Snort Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Snort skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Snort 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 System Software 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
Sourcefire Snort
Rank 513 572 580
Rank change year-on-year
+59 +8
Contract jobs citing Snort 16 12 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.034% 0.021% 0.007%
As % of the System Software category 0.368% 0.261% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 0
Average daily rate £425 £281 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+51.11% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £250 -
% change year-on-year
+80.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £45.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 - -
Search 8 Snort jobs
All System Software
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category		 4352 4594 4408
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 9.381% 7.877% 7.221%
Number of daily rates quoted 2092 2210 1930
Average daily rate £350 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £455 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 589 627 658
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.01 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%

Snort
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Snort within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Snort Jobs Demand Trend

Snort
Daily Rate Trend

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

Snort Daily Rate Trend

Snort
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Snort Daily Rate Histogram

Snort
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Snort Hourly Rate Trend

Snort
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Snort 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 +46 12 £450 +60.00%
South East +18 7 - -
Hampshire -4 7 - -
London +35 3 £350 +21.21%
Southampton - 3 - -
East Midlands - 2 £450 -
City of London - 2 £425 -
Derbyshire - 2 £450 -

Snort
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Snort 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 Snort.

1 17 (77.27%) Security Cleared
2 15 (68.18%) SIEM
3 13 (59.09%) Windows
3 13 (59.09%) Firewall
4 12 (54.55%) ArcSight
4 12 (54.55%) SC Cleared
4 12 (54.55%) Sourcefire
5 11 (50.00%) GIAC
5 11 (50.00%) Symantec
6 10 (45.45%) Degree
6 10 (45.45%) Mathematics
7 9 (40.91%) DV Cleared
7 9 (40.91%) LogLogic
7 9 (40.91%) Internet
7 9 (40.91%) ITIL
8 8 (36.36%) Information Security
9 7 (31.82%) GCIH
9 7 (31.82%) Q1 Labs
10 6 (27.27%) Incident Management
11 5 (22.73%) .NET
11 5 (22.73%) Management Information System
12 4 (18.18%) ITSM
12 4 (18.18%) Service Management
12 4 (18.18%) Cisco
12 4 (18.18%) Java
12 4 (18.18%) VPN
12 4 (18.18%) Linux
12 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
12 4 (18.18%) Cyber Security
12 4 (18.18%) Network Security

Snort
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (22.73%) .NET
2 1 (4.545%) Regular Expression
2 1 (4.545%) ASP
2 1 (4.545%) ASP.NET
2 1 (4.545%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.545%) Apache
1 1 (4.545%) Tomcat
1 1 (4.545%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (59.09%) Firewall
2 9 (40.91%) Internet
3 4 (18.18%) VPN
3 4 (18.18%) Network Security
4 2 (9.091%) LDAP
4 2 (9.091%) Wireshark
4 2 (9.091%) VLAN
5 1 (4.545%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (4.545%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (4.545%) FWSM
5 1 (4.545%) tcpdump
5 1 (4.545%) WAAS
5 1 (4.545%) SMTP
5 1 (4.545%) FTP
5 1 (4.545%) HTTP
5 1 (4.545%) RIP
5 1 (4.545%) TCP/IP
5 1 (4.545%) DNS
5 1 (4.545%) LAN
5 1 (4.545%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.545%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (4.545%) SQL Server
1 1 (4.545%) MySQL
General
1 3 (13.64%) Law
2 2 (9.091%) Military
3 1 (4.545%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (59.09%) Analyst
2 11 (50.00%) Security Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) Senior Security Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) Network Engineer
5 2 (9.091%) Consultant
5 2 (9.091%) Security Consultant
5 2 (9.091%) Administrator
5 2 (9.091%) Network Analyst
5 2 (9.091%) Network Administrator
5 2 (9.091%) Installations Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) SQL DBA
6 1 (4.545%) Oracle DBA
6 1 (4.545%) Incident Analyst
6 1 (4.545%) Forensic Analyst
6 1 (4.545%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 10 (45.45%) Mathematics
2 5 (22.73%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.545%) Fat Client
3 1 (4.545%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 13 (59.09%) Windows
2 4 (18.18%) Linux
3 2 (9.091%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (9.091%) UNIX
3 2 (9.091%) Windows XP
3 2 (9.091%) VMS
3 2 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (4.545%) Ubuntu
4 1 (4.545%) Windows 2000 Server
4 1 (4.545%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.545%) Solaris
4 1 (4.545%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) SIEM
2 9 (40.91%) ITIL
3 8 (36.36%) Information Security
4 6 (27.27%) Incident Management
5 4 (18.18%) ITSM
5 4 (18.18%) Service Management
5 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 4 (18.18%) Cyber Security
6 3 (13.64%) Use Case
6 3 (13.64%) Information Assurance
7 2 (9.091%) Change Management
7 2 (9.091%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (9.091%) Change Control
7 2 (9.091%) Penetration Testing
7 2 (9.091%) Computer Forensics
8 1 (4.545%) Network Design
8 1 (4.545%) Web Development
8 1 (4.545%) Business Analysis
8 1 (4.545%) Programme Office Management
8 1 (4.545%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) Java
2 3 (13.64%) C
3 2 (9.091%) SQL
4 1 (4.545%) Bash shell
4 1 (4.545%) VBScript
4 1 (4.545%) VB
4 1 (4.545%) VB.NET
4 1 (4.545%) C#
4 1 (4.545%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 17 (77.27%) Security Cleared
2 12 (54.55%) SC Cleared
3 11 (50.00%) GIAC
4 10 (45.45%) Degree
5 9 (40.91%) DV Cleared
6 7 (31.82%) GCIH
7 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (9.091%) MCSE
8 2 (9.091%) GCIA
9 1 (4.545%) ACSA
9 1 (4.545%) JNCIA
9 1 (4.545%) CCSE
9 1 (4.545%) CCSA
9 1 (4.545%) CISSP
9 1 (4.545%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (4.545%) CCSP
9 1 (4.545%) CCNP
9 1 (4.545%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.545%) COBIT
1 1 (4.545%) HIPAA
1 1 (4.545%) PCI DSS
1 1 (4.545%) SLA
1 1 (4.545%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (9.091%) Active Directory
1 2 (9.091%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (4.545%) Nmap
2 1 (4.545%) ProxySG
2 1 (4.545%) Samba
2 1 (4.545%) VMware ESX
2 1 (4.545%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (9.091%) Nessus
Vendors
1 12 (54.55%) ArcSight
1 12 (54.55%) Sourcefire
2 11 (50.00%) Symantec
3 9 (40.91%) LogLogic
4 7 (31.82%) Q1 Labs
5 4 (18.18%) Cisco
6 3 (13.64%) Juniper
7 2 (9.091%) Microsoft
7 2 (9.091%) Oracle
8 1 (4.545%) Blue Coat
8 1 (4.545%) VMware
8 1 (4.545%) Crossbeam
8 1 (4.545%) F5
8 1 (4.545%) SAP
8 1 (4.545%) Red Hat
8 1 (4.545%) CheckPoint
ArcSight SIEM Analyst - SOC, SANS GCIA
City, London
Senior Analyst, ArcSight, ArcSight ESM, Security Event Management, SIEM, SOC, Security Operations Centre, SANS GCIA, ACSA... * Proficient in the operation and troubleshooting of computer operating systems such as...
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Rate: £300 - £400 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
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