Devon Firewall Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills within the Devon region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Firewall over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chichester Chippenham City of London Cobham Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Denbighshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Greenwich Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Ipswich Kent Kettering Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lewisham Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Wirral Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	15	40
Rank change on same period last year	+25
Matching contract IT job ads	18	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	24.00 %	12.66 %
Daily rates quoted	6	1
Average minimum daily rate	£395	£254
Average daily rate	£395	£254
% change on same period last year	+55.79 %
Average maximum daily rate	£395	£254
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£348
% change on same period last year	+3.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.00	£15.00
Average hourly rate	£25.13	£17.50
% change on same period last year	+43.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.25	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.70	£27.49
% change on same period last year	-6.53 %
Communications & Networking Devon
Matching contract IT job ads	75	79
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.101 %	0.078 %
Daily rates quoted	29	8
Average minimum daily rate	£343	£219
Average daily rate	£353	£249
% change on same period last year	+41.70 %
Average maximum daily rate	£363	£279
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£341
% change on same period last year	+1.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	34
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.55	£19.67
Average hourly rate	£20.41	£21.16
% change on same period last year	-3.54 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.27	£22.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.70	£28.54
% change on same period last year	-9.93 %
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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 Firewall across the Devon 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 Firewall across the Devon region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Firewall across the Devon region over the 3 months to 5 September 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 Firewall across the Devon region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Firewall across the Devon region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Devon region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Exeter	+25	8	-	-
Plymouth	-5	7	£395	+55.79 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 17 (70.83 %) Windows 2 16 (66.67 %) Cisco 3 15 (62.50 %) CheckPoint 3 15 (62.50 %) Windows Server 2003 3 15 (62.50 %) Windows 2000 4 14 (58.33 %) VPN 4 14 (58.33 %) Cisco PIX 5 12 (50.00 %) ISA Server 6 11 (45.83 %) DNS 6 11 (45.83 %) SecurID 6 11 (45.83 %) Government 7 10 (41.67 %) VLAN 8 8 (33.33 %) Disaster Recovery 8 8 (33.33 %) Extranet 9 7 (29.17 %) FTP

9 7 (29.17 %) LAN 9 7 (29.17 %) WAN 9 7 (29.17 %) SSH 10 6 (25.00 %) Nokia 11 5 (20.83 %) Active Directory 11 5 (20.83 %) MS Exchange 12 3 (12.50 %) Finance 12 3 (12.50 %) Legal 12 3 (12.50 %) Backup Exec 12 3 (12.50 %) Information Security 12 3 (12.50 %) CESG 12 3 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 Server 12 3 (12.50 %) Windows NT 12 3 (12.50 %) DHCP 12 3 (12.50 %) VERITAS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 Development 1 1 (4.167 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 5 (20.83 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (8.333 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 2 (8.333 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 14 (58.33 %) VPN 1 14 (58.33 %) Cisco PIX 2 11 (45.83 %) DNS 3 10 (41.67 %) VLAN 4 8 (33.33 %) Extranet 5 7 (29.17 %) LAN 5 7 (29.17 %) WAN 5 7 (29.17 %) SSH 5 7 (29.17 %) FTP 6 3 (12.50 %) DHCP 7 1 (4.167 %) Ethernet 7 1 (4.167 %) MPLS 7 1 (4.167 %) ISDN 7 1 (4.167 %) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server	General 1 11 (45.83 %) Government 2 3 (12.50 %) Finance 2 3 (12.50 %) Legal 3 2 (8.333 %) Health
Job Titles 1 11 (45.83 %) Consultant 1 11 (45.83 %) Security Consultant 2 6 (25.00 %) Network Support 3 4 (16.67 %) Support Engineer 4 2 (8.333 %) 3rd Line Support 4 2 (8.333 %) Network Engineer 4 2 (8.333 %) 2nd Line Support 4 2 (8.333 %) Cisco Support 5 1 (4.167 %) Information Security Officer 5 1 (4.167 %) Security Officer 5 1 (4.167 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer 5 1 (4.167 %) Security Administrator 5 1 (4.167 %) Cisco Administrator 5 1 (4.167 %) Desktop Support 5 1 (4.167 %) Administrator 5 1 (4.167 %) Network Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 11 (45.83 %) SecurID 2 3 (12.50 %) CESG 3 1 (4.167 %) NHS 3 1 (4.167 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 17 (70.83 %) Windows 2 15 (62.50 %) Windows 2000 2 15 (62.50 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 3 (12.50 %) Windows NT 4 2 (8.333 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (33.33 %) Disaster Recovery 2 3 (12.50 %) Information Security 3 1 (4.167 %) Computer Security 3 1 (4.167 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (4.167 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 1 (4.167 %) C	Qualifications 1 2 (8.333 %) CCNA 1 2 (8.333 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (4.167 %) CCNP 2 1 (4.167 %) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (8.333 %) SLA 2 1 (4.167 %) ISO27001 2 1 (4.167 %) ISO17799	System Software 1 12 (50.00 %) ISA Server 2 5 (20.83 %) Active Directory 3 3 (12.50 %) Backup Exec 4 1 (4.167 %) VMware ESX
Systems Management 1 1 (4.167 %) OpenView 1 1 (4.167 %) CiscoWorks 1 1 (4.167 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 16 (66.67 %) Cisco 2 15 (62.50 %) CheckPoint 3 6 (25.00 %) Nokia 4 3 (12.50 %) VERITAS 5 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft 6 1 (4.167 %) HP 6 1 (4.167 %) Juniper 6 1 (4.167 %) VMware