The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf 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 - 49 60
Contract jobs citing Firewall 0 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf - 0.257% 0.397%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 3.704% 6.250%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £450
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
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
32 27 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 9.552% 6.941% 6.349%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 25 21
Average daily rate £315 £500 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-37.00% +17.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £176 £390 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £538 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
Firewall
London

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf Firewall Daily Rate Trend

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Canary Wharf Firewall Hourly Rate Trend

Firewall
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) ActionScript
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Adobe
1 2 (50.00%) Internet
1 2 (50.00%) Java SE
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Flex
1 2 (50.00%) ActionScript 3.0
1 2 (50.00%) RIA
2 1 (25.00%) F5
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) Release Management
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) SSL

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 2 (50.00%) Java SE
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Flex
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) SSL
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Flex Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Project Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Project Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Network Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Project Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) RIA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) High Availability
1 1 (25.00%) Change Control
1 1 (25.00%) Release Management
1 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) ActionScript
1 2 (50.00%) ActionScript 3.0
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Adobe
2 1 (25.00%) F5
2 1 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) SAP