The first table below looks at the demand for Vulnerability Assessment skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Vulnerability Assessment over the 3 months to 20 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 Processes & Methodologies 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Vulnerability Assessment
Rank 496 548 559
Rank change year-on-year
+52 +11
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 37 25 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.080% 0.043% 0.048%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.112% 0.063% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 14 22
Average daily rate £513 £316 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+62.05% -2.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £307 £272 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £421 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £343 £304 £265
% change year-on-year
+12.75% +14.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Average hourly rate - £51.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £28.00 -
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
32994 39524 40808
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 70.91% 67.75% 67.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 19705 22725 23185
Average daily rate £413 £400 £440
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.12% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £580 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 981 1273 1454
Average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.75 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%

Vulnerability Assessment
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Vulnerability Assessment Jobs Demand Trend

Vulnerability Assessment
Daily Rate Trend

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

Vulnerability Assessment Daily Rate Trend

Vulnerability Assessment
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment within the UK over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Vulnerability Assessment Daily Rate Histogram

Vulnerability Assessment
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Vulnerability Assessment Hourly Rate Trend

Vulnerability Assessment
Top 18 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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 +75 36 £525 +66.00%
London +37 23 £538 +21.81%
South East +25 6 £343 -21.71%
City of London +19 4 £388 -
South West +23 3 £490 +78.18%
North West +17 3 - -
Cheshire +9 3 - -
Wiltshire +5 3 £490 +78.18%
Buckinghamshire - 3 £308 -
Hampshire -2 2 £525 -
Milton Keynes - 2 £305 -
Chester - 2 - -
Berkshire +17 1 £375 -14.28%
Cardiff - 1 £235 -
West Yorkshire - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Wales - 1 £235 -
South Wales - 1 £235 -

Vulnerability Assessment
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Vulnerability Assessment 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 Vulnerability Assessment.

1 34 (50.00%) CISSP
2 30 (44.12%) Information Security
2 30 (44.12%) Penetration Testing
3 20 (29.41%) CEH
4 18 (26.47%) Legal
5 15 (22.06%) Intrusion Detection
6 14 (20.59%) Firewall
6 14 (20.59%) Reverse Engineering
7 12 (17.65%) Java
7 12 (17.65%) Finance
8 11 (16.18%) Degree
9 10 (14.71%) Security Architecture
9 10 (14.71%) ITIL
9 10 (14.71%) Windows
10 9 (13.24%) Linux
10 9 (13.24%) Risk Assessment
10 9 (13.24%) Risk Analysis
11 8 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 8 (11.76%) Security Management
11 8 (11.76%) HP
12 7 (10.29%) SQL
12 7 (10.29%) GAP Analysis
12 7 (10.29%) Service Management
12 7 (10.29%) Spring
12 7 (10.29%) Asset Management
12 7 (10.29%) Data Protection
13 6 (8.824%) Network Security
13 6 (8.824%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (8.824%) Banking
13 6 (8.824%) Validation

Vulnerability Assessment
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 7 (10.29%) Spring
2 6 (8.824%) .NET
2 6 (8.824%) J2EE
3 3 (4.412%) JSP
4 1 (1.471%) Servlets
4 1 (1.471%) COM
4 1 (1.471%) JDBC
4 1 (1.471%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.471%) Spring Security
4 1 (1.471%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (1.471%) WebLogic
1 1 (1.471%) Apache
1 1 (1.471%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (4.412%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (2.941%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.471%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 15 (22.06%) Intrusion Detection
2 14 (20.59%) Firewall
3 6 (8.824%) Network Security
4 3 (4.412%) WAN
4 3 (4.412%) LAN
4 3 (4.412%) Internet
5 2 (2.941%) VoIP
5 2 (2.941%) HTTP
5 2 (2.941%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.941%) VPN
5 2 (2.941%) Wireless
5 2 (2.941%) BIG-IP
6 1 (1.471%) SSL
6 1 (1.471%) DMZ
6 1 (1.471%) LDAP
Development Applications
1 3 (4.412%) AppScan
2 1 (1.471%) Git (software)
2 1 (1.471%) Eclipse
2 1 (1.471%) IntelliJ
2 1 (1.471%) LoadRunner
General
1 18 (26.47%) Legal
2 12 (17.65%) Finance
3 6 (8.824%) Banking
4 4 (5.882%) Financial Institution
5 3 (4.412%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.412%) Retail
5 3 (4.412%) Military
5 3 (4.412%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.941%) Law
7 1 (1.471%) Billing
7 1 (1.471%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 19 (27.94%) Tester
1 19 (27.94%) Consultant
2 18 (26.47%) Penetration Tester
3 17 (25.00%) Security Consultant
4 14 (20.59%) Analyst
5 7 (10.29%) Security Analyst
5 7 (10.29%) Security Specialist
6 4 (5.882%) Security Architect
6 4 (5.882%) Applications Tester
6 4 (5.882%) Information Security Analyst
6 4 (5.882%) Applications Specialist
6 4 (5.882%) Information Analyst
6 4 (5.882%) Business Analyst
6 4 (5.882%) Architect
7 3 (4.412%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (4.412%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (2.941%) Information Security Consultant
8 2 (2.941%) Risk Analyst
8 2 (2.941%) Senior Security Consultant
8 2 (2.941%) Security Officer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.824%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (7.353%) Open Source
2 5 (7.353%) PKI
2 5 (7.353%) Computer Science
3 4 (5.882%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.412%) Derivative
4 3 (4.412%) Mathematics
4 3 (4.412%) Visualisation
5 2 (2.941%) RMADS
5 2 (2.941%) CESG
5 2 (2.941%) CESG CLAS
6 1 (1.471%) Clustering
6 1 (1.471%) CMDB
6 1 (1.471%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.471%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 10 (14.71%) Windows
2 9 (13.24%) Linux
3 4 (5.882%) UNIX
4 3 (4.412%) AIX
5 1 (1.471%) Solaris
5 1 (1.471%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (1.471%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.471%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (44.12%) Information Security
1 30 (44.12%) Penetration Testing
2 14 (20.59%) Reverse Engineering
3 10 (14.71%) Security Architecture
3 10 (14.71%) ITIL
4 9 (13.24%) Risk Analysis
4 9 (13.24%) Risk Assessment
5 8 (11.76%) Security Management
6 7 (10.29%) Service Management
6 7 (10.29%) GAP Analysis
6 7 (10.29%) Asset Management
6 7 (10.29%) Data Protection
7 6 (8.824%) Validation
8 3 (4.412%) Migration
8 3 (4.412%) Risk Management
8 3 (4.412%) Project Management
8 3 (4.412%) Business Continuity
8 3 (4.412%) Identity Management
8 3 (4.412%) Information Security Management
8 3 (4.412%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 12 (17.65%) Java
2 7 (10.29%) SQL
3 1 (1.471%) VB
3 1 (1.471%) Python
3 1 (1.471%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.471%) Perl
3 1 (1.471%) C
3 1 (1.471%) C#
Qualifications
1 34 (50.00%) CISSP
2 20 (29.41%) CEH
3 11 (16.18%) Degree
4 6 (8.824%) CISM
5 5 (7.353%) CISA
5 5 (7.353%) GIAC
5 5 (7.353%) Security Cleared
6 4 (5.882%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (4.412%) CCIE
7 3 (4.412%) GPEN
7 3 (4.412%) DV Cleared
7 3 (4.412%) JNCIE
8 2 (2.941%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 2 (2.941%) MBA
9 1 (1.471%) CCNA
9 1 (1.471%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.412%) FATCA
3 2 (2.941%) COBIT
3 2 (2.941%) JSP 440
3 2 (2.941%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.941%) COSO
4 1 (1.471%) QA
System Software
1 5 (7.353%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.412%) Forefront TMG
2 3 (4.412%) UAG
3 1 (1.471%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.471%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.471%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 2 (2.941%) WebInspect
2 1 (1.471%) WSUS
2 1 (1.471%) SCCM
2 1 (1.471%) Tivoli Endpoint Manager
2 1 (1.471%) Tivoli
2 1 (1.471%) Nessus
Vendors
1 8 (11.76%) HP
2 6 (8.824%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.882%) Cisco
4 3 (4.412%) Progress
4 3 (4.412%) CheckPoint
4 3 (4.412%) Riverbed
4 3 (4.412%) F5
4 3 (4.412%) Juniper
5 2 (2.941%) MobileIron
5 2 (2.941%) Citrix
5 2 (2.941%) IBM
6 1 (1.471%) Oracle
6 1 (1.471%) JBoss
6 1 (1.471%) ArcSight
6 1 (1.471%) Twitter
6 1 (1.471%) McAfee
6 1 (1.471%) Websense
6 1 (1.471%) VMware
6 1 (1.471%) Altiris
6 1 (1.471%) Tripwire