The first table below looks at the demand for Cisco ASA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds 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 Leeds 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 54 65 53
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -12
Contract jobs citing Cisco ASA 14 6 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 1.862% 0.672% 0.161%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.955% 4.878% 1.613%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 1
Average daily rate £328 £285 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.91% -5.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £310 £315
% change year-on-year
+1.61% -1.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £34.75 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.63 £25.00 £23.36
% change year-on-year
-21.50% +7.02%
All Communications & Networking
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
176 123 62
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 23.40% 13.77% 9.984%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 58 22
Average daily rate £275 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £235 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £350 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 17 12
Average hourly rate £34.75 £13.75 £19.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+152.72% -30.37%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £11.00 £11.93
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £115.00 £30.00 £31.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
Cisco ASA
West Yorkshire

Cisco ASA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Cisco ASA Daily Rate Trend

Cisco ASA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco ASA across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Leeds Cisco ASA Daily Rate Histogram

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 Leeds region.

Leeds 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 Leeds 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 14 (100.00%) Cisco
2 13 (92.86%) Firewall
3 9 (64.29%) Windows
3 9 (64.29%) Windows Server 2008
4 8 (57.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (57.14%) F5
4 8 (57.14%) Linux
4 8 (57.14%) Red Hat
5 7 (50.00%) BIG-IP
5 7 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (50.00%) CentOS
6 6 (42.86%) Perforce
6 6 (42.86%) Configuration Management
6 6 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (35.71%) CCNP
8 4 (28.57%) VMware
8 4 (28.57%) CCNA
8 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
8 4 (28.57%) HP
8 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
9 3 (21.43%) Juniper
9 3 (21.43%) CheckPoint
9 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (14.29%) MPLS
10 2 (14.29%) VLAN
10 2 (14.29%) SAN
10 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
10 2 (14.29%) LAN
10 2 (14.29%) SQL
10 2 (14.29%) WAN

Cisco ASA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 (7.143%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.143%) IIS
1 1 (7.143%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (7.143%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.143%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 13 (92.86%) Firewall
2 7 (50.00%) BIG-IP
3 2 (14.29%) MPLS
3 2 (14.29%) VLAN
3 2 (14.29%) SAN
3 2 (14.29%) LAN
3 2 (14.29%) WAN
3 2 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (7.143%) iSCSI
4 1 (7.143%) DMVPN
4 1 (7.143%) SMTP
4 1 (7.143%) DHCP
4 1 (7.143%) FTP
4 1 (7.143%) HTTP
4 1 (7.143%) TCP/IP
4 1 (7.143%) VPN
4 1 (7.143%) DNS
4 1 (7.143%) WLAN
4 1 (7.143%) SSH
4 1 (7.143%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.143%) Data Mining
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Network Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Systems Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Server Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Network Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Software Manager
3 1 (7.143%) Configuration Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Network Support Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Network Support
3 1 (7.143%) Server Support Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Network Specialist
3 1 (7.143%) Environment Manager
3 1 (7.143%) Software Configuration Manager
3 1 (7.143%) Server Support
3 1 (7.143%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Configuration Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.143%) Reference Data
1 1 (7.143%) EqualLogic
1 1 (7.143%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 9 (64.29%) Windows
1 9 (64.29%) Windows Server 2008
2 8 (57.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (57.14%) Linux
3 7 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 7 (50.00%) CentOS
4 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (7.143%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Configuration Management
2 1 (7.143%) Test Management
2 1 (7.143%) Test Scripting
2 1 (7.143%) ITIL
2 1 (7.143%) CRM
2 1 (7.143%) Migration
2 1 (7.143%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (7.143%) C
2 1 (7.143%) PHP
2 1 (7.143%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (35.71%) CCNP
3 4 (28.57%) CCNA
3 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
4 1 (7.143%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.143%) MCP
4 1 (7.143%) MCSE
4 1 (7.143%) CCSP
4 1 (7.143%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.143%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 2 (14.29%) vSphere
2 1 (7.143%) XenServer
2 1 (7.143%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 1 (7.143%) PureDisk
1 1 (7.143%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (7.143%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) Cisco
2 8 (57.14%) F5
2 8 (57.14%) Red Hat
3 6 (42.86%) Perforce
4 4 (28.57%) VMware
4 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 4 (28.57%) HP
5 3 (21.43%) Juniper
5 3 (21.43%) CheckPoint
6 2 (14.29%) Veeam
7 1 (7.143%) SonicWALL
7 1 (7.143%) TippingPoint
7 1 (7.143%) SolarWinds
7 1 (7.143%) Syncsort
7 1 (7.143%) BMC
7 1 (7.143%) Motorola
7 1 (7.143%) Nokia
7 1 (7.143%) Dell
7 1 (7.143%) Citrix
7 1 (7.143%) Brocade