Intrusion Detection Contracts in the UK excluding London

Intrusion Detection
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 19 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 334 317 443
Rank change year-on-year -17 +126 -25
Contract jobs citing Intrusion Detection 67 113 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.50% 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.04% 3.20% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 83 32
10th Percentile £428 £350 £428
25th Percentile £550 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.23% -2.27% +20.88%
75th Percentile £744 £625 £627
90th Percentile £850 £700 £649
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £550
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,288 3,532 4,254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.42% 15.56% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,852 2,200 2,762
10th Percentile £203 £210 £190
25th Percentile £350 £338 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 354 299 243
10th Percentile £13.33 - £14.91
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £19.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -11.63% -2.27%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.00 £48.62
90th Percentile £73.60 £75.00 £60.93
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%

Intrusion Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Intrusion Detection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Intrusion Detection in the UK excluding London

Intrusion Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Intrusion Detection in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Intrusion Detection in the UK excluding London

Intrusion Detection
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Intrusion Detection in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Intrusion Detection in the UK excluding London

Intrusion Detection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Intrusion Detection in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Intrusion Detection in the UK excluding London

Intrusion Detection
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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 +14 35 £450 -27.65% 12
Midlands +30 25 £642 +19.42% 9
West Midlands +35 22 £650 +4.00% 7
East of England +6 4 £575 -23.33% 3
East Midlands +9 3 £575 +9.52% 2
South West -8 3 £550 -8.33% 4
Intrusion Detection
UK

Intrusion Detection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (2.99%) Apache
2 1 (1.49%) Confluence
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (7.46%) Azure
2 3 (4.48%) AWS
3 1 (1.49%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.49%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 46 (68.66%) Firewall
2 24 (35.82%) Network Security
3 5 (7.46%) TCP/IP
3 5 (7.46%) VPN
4 3 (4.48%) BGP
4 3 (4.48%) MPLS
4 3 (4.48%) OSPF
4 3 (4.48%) WAN
5 2 (2.99%) LAN
5 2 (2.99%) SD-WAN
5 2 (2.99%) VoIP
5 2 (2.99%) Wireless
6 1 (1.49%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.49%) Internet
6 1 (1.49%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (1.49%) SSL
6 1 (1.49%) tcpdump
6 1 (1.49%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (26.87%) Big Data
2 1 (1.49%) Apache Hive
2 1 (1.49%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.49%) GitLab
1 1 (1.49%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (1.49%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.49%) JIRA
1 1 (1.49%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (31.34%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (23.88%) Public Sector
3 3 (4.48%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.99%) Finance
4 2 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.99%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.49%) Legal
5 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 36 (53.73%) Architect
2 32 (47.76%) Security Architect
3 24 (35.82%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 6 (8.96%) Analyst
5 5 (7.46%) Senior
6 3 (4.48%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Security Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) SOC Analyst
7 2 (2.99%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 2 (2.99%) IT Architect
7 2 (2.99%) Network Architect
7 2 (2.99%) Network Engineer
7 2 (2.99%) Security Analyst
7 2 (2.99%) Security Manager
7 2 (2.99%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (2.99%) Senior Architect
7 2 (2.99%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
7 2 (2.99%) Senior Security Analyst
7 2 (2.99%) Senior Security Architect
8 1 (1.49%) Information Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (26.87%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (1.49%) Keycloak
2 1 (1.49%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 18 (26.87%) Cyber Defence
1 18 (26.87%) Distributed Applications
2 16 (23.88%) Management Information System
3 7 (10.45%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (4.48%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.99%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.49%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.49%) iPad
6 1 (1.49%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 21 (31.34%) Linux
1 21 (31.34%) Windows
2 16 (23.88%) Android
2 16 (23.88%) Apple iOS
2 16 (23.88%) Unix
3 1 (1.49%) Mac OS X
3 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (76.12%) Cybersecurity
2 40 (59.70%) Security Architecture
3 30 (44.78%) DevOps
4 22 (32.84%) SIEM
5 21 (31.34%) Information Security
5 21 (31.34%) Security Operations
6 19 (28.36%) Actionable Insight
7 18 (26.87%) Data Engineering
7 18 (26.87%) Data Management
7 18 (26.87%) Data Pipeline
8 16 (23.88%) Kalman Filter
9 15 (22.39%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (20.90%) Analytics
10 14 (20.90%) Data Analysis
11 7 (10.45%) Incident Response
12 5 (7.46%) Risk Management
13 4 (5.97%) Information Assurance
14 3 (4.48%) Network Design
14 3 (4.48%) Penetration Testing
14 3 (4.48%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 54 (80.60%) Security Cleared
2 47 (70.15%) DV Cleared
3 9 (13.43%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.99%) CISSP
4 2 (2.99%) Degree
5 1 (1.49%) CCNP
5 1 (1.49%) CCSP
5 1 (1.49%) CEH
5 1 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.49%) CREST Certified
5 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.49%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (26.87%) Actionable Recommendations
2 4 (5.97%) HIPAA
2 4 (5.97%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.99%) GDPR
3 2 (2.99%) NIST
4 1 (1.49%) GRC
4 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.49%) NCSC
4 1 (1.49%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (2.99%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.49%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (1.49%) Kibana
1 1 (1.49%) SCCM
1 1 (1.49%) SCOM
1 1 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (22.39%) Red Hat
2 5 (7.46%) Cisco
2 5 (7.46%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.48%) Palo Alto
4 2 (2.99%) Google
4 2 (2.99%) Splunk
5 1 (1.49%) Aruba
5 1 (1.49%) F5
5 1 (1.49%) Juniper
5 1 (1.49%) VMware