The first table below looks at the demand for TACACS 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 TACACS over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Terminal Access Controller Access Control System (TACACS)
Rank 201 216 234
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +18
Contract jobs citing TACACS 2 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.031% 0.013% 0.021%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.238% 0.098% 0.205%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Average daily rate £348 - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £387 £200 £210
% change year-on-year
+93.62% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
- -16.66%
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
839 1017 974
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 13.06% 12.94% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 692 637
Average daily rate £388 £413 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.06% +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 42 39 71
Average hourly rate £54.00 £22.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+145.45% +4.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.40 £17.55 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
TACACS
London

TACACS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London TACACS Jobs Demand Trend

TACACS
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London TACACS Daily Rate Trend

TACACS
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing TACACS 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 TACACS.

1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) CCNP
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (66.67%) CheckPoint
2 2 (66.67%) OSPF
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (66.67%) CCNA
2 2 (66.67%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) Wireless
3 1 (33.33%) VLAN
3 1 (33.33%) Project Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco PIX
3 1 (33.33%) WLAN
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) CCDP
3 1 (33.33%) WhatsUp Gold
3 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds
3 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds Orion
3 1 (33.33%) Aruba
3 1 (33.33%) FWSM
3 1 (33.33%) BGP
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) 3G
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) ADSL

TACACS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing TACACS 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 TACACS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) OSPF
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (66.67%) LAN
1 2 (66.67%) Wireless
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco PIX
2 1 (33.33%) WLAN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) FWSM
2 1 (33.33%) BGP
2 1 (33.33%) 3G
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) ADSL
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Project Planning
1 1 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CCNP
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (66.67%) CCNA
3 1 (33.33%) CCDP
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) WhatsUp Gold
1 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) CheckPoint
3 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds
3 1 (33.33%) Aruba