The first table below looks at the demand for Vulnerability Management 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 Management over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Vulnerability Management
Rank 502 565 580
Rank change year-on-year
+63 +15
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 28 13 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.060% 0.022% 0.013%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.085% 0.033% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 5
Average daily rate £525 £438 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £325 £328
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £675 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £188 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
-42.30% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £33.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
32885 39492 41512
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 70.87% 67.77% 67.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 19655 22706 23594
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 £579 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 974 1268 1474
Average hourly rate £31.25 £25.00 £29.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -15.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £13.00 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%

Vulnerability Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Vulnerability Management Jobs Demand Trend

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Vulnerability Management Daily Rate Trend

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Vulnerability Management within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Vulnerability Management Daily Rate Histogram

Vulnerability Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Vulnerability Management Hourly Rate Trend

Vulnerability Management
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Management within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 +63 27 £525 +20.00%
London +36 21 £525 -17.64%
City of London - 8 £525 -
South East +26 3 £188 -57.14%
Manchester - 3 - -
North West - 3 - -
Berkshire +17 2 - -
Hammersmith - 2 £425 -
Scotland - 1 - -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £188 -
Bromley - 1 £550 -
Windsor - 1 - -
Reading - 1 - -
Milton Keynes - 1 £188 -

Vulnerability Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Vulnerability Management 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 Management.

1 31 (55.36%) Information Security
2 24 (42.86%) CISSP
3 21 (37.50%) ITIL
4 19 (33.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (32.14%) Firewall
6 14 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
6 14 (25.00%) Windows
6 14 (25.00%) PCI DSS
7 13 (23.21%) Management Information System
7 13 (23.21%) Finance
8 12 (21.43%) CISM
8 12 (21.43%) Microsoft
9 11 (19.64%) Change Management
9 11 (19.64%) Information Assurance
10 10 (17.86%) Security Cleared
10 10 (17.86%) SC Cleared
10 10 (17.86%) SIEM
10 10 (17.86%) TCP/IP
10 10 (17.86%) UNIX
10 10 (17.86%) Incident Management
11 9 (16.07%) Risk Management
12 8 (14.29%) MS Office
12 8 (14.29%) Linux
12 8 (14.29%) MS Excel
13 7 (12.50%) SQL
13 7 (12.50%) Active Directory
13 7 (12.50%) Service Delivery
13 7 (12.50%) McAfee
13 7 (12.50%) Degree
13 7 (12.50%) SCCM

Vulnerability Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Vulnerability Management 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 Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (7.143%) Software Packaging
2 2 (3.571%) COM
3 1 (1.786%) CSS
3 1 (1.786%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 2 (3.571%) SharePoint
1 2 (3.571%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 8 (14.29%) MS Office
1 8 (14.29%) MS Excel
2 6 (10.71%) MS Visio
3 2 (3.571%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 18 (32.14%) Firewall
2 10 (17.86%) TCP/IP
3 6 (10.71%) VPN
3 6 (10.71%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (7.143%) Internet
5 3 (5.357%) Wireless
6 2 (3.571%) HTTP
6 2 (3.571%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (1.786%) Network Security
7 1 (1.786%) LAN
7 1 (1.786%) WAN
General
1 13 (23.21%) Finance
2 6 (10.71%) Banking
3 4 (7.143%) Retail
3 4 (7.143%) Financial Institution
4 3 (5.357%) Legal
4 3 (5.357%) Telecoms
4 3 (5.357%) Games
5 1 (1.786%) Advertising
5 1 (1.786%) Front Office
5 1 (1.786%) International Banking
5 1 (1.786%) Private Banking
5 1 (1.786%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 22 (39.29%) Analyst
2 16 (28.57%) Security Analyst
3 6 (10.71%) Security Consultant
3 6 (10.71%) Consultant
3 6 (10.71%) Security Manager
4 5 (8.929%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (7.143%) Senior Security Analyst
5 4 (7.143%) Security Specialist
5 4 (7.143%) Operations Analyst
5 4 (7.143%) Business Analyst
6 3 (5.357%) IT Consultant
6 3 (5.357%) Information Analyst
6 3 (5.357%) IT Security Consultant
6 3 (5.357%) Information Security Analyst
6 3 (5.357%) Security Operations Analyst
6 3 (5.357%) Testing Consultant
7 2 (3.571%) Information Specialist
7 2 (3.571%) Business Change Analyst
7 2 (3.571%) Voice Specialist
7 2 (3.571%) IT Security Officer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (23.21%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.357%) Freedom of Information
2 3 (5.357%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (5.357%) Freedom of Information Act
2 3 (5.357%) Online Games
2 3 (5.357%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.571%) Blackberry
3 2 (3.571%) PKI
4 1 (1.786%) Statistics
4 1 (1.786%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 14 (25.00%) Windows
2 10 (17.86%) UNIX
3 8 (14.29%) Linux
4 2 (3.571%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.571%) Windows 7
5 1 (1.786%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.786%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (55.36%) Information Security
2 21 (37.50%) ITIL
3 14 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
4 11 (19.64%) Change Management
4 11 (19.64%) Information Assurance
5 10 (17.86%) SIEM
5 10 (17.86%) Incident Management
6 9 (16.07%) Risk Management
7 7 (12.50%) Service Delivery
8 6 (10.71%) Project Management
8 6 (10.71%) Risk Assessment
8 6 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (8.929%) Problem Management
9 5 (8.929%) Asset Management
10 4 (7.143%) Data Protection
11 3 (5.357%) ITIL V3
11 3 (5.357%) E-Discovery
11 3 (5.357%) Security Management
11 3 (5.357%) PRINCE2
11 3 (5.357%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.50%) SQL
2 4 (7.143%) C
Qualifications
1 24 (42.86%) CISSP
2 12 (21.43%) CISM
3 10 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 10 (17.86%) Security Cleared
4 7 (12.50%) Degree
5 6 (10.71%) CISA
6 4 (7.143%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.571%) GIAC
8 1 (1.786%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (33.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (25.00%) PCI DSS
3 5 (8.929%) HIPAA
3 5 (8.929%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (7.143%) SLA
5 1 (1.786%) COBIT
System Software
1 7 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.929%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.786%) Nmap
Systems Management
1 7 (12.50%) SCCM
2 6 (10.71%) WSUS
3 5 (8.929%) McAfee ePO
4 2 (3.571%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (1.786%) Nessus
Vendors
1 12 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.50%) McAfee
3 5 (8.929%) Symantec
3 5 (8.929%) Qualys
3 5 (8.929%) VMware
4 4 (7.143%) Cisco
5 3 (5.357%) Remedy
5 3 (5.357%) CheckPoint
5 3 (5.357%) ArcSight
6 2 (3.571%) Q1 Labs
6 2 (3.571%) Tripwire
6 2 (3.571%) Avaya
6 2 (3.571%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.571%) IBM
6 2 (3.571%) Nortel
6 2 (3.571%) HP
6 2 (3.571%) Dell
7 1 (1.786%) Intel
7 1 (1.786%) Citrix
7 1 (1.786%) Oracle
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