Chester Network Security Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Network Security skills within the Chester 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 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Network Security
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Argyll and Bute Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Croydon Cumbria East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	27
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	1	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	3.448 %	20.00 %
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	£430	£388
% change on same period last year	+10.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.58	£32.00
% change on same period last year	+1.80 %
Communications & Networking Chester
Matching contract IT job ads	29	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.047 %	0.016 %
Daily rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum daily rate	£275	£300
Average daily rate	£278	£317
% change on same period last year	-12.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£282	£333
UK excluding London average daily rate	£344	£336
% change on same period last year	+2.28 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.09	£36.25
Average hourly rate	£27.41	£36.25
% change on same period last year	-24.37 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.74	£36.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.86	£28.32
% change on same period last year	-1.64 %
Network Security Cheshire

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.

Network Security
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Network Security across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Network Security
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Network Security across the Chester region.

Network Security
Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 (100.00 %) CCNA 1 3 (100.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (33.33 %) LAN 2 1 (33.33 %) WAN 2 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 2 1 (33.33 %) CCNP

Network Security
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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.

Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) LAN 1 1 (33.33 %) WAN	Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Network Support 1 2 (66.67 %) Network Engineer 2 1 (33.33 %) Security Specialist 2 1 (33.33 %) Cisco Specialist 2 1 (33.33 %) Network Specialist 2 1 (33.33 %) Network Security Specialist 2 1 (33.33 %) Cisco Security Specialist
Qualifications 1 3 (100.00 %) CCNA 1 3 (100.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (33.33 %) CCNP	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco