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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 481 498 717
Rank change year-on-year +17 +219 -45
Contract jobs citing Intrusion Detection 94 186 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.33% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.73% 2.61% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 138 68
10th Percentile £461 £406 £434
25th Percentile £544 £478 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +2.33%
75th Percentile £741 £647 £633
90th Percentile £850 £700 £691
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +20.88%
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 excluding London 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

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 5,426 7,124 9,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.60% 12.71% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,234 4,603 6,376
10th Percentile £206 £240 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 443 367
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.24 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +119.30% -29.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.54 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -1.15%

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 1 June 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 10 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 1 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
England +14 85 £650 +9.59% 57
UK excluding London -5 66 £600 +14.29% 35
South East +12 34 £450 -25.00% 16
Work from Home +68 33 £550 - 34
Midlands +36 26 £634 +17.91% 6
West Midlands +32 23 £650 +4.00% 4
London +67 13 £688 +14.58% 22
East Midlands +14 3 £575 +9.52% 2
East of England +5 3 £663 -11.67% 4
South West -5 3 £550 -8.33% 2

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 7 (7.45%) Confluence
2 3 (3.19%) Apache
3 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 15 (15.96%) Azure
2 14 (14.89%) AWS
3 2 (2.13%) Entra ID
3 2 (2.13%) GCP
3 2 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.06%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (1.06%) AWS KMS
4 1 (1.06%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.06%) IaaS
4 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (1.06%) PaaS
4 1 (1.06%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (69.15%) Firewall
2 32 (34.04%) Network Security
3 11 (11.70%) TCP/IP
4 8 (8.51%) VPN
5 5 (5.32%) LAN
5 5 (5.32%) Wireless
6 4 (4.26%) tcpdump
6 4 (4.26%) WAN
6 4 (4.26%) Wireshark
7 3 (3.19%) BGP
7 3 (3.19%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (3.19%) MPLS
7 3 (3.19%) NGFW
7 3 (3.19%) OSPF
7 3 (3.19%) VoIP
8 2 (2.13%) HTTP
8 2 (2.13%) HTTPS
8 2 (2.13%) SD-WAN
9 1 (1.06%) Kerberos
9 1 (1.06%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (19.15%) Big Data
2 4 (4.26%) Apache Hive
2 4 (4.26%) Hadoop
2 4 (4.26%) Tableau
3 1 (1.06%) MySQL
3 1 (1.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (7.45%) JIRA
2 4 (4.26%) IDA Disassembler
3 1 (1.06%) Git
3 1 (1.06%) GitLab
3 1 (1.06%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.06%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.06%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 33 (35.11%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (22.34%) Public Sector
3 7 (7.45%) Social Skills
4 6 (6.38%) Finance
5 4 (4.26%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.19%) Banking
6 3 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.13%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.06%) Advertising
8 1 (1.06%) Law
8 1 (1.06%) Legal
Job Titles
1 43 (45.74%) Architect
2 39 (41.49%) Security Architect
3 24 (25.53%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 8 (8.51%) Senior
5 7 (7.45%) Analyst
5 7 (7.45%) Security Engineer
6 5 (5.32%) Security Manager
7 4 (4.26%) Consultant
7 4 (4.26%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) Security Consultant
8 3 (3.19%) Network Consultant
8 3 (3.19%) Network Engineer
8 3 (3.19%) Network Security Consultant
8 3 (3.19%) Operations Engineer
8 3 (3.19%) Perimeter Security Consultant
8 3 (3.19%) Project Manager
8 3 (3.19%) Security Analyst
8 3 (3.19%) Security Project Manager
8 3 (3.19%) SOC Analyst
9 2 (2.13%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (19.15%) Apache NiFi
2 4 (4.26%) OLE
3 2 (2.13%) JSON
3 2 (2.13%) YAML
4 1 (1.06%) Keycloak
4 1 (1.06%) OAuth
4 1 (1.06%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.06%) RESTful
4 1 (1.06%) SAML
4 1 (1.06%) Web Services
4 1 (1.06%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (23.40%) Management Information System
2 18 (19.15%) Cyber Defence
2 18 (19.15%) Distributed Applications
3 7 (7.45%) Security Operations Centre
4 5 (5.32%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 4 (4.26%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (4.26%) YARA
6 3 (3.19%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.13%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.13%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.06%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.06%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.06%) Insider Threat
8 1 (1.06%) iPad
8 1 (1.06%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.06%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 30 (31.91%) Linux
2 27 (28.72%) Windows
3 18 (19.15%) Unix
4 16 (17.02%) Android
4 16 (17.02%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.13%) CentOS
5 2 (2.13%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.13%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.06%) Mac OS X
6 1 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.06%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.06%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (72.34%) Cybersecurity
2 49 (52.13%) Security Architecture
3 34 (36.17%) DevOps
4 33 (35.11%) SIEM
5 31 (32.98%) Information Security
6 29 (30.85%) Security Operations
7 24 (25.53%) Incident Response
8 18 (19.15%) Actionable Insight
8 18 (19.15%) Data Engineering
8 18 (19.15%) Data Management
8 18 (19.15%) Data Pipeline
9 17 (18.09%) Kalman Filter
10 16 (17.02%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (15.96%) Data Analysis
12 14 (14.89%) Analytics
12 14 (14.89%) Penetration Testing
12 14 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (10.64%) Identity Access Management
13 10 (10.64%) MITRE ATT&CK
14 9 (9.57%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.26%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.13%) Python
3 1 (1.06%) Bash
3 1 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (1.06%) PHP
3 1 (1.06%) SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (61.70%) Security Cleared
2 47 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 11 (11.70%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.38%) CISSP
5 5 (5.32%) Degree
6 4 (4.26%) CEH
7 3 (3.19%) CCNP
7 3 (3.19%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.13%) GCIH
8 2 (2.13%) GIAC
9 1 (1.06%) CCNA
9 1 (1.06%) CREST Certified
9 1 (1.06%) GCIA
9 1 (1.06%) GPEN
9 1 (1.06%) GSEC
9 1 (1.06%) GWAPT
9 1 (1.06%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.06%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (19.15%) Actionable Recommendations
2 15 (15.96%) NIST
3 12 (12.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (9.57%) PCI DSS
5 8 (8.51%) GDPR
6 7 (7.45%) HIPAA
7 5 (5.32%) NCSC
8 3 (3.19%) GPG13
9 2 (2.13%) GRC
10 1 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (1.06%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (4.26%) Active Directory
1 4 (4.26%) Snort
2 2 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (4.26%) Kibana
2 3 (3.19%) Ansible
3 2 (2.13%) Terraform
4 1 (1.06%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.06%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.06%) SCCM
4 1 (1.06%) SCOM
4 1 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (17.02%) Red Hat
2 11 (11.70%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.51%) Cisco
4 6 (6.38%) Google
5 5 (5.32%) Splunk
6 4 (4.26%) Palo Alto
6 4 (4.26%) Tufin
6 4 (4.26%) Zscaler
7 3 (3.19%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.06%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.06%) Cadence
8 1 (1.06%) Dell
8 1 (1.06%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.06%) HP
8 1 (1.06%) Qualys
8 1 (1.06%) VMware