Intrusion Detection Contracts in England

Intrusion Detection
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Intrusion Detection skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Intrusion Detection over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 459 507 691
Rank change year-on-year +48 +184 -112
Contract jobs citing Intrusion Detection 79 148 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.29% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.58% 2.40% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 113 53
10th Percentile £454 £370 £422
25th Percentile £550 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £788 £666 £625
90th Percentile £850 £736 £698
UK median daily rate £613 £600 £550
% change year-on-year +2.08% +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 9 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.88 £62.75 £63.30
Median hourly rate £87.46 £75.00 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year +16.61% +13.98% +258.10%
75th Percentile £87.53 £77.50 £72.90
90th Percentile - £78.20 £75.66
UK median hourly rate £87.46 £75.00 £65.80
% change year-on-year +16.61% +13.98% +258.10%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

Intrusion Detection is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,997 6,165 7,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.52% 12.21% 11.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,017 4,051 5,204
10th Percentile £206 £231 £220
25th Percentile £350 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.68%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -5.41% +3.60% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 396 439 303
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £39.25 £18.82 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +108.55% -21.29% -4.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £48.20
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £64.48
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.41
% change year-on-year +100.00% -33.12% +1.46%

Intrusion Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Intrusion Detection in England

Intrusion Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Intrusion Detection in England

Intrusion Detection
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Intrusion Detection in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Intrusion Detection in England

Intrusion Detection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Intrusion Detection in England

Intrusion Detection
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
South East +27 34 £450 -25.00% 10
West Midlands +46 20 £650 - 4
Midlands +35 20 £650 +19.54% 11
London +75 14 £625 +4.17% 24
East of England +7 3 £663 -14.52% 4
South West -2 3 £550 +4.76% 6
North of England +6 1 £650 +73.33% 11
North West +5 1 £650 +73.33% 3
Intrusion Detection
UK

Intrusion Detection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (2.53%) Confluence
1 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 17 (21.52%) Azure
2 15 (18.99%) AWS
3 3 (3.80%) GCP
4 2 (2.53%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (2.53%) AWS KMS
4 2 (2.53%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.27%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.27%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.27%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.27%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.27%) IaaS
5 1 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.27%) PaaS
5 1 (1.27%) Serverless
5 1 (1.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 56 (70.89%) Firewall
2 26 (32.91%) Network Security
3 5 (6.33%) TCP/IP
4 4 (5.06%) LAN
4 4 (5.06%) WAN
5 3 (3.80%) VPN
6 2 (2.53%) SD-WAN
6 2 (2.53%) SSL
6 2 (2.53%) VoIP
6 2 (2.53%) Wireless
7 1 (1.27%) CATAPAN
7 1 (1.27%) DHCP
7 1 (1.27%) DNS
7 1 (1.27%) HTTP
7 1 (1.27%) HTTPS
7 1 (1.27%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.27%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (1.27%) tcpdump
7 1 (1.27%) Unified Communications
7 1 (1.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (18.99%) Big Data
2 1 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.27%) Apache Hive
2 1 (1.27%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.27%) MySQL
2 1 (1.27%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.53%) JIRA
2 1 (1.27%) Git
2 1 (1.27%) GitLab
2 1 (1.27%) IDA Disassembler
2 1 (1.27%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.27%) SonarQube
General
1 22 (27.85%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (25.32%) Public Sector
3 8 (10.13%) Social Skills
4 7 (8.86%) Finance
5 4 (5.06%) Banking
6 2 (2.53%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.53%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.27%) Advertising
7 1 (1.27%) Legal
7 1 (1.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 42 (53.16%) Architect
2 41 (51.90%) Security Architect
3 24 (30.38%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 10 (12.66%) Senior
5 8 (10.13%) Security Engineer
6 7 (8.86%) Analyst
7 4 (5.06%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Network Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Senior Architect
7 4 (5.06%) Senior Security Architect
8 3 (3.80%) Operations Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) Security Analyst
8 3 (3.80%) Security Manager
8 3 (3.80%) SOC Analyst
9 2 (2.53%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 2 (2.53%) Cybersecurity Manager
9 2 (2.53%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (2.53%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
9 2 (2.53%) Senior Operations Engineer
9 2 (2.53%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.99%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (2.53%) JSON
2 2 (2.53%) YAML
3 1 (1.27%) Keycloak
3 1 (1.27%) OAuth
3 1 (1.27%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.27%) OLE
3 1 (1.27%) RESTful
3 1 (1.27%) SAML
3 1 (1.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (20.25%) Management Information System
2 15 (18.99%) Cyber Defence
2 15 (18.99%) Distributed Applications
3 6 (7.59%) Security Operations Centre
4 5 (6.33%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (3.80%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.80%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.53%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (2.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.53%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.27%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.27%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.27%) Insider Threat
7 1 (1.27%) iPad
7 1 (1.27%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.27%) SCADA
7 1 (1.27%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 24 (30.38%) Linux
2 23 (29.11%) Windows
3 17 (21.52%) Unix
4 13 (16.46%) Android
4 13 (16.46%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.53%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.53%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.27%) CentOS
6 1 (1.27%) Mac OS X
6 1 (1.27%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.27%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (75.95%) Cybersecurity
2 45 (56.96%) Security Architecture
3 35 (44.30%) DevOps
4 27 (34.18%) SIEM
5 25 (31.65%) Information Security
6 21 (26.58%) Security Operations
7 17 (21.52%) Incident Response
8 16 (20.25%) Stakeholder Management
9 15 (18.99%) Actionable Insight
9 15 (18.99%) Data Engineering
9 15 (18.99%) Data Management
10 14 (17.72%) Data Pipeline
11 13 (16.46%) Kalman Filter
12 11 (13.92%) Data Analysis
13 10 (12.66%) Analytics
13 10 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
14 9 (11.39%) Cloud Security
15 8 (10.13%) Risk Management
15 8 (10.13%) Vulnerability Scanning
16 7 (8.86%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.06%) PowerShell
2 3 (3.80%) Python
3 1 (1.27%) Bash
3 1 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (1.27%) Ruby
3 1 (1.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (68.35%) Security Cleared
2 43 (54.43%) DV Cleared
3 12 (15.19%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.33%) CISSP
5 4 (5.06%) Degree
6 3 (3.80%) CCNP
6 3 (3.80%) CEH
6 3 (3.80%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.27%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.27%) CCNA
8 1 (1.27%) CCSP
8 1 (1.27%) CISA
8 1 (1.27%) CISM
8 1 (1.27%) CREST Certified
8 1 (1.27%) GIAC
8 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.27%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (18.99%) Actionable Recommendations
1 15 (18.99%) NIST
2 11 (13.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (7.59%) GDPR
3 6 (7.59%) PCI DSS
4 5 (6.33%) HIPAA
4 5 (6.33%) NCSC
5 3 (3.80%) GPG13
6 1 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.27%) GRC
6 1 (1.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (3.80%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.27%) Docker
3 1 (1.27%) Snort
Systems Management
1 4 (5.06%) Ansible
2 3 (3.80%) Terraform
3 2 (2.53%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.27%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.27%) Kibana
4 1 (1.27%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.27%) SCCM
4 1 (1.27%) SCOM
4 1 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (15.19%) Red Hat
2 10 (12.66%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.33%) Cisco
4 4 (5.06%) Palo Alto
5 3 (3.80%) Google
6 2 (2.53%) Splunk
7 1 (1.27%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.27%) Cadence
7 1 (1.27%) Dell
7 1 (1.27%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.27%) HP
7 1 (1.27%) Qualys
7 1 (1.27%) Tufin
7 1 (1.27%) VMware
7 1 (1.27%) Zscaler