Intrusion Detection Contracts in the South West

Intrusion Detection
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 134 141
Rank change year-on-year +27 +7 +14
Contract jobs citing Intrusion Detection 1 7 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.053% 0.25% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.41% 1.46% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - £580 £593
25th Percentile £456 £625 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -30.36% +12.00% +18.48%
75th Percentile £519 £738 £900
90th Percentile - £760 £945
England median daily rate £513 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -14.58% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £87.46 £75.67
% change year-on-year -42.83% +15.58% +11.28%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 241 480 433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 12.69% 17.17% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 316 274
10th Percentile £225 £288 £210
25th Percentile £325 £460 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £538 £516
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% +4.12% +8.68%
75th Percentile £625 £632 £613
90th Percentile £670 £675 £700
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 40 43
10th Percentile £23.73 £12.32 £20.50
25th Percentile £32.65 £13.58 £48.32
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £57.99
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +12.09% +7.39%
75th Percentile £58.75 £71.56 £70.92
90th Percentile £62.50 £75.30 £86.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £54.88 £55.00
% change year-on-year -22.55% -0.23% +69.23%

Intrusion Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Intrusion Detection in the South West

Intrusion Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Intrusion Detection in the South West

Intrusion Detection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Intrusion Detection in the South West

Intrusion Detection
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
Wiltshire +19 1 £488 -32.76% 1
Intrusion Detection
England

Intrusion Detection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) OSCP
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST