Herefordshire Network Security Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Network Security skills within the Herefordshire region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Network Security over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Argyll and Bute Aylesbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Croydon Cumbria Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Ipswich Kent Leeds Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wirral York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	28	20
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching contract IT job ads	2	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	7.143 %	6.667 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£390	£392
% change on same period last year	-0.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.67	£29.91
% change on same period last year	-7.49 %
Communications & Networking Herefordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	28	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.039 %	0.015 %
Daily rates quoted	15	2
Average minimum daily rate	£368	£217
Average daily rate	£396	£267
% change on same period last year	+48.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£423	£317
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+4.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£10.00
Average hourly rate	£16.00	£12.50
% change on same period last year	+28.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.00	£15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.43	£28.95
% change on same period last year	-5.27 %
Network Security West Midlands

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Network Security across the Herefordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Network Security across the Herefordshire region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Network Security across the Herefordshire region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Security within the Herefordshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Hemel Hempstead	-	2	-	-

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Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Herefordshire region citing Network Security 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 Network Security.

1 3 (100.00 %) Cisco 1 3 (100.00 %) Firewall 2 2 (66.67 %) CCNP 2 2 (66.67 %) CiscoWorks 2 2 (66.67 %) Cisco Certification 2 2 (66.67 %) LAN 2 2 (66.67 %) VMS 2 2 (66.67 %) TACACS 2 2 (66.67 %) VLAN 2 2 (66.67 %) Cisco IOS 2 2 (66.67 %) Cisco PIX 3 1 (33.33 %) NetScreen 3 1 (33.33 %) VPN 3 1 (33.33 %) CheckPoint 3 1 (33.33 %) Perl

3 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 3 1 (33.33 %) Linux 3 1 (33.33 %) 3Com

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Herefordshire region citing Network Security 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 Network Security. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 3 (100.00 %) Firewall 2 2 (66.67 %) VLAN 2 2 (66.67 %) Cisco IOS 2 2 (66.67 %) Cisco PIX 2 2 (66.67 %) LAN 2 2 (66.67 %) TACACS 3 1 (33.33 %) NetScreen 3 1 (33.33 %) VPN	Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Network Specialist 2 1 (33.33 %) Network Engineer
Operating Systems 1 2 (66.67 %) VMS 2 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2 1 (33.33 %) Linux	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 2 (66.67 %) CCNP 1 2 (66.67 %) Cisco Certification	Systems Management 1 2 (66.67 %) CiscoWorks
Vendors 1 3 (100.00 %) Cisco 2 1 (33.33 %) CheckPoint 2 1 (33.33 %) 3Com