The first table below looks at the demand for Cisco PIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cisco PIX over the 3 months to 24 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 East of England 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco PIX
Rank 108 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Cisco PIX 6 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.281% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.579% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £325 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £275 £375
% change year-on-year
+4.54% -26.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £23.75 £46.25
% change year-on-year
- -48.64%
All Communications & Networking
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
380 533 431
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 17.77% 18.04% 16.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 171 127
Average daily rate £325 £325 £298
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £217 £212 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £450 £476
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 52 85
Average hourly rate £19.00 £30.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-36.66% +9.09%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.05 £12.00 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £52.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
Cisco PIX
England

Cisco PIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England Cisco PIX Jobs Demand Trend

Cisco PIX
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Cisco PIX across the East of England region.

East of England Cisco PIX Daily Rate Trend

Cisco PIX
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Cisco PIX across the East of England region.

East of England Cisco PIX Hourly Rate Trend

Cisco PIX
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco PIX within the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Hertfordshire - 3 - -
Cambridgeshire - 2 - -
Essex - 1 £325 -
Cisco PIX
England

Cisco PIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Cisco PIX 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 Cisco PIX.

1 12 (100.00%) Cisco
2 10 (83.33%) Cisco ASA
3 8 (66.67%) Firewall
3 8 (66.67%) CheckPoint
4 7 (58.33%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (58.33%) CCNP
4 7 (58.33%) CCNA
5 5 (41.67%) VPN
5 5 (41.67%) Network Security
6 4 (33.33%) Telecoms
6 4 (33.33%) Internet
6 4 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (25.00%) BGP
8 2 (16.67%) BIG-IP
8 2 (16.67%) VLAN
8 2 (16.67%) Xen
8 2 (16.67%) Load Balancing
8 2 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (16.67%) Integration Testing
8 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
8 2 (16.67%) Investment Banking
8 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (16.67%) TeamCity
8 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
8 2 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (16.67%) Banking
8 2 (16.67%) Retail
8 2 (16.67%) Subversion

Cisco PIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Cisco PIX 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 Cisco PIX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (16.67%) .NET
1 2 (16.67%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (83.33%) Cisco ASA
2 8 (66.67%) Firewall
3 5 (41.67%) VPN
3 5 (41.67%) Network Security
4 4 (33.33%) Internet
4 4 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (25.00%) BGP
6 2 (16.67%) BIG-IP
6 2 (16.67%) VLAN
6 2 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (16.67%) Wireless
6 2 (16.67%) IPsec
6 2 (16.67%) OSPF
6 2 (16.67%) VRRP
6 2 (16.67%) NetScreen
6 2 (16.67%) RIP
6 2 (16.67%) SNMP
6 2 (16.67%) LAN
6 2 (16.67%) WAN
6 2 (16.67%) HSRP
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) TeamCity
1 2 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (16.67%) Subversion
1 2 (16.67%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (16.67%) WiX
1 2 (16.67%) MSBuild
2 1 (8.333%) Hudson
General
1 4 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 2 (16.67%) Investment Banking
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
2 2 (16.67%) Retail
3 1 (8.333%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Network Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (16.67%) Network Support
3 2 (16.67%) Release Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Build Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Support Specialist
3 2 (16.67%) Network Support Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
4 1 (8.333%) Cisco Security Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Network Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Environment Manager
4 1 (8.333%) Deployment Manager
4 1 (8.333%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Cisco Network Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Cisco Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (16.67%) Load Balancing
1 2 (16.67%) Integration Testing
1 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (16.67%) E-Commerce
1 2 (16.67%) Network Management
2 1 (8.333%) ITIL
2 1 (8.333%) PRINCE2
2 1 (8.333%) PRINCE
2 1 (8.333%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) Cisco Certification
1 7 (58.33%) CCNP
1 7 (58.33%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Xen
1 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.333%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 1 (8.333%) Cisco UCCE
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Cisco
2 8 (66.67%) CheckPoint
3 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 2 (16.67%) Nokia
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) Citrix
3 2 (16.67%) F5
4 1 (8.333%) Twitter
4 1 (8.333%) Juniper