Intrusion Detection Contracts in the East of England

Intrusion Detection
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 109 118
Rank change year-on-year +30 +9 +26
Contract jobs citing Intrusion Detection 3 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.32% 0.16% 0.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.36% 1.01% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £321 £576 £723
25th Percentile £353 £597 £738
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £663 £775
Median % change year-on-year -37.74% -14.52% +47.62%
75th Percentile £478 £747 £788
90th Percentile £514 £779 -
England median daily rate £516 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -20.58% +8.33% +9.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 220 296 359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 23.45% 15.51% 17.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 147 199
10th Percentile £225 £199 £202
25th Percentile £344 £261 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £415 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.46% -12.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £556 £494 £661
90th Percentile £625 £575 £700
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 103 43
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.22 -
25th Percentile £16.30 £16.30 £15.25
Median hourly rate £39.32 £22.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.76% -57.14% +238.71%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.50 - £74.35
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

Intrusion Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Intrusion Detection in the East of England

Intrusion Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Intrusion Detection in the East of England

Intrusion Detection
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Intrusion Detection in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Intrusion Detection in the East of England

Intrusion Detection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Intrusion Detection in the East of England

Intrusion Detection
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Intrusion Detection within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire +28 1 £525 -8.70% 2
Suffolk - 1 £300 -
Essex - 1 - - 1
Intrusion Detection
England

Intrusion Detection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) IaaS
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) VoIP
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Network Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Network Management
2 1 (33.33%) Supplier Management
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft