Firewall Contracts in Kent
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Firewall 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 Kent 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
Firewall
Rank 30 29 16
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -13
Contract jobs citing Firewall 8 8 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 2.685% 2.985% 10.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.00% 30.77% 32.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 20
Average daily rate £338 £301 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.03% +0.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £308 £265 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £388 £390 £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £331 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.88% +1.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £67.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +68.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.63 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-28.63% +30.95%
All Communications & Networking
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 40 26 96
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 13.42% 9.701% 31.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 16 66
Average daily rate £240 £308 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.95% +2.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 8
Average hourly rate £16.00 £67.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-76.29% +68.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
Firewall
South East

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent 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 Kent region over the 3 months to 22 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
Dover - 2 £400 -
Maidstone +1 1 - -
Firewall
South East

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 16 (57.14%) Windows
2 15 (53.57%) VMware
3 14 (50.00%) Cisco
4 13 (46.43%) DNS
4 13 (46.43%) Active Directory
4 13 (46.43%) HP
4 13 (46.43%) Juniper
5 12 (42.86%) VPN
6 11 (39.29%) DHCP
6 11 (39.29%) SharePoint
6 11 (39.29%) Citrix
6 11 (39.29%) IPsec
7 9 (32.14%) Windows Server 2003
7 9 (32.14%) Microsoft
7 9 (32.14%) LAN
7 9 (32.14%) WAN
7 9 (32.14%) Windows Server 2008
8 8 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
8 8 (28.57%) Windows 2000 Server
8 8 (28.57%) WLAN
8 8 (28.57%) Dell
9 7 (25.00%) IPv6
9 7 (25.00%) SCOM
10 6 (21.43%) Release Management
10 6 (21.43%) PowerShell
10 6 (21.43%) Terminal Services
10 6 (21.43%) TCP/IP
10 6 (21.43%) VBScript
10 6 (21.43%) PKI
11 5 (17.86%) VLAN

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 1 (3.571%) WebSphere
1 1 (3.571%) WAP
1 1 (3.571%) COM
1 1 (3.571%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 11 (39.29%) SharePoint
2 5 (17.86%) MS Exchange
3 4 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (10.71%) IIS
4 3 (10.71%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (7.143%) Lync
5 2 (7.143%) SharePoint 2010
5 2 (7.143%) Apache
6 1 (3.571%) Exchange Server 2003
6 1 (3.571%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (7.143%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (46.43%) DNS
2 12 (42.86%) VPN
3 11 (39.29%) DHCP
3 11 (39.29%) IPsec
4 9 (32.14%) LAN
4 9 (32.14%) WAN
5 8 (28.57%) WLAN
6 7 (25.00%) IPv6
7 6 (21.43%) TCP/IP
8 5 (17.86%) VLAN
9 4 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (14.29%) SAN
10 3 (10.71%) iSCSI
11 2 (7.143%) Network Security
11 2 (7.143%) MPLS
11 2 (7.143%) OSPF
11 2 (7.143%) BGP
11 2 (7.143%) Internet
11 2 (7.143%) IP Telephony
12 1 (3.571%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
1 3 (10.71%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (7.143%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (3.571%) DB2
3 1 (3.571%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.571%) WebLOAD
General
1 4 (14.29%) Finance
2 3 (10.71%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.571%) Banking
3 1 (3.571%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Server Engineer
2 8 (28.57%) Desktop Engineer
2 8 (28.57%) Network Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Server Support Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Project Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Server Support
3 4 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Desktop Support
4 3 (10.71%) Consultant
4 3 (10.71%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (7.143%) Administrator
5 2 (7.143%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.143%) Network Administrator
5 2 (7.143%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.143%) Firewall Engineer
6 1 (3.571%) Head of IT
6 1 (3.571%) UNIX Consultant
6 1 (3.571%) Senior UNIX Consultant
6 1 (3.571%) Linux Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) PKI
2 2 (7.143%) NHS
2 2 (7.143%) Blackberry
2 2 (7.143%) Replication
2 2 (7.143%) Clustering
3 1 (3.571%) IVR
3 1 (3.571%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.571%) SaaS
3 1 (3.571%) Open Source
3 1 (3.571%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 16 (57.14%) Windows
2 9 (32.14%) Windows Server 2003
2 9 (32.14%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (28.57%) Windows 2000 Server
4 2 (7.143%) Linux
4 2 (7.143%) Windows 2000
5 1 (3.571%) Ubuntu
5 1 (3.571%) Fedora
5 1 (3.571%) Debian
5 1 (3.571%) OpenBSD
5 1 (3.571%) VMS
5 1 (3.571%) FreeBSD
5 1 (3.571%) UNIX
5 1 (3.571%) Windows 7
5 1 (3.571%) CentOS
5 1 (3.571%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (21.43%) Release Management
2 3 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (7.143%) Data Protection
3 2 (7.143%) Load Balancing
3 2 (7.143%) Project Management
4 1 (3.571%) Network Design
4 1 (3.571%) Service Management
4 1 (3.571%) Service Delivery
4 1 (3.571%) Change Management
4 1 (3.571%) Security Management
4 1 (3.571%) Configuration Management
4 1 (3.571%) ITIL
4 1 (3.571%) Network Architecture
4 1 (3.571%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (21.43%) PowerShell
1 6 (21.43%) VBScript
2 1 (3.571%) Java
2 1 (3.571%) PHP
2 1 (3.571%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
1 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (10.71%) CCNP
3 3 (10.71%) MCSA
4 2 (7.143%) CCNA
5 1 (3.571%) JNCIP
5 1 (3.571%) CCDP
5 1 (3.571%) CCIP
5 1 (3.571%) CCIE
5 1 (3.571%) CCSP
5 1 (3.571%) Check Point Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.143%) SLA
2 1 (3.571%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (46.43%) Active Directory
2 8 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (21.43%) Terminal Services
4 3 (10.71%) Terminal Server
5 2 (7.143%) Forefront TMG
5 2 (7.143%) Squid
5 2 (7.143%) Hyper-V
5 2 (7.143%) vSphere
5 2 (7.143%) VMware ESX
6 1 (3.571%) ISA Server
6 1 (3.571%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (3.571%) SpamAssassin
Systems Management
1 7 (25.00%) SCOM
2 2 (7.143%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (3.571%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 15 (53.57%) VMware
2 14 (50.00%) Cisco
3 13 (46.43%) HP
3 13 (46.43%) Juniper
4 11 (39.29%) Citrix
5 9 (32.14%) Microsoft
6 8 (28.57%) Dell
7 5 (17.86%) EMC
8 4 (14.29%) CheckPoint
9 3 (10.71%) F5
10 2 (7.143%) Acronis
10 2 (7.143%) WatchGuard
10 2 (7.143%) NetApp
10 2 (7.143%) Nokia
10 2 (7.143%) Veritas
10 2 (7.143%) Red Hat
10 2 (7.143%) Symantec
10 2 (7.143%) Sophos
11 1 (3.571%) Blue Coat
11 1 (3.571%) Avaya
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