The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sourcefire products and/or services 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 Sourcefire over the 3 months to 18 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Sourcefire, Inc.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sourcefire
Rank 213 220 245
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +25
Contract jobs citing Sourcefire 2 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.029% 0.026% 0.030%
As % of the Vendors category 0.063% 0.061% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £290 £375 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.66% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £338 -
% change year-on-year
+33.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 - -
All Vendors
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
3155 3273 4245
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 45.76% 42.43% 42.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2245 2229 2966
Average daily rate £425 £425 £485
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -12.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 98 136
Average hourly rate £22.50 £21.00 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -4.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.50 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £39.00 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.63 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-3.18% -1.87%
Sourcefire
London

Sourcefire
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Sourcefire Jobs Demand Trend

Sourcefire
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Sourcefire Daily Rate Trend

Sourcefire
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Sourcefire 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 Sourcefire.

1 8 (100.00%) Cisco
1 8 (100.00%) Juniper
1 8 (100.00%) Firewall
2 7 (87.50%) LAN
2 7 (87.50%) WAN
2 7 (87.50%) F5
3 6 (75.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 6 (75.00%) FortiGate
3 6 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (75.00%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (75.00%) Network Architecture
3 6 (75.00%) Junos
3 6 (75.00%) Ethernet
3 6 (75.00%) MPLS
3 6 (75.00%) OSPF
3 6 (75.00%) BGP
3 6 (75.00%) HP
3 6 (75.00%) Wireless
3 6 (75.00%) Finance
3 6 (75.00%) VMware
3 6 (75.00%) IP Telephony
3 6 (75.00%) VLAN
3 6 (75.00%) Fortinet
4 5 (62.50%) Migration
5 4 (50.00%) Project Planning
5 4 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (50.00%) CCIE
5 4 (50.00%) DHCP
5 4 (50.00%) SNMP
5 4 (50.00%) DNS

Sourcefire
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Sourcefire 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 Sourcefire. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) Firewall
2 7 (87.50%) LAN
2 7 (87.50%) WAN
3 6 (75.00%) Ethernet
3 6 (75.00%) Wireless
3 6 (75.00%) MPLS
3 6 (75.00%) OSPF
3 6 (75.00%) BGP
3 6 (75.00%) IP Telephony
3 6 (75.00%) VLAN
3 6 (75.00%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (75.00%) Junos
3 6 (75.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 4 (50.00%) DHCP
4 4 (50.00%) SNMP
4 4 (50.00%) DNS
5 2 (25.00%) SSL
5 2 (25.00%) VPN
5 2 (25.00%) Network Security
6 1 (12.50%) IPsec
General
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 6 (75.00%) Firewall Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Network Architecture
2 5 (62.50%) Migration
3 4 (50.00%) Project Planning
3 4 (50.00%) Network Management
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) CCIE
1 4 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (50.00%) JNCIE
2 1 (12.50%) CCSA
2 1 (12.50%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco
1 8 (100.00%) Juniper
2 7 (87.50%) F5
3 6 (75.00%) HP
3 6 (75.00%) VMware
3 6 (75.00%) Fortinet
4 4 (50.00%) Polycom
4 4 (50.00%) Aruba
5 2 (25.00%) Blue Coat
5 2 (25.00%) CheckPoint
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