The first table below looks at the demand for IPsec 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 IPsec over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
Rank 341 363 424
Rank change year-on-year
+22 +61
Contract jobs citing IPsec 36 47 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.166% 0.175% 0.035%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.282% 1.275% 0.319%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 31 9
Average daily rate £400 £430 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.97% +14.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £300 £272
10% offered a daily rate of more than £443 £499 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £375 £325
% change year-on-year
-12.00% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
Average hourly rate £18.25 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £33.75 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+3.70% -10.00%
All Communications & Networking
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
2809 3686 3446
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 12.98% 13.69% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1711 2238 1978
Average daily rate £400 £395 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.26% +1.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £240 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £520
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 148 221
Average hourly rate £21.34 £22.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.17% +12.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.34 £15.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
IPsec
England

IPsec
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London IPsec Jobs Demand Trend

IPsec
Daily Rate Trend

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

London IPsec Daily Rate Trend

IPsec
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IPsec across the London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

London IPsec Daily Rate Histogram

IPsec
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London IPsec Hourly Rate Trend

IPsec
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IPsec across the London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

London IPsec Hourly Rate Histogram

IPsec
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IPsec within the London region over the 3 months to 23 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 +20 8 £240 -51.87%
Hammersmith - 4 - -
Croydon - 2 - -
IPsec
England

IPsec
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing IPsec 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 IPsec.

1 50 (87.72%) Cisco
2 42 (73.68%) VPN
3 40 (70.18%) Firewall
4 28 (49.12%) Juniper
5 26 (45.61%) OSPF
6 24 (42.11%) BGP
6 24 (42.11%) LAN
7 22 (38.60%) WAN
7 22 (38.60%) DNS
7 22 (38.60%) Wireless
8 20 (35.09%) MPLS
9 19 (33.33%) SNMP
9 19 (33.33%) TCP/IP
9 19 (33.33%) Windows
10 15 (26.32%) DHCP
10 15 (26.32%) Citrix
11 14 (24.56%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (24.56%) SSL
11 14 (24.56%) Microsoft
11 14 (24.56%) Security Cleared
12 13 (22.81%) F5
12 13 (22.81%) Cisco Nexus
12 13 (22.81%) Active Directory
13 12 (21.05%) CCNP
13 12 (21.05%) HSRP
14 11 (19.30%) Network Security
15 10 (17.54%) TACACS
15 10 (17.54%) CheckPoint
15 10 (17.54%) VoIP
15 10 (17.54%) Windows Server 2008

IPsec
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing IPsec 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 IPsec. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (3.509%) CSS
2 1 (1.754%) WSH
Application Platforms
1 7 (12.28%) MS Exchange
2 6 (10.53%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 4 (7.018%) Apache
4 3 (5.263%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (5.263%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (5.263%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (3.509%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.754%) Office Communications Server
6 1 (1.754%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (8.772%) MS Excel
1 5 (8.772%) MS Office
2 2 (3.509%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.754%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 42 (73.68%) VPN
2 40 (70.18%) Firewall
3 26 (45.61%) OSPF
4 24 (42.11%) BGP
4 24 (42.11%) LAN
5 22 (38.60%) WAN
5 22 (38.60%) DNS
5 22 (38.60%) Wireless
6 20 (35.09%) MPLS
7 19 (33.33%) SNMP
7 19 (33.33%) TCP/IP
8 15 (26.32%) DHCP
9 14 (24.56%) SSL
10 13 (22.81%) Cisco Nexus
11 12 (21.05%) HSRP
12 11 (19.30%) Network Security
13 10 (17.54%) TACACS
13 10 (17.54%) VoIP
14 9 (15.79%) Ethernet
14 9 (15.79%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.018%) MySQL
2 1 (1.754%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (15.79%) Finance
2 5 (8.772%) Banking
2 5 (8.772%) Telecoms
3 3 (5.263%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.754%) Games
Job Titles
1 29 (50.88%) Network Engineer
2 11 (19.30%) Cisco Engineer
3 9 (15.79%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 6 (10.53%) Architect
4 6 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (10.53%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (8.772%) Infrastructure Architect
5 5 (8.772%) Desktop Support
5 5 (8.772%) Analyst
6 4 (7.018%) Support Analyst
6 4 (7.018%) Support Engineer
7 3 (5.263%) Linux Administrator
7 3 (5.263%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 3 (5.263%) Desktop Analyst
7 3 (5.263%) IT Administrator
7 3 (5.263%) Desktop Support Analyst
7 3 (5.263%) Consultant
7 3 (5.263%) Systems Administrator
7 3 (5.263%) Administrator
8 2 (3.509%) Server Support
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.772%) Blackberry
2 4 (7.018%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (5.263%) PKI
3 3 (5.263%) Video Conferencing
3 3 (5.263%) e-Health
4 1 (1.754%) Visualisation
4 1 (1.754%) iPhone
4 1 (1.754%) Online Games
4 1 (1.754%) Device Driver
4 1 (1.754%) Clustering
4 1 (1.754%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 19 (33.33%) Windows
2 10 (17.54%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (14.04%) Windows XP
3 8 (14.04%) Linux
4 7 (12.28%) CentOS
5 6 (10.53%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (7.018%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (7.018%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (7.018%) Windows 7
7 3 (5.263%) Gentoo
8 2 (3.509%) UNIX
8 2 (3.509%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (14.04%) Load Balancing
2 7 (12.28%) Incident Management
2 7 (12.28%) E-Commerce
3 5 (8.772%) Kanban
3 5 (8.772%) ITIL
3 5 (8.772%) Scrum
3 5 (8.772%) Service Management
4 4 (7.018%) Change Management
4 4 (7.018%) Network Management
5 2 (3.509%) Market Research
6 1 (1.754%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (1.754%) Network Design
6 1 (1.754%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.263%) PHP
1 3 (5.263%) SQL
2 2 (3.509%) Perl
3 1 (1.754%) Bash shell
3 1 (1.754%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.754%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (24.56%) Cisco Certification
1 14 (24.56%) Security Cleared
2 12 (21.05%) CCNP
3 9 (15.79%) SC Cleared
4 5 (8.772%) HP APS
4 5 (8.772%) Degree
4 5 (8.772%) CCNA
5 4 (7.018%) CCSA
5 4 (7.018%) CCIE
5 4 (7.018%) CISSP
6 2 (3.509%) CCIP
7 1 (1.754%) JNCIA
7 1 (1.754%) JNCIS
7 1 (1.754%) JNCIP
7 1 (1.754%) JNCIE
7 1 (1.754%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.754%) CCDP
7 1 (1.754%) CCVP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.772%) SLA
2 3 (5.263%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.754%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (22.81%) Active Directory
2 6 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (10.53%) vSphere
3 5 (8.772%) ProxySG
4 3 (5.263%) NFS
5 2 (3.509%) Terminal Services
5 2 (3.509%) XenApp
6 1 (1.754%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.754%) Xen
Systems Management
1 8 (14.04%) OpenView
2 3 (5.263%) CiscoWorks
3 2 (3.509%) SCCM
4 1 (1.754%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (1.754%) WhatsUp Gold
4 1 (1.754%) Cacti
4 1 (1.754%) Nagios
4 1 (1.754%) DameWare
Vendors
1 50 (87.72%) Cisco
2 28 (49.12%) Juniper
3 15 (26.32%) Citrix
4 14 (24.56%) Microsoft
5 13 (22.81%) F5
6 10 (17.54%) CheckPoint
7 9 (15.79%) Nokia
7 9 (15.79%) HP
7 9 (15.79%) VMware
8 7 (12.28%) Blue Coat
9 6 (10.53%) Avaya
10 5 (8.772%) Fortinet
10 5 (8.772%) Sourcefire
10 5 (8.772%) 3Com
11 3 (5.263%) SolarWinds
11 3 (5.263%) Infoblox
11 3 (5.263%) Tufin
12 2 (3.509%) Remedy
12 2 (3.509%) OPNET
12 2 (3.509%) BT
West London
ITIL Service Management... Scrum and KanBan Methodology experience... MPLS, IPSEC VPN, Firewalls and TACACS authentication. Wireless, VOIP and Security technologies... Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)... Citrix Netscalers. Juniper...
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Posted: 20 May 2013