The first table below looks at the demand for ISO/IEC 27001 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ISO/IEC 27001 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 Quality Assurance & Compliance category for the 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
ISO/IEC 27001
Rank 106 110 86
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -24
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 4 2 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.215% 0.090% 0.656%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.878% 1.418% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 8
Average daily rate £325 £500 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-35.00% +37.93%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £305 £500 £346
10% offered a daily rate of more than £345 £500 £515
UK excluding London average daily rate £427 £500 £400
% change year-on-year
-14.60% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £14.00 -
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
139 141 90
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 7.481% 6.312% 4.921%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 65 42
Average daily rate £301 £310 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.06% -17.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £176 £215 £219
10% offered a daily rate of more than £415 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 15 11
Average hourly rate £10.27 £12.50 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-17.88% -7.40%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.52 £9.60 £6.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.50 £23.40 £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.75 £16.35 £30.50
% change year-on-year
+8.56% -46.39%
ISO/IEC 27001
England

ISO/IEC 27001
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 across the Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

Yorkshire ISO/IEC 27001 Jobs Demand Trend

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 across the Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire ISO/IEC 27001 Daily Rate Trend

ISO/IEC 27001
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 across the Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire ISO/IEC 27001 Hourly Rate Trend

ISO/IEC 27001
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 within the Yorkshire region 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
West Yorkshire +4 3 £350 -30.00%
North Yorkshire - 1 £300 -
ISO/IEC 27001
England

ISO/IEC 27001
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing ISO/IEC 27001 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 ISO/IEC 27001.

1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) UNIX
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) HP
1 2 (40.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (40.00%) BCP
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Information Security
1 2 (40.00%) SolarWinds
1 2 (40.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (40.00%) Nokia
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) NHS
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (20.00%) vSphere
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) F5
2 1 (20.00%) FWSM
2 1 (20.00%) NetScaler
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) BIG-IP
2 1 (20.00%) Supplier Management
2 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing

ISO/IEC 27001
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing ISO/IEC 27001 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 ISO/IEC 27001. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Stata
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (20.00%) FWSM
2 1 (20.00%) NetScaler
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (20.00%) BIG-IP
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco PIX
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) IPsec
2 1 (20.00%) Internet
2 1 (20.00%) MPLS
2 1 (20.00%) OSPF
2 1 (20.00%) SSL
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) RIP
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Network Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Security Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Contracts Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Information Security Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) NHS
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) UNIX
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (20.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) BCP
1 2 (40.00%) Information Security
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Supplier Management
2 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) vSphere
1 1 (20.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds Orion
1 1 (20.00%) OpenView
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) HP
1 2 (40.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (40.00%) SolarWinds
1 2 (40.00%) Nokia
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) F5
2 1 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle