The first table below looks at the demand for Cisco ASA skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cisco ASA over the 3 months to 24 May 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 City of London 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA)
Rank 177 194 234
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +40
Contract jobs citing Cisco ASA 26 24 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.408% 0.305% 0.112%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.152% 2.381% 1.103%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 21 8
Average daily rate £350 £395 £318
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.39% +24.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £290 £167
10% offered a daily rate of more than £424 £475 £473
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £313 £315
% change year-on-year
- -0.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 2
Average hourly rate £135.00 - £38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.63 £25.00 £23.36
% change year-on-year
-21.50% +7.02%
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
825 1008 997
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 12.93% 12.82% 10.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 541 686 637
Average daily rate £400 £413 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.03% +3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £256 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 38 76
Average hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+98.86% +4.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £17.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
Cisco ASA
London

Cisco ASA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Cisco ASA Jobs Demand Trend

Cisco ASA
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Cisco ASA across the City of London region.

City of London Cisco ASA Daily Rate Trend

Cisco ASA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco ASA across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Cisco ASA Daily Rate Histogram

Cisco ASA
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Cisco ASA across the City of London region.

City of London Cisco ASA Hourly Rate Trend

Cisco ASA
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco ASA across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Cisco ASA Hourly Rate Histogram

Cisco ASA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Cisco ASA 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 Cisco ASA.

1 55 (100.00%) Cisco
2 41 (74.55%) Cisco Certification
3 32 (58.18%) Firewall
4 30 (54.55%) LAN
5 26 (47.27%) WAN
6 24 (43.64%) CCNA
7 21 (38.18%) Windows
8 20 (36.36%) Citrix
9 19 (34.55%) MS Exchange
10 17 (30.91%) MCSE
10 17 (30.91%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (30.91%) Windows Server 2003
10 17 (30.91%) Internet
10 17 (30.91%) Blackberry
10 17 (30.91%) Project Management
10 17 (30.91%) Windows Server 2008
11 16 (29.09%) Active Directory
11 16 (29.09%) ITIL
11 16 (29.09%) Service Management
11 16 (29.09%) Exchange Server 2007
12 15 (27.27%) Business Analysis
12 15 (27.27%) PRINCE2
12 15 (27.27%) HTML
12 15 (27.27%) Windows XP
12 15 (27.27%) SLA
12 15 (27.27%) Intranet
12 15 (27.27%) Windows 7
13 14 (25.45%) F5
14 12 (21.82%) CheckPoint
14 12 (21.82%) MPLS

Cisco ASA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Cisco ASA 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 Cisco ASA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (27.27%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 19 (34.55%) MS Exchange
2 16 (29.09%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (3.636%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (1.818%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.818%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.818%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (1.818%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 32 (58.18%) Firewall
2 30 (54.55%) LAN
3 26 (47.27%) WAN
4 17 (30.91%) Internet
5 15 (27.27%) Intranet
6 12 (21.82%) MPLS
6 12 (21.82%) Wireless
7 11 (20.00%) Cisco PIX
7 11 (20.00%) OSPF
8 10 (18.18%) VPN
8 10 (18.18%) BGP
9 9 (16.36%) VoIP
9 9 (16.36%) Cisco Nexus
10 7 (12.73%) DNS
11 6 (10.91%) Junos
11 6 (10.91%) Network Security
11 6 (10.91%) VLAN
11 6 (10.91%) IP Telephony
11 6 (10.91%) Ethernet
12 5 (9.091%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.455%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.818%) MySQL
2 1 (1.818%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 9 (16.36%) Finance
2 2 (3.636%) Financial Institution
3 1 (1.818%) Legal
3 1 (1.818%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.818%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (38.18%) Network Engineer
2 10 (18.18%) Systems Administrator
2 10 (18.18%) Administrator
3 6 (10.91%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 6 (10.91%) Firewall Engineer
3 6 (10.91%) Support Engineer
3 6 (10.91%) 3rd Line Support
4 4 (7.273%) NOC Engineer
4 4 (7.273%) Security Engineer
4 4 (7.273%) Network Security Engineer
4 4 (7.273%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (7.273%) Architect
5 3 (5.455%) Analyst
5 3 (5.455%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 3 (5.455%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (3.636%) Cisco Analyst
6 2 (3.636%) Network Analyst
7 1 (1.818%) Project Manager
7 1 (1.818%) Systems Manager
7 1 (1.818%) IT Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 17 (30.91%) Blackberry
2 8 (14.55%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (3.636%) iPhone
3 2 (3.636%) iPad
3 2 (3.636%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.818%) EFT
4 1 (1.818%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.818%) SecurID
4 1 (1.818%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 21 (38.18%) Windows
2 17 (30.91%) Windows Server 2003
2 17 (30.91%) Windows Server 2008
3 15 (27.27%) Windows XP
3 15 (27.27%) Windows 7
4 7 (12.73%) Linux
5 2 (3.636%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.818%) Mac OS X
6 1 (1.818%) UNIX
6 1 (1.818%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (30.91%) Project Management
2 16 (29.09%) ITIL
2 16 (29.09%) Service Management
3 15 (27.27%) Business Analysis
3 15 (27.27%) PRINCE2
4 8 (14.55%) Migration
5 6 (10.91%) Network Architecture
5 6 (10.91%) Network Management
5 6 (10.91%) Network Design
6 5 (9.091%) Project Planning
7 3 (5.455%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (1.818%) Configuration Management
8 1 (1.818%) Business Continuity
8 1 (1.818%) Information Security
8 1 (1.818%) ITSM
8 1 (1.818%) Service Delivery
8 1 (1.818%) Load Balancing
8 1 (1.818%) Network Load Balancing
8 1 (1.818%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.636%) SQL
2 1 (1.818%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 41 (74.55%) Cisco Certification
2 24 (43.64%) CCNA
3 17 (30.91%) MCSE
3 17 (30.91%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (20.00%) CCNP
5 7 (12.73%) CCIE
6 5 (9.091%) Security Cleared
7 4 (7.273%) SC Cleared
7 4 (7.273%) JNCIE
8 3 (5.455%) CCSP
9 2 (3.636%) MCITP
9 2 (3.636%) CCDP
10 1 (1.818%) CCA
10 1 (1.818%) Citrix Certification
10 1 (1.818%) CCEA
10 1 (1.818%) CISSP
10 1 (1.818%) CCSA
10 1 (1.818%) CISA
10 1 (1.818%) CISM
10 1 (1.818%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (27.27%) SLA
2 4 (7.273%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (29.09%) Active Directory
2 9 (16.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.636%) vSphere
3 2 (3.636%) VMware ESX
4 1 (1.818%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (1.818%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.818%) vCloud
4 1 (1.818%) XenApp
4 1 (1.818%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (12.73%) FortiGate
2 1 (1.818%) CiscoWorks
2 1 (1.818%) SCOM
2 1 (1.818%) Cisco UCCX
2 1 (1.818%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (1.818%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 55 (100.00%) Cisco
2 20 (36.36%) Citrix
3 14 (25.45%) F5
4 12 (21.82%) CheckPoint
4 12 (21.82%) VMware
5 9 (16.36%) HP
6 8 (14.55%) Juniper
7 7 (12.73%) Fortinet
8 6 (10.91%) Sourcefire
9 5 (9.091%) Aruba
10 4 (7.273%) Polycom
11 3 (5.455%) Microsoft
11 3 (5.455%) Mitel
11 3 (5.455%) SolarWinds
12 2 (3.636%) IronPort
12 2 (3.636%) Red Hat
12 2 (3.636%) EMC
13 1 (1.818%) Radware
13 1 (1.818%) McAfee
13 1 (1.818%) NetApp
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