) SCCM
2 4 (3.008%) Tivoli
3 2 (1.504%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (0.752%) Norton AntiVirus
4 1 (0.752%) Splunk
Vendors
1 51 (38.35%) Cisco
2 35 (26.32%) Juniper
3 28 (21.05%) McAfee
4 23 (17.29%) Oracle
5 14 (10.53%) Radware
6 10 (7.519%) Qualys
6 10 (7.519%) Percona
6 10 (7.519%) ArcSight
7 9 (6.767%) CheckPoint
8 8 (6.015%) Blue Coat
9 6 (4.511%) Sun
10 5 (3.759%) NetApp
10 5 (3.759%) Riverbed
11 4 (3.008%) CA
11 4 (3.008%) HP
12 3 (2.256%) Nokia
12 3 (2.256%) Brocade
13 2 (1.504%) Q1 Labs
13 2 (1.504%) F5
13 2 (1.504%) Sourcefire
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