Bristol Firewall Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills within the Bristol 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 8 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Amersham Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentford Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Ely England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Witham Woking Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	50	41
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching contract IT job ads	3	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.023 %
As % of the category below	4.286 %	15.52 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£340	£350
Average daily rate	£345	£375
% change on same period last year	-8.04 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£338
% change on same period last year	+5.28 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	6
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£25.83
Average hourly rate	-	£26.25
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£26.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.51	£24.74
% change on same period last year	+11.16 %
Communications & Networking Bristol
Matching contract IT job ads	70	116
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.140 %	0.145 %
Daily rates quoted	17	32
Average minimum daily rate	£292	£293
Average daily rate	£316	£313
% change on same period last year	+1.16 %
Average maximum daily rate	£340	£332
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£344
% change on same period last year	-1.90 %
Hourly rates quoted	19	33
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.58	£25.64
Average hourly rate	£30.27	£27.15
% change on same period last year	+11.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.96	£28.66
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.67	£27.04
% change on same period last year	-1.34 %
Firewall South West

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 Bristol 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 Bristol region.

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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 Bristol region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 (33.33 %) Cisco 1 8 (33.33 %) CheckPoint 2 7 (29.17 %) VPN 3 6 (25.00 %) Windows 3 6 (25.00 %) Cisco Certification 3 6 (25.00 %) CCNP 4 5 (20.83 %) Microsoft 4 5 (20.83 %) LAN 4 5 (20.83 %) WAN 4 5 (20.83 %) Cisco PIX 5 4 (16.67 %) Crossbeam 5 4 (16.67 %) Windows XP 5 4 (16.67 %) UNIX 5 4 (16.67 %) CCNA 5 4 (16.67 %) Internet

5 4 (16.67 %) TCP/IP 6 3 (12.50 %) VMware 6 3 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 6 3 (12.50 %) Security Cleared 6 3 (12.50 %) Network Security 7 2 (8.333 %) MailMarshal 7 2 (8.333 %) Content Management 7 2 (8.333 %) VMware Infrastructure 7 2 (8.333 %) IBM Mainframe 7 2 (8.333 %) Intel 7 2 (8.333 %) CCSP 7 2 (8.333 %) IBM 7 2 (8.333 %) ITIL 7 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server 7 2 (8.333 %) MS Office

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 1 (4.167 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 2 (8.333 %) SharePoint 2 1 (4.167 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (4.167 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 2 (8.333 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 7 (29.17 %) VPN 2 5 (20.83 %) LAN 2 5 (20.83 %) WAN 2 5 (20.83 %) Cisco PIX 3 4 (16.67 %) Internet 3 4 (16.67 %) TCP/IP 4 3 (12.50 %) Network Security 5 2 (8.333 %) OSPF 5 2 (8.333 %) BGP 6 1 (4.167 %) VRRP 6 1 (4.167 %) IP Telephony 6 1 (4.167 %) Cisco IOS 6 1 (4.167 %) RIP 6 1 (4.167 %) DNS 6 1 (4.167 %) SAN 6 1 (4.167 %) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server	General 1 1 (4.167 %) Finance 1 1 (4.167 %) Government 1 1 (4.167 %) Insurance 1 1 (4.167 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 7 (29.17 %) Network Engineer 2 4 (16.67 %) Analyst 2 4 (16.67 %) Network Specialist 3 3 (12.50 %) Consultant 3 3 (12.50 %) Administrator 3 3 (12.50 %) Security Administrator 4 2 (8.333 %) 2nd Line Support 4 2 (8.333 %) Network Support 4 2 (8.333 %) Network Analyst 4 2 (8.333 %) Project Engineer 4 2 (8.333 %) Systems Engineer 4 2 (8.333 %) Support Engineer 4 2 (8.333 %) UNIX Support 5 1 (4.167 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 5 1 (4.167 %) Active Directory Consultant 5 1 (4.167 %) Network Security Specialist 5 1 (4.167 %) 3rd Line Support 5 1 (4.167 %) Senior Analyst 5 1 (4.167 %) Cisco Engineer 5 1 (4.167 %) Security Specialist	Miscellaneous 1 2 (8.333 %) Mainframe 1 2 (8.333 %) Management Information System 1 2 (8.333 %) AS400 1 2 (8.333 %) Tandem 1 2 (8.333 %) IBM Mainframe 2 1 (4.167 %) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems 1 6 (25.00 %) Windows 2 4 (16.67 %) UNIX 2 4 (16.67 %) Windows XP 3 3 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 4 2 (8.333 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (4.167 %) Solaris 5 1 (4.167 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (8.333 %) ITIL 1 2 (8.333 %) Security Management 1 2 (8.333 %) Information Security 1 2 (8.333 %) Content Management 2 1 (4.167 %) Technical Architecture 2 1 (4.167 %) Load Balancing 2 1 (4.167 %) Problem Management 2 1 (4.167 %) Data Protection 2 1 (4.167 %) Risk Management 2 1 (4.167 %) Change Management
Qualifications 1 6 (25.00 %) CCNP 1 6 (25.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 4 (16.67 %) CCNA 3 3 (12.50 %) Security Cleared 4 2 (8.333 %) CCSP 5 1 (4.167 %) CISSP 5 1 (4.167 %) SC Cleared	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (4.167 %) ISO17799 1 1 (4.167 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 1 1 (4.167 %) PCI DSS
System Software 1 2 (8.333 %) MailMarshal 1 2 (8.333 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 1 (4.167 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 1 (4.167 %) MOM
Vendors 1 8 (33.33 %) Cisco 1 8 (33.33 %) CheckPoint 2 5 (20.83 %) Microsoft 3 4 (16.67 %) Crossbeam 4 3 (12.50 %) VMware 5 2 (8.333 %) IBM 5 2 (8.333 %) Intel 6 1 (4.167 %) Citrix 6 1 (4.167 %) Juniper 6 1 (4.167 %) Nokia 6 1 (4.167 %) HP