The first table below looks at the demand for Cisco ASA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cisco ASA over the 3 months to 22 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 Hertfordshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA)
Rank 62 74 -
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -
Contract jobs citing Cisco ASA 2 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.307% 0.102% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.754% 0.510% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £243 £275 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.81% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £310 £315
% change year-on-year
+1.61% -1.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.63 £25.00 £23.36
% change year-on-year
-21.50% +7.02%
All Communications & Networking
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
114 196 208
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 17.51% 20.06% 24.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 47 62
Average daily rate £300 £325 £298
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +9.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £475 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 28
Average hourly rate £16.24 £19.47 £33.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.59% -41.01%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.20 £11.45 £10.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £34.10 £42.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
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 Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Cisco ASA Daily Rate Trend

Cisco ASA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Cisco ASA Hourly Rate Trend

Cisco ASA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 4 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (75.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) CCNP
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (25.00%) ISA Server
4 1 (25.00%) MPLS
4 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) CCSP
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (25.00%) Juniper
4 1 (25.00%) Thin Client
4 1 (25.00%) CCNA
4 1 (25.00%) HP
4 1 (25.00%) Citrix
4 1 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (25.00%) Oracle
4 1 (25.00%) SAP
4 1 (25.00%) CSS
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (25.00%) MCSE
4 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
4 1 (25.00%) NFS
4 1 (25.00%) VPN
4 1 (25.00%) SLA
4 1 (25.00%) IPsec
4 1 (25.00%) Programme Office Management
4 1 (25.00%) CCSA
4 1 (25.00%) Blue Coat

Cisco ASA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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.

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) MPLS
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) IPsec
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco PIX
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) WAAS
2 1 (25.00%) FWSM
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (25.00%) Fat Client
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL
1 1 (25.00%) Programme Office Management
1 1 (25.00%) Network Design
1 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (25.00%) Release Management
1 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (25.00%) Change Control
1 1 (25.00%) Build Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) CCSP
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) CCNA
2 1 (25.00%) MCSE
2 1 (25.00%) CCSA
2 1 (25.00%) CCSE
2 1 (25.00%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) ISA Server
1 1 (25.00%) NFS
1 1 (25.00%) ProxySG
1 1 (25.00%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco UCCX
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Juniper
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) SAP
3 1 (25.00%) Blue Coat
3 1 (25.00%) Sourcefire
3 1 (25.00%) Crossbeam
3 1 (25.00%) F5