The first table below looks at the demand for FWSM 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 FWSM over the 3 months to 20 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 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Firewall Services Module (FWSM)
Rank 43 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing FWSM 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.602% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.478% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £300 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £345 £291
% change year-on-year
-5.79% +18.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £29.00
All Communications & Networking
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
67 115 69
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 13.45% 13.37% 9.885%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 68 31
Average daily rate £300 £350 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +27.27%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £220 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.07% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 9
Average hourly rate £38.50 £21.50 £38.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+79.06% -43.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.50 £20.50 £8.71
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £42.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
- -5.66%
FWSM
South West

FWSM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol FWSM Jobs Demand Trend

FWSM
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bristol FWSM Daily Rate Trend

FWSM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing FWSM 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 FWSM.

1 7 (100.00%) Cisco
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (85.71%) OSPF
2 6 (85.71%) BGP
3 5 (71.43%) Nokia
3 5 (71.43%) CheckPoint
3 5 (71.43%) VPN
3 5 (71.43%) Wireless
3 5 (71.43%) Cisco IPT
3 5 (71.43%) MPLS
3 5 (71.43%) IP Telephony
3 5 (71.43%) IronPort
3 5 (71.43%) Unified Communications
4 4 (57.14%) Network Management
4 4 (57.14%) Cisco Nexus
4 4 (57.14%) SolarWinds
4 4 (57.14%) CA
4 4 (57.14%) IBM
4 4 (57.14%) HP
4 4 (57.14%) CiscoWorks
5 3 (42.86%) Network Load Balancing
5 3 (42.86%) Blue Coat
5 3 (42.86%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (28.57%) IPsec
6 2 (28.57%) Finance
6 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (28.57%) Juniper
6 2 (28.57%) CCNP
6 2 (28.57%) CCNA

FWSM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (85.71%) OSPF
2 6 (85.71%) BGP
3 5 (71.43%) VPN
3 5 (71.43%) Wireless
3 5 (71.43%) Cisco IPT
3 5 (71.43%) MPLS
3 5 (71.43%) IP Telephony
3 5 (71.43%) Unified Communications
4 4 (57.14%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (42.86%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (28.57%) IPsec
6 2 (28.57%) SNMP
6 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
6 2 (28.57%) 3G
6 2 (28.57%) TACACS
6 2 (28.57%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (28.57%) Cisco PIX
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Analyst
1 5 (71.43%) Senior Analyst
1 5 (71.43%) Network Analyst
1 5 (71.43%) Senior Network Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) IP Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Network Management
2 3 (42.86%) Network Load Balancing
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (28.57%) CCNP
1 2 (28.57%) CCNA
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco
2 5 (71.43%) Nokia
2 5 (71.43%) CheckPoint
2 5 (71.43%) IronPort
3 4 (57.14%) SolarWinds
3 4 (57.14%) CA
3 4 (57.14%) IBM
3 4 (57.14%) HP
4 3 (42.86%) Blue Coat
5 2 (28.57%) Juniper
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