Intrusion Detection Contracts in the Thames Valley

Intrusion Detection
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 91 112 138
Rank change year-on-year +21 +26 +21
Contract jobs citing Intrusion Detection 11 33 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.73% 1.23% 0.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.37% 5.45% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 12
10th Percentile £340 £441 £530
25th Percentile £381 £484 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -6.25% -7.69%
75th Percentile £513 £634 £626
90th Percentile £550 £674 £648
South East median daily rate £388 £450 £600
% change year-on-year -13.89% -25.00% +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 - - -
South East median hourly rate £90.00 £87.46 -
% change year-on-year +2.90% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 252 605 475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.68% 22.52% 16.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 295 291
10th Percentile £242 £205 £313
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% +2.46% +5.51%
75th Percentile £550 £594 £570
90th Percentile £618 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £480 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -2.04% +0.51% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 50 15
10th Percentile - £17.79 £19.70
25th Percentile - £23.78 £25.75
Median hourly rate £14.20 £65.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -78.15% -1.52% +288.24%
75th Percentile £22.09 £85.65 £80.25
90th Percentile £31.44 £87.47 £81.22
South East median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year -4.21% +8.21% +146.51%

Intrusion Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Intrusion Detection in the Thames Valley

Intrusion Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Intrusion Detection in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Intrusion Detection in the Thames Valley

Intrusion Detection
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Intrusion Detection in the Thames Valley

Intrusion Detection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Intrusion Detection in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Intrusion Detection in the Thames Valley

Intrusion Detection
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +8 10 £450 -20.00% 4
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 3
Intrusion Detection
South East

Intrusion Detection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (18.18%) GCP
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (18.18%) Network Security
2 2 (18.18%) VPN
2 2 (18.18%) Wireless
3 1 (9.09%) Internet
3 1 (9.09%) IP Telephony
3 1 (9.09%) LAN
3 1 (9.09%) MPLS
3 1 (9.09%) NAS
3 1 (9.09%) NetScaler
3 1 (9.09%) SAN
3 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
3 1 (9.09%) Skype
3 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
3 1 (9.09%) Unified Communications
3 1 (9.09%) WAN
3 1 (9.09%) Wireless Security
General
1 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
3 1 (9.09%) Military
3 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Lead
2 3 (27.27%) Security Advisor
3 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Security Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) IT Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
4 1 (9.09%) IT Support
4 1 (9.09%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (45.45%) JBoss Seam
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Management Information System
2 2 (18.18%) Security Posture
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (9.09%) CESG
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 1 (9.09%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (9.09%) Cyberattack
3 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
3 1 (9.09%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (63.64%) Security Architecture
3 6 (54.55%) DevOps
3 6 (54.55%) Risk Management
3 6 (54.55%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 5 (45.45%) Decision-Making
4 5 (45.45%) Risk Assessment
5 4 (36.36%) SIEM
6 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
7 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
7 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
7 2 (18.18%) Information Security
7 2 (18.18%) Kalman Filter
7 2 (18.18%) SOAR
7 2 (18.18%) Threat Detection
7 2 (18.18%) Threat Management
8 1 (9.09%) Log Analytics
8 1 (9.09%) Risk Analysis
8 1 (9.09%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 1 (9.09%) Python
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) DV Cleared
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) CEH
2 2 (18.18%) CISSP
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) A+ Certification
3 1 (9.09%) CCSK
3 1 (9.09%) CISM
3 1 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (9.09%) GIAC
3 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
3 1 (9.09%) MCP
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (9.09%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) NCSC
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
1 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (9.09%) vSphere
1 1 (9.09%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) CASB
1 1 (9.09%) FortiGate
1 1 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Darktrace
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco
3 1 (9.09%) Citrix
3 1 (9.09%) CyberArk
3 1 (9.09%) F5
3 1 (9.09%) Forcepoint
3 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
3 1 (9.09%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) Proofpoint
3 1 (9.09%) VMware