City of London Network Security Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Network Security skills within the City of London 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 Network Security over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Barking Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London County Antrim Cumbria Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Knutsford Leeds Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Portsmouth Prescot Reading Rickmansworth Romford Scotland Shropshire Slough South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Suffolk Surrey Swansea Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	175	173
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	48	26
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.064 %	0.027 %
As % of the category below	4.974 %	3.052 %
Daily rates quoted	25	10
Average minimum daily rate	£420	£412
Average daily rate	£443	£439
% change on same period last year	+1.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£466	£466
UK excluding London average daily rate	£407	£334
% change on same period last year	+22.02 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£22.00
Average hourly rate	-	£23.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.00	£37.80
% change on same period last year	-17.99 %
Communications & Networking City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	965	852
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.281 %	0.874 %
Daily rates quoted	460	349
Average minimum daily rate	£378	£402
Average daily rate	£400	£423
% change on same period last year	-5.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£423	£443
UK excluding London average daily rate	£334	£343
% change on same period last year	-2.65 %
Hourly rates quoted	67	67
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.54	£20.11
Average hourly rate	£29.09	£21.29
% change on same period last year	+36.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.64	£22.48
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 Network Security across the City of London 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 Network Security across the City of London region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Network Security across the City of London 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 Network Security across the City of London region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 58 (65.17 %) Firewall 2 44 (49.44 %) Cisco 3 37 (41.57 %) CheckPoint 4 35 (39.33 %) Cisco Certification 5 30 (33.71 %) Finance 6 26 (29.21 %) Windows 7 22 (24.72 %) LAN 7 22 (24.72 %) WAN 7 22 (24.72 %) CCNP 8 21 (23.60 %) VPN 8 21 (23.60 %) Internet 9 20 (22.47 %) Nokia 10 17 (19.10 %) UNIX 11 15 (16.85 %) Banking 12 14 (15.73 %) Solaris

13 13 (14.61 %) CISSP 14 12 (13.48 %) CCSE 14 12 (13.48 %) PRINCE2 14 12 (13.48 %) DNS 14 12 (13.48 %) CCNA 15 11 (12.36 %) Microsoft 15 11 (12.36 %) CCIE 15 11 (12.36 %) Investment Banking 16 10 (11.24 %) TCP/IP 16 10 (11.24 %) Linux 17 9 (10.11 %) WLAN 17 9 (10.11 %) Citrix 17 9 (10.11 %) Juniper 17 9 (10.11 %) IP Telephony 17 9 (10.11 %) CCSA

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

Application Development 1 5 (5.618 %) WebServices 1 5 (5.618 %) XML 1 5 (5.618 %) XSLT 1 5 (5.618 %) .NET Framework 1 5 (5.618 %) .NET 2 1 (1.124 %) J2EE 2 1 (1.124 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 5 (5.618 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 4 (4.494 %) MS Exchange 3 3 (3.371 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 1 (1.124 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 58 (65.17 %) Firewall 2 22 (24.72 %) LAN 2 22 (24.72 %) WAN 3 21 (23.60 %) VPN 3 21 (23.60 %) Internet 4 12 (13.48 %) DNS 5 10 (11.24 %) TCP/IP 6 9 (10.11 %) WLAN 6 9 (10.11 %) IP Telephony 6 9 (10.11 %) Intrusion Detection 7 8 (8.989 %) NetScreen 8 7 (7.865 %) OSPF 8 7 (7.865 %) BGP 8 7 (7.865 %) Cisco PIX 9 6 (6.742 %) DHCP 10 5 (5.618 %) Cisco IPT 11 4 (4.494 %) SSL 11 4 (4.494 %) VLAN 12 3 (3.371 %) EIGRP 12 3 (3.371 %) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (8.989 %) SQL Server 2 5 (5.618 %) RDBMS 3 2 (2.247 %) Oracle 10g 4 1 (1.124 %) SQL Server 7	Development Applications 1 1 (1.124 %) NUnit
General 1 30 (33.71 %) Finance 2 15 (16.85 %) Banking 3 11 (12.36 %) Investment Banking 4 7 (7.865 %) Government 5 6 (6.742 %) Financial Institution 6 3 (3.371 %) Law 6 3 (3.371 %) Insurance 6 3 (3.371 %) Billing 7 2 (2.247 %) Retail 8 1 (1.124 %) Legal 8 1 (1.124 %) Telecoms 8 1 (1.124 %) Health 8 1 (1.124 %) Auditing	Job Titles 1 40 (44.94 %) Network Engineer 2 27 (30.34 %) Security Engineer 3 25 (28.09 %) Network Security Engineer 4 11 (12.36 %) Network Specialist 5 10 (11.24 %) Analyst 6 7 (7.865 %) Network Analyst 6 7 (7.865 %) Senior Network Engineer 7 5 (5.618 %) Security Analyst 7 5 (5.618 %) Architect 7 5 (5.618 %) Developer 7 5 (5.618 %) Consultant 7 5 (5.618 %) Applications Developer 7 5 (5.618 %) Senior Security Engineer 7 5 (5.618 %) Senior Network Security Engineer 7 5 (5.618 %) Firewall Engineer 8 4 (4.494 %) Systems Engineer 8 4 (4.494 %) Security Consultant 8 4 (4.494 %) Network Support 9 3 (3.371 %) Technical Manager 9 3 (3.371 %) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous 1 2 (2.247 %) Asset Management 2 1 (1.124 %) Cryptography 2 1 (1.124 %) PKI 2 1 (1.124 %) Clustering 2 1 (1.124 %) Equities 2 1 (1.124 %) CESG	Operating Systems 1 26 (29.21 %) Windows 2 17 (19.10 %) UNIX 3 14 (15.73 %) Solaris 4 10 (11.24 %) Linux 5 6 (6.742 %) Windows Server 2003 6 3 (3.371 %) Windows 2000 7 2 (2.247 %) Windows NT 8 1 (1.124 %) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (13.48 %) PRINCE2 2 8 (8.989 %) ITIL 3 6 (6.742 %) Service Management 3 6 (6.742 %) Service Delivery 3 6 (6.742 %) Security Cleared 4 5 (5.618 %) OO 4 5 (5.618 %) Network Design 4 5 (5.618 %) SOA 4 5 (5.618 %) Project Management 4 5 (5.618 %) Migration 5 4 (4.494 %) Load Balancing 6 3 (3.371 %) Stakeholder Management 6 3 (3.371 %) Penetration Testing 6 3 (3.371 %) Information Security 6 3 (3.371 %) Change Management 7 2 (2.247 %) E-Commerce 7 2 (2.247 %) Risk Assessment 7 2 (2.247 %) Incident Management 8 1 (1.124 %) Wealth Management 8 1 (1.124 %) Supplier Management	Programming Languages 1 8 (8.989 %) SQL 2 3 (3.371 %) Shell Script 3 1 (1.124 %) Java
Qualifications 1 35 (39.33 %) Cisco Certification 2 22 (24.72 %) CCNP 3 13 (14.61 %) CISSP 4 12 (13.48 %) CCNA 4 12 (13.48 %) CCSE 5 11 (12.36 %) CCIE 6 9 (10.11 %) CCSA 7 8 (8.989 %) Microsoft Certification 7 8 (8.989 %) MCSE 8 6 (6.742 %) Check Point Certification 9 4 (4.494 %) Degree 10 3 (3.371 %) ITIL Certification 11 2 (2.247 %) CISA 11 2 (2.247 %) SCSA 11 2 (2.247 %) RHCE 12 1 (1.124 %) MCP 12 1 (1.124 %) CCDA 12 1 (1.124 %) CISM	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.247 %) ISO9001 1 2 (2.247 %) ISO27001 2 1 (1.124 %) ISO17799 2 1 (1.124 %) SLA 2 1 (1.124 %) BS7799 2 1 (1.124 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software 1 6 (6.742 %) ISA Server 2 5 (5.618 %) Active Directory 3 3 (3.371 %) VMware ESX 3 3 (3.371 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 6 (6.742 %) CiscoWorks 2 2 (2.247 %) Tivoli NetView 2 2 (2.247 %) MIMEsweeper 2 2 (2.247 %) OpenView 3 1 (1.124 %) NNM
Vendors 1 44 (49.44 %) Cisco 2 37 (41.57 %) CheckPoint 3 20 (22.47 %) Nokia 4 11 (12.36 %) Microsoft 5 9 (10.11 %) Citrix 5 9 (10.11 %) Juniper 6 5 (5.618 %) Sybase 6 5 (5.618 %) Blue Coat 7 4 (4.494 %) VERITAS 7 4 (4.494 %) Oracle 8 3 (3.371 %) VMware 9 2 (2.247 %) EMC 9 2 (2.247 %) Crossbeam 9 2 (2.247 %) Finjan 9 2 (2.247 %) Websense 9 2 (2.247 %) NetApp 10 1 (1.124 %) HP 10 1 (1.124 %) IBM