Berkshire Firewall Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Firewall skills within the Berkshire 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chichester Chippenham City of London Cobham Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Denbighshire Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dunstable Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh Ely England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Greenford Greenwich Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Huddersfield Ipswich Kent Kettering Knottingley Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rickmansworth Romford Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	54	53
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	76	138
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.101 %	0.140 %
As % of the category below	9.719 %	11.59 %
Daily rates quoted	14	54
Average minimum daily rate	£378	£378
Average daily rate	£414	£386
% change on same period last year	+7.16 %
Average maximum daily rate	£450	£395
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£346
% change on same period last year	-3.00 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.00	£27.20
Average hourly rate	£25.44	£29.03
% change on same period last year	-12.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.88	£30.87
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.12	£28.38
% change on same period last year	-11.49 %
Communications & Networking Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	782	1191
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.042 %	1.205 %
Daily rates quoted	118	329
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£358
Average daily rate	£363	£377
% change on same period last year	-3.74 %
Average maximum daily rate	£388	£396
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	60	160
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.89	£27.06
Average hourly rate	£22.24	£28.48
% change on same period last year	-21.89 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.59	£29.89
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
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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 Berkshire 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 Berkshire 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 Berkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Berkshire 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 Berkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Reading	+8	32	£409	+33.95 %
Maidenhead	+1	4	-	-
Newbury	+7	4	-	-
Bracknell	+12	3	-	-
Slough	-16	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 51 (38.64 %) Windows 2 50 (37.88 %) Cisco 3 41 (31.06 %) TCP/IP 4 37 (28.03 %) Microsoft 5 34 (25.76 %) WAN 5 34 (25.76 %) Cisco Certification 6 30 (22.73 %) VPN 7 29 (21.97 %) LAN 8 26 (19.70 %) Network Security 9 25 (18.94 %) MS Exchange 9 25 (18.94 %) CheckPoint 9 25 (18.94 %) Government 10 21 (15.91 %) Windows Server 2003 10 21 (15.91 %) DNS 10 21 (15.91 %) Telecoms

11 20 (15.15 %) Active Directory 12 16 (12.12 %) VMware 12 16 (12.12 %) Internet 12 16 (12.12 %) Linux 12 16 (12.12 %) ITIL 13 15 (11.36 %) UNIX 13 15 (11.36 %) DHCP 13 15 (11.36 %) CCNA 13 15 (11.36 %) Security Cleared 14 13 (9.848 %) VoIP 14 13 (9.848 %) Solaris 15 12 (9.091 %) Oracle 15 12 (9.091 %) HP 15 12 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2003 16 11 (8.333 %) SAN

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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.

Application Development 1 4 (3.030 %) WebServices 2 1 (0.758 %) HTML 2 1 (0.758 %) .NET 2 1 (0.758 %) J2EE 2 1 (0.758 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 25 (18.94 %) MS Exchange 2 12 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 10 (7.576 %) IIS 4 5 (3.788 %) BizTalk Server 4 5 (3.788 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 5 (3.788 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 4 (3.030 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 3 (2.273 %) SharePoint 6 3 (2.273 %) Oracle Application Server 7 2 (1.515 %) Exchange Server 5.5 7 2 (1.515 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 7 2 (1.515 %) Apache 8 1 (0.758 %) Oracle HTTP Server 8 1 (0.758 %) Oracle 10gAS
Applications 1 4 (3.030 %) MS Office 2 3 (2.273 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 2 (1.515 %) Oracle Applications 2 1 (0.758 %) Oracle 11i 2 1 (0.758 %) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking 1 41 (31.06 %) TCP/IP 2 34 (25.76 %) WAN 3 30 (22.73 %) VPN 4 29 (21.97 %) LAN 5 26 (19.70 %) Network Security 6 21 (15.91 %) DNS 7 16 (12.12 %) Internet 8 15 (11.36 %) DHCP 9 13 (9.848 %) VoIP 10 11 (8.333 %) MPLS 10 11 (8.333 %) SAN 11 10 (7.576 %) OSPF 11 10 (7.576 %) VLAN 12 9 (6.818 %) Ethernet 13 8 (6.061 %) ISDN 13 8 (6.061 %) Intrusion Detection 14 7 (5.303 %) ATM 14 7 (5.303 %) BGP 14 7 (5.303 %) NetScreen 15 5 (3.788 %) Wireless	Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (8.333 %) SQL Server 2 3 (2.273 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (1.515 %) BusinessObjects 3 2 (1.515 %) Datawarehouse 4 1 (0.758 %) Oracle 10g 4 1 (0.758 %) Oracle 9i
Development Applications 1 1 (0.758 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 25 (18.94 %) Government 2 21 (15.91 %) Telecoms 3 10 (7.576 %) Finance 4 7 (5.303 %) Financial Institution 5 1 (0.758 %) Construction 5 1 (0.758 %) Publishing 5 1 (0.758 %) Military 5 1 (0.758 %) Banking 5 1 (0.758 %) Billing
Job Titles 1 24 (18.18 %) Architect 2 23 (17.42 %) Analyst 3 17 (12.88 %) Consultant 4 13 (9.848 %) Technical Architect 5 11 (8.333 %) Support Analyst 6 10 (7.576 %) Security Consultant 6 10 (7.576 %) Security Architect 6 10 (7.576 %) Security Engineer 6 10 (7.576 %) Network Specialist 7 9 (6.818 %) 3rd Line Support 7 9 (6.818 %) Support Engineer 7 9 (6.818 %) Design Engineer 7 9 (6.818 %) Network Engineer 8 6 (4.545 %) Systems Integrator 9 5 (3.788 %) Systems Engineer 10 4 (3.030 %) Senior Analyst 10 4 (3.030 %) Network Analyst 10 4 (3.030 %) Technical Consultant 10 4 (3.030 %) Security Specialist 10 4 (3.030 %) Network Support	Miscellaneous 1 7 (5.303 %) Clustering 2 5 (3.788 %) CESG 3 4 (3.030 %) Management Information System 4 2 (1.515 %) Blackberry 4 2 (1.515 %) Client/Server 4 2 (1.515 %) CESG CLAS 5 1 (0.758 %) Cryptography 5 1 (0.758 %) PKI 5 1 (0.758 %) PDA 5 1 (0.758 %) French Language 5 1 (0.758 %) German Language 5 1 (0.758 %) Portuguese Language 5 1 (0.758 %) Spanish Language 5 1 (0.758 %) PMI
Operating Systems 1 51 (38.64 %) Windows 2 21 (15.91 %) Windows Server 2003 3 16 (12.12 %) Linux 4 15 (11.36 %) UNIX 5 13 (9.848 %) Solaris 6 8 (6.061 %) Windows NT 7 7 (5.303 %) Windows 2000 8 6 (4.545 %) Windows XP 9 2 (1.515 %) FreeBSD 9 2 (1.515 %) OpenBSD 10 1 (0.758 %) Windows Vista 10 1 (0.758 %) Tru64 10 1 (0.758 %) AIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 16 (12.12 %) ITIL 2 15 (11.36 %) Security Cleared 3 9 (6.818 %) SC Cleared 3 9 (6.818 %) Project Management 4 7 (5.303 %) PRINCE2 4 7 (5.303 %) Load Balancing 5 6 (4.545 %) Network Design 5 6 (4.545 %) Service Management 5 6 (4.545 %) ITSM 6 5 (3.788 %) Change Management 6 5 (3.788 %) Migration 7 3 (2.273 %) Information Security 7 3 (2.273 %) Technical Architecture 7 3 (2.273 %) Strategic Planning 7 3 (2.273 %) DV Cleared 7 3 (2.273 %) E-business 7 3 (2.273 %) Risk Management 7 3 (2.273 %) Validation 8 2 (1.515 %) Security Management 8 2 (1.515 %) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages 1 8 (6.061 %) SQL 2 3 (2.273 %) Java 2 3 (2.273 %) Perl 3 1 (0.758 %) C 3 1 (0.758 %) JavaScript 3 1 (0.758 %) VB 3 1 (0.758 %) Shell Script 3 1 (0.758 %) PowerShell	Qualifications 1 34 (25.76 %) Cisco Certification 2 15 (11.36 %) CCNA 3 10 (7.576 %) CCNP 4 9 (6.818 %) Microsoft Certification 5 8 (6.061 %) MCSE 5 8 (6.061 %) Degree 6 6 (4.545 %) CISSP 7 5 (3.788 %) CCSP 8 3 (2.273 %) CCIE 8 3 (2.273 %) CCIP 8 3 (2.273 %) CCDP 9 2 (1.515 %) ITIL Certification 9 2 (1.515 %) CCSA 9 2 (1.515 %) CCSE 9 2 (1.515 %) CEH 9 2 (1.515 %) JNCIA 10 1 (0.758 %) PMP 10 1 (0.758 %) PMI Certification 10 1 (0.758 %) CISA 10 1 (0.758 %) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (3.788 %) ISO27001 2 2 (1.515 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 1 (0.758 %) TickIT 3 1 (0.758 %) SLA	System Software 1 20 (15.15 %) Active Directory 2 10 (7.576 %) Backup Exec 3 2 (1.515 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 2 (1.515 %) NFS 3 2 (1.515 %) MetaFrame 4 1 (0.758 %) Terminal Server 4 1 (0.758 %) Terminal Services 4 1 (0.758 %) ISA Server 4 1 (0.758 %) VMware ESX 4 1 (0.758 %) NetBackup 4 1 (0.758 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 5 (3.788 %) CiscoWorks 2 3 (2.273 %) OpenView 3 2 (1.515 %) MOM 3 2 (1.515 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 2 (1.515 %) Norton AntiVirus 3 2 (1.515 %) WSUS 4 1 (0.758 %) Unicenter 4 1 (0.758 %) Tivoli 4 1 (0.758 %) Tivoli Storage Manager	Vendors 1 50 (37.88 %) Cisco 2 37 (28.03 %) Microsoft 3 25 (18.94 %) CheckPoint 4 16 (12.12 %) VMware 5 12 (9.091 %) Oracle 5 12 (9.091 %) HP 6 9 (6.818 %) Juniper 6 9 (6.818 %) VERITAS 7 6 (4.545 %) Nokia 7 6 (4.545 %) Sun 8 5 (3.788 %) Citrix 9 4 (3.030 %) Dell 9 4 (3.030 %) Symantec 10 3 (2.273 %) EMC 10 3 (2.273 %) Ericsson 10 3 (2.273 %) Red Hat 11 2 (1.515 %) Business Objects 11 2 (1.515 %) 3Com 11 2 (1.515 %) Altiris 11 2 (1.515 %) Blue Coat