The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Firewall 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 Gloucestershire 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
Firewall
Rank 26 53 38
Rank change year-on-year
+27 -15
Contract jobs citing Firewall 12 14 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 4.428% 2.174% 2.064%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 26.09% 8.642% 12.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 2
Average daily rate £500 £454 £308
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.19% +47.56%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-2.98% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £31.50 £18.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +72.60%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.63 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-28.63% +30.95%
All Communications & Networking
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
46 162 71
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 16.97% 25.16% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 92 27
Average daily rate £500 £500 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +61.29%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £373 £400 £190
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £500 £415
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 5
Average hourly rate £42.50 £20.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+107.31% +2.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
Firewall
South West

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire Firewall Jobs Demand Trend

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend

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

Gloucestershire Firewall Daily Rate Trend

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Gloucestershire Firewall Daily Rate Histogram

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Gloucestershire Firewall Hourly Rate Trend

Firewall
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 Gloucestershire 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
Cheltenham +27 4 £350 -
Gloucester +25 2 - -
Firewall
South West

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 21 (77.78%) Cisco
2 20 (74.07%) VMware
3 19 (70.37%) Windows
4 18 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (59.26%) Security Cleared
6 14 (51.85%) DV Cleared
7 12 (44.44%) C
8 10 (37.04%) Microsoft
8 10 (37.04%) Juniper
9 9 (33.33%) VPN
10 8 (29.63%) Citrix
10 8 (29.63%) Oracle
10 8 (29.63%) Solaris
10 8 (29.63%) Linux
10 8 (29.63%) Sophos
10 8 (29.63%) Thin Client
10 8 (29.63%) MPLS
10 8 (29.63%) Fat Client
10 8 (29.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (29.63%) Lumension
11 7 (25.93%) IaaS
11 7 (25.93%) vSphere
11 7 (25.93%) PaaS
11 7 (25.93%) Windows Azure
11 7 (25.93%) Amazon AWS
11 7 (25.93%) GlassFish
11 7 (25.93%) UNIX
11 7 (25.93%) Oracle Application Server
11 7 (25.93%) Load Balancing
11 7 (25.93%) Oracle RAC

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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
1 7 (25.93%) Middleware
2 1 (3.704%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 7 (25.93%) Windows Azure
1 7 (25.93%) Amazon AWS
1 7 (25.93%) GlassFish
1 7 (25.93%) Oracle Application Server
1 7 (25.93%) WebLogic
2 6 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (7.407%) MS Exchange
4 1 (3.704%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (3.704%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (33.33%) VPN
2 8 (29.63%) MPLS
3 7 (25.93%) SAN
3 7 (25.93%) DNS
3 7 (25.93%) DHCP
3 7 (25.93%) TCP/IP
4 4 (14.81%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (7.407%) Network Security
5 2 (7.407%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (7.407%) BGP
6 1 (3.704%) BIG-IP
6 1 (3.704%) FWSM
6 1 (3.704%) Cisco PIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) Oracle 11g
1 7 (25.93%) SQL Server
1 7 (25.93%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (3.704%) MySQL
2 1 (3.704%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (3.704%) ClearQuest
1 1 (3.704%) MSI
1 1 (3.704%) ClearCase
1 1 (3.704%) Git (software)
General
1 2 (7.407%) Legal
1 2 (7.407%) Games
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Architect
2 8 (29.63%) Systems Engineer
2 8 (29.63%) Build Engineer
3 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure Architect
4 6 (22.22%) Network Engineer
5 2 (7.407%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (7.407%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (7.407%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (7.407%) Security Engineer
5 2 (7.407%) Administrator
6 1 (3.704%) Network Designer
6 1 (3.704%) Network Security Engineer
6 1 (3.704%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.704%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.704%) Windows Administrator
6 1 (3.704%) Network Administrator
6 1 (3.704%) Security Support Engineer
6 1 (3.704%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (29.63%) Thin Client
1 8 (29.63%) Fat Client
2 7 (25.93%) IaaS
2 7 (25.93%) PaaS
3 2 (7.407%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.704%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (70.37%) Windows
2 8 (29.63%) Solaris
2 8 (29.63%) Linux
2 8 (29.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (25.93%) UNIX
4 2 (7.407%) Ubuntu
4 2 (7.407%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (3.704%) SUSE
5 1 (3.704%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.93%) Load Balancing
2 4 (14.81%) Scrum
3 2 (7.407%) Time Management
3 2 (7.407%) Use Case
3 2 (7.407%) DoDAF
3 2 (7.407%) MODAF
3 2 (7.407%) V-Model
3 2 (7.407%) SOA
3 2 (7.407%) UML
3 2 (7.407%) TOGAF
4 1 (3.704%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 12 (44.44%) C
2 2 (7.407%) SQL
3 1 (3.704%) Java
Qualifications
1 16 (59.26%) Security Cleared
2 14 (51.85%) DV Cleared
3 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 4 (14.81%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (11.11%) CCNP
5 1 (3.704%) CCSP
5 1 (3.704%) CCNA
5 1 (3.704%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.704%) Degree
System Software
1 18 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (25.93%) vSphere
2 7 (25.93%) Oracle RAC
2 7 (25.93%) Active Directory
3 2 (7.407%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (7.407%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) WSUS
2 1 (3.704%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 21 (77.78%) Cisco
2 20 (74.07%) VMware
3 10 (37.04%) Microsoft
3 10 (37.04%) Juniper
4 8 (29.63%) Citrix
4 8 (29.63%) Oracle
4 8 (29.63%) Sophos
4 8 (29.63%) Lumension
5 7 (25.93%) Red Hat
5 7 (25.93%) Sun
6 2 (7.407%) CheckPoint
7 1 (3.704%) Symantec
7 1 (3.704%) McAfee
7 1 (3.704%) Perforce
7 1 (3.704%) JBoss
7 1 (3.704%) Dell
7 1 (3.704%) F5
7 1 (3.704%) SolarWinds