The first table below looks at the demand for Cisco PIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the 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 21 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco PIX
Rank 450 410 464
Rank change year-on-year
-40 +54
Contract jobs citing Cisco PIX 62 149 91
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.147% 0.278% 0.164%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.001% 1.771% 1.257%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 65 42
Average daily rate £300 £325 £348
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -6.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £415 £425 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £288 £350
% change year-on-year
+4.34% -17.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 7
Average hourly rate £25.00 £25.50 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.96% -43.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £23.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year
- -47.22%
All Communications & Networking
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6195 8413 7242
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 14.64% 15.72% 13.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3101 3939 3363
Average daily rate £350 £368 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 514 566 726
Average hourly rate £22.50 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.00 £12.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £45.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
Cisco PIX
UK

Cisco PIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 England region.

England Cisco PIX Daily Rate Trend

Cisco PIX
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco PIX across the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England Cisco PIX Daily Rate Histogram

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 England region.

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 England region over the 3 months to 21 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
London -11 29 £348 -0.71%
South East -32 8 - -
Yorkshire +6 7 £300 +18.22%
East of England - 6 £325 -
West Midlands +10 5 £275 +57.14%
South West +22 4 £215 -21.81%
East Midlands +4 4 £316 +33.15%
Cisco PIX
UK

Cisco PIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

1 113 (100.00%) Cisco
2 102 (90.27%) Cisco ASA
3 89 (78.76%) Firewall
4 83 (73.45%) Cisco Certification
5 55 (48.67%) CCNP
6 54 (47.79%) CCNA
7 43 (38.05%) LAN
7 43 (38.05%) WAN
8 40 (35.40%) CheckPoint
9 35 (30.97%) VPN
10 33 (29.20%) Windows
11 31 (27.43%) Juniper
12 29 (25.66%) Network Security
13 28 (24.78%) BGP
14 27 (23.89%) Citrix
15 26 (23.01%) OSPF
16 25 (22.12%) DNS
16 25 (22.12%) Active Directory
16 25 (22.12%) FWSM
17 24 (21.24%) Windows Server 2008
17 24 (21.24%) VMware
18 23 (20.35%) VMware Infrastructure
18 23 (20.35%) Windows Server 2003
18 23 (20.35%) Internet
19 21 (18.58%) SAN
19 21 (18.58%) Microsoft
19 21 (18.58%) TCP/IP
20 19 (16.81%) MS Exchange
20 19 (16.81%) Exchange Server 2010
21 18 (15.93%) Finance

Cisco PIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 3 (2.655%) CSS
2 2 (1.770%) .NET
2 2 (1.770%) ASP
3 1 (0.885%) Windows SharePoint Services
3 1 (0.885%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 19 (16.81%) MS Exchange
1 19 (16.81%) Exchange Server 2010
2 11 (9.735%) Exchange Server 2007
3 8 (7.080%) Exchange Server 2003
4 7 (6.195%) IIS
5 5 (4.425%) SharePoint
6 3 (2.655%) Apache
7 2 (1.770%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.885%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.885%) Lotus Notes
8 1 (0.885%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (3.540%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.885%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 102 (90.27%) Cisco ASA
2 89 (78.76%) Firewall
3 43 (38.05%) LAN
3 43 (38.05%) WAN
4 35 (30.97%) VPN
5 29 (25.66%) Network Security
6 28 (24.78%) BGP
7 26 (23.01%) OSPF
8 25 (22.12%) DNS
8 25 (22.12%) FWSM
9 23 (20.35%) Internet
10 21 (18.58%) SAN
10 21 (18.58%) TCP/IP
11 14 (12.39%) VoIP
11 14 (12.39%) Cisco IOS
12 13 (11.50%) MPLS
12 13 (11.50%) DHCP
12 13 (11.50%) Cisco Nexus
13 12 (10.62%) IPsec
14 11 (9.735%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.655%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.770%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (1.770%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (0.885%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.770%) WiX
1 2 (1.770%) MSBuild
1 2 (1.770%) Jenkins
1 2 (1.770%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 2 (1.770%) Subversion
1 2 (1.770%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (1.770%) TeamCity
2 1 (0.885%) Hudson
General
1 18 (15.93%) Finance
2 16 (14.16%) Telecoms
3 4 (3.540%) Banking
4 3 (2.655%) Retail
5 2 (1.770%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.885%) Games
6 1 (0.885%) Publishing
6 1 (0.885%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 43 (38.05%) Network Engineer
2 17 (15.04%) Support Engineer
3 14 (12.39%) Analyst
4 13 (11.50%) Security Engineer
5 12 (10.62%) Cisco Engineer
6 11 (9.735%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 11 (9.735%) 3rd Line Support
7 10 (8.850%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 10 (8.850%) IT Support
7 10 (8.850%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 10 (8.850%) IT Support Engineer
8 8 (7.080%) IP Engineer
9 6 (5.310%) Network Security Engineer
10 5 (4.425%) Network Analyst
10 5 (4.425%) Design Engineer
11 4 (3.540%) Consultant
11 4 (3.540%) Network Support
11 4 (3.540%) NOC Engineer
11 4 (3.540%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.540%) Network Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.310%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (1.770%) Client/Server
2 2 (1.770%) Thin Client
2 2 (1.770%) e-Health
2 2 (1.770%) Clustering
2 2 (1.770%) Device Driver
2 2 (1.770%) Handset
2 2 (1.770%) Fat Client
3 1 (0.885%) Open Source
3 1 (0.885%) Online Games
3 1 (0.885%) CLARiiON
3 1 (0.885%) SecurID
3 1 (0.885%) NHS
3 1 (0.885%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 33 (29.20%) Windows
2 24 (21.24%) Windows Server 2008
3 23 (20.35%) Windows Server 2003
4 14 (12.39%) Linux
5 11 (9.735%) Mac OS X
6 6 (5.310%) Solaris
7 5 (4.425%) UNIX
8 1 (0.885%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.885%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.885%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.885%) Windows XP
8 1 (0.885%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (12.39%) Load Balancing
2 12 (10.62%) ITIL
3 11 (9.735%) Network Design
3 11 (9.735%) Change Management
4 10 (8.850%) Network Management
5 8 (7.080%) E-Commerce
6 5 (4.425%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (3.540%) Project Management
7 4 (3.540%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (3.540%) Service Management
7 4 (3.540%) Scrum
7 4 (3.540%) Kanban
8 3 (2.655%) PRINCE2
9 2 (1.770%) Network Architecture
9 2 (1.770%) Change Control
9 2 (1.770%) Capacity Management
9 2 (1.770%) Configuration Management
9 2 (1.770%) Integration Testing
9 2 (1.770%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (1.770%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 12 (10.62%) SQL
2 3 (2.655%) Java
3 2 (1.770%) Bash shell
3 2 (1.770%) C
3 2 (1.770%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.885%) Korn
4 1 (0.885%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.885%) Perl
4 1 (0.885%) Bourne shell
Qualifications
1 83 (73.45%) Cisco Certification
2 55 (48.67%) CCNP
3 54 (47.79%) CCNA
4 15 (13.27%) CCIE
5 12 (10.62%) CCSP
5 12 (10.62%) MCSE
5 12 (10.62%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (9.735%) MCITP
6 11 (9.735%) CCA
6 11 (9.735%) Citrix Certification
6 11 (9.735%) CCEA
7 9 (7.965%) SC Cleared
7 9 (7.965%) Security Cleared
8 8 (7.080%) CCDP
9 5 (4.425%) CCIP
10 4 (3.540%) CISSP
10 4 (3.540%) JNCIA
11 3 (2.655%) CCSA
12 2 (1.770%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (1.770%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.080%) SLA
2 6 (5.310%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.885%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 25 (22.12%) Active Directory
2 23 (20.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (9.735%) XenApp
3 11 (9.735%) XenDesktop
4 8 (7.080%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 7 (6.195%) vSphere
6 2 (1.770%) ProxySG
6 2 (1.770%) Xen
6 2 (1.770%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.885%) XenServer
7 1 (0.885%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 1 (0.885%) VMware ESX
7 1 (0.885%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.885%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 2 (1.770%) CiscoWorks
1 2 (1.770%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (0.885%) Cisco UCCE
2 1 (0.885%) Backup Exec
2 1 (0.885%) OpenView
2 1 (0.885%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (0.885%) Cisco UCCX
2 1 (0.885%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 113 (100.00%) Cisco
2 40 (35.40%) CheckPoint
3 31 (27.43%) Juniper
4 27 (23.89%) Citrix
5 24 (21.24%) VMware
6 21 (18.58%) Microsoft
7 17 (15.04%) F5
8 8 (7.080%) NetApp
8 8 (7.080%) Nokia
9 7 (6.195%) HP
10 6 (5.310%) Fortinet
11 5 (4.425%) SolarWinds
11 5 (4.425%) Blue Coat
12 4 (3.540%) IBM
12 4 (3.540%) McAfee
13 2 (1.770%) Twitter
13 2 (1.770%) Clearswift
13 2 (1.770%) Avaya
13 2 (1.770%) Red Hat
13 2 (1.770%) Redback
South West
The network engineer needs to be CCNA or ideally CCNP qualified and the key skills for the network engineer are Cisco Firewalls experience ASA / PIX Routers and Switches...
CPS Group UK
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Essex
Network & Security Engineer - Cisco R&S / ASA Firewalls / VPN's... Core Responsibilities: *Support of Cisco / Checkpoint Products *Firewalls / ASA / PIX / *Cisco Core R&S - ISR - 6500's - MPLS /...
Stott & May
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013
West London
ITIL Service Management Experience and SLA Reporting experience... Citrix Netscalers. Juniper Netscreen, Cisco ASA Firewalls and PIX. Network Security products (firewall, IPS, DLP) Arista Switches. Fortinet Firewalls... Minimum...
Experis IT
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
West London
ITIL Service Management... Scrum and KanBan Methodology experience... MPLS, IPSEC VPN, Firewalls and TACACS authentication. Wireless, VOIP and Security technologies... Citrix Netscalers. Juniper Netscreen, Cisco ASA Firewalls and...
Experis IT
Rate: Market Rates
Posted: 15 May 2013
West London
ITIL Service Management... Scrum and KanBan Methodology experience... MPLS, IPSEC VPN, Firewalls and TACACS authentication. Wireless, VOIP and Security technologies... Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)... Citrix Netscalers. Juniper...
Experis IT
Rate: Market Rates
Posted: 20 May 2013
North Yorkshire
We are seeking a CCNA qualified Network and Security specialist to work on my clients Checkpoint Firewall upgrade. Candidates must have the following experience: Proven track record of...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £280.00 - £320.00 per day
Posted: 4 May 2013