Basingstoke Firewall Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Firewall skills within the Basingstoke region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Firewall over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Rank	36	37
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	5	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	5.102 %	13.04 %
Daily rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£350
Average daily rate	£400	£388
% change on same period last year	+3.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£450	£425
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£346
% change on same period last year	+0.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.00	-
Average hourly rate	£10.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£10.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.58	£28.17
% change on same period last year	-9.18 %
Communications & Networking Basingstoke
Matching contract IT job ads	98	92
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.129 %	0.092 %
Daily rates quoted	27	19
Average minimum daily rate	£358	£366
Average daily rate	£380	£400
% change on same period last year	-5.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£402	£434
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£343
% change on same period last year	-0.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	34	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.34	£37.21
Average hourly rate	£31.82	£38.16
% change on same period last year	-16.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.29	£39.11
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.72	£28.70
% change on same period last year	-10.38 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Firewall across the Basingstoke region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Firewall across the Basingstoke region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Firewall across the Basingstoke region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Firewall across the Basingstoke region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Firewall across the Basingstoke region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Firewall also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Firewall.

1 8 (50.00 %) Cisco 2 7 (43.75 %) OpenView 2 7 (43.75 %) HP 3 6 (37.50 %) CheckPoint 4 5 (31.25 %) LAN 4 5 (31.25 %) VoIP 4 5 (31.25 %) WAN 4 5 (31.25 %) OVSD 5 4 (25.00 %) Nokia 5 4 (25.00 %) VPN 5 4 (25.00 %) Cisco Certification 6 3 (18.75 %) Citrix 6 3 (18.75 %) DNS 6 3 (18.75 %) TCP/IP 6 3 (18.75 %) NetScreen

6 3 (18.75 %) Government 6 3 (18.75 %) SC Cleared 6 3 (18.75 %) Security Cleared 7 2 (12.50 %) Cisco PIX 7 2 (12.50 %) System Testing 7 2 (12.50 %) SoftGrid 7 2 (12.50 %) Migration 7 2 (12.50 %) VMware 7 2 (12.50 %) VMware ESX 7 2 (12.50 %) Network Design 7 2 (12.50 %) Technical Architecture 7 2 (12.50 %) Radware 7 2 (12.50 %) Juniper 7 2 (12.50 %) SAN 7 2 (12.50 %) BGP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Firewall also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Firewall. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 1 (6.250 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 2 (12.50 %) SoftGrid
Communications & Networking 1 5 (31.25 %) LAN 1 5 (31.25 %) VoIP 1 5 (31.25 %) WAN 2 4 (25.00 %) VPN 3 3 (18.75 %) DNS 3 3 (18.75 %) TCP/IP 3 3 (18.75 %) NetScreen 4 2 (12.50 %) Cisco PIX 4 2 (12.50 %) SAN 4 2 (12.50 %) BGP 4 2 (12.50 %) EIGRP 4 2 (12.50 %) Broadband 5 1 (6.250 %) Internet 5 1 (6.250 %) DWDM 5 1 (6.250 %) MPLS 5 1 (6.250 %) OSPF 5 1 (6.250 %) ATM 5 1 (6.250 %) ISDN 5 1 (6.250 %) SDH 5 1 (6.250 %) SSL	General 1 3 (18.75 %) Government 2 1 (6.250 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 4 (25.00 %) Analyst 2 3 (18.75 %) Network Analyst 3 2 (12.50 %) Network Architect 3 2 (12.50 %) Test Engineer 3 2 (12.50 %) Architect 3 2 (12.50 %) Network Engineer 4 1 (6.250 %) Support Consultant 4 1 (6.250 %) Test Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) Network Consultant 4 1 (6.250 %) Consultant 4 1 (6.250 %) Network Team Leader 4 1 (6.250 %) Network Specialist 4 1 (6.250 %) Team Leader 4 1 (6.250 %) Cisco Engineer 4 1 (6.250 %) Network Support 4 1 (6.250 %) Cisco Network Engineer	Operating Systems 1 2 (12.50 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (18.75 %) SC Cleared 1 3 (18.75 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (12.50 %) System Testing 2 2 (12.50 %) Migration 2 2 (12.50 %) Network Design 2 2 (12.50 %) Technical Architecture 3 1 (6.250 %) E-Commerce 3 1 (6.250 %) ITIL 3 1 (6.250 %) Load Balancing 3 1 (6.250 %) Software Testing 3 1 (6.250 %) Document Management	Qualifications 1 4 (25.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 2 (12.50 %) CCIE 2 2 (12.50 %) CCNP 3 1 (6.250 %) CCNA 3 1 (6.250 %) ISEB 3 1 (6.250 %) Check Point Certification
System Software 1 2 (12.50 %) VMware ESX 1 2 (12.50 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 7 (43.75 %) OpenView 2 5 (31.25 %) OVSD 3 1 (6.250 %) CiscoWorks
Vendors 1 8 (50.00 %) Cisco 2 7 (43.75 %) HP 3 6 (37.50 %) CheckPoint 4 4 (25.00 %) Nokia 5 3 (18.75 %) Citrix 6 2 (12.50 %) VMware 6 2 (12.50 %) Radware 6 2 (12.50 %) Juniper 7 1 (6.250 %) Microsoft 7 1 (6.250 %) Remedy 7 1 (6.250 %) McAfee Security 7 1 (6.250 %) Blue Coat