Intrusion Detection Contracts in the South East

Intrusion Detection
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 147 171 195
Rank change year-on-year +24 +24 +51
Contract jobs citing Intrusion Detection 12 34 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.40% 0.61% 0.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.34% 2.71% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 19
10th Percentile £278 £415 £514
25th Percentile £300 £419 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% -25.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £481 £588 £627
90th Percentile £538 £655 £650
England median daily rate £516 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -20.58% +8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 17 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £87.50 £81.88 -
Median hourly rate £90.00 £87.46 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% - -
75th Percentile £92.50 £87.53 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £90.00 £87.46 £75.00
% change year-on-year +2.90% +16.61% +13.98%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 513 1,255 980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.04% 22.58% 16.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 617 590
10th Percentile £216 £205 £235
25th Percentile £325 £371 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £490 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +0.51% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £585 £588
90th Percentile £630 £638 £700
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 131 74
10th Percentile £14.20 £16.25 £18.33
25th Percentile £20.26 £27.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +8.21% +146.51%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.38 £67.50
90th Percentile £66.88 £85.65 £80.25
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Intrusion Detection in the South East

Intrusion Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Intrusion Detection in the South East

Intrusion Detection
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Intrusion Detection in the South East

Intrusion Detection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Intrusion Detection in the South East

Intrusion Detection
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +21 11 £450 -20.00% 7
Berkshire +8 10 £450 -20.00% 4
Kent - 1 £275 - 1
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 3
Intrusion Detection
England

Intrusion Detection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (16.67%) GCP
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (16.67%) Network Security
2 2 (16.67%) VPN
2 2 (16.67%) Wireless
3 1 (8.33%) Internet
3 1 (8.33%) IP Telephony
3 1 (8.33%) LAN
3 1 (8.33%) MPLS
3 1 (8.33%) NAS
3 1 (8.33%) NetScaler
3 1 (8.33%) SAN
3 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
3 1 (8.33%) Skype
3 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (8.33%) Unified Communications
3 1 (8.33%) WAN
3 1 (8.33%) Wireless Security
General
1 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (8.33%) Local Government
2 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (8.33%) Military
2 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Lead
2 3 (25.00%) Security Advisor
3 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Security Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Information Officer
4 1 (8.33%) Information Security Officer
4 1 (8.33%) IT Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) IT Manager
4 1 (8.33%) IT Support
4 1 (8.33%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Security Officer
4 1 (8.33%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (41.67%) JBoss Seam
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (16.67%) Security Posture
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (8.33%) CESG
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (8.33%) Cyberattack
3 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) NHS
3 1 (8.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (8.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (58.33%) Security Architecture
3 6 (50.00%) DevOps
3 6 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 6 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 5 (41.67%) Decision-Making
4 5 (41.67%) Risk Assessment
5 4 (33.33%) SIEM
6 3 (25.00%) Information Security
6 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
7 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 2 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
7 2 (16.67%) Incident Response
7 2 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
7 2 (16.67%) SOAR
7 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (16.67%) Threat Detection
7 2 (16.67%) Threat Management
8 1 (8.33%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (8.33%) Python
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) DV Cleared
3 3 (25.00%) CEH
3 3 (25.00%) CISSP
3 3 (25.00%) Degree
4 2 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (16.67%) Master's Degree
5 1 (8.33%) A+ Certification
5 1 (8.33%) CCSK
5 1 (8.33%) CISM
5 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (8.33%) GIAC
5 1 (8.33%) MCP
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (8.33%) SANS
5 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (8.33%) HIPAA
2 1 (8.33%) NCSC
2 1 (8.33%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (8.33%) vSphere
1 1 (8.33%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) CASB
1 1 (8.33%) FortiGate
1 1 (8.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Darktrace
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) Citrix
3 1 (8.33%) CyberArk
3 1 (8.33%) F5
3 1 (8.33%) Forcepoint
3 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
3 1 (8.33%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) Proofpoint
3 1 (8.33%) VMware