The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Security Analyst role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Technical Security Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Security Analyst
Rank 533 564 -
Rank change year-on-year
+31 -
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Security Analyst 8 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.017% 0.002% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.019% 0.002% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
Average daily rate £313 £425 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.47% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42697 54001 57544
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.14% 92.51% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24521 29759 31287
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2095 2581 2973
Average hourly rate £18.25 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.35% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.88 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Technical Security Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Technical Security Analyst within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Technical Security Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Security Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Technical Security Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Technical Security Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Technical Security Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Technical Security Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Technical Security Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Technical Security Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Security Analyst
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Security Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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 +51 8 £313 -26.47%
London +36 4 £250 -41.17%
South East - 4 £425 -
Berkshire - 4 £425 -
Reading - 4 £425 -
Hounslow - 1 £450 -

Technical Security Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Technical Security Analyst in their job title 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 with Technical Security Analyst in their job title.

1 5 (62.50%) Information Security
2 4 (50.00%) Firewall
2 4 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 4 (50.00%) CISSP
2 4 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 4 (50.00%) RMADS
2 4 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 4 (50.00%) Change Control
3 3 (37.50%) Service Delivery
3 3 (37.50%) Security Architecture
3 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
3 3 (37.50%) Security Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Network Security
3 3 (37.50%) Investment Management
3 3 (37.50%) CA
3 3 (37.50%) Internet
3 3 (37.50%) Tivoli
3 3 (37.50%) Oracle
3 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (37.50%) CESG
3 3 (37.50%) TOGAF
3 3 (37.50%) Ethical Hacking
3 3 (37.50%) Finance
4 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (12.50%) HIPAA
5 1 (12.50%) Digital Forensics
5 1 (12.50%) COBIT
5 1 (12.50%) Wireshark
5 1 (12.50%) GIAC

Technical Security Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Technical Security Analyst in their job title 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 with Technical Security Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
1 4 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (37.50%) Network Security
2 3 (37.50%) Internet
3 1 (12.50%) Wireshark
3 1 (12.50%) Wireless
3 1 (12.50%) LDAP
3 1 (12.50%) RIP
3 1 (12.50%) VPN
3 1 (12.50%) 802.11
3 1 (12.50%) OSPF
3 1 (12.50%) EIGRP
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) RMADS
2 3 (37.50%) CESG
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) UNIX
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Information Security
2 4 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 4 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 4 (50.00%) Change Control
3 3 (37.50%) Service Delivery
3 3 (37.50%) Security Architecture
3 3 (37.50%) Security Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Investment Management
3 3 (37.50%) TOGAF
3 3 (37.50%) Ethical Hacking
4 1 (12.50%) Digital Forensics
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) CISSP
2 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) GIAC
4 1 (12.50%) GCIA
4 1 (12.50%) GCIH
4 1 (12.50%) MCSE
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (12.50%) HIPAA
3 1 (12.50%) COBIT
3 1 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Nmap
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) CA
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft