Intrusion Detection Contracts

Intrusion Detection
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 498 553 728
Rank change year-on-year +55 +175 -105
Contract jobs citing Intrusion Detection 88 169 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.28% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.55% 2.28% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 119 59
10th Percentile £463 £370 £420
25th Percentile £550 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £738 £669 £625
90th Percentile £800 £740 £705
UK excluding London median daily rate £642 £550 £530
% change year-on-year +16.70% +3.77% +22.54%
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 excluding London 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
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,688 7,405 9,716
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.03% 12.33% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,417 4,818 6,380
10th Percentile £205 £235 £228
25th Percentile £350 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £603
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £432
% change year-on-year - +9.95% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 423 488 364
10th Percentile £13.57 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.69 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +110.53% -30.91% +4.05%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £67.40 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -11.34%

Intrusion Detection
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Intrusion Detection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Intrusion Detection in the UK

Intrusion Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Intrusion Detection in the UK

Intrusion Detection
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Intrusion Detection over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Intrusion Detection in the UK

Intrusion Detection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Intrusion Detection in the UK

Intrusion Detection
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 25 April 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
England +53 79 £642 +6.98% 72
UK excluding London +39 61 £642 +16.70% 45
South East +21 34 £450 -25.00% 13
Work from Home +94 32 £530 -11.67% 64
West Midlands +43 20 £650 - 5
Midlands +34 20 £650 +19.54% 10
London +74 13 £588 -2.08% 26
East of England +7 3 £663 -14.52% 3
South West +5 3 £550 +4.76% 6
North of England +8 1 £650 +79.31% 14
North West -1 1 £650 +79.31% 4

Intrusion Detection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (6.82%) Confluence
2 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 16 (18.18%) Azure
2 14 (15.91%) AWS
3 3 (3.41%) GCP
4 2 (2.27%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (2.27%) AWS KMS
4 2 (2.27%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.14%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.14%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.14%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.14%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.14%) IaaS
5 1 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.14%) PaaS
5 1 (1.14%) Serverless
5 1 (1.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 63 (71.59%) Firewall
2 30 (34.09%) Network Security
3 7 (7.95%) TCP/IP
4 6 (6.82%) Wireless
5 4 (4.55%) Cisco ISE
5 4 (4.55%) LAN
5 4 (4.55%) NGFW
5 4 (4.55%) tcpdump
5 4 (4.55%) WAN
5 4 (4.55%) Wireshark
6 3 (3.41%) VPN
7 2 (2.27%) SD-WAN
7 2 (2.27%) SSL
7 2 (2.27%) Unified Communications
7 2 (2.27%) VoIP
8 1 (1.14%) CATAPAN
8 1 (1.14%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (1.14%) DHCP
8 1 (1.14%) DNS
8 1 (1.14%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (17.05%) Big Data
2 4 (4.55%) Apache Hive
2 4 (4.55%) Hadoop
2 4 (4.55%) Tableau
3 1 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (6.82%) JIRA
2 4 (4.55%) IDA Disassembler
3 1 (1.14%) Git
3 1 (1.14%) GitLab
3 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.14%) SonarQube
General
1 31 (35.23%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (22.73%) Public Sector
3 8 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 6 (6.82%) Finance
5 4 (4.55%) Banking
5 4 (4.55%) Manufacturing
5 4 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.27%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.27%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.14%) Advertising
7 1 (1.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 42 (47.73%) Architect
2 40 (45.45%) Security Architect
3 24 (27.27%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 10 (11.36%) Senior
5 7 (7.95%) Analyst
5 7 (7.95%) Security Engineer
6 5 (5.68%) Security Manager
7 4 (4.55%) Consultant
7 4 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) Network Consultant
7 4 (4.55%) Network Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) Network Security Consultant
7 4 (4.55%) Perimeter Security Consultant
7 4 (4.55%) Security Consultant
7 4 (4.55%) Senior Architect
7 4 (4.55%) Senior Security Architect
8 3 (3.41%) Operations Engineer
8 3 (3.41%) Project Manager
8 3 (3.41%) Security Analyst
8 3 (3.41%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (17.05%) Apache NiFi
2 4 (4.55%) OLE
3 1 (1.14%) JSON
3 1 (1.14%) Keycloak
3 1 (1.14%) OAuth
3 1 (1.14%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.14%) SAML
3 1 (1.14%) XML
3 1 (1.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (19.32%) Management Information System
2 15 (17.05%) Cyber Defence
2 15 (17.05%) Distributed Applications
3 6 (6.82%) Security Operations Centre
4 5 (5.68%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 5 (5.68%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (4.55%) YARA
6 3 (3.41%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.41%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.27%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.14%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.14%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.14%) Insider Threat
8 1 (1.14%) iPad
8 1 (1.14%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.14%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 26 (29.55%) Linux
1 26 (29.55%) Windows
2 16 (18.18%) Unix
3 13 (14.77%) Android
3 13 (14.77%) Apple iOS
4 3 (3.41%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.27%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.27%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.14%) CentOS
6 1 (1.14%) Mac OS X
6 1 (1.14%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (70.45%) Cybersecurity
2 48 (54.55%) Security Architecture
3 35 (39.77%) DevOps
4 29 (32.95%) SIEM
5 28 (31.82%) Information Security
6 24 (27.27%) Incident Response
6 24 (27.27%) Security Operations
7 16 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
8 15 (17.05%) Actionable Insight
8 15 (17.05%) Data Engineering
8 15 (17.05%) Data Management
9 14 (15.91%) Data Pipeline
10 13 (14.77%) Kalman Filter
10 13 (14.77%) Penetration Testing
11 11 (12.50%) Data Analysis
12 10 (11.36%) Analytics
12 10 (11.36%) Identity Access Management
12 10 (11.36%) MITRE ATT&CK
13 9 (10.23%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.41%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.27%) Python
3 1 (1.14%) Bash
3 1 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (1.14%) Ruby
3 1 (1.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 44 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 13 (14.77%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.68%) Degree
5 4 (4.55%) CISSP
6 2 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.27%) CCNP
6 2 (2.27%) CEH
6 2 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.14%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.14%) CCNA
7 1 (1.14%) CISA
7 1 (1.14%) CISM
7 1 (1.14%) CREST Certified
7 1 (1.14%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.14%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (20.45%) NIST
2 15 (17.05%) Actionable Recommendations
3 11 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (10.23%) GDPR
5 6 (6.82%) PCI DSS
6 5 (5.68%) HIPAA
6 5 (5.68%) NCSC
7 3 (3.41%) GPG13
8 1 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (1.14%) GRC
8 1 (1.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (4.55%) Active Directory
1 4 (4.55%) Snort
2 2 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.55%) Kibana
2 3 (3.41%) Ansible
2 3 (3.41%) Terraform
3 2 (2.27%) Progress Chef
3 2 (2.27%) SCCM
3 2 (2.27%) SCOM
4 1 (1.14%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.14%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (13.64%) Red Hat
2 11 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 10 (11.36%) Cisco
4 6 (6.82%) Google
5 5 (5.68%) Splunk
5 5 (5.68%) Tufin
5 5 (5.68%) Zscaler
6 4 (4.55%) CheckPoint
6 4 (4.55%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.14%) Cadence
7 1 (1.14%) Dell
7 1 (1.14%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.14%) HP
7 1 (1.14%) Qualys
7 1 (1.14%) VMware