East of England Network Security Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Network Security skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Network Security over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Crawley Cumbria Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Knutsford Leeds Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Penrith Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southwark Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	135	136
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	22	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.028 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	2.828 %	1.695 %
Daily rates quoted	9	3
Average minimum daily rate	£358	£300
Average daily rate	£392	£333
% change on same period last year	+17.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£425	£367
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£366
% change on same period last year	+3.13 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.67	-
Average hourly rate	£36.67	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£41.67	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.79	£34.58
% change on same period last year	-13.85 %
Communications & Networking East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	778	767
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.998 %	0.862 %
Daily rates quoted	264	187
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£311
Average daily rate	£349	£332
% change on same period last year	+4.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£377	£354
UK excluding London average daily rate	£343	£334
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	166	128
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.13	£27.89
Average hourly rate	£26.70	£30.21
% change on same period last year	-11.64 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.26	£32.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.63	£27.52
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
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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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Network Security across the East of England 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 contract IT jobs ads citing Network Security across the East of England region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Network Security across the East of England region over the past 3 months.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Network Security across the East of England region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Network Security across the East of England region over the past 3 months.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Security within the East of England region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Hertfordshire	+2	14	£421	+5.20 %
2	Essex	-	4	-	-
3	Suffolk	-2	3	£333	-
4	Cambridgeshire	-13	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the East of England region citing Network Security also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Network Security.

1 33 (56.90 %) Firewall 2 19 (32.76 %) Cisco 3 14 (24.14 %) Unix 4 12 (20.69 %) VPN 5 11 (18.97 %) LAN 6 10 (17.24 %) Telecoms 7 9 (15.52 %) VLAN 7 9 (15.52 %) VoIP 7 9 (15.52 %) Cisco Certification 7 9 (15.52 %) CheckPoint 7 9 (15.52 %) OSPF 8 8 (13.79 %) Juniper 9 7 (12.07 %) DNS 9 7 (12.07 %) Windows 9 7 (12.07 %) Crossbeam

10 6 (10.34 %) Network Design 10 6 (10.34 %) WAN 10 6 (10.34 %) CCNA 11 5 (8.621 %) Active Directory 11 5 (8.621 %) PRINCE 11 5 (8.621 %) Symantec 11 5 (8.621 %) Internet 11 5 (8.621 %) BGP 11 5 (8.621 %) ISDN 11 5 (8.621 %) SSL 11 5 (8.621 %) Finance 12 4 (6.897 %) CCSA 12 4 (6.897 %) Frame Relay 12 4 (6.897 %) Gigabit Ethernet 12 4 (6.897 %) IP Telephony

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the East of England region citing Network Security also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Network Security. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (5.172 %) ASP 2 2 (3.448 %) CSS 2 2 (3.448 %) Middleware 3 1 (1.724 %) Ruby on Rails 3 1 (1.724 %) XML 3 1 (1.724 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 2 (3.448 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (1.724 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 3 (5.172 %) MS Office 1 3 (5.172 %) MS Visio 2 1 (1.724 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 33 (56.90 %) Firewall 2 12 (20.69 %) VPN 3 11 (18.97 %) LAN 4 9 (15.52 %) VoIP 4 9 (15.52 %) OSPF 4 9 (15.52 %) VLAN 5 7 (12.07 %) DNS 6 6 (10.34 %) WAN 7 5 (8.621 %) ISDN 7 5 (8.621 %) SSL 7 5 (8.621 %) BGP 7 5 (8.621 %) Internet 8 4 (6.897 %) MPLS 8 4 (6.897 %) BGP-4 8 4 (6.897 %) Frame Relay 8 4 (6.897 %) TACACS 8 4 (6.897 %) IP Telephony 8 4 (6.897 %) Gigabit Ethernet 8 4 (6.897 %) SMTP 8 4 (6.897 %) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (1.724 %) Oracle 10g	General 1 10 (17.24 %) Telecoms 2 5 (8.621 %) Finance 3 3 (5.172 %) Retail 4 1 (1.724 %) Pharmaceutical 4 1 (1.724 %) Automotive 4 1 (1.724 %) Government 4 1 (1.724 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 13 (22.41 %) Network Engineer 2 10 (17.24 %) Architect 2 10 (17.24 %) Network Architect 3 9 (15.52 %) Project Manager 3 9 (15.52 %) Consultant 4 6 (10.34 %) Network Security Engineer 4 6 (10.34 %) Security Consultant 4 6 (10.34 %) Security Engineer 5 4 (6.897 %) Security Manager 5 4 (6.897 %) Senior Network Architect 5 4 (6.897 %) Network Manager 5 4 (6.897 %) Analyst 5 4 (6.897 %) Network Security Manager 6 3 (5.172 %) Administrator 6 3 (5.172 %) Network Administrator 6 3 (5.172 %) Security Administrator 6 3 (5.172 %) Infrastructure Architect 7 2 (3.448 %) Infrastructure Manager 7 2 (3.448 %) Infrastructure Designer 7 2 (3.448 %) Network Analyst	Operating Systems 1 14 (24.14 %) Unix 2 7 (12.07 %) Windows 3 4 (6.897 %) Windows NT 4 3 (5.172 %) Solaris 4 3 (5.172 %) Linux 5 1 (1.724 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (1.724 %) Windows XP 5 1 (1.724 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (10.34 %) Network Design 2 5 (8.621 %) PRINCE 3 3 (5.172 %) Project Management 3 3 (5.172 %) E-Commerce 3 3 (5.172 %) Content Management 4 2 (3.448 %) Service Delivery 4 2 (3.448 %) Change Management 4 2 (3.448 %) Business Development 4 2 (3.448 %) Load Balancing 5 1 (1.724 %) Time Management 5 1 (1.724 %) Migration 5 1 (1.724 %) ITIL 5 1 (1.724 %) ERP	Programming Languages 1 1 (1.724 %) JavaScript 1 1 (1.724 %) Ruby
Qualifications 1 9 (15.52 %) Cisco Certification 2 6 (10.34 %) CCNA 3 4 (6.897 %) CCSA 3 4 (6.897 %) CCSE 4 3 (5.172 %) CISSP 4 3 (5.172 %) CCIE 5 2 (3.448 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 1 (1.724 %) PMP 6 1 (1.724 %) PMI Certification 6 1 (1.724 %) CCSP 6 1 (1.724 %) CCNP 6 1 (1.724 %) Degree	System Software 1 5 (8.621 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 3 (5.172 %) Norton AntiVirus	Vendors 1 19 (32.76 %) Cisco 2 9 (15.52 %) CheckPoint 3 8 (13.79 %) Juniper 4 7 (12.07 %) Crossbeam 5 5 (8.621 %) Symantec 6 4 (6.897 %) Websense 6 4 (6.897 %) Microsoft 7 3 (5.172 %) HP 8 1 (1.724 %) Nortel 8 1 (1.724 %) 3Com 8 1 (1.724 %) Oracle 8 1 (1.724 %) Novell 8 1 (1.724 %) Siemens