The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall 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 Firewall over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 57 57 42
Rank change year-on-year
0 -15
Contract jobs citing Firewall 6 13 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.942% 1.331% 2.511%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.217% 6.533% 10.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 7
Average daily rate £350 £269 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.23% -8.89%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-2.98% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 6
Average hourly rate £11.50 £23.25 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-50.53% -33.57%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.63 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-28.63% +30.95%
All Communications & Networking
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
115 199 211
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 18.05% 20.37% 24.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 46 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 £208 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £401 £475 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 28
Average hourly rate £15.00 £21.50 £33.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.23% -34.84%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.75 £10.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £35.25 £42.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
Firewall
East of England

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Firewall Hourly Rate Trend

Firewall
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Hemel Hempstead - 3 £350 -
Firewall
East of England

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 11 (50.00%) VPN
1 11 (50.00%) Cisco
2 9 (40.91%) Windows
2 9 (40.91%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (36.36%) Active Directory
3 8 (36.36%) CheckPoint
4 7 (31.82%) SAN
5 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
5 6 (27.27%) DNS
5 6 (27.27%) ITIL
5 6 (27.27%) IIS
5 6 (27.27%) MS Office
5 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
6 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
6 5 (22.73%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (22.73%) ITIL V3
6 5 (22.73%) VMware
6 5 (22.73%) Telecoms
6 5 (22.73%) Degree
6 5 (22.73%) PRINCE2
6 5 (22.73%) DHCP
6 5 (22.73%) VoIP
6 5 (22.73%) Citrix
6 5 (22.73%) Sophos
6 5 (22.73%) Project Management
6 5 (22.73%) Service Management
7 4 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (18.18%) CCSP
7 4 (18.18%) CCSE
7 4 (18.18%) CCSA

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 3 (13.64%) .NET
2 1 (4.545%) ASP
2 1 (4.545%) COM+
2 1 (4.545%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 6 (27.27%) IIS
2 3 (13.64%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (13.64%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (13.64%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (13.64%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 6 (27.27%) MS Office
2 2 (9.091%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (50.00%) VPN
2 7 (31.82%) SAN
3 6 (27.27%) DNS
4 5 (22.73%) DHCP
4 5 (22.73%) VoIP
5 4 (18.18%) Network Security
6 3 (13.64%) Cisco PIX
6 3 (13.64%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (13.64%) Internet
7 2 (9.091%) MPLS
7 2 (9.091%) LAN
7 2 (9.091%) NAS
8 1 (4.545%) FWSM
8 1 (4.545%) WAAS
8 1 (4.545%) Ethernet
8 1 (4.545%) SMS
8 1 (4.545%) WAN
8 1 (4.545%) IPv6
8 1 (4.545%) ATM
8 1 (4.545%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) SQL Server 2008
1 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
1 3 (13.64%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 2 (9.091%) MSBuild
1 2 (9.091%) Jenkins
1 2 (9.091%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 2 (9.091%) Subversion
1 2 (9.091%) TeamCity
1 2 (9.091%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (9.091%) WiX
2 1 (4.545%) Hudson
General
1 5 (22.73%) Telecoms
2 2 (9.091%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Head of IT
2 4 (18.18%) Firewall Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Security Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) IT Manager
3 3 (13.64%) Network Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Network Security Engineer
4 2 (9.091%) Analyst
4 2 (9.091%) Support Analyst
4 2 (9.091%) Build Manager
4 2 (9.091%) Release Manager
4 2 (9.091%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
5 1 (4.545%) Technical Assurance Manager
5 1 (4.545%) IT Technician
5 1 (4.545%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Deployment Manager
5 1 (4.545%) Test Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (13.64%) Clustering
2 3 (13.64%) Blackberry
3 1 (4.545%) Fat Client
3 1 (4.545%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 9 (40.91%) Windows
1 9 (40.91%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (13.64%) Windows 2000
2 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) ITIL
2 5 (22.73%) ITIL V3
2 5 (22.73%) PRINCE2
2 5 (22.73%) Project Management
2 5 (22.73%) Service Management
3 4 (18.18%) Load Balancing
4 3 (13.64%) PDCA
4 3 (13.64%) Six Sigma
4 3 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (9.091%) PRINCE
5 2 (9.091%) Integration Testing
5 2 (9.091%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (4.545%) Release Management
6 1 (4.545%) Build Automation
6 1 (4.545%) Change Control
6 1 (4.545%) Security Architecture
6 1 (4.545%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (4.545%) Programme Office Management
6 1 (4.545%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.091%) Java
1 2 (9.091%) SQL
1 2 (9.091%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
2 5 (22.73%) Degree
3 4 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (18.18%) CCSP
3 4 (18.18%) CCSE
3 4 (18.18%) CCSA
4 3 (13.64%) CCIE
5 1 (4.545%) JNCIA
5 1 (4.545%) CCNP
5 1 (4.545%) CCNA
5 1 (4.545%) MCSE
5 1 (4.545%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.091%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 3 (13.64%) vSphere
2 3 (13.64%) VMware ESX
3 2 (9.091%) Xen
3 2 (9.091%) Hyper-V
3 2 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.545%) XenServer
4 1 (4.545%) ProxySG
4 1 (4.545%) Snort
4 1 (4.545%) NFS
4 1 (4.545%) Terminal Services
4 1 (4.545%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (4.545%) SCCM
2 1 (4.545%) NetBackup
2 1 (4.545%) Backup Exec
2 1 (4.545%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 11 (50.00%) Cisco
2 8 (36.36%) CheckPoint
3 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
4 5 (22.73%) VMware
4 5 (22.73%) Citrix
4 5 (22.73%) Sophos
5 3 (13.64%) Acronis
5 3 (13.64%) Fortinet
5 3 (13.64%) Symantec
6 2 (9.091%) McAfee
6 2 (9.091%) Juniper
6 2 (9.091%) Crossbeam
7 1 (4.545%) F5
7 1 (4.545%) Blue Coat
7 1 (4.545%) Sourcefire
7 1 (4.545%) Huawei
7 1 (4.545%) HP
7 1 (4.545%) Adobe
7 1 (4.545%) SAP
7 1 (4.545%) Oracle