The first table below looks at the demand for ISO/IEC 17799 skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ISO/IEC 17799 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 Quality Assurance & Compliance 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
ISO/IEC 17799
Rank 535 564 594
Rank change year-on-year
+29 +30
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 17799 6 6 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.012% 0.010% 0.011%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.178% 0.140% 0.160%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 3
Average daily rate - £500 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -13.04%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £500 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £15.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
3368 4300 4365
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 7.000% 7.409% 7.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 1993 2207 2450
Average daily rate £400 £410 £445
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.43% -7.86%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £388
% change year-on-year
- -9.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 226 275
Average hourly rate £19.00 £17.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.76% -32.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £10.63 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £37.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.25 £16.72 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.15% -44.26%

ISO/IEC 17799
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ISO/IEC 17799 within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

ISO/IEC 17799 Jobs Demand Trend

ISO/IEC 17799
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 17799 within the UK.

ISO/IEC 17799 Daily Rate Trend

ISO/IEC 17799
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ISO/IEC 17799 within the UK.

ISO/IEC 17799 Hourly Rate Trend

ISO/IEC 17799
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISO/IEC 17799 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
England +13 6 - - 3
London +26 3 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
West Midlands - - - -
East of England - - - - 1
Northern Ireland - - - -
Luton - - - - 1
Royston - - - -
Bedfordshire - - - - 1
Hertfordshire - - - -
West Yorkshire - - - - 1
County Antrim - - - -
Belfast - - - -
Birmingham - - - -
Dunstable - - - -
Leeds - - - - 1

ISO/IEC 17799
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing ISO/IEC 17799 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 ISO/IEC 17799.

1 7 (58.33%) ITIL
1 7 (58.33%) Management Information System
2 5 (41.67%) Service Management
3 4 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (33.33%) Information Security
4 3 (25.00%) ITSM
4 3 (25.00%) Windows
4 3 (25.00%) Linux
4 3 (25.00%) CISSP
5 2 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (16.67%) HPUX
5 2 (16.67%) Solaris
5 2 (16.67%) Perl
5 2 (16.67%) SQL
5 2 (16.67%) Oracle
5 2 (16.67%) WebLogic
5 2 (16.67%) IIS
5 2 (16.67%) IBM
5 2 (16.67%) Sun
5 2 (16.67%) Project Management
5 2 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (16.67%) Finance
5 2 (16.67%) WebSphere
5 2 (16.67%) Firewall
6 1 (8.333%) Programme Management
6 1 (8.333%) Degree
6 1 (8.333%) Problem Management
6 1 (8.333%) Network Security
6 1 (8.333%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (8.333%) Data Migration

ISO/IEC 17799
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing ISO/IEC 17799 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 ISO/IEC 17799. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (16.67%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) WebLogic
1 2 (16.67%) IIS
2 1 (8.333%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (8.333%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
General
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (8.333%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Service Desk Analyst
1 3 (25.00%) Analyst
1 3 (25.00%) Service Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Service Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Assistant Project Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Information Governance Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Governance Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Network Support Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Network Support
3 1 (8.333%) Security Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Service Desk Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Information Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Information Security Consultant
3 1 (8.333%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (8.333%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (8.333%) Security Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Compliance Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.333%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (8.333%) NHS
2 1 (8.333%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) HPUX
2 2 (16.67%) Solaris
3 1 (8.333%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) ITIL
2 5 (41.67%) Service Management
3 4 (33.33%) Information Security
4 3 (25.00%) ITSM
5 2 (16.67%) Project Management
6 1 (8.333%) Programme Management
6 1 (8.333%) Problem Management
6 1 (8.333%) Data Migration
6 1 (8.333%) Data Protection
6 1 (8.333%) ITIL V3
6 1 (8.333%) Software Deployment
6 1 (8.333%) Information Governance
6 1 (8.333%) Validation
6 1 (8.333%) Migration
6 1 (8.333%) Business Continuity
6 1 (8.333%) Security Management
6 1 (8.333%) Risk Management
6 1 (8.333%) Incident Management
6 1 (8.333%) Requirements Analysis
6 1 (8.333%) CMMI
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Perl
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) CISSP
2 1 (8.333%) Degree
2 1 (8.333%) DV Cleared
2 1 (8.333%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.333%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (8.333%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (8.333%) PCI DSS
3 1 (8.333%) BS15000
3 1 (8.333%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle
1 2 (16.67%) IBM
1 2 (16.67%) Sun
2 1 (8.333%) VMware
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