Cambridgeshire Network Security Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Network Security skills within the Cambridgeshire region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Network Security over the 3 months to 28 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aylesbury Barking Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Cumbria Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Knutsford Leeds London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Prescot Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stevenage Surrey Swansea Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Yorkshire	3 months to 28 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	55	71
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching contract IT job ads	5	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	3.226 %	0.370 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£394	£347
% change on same period last year	+13.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	£22.00
Average hourly rate	£45.00	£22.00
% change on same period last year	+104.54 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£50.00	£22.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.76	£34.57
% change on same period last year	-8.12 %
Communications & Networking Cambridgeshire
Matching contract IT job ads	155	270
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.206 %	0.269 %
Daily rates quoted	17	22
Average minimum daily rate	£225	£248
Average daily rate	£262	£255
% change on same period last year	+2.70 %
Average maximum daily rate	£299	£262
UK excluding London average daily rate	£342	£342
% change on same period last year	-0.13 %
Hourly rates quoted	39	59
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.82	£31.13
Average hourly rate	£27.05	£33.87
% change on same period last year	-20.12 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.28	£36.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.72	£28.75
% change on same period last year	-10.55 %
Network Security East of England

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 Network Security across the Cambridgeshire 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 Network Security across the Cambridgeshire 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 Network Security across the Cambridgeshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Network Security across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 28 August 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 Network Security within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 28 August 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
Cambridge	-	2	-	-
Peterborough	-	2	-	-

Network Security East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 28 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing Network Security 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 Network Security.

1 3 (50.00 %) VoIP 1 3 (50.00 %) Cisco 1 3 (50.00 %) OSPF 1 3 (50.00 %) Juniper 1 3 (50.00 %) Firewall 2 2 (33.33 %) Wireless 2 2 (33.33 %) CheckPoint 2 2 (33.33 %) MPLS 2 2 (33.33 %) BGP 2 2 (33.33 %) CCSP 2 2 (33.33 %) ISO17799 2 2 (33.33 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (33.33 %) VPN 2 2 (33.33 %) SSL 2 2 (33.33 %) OOD

2 2 (33.33 %) C# 2 2 (33.33 %) C++ 2 2 (33.33 %) Cryptography 2 2 (33.33 %) Penetration Testing 2 2 (33.33 %) ISO27001 2 2 (33.33 %) Cisco PIX 2 2 (33.33 %) Wireless Security 2 2 (33.33 %) Cisco Certification 3 1 (16.67 %) ProCurve 3 1 (16.67 %) Windows 3 1 (16.67 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (16.67 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (16.67 %) LAN 3 1 (16.67 %) WAN 3 1 (16.67 %) Active Directory

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 28 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing Network Security 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 Network Security. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (16.67 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (16.67 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server	Communications & Networking 1 3 (50.00 %) VoIP 1 3 (50.00 %) OSPF 1 3 (50.00 %) Firewall 2 2 (33.33 %) Wireless 2 2 (33.33 %) Cisco PIX 2 2 (33.33 %) Wireless Security 2 2 (33.33 %) BGP 2 2 (33.33 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (33.33 %) VPN 2 2 (33.33 %) SSL 2 2 (33.33 %) MPLS 3 1 (16.67 %) EIGRP 3 1 (16.67 %) WAN 3 1 (16.67 %) IP Telephony 3 1 (16.67 %) LAN
Job Titles 1 3 (50.00 %) Security Engineer 2 2 (33.33 %) Communications Engineer 3 1 (16.67 %) Network Engineer 3 1 (16.67 %) Network Security Engineer 3 1 (16.67 %) Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (33.33 %) Cryptography 2 1 (16.67 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 1 (16.67 %) Windows 1 1 (16.67 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (33.33 %) OOD 1 2 (33.33 %) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages 1 2 (33.33 %) C# 1 2 (33.33 %) C++	Qualifications 1 2 (33.33 %) CCSP 1 2 (33.33 %) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (33.33 %) ISO17799 1 2 (33.33 %) ISO27001	System Software 1 1 (16.67 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 3 (50.00 %) Cisco 1 3 (50.00 %) Juniper 2 2 (33.33 %) CheckPoint 3 1 (16.67 %) ProCurve 3 1 (16.67 %) Novell 3 1 (16.67 %) Microsoft 3 1 (16.67 %) HP