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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 468 507 699
Rank change year-on-year +39 +192 -114
Contract jobs citing Intrusion Detection 80 149 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.30% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.62% 2.44% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 115 51
10th Percentile £455 £366 £421
25th Percentile £550 £481 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £634 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.63% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £788 £650 £629
90th Percentile £850 £731 £700
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £550
% change year-on-year - +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 4,938 6,112 7,945
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.32% 12.24% 11.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,985 4,015 5,213
10th Percentile £206 £237 £223
25th Percentile £350 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 398 434 305
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.95 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.88 £27.50
% change year-on-year +111.92% -31.36% +3.77%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 +29 34 £450 -25.00% 8
Midlands +42 23 £617 +13.45% 8
West Midlands +35 20 £650 - 3
London +80 13 £650 +8.33% 19
East of England +8 3 £663 -14.52% 4
South West +7 3 £550 +4.76% 4
East Midlands - 3 £575 - 5
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 (2.50%) Confluence
1 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 17 (21.25%) Azure
2 14 (17.50%) AWS
3 3 (3.75%) GCP
4 2 (2.50%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.25%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (1.25%) AWS KMS
5 1 (1.25%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.25%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.25%) IaaS
5 1 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (72.50%) Firewall
2 26 (32.50%) Network Security
3 7 (8.75%) TCP/IP
4 6 (7.50%) VPN
5 4 (5.00%) LAN
5 4 (5.00%) WAN
6 3 (3.75%) BGP
6 3 (3.75%) MPLS
6 3 (3.75%) OSPF
7 2 (2.50%) SD-WAN
7 2 (2.50%) VoIP
7 2 (2.50%) Wireless
8 1 (1.25%) CATAPAN
8 1 (1.25%) DHCP
8 1 (1.25%) DNS
8 1 (1.25%) HTTP
8 1 (1.25%) HTTPS
8 1 (1.25%) Kerberos
8 1 (1.25%) SSL
8 1 (1.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (18.75%) Big Data
2 1 (1.25%) Apache Hive
2 1 (1.25%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.25%) MySQL
2 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.50%) JIRA
2 1 (1.25%) Git
2 1 (1.25%) GitLab
2 1 (1.25%) IDA Disassembler
2 1 (1.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.25%) SonarQube
General
1 22 (27.50%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 8 (10.00%) Finance
4 7 (8.75%) Social Skills
5 3 (3.75%) Banking
6 2 (2.50%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.50%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.25%) Advertising
7 1 (1.25%) Legal
7 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 45 (56.25%) Architect
2 41 (51.25%) Security Architect
3 24 (30.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 10 (12.50%) Senior
5 7 (8.75%) Analyst
6 6 (7.50%) Security Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Senior Architect
7 4 (5.00%) Senior Security Architect
8 3 (3.75%) Network Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Operations Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Security Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Security Manager
8 3 (3.75%) SOC Analyst
9 2 (2.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 2 (2.50%) IT Architect
9 2 (2.50%) Network Architect
9 2 (2.50%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (2.50%) Senior Operations Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.75%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (2.50%) JSON
2 2 (2.50%) YAML
3 1 (1.25%) Keycloak
3 1 (1.25%) OAuth
3 1 (1.25%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.25%) OLE
3 1 (1.25%) RESTful
3 1 (1.25%) SAML
3 1 (1.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.75%) Cyber Defence
1 15 (18.75%) Distributed Applications
1 15 (18.75%) Management Information System
2 6 (7.50%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (3.75%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 2 (2.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.50%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.50%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.25%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.25%) Insider Threat
6 1 (1.25%) iPad
6 1 (1.25%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.25%) SCADA
6 1 (1.25%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 24 (30.00%) Linux
2 23 (28.75%) Windows
3 17 (21.25%) Unix
4 13 (16.25%) Android
4 13 (16.25%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.50%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.50%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.25%) CentOS
6 1 (1.25%) Mac OS X
6 1 (1.25%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.25%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 45 (56.25%) Security Architecture
3 34 (42.50%) DevOps
4 26 (32.50%) SIEM
5 24 (30.00%) Information Security
6 21 (26.25%) Security Operations
7 16 (20.00%) Incident Response
7 16 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 15 (18.75%) Actionable Insight
8 15 (18.75%) Data Engineering
8 15 (18.75%) Data Management
9 14 (17.50%) Data Pipeline
10 13 (16.25%) Kalman Filter
11 11 (13.75%) Data Analysis
12 10 (12.50%) Analytics
13 9 (11.25%) Cloud Security
13 9 (11.25%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (10.00%) Risk Management
15 7 (8.75%) MITRE ATT&CK
15 7 (8.75%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (3.75%) Python
3 1 (1.25%) Bash
3 1 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (1.25%) Ruby
3 1 (1.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (67.50%) Security Cleared
2 43 (53.75%) DV Cleared
3 12 (15.00%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.25%) CISSP
5 3 (3.75%) CCNP
5 3 (3.75%) CEH
5 3 (3.75%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.75%) Degree
6 2 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.25%) CCNA
7 1 (1.25%) CCSP
7 1 (1.25%) CREST Certified
7 1 (1.25%) GCIA
7 1 (1.25%) GCIH
7 1 (1.25%) GIAC
7 1 (1.25%) GSEC
7 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.25%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (18.75%) Actionable Recommendations
2 14 (17.50%) NIST
3 11 (13.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (11.25%) PCI DSS
5 7 (8.75%) HIPAA
6 5 (6.25%) GDPR
6 5 (6.25%) NCSC
7 3 (3.75%) GPG13
8 1 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (1.25%) GRC
8 1 (1.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (3.75%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.25%) Docker
3 1 (1.25%) Snort
Systems Management
1 3 (3.75%) Ansible
2 2 (2.50%) Progress Chef
2 2 (2.50%) Terraform
3 1 (1.25%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.25%) Kibana
3 1 (1.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.25%) SCCM
3 1 (1.25%) SCOM
3 1 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (15.00%) Red Hat
2 10 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.25%) Cisco
4 4 (5.00%) Palo Alto
5 3 (3.75%) Google
6 2 (2.50%) Splunk
7 1 (1.25%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.25%) Cadence
7 1 (1.25%) Dell
7 1 (1.25%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.25%) HP
7 1 (1.25%) Qualys
7 1 (1.25%) Tufin
7 1 (1.25%) VMware
7 1 (1.25%) Zscaler