The first table below looks at the demand for ISO/IEC 27001 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 27001 over the 3 months to 24 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
ISO/IEC 27001
Rank 339 410 472
Rank change year-on-year
+71 +62
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 205 177 112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.442% 0.303% 0.183%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.277% 4.145% 2.625%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 88 55
Average daily rate £440 £488 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.74% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £297 £266 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £575 £563
UK excluding London average daily rate £427 £500 £400
% change year-on-year
-14.60% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £14.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £14.00 -
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
3266 4270 4266
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 7.040% 7.322% 6.988%
Number of daily rates quoted 1945 2220 2342
Average daily rate £400 £415 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.61% -7.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £230 £245
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £600 £602
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 223 233
Average hourly rate £19.00 £16.72 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.63% -42.34%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £59.50 £37.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.75 £16.35 £30.50
% change year-on-year
+8.56% -46.39%

ISO/IEC 27001
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

ISO/IEC 27001 Jobs Demand Trend

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 within the UK.

ISO/IEC 27001 Daily Rate Trend

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

ISO/IEC 27001 Daily Rate Histogram

ISO/IEC 27001
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 within the UK.

ISO/IEC 27001 Hourly Rate Trend

ISO/IEC 27001
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 ISO/IEC 27001 within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +57 192 £450 -7.64%
London +89 117 £455 +7.05%
City of London +37 43 £435 +3.88%
South West +26 31 £440 -23.47%
South East +16 27 £475 -7.27%
Berkshire +18 14 £475 -13.63%
Reading +20 13 £475 -17.39%
Somerset +18 13 £458 +7.76%
Taunton - 13 £458 -
West Midlands +10 7 £513 -
East of England +17 6 £293 -36.75%
Bedfordshire - 6 £293 -
Bournemouth -1 5 £210 -55.78%
Dorset -6 5 £210 -55.78%
Yorkshire +4 4 £325 -35.00%
Hampshire -11 4 £425 -20.93%
North West -13 4 £488 +150.00%
Birmingham +14 3 £420 -
Lancashire +8 3 £525 -
West Yorkshire +4 3 £350 -30.00%
Warwickshire -3 3 £550 -
Uxbridge - 3 - -
Cardiff - 3 £405 -
Middlesex - 3 £265 -
South Wales - 3 £405 -
Wales - 3 £405 -
Gloucester +26 2 £475 -17.39%
West Sussex +20 2 - -
Gloucestershire +18 2 £475 -17.39%
Buckinghamshire +8 2 - -

ISO/IEC 27001
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing ISO/IEC 27001 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 27001.

1 195 (50.39%) Information Security
2 129 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 123 (31.78%) ITIL
4 111 (28.68%) SC Cleared
5 82 (21.19%) CISSP
6 70 (18.09%) Information Assurance
7 69 (17.83%) Risk Management
8 68 (17.57%) PCI DSS
9 67 (17.31%) Management Information System
10 64 (16.54%) Finance
11 57 (14.73%) Incident Management
12 56 (14.47%) Security Management
13 55 (14.21%) Risk Assessment
13 55 (14.21%) Microsoft
14 51 (13.18%) Firewall
14 51 (13.18%) CISM
15 49 (12.66%) Windows
16 45 (11.63%) Active Directory
16 45 (11.63%) ISMS
17 42 (10.85%) MS Office
18 40 (10.34%) VPN
18 40 (10.34%) Change Management
18 40 (10.34%) Information Security Management
18 40 (10.34%) Data Protection
19 39 (10.08%) Citrix
20 37 (9.561%) Cisco
21 36 (9.302%) Telecoms
22 34 (8.786%) MS Excel
23 32 (8.269%) CISA
24 31 (8.010%) MS Visio

ISO/IEC 27001
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing ISO/IEC 27001 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 27001. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 17 (4.393%) HTML
1 17 (4.393%) XML
1 17 (4.393%) CSS
2 5 (1.292%) .NET
2 5 (1.292%) XSL
2 5 (1.292%) ASP
3 4 (1.034%) .NET Framework
4 3 (0.775%) JSP
4 3 (0.775%) J2EE
4 3 (0.775%) WCF
4 3 (0.775%) WPF
4 3 (0.775%) WF
5 1 (0.258%) Hibernate
5 1 (0.258%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.258%) Spring
5 1 (0.258%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 18 (4.651%) IIS
2 16 (4.134%) MS Exchange
3 12 (3.101%) Adobe CQ
3 12 (3.101%) CMS
4 10 (2.584%) SharePoint
4 10 (2.584%) Lotus Notes
5 7 (1.809%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 4 (1.034%) SharePoint 2010
6 4 (1.034%) LiveLink
7 3 (0.775%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.775%) Exchange Server 2003
8 2 (0.517%) Exchange Server 2007
8 2 (0.517%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.517%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.258%) Apache
Applications
1 42 (10.85%) MS Office
2 34 (8.786%) MS Excel
3 31 (8.010%) MS Visio
4 10 (2.584%) MS PowerPoint
5 7 (1.809%) MS Project
6 1 (0.258%) Stata
Business Applications
1 3 (0.775%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 3 (0.775%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.258%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 51 (13.18%) Firewall
2 40 (10.34%) VPN
3 28 (7.235%) Network Security
4 23 (5.943%) TCP/IP
5 17 (4.393%) LAN
6 12 (3.101%) Internet
6 12 (3.101%) WAN
7 11 (2.842%) Wireless
8 9 (2.326%) VoIP
9 8 (2.067%) Intrusion Detection
9 8 (2.067%) MPLS
10 7 (1.809%) ATM
10 7 (1.809%) DNS
10 7 (1.809%) Intranet
11 5 (1.292%) SDH
11 5 (1.292%) SAN
12 4 (1.034%) IP Telephony
12 4 (1.034%) Broadband
12 4 (1.034%) DHCP
12 4 (1.034%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.809%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.775%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (0.775%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (0.517%) MySQL
3 2 (0.517%) GIS
4 1 (0.258%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.258%) Big Data
4 1 (0.258%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 16 (4.134%) Subversion
2 13 (3.359%) TeamCity
3 12 (3.101%) Selenium
3 12 (3.101%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 12 (3.101%) Git (software)
3 12 (3.101%) Mockito
3 12 (3.101%) JBehave
3 12 (3.101%) WebDriver
3 12 (3.101%) Cucumber
3 12 (3.101%) Hudson
3 12 (3.101%) JUnit
4 5 (1.292%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.775%) InstallShield
6 1 (0.258%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.258%) MSTest
6 1 (0.258%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.258%) NUnit
General
1 64 (16.54%) Finance
2 36 (9.302%) Telecoms
3 28 (7.235%) Legal
4 22 (5.685%) Banking
5 14 (3.618%) Law
6 12 (3.101%) Retail
7 9 (2.326%) Local Government
8 7 (1.809%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.550%) Advertising
10 4 (1.034%) Publishing
10 4 (1.034%) Electronics
11 3 (0.775%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.775%) Games
12 2 (0.517%) Marketing
12 2 (0.517%) Billing
Job Titles
1 119 (30.75%) Analyst
2 72 (18.60%) Consultant
3 57 (14.73%) Security Analyst
4 46 (11.89%) Security Consultant
5 32 (8.269%) Architect
6 30 (7.752%) Business Analyst
7 28 (7.235%) Security Manager
8 23 (5.943%) Security Architect
9 22 (5.685%) Information Security Consultant
10 21 (5.426%) Security Officer
11 20 (5.168%) Senior Analyst
11 20 (5.168%) Project Manager
12 19 (4.910%) Change Analyst
13 17 (4.393%) Business Change Analyst
14 15 (3.876%) Information Analyst
14 15 (3.876%) Information Security Analyst
15 13 (3.359%) Help Desk Support
15 13 (3.359%) CLAS Consultant
15 13 (3.359%) IT Security Officer
15 13 (3.359%) Information Manager
Miscellaneous
1 67 (17.31%) Management Information System
2 31 (8.010%) CESG
3 27 (6.977%) Data Protection Act
4 25 (6.460%) RMADS
5 14 (3.618%) Freedom of Information
5 14 (3.618%) PKI
6 13 (3.359%) Statistics
7 12 (3.101%) CESG CLAS
7 12 (3.101%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.067%) Freedom of Information Act
8 8 (2.067%) Computer Science
9 6 (1.550%) NHS
10 5 (1.292%) Handset
10 5 (1.292%) Blackberry
11 3 (0.775%) Thin Client
11 3 (0.775%) iSeries
11 3 (0.775%) Online Games
11 3 (0.775%) Fat Client
12 2 (0.517%) SaaS
12 2 (0.517%) DTV
Operating Systems
1 49 (12.66%) Windows
2 29 (7.494%) Linux
3 19 (4.910%) UNIX
4 17 (4.393%) Windows 7
5 16 (4.134%) Windows XP
6 14 (3.618%) Windows Server 2008
7 13 (3.359%) Windows NT
8 11 (2.842%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (0.775%) Solaris
10 2 (0.517%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.517%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.517%) AIX
11 1 (0.258%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (50.39%) Information Security
2 123 (31.78%) ITIL
3 70 (18.09%) Information Assurance
4 69 (17.83%) Risk Management
5 57 (14.73%) Incident Management
6 56 (14.47%) Security Management
7 55 (14.21%) Risk Assessment
8 45 (11.63%) ISMS
9 40 (10.34%) Change Management
9 40 (10.34%) Information Security Management
9 40 (10.34%) Data Protection
10 26 (6.718%) Business Continuity
11 25 (6.460%) PRINCE2
12 23 (5.943%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 23 (5.943%) Service Delivery
13 22 (5.685%) TOGAF
14 21 (5.426%) Stakeholder Management
15 19 (4.910%) Vulnerability Management
16 16 (4.134%) Penetration Testing
16 16 (4.134%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 28 (7.235%) C
2 17 (4.393%) JavaScript
3 15 (3.876%) Java
4 10 (2.584%) SQL
5 6 (1.550%) VBScript
6 5 (1.292%) VB
6 5 (1.292%) C#
6 5 (1.292%) VB6
7 1 (0.258%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 129 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 111 (28.68%) SC Cleared
3 82 (21.19%) CISSP
4 51 (13.18%) CISM
5 32 (8.269%) CISA
6 31 (8.010%) DV Cleared
7 21 (5.426%) Degree
8 17 (4.393%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (2.842%) MCSE
9 11 (2.842%) ISEB
10 10 (2.584%) MCDST
11 9 (2.326%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (1.809%) MCP
12 7 (1.809%) MCITP
13 6 (1.550%) ISEB Practitioner
13 6 (1.550%) CRISC
14 5 (1.292%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 5 (1.292%) CCIE
14 5 (1.292%) JNCIE
15 4 (1.034%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (17.57%) PCI DSS
2 31 (8.010%) ISO 9000
3 23 (5.943%) ISO 9001
4 19 (4.910%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 18 (4.651%) SLA
6 16 (4.134%) COBIT
7 9 (2.326%) QA
8 8 (2.067%) TickIT
9 7 (1.809%) BS25999
10 6 (1.550%) JSP 440
11 4 (1.034%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 2 (0.517%) ISO/IEC 17799
13 1 (0.258%) ISO 14001
13 1 (0.258%) GAMP
13 1 (0.258%) BS7799
System Software
1 45 (11.63%) Active Directory
2 14 (3.618%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.067%) XenApp
4 6 (1.550%) XenDesktop
5 5 (1.292%) Terminal Services
5 5 (1.292%) UAG
5 5 (1.292%) vSphere
6 4 (1.034%) Forefront TMG
7 3 (0.775%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.517%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.517%) vCloud
8 2 (0.517%) RACF
8 2 (0.517%) VMware ESX
9 1 (0.258%) XenServer
9 1 (0.258%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 9 (2.326%) OpenView
1 9 (2.326%) Tivoli
2 7 (1.809%) ServiceCenter
3 4 (1.034%) SCCM
4 2 (0.517%) SCOM
4 2 (0.517%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (0.258%) Splunk
5 1 (0.258%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (0.258%) OVSD
5 1 (0.258%) WSUS
Vendors
1 55 (14.21%) Microsoft
2 39 (10.08%) Citrix
3 37 (9.561%) Cisco
4 25 (6.460%) VMware
5 21 (5.426%) Oracle
6 18 (4.651%) HP
6 18 (4.651%) Juniper
7 13 (3.359%) Remedy
8 12 (3.101%) Symantec
8 12 (3.101%) Adobe
9 10 (2.584%) CA
9 10 (2.584%) Lotus
10 8 (2.067%) SAP
11 7 (1.809%) Riverbed
12 6 (1.550%) CheckPoint
12 6 (1.550%) IBM
12 6 (1.550%) Alcatel-Lucent
13 5 (1.292%) Nortel
14 4 (1.034%) Fortinet
14 4 (1.034%) Sonus
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