The first table below looks at the demand for Cisco PIX 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 PIX 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 PIX
Rank 61 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Cisco PIX 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.461% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.632% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £275 £375
% change year-on-year
+4.54% -26.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £23.75 £46.25
% change year-on-year
- -48.64%
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 PIX
East of England

Cisco PIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire Cisco PIX Jobs Demand Trend

Cisco PIX
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Cisco PIX Daily Rate Trend

Cisco PIX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Cisco PIX Hourly Rate Trend

Cisco PIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Cisco PIX 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 PIX.

1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (66.67%) Internet
2 2 (66.67%) WiX
2 2 (66.67%) MSBuild
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) Xen
2 2 (66.67%) Integration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) TeamCity
2 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Retail
2 2 (66.67%) Subversion
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) IIS
2 2 (66.67%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) XenServer
3 1 (33.33%) Hudson
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA

Cisco PIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Cisco PIX 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 PIX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Internet
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) WiX
1 2 (66.67%) MSBuild
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) TeamCity
1 2 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (66.67%) Subversion
1 2 (66.67%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (33.33%) Hudson
General
1 2 (66.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Release Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Build Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Environment Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Manager
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Integration Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Java
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Xen
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) XenServer
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix