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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 466 480 674
Rank change year-on-year +14 +194 -72
Contract jobs citing Intrusion Detection 85 158 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.33% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.76% 2.65% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 124 56
10th Percentile £454 £381 £431
25th Percentile £550 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £593 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% +7.84% +4.76%
75th Percentile £778 £631 £638
90th Percentile £850 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £550
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 7 4
10th Percentile - £72.07 -
25th Percentile £81.88 £72.50 £63.30
Median hourly rate £87.46 £75.00 £66.90
Median % change year-on-year +16.61% +12.11% +208.47%
75th Percentile £87.53 £77.50 £71.50
90th Percentile - £77.60 £75.10
UK median hourly rate £87.46 £75.00 £66.90
% change year-on-year +16.61% +12.11% +208.47%

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 4,829 5,953 7,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.09% 12.54% 11.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,897 3,881 5,267
10th Percentile £213 £235 £226
25th Percentile £350 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £601 £646 £615
90th Percentile £697 £731 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 389 406 315
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £17.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +135.29% -28.90% +3.48%
75th Percentile £63.75 £58.75 £48.20
90th Percentile £70.66 £75.00 £62.88
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.24 £26.00
% change year-on-year +119.30% -29.85% +4.00%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +12 34 £450 -25.00% 16
Midlands +36 26 £634 +17.91% 6
West Midlands +32 23 £650 +4.00% 4
London +67 13 £688 +14.58% 22
East Midlands +14 3 £575 +9.52% 2
East of England +5 3 £663 -11.67% 4
South West -5 3 £550 -8.33% 2
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 3 (3.53%) Apache
2 2 (2.35%) Confluence
2 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 15 (17.65%) Azure
2 14 (16.47%) AWS
3 2 (2.35%) Entra ID
3 2 (2.35%) GCP
3 2 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.18%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (1.18%) AWS KMS
4 1 (1.18%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (1.18%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.18%) IaaS
4 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (1.18%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (69.41%) Firewall
2 29 (34.12%) Network Security
3 8 (9.41%) TCP/IP
3 8 (9.41%) VPN
4 5 (5.88%) LAN
5 4 (4.71%) WAN
6 3 (3.53%) BGP
6 3 (3.53%) MPLS
6 3 (3.53%) OSPF
6 3 (3.53%) VoIP
7 2 (2.35%) HTTP
7 2 (2.35%) HTTPS
7 2 (2.35%) SD-WAN
7 2 (2.35%) Wireless
8 1 (1.18%) CATAPAN
8 1 (1.18%) DHCP
8 1 (1.18%) DNS
8 1 (1.18%) IPsec
8 1 (1.18%) Kerberos
8 1 (1.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (21.18%) Big Data
2 1 (1.18%) Apache Hive
2 1 (1.18%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.18%) MySQL
2 1 (1.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.35%) JIRA
2 1 (1.18%) Git
2 1 (1.18%) GitLab
2 1 (1.18%) IDA Disassembler
2 1 (1.18%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.18%) SonarQube
General
1 25 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (24.71%) Public Sector
3 7 (8.24%) Social Skills
4 6 (7.06%) Finance
5 3 (3.53%) Banking
6 2 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.35%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.18%) Advertising
7 1 (1.18%) Legal
7 1 (1.18%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 43 (50.59%) Architect
2 39 (45.88%) Security Architect
3 24 (28.24%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 8 (9.41%) Senior
5 7 (8.24%) Analyst
5 7 (8.24%) Security Engineer
6 4 (4.71%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 3 (3.53%) Network Engineer
7 3 (3.53%) Operations Engineer
7 3 (3.53%) Security Analyst
7 3 (3.53%) Security Manager
7 3 (3.53%) SOC Analyst
8 2 (2.35%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 2 (2.35%) IT Architect
8 2 (2.35%) Network Architect
8 2 (2.35%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (2.35%) Senior Architect
8 2 (2.35%) Senior Operations Engineer
8 2 (2.35%) Senior Security Analyst
8 2 (2.35%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (21.18%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (2.35%) JSON
2 2 (2.35%) YAML
3 1 (1.18%) Keycloak
3 1 (1.18%) OAuth
3 1 (1.18%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.18%) OLE
3 1 (1.18%) RESTful
3 1 (1.18%) SAML
3 1 (1.18%) Web Services
3 1 (1.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (22.35%) Management Information System
2 18 (21.18%) Cyber Defence
2 18 (21.18%) Distributed Applications
3 6 (7.06%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (3.53%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (3.53%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.35%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 2 (2.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.35%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.35%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.18%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.18%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.18%) Insider Threat
6 1 (1.18%) iPad
6 1 (1.18%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.18%) SCADA
6 1 (1.18%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 27 (31.76%) Linux
2 24 (28.24%) Windows
3 18 (21.18%) Unix
4 16 (18.82%) Android
4 16 (18.82%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.35%) CentOS
5 2 (2.35%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.35%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.18%) Mac OS X
6 1 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.18%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.18%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (76.47%) Cybersecurity
2 46 (54.12%) Security Architecture
3 34 (40.00%) DevOps
4 29 (34.12%) SIEM
5 27 (31.76%) Information Security
6 25 (29.41%) Security Operations
7 18 (21.18%) Actionable Insight
7 18 (21.18%) Data Engineering
7 18 (21.18%) Data Management
7 18 (21.18%) Data Pipeline
7 18 (21.18%) Incident Response
8 17 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
9 16 (18.82%) Stakeholder Management
10 15 (17.65%) Data Analysis
11 14 (16.47%) Analytics
12 8 (9.41%) Cloud Security
12 8 (9.41%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (8.24%) MITRE ATT&CK
13 7 (8.24%) Penetration Testing
13 7 (8.24%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.71%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.35%) Python
3 1 (1.18%) Bash
3 1 (1.18%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (1.18%) PHP
3 1 (1.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (68.24%) Security Cleared
2 47 (55.29%) DV Cleared
3 11 (12.94%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.88%) CISSP
5 3 (3.53%) CCNP
5 3 (3.53%) CEH
5 3 (3.53%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.53%) Degree
6 2 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.18%) CCNA
7 1 (1.18%) CISA
7 1 (1.18%) CISM
7 1 (1.18%) CREST Certified
7 1 (1.18%) GCIA
7 1 (1.18%) GCIH
7 1 (1.18%) GIAC
7 1 (1.18%) GSEC
7 1 (1.18%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.18%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (21.18%) Actionable Recommendations
2 12 (14.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (14.12%) NIST
3 9 (10.59%) PCI DSS
4 7 (8.24%) HIPAA
5 5 (5.88%) GDPR
5 5 (5.88%) NCSC
6 3 (3.53%) GPG13
7 1 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.18%) GRC
7 1 (1.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (3.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.18%) Snort
Systems Management
1 3 (3.53%) Ansible
2 2 (2.35%) Terraform
3 1 (1.18%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.18%) Kibana
3 1 (1.18%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.18%) SCCM
3 1 (1.18%) SCOM
3 1 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (18.82%) Red Hat
2 11 (12.94%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.88%) Cisco
4 4 (4.71%) Palo Alto
5 3 (3.53%) Google
6 2 (2.35%) Splunk
7 1 (1.18%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.18%) Cadence
7 1 (1.18%) Dell
7 1 (1.18%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.18%) HP
7 1 (1.18%) Qualys
7 1 (1.18%) Tufin
7 1 (1.18%) VMware
7 1 (1.18%) Zscaler