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This section looks at the demand for Firewall skills within the England region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Firewall over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkFirewall
Location
3 months to 4 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank7576
Rank change on same period last yearUp+1
Matching contract IT job ads13891782
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled1.832 %1.890 %
As % of the category below14.35 %14.42 %
Daily rates quoted470587
Average minimum daily rate£338£362
Average daily rate£359£379
% change on same period last year-5.28 %
Average maximum daily rate£381£397
UK excluding London average daily rate£335£338
% change on same period last year-0.82 %
Hourly rates quoted166195
Average minimum hourly rate£23.81£26.30
Average hourly rate£25.58£28.23
% change on same period last year-9.37 %
Average maximum hourly rate£27.35£30.16
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.49£28.45
% change on same period last year-13.92 %
Communications & Networking EnglandCommunications & Networking
England
Matching contract IT job ads968112359
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled12.77 %13.11 %
Daily rates quoted27013048
Average minimum daily rate£337£350
Average daily rate£359£369
% change on same period last year-2.89 %
Average maximum daily rate£380£389
UK excluding London average daily rate£341£344
% change on same period last year-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted11821593
Average minimum hourly rate£23.94£26.07
Average hourly rate£25.58£27.88
% change on same period last year-8.25 %
Average maximum hourly rate£27.22£29.69
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.58£28.53
% change on same period last year-10.35 %
Firewall UKFirewall
UK

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.

Firewall
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Firewall across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

England Firewall Demand Trend

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Firewall across the England region.

England Firewall Daily Rate Trend

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Firewall across the England region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

England Firewall Daily Rate Histogram

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Firewall across the England region.

England Firewall Hourly Rate Trend

Firewall
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Firewall across the England region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

England Firewall Hourly Rate Histogram

Firewall
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Firewall within the England region over the 3 months to 4 July 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.

LocationRank 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
LondonDown-14616£386-3.93 %
South EastUp+8265£347-3.05 %
East of EnglandUp+19137£309-8.65 %
YorkshireUp+25111£328+2.57 %
South WestUp+3384£335-6.84 %
North WestUp+869£385+23.95 %
West MidlandsDown-2354£329-0.35 %
East MidlandsDown-3525£444+65.03 %
North EastUp+2121£306-12.67 %
MidlandsDown-419£383+30.31 %
South CoastNew entry-2--
Firewall UKFirewall
UK

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

11332 (48.28 %)Cisco
2947 (34.32 %)Windows
3769 (27.87 %)CheckPoint
4763 (27.65 %)Cisco Certification
5689 (24.97 %)VPN
6613 (22.22 %)LAN
7607 (22.00 %)WAN
8589 (21.35 %)TCP/IP
9468 (16.96 %)Active Directory
10456 (16.53 %)Unix
11453 (16.42 %)DNS
12427 (15.48 %)CCNP
13424 (15.37 %)Microsoft
14395 (14.32 %)Linux
15362 (13.12 %)CCNA
16355 (12.87 %)Network Security
17347 (12.58 %)Finance
18342 (12.40 %)Internet
19320 (11.60 %)MS Exchange
20298 (10.80 %)Nokia
21253 (9.170 %)HP
22247 (8.953 %)ITIL
23235 (8.518 %)Security Cleared
24234 (8.481 %)Exchange Server 2003
24234 (8.481 %)VMware
25232 (8.409 %)Cisco PIX
26222 (8.046 %)Windows 2000
27220 (7.974 %)Windows Server 2003
28214 (7.756 %)VoIP
29212 (7.684 %)Solaris

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England 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
190 (3.262 %)WebSphere
269 (2.501 %).NET
361 (2.211 %)WebServices
441 (1.486 %)Middleware
540 (1.450 %)J2EE
629 (1.051 %)XML
725 (0.906 %)HTML
820 (0.725 %)ASP.NET
917 (0.616 %)COM+
1016 (0.580 %)LAMP
1115 (0.544 %).NET Framework
1115 (0.544 %)ASP
1211 (0.399 %)CSS
138 (0.290 %)XSLT
138 (0.290 %)EJB
145 (0.181 %)CORBA
154 (0.145 %)Software Packaging
154 (0.145 %)Servlets
163 (0.109 %)SOAP
163 (0.109 %)Adobe Flex
Application Platforms
1320 (11.60 %)MS Exchange
2234 (8.481 %)Exchange Server 2003
3161 (5.835 %)IIS
4110 (3.987 %)Apache
5109 (3.951 %)Exchange Server 2000
664 (2.320 %)Tomcat
749 (1.776 %)SharePoint
840 (1.450 %)Exchange Server 2007
934 (1.232 %)WebSphere Application Server
1031 (1.124 %)Exchange Server 5.5
1122 (0.797 %)WebLogic
1221 (0.761 %)iPlanet
1317 (0.616 %)SharePoint Server 2007
1416 (0.580 %)Oracle Application Server
1515 (0.544 %)Content Management Server
1515 (0.544 %)Lotus Notes
1614 (0.507 %)JBoss
1713 (0.471 %)WebSphere MQ
1713 (0.471 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1812 (0.435 %)MQSeries
Applications
1128 (4.639 %)MS Excel
2119 (4.313 %)MS Office
319 (0.689 %)MS Visio
412 (0.435 %)MS PowerPoint
412 (0.435 %)MS Project
51 (0.036 %)Photoshop
51 (0.036 %)Acrobat
51 (0.036 %)S-PLUS
51 (0.036 %)PageMaker
Business Applications
13 (0.109 %)Oracle Applications
13 (0.109 %)RMDS
13 (0.109 %)Line 50
22 (0.072 %)BPCS
22 (0.072 %)MarketView
22 (0.072 %)SoftGrid
31 (0.036 %)Summit
31 (0.036 %)BASE24
31 (0.036 %)SunGard Vivista
Communications & Networking
1689 (24.97 %)VPN
2613 (22.22 %)LAN
3607 (22.00 %)WAN
4589 (21.35 %)TCP/IP
5453 (16.42 %)DNS
6355 (12.87 %)Network Security
7342 (12.40 %)Internet
8232 (8.409 %)Cisco PIX
9214 (7.756 %)VoIP
10206 (7.466 %)BGP
11205 (7.430 %)MPLS
12203 (7.358 %)OSPF
13194 (7.032 %)SAN
14184 (6.669 %)SSL
15152 (5.509 %)DHCP
16148 (5.364 %)VLAN
17146 (5.292 %)NetScreen
18122 (4.422 %)Intrusion Detection
1989 (3.226 %)Wireless
2080 (2.900 %)EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1175 (6.343 %)SQL Server
260 (2.175 %)SQL Server 2005
345 (1.631 %)MySQL
442 (1.522 %)SQL Server 2000
528 (1.015 %)RDBMS
615 (0.544 %)GIS
713 (0.471 %)SQL Server 7
86 (0.217 %)Datawarehouse
95 (0.181 %)Oracle 8/8i
95 (0.181 %)Oracle 9i
104 (0.145 %)BusinessObjects
113 (0.109 %)Oracle 10g
113 (0.109 %)PostgreSQL
113 (0.109 %)DB2
121 (0.036 %)OLAP
121 (0.036 %)Crystal Reports
121 (0.036 %)Informix
121 (0.036 %)Data Mining
121 (0.036 %)ETL
121 (0.036 %)OLTP
Development Applications
116 (0.580 %)LoadRunner
25 (0.181 %)MSI
25 (0.181 %)Subversion
25 (0.181 %)FrontPage
25 (0.181 %)Flash
33 (0.109 %)PVCS
33 (0.109 %)TestDirector
33 (0.109 %)Bugzilla
42 (0.072 %)QuickTest Pro
42 (0.072 %)VSS/SourceSafe
42 (0.072 %)Visual Studio
51 (0.036 %)Ant
51 (0.036 %)WebSphere Studio Application Developer
51 (0.036 %)Eclipse
51 (0.036 %)WinRunner
51 (0.036 %)NUnit
51 (0.036 %)CruiseControl
General
1347 (12.58 %)Finance
2201 (7.285 %)Government
3198 (7.177 %)Banking
4171 (6.198 %)Telecoms
592 (3.335 %)Investment Banking
646 (1.667 %)Financial Institution
738 (1.377 %)Health
827 (0.979 %)Legal
926 (0.942 %)Law
1023 (0.834 %)Back Office
1121 (0.761 %)Auditing
1219 (0.689 %)Insurance
1315 (0.544 %)Publishing
1414 (0.507 %)Education
1414 (0.507 %)Retail
1512 (0.435 %)Local Government
1611 (0.399 %)Construction
179 (0.326 %)Multimedia
187 (0.254 %)Games
196 (0.217 %)Billing
Job Titles
1595 (21.57 %)Network Engineer
2427 (15.48 %)Analyst
3226 (8.191 %)Network Support
4209 (7.575 %)Administrator
5206 (7.466 %)Consultant
6194 (7.032 %)Support Engineer
7193 (6.995 %)Security Engineer
8173 (6.270 %)Architect
9158 (5.727 %)Cisco Engineer
10155 (5.618 %)Network Analyst
11147 (5.328 %)Support Analyst
12111 (4.023 %)Cisco Network Engineer
1397 (3.516 %)Network Security Engineer
1494 (3.407 %)Network Specialist
1592 (3.335 %)Senior Network Engineer
1689 (3.226 %)3rd Line Support
1689 (3.226 %)Security Analyst
1787 (3.153 %)Network Support Engineer
1884 (3.045 %)Systems Administrator
1976 (2.755 %)Project Manager
Miscellaneous
192 (3.335 %)PKI
289 (3.226 %)Clustering
345 (1.631 %)NHS
440 (1.450 %)Blackberry
539 (1.414 %)SecurID
632 (1.160 %)Smartcard
727 (0.979 %)Video Conferencing
824 (0.870 %)Fat Client
824 (0.870 %)Thin Client
921 (0.761 %)Replication
1020 (0.725 %)Management Information System
1118 (0.652 %)Cryptography
1217 (0.616 %)Asset Management
1316 (0.580 %)Client/Server
1415 (0.544 %)IVR
1512 (0.435 %)CESG
1512 (0.435 %)Web 2.0
1611 (0.399 %)French Language
1710 (0.362 %)Computer Science
189 (0.326 %)Mainframe
Operating Systems
1947 (34.32 %)Windows
2456 (16.53 %)Unix
3395 (14.32 %)Linux
4222 (8.046 %)Windows 2000
5220 (7.974 %)Windows Server 2003
6212 (7.684 %)Solaris
7166 (6.017 %)Windows NT
8117 (4.241 %)Windows XP
982 (2.972 %)AIX
1021 (0.761 %)HPUX
1118 (0.652 %)VMS
1217 (0.616 %)Debian
1313 (0.471 %)SUSE
1313 (0.471 %)NetWare
148 (0.290 %)Mac OS X
156 (0.217 %)Fedora
165 (0.181 %)Windows Mobile
174 (0.145 %)Windows Vista
183 (0.109 %)FreeBSD
192 (0.072 %)OS/400
Processes & Methodologies
1247 (8.953 %)ITIL
2235 (8.518 %)Security Cleared
3200 (7.249 %)Network Design
4183 (6.633 %)Load Balancing
5152 (5.509 %)Project Management
6144 (5.219 %)PRINCE2
7138 (5.002 %)SC Cleared
8113 (4.096 %)Migration
983 (3.008 %)Disaster Recovery
1062 (2.247 %)Service Delivery
1153 (1.921 %)Change Management
1249 (1.776 %)Information Security
1336 (1.305 %)Incident Management
1435 (1.269 %)Service Management
1534 (1.232 %)Content Management
1534 (1.232 %)Problem Management
1632 (1.160 %)E-Commerce
1730 (1.087 %)DV Cleared
1826 (0.942 %)Security Management
1924 (0.870 %)Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1167 (6.053 %)SQL
284 (3.045 %)Perl
374 (2.682 %)Java
440 (1.450 %)Shell Script
536 (1.305 %)VBScript
634 (1.232 %)C
634 (1.232 %)PHP
715 (0.544 %)VB
87 (0.254 %)C#
87 (0.254 %)JavaScript
95 (0.181 %)C++
95 (0.181 %)Transact-SQL
95 (0.181 %)Korn
104 (0.145 %)Python
113 (0.109 %)JCL
113 (0.109 %)AWK
122 (0.072 %)XPath
122 (0.072 %)PL/SQL
122 (0.072 %)VBA
131 (0.036 %)Tcl
Qualifications
1763 (27.65 %)Cisco Certification
2427 (15.48 %)CCNP
3362 (13.12 %)CCNA
4152 (5.509 %)Microsoft Certification
4152 (5.509 %)CCIE
5123 (4.458 %)MCSE
699 (3.588 %)Degree
797 (3.516 %)CCSE
893 (3.371 %)CISSP
986 (3.117 %)CCSA
1072 (2.610 %)CCDP
1145 (1.631 %)CCSP
1242 (1.522 %)CCDA
1335 (1.269 %)MCP
1427 (0.979 %)CCIP
1526 (0.942 %)CISA
1526 (0.942 %)CISM
1624 (0.870 %)MCSA
1722 (0.797 %)Citrix Certification
1820 (0.725 %)PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
138 (1.377 %)SLA
221 (0.761 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
320 (0.725 %)ISO27001
320 (0.725 %)BS7799
417 (0.616 %)PCI DSS
516 (0.580 %)ISO17799
67 (0.254 %)QA
72 (0.072 %)CESG Infosec
72 (0.072 %)ISO9001
72 (0.072 %)ISO/IEC 20000
72 (0.072 %)COBIT
81 (0.036 %)TickIT
81 (0.036 %)ISO9000
81 (0.036 %)JSP 440
System Software
1468 (16.96 %)Active Directory
295 (3.443 %)VMware ESX
383 (3.008 %)VMware Infrastructure
459 (2.138 %)Backup Exec
541 (1.486 %)ISA Server
636 (1.305 %)Terminal Services
723 (0.834 %)Citrix Presentation Server
818 (0.652 %)NetBackup
915 (0.544 %)MetaFrame
1012 (0.435 %)Terminal Server
1110 (0.362 %)Squid
128 (0.290 %)MailMarshal
136 (0.217 %)Xen
136 (0.217 %)NFS
136 (0.217 %)Novell eDirectory
145 (0.181 %)VMware Server
154 (0.145 %)VMware Workstation
154 (0.145 %)Nmap
163 (0.109 %)Snort
163 (0.109 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
195 (3.443 %)OpenView
272 (2.610 %)CiscoWorks
335 (1.269 %)Tivoli
431 (1.124 %)MOM
527 (0.979 %)MAILsweeper
625 (0.906 %)Norton AntiVirus
625 (0.906 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
716 (0.580 %)CA SiteMinder
716 (0.580 %)SCOM
815 (0.544 %)WSUS
913 (0.471 %)Netcool
1012 (0.435 %)SCCM
1111 (0.399 %)ZENworks
1111 (0.399 %)Tivoli Monitoring
129 (0.326 %)BMC PATROL
129 (0.326 %)NNM
138 (0.290 %)OVOW
147 (0.254 %)Netcool/OMNIbus
147 (0.254 %)Unicenter
156 (0.217 %)ARCserve
Vendors
11332 (48.28 %)Cisco
2769 (27.87 %)CheckPoint
3424 (15.37 %)Microsoft
4298 (10.80 %)Nokia
5253 (9.170 %)HP
6234 (8.481 %)VMware
7206 (7.466 %)Citrix
8190 (6.887 %)Juniper
9134 (4.857 %)Oracle
10109 (3.951 %)Red Hat
11102 (3.697 %)IBM
11102 (3.697 %)Sun
1293 (3.371 %)VERITAS
1388 (3.190 %)Blue Coat
1471 (2.573 %)Nortel
1559 (2.138 %)Novell
1655 (1.993 %)Symantec
1754 (1.957 %)EMC
1845 (1.631 %)Crossbeam
1939 (1.414 %)Dell
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