Intrusion Detection Contracts in the City of London

Intrusion Detection
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Intrusion Detection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Intrusion Detection over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 125 164
Rank change year-on-year +8 +39 +21
Contract jobs citing Intrusion Detection 2 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.11% 0.046% 0.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.19% 0.47% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 8
10th Percentile £462 - £468
25th Percentile £516 - £620
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% - +13.82%
75th Percentile £711 - £750
90th Percentile £759 - £789
Central London median daily rate £620 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -11.43% - +20.17%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of London

Intrusion Detection falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 168 211 364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.56% 9.60% 10.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 141 250
10th Percentile £258 £206 £248
25th Percentile £475 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £675
90th Percentile £744 £775 £751
Central London median daily rate £540 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +20.00% -18.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - - £20.46
25th Percentile - £12.75 £20.81
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - -35.71% -46.84%
75th Percentile - £14.25 £24.64
90th Percentile - - £30.86
Central London median hourly rate - £13.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year - -35.71% -46.84%

Intrusion Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Intrusion Detection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Intrusion Detection in the City of London

Intrusion Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Intrusion Detection in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Intrusion Detection in the City of London

Intrusion Detection
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Intrusion Detection in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Intrusion Detection in the City of London

Intrusion Detection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Intrusion Detection in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Intrusion Detection in the City of London

Intrusion Detection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Security Patching
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat