Firewall Contracts in Manchester
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Firewall over the 3 months to 22 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 Manchester 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 57 53 48
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -5
Contract jobs citing Firewall 18 37 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 1.911% 2.818% 2.051%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.14% 15.29% 18.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 3
Average daily rate £240 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.15% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £331 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.88% +1.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 5
Average hourly rate £27.00 £17.75 £10.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+52.11% +77.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.63 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-28.63% +30.95%
All Communications & Networking
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 105 242 113
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 11.15% 18.43% 11.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 84 34
Average daily rate £290 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.50% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £129 £190 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £441 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 18 15
Average hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +60.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £14.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £32.50 £17.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
Firewall
North West

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Firewall Jobs Demand Trend

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Firewall Daily Rate Trend

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Firewall across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Manchester Firewall Daily Rate Histogram

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester Firewall Hourly Rate Trend

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Firewall 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 Firewall.

1 35 (68.63%) Windows
2 27 (52.94%) ITIL
3 26 (50.98%) Cisco
4 23 (45.10%) Active Directory
5 22 (43.14%) Windows Server 2008
6 18 (35.29%) VMware
7 16 (31.37%) Cisco Certification
7 16 (31.37%) Windows Server 2003
8 15 (29.41%) CCNA
9 13 (25.49%) CheckPoint
10 12 (23.53%) Banking
10 12 (23.53%) Linux
10 12 (23.53%) LAN
10 12 (23.53%) WebSphere
11 11 (21.57%) WAN
11 11 (21.57%) Windows XP
11 11 (21.57%) VPN
12 10 (19.61%) TCP/IP
12 10 (19.61%) MS Exchange
12 10 (19.61%) Middleware
13 9 (17.65%) SSL
13 9 (17.65%) SAN
13 9 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
13 9 (17.65%) vSphere
14 8 (15.69%) Exchange Server 2010
14 8 (15.69%) Kaspersky
14 8 (15.69%) SCCM
14 8 (15.69%) SCOM
14 8 (15.69%) Windows 7
14 8 (15.69%) Microsoft

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Firewall 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 Firewall. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (23.53%) WebSphere
2 10 (19.61%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 10 (19.61%) MS Exchange
2 8 (15.69%) Exchange Server 2010
3 6 (11.76%) WebSphere Application Server
4 5 (9.804%) WebLogic
4 5 (9.804%) CICS
5 1 (1.961%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (3.922%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.961%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 12 (23.53%) LAN
2 11 (21.57%) WAN
2 11 (21.57%) VPN
3 10 (19.61%) TCP/IP
4 9 (17.65%) SSL
4 9 (17.65%) SAN
5 7 (13.73%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (11.76%) LDAP
7 5 (9.804%) VoIP
7 5 (9.804%) Internet
8 4 (7.843%) DNS
9 3 (5.882%) MPLS
9 3 (5.882%) SNA
9 3 (5.882%) DHCP
10 2 (3.922%) Cisco PIX
10 2 (3.922%) VLAN
10 2 (3.922%) OSPF
10 2 (3.922%) EIGRP
11 1 (1.961%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (1.961%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.73%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.843%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (5.882%) DB2
4 1 (1.961%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.961%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.961%) JIRA
1 1 (1.961%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.961%) Hudson
General
1 12 (23.53%) Banking
2 7 (13.73%) Local Government
3 3 (5.882%) Retail
4 2 (3.922%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.961%) Finance
5 1 (1.961%) Legal
5 1 (1.961%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (17.65%) Analyst
2 8 (15.69%) Network Engineer
3 6 (11.76%) Technical Analyst
4 5 (9.804%) Project Engineer
5 3 (5.882%) 2nd Line Support
5 3 (5.882%) Desktop Support
5 3 (5.882%) Network Manager
5 3 (5.882%) Security Analyst
5 3 (5.882%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.922%) Designer
6 2 (3.922%) Technical Design Leader
6 2 (3.922%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (3.922%) Cisco Engineer
6 2 (3.922%) Architect
6 2 (3.922%) Support Engineer
7 1 (1.961%) 3rd Line Support
7 1 (1.961%) Project Manager
7 1 (1.961%) Technical Architect
7 1 (1.961%) Network Support
7 1 (1.961%) Rollout Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.804%) VSAM
1 5 (9.804%) Mainframe
2 4 (7.843%) PKI
3 3 (5.882%) Clustering
3 3 (5.882%) Mobile Banking
3 3 (5.882%) Online Banking
3 3 (5.882%) IBM Mainframe
4 2 (3.922%) NHS
5 1 (1.961%) Handset
5 1 (1.961%) CLARiiON
5 1 (1.961%) IVR
5 1 (1.961%) Computer Science
5 1 (1.961%) CMDB
5 1 (1.961%) Visualisation
5 1 (1.961%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.961%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.961%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 35 (68.63%) Windows
2 22 (43.14%) Windows Server 2008
3 16 (31.37%) Windows Server 2003
4 12 (23.53%) Linux
5 11 (21.57%) Windows XP
6 8 (15.69%) Windows 7
6 8 (15.69%) UNIX
7 4 (7.843%) AIX
8 1 (1.961%) Windows NT
8 1 (1.961%) HPUX
8 1 (1.961%) Solaris
8 1 (1.961%) zOS
8 1 (1.961%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (52.94%) ITIL
2 8 (15.69%) PRINCE2
3 6 (11.76%) Project Planning
3 6 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (7.843%) Network Management
4 4 (7.843%) ETL
4 4 (7.843%) Migration
4 4 (7.843%) Service Management
5 3 (5.882%) Capacity Management
5 3 (5.882%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (3.922%) Load Balancing
6 2 (3.922%) Business Continuity
6 2 (3.922%) Project Management
6 2 (3.922%) Change Management
7 1 (1.961%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (1.961%) ITSM
7 1 (1.961%) BPR
7 1 (1.961%) Configuration Management
7 1 (1.961%) Ethical Hacking
7 1 (1.961%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (11.76%) C
1 6 (11.76%) SQL
2 3 (5.882%) JCL
3 2 (3.922%) COBOL
4 1 (1.961%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (31.37%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (29.41%) CCNA
3 7 (13.73%) CCNP
4 4 (7.843%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (7.843%) MCP
5 3 (5.882%) MCSA
5 3 (5.882%) Dell Certification
6 2 (3.922%) Degree
6 2 (3.922%) CISSP
7 1 (1.961%) MCTS
7 1 (1.961%) MCITP
7 1 (1.961%) CEH
7 1 (1.961%) MCSE
7 1 (1.961%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.961%) CCIE
7 1 (1.961%) EnCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.882%) SLA
2 1 (1.961%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.961%) ISO/IEC 17799
System Software
1 23 (45.10%) Active Directory
2 9 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (17.65%) vSphere
3 5 (9.804%) Hyper-V
4 4 (7.843%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (1.961%) Samba
5 1 (1.961%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (15.69%) SCCM
1 8 (15.69%) SCOM
2 4 (7.843%) Tivoli
3 2 (3.922%) CiscoWorks
3 2 (3.922%) NetBackup
4 1 (1.961%) Foglight
4 1 (1.961%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (1.961%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 26 (50.98%) Cisco
2 18 (35.29%) VMware
3 13 (25.49%) CheckPoint
4 8 (15.69%) Kaspersky
4 8 (15.69%) Microsoft
4 8 (15.69%) Clearswift
4 8 (15.69%) SurfControl
5 7 (13.73%) Citrix
5 7 (13.73%) NetApp
6 5 (9.804%) Oracle
6 5 (9.804%) CA
6 5 (9.804%) IBM
6 5 (9.804%) HP
6 5 (9.804%) Brocade
7 4 (7.843%) Dell
8 2 (3.922%) Huawei
8 2 (3.922%) EMC
8 2 (3.922%) Sun
9 1 (1.961%) Nokia
9 1 (1.961%) Infoblox
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