The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hammersmith region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Firewall over the 3 months to 23 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 Hammersmith 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 5 8 -
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -
Contract jobs citing Firewall 4 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hammersmith 11.43% 7.143% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.33% 30.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £223 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £328 £325
% change year-on-year
-0.76% +0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.63 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-28.63% +30.95%
All Communications & Networking
Hammersmith
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
12 10 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hammersmith 34.29% 23.81% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 3
Average daily rate £400 £250 £205
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+60.00% +21.95%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £21.34 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
Firewall
London

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hammersmith 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 Hammersmith region.

Hammersmith Firewall Daily Rate Trend

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hammersmith Firewall Hourly Rate Trend

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hammersmith 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 6 (100.00%) ITIL
1 6 (100.00%) Service Management
1 6 (100.00%) Load Balancing
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco
2 5 (83.33%) Citrix
3 4 (66.67%) Juniper
3 4 (66.67%) E-Commerce
3 4 (66.67%) VoIP
3 4 (66.67%) VPN
3 4 (66.67%) Wireless
3 4 (66.67%) IPsec
3 4 (66.67%) Scrum
3 4 (66.67%) MPLS
3 4 (66.67%) OSPF
3 4 (66.67%) BGP
3 4 (66.67%) TACACS
3 4 (66.67%) NetScreen
3 4 (66.67%) SLA
3 4 (66.67%) Fortinet
3 4 (66.67%) Cisco PIX
3 4 (66.67%) Network Security
3 4 (66.67%) Kanban
3 4 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (66.67%) Infoblox
3 4 (66.67%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (50.00%) CCNP
5 2 (33.33%) VBScript
5 2 (33.33%) Web Services
5 2 (33.33%) WSH

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hammersmith 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 2 (33.33%) Web Services
1 2 (33.33%) WSH
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) CloudStack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) VoIP
1 4 (66.67%) VPN
1 4 (66.67%) Wireless
1 4 (66.67%) IPsec
1 4 (66.67%) MPLS
1 4 (66.67%) OSPF
1 4 (66.67%) BGP
1 4 (66.67%) TACACS
1 4 (66.67%) NetScreen
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco PIX
1 4 (66.67%) Network Security
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco Nexus
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Games
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) IaaS
1 2 (33.33%) PaaS
1 2 (33.33%) e-Health
2 1 (16.67%) CMDB
2 1 (16.67%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) ITIL
1 6 (100.00%) Service Management
1 6 (100.00%) Load Balancing
2 4 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 4 (66.67%) Scrum
2 4 (66.67%) Kanban
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Workflow
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) OO
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) VBScript
1 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
1 2 (33.33%) Bash shell
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (50.00%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) vCloud
1 2 (33.33%) vSphere
1 2 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) BladeLogic
1 1 (16.67%) HP Operations Orchestration
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco
1 5 (83.33%) Citrix
2 4 (66.67%) Juniper
2 4 (66.67%) Fortinet
2 4 (66.67%) Infoblox
3 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (33.33%) Tufin
4 1 (16.67%) HP
4 1 (16.67%) BMC