Knutsford Firewall Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Firewall skills within the Knutsford region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Firewall over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Rank	13	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	6.250 %	0.000 %
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	£353	£347
% change on same period last year	+1.50 %
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	£25.42	£28.08
% change on same period last year	-9.47 %
Communications & Networking Knutsford
Matching contract IT job ads	16	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.003 %
Daily rates quoted	4	2
Average minimum daily rate	£364	£360
Average daily rate	£394	£380
% change on same period last year	+3.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£424	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£343	£343
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
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	£25.58	£28.76
% change on same period last year	-11.03 %
Firewall Cheshire

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 Firewall across the Knutsford 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 Firewall across the Knutsford region.

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Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Knutsford 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 3 (100.00 %) UNIX 2 2 (66.67 %) Tivoli 2 2 (66.67 %) Tivoli Monitoring 2 2 (66.67 %) Shell Script 2 2 (66.67 %) Perl 3 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 3 1 (33.33 %) Middleware 3 1 (33.33 %) Change Management 3 1 (33.33 %) Finance 3 1 (33.33 %) Oracle Application Server 3 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 10gAS 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 3 1 (33.33 %) AIX 3 1 (33.33 %) SSL 3 1 (33.33 %) IBM

3 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 10g 3 1 (33.33 %) OpenView 3 1 (33.33 %) HP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Knutsford 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 (33.33 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle Application Server 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 10gAS
Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) SSL	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 10g
General 1 1 (33.33 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Consultant 1 1 (33.33 %) Tivoli Consultant
Operating Systems 1 3 (100.00 %) UNIX 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2 1 (33.33 %) AIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Change Management
Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) Perl 1 2 (66.67 %) Shell Script	Systems Management 1 2 (66.67 %) Tivoli 1 2 (66.67 %) Tivoli Monitoring 2 1 (33.33 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 1 1 (33.33 %) IBM 1 1 (33.33 %) HP