The first table below looks at the demand for NetScreen 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 NetScreen over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Juniper Networks NetScreen
Rank 202 205 221
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +16
Contract jobs citing NetScreen 3 10 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.047% 0.125% 0.207%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.357% 0.975% 2.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 8
Average daily rate £356 £450 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.83% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £251 £258 £396
10% offered a daily rate of more than £461 £468 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £369 £375 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.66% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - -
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
841 1026 979
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 13.08% 12.86% 10.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 554 697 629
Average daily rate £391 £413 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.15% +3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £270 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 39 75
Average hourly rate £50.25 £22.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+128.40% +4.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £17.55 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
NetScreen
London

NetScreen
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London NetScreen Jobs Demand Trend

NetScreen
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London NetScreen Daily Rate Trend

NetScreen
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NetScreen across the City of London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

City of London NetScreen Daily Rate Histogram

NetScreen
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London NetScreen Hourly Rate Trend

NetScreen
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing NetScreen 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 NetScreen.

1 3 (75.00%) UNIX
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) Juniper
2 2 (50.00%) Blue Coat
2 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Perl
2 2 (50.00%) Solaris
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) CCSP
3 1 (25.00%) CCNA
3 1 (25.00%) CCDA
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) EMC
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Check Point Certification
3 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
3 1 (25.00%) SMTP
3 1 (25.00%) SNMP
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) AIX
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (25.00%) Internet
3 1 (25.00%) Tivoli
3 1 (25.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager

NetScreen
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing NetScreen 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 NetScreen. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
3 1 (25.00%) SMTP
3 1 (25.00%) SNMP
3 1 (25.00%) Internet
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco PIX
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security
3 1 (25.00%) Junos
3 1 (25.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Network Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (25.00%) Security Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Solaris Systems Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Solaris Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) UNIX
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Solaris
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) AIX
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Korn
2 1 (25.00%) Bourne shell
2 1 (25.00%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCSP
1 1 (25.00%) CCNA
1 1 (25.00%) CCDA
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Check Point Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CCSA
1 1 (25.00%) CCSE
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Tivoli
1 1 (25.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Juniper
2 2 (50.00%) Blue Coat
2 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) EMC
3 1 (25.00%) Clearswift
3 1 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (25.00%) Acronis
3 1 (25.00%) Nokia