The first table below looks at the demand for the Firewall Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Firewall Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 18 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 Job Titles advertised 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall Engineer
Rank 373 393 433
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +40
Contract jobs requiring a Firewall Engineer 19 20 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.082% 0.075% 0.070%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.090% 0.081% 0.076%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 17 14
Average daily rate £475 £410 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.85% -3.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £348 £318 £376
10% offered a daily rate of more than £505 £600 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £318 £265
% change year-on-year
-0.78% +19.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £25.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
21207 24646 29107
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 91.96% 92.55% 92.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 14319 15934 18765
Average daily rate £450 £435 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -8.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 457 611 670
Average hourly rate £20.00 £19.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.56% -2.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.97 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.10 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Firewall Engineer
England

Firewall Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Firewall Engineer across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

London Firewall Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Firewall Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Firewall Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Firewall Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Firewall Engineer across the London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

London Firewall Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Firewall Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Firewall Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Firewall Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall Engineer within the London region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
City of London 0 2 £494 +12.85% 4
Docklands, London - - - -
Firewall Engineer
England

Firewall Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Firewall Engineer in their job title 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 with Firewall Engineer in their job title.

1 32 (100.00%) Firewall
2 21 (65.63%) F5
3 18 (56.25%) Cisco
4 14 (43.75%) Citrix
4 14 (43.75%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (40.63%) Juniper
5 13 (40.63%) CCIE
6 11 (34.38%) TCP/IP
6 11 (34.38%) UNIX
6 11 (34.38%) CheckPoint
7 10 (31.25%) Finance
7 10 (31.25%) GIAC
7 10 (31.25%) BIG-IP
7 10 (31.25%) PKI
7 10 (31.25%) Java EE
7 10 (31.25%) Windows
7 10 (31.25%) Linux
7 10 (31.25%) JBoss
7 10 (31.25%) Apache
7 10 (31.25%) LDAP
7 10 (31.25%) E-Commerce
7 10 (31.25%) Windows XP
7 10 (31.25%) LAN
7 10 (31.25%) WAN
7 10 (31.25%) Java
7 10 (31.25%) Perl
7 10 (31.25%) WebSphere Application Server
7 10 (31.25%) IIS
7 10 (31.25%) COM+
7 10 (31.25%) SOAP

Firewall Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Firewall Engineer in their job title 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 with Firewall Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (31.25%) COM+
1 10 (31.25%) SOAP
1 10 (31.25%) Web Services
1 10 (31.25%) XML
1 10 (31.25%) XSLT
1 10 (31.25%) WebSphere
1 10 (31.25%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 10 (31.25%) WebSphere Application Server
1 10 (31.25%) IIS
1 10 (31.25%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 32 (100.00%) Firewall
2 11 (34.38%) TCP/IP
3 10 (31.25%) LDAP
3 10 (31.25%) LAN
3 10 (31.25%) WAN
3 10 (31.25%) BIG-IP
3 10 (31.25%) NetScaler
3 10 (31.25%) Cisco Nexus
4 9 (28.13%) Cisco ASA
4 9 (28.13%) Wireless
4 9 (28.13%) IP Telephony
4 9 (28.13%) OSPF
4 9 (28.13%) BGP
5 8 (25.00%) DNS
6 7 (21.88%) DHCP
6 7 (21.88%) SNMP
6 7 (21.88%) Junos
7 6 (18.75%) VLAN
7 6 (18.75%) Ethernet
7 6 (18.75%) MPLS
General
1 10 (31.25%) Finance
2 2 (6.250%) Financial Institution
3 1 (3.125%) Banking
3 1 (3.125%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 10 (31.25%) PKI
2 4 (12.50%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (34.38%) UNIX
2 10 (31.25%) Windows
2 10 (31.25%) Linux
2 10 (31.25%) Windows XP
2 10 (31.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (31.25%) E-Commerce
1 10 (31.25%) Network Architecture
2 8 (25.00%) Migration
3 7 (21.88%) Project Planning
3 7 (21.88%) Network Management
4 1 (3.125%) Load Balancing
4 1 (3.125%) Project Management
4 1 (3.125%) Change Management
4 1 (3.125%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (31.25%) Java
1 10 (31.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (43.75%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (40.63%) CCIE
3 10 (31.25%) GIAC
3 10 (31.25%) GWAPT
3 10 (31.25%) GPEN
4 7 (21.88%) JNCIE
5 6 (18.75%) Degree
5 6 (18.75%) CISSP
6 3 (9.375%) JNCIP
6 3 (9.375%) CCNP
7 1 (3.125%) SC Cleared
7 1 (3.125%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (28.13%) FortiGate
2 1 (3.125%) OpenView
Vendors
1 21 (65.63%) F5
2 18 (56.25%) Cisco
3 14 (43.75%) Citrix
4 13 (40.63%) Juniper
5 11 (34.38%) CheckPoint
6 10 (31.25%) Imperva
6 10 (31.25%) Microsoft
6 10 (31.25%) JBoss
6 10 (31.25%) Red Hat
7 9 (28.13%) Sourcefire
7 9 (28.13%) Fortinet
8 7 (21.88%) Nokia
8 7 (21.88%) HP
9 6 (18.75%) VMware
10 4 (12.50%) Aruba
10 4 (12.50%) Polycom
11 2 (6.250%) Blue Coat
12 1 (3.125%) TippingPoint
12 1 (3.125%) CommVault
12 1 (3.125%) Novell
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