The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Firewall over the 3 months to 20 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 Guildford 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 28 16 17
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +1
Contract jobs citing Firewall 5 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 2.294% 2.632% 2.439%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.87% 9.677% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
Average daily rate £460 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-2.98% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £14.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.63 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-28.63% +30.95%
All Communications & Networking
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
46 31 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 21.10% 27.19% 21.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 3
Average daily rate £320 £355 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.85% +9.23%
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 6
Average hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
Firewall
Surrey

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford 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 Guildford region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford Firewall Hourly Rate Trend

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 3 (50.00%) Cisco
1 3 (50.00%) Juniper
2 2 (33.33%) SAN
2 2 (33.33%) Solaris
2 2 (33.33%) Radware
2 2 (33.33%) Internet
2 2 (33.33%) McAfee
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) SMTP
2 2 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) NAS
2 2 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
2 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) jQuery
3 1 (16.67%) Ajax
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Management
3 1 (16.67%) FTP
3 1 (16.67%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) SSL
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) CCNP
3 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) SQL

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
1 1 (16.67%) Ajax
1 1 (16.67%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) SMTP
1 2 (33.33%) SAN
1 2 (33.33%) Internet
1 2 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (33.33%) NAS
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (16.67%) FTP
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Principal Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Solaris
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
1 2 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
2 1 (16.67%) OOP
2 1 (16.67%) OO
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
2 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (16.67%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
1 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) CCNP
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco
1 3 (50.00%) Juniper
2 2 (33.33%) McAfee
2 2 (33.33%) Radware
3 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft