The first table below looks at the demand for NetScreen 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 NetScreen over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Juniper Networks NetScreen
Rank - 82 -
Contract jobs citing NetScreen 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester - 0.077% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 0.413% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £338 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £375 £325
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - -
All Communications & Networking
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
104 242 117
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 11.15% 18.73% 11.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 84 35
Average daily rate £299 £300 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.41% -1.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £160 £190 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £441 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 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 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
NetScreen
North West

NetScreen
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester NetScreen Daily Rate Trend

NetScreen
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) VMS
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Veritas
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
1 2 (100.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 2 (100.00%) Symantec
1 2 (100.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Release Management
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM
1 2 (100.00%) Kaspersky
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) XenServer
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) COM
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Packaging
2 1 (50.00%) NHS

NetScreen
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 (50.00%) COM
1 1 (50.00%) Software Packaging
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Server Technician
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) VMS
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 2 (100.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Veritas
1 2 (100.00%) Symantec
1 2 (100.00%) Kaspersky