The first table below looks at the demand for NetScreen 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 NetScreen over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Juniper Networks NetScreen
Rank 373 364 403
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +39
Contract jobs citing NetScreen 12 42 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.056% 0.157% 0.109%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.419% 1.146% 1.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 17 16
Average daily rate £288 £320 £410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.15% -21.95%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £298 £376
10% offered a daily rate of more than £448 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £375 £325
% change year-on-year
-10.00% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £42.25 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - -
All Communications & Networking
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
2861 3664 3392
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 13.25% 13.68% 10.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1759 2236 1957
Average daily rate £400 £400 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +3.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £243 £237
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 145 211
Average hourly rate £21.50 £22.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.44% +18.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.95 £15.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
NetScreen
England

NetScreen
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London NetScreen Jobs Demand Trend

NetScreen
Daily Rate Trend

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

London NetScreen Daily Rate Trend

NetScreen
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NetScreen across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London NetScreen Daily Rate Histogram

NetScreen
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London NetScreen Hourly Rate Trend

NetScreen
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NetScreen within the London region over the 3 months to 17 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 +4 3 £356 -20.83%
Hammersmith - 2 - -
NetScreen
England

NetScreen
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing NetScreen 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 NetScreen.

1 19 (82.61%) Juniper
1 19 (82.61%) Firewall
2 11 (47.83%) Cisco
3 10 (43.48%) CheckPoint
4 9 (39.13%) Network Security
5 8 (34.78%) VPN
6 7 (30.43%) BGP
6 7 (30.43%) Cisco ASA
6 7 (30.43%) Finance
7 6 (26.09%) MPLS
7 6 (26.09%) OSPF
7 6 (26.09%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (26.09%) Windows
8 5 (21.74%) UNIX
8 5 (21.74%) Linux
8 5 (21.74%) VoIP
8 5 (21.74%) Citrix
8 5 (21.74%) TACACS
8 5 (21.74%) Blue Coat
8 5 (21.74%) Cisco PIX
8 5 (21.74%) Load Balancing
9 4 (17.39%) Migration
9 4 (17.39%) IPsec
9 4 (17.39%) SAN
9 4 (17.39%) HP
9 4 (17.39%) EMC
9 4 (17.39%) E-Commerce
9 4 (17.39%) TCP/IP
10 3 (13.04%) DNS
10 3 (13.04%) CCNP

NetScreen
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing NetScreen 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 NetScreen. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (4.348%) HTML
1 1 (4.348%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.696%) SharePoint
1 2 (8.696%) MS Exchange
1 2 (8.696%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (8.696%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (4.348%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (4.348%) WebLogic
2 1 (4.348%) IIS
2 1 (4.348%) Lotus Notes
2 1 (4.348%) Apache
2 1 (4.348%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (8.696%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.348%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 19 (82.61%) Firewall
2 9 (39.13%) Network Security
3 8 (34.78%) VPN
4 7 (30.43%) BGP
4 7 (30.43%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (26.09%) MPLS
5 6 (26.09%) OSPF
6 5 (21.74%) TACACS
6 5 (21.74%) VoIP
6 5 (21.74%) Cisco PIX
7 4 (17.39%) IPsec
7 4 (17.39%) TCP/IP
7 4 (17.39%) SAN
8 3 (13.04%) Internet
8 3 (13.04%) DNS
8 3 (13.04%) Wireless
8 3 (13.04%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (13.04%) HSRP
9 2 (8.696%) BIG-IP
9 2 (8.696%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.348%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (30.43%) Finance
2 1 (4.348%) Games
2 1 (4.348%) Banking
2 1 (4.348%) Investment Banking
2 1 (4.348%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Network Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Network Security Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Security Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Consultant
3 3 (13.04%) Firewall Engineer
4 2 (8.696%) Firewall Consultant
4 2 (8.696%) IT Security Officer
4 2 (8.696%) Security Officer
4 2 (8.696%) Administrator
4 2 (8.696%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.696%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (8.696%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (8.696%) Network Operator
4 2 (8.696%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (4.348%) UNIX Administrator
5 1 (4.348%) Security Specialist
5 1 (4.348%) Solaris Systems Administrator
5 1 (4.348%) Solaris Administrator
5 1 (4.348%) Network Security Consultant
5 1 (4.348%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.696%) Blackberry
1 2 (8.696%) e-Health
1 2 (8.696%) Celerra
2 1 (4.348%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) Windows
2 5 (21.74%) UNIX
2 5 (21.74%) Linux
3 3 (13.04%) Solaris
4 2 (8.696%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (8.696%) Debian
4 2 (8.696%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (4.348%) Mac OS
5 1 (4.348%) Windows 7
5 1 (4.348%) AIX
5 1 (4.348%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (21.74%) Load Balancing
2 4 (17.39%) E-Commerce
2 4 (17.39%) Migration
3 3 (13.04%) Scrum
3 3 (13.04%) Service Management
3 3 (13.04%) Kanban
3 3 (13.04%) ITIL
4 1 (4.348%) Network Architecture
4 1 (4.348%) Network Management
4 1 (4.348%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (4.348%) Change Management
4 1 (4.348%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) SQL
2 2 (8.696%) Perl
3 1 (4.348%) C
3 1 (4.348%) Java
3 1 (4.348%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.348%) Korn
3 1 (4.348%) Bourne shell
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (13.04%) CCNP
2 3 (13.04%) CCIP
3 2 (8.696%) Check Point Certification
3 2 (8.696%) DV Cleared
3 2 (8.696%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.348%) CCSP
4 1 (4.348%) CCSA
4 1 (4.348%) CCSE
4 1 (4.348%) Degree
4 1 (4.348%) CCNA
4 1 (4.348%) CCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (8.696%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.696%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 2 (8.696%) Tivoli
1 2 (8.696%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 19 (82.61%) Juniper
2 11 (47.83%) Cisco
3 10 (43.48%) CheckPoint
4 5 (21.74%) Blue Coat
4 5 (21.74%) Citrix
5 4 (17.39%) HP
5 4 (17.39%) EMC
6 3 (13.04%) Fortinet
6 3 (13.04%) F5
7 2 (8.696%) VMware
7 2 (8.696%) SolarWinds
7 2 (8.696%) Infoblox
7 2 (8.696%) Tufin
7 2 (8.696%) Acronis
7 2 (8.696%) Clearswift
7 2 (8.696%) Red Hat
7 2 (8.696%) Microsoft
7 2 (8.696%) NetApp
7 2 (8.696%) Nokia
8 1 (4.348%) Lotus
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