Cheshire Firewall Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Firewall skills within the Cheshire region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Firewall over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Andover Ascot Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London Cobham Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Denbighshire Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dunstable Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Ely England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Greenford Greenwich Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Huddersfield Ipswich Kent Kettering Knottingley Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rickmansworth Romford Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	54	38
Rank change on same period last year	-16
Matching contract IT job ads	25	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.033 %	0.023 %
As % of the category below	9.158 %	17.60 %
Daily rates quoted	9	7
Average minimum daily rate	£372	£246
Average daily rate	£415	£248
% change on same period last year	+67.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£457	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£334	£344
% change on same period last year	-2.80 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.00	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£18.00	£26.88
% change on same period last year	-33.02 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.00	£28.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.08	£28.70
% change on same period last year	-12.61 %
Communications & Networking Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	273	125
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.363 %	0.128 %
Daily rates quoted	89	35
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£277
Average daily rate	£365	£282
% change on same period last year	+29.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£392	£288
UK excluding London average daily rate	£334	£343
% change on same period last year	-2.65 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.70	£20.86
Average hourly rate	£22.76	£22.33
% change on same period last year	+1.94 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.82	£23.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.96	£28.60
% change on same period last year	-9.22 %
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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 Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Firewall across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

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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 Cheshire region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Firewall within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 18 July 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
Warrington	-1	4	-	-
Wilmslow	-	2	-	-
Chester	-11	2	-	-
Crewe	-	1	-	-
Knutsford	-	1	-	-
Macclesfield	-	1	£335	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 23 (43.40 %) UNIX 2 14 (26.42 %) Finance 3 13 (24.53 %) Shell Script 4 12 (22.64 %) AIX 5 11 (20.75 %) Tivoli 6 10 (18.87 %) Tivoli Monitoring 6 10 (18.87 %) HP 6 10 (18.87 %) Windows 6 10 (18.87 %) Cisco 7 9 (16.98 %) IBM 7 9 (16.98 %) OpenView 7 9 (16.98 %) LAN 7 9 (16.98 %) HTTP 7 9 (16.98 %) WebSphere Application Server 7 9 (16.98 %) Cisco Certification

7 9 (16.98 %) WebSphere MQ 7 9 (16.98 %) Load Balancing 7 9 (16.98 %) WebSphere 8 8 (15.09 %) Perl 8 8 (15.09 %) WAN 9 7 (13.21 %) VPN 10 6 (11.32 %) SSL 10 6 (11.32 %) CCNP 10 6 (11.32 %) Network Security 10 6 (11.32 %) Banking 11 5 (9.434 %) Telecoms 11 5 (9.434 %) CCNA 11 5 (9.434 %) CheckPoint 11 5 (9.434 %) Windows Server 2003 12 4 (7.547 %) Symantec

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 9 (16.98 %) WebSphere 2 3 (5.660 %) Middleware 3 1 (1.887 %) WMI	Application Platforms 1 9 (16.98 %) WebSphere Application Server 1 9 (16.98 %) WebSphere MQ 2 3 (5.660 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (3.774 %) Oracle 10gAS 3 2 (3.774 %) Oracle Application Server 3 2 (3.774 %) MS Exchange 4 1 (1.887 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 1 (1.887 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 4 1 (1.887 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 1 (1.887 %) MS Office 1 1 (1.887 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (1.887 %) assyst
Communications & Networking 1 9 (16.98 %) LAN 1 9 (16.98 %) HTTP 2 8 (15.09 %) WAN 3 7 (13.21 %) VPN 4 6 (11.32 %) SSL 4 6 (11.32 %) Network Security 5 3 (5.660 %) Intrusion Detection 6 2 (3.774 %) ADSL 7 1 (1.887 %) ATM 7 1 (1.887 %) Broadband 7 1 (1.887 %) NetScreen 7 1 (1.887 %) Wireless 7 1 (1.887 %) IPsec 7 1 (1.887 %) IP Telephony 7 1 (1.887 %) VLAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (3.774 %) Oracle 10g 2 1 (1.887 %) SQL Server 7 2 1 (1.887 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (1.887 %) SQL Server
General 1 14 (26.42 %) Finance 2 6 (11.32 %) Banking 3 5 (9.434 %) Telecoms 4 2 (3.774 %) Government 4 2 (3.774 %) Retail 4 2 (3.774 %) Local Government 5 1 (1.887 %) Retail Banking	Job Titles 1 9 (16.98 %) WebSphere Specialist 2 6 (11.32 %) Analyst 3 5 (9.434 %) Network Specialist 4 4 (7.547 %) Cisco Engineer 4 4 (7.547 %) Consultant 4 4 (7.547 %) Technical Support 4 4 (7.547 %) Security Analyst 4 4 (7.547 %) Project Manager 5 3 (5.660 %) Technical Project Manager 5 3 (5.660 %) Technical Manager 6 2 (3.774 %) Cisco Network Engineer 6 2 (3.774 %) Network Engineer 6 2 (3.774 %) Network Manager 6 2 (3.774 %) Support Specialist 6 2 (3.774 %) Security Engineer 6 2 (3.774 %) Cisco Specialist 7 1 (1.887 %) Infrastructure Consultant 7 1 (1.887 %) 3rd Line Support 7 1 (1.887 %) Security Consultant 7 1 (1.887 %) Service Analyst
Operating Systems 1 23 (43.40 %) UNIX 2 12 (22.64 %) AIX 3 10 (18.87 %) Windows 4 5 (9.434 %) Windows Server 2003 5 4 (7.547 %) Linux 6 3 (5.660 %) Windows NT 7 2 (3.774 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (16.98 %) Load Balancing 2 4 (7.547 %) PRINCE2 3 3 (5.660 %) ITIL 4 2 (3.774 %) Change Management 4 2 (3.774 %) Network Design 5 1 (1.887 %) Operations Management 5 1 (1.887 %) Problem Management 5 1 (1.887 %) Configuration Management 5 1 (1.887 %) Project Management 5 1 (1.887 %) Service Delivery
Programming Languages 1 13 (24.53 %) Shell Script 2 8 (15.09 %) Perl 3 1 (1.887 %) SQL 3 1 (1.887 %) VBScript 3 1 (1.887 %) PowerShell	Qualifications 1 9 (16.98 %) Cisco Certification 2 6 (11.32 %) CCNP 3 5 (9.434 %) CCNA 4 1 (1.887 %) CCDP 4 1 (1.887 %) ITIL Certification 4 1 (1.887 %) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (3.774 %) QA 2 1 (1.887 %) SLA	System Software 1 1 (1.887 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 11 (20.75 %) Tivoli 2 10 (18.87 %) Tivoli Monitoring 3 9 (16.98 %) OpenView 4 3 (5.660 %) Norton AntiVirus 5 1 (1.887 %) SCOM 5 1 (1.887 %) MOM	Vendors 1 10 (18.87 %) Cisco 1 10 (18.87 %) HP 2 9 (16.98 %) IBM 3 5 (9.434 %) CheckPoint 4 4 (7.547 %) Symantec 5 3 (5.660 %) Juniper 6 2 (3.774 %) Oracle 6 2 (3.774 %) Red Hat 7 1 (1.887 %) Lotus 7 1 (1.887 %) Microsoft 7 1 (1.887 %) Websense 7 1 (1.887 %) 3Com