The first table below looks at the demand for FWSM 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 FWSM over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Firewall Services Module (FWSM)
Rank 76 - 57
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing FWSM 2 0 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.253% - 0.736%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.143% - 6.494%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £325 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £345 £291
% change year-on-year
-5.79% +18.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £28.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £29.00
All Communications & Networking
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
175 144 77
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 22.10% 14.24% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 73 22
Average daily rate £275 £285 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.50% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £188 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £350 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 11
Average hourly rate £30.00 £13.50 £24.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+122.22% -44.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.30 £11.00 £14.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.00 £30.00 £31.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
FWSM
West Yorkshire

FWSM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds FWSM Jobs Demand Trend

FWSM
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leeds FWSM Daily Rate Trend

FWSM
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leeds FWSM Hourly Rate Trend

FWSM
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing FWSM 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 FWSM.

1 2 (100.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (100.00%) CCSA
1 2 (100.00%) CCSE
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus

FWSM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing FWSM 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 FWSM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CCSA
1 2 (100.00%) CCSE
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
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