The first table below looks at the demand for NetScreen 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 NetScreen 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 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
Juniper Networks NetScreen
Rank 481 491 494
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +3
Contract jobs citing NetScreen 32 68 77
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.077% 0.127% 0.137%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.524% 0.811% 1.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 29 49
Average daily rate £400 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £305 £298
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £375 £325
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - -
All Communications & Networking
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6108 8385 7368
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 14.69% 15.72% 13.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3064 3932 3397
Average daily rate £350 £365 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.10% +4.28%
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 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 500 561 752
Average hourly rate £21.50 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.81 £12.21
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.50 £45.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
NetScreen
UK

NetScreen
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England NetScreen Jobs Demand Trend

NetScreen
Daily Rate Trend

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

England NetScreen Daily Rate Trend

NetScreen
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NetScreen across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England NetScreen Daily Rate Histogram

NetScreen
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England NetScreen Hourly Rate Trend

NetScreen
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NetScreen within the 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
London +8 13 £356 +6.34%
East of England +22 7 £413 -
North West +14 5 £313 -1.57%
South East +8 5 £338 -18.18%
Yorkshire - 3 £413 -
West Midlands - 1 £400 -
NetScreen
UK

NetScreen
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing NetScreen 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 NetScreen.

1 57 (80.28%) Firewall
2 50 (70.42%) Cisco
3 47 (66.20%) Juniper
4 30 (42.25%) Cisco Certification
5 24 (33.80%) Windows
5 24 (33.80%) CheckPoint
6 22 (30.99%) Blue Coat
6 22 (30.99%) Cisco ASA
7 20 (28.17%) VPN
8 19 (26.76%) Citrix
8 19 (26.76%) Network Security
8 19 (26.76%) F5
9 18 (25.35%) DNS
9 18 (25.35%) VMware
10 17 (23.94%) OSPF
10 17 (23.94%) CCNP
11 15 (21.13%) SharePoint
11 15 (21.13%) E-Commerce
11 15 (21.13%) SQL Server
11 15 (21.13%) Finance
12 14 (19.72%) SAN
12 14 (19.72%) CCNA
12 14 (19.72%) Microsoft
13 13 (18.31%) VoIP
13 13 (18.31%) EMC
13 13 (18.31%) Linux
14 12 (16.90%) TCP/IP
14 12 (16.90%) Internet
14 12 (16.90%) BGP
14 12 (16.90%) VMware Infrastructure

NetScreen
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (7.042%) COM+
2 3 (4.225%) CSS
3 2 (2.817%) Software Packaging
4 1 (1.408%) HTML
4 1 (1.408%) COM
Application Platforms
1 15 (21.13%) SharePoint
2 10 (14.08%) IIS
3 9 (12.68%) SharePoint 2010
4 8 (11.27%) MS Exchange
5 7 (9.859%) Apache
6 2 (2.817%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 2 (2.817%) Tomcat
6 2 (2.817%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (1.408%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (1.408%) Lotus Notes
7 1 (1.408%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (5.634%) MS Excel
2 2 (2.817%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.408%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 57 (80.28%) Firewall
2 22 (30.99%) Cisco ASA
3 20 (28.17%) VPN
4 19 (26.76%) Network Security
5 18 (25.35%) DNS
6 17 (23.94%) OSPF
7 14 (19.72%) SAN
8 13 (18.31%) VoIP
9 12 (16.90%) TCP/IP
9 12 (16.90%) Internet
9 12 (16.90%) BGP
10 11 (15.49%) Cisco PIX
11 10 (14.08%) IPsec
11 10 (14.08%) WAN
11 10 (14.08%) LAN
11 10 (14.08%) Cisco IOS
12 9 (12.68%) BIG-IP
12 9 (12.68%) Junos
12 9 (12.68%) MPLS
13 8 (11.27%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (21.13%) SQL Server
2 9 (12.68%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 15 (21.13%) Finance
2 9 (12.68%) Telecoms
3 3 (4.225%) Banking
3 3 (4.225%) Investment Banking
4 2 (2.817%) Games
Job Titles
1 15 (21.13%) Network Engineer
2 10 (14.08%) Architect
2 10 (14.08%) Firewall Engineer
3 9 (12.68%) Infrastructure Architect
4 8 (11.27%) Consultant
4 8 (11.27%) Security Specialist
5 7 (9.859%) Network Specialist
5 7 (9.859%) Network Security Specialist
6 6 (8.451%) E-Commerce Specialist
6 6 (8.451%) Firewall Consultant
7 5 (7.042%) IT Architect
7 5 (7.042%) Senior Network Engineer
8 4 (5.634%) Network Security Engineer
8 4 (5.634%) Security Consultant
8 4 (5.634%) Security Engineer
9 3 (4.225%) Integration Engineer
9 3 (4.225%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (2.817%) Support Specialist
10 2 (2.817%) 3rd Line Support
10 2 (2.817%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.451%) Thin Client
1 6 (8.451%) Fat Client
2 3 (4.225%) e-Health
3 2 (2.817%) Device Driver
3 2 (2.817%) Blackberry
3 2 (2.817%) NHS
3 2 (2.817%) Online Games
3 2 (2.817%) Celerra
4 1 (1.408%) PKI
4 1 (1.408%) Clustering
4 1 (1.408%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (33.80%) Windows
2 13 (18.31%) Linux
3 11 (15.49%) Windows Server 2008
4 8 (11.27%) Solaris
5 7 (9.859%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (8.451%) Windows 7
7 5 (7.042%) UNIX
8 4 (5.634%) Windows XP
8 4 (5.634%) VMS
9 2 (2.817%) Debian
10 1 (1.408%) Mac OS
10 1 (1.408%) Android
10 1 (1.408%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (21.13%) E-Commerce
2 12 (16.90%) Load Balancing
3 11 (15.49%) Project Management
4 8 (11.27%) Change Management
5 6 (8.451%) ITIL
5 6 (8.451%) Network Architecture
5 6 (8.451%) Service Management
6 5 (7.042%) Kanban
6 5 (7.042%) Configuration Management
6 5 (7.042%) Scrum
7 4 (5.634%) Migration
7 4 (5.634%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (5.634%) Release Management
8 3 (4.225%) Network Management
9 2 (2.817%) Root Cause Analysis
9 2 (2.817%) Network Design
9 2 (2.817%) Asset Management
10 1 (1.408%) Time Management
10 1 (1.408%) High Availability
10 1 (1.408%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.68%) SQL
1 9 (12.68%) C
2 6 (8.451%) Java
3 4 (5.634%) Shell Script
3 4 (5.634%) Perl
4 2 (2.817%) PHP
4 2 (2.817%) C++
4 2 (2.817%) VB
4 2 (2.817%) Python
5 1 (1.408%) Korn
5 1 (1.408%) Bourne shell
5 1 (1.408%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 30 (42.25%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (23.94%) CCNP
3 14 (19.72%) CCNA
4 9 (12.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 9 (12.68%) MCTS
4 9 (12.68%) MCITP
4 9 (12.68%) Security Cleared
5 8 (11.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (9.859%) CCSE
7 6 (8.451%) CCIE
7 6 (8.451%) SC Cleared
8 3 (4.225%) DV Cleared
8 3 (4.225%) CCIP
9 2 (2.817%) Check Point Certification
10 1 (1.408%) Degree
10 1 (1.408%) CISSP
10 1 (1.408%) CCSP
10 1 (1.408%) CCDA
10 1 (1.408%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.68%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (16.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (12.68%) vSphere
2 9 (12.68%) Active Directory
3 6 (8.451%) VMware ESX
3 6 (8.451%) ProxySG
4 5 (7.042%) Sendmail
4 5 (7.042%) XenServer
5 1 (1.408%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (12.68%) EMC NetWorker
2 7 (9.859%) Cisco CUCM
3 6 (8.451%) Cisco UCCX
4 4 (5.634%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 4 (5.634%) SCCM
5 3 (4.225%) Norton AntiVirus
6 2 (2.817%) Tivoli
6 2 (2.817%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (1.408%) WSUS
7 1 (1.408%) Splunk
Vendors
1 50 (70.42%) Cisco
2 47 (66.20%) Juniper
3 24 (33.80%) CheckPoint
4 22 (30.99%) Blue Coat
5 19 (26.76%) Citrix
5 19 (26.76%) F5
6 18 (25.35%) VMware
7 14 (19.72%) Microsoft
8 13 (18.31%) EMC
9 11 (15.49%) HP
10 10 (14.08%) Nokia
11 9 (12.68%) Infoblox
12 7 (9.859%) Fortinet
12 7 (9.859%) Imperva
12 7 (9.859%) Oracle
12 7 (9.859%) NetApp
13 6 (8.451%) McAfee
13 6 (8.451%) TippingPoint
14 5 (7.042%) Sun
15 4 (5.634%) Symantec
City of London
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Rate: £400 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
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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...
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Posted: 20 May 2013