The first table below looks at the demand for the Firewall Engineer role 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 Firewall Engineer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall Engineer
Rank 208 203 244
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +41
Contract jobs requiring a Firewall Engineer 2 9 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.029% 0.116% 0.070%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.127% 0.076%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 3
Average daily rate £494 £438 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.85% +2.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £389 £360 £405
10% offered a daily rate of more than £599 £488 £445
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £304 £265
% change year-on-year
+5.34% +14.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £25.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
6270 7082 9182
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.48% 91.49% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4641 5158 6680
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £285 £315
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 170 217
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.15 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.90 £41.85 £43.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Firewall Engineer
London

Firewall Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Firewall Engineer across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Firewall Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Firewall Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Firewall Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Firewall Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Firewall Engineer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

City of London Firewall Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Firewall Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Firewall Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Firewall Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Firewall Engineer in their job title 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 with Firewall Engineer in their job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Firewall
2 8 (88.89%) Juniper
2 8 (88.89%) Cisco
3 7 (77.78%) HP
3 7 (77.78%) LAN
3 7 (77.78%) WAN
3 7 (77.78%) F5
3 7 (77.78%) Cisco Nexus
4 6 (66.67%) FortiGate
4 6 (66.67%) Network Architecture
4 6 (66.67%) VLAN
4 6 (66.67%) Fortinet
4 6 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (66.67%) Junos
4 6 (66.67%) Wireless
4 6 (66.67%) Finance
4 6 (66.67%) VMware
4 6 (66.67%) IP Telephony
4 6 (66.67%) Sourcefire
4 6 (66.67%) Ethernet
4 6 (66.67%) MPLS
4 6 (66.67%) OSPF
4 6 (66.67%) BGP
5 5 (55.56%) Migration
6 4 (44.44%) Network Management
6 4 (44.44%) Aruba
6 4 (44.44%) Polycom
6 4 (44.44%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (44.44%) PCI DSS

Firewall Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Firewall Engineer in their job title 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 with Firewall Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) Firewall
2 7 (77.78%) LAN
2 7 (77.78%) WAN
2 7 (77.78%) Cisco Nexus
3 6 (66.67%) VLAN
3 6 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (66.67%) Junos
3 6 (66.67%) Wireless
3 6 (66.67%) IP Telephony
3 6 (66.67%) Ethernet
3 6 (66.67%) MPLS
3 6 (66.67%) OSPF
3 6 (66.67%) BGP
4 4 (44.44%) DHCP
4 4 (44.44%) SNMP
4 4 (44.44%) DNS
5 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
5 1 (11.11%) VPN
5 1 (11.11%) HTTP
5 1 (11.11%) NetScreen
General
1 6 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Financial Institution
3 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Network Architecture
2 5 (55.56%) Migration
3 4 (44.44%) Network Management
3 4 (44.44%) Project Planning
4 1 (11.11%) Validation
4 1 (11.11%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (44.44%) CCIE
1 4 (44.44%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) FortiGate
2 1 (11.11%) OpenView
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Juniper
1 8 (88.89%) Cisco
2 7 (77.78%) HP
2 7 (77.78%) F5
3 6 (66.67%) Fortinet
3 6 (66.67%) VMware
3 6 (66.67%) Sourcefire
4 4 (44.44%) Aruba
4 4 (44.44%) Polycom
5 2 (22.22%) CheckPoint
6 1 (11.11%) Blue Coat