The first table below looks at the demand for Cisco PIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cisco PIX over the 3 months to 20 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 London 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco PIX
Rank 352 346 411
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +65
Contract jobs citing Cisco PIX 29 56 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.134% 0.209% 0.075%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.015% 1.527% 0.692%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 39 8
Average daily rate £348 £350 £329
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.71% +6.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £298 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £478 £455 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £288 £350
% change year-on-year
+4.34% -17.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
Average hourly rate £25.00 £26.75 £34.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.54% -21.89%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £23.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year
- -47.22%
All Communications & Networking
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
2856 3668 3325
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 13.16% 13.66% 10.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1745 2236 1921
Average daily rate £400 £400 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +3.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £241 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 146 208
Average hourly rate £23.50 £22.50 £19.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.44% +16.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £15.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £37.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
Cisco PIX
England

Cisco PIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Cisco PIX Jobs Demand Trend

Cisco PIX
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Cisco PIX Daily Rate Trend

Cisco PIX
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco PIX across the London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

London Cisco PIX Daily Rate Histogram

Cisco PIX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Cisco PIX Hourly Rate Trend

Cisco PIX
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco PIX within the London region over the 3 months to 20 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
City of London +16 10 £413 +17.85%
Hammersmith - 3 - -
Uxbridge +2 1 - -
Cisco PIX
England

Cisco PIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Cisco PIX 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 PIX.

1 46 (100.00%) Cisco
2 43 (93.48%) Cisco ASA
3 33 (71.74%) Firewall
4 32 (69.57%) Cisco Certification
5 26 (56.52%) LAN
5 26 (56.52%) WAN
6 24 (52.17%) Windows
7 23 (50.00%) Citrix
8 22 (47.83%) Windows Server 2003
8 22 (47.83%) CCNP
9 21 (45.65%) Active Directory
9 21 (45.65%) Windows Server 2008
10 19 (41.30%) Exchange Server 2010
10 19 (41.30%) MS Exchange
10 19 (41.30%) SAN
11 18 (39.13%) VMware
11 18 (39.13%) VMware Infrastructure
12 17 (36.96%) VPN
12 17 (36.96%) CCNA
13 15 (32.61%) DNS
14 14 (30.43%) Microsoft
14 14 (30.43%) Finance
15 12 (26.09%) Internet
15 12 (26.09%) Network Security
16 11 (23.91%) XenApp
16 11 (23.91%) XenDesktop
16 11 (23.91%) Microsoft Certification
16 11 (23.91%) Mac OS X
16 11 (23.91%) CCA
16 11 (23.91%) Citrix Certification

Cisco PIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Cisco PIX 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 PIX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (4.348%) ASP
2 1 (2.174%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 19 (41.30%) MS Exchange
1 19 (41.30%) Exchange Server 2010
2 11 (23.91%) Exchange Server 2007
3 8 (17.39%) Exchange Server 2003
4 3 (6.522%) IIS
5 2 (4.348%) Apache
5 2 (4.348%) Tomcat
5 2 (4.348%) SharePoint
6 1 (2.174%) Lotus Notes
6 1 (2.174%) WebLogic
6 1 (2.174%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 2 (4.348%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.174%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 43 (93.48%) Cisco ASA
2 33 (71.74%) Firewall
3 26 (56.52%) WAN
3 26 (56.52%) LAN
4 19 (41.30%) SAN
5 17 (36.96%) VPN
6 15 (32.61%) DNS
7 12 (26.09%) Internet
7 12 (26.09%) Network Security
8 11 (23.91%) Cisco IOS
8 11 (23.91%) DHCP
9 10 (21.74%) VoIP
10 9 (19.57%) OSPF
10 9 (19.57%) BGP
10 9 (19.57%) Cisco Nexus
11 8 (17.39%) FWSM
12 7 (15.22%) MPLS
12 7 (15.22%) TCP/IP
13 6 (13.04%) NetScreen
14 5 (10.87%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.522%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.348%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (4.348%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (2.174%) MySQL
General
1 14 (30.43%) Finance
2 2 (4.348%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.174%) Publishing
3 1 (2.174%) Games
3 1 (2.174%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (28.26%) Network Engineer
2 12 (26.09%) Support Engineer
3 11 (23.91%) 3rd Line Support
3 11 (23.91%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 10 (21.74%) IT Support
4 10 (21.74%) IT Support Engineer
5 8 (17.39%) Analyst
5 8 (17.39%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 4 (8.696%) Core Network Engineer
6 4 (8.696%) NOC Engineer
7 3 (6.522%) Security Engineer
7 3 (6.522%) Network Security Engineer
8 2 (4.348%) Support Analyst
8 2 (4.348%) Architect
8 2 (4.348%) Administrator
8 2 (4.348%) Systems Administrator
8 2 (4.348%) Network Manager
8 2 (4.348%) Cisco Engineer
8 2 (4.348%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
9 1 (2.174%) Solaris Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.696%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (4.348%) Clustering
2 2 (4.348%) e-Health
3 1 (2.174%) SecurID
3 1 (2.174%) Online Games
3 1 (2.174%) Open Source
3 1 (2.174%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.174%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 24 (52.17%) Windows
2 22 (47.83%) Windows Server 2003
3 21 (45.65%) Windows Server 2008
4 11 (23.91%) Mac OS X
5 8 (17.39%) Linux
6 4 (8.696%) UNIX
7 3 (6.522%) Solaris
8 1 (2.174%) AIX
8 1 (2.174%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (2.174%) Mac OS
8 1 (2.174%) Windows 7
8 1 (2.174%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (19.57%) Change Management
2 6 (13.04%) ITIL
2 6 (13.04%) Load Balancing
3 5 (10.87%) Network Design
3 5 (10.87%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (8.696%) Service Management
4 4 (8.696%) Kanban
4 4 (8.696%) E-Commerce
4 4 (8.696%) Scrum
5 3 (6.522%) Network Management
6 2 (4.348%) Change Control
6 2 (4.348%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (2.174%) ITSM
7 1 (2.174%) Information Security
7 1 (2.174%) Configuration Management
7 1 (2.174%) Project Management
7 1 (2.174%) Incident Management
7 1 (2.174%) Network Load Balancing
7 1 (2.174%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (23.91%) SQL
2 2 (4.348%) Bash shell
3 1 (2.174%) C
3 1 (2.174%) Java
3 1 (2.174%) Perl
3 1 (2.174%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.174%) Korn
3 1 (2.174%) Bourne shell
Qualifications
1 32 (69.57%) Cisco Certification
2 22 (47.83%) CCNP
3 17 (36.96%) CCNA
4 11 (23.91%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (23.91%) MCSE
4 11 (23.91%) CCA
4 11 (23.91%) Citrix Certification
4 11 (23.91%) CCEA
4 11 (23.91%) MCITP
5 5 (10.87%) CCIE
5 5 (10.87%) CCSP
5 5 (10.87%) CCIP
5 5 (10.87%) CCDP
6 4 (8.696%) JNCIA
7 1 (2.174%) CCDA
7 1 (2.174%) CISA
7 1 (2.174%) CISM
7 1 (2.174%) CCSA
7 1 (2.174%) CCVP
7 1 (2.174%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.696%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (45.65%) Active Directory
2 18 (39.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (23.91%) XenApp
3 11 (23.91%) XenDesktop
4 8 (17.39%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 6 (13.04%) vSphere
6 1 (2.174%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (2.174%) CiscoWorks
1 1 (2.174%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 46 (100.00%) Cisco
2 23 (50.00%) Citrix
3 18 (39.13%) VMware
4 14 (30.43%) Microsoft
5 10 (21.74%) Juniper
6 8 (17.39%) NetApp
7 6 (13.04%) CheckPoint
8 4 (8.696%) Fortinet
9 2 (4.348%) Infoblox
9 2 (4.348%) Tufin
9 2 (4.348%) HP
9 2 (4.348%) IBM
10 1 (2.174%) Sun
10 1 (2.174%) Nokia
10 1 (2.174%) Veritas
10 1 (2.174%) Lotus
10 1 (2.174%) Red Hat
10 1 (2.174%) Oracle
10 1 (2.174%) Radware
10 1 (2.174%) F5
West London
ITIL Service Management Experience and SLA Reporting experience... Citrix Netscalers. Juniper Netscreen, Cisco ASA Firewalls and PIX. Network Security products (firewall, IPS, DLP) Arista Switches. Fortinet Firewalls... Minimum...
Experis IT
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
West London
ITIL Service Management... Scrum and KanBan Methodology experience... MPLS, IPSEC VPN, Firewalls and TACACS authentication. Wireless, VOIP and Security technologies... Citrix Netscalers. Juniper Netscreen, Cisco ASA Firewalls and...
Experis IT
Rate: Market Rates
Posted: 15 May 2013