The first table below looks at the demand for Cisco ASA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cisco ASA over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Essex 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA)
Rank 42 47 -
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -
Contract jobs citing Cisco ASA 9 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 2.108% 0.225% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.11% 1.449% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 0
Average daily rate £413 £400 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.12% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.50 £31.25 £26.00
% change year-on-year
-24.80% +20.19%
All Communications & Networking
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
89 69 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 20.84% 15.54% 6.562%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 35 6
Average daily rate £400 £368 £398
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.84% -7.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £250 £174
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £450 £433
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 12
Average hourly rate £25.00 £20.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -27.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £17.20 £10.28
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.00 £26.10 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
Cisco ASA
East of England

Cisco ASA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex Cisco ASA Jobs Demand Trend

Cisco ASA
Daily Rate Trend

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

Essex Cisco ASA Daily Rate Trend

Cisco ASA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco ASA within the Essex region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Colchester +20 8 £413 +3.12%
Chelmsford - - - -
Cisco ASA
East of England

Cisco ASA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing Cisco ASA 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 ASA.

1 13 (100.00%) Cisco
1 13 (100.00%) CCNP
1 13 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (84.62%) VMware
2 11 (84.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (76.92%) Network Security
3 10 (76.92%) DMVPN
3 10 (76.92%) Firewall
4 9 (69.23%) CheckPoint
4 9 (69.23%) CCIE
4 9 (69.23%) VoIP
4 9 (69.23%) Cisco IOS
5 8 (61.54%) Fat Client
5 8 (61.54%) Infoblox
5 8 (61.54%) Imperva
5 8 (61.54%) Blue Coat
5 8 (61.54%) ProxySG
5 8 (61.54%) CCSE
5 8 (61.54%) BIG-IP
5 8 (61.54%) F5
5 8 (61.54%) Cisco UCCX
5 8 (61.54%) Cisco CUCM
5 8 (61.54%) DHCP
5 8 (61.54%) DNS
5 8 (61.54%) C
5 8 (61.54%) Linux
5 8 (61.54%) E-Commerce
5 8 (61.54%) Juniper
5 8 (61.54%) HP
5 8 (61.54%) Citrix

Cisco ASA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing Cisco ASA 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 ASA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 10 (76.92%) Network Security
1 10 (76.92%) DMVPN
1 10 (76.92%) Firewall
2 9 (69.23%) VoIP
2 9 (69.23%) Cisco IOS
3 8 (61.54%) BIG-IP
3 8 (61.54%) DHCP
3 8 (61.54%) DNS
3 8 (61.54%) NetScreen
3 8 (61.54%) OSPF
4 4 (30.77%) BGP
4 4 (30.77%) MPLS
5 3 (23.08%) Wireless
6 2 (15.38%) VPN
6 2 (15.38%) EIGRP
7 1 (7.692%) IPsec
7 1 (7.692%) Cisco PIX
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 1 (7.692%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Security Specialist
1 8 (61.54%) Network Specialist
1 8 (61.54%) Network Security Specialist
1 8 (61.54%) E-Commerce Specialist
2 4 (30.77%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (7.692%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Cisco Security Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Security Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Cisco Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Fat Client
1 8 (61.54%) Thin Client
2 1 (7.692%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) Linux
2 3 (23.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) E-Commerce
1 8 (61.54%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) C
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) CCNP
1 13 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (69.23%) CCIE
3 8 (61.54%) CCSE
4 2 (15.38%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.692%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (84.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (61.54%) ProxySG
3 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
3 3 (23.08%) UAG
3 3 (23.08%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Cisco UCCX
1 8 (61.54%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Cisco
2 11 (84.62%) VMware
3 9 (69.23%) CheckPoint
4 8 (61.54%) Infoblox
4 8 (61.54%) Imperva
4 8 (61.54%) Blue Coat
4 8 (61.54%) F5
4 8 (61.54%) Juniper
4 8 (61.54%) HP
4 8 (61.54%) Citrix
5 3 (23.08%) Siemens