The first table below looks at the demand for Cisco ASA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cisco ASA over the 3 months to 20 May 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 Bristol 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA)
Rank 46 60 -
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -
Contract jobs citing Cisco ASA 3 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.568% 0.238% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.615% 1.709% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £300 £238 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+26.31% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £310 £313
% change year-on-year
+1.61% -0.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.63 £25.00 £23.36
% change year-on-year
-21.50% +7.02%
All Communications & Networking
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
65 117 57
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 12.31% 13.95% 9.194%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 71 18
Average daily rate £300 £403 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.46% +15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £238 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £454 £476 £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 12 7
Average hourly rate £20.50 £21.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.65% -38.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £16.50 £7.19
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £41.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
Cisco ASA
South West

Cisco ASA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol Cisco ASA Jobs Demand Trend

Cisco ASA
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bristol Cisco ASA Daily Rate Trend

Cisco ASA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bristol Cisco ASA Hourly Rate Trend

Cisco ASA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Cisco ASA 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 Cisco ASA.

1 9 (100.00%) Cisco
1 9 (100.00%) Firewall
2 7 (77.78%) CheckPoint
2 7 (77.78%) FWSM
3 6 (66.67%) VPN
3 6 (66.67%) Nokia
3 6 (66.67%) OSPF
3 6 (66.67%) BGP
3 6 (66.67%) Wireless
4 5 (55.56%) IP Telephony
4 5 (55.56%) MPLS
4 5 (55.56%) Unified Communications
4 5 (55.56%) Cisco IPT
4 5 (55.56%) IronPort
5 4 (44.44%) SolarWinds
5 4 (44.44%) Network Management
5 4 (44.44%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (44.44%) CA
5 4 (44.44%) HP
5 4 (44.44%) CiscoWorks
5 4 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (44.44%) IBM
6 3 (33.33%) CCNP
6 3 (33.33%) CCNA
6 3 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (33.33%) Blue Coat
6 3 (33.33%) Finance
6 3 (33.33%) Cisco PIX
6 3 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
7 2 (22.22%) Radio Access Network

Cisco ASA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Cisco ASA 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 Cisco ASA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) Firewall
2 7 (77.78%) FWSM
3 6 (66.67%) Wireless
3 6 (66.67%) VPN
3 6 (66.67%) OSPF
3 6 (66.67%) BGP
4 5 (55.56%) IP Telephony
4 5 (55.56%) Cisco IPT
4 5 (55.56%) MPLS
4 5 (55.56%) Unified Communications
5 4 (44.44%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (33.33%) Cisco PIX
6 3 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (22.22%) IPsec
7 2 (22.22%) TACACS
7 2 (22.22%) 3G
7 2 (22.22%) SNMP
7 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
7 2 (22.22%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (11.11%) LAN
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Analyst
1 6 (66.67%) Senior Analyst
1 6 (66.67%) Network Analyst
1 6 (66.67%) Senior Network Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) IP Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Network Management
2 3 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (11.11%) WAN Optimisation
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (33.33%) CCNP
2 3 (33.33%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Cisco
2 7 (77.78%) CheckPoint
3 6 (66.67%) Nokia
4 5 (55.56%) IronPort
5 4 (44.44%) SolarWinds
5 4 (44.44%) CA
5 4 (44.44%) IBM
5 4 (44.44%) HP
6 3 (33.33%) Blue Coat
7 2 (22.22%) Juniper