The first table below looks at the demand for FWSM 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 FWSM 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 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Firewall Services Module (FWSM)
Rank 379 397 448
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +51
Contract jobs citing FWSM 13 16 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.056% 0.060% 0.022%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.452% 0.443% 0.199%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 2
Average daily rate £348 £425 £405
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.23% +4.93%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £257 £371 £369
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £440 £441
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £345 £295
% change year-on-year
-5.79% +16.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £29.00
All Communications & Networking
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
2874 3613 3511
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 12.46% 13.57% 11.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1776 2189 2018
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £220 £241
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £515
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 143 228
Average hourly rate £21.50 £22.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.44% +9.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.55 £15.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £53.85 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.96%
FWSM
England

FWSM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London FWSM Daily Rate Trend

FWSM
Daily Rate Histogram

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

London FWSM Daily Rate Histogram

FWSM
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London FWSM Hourly Rate Trend

FWSM
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FWSM 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
City of London +10 6 £348 -18.23% 1
Uxbridge - 1 - -
Croydon - - - -
Docklands, London - - - -
FWSM
England

FWSM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 21 (100.00%) Cisco
1 21 (100.00%) Firewall
2 16 (76.19%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (76.19%) Cisco ASA
3 14 (66.67%) WAN
4 13 (61.90%) LAN
4 13 (61.90%) Juniper
5 12 (57.14%) CheckPoint
6 11 (52.38%) TCP/IP
6 11 (52.38%) CCNP
6 11 (52.38%) Cisco PIX
6 11 (52.38%) Network Security
7 10 (47.62%) VPN
7 10 (47.62%) BGP
8 9 (42.86%) OSPF
9 8 (38.10%) CCDP
10 7 (33.33%) DNS
10 7 (33.33%) Load Balancing
10 7 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
10 7 (33.33%) F5
11 6 (28.57%) Cisco Nexus
11 6 (28.57%) Junos
11 6 (28.57%) Linux
11 6 (28.57%) DHCP
12 5 (23.81%) UNIX
12 5 (23.81%) EMC
12 5 (23.81%) CCIP
12 5 (23.81%) Wireless
12 5 (23.81%) EIGRP
12 5 (23.81%) SAN

FWSM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

Application Platforms
1 4 (19.05%) Apache
1 4 (19.05%) CloudStack
Communications & Networking
1 21 (100.00%) Firewall
2 16 (76.19%) Cisco ASA
3 14 (66.67%) WAN
4 13 (61.90%) LAN
5 11 (52.38%) TCP/IP
5 11 (52.38%) Cisco PIX
5 11 (52.38%) Network Security
6 10 (47.62%) VPN
6 10 (47.62%) BGP
7 9 (42.86%) OSPF
8 7 (33.33%) DNS
8 7 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
9 6 (28.57%) Junos
9 6 (28.57%) Cisco Nexus
9 6 (28.57%) DHCP
10 5 (23.81%) MPLS
10 5 (23.81%) SAN
10 5 (23.81%) EIGRP
10 5 (23.81%) Wireless
10 5 (23.81%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) MySQL
General
1 3 (14.29%) Advertising
2 2 (9.524%) Retail
3 1 (4.762%) Finance
3 1 (4.762%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Network Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Core Network Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Virtualisation Specialist
3 3 (14.29%) Network Manager
4 2 (9.524%) Cisco Engineer
4 2 (9.524%) UNIX Specialist
4 2 (9.524%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (4.762%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 1 (4.762%) IP Engineer
5 1 (4.762%) Network Operations Engineer
5 1 (4.762%) Cisco Network Consultant
5 1 (4.762%) Senior Network Operations Engineer
5 1 (4.762%) Network Consultant
5 1 (4.762%) Consultant
5 1 (4.762%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (4.762%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.762%) Cisco Consultant
5 1 (4.762%) Network Security Engineer
5 1 (4.762%) Telephony Engineer
5 1 (4.762%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Open Source
2 4 (19.05%) CLARiiON
2 4 (19.05%) Clustering
3 3 (14.29%) Statistics
4 2 (9.524%) Computer Science
5 1 (4.762%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (28.57%) Linux
2 5 (23.81%) UNIX
3 4 (19.05%) Windows
3 4 (19.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (9.524%) Mac OS
5 1 (4.762%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 5 (23.81%) Network Management
2 5 (23.81%) Network Design
3 4 (19.05%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 3 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (14.29%) ITIL
4 3 (14.29%) PRINCE
4 3 (14.29%) Project Management
4 3 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (4.762%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) PHP
1 4 (19.05%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (76.19%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (52.38%) CCNP
3 8 (38.10%) CCDP
4 5 (23.81%) CCIP
4 5 (23.81%) JNCIA
5 3 (14.29%) CCIE
6 2 (9.524%) CISSP
6 2 (9.524%) CCNA
6 2 (9.524%) JNCIP
6 2 (9.524%) JNCIE
6 2 (9.524%) Degree
7 1 (4.762%) CCDE
7 1 (4.762%) CCVP
7 1 (4.762%) CCDA
7 1 (4.762%) CCSP
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (19.05%) vSphere
2 4 (19.05%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Nagios
1 5 (23.81%) Zenoss
2 1 (4.762%) OpenView
2 1 (4.762%) CiscoWorks
2 1 (4.762%) Netcool
Vendors
1 21 (100.00%) Cisco
2 13 (61.90%) Juniper
3 12 (57.14%) CheckPoint
4 7 (33.33%) F5
5 5 (23.81%) VMware
5 5 (23.81%) NetApp
5 5 (23.81%) EMC
6 4 (19.05%) Red Hat
7 3 (14.29%) SolarWinds
7 3 (14.29%) Infoblox
7 3 (14.29%) Aruba
8 1 (4.762%) Brocade
8 1 (4.762%) Fortinet
8 1 (4.762%) Remedy
City of London
Technically you will have strong working experience and knowledge of Cisco, routing and switching, LAN, WAN, MAN, WLAN, Cisco FWSM, ASA, Fortinet, Firewalls, Cisco PIX and Juniper NetScreen...
DP Connect Ltd
Rate: £400 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
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