East Sussex Firewall Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills within the East Sussex 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 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Barry Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Ely England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Lewes Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Rickmansworth Romford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Witham Woking Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	20	33
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	2	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	13.33 %	12.50 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£364	£330
% change on same period last year	+10.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.00	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£13.50	£25.00
% change on same period last year	-46.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.00	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.85	£26.01
% change on same period last year	+14.76 %
Communications & Networking East Sussex
Matching contract IT job ads	15	32
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.035 %
Daily rates quoted	0	7
Average minimum daily rate	-	£293
Average daily rate	-	£302
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£311
UK excluding London average daily rate	£344	£336
% change on same period last year	+2.28 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£11.29	£17.38
Average hourly rate	£11.71	£18.58
% change on same period last year	-36.98 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.12	£19.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.86	£28.32
% change on same period last year	-1.64 %
Firewall South East

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 East Sussex 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 East Sussex region.

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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 East Sussex 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 East Sussex region over the 3 months to 4 December 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 East Sussex region over the 3 months to 4 December 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
Lewes	-	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 7 (77.78 %) LAN 1 7 (77.78 %) WAN 1 7 (77.78 %) Cisco 2 6 (66.67 %) VPN 3 5 (55.56 %) Windows 4 4 (44.44 %) IPsec 4 4 (44.44 %) Windows Server 2003 4 4 (44.44 %) VLAN 4 4 (44.44 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 4 (44.44 %) MS Exchange 4 4 (44.44 %) Active Directory 4 4 (44.44 %) MPLS 5 3 (33.33 %) OSPF 5 3 (33.33 %) EIGRP 5 3 (33.33 %) Cisco Certification

5 3 (33.33 %) CCIE 5 3 (33.33 %) CCNP 5 3 (33.33 %) CCNA 5 3 (33.33 %) ATM 5 3 (33.33 %) VoIP 5 3 (33.33 %) Finance 5 3 (33.33 %) CheckPoint 6 2 (22.22 %) Citrix Presentation Server 6 2 (22.22 %) SQL Server 2000 6 2 (22.22 %) DNS 6 2 (22.22 %) SLA 6 2 (22.22 %) DHCP 6 2 (22.22 %) Windows 2000 6 2 (22.22 %) SQL 6 2 (22.22 %) SQL Server

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 4 (44.44 %) MS Exchange 1 4 (44.44 %) Exchange Server 2003	Communications & Networking 1 7 (77.78 %) LAN 1 7 (77.78 %) WAN 2 6 (66.67 %) VPN 3 4 (44.44 %) MPLS 3 4 (44.44 %) IPsec 3 4 (44.44 %) VLAN 4 3 (33.33 %) OSPF 4 3 (33.33 %) EIGRP 4 3 (33.33 %) VoIP 4 3 (33.33 %) ATM 5 2 (22.22 %) DHCP 5 2 (22.22 %) DNS 6 1 (11.11 %) SAN 6 1 (11.11 %) Cisco PIX 6 1 (11.11 %) TCP/IP 6 1 (11.11 %) SMTP 6 1 (11.11 %) ISDN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (22.22 %) SQL Server 1 2 (22.22 %) SQL Server 2000	General 1 3 (33.33 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 5 (55.56 %) Network Engineer 2 3 (33.33 %) Cisco Engineer 2 3 (33.33 %) Cisco Network Engineer 3 2 (22.22 %) Information Manager 3 2 (22.22 %) Service Manager 3 2 (22.22 %) Support Engineer 4 1 (11.11 %) 3rd Line Support 4 1 (11.11 %) Administrator 4 1 (11.11 %) Network Support Engineer 4 1 (11.11 %) Network Support 4 1 (11.11 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 4 1 (11.11 %) Systems Administrator	Operating Systems 1 5 (55.56 %) Windows 2 4 (44.44 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (22.22 %) Windows 2000 3 2 (22.22 %) Windows XP 4 1 (11.11 %) Linux 4 1 (11.11 %) Windows Vista 4 1 (11.11 %) Windows 2000 Server
Programming Languages 1 2 (22.22 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 3 (33.33 %) CCIE 1 3 (33.33 %) CCNP 1 3 (33.33 %) CCNA 1 3 (33.33 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (11.11 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (11.11 %) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (22.22 %) SLA	System Software 1 4 (44.44 %) Active Directory 2 2 (22.22 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 1 (11.11 %) ISA Server
Vendors 1 7 (77.78 %) Cisco 2 3 (33.33 %) CheckPoint 3 2 (22.22 %) Citrix 3 2 (22.22 %) Juniper 4 1 (11.11 %) Motorola 4 1 (11.11 %) HP 4 1 (11.11 %) Fortinet