The first table below looks at the demand for Information Security skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Information Security 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 for the West Yorkshire region.

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
Information Security (INFOSEC)
Rank 85 86 62
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -24
Contract jobs citing Information Security 9 6 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.710% 0.370% 1.009%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.997% 0.505% 1.536%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 9
Average daily rate £325 £281 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.55% -19.64%
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £423 £380
% change year-on-year
+0.59% +11.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £62.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.71 £43.75 £38.00
% change year-on-year
-59.52% +15.13%
All Processes & Methodologies
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
903 1187 716
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 71.21% 73.27% 65.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 684 345
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £453 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 23 28
Average hourly rate £24.00 £18.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% +2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.68 £12.00 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Information Security
Yorkshire

Information Security
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Information Security across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

West Yorkshire Information Security Jobs Demand Trend

Information Security
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Information Security across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Information Security Daily Rate Trend

Information Security
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Information Security across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Information Security Hourly Rate Trend

Information Security
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Information Security within the West Yorkshire region 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
Leeds +1 2 - -
Bradford - 2 £333 -
Information Security
Yorkshire

Information Security
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Information Security 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 Information Security.

1 12 (66.67%) Finance
2 8 (44.44%) Oracle
3 6 (33.33%) Windows
4 4 (22.22%) UNIX
4 4 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (22.22%) Risk Management
5 3 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (16.67%) Business Continuity
5 3 (16.67%) CISSP
5 3 (16.67%) Internet
5 3 (16.67%) BCP
6 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (11.11%) Cisco
6 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
6 2 (11.11%) Mainframe
6 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
7 1 (5.556%) Firewall
7 1 (5.556%) Legal
7 1 (5.556%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (5.556%) VMware
7 1 (5.556%) Citrix
7 1 (5.556%) Blackberry
7 1 (5.556%) Project Management
7 1 (5.556%) SQL
7 1 (5.556%) ITIL
7 1 (5.556%) PRINCE2
7 1 (5.556%) UML
7 1 (5.556%) MS Visio
7 1 (5.556%) VPN
7 1 (5.556%) Project Planning

Information Security
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Information Security 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 Information Security. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (5.556%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Internet
2 1 (5.556%) Firewall
2 1 (5.556%) VPN
General
1 12 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (5.556%) Legal
2 1 (5.556%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Consultant
2 7 (38.89%) Security Consultant
3 6 (33.33%) Information Security Consultant
4 4 (22.22%) Analyst
5 3 (16.67%) Security Analyst
5 3 (16.67%) Information Analyst
5 3 (16.67%) Information Security Analyst
6 2 (11.11%) Project Manager
7 1 (5.556%) Business Analyst
7 1 (5.556%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (5.556%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (5.556%) Network Engineer
7 1 (5.556%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 1 (5.556%) Technical Support
7 1 (5.556%) Senior Security Analyst
7 1 (5.556%) Business Continuity Manager
7 1 (5.556%) Business Manager
7 1 (5.556%) Security Investigator
7 1 (5.556%) Business Continuity Consultant
7 1 (5.556%) Senior Information Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Mainframe
1 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.556%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (22.22%) Risk Management
2 3 (16.67%) BCP
2 3 (16.67%) Business Continuity
3 1 (5.556%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (5.556%) Supplier Management
3 1 (5.556%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (5.556%) Project Planning
3 1 (5.556%) Load Balancing
3 1 (5.556%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (5.556%) Project Management
3 1 (5.556%) ITIL
3 1 (5.556%) PRINCE2
3 1 (5.556%) UML
3 1 (5.556%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.556%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.556%) QA
2 1 (5.556%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.556%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.556%) Oracle Identity Manager
1 1 (5.556%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) Cisco
3 1 (5.556%) Citrix
3 1 (5.556%) VMware
3 1 (5.556%) SolarWinds