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Firewall Contracts in Birmingham
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Firewall over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Birmingham region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 36 40 32
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -8
Contract jobs citing Firewall 11 14 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 2.282% 2.174% 2.519%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.00% 21.54% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 10
Average daily rate £350 £225 £248
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+55.55% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £248 £188 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £382 £250 £318
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.25 £23.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year
-3.26% +6.97%
All Communications & Networking
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 55 65 83
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 11.41% 10.09% 16.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 26 41
Average daily rate £350 £150 £180
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+133.33% -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £196 £100 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £368 £370
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 8
Average hourly rate £20.00 £30.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-33.33% +122.22%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
Firewall
West Midlands

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Firewall across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Birmingham Firewall Jobs Demand Trend

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham Firewall Daily Rate Trend

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Firewall across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Birmingham Firewall Daily Rate Histogram

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham Firewall Hourly Rate Trend

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 7 (58.33%) Cisco
1 7 (58.33%) Citrix
2 6 (50.00%) Windows
2 6 (50.00%) VMware
3 5 (41.67%) Migration
3 5 (41.67%) Fat Client
3 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (41.67%) WAN
3 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (41.67%) Thin Client
4 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (33.33%) SAN
4 4 (33.33%) CCNA
4 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
5 3 (25.00%) LAN
5 3 (25.00%) SonicWALL
5 3 (25.00%) iSCSI
5 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (25.00%) Veeam
5 3 (25.00%) EqualLogic
5 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (25.00%) VLAN
5 3 (25.00%) MPLS
5 3 (25.00%) Project Management
5 3 (25.00%) S-PLUS
5 3 (25.00%) HP
5 3 (25.00%) Dell
5 3 (25.00%) CCNP

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 Platforms
1 1 (8.333%) Apache
1 1 (8.333%) Tomcat
1 1 (8.333%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) S-PLUS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) WAN
2 4 (33.33%) SAN
3 3 (25.00%) LAN
3 3 (25.00%) iSCSI
3 3 (25.00%) VLAN
3 3 (25.00%) MPLS
4 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
5 1 (8.333%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (8.333%) IPsec
5 1 (8.333%) NetScreen
5 1 (8.333%) VPN
5 1 (8.333%) Ethernet
5 1 (8.333%) FTP
5 1 (8.333%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (8.333%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Project Manager
2 4 (33.33%) Desktop Manager
2 4 (33.33%) Migration Project Manager
3 3 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) VMware Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) Cisco Security Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) VMware Technical Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (8.333%) Security Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (8.333%) 1st Line Support
4 1 (8.333%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (8.333%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Fat Client
1 5 (41.67%) Thin Client
2 3 (25.00%) EqualLogic
3 1 (8.333%) Replication
3 1 (8.333%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Windows
2 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (8.333%) Windows 7
5 1 (8.333%) Linux
5 1 (8.333%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Migration
2 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (25.00%) Project Management
3 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2
4 1 (8.333%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (8.333%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.333%) Shell Script
1 1 (8.333%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (33.33%) CCNA
2 3 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 3 (25.00%) CCNP
3 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (8.333%) CCSA
4 1 (8.333%) CCSE
4 1 (8.333%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (8.333%) VCP4
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (16.67%) XenServer
4 1 (8.333%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) FortiGate
2 1 (8.333%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Cisco
1 7 (58.33%) Citrix
2 6 (50.00%) VMware
3 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
4 3 (25.00%) SonicWALL
4 3 (25.00%) Veeam
4 3 (25.00%) HP
4 3 (25.00%) Dell
5 2 (16.67%) NetApp
5 2 (16.67%) Juniper
6 1 (8.333%) WatchGuard
6 1 (8.333%) Red Hat
6 1 (8.333%) CheckPoint
Desktop Migration Project Manager
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
There is no intrinsic link between the thin client and the user's virtual desktop machine, i.e. the virtual desktop can be accessed from any thin client...
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Posted: 14 June 2013
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