The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT contracts advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Firewall 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 Middlesex 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
Firewall
Rank 25 27 30
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +3
Contract jobs citing Firewall 1 5 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 0.493% 1.748% 1.592%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.326% 13.51% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 5
Average daily rate - £375 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +25.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £334 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+2.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.88 £25.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year
-20.50% +13.63%
All Communications & Networking
Middlesex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
43 37 48
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 21.18% 12.94% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 13 17
Average daily rate £325 £375 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £325 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £375 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 7
Average hourly rate £37.50 - £29.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.95 - £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.25 - £31.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.96%
Firewall
South East

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex Firewall Daily Rate Trend

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Middlesex Firewall Hourly Rate Trend

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 7 (87.50%) Cisco
1 7 (87.50%) VPN
2 6 (75.00%) CheckPoint
2 6 (75.00%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (62.50%) F5
3 5 (62.50%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (62.50%) DMZ
3 5 (62.50%) Internet
3 5 (62.50%) OSPF
3 5 (62.50%) BGP
3 5 (62.50%) EIGRP
3 5 (62.50%) Migration
3 5 (62.50%) BIG-IP
4 2 (25.00%) DNS
4 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (12.50%) Junos
5 1 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
5 1 (12.50%) SSL
5 1 (12.50%) Backup Exec
5 1 (12.50%) CCVP
5 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
5 1 (12.50%) Crossbeam
5 1 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (12.50%) Network Security
5 1 (12.50%) IPsec
5 1 (12.50%) MPLS
5 1 (12.50%) CCNP
5 1 (12.50%) CCNA
5 1 (12.50%) Dell

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) VPN
2 6 (75.00%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (62.50%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (62.50%) DMZ
3 5 (62.50%) Internet
3 5 (62.50%) BIG-IP
3 5 (62.50%) OSPF
3 5 (62.50%) BGP
3 5 (62.50%) EIGRP
4 2 (25.00%) DNS
4 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (12.50%) Junos
5 1 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (12.50%) Network Security
5 1 (12.50%) MPLS
5 1 (12.50%) SSL
5 1 (12.50%) LAN
5 1 (12.50%) VoIP
5 1 (12.50%) WAN
5 1 (12.50%) IPsec
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Security Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Firewall Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Cisco Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Voice Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Voice Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Voice Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Migration
2 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CCNP
1 1 (12.50%) CCNA
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (12.50%) CCVP
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Cisco
2 6 (75.00%) CheckPoint
3 5 (62.50%) F5
4 1 (12.50%) Crossbeam
4 1 (12.50%) Dell
4 1 (12.50%) Juniper