The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT contracts advertised for the Croydon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Firewall over the 3 months to 23 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 Croydon 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 10 21 33
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +12
Contract jobs citing Firewall 4 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Croydon 8.000% 1.504% 1.538%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.05% 10.00% 7.895%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
Average daily rate £320 £613 £405
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-47.75% +51.23%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £236 £603 £369
10% offered a daily rate of more than £404 £623 £441
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £328 £325
% change year-on-year
-0.76% +0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.63 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-28.63% +30.95%
All Communications & Networking
Croydon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
19 20 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Croydon 38.00% 15.04% 19.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 25
Average daily rate £325 £600 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-45.83% +42.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £428 £345
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £625 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £15.00 - £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
Firewall
London

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Croydon Firewall Jobs Demand Trend

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend

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

Croydon Firewall Daily Rate Trend

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Firewall across the Croydon region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Croydon Firewall Daily Rate Histogram

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Croydon Firewall Hourly Rate Trend

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Croydon region citing Firewall 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 Firewall.

1 5 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (60.00%) Citrix
2 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) MS Exchange
2 3 (60.00%) DHCP
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (40.00%) SCCM
3 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (40.00%) XenApp
3 2 (40.00%) vSphere
3 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (40.00%) IPsec
3 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (40.00%) Windows XP
3 2 (40.00%) UNIX
3 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) AIX
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) VPN

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Croydon region citing Firewall 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 Firewall. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (60.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (20.00%) Lotus Notes
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 3 (60.00%) DHCP
3 2 (40.00%) IPsec
3 2 (40.00%) VPN
4 1 (20.00%) OSPF
4 1 (20.00%) BGP
4 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (20.00%) Broadband
4 1 (20.00%) LAN
4 1 (20.00%) VoIP
4 1 (20.00%) WAN
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 3 (60.00%) Team Leader
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Support Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Support Team Leader
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Team Leader
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Support Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Network Team Leader
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Network Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Team Leader
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (20.00%) iPad
1 1 (20.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (40.00%) Windows XP
2 2 (40.00%) UNIX
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) AIX
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (20.00%) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL
1 1 (20.00%) Operations Management
1 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) XenApp
1 2 (40.00%) vSphere
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Citrix
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco
1 3 (60.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Lotus