Midlands Firewall Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Firewall skills within the Midlands region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Firewall over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chichester Chippenham City of London Cobham Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Denbighshire Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dunstable Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh Ely England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Greenford Greenwich Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Huddersfield Ipswich Kent Kettering Knottingley Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rickmansworth Romford Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	65	25
Rank change on same period last year	-40
Matching contract IT job ads	10	67
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.068 %
As % of the category below	8.197 %	23.18 %
Daily rates quoted	4	5
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£291
Average daily rate	£370	£295
% change on same period last year	+25.42 %
Average maximum daily rate	£403	£299
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£346
% change on same period last year	-3.00 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£39.50
Average hourly rate	-	£41.38
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£43.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.12	£28.38
% change on same period last year	-11.49 %
Communications & Networking Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	122	289
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.163 %	0.292 %
Daily rates quoted	19	53
Average minimum daily rate	£333	£343
Average daily rate	£352	£368
% change on same period last year	-4.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£371	£393
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	30
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.33	£29.98
Average hourly rate	£30.50	£33.22
% change on same period last year	-8.20 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.67	£36.47
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Firewall across the Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Firewall across the Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 12 (54.55 %) Cisco 2 9 (40.91 %) VPN 3 8 (36.36 %) CheckPoint 4 7 (31.82 %) MPLS 4 7 (31.82 %) SSL 5 6 (27.27 %) Cisco Certification 5 6 (27.27 %) Government 5 6 (27.27 %) Network Security 6 4 (18.18 %) BIG-IP 6 4 (18.18 %) CCNA 6 4 (18.18 %) VoIP 6 4 (18.18 %) SQL 7 3 (13.64 %) HPUX 7 3 (13.64 %) Linux 7 3 (13.64 %) WAN

7 3 (13.64 %) SLA 7 3 (13.64 %) Network Design 7 3 (13.64 %) PKI 7 3 (13.64 %) Incident Management 7 3 (13.64 %) Nokia 7 3 (13.64 %) E-business 7 3 (13.64 %) OSPF 7 3 (13.64 %) Remedy 7 3 (13.64 %) BGP 7 3 (13.64 %) Internet 7 3 (13.64 %) Degree 7 3 (13.64 %) Load Balancing 8 2 (9.091 %) Oracle RAC 8 2 (9.091 %) CESG Infosec 8 2 (9.091 %) RMADS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 2 (9.091 %) .NET 1 2 (9.091 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 2 (9.091 %) IIS
Communications & Networking 1 9 (40.91 %) VPN 2 7 (31.82 %) SSL 2 7 (31.82 %) MPLS 3 6 (27.27 %) Network Security 4 4 (18.18 %) BIG-IP 4 4 (18.18 %) VoIP 5 3 (13.64 %) WAN 5 3 (13.64 %) OSPF 5 3 (13.64 %) BGP 5 3 (13.64 %) Internet 6 2 (9.091 %) LAN 6 2 (9.091 %) VLAN 6 2 (9.091 %) HTTP 6 2 (9.091 %) SAN 7 1 (4.545 %) NetScreen 7 1 (4.545 %) Cisco PIX	General 1 6 (27.27 %) Government 2 2 (9.091 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 5 (22.73 %) Network Engineer 2 4 (18.18 %) Cisco Engineer 2 4 (18.18 %) Cisco Network Engineer 2 4 (18.18 %) Consultant 3 3 (13.64 %) Firewall Support 3 3 (13.64 %) Firewall Engineer 4 2 (9.091 %) Architect 4 2 (9.091 %) Solutions Architect 5 1 (4.545 %) Network Security Engineer 5 1 (4.545 %) Security Consultant 5 1 (4.545 %) Data Analyst 5 1 (4.545 %) Project Manager 5 1 (4.545 %) Analyst 5 1 (4.545 %) Security Specialist 5 1 (4.545 %) Firewall Consultant 5 1 (4.545 %) Security Engineer 5 1 (4.545 %) Cisco Support	Miscellaneous 1 3 (13.64 %) PKI 2 2 (9.091 %) RMADS 2 2 (9.091 %) CESG 2 2 (9.091 %) CESG CLAS
Operating Systems 1 3 (13.64 %) HPUX 1 3 (13.64 %) Linux 2 2 (9.091 %) UNIX 2 2 (9.091 %) Windows 2 2 (9.091 %) AIX 3 1 (4.545 %) Solaris 3 1 (4.545 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (13.64 %) E-business 1 3 (13.64 %) Network Design 1 3 (13.64 %) Incident Management 1 3 (13.64 %) Load Balancing 2 2 (9.091 %) SC Cleared 2 2 (9.091 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (9.091 %) Yourdon 2 2 (9.091 %) UML 2 2 (9.091 %) RAD 2 2 (9.091 %) SSADM 3 1 (4.545 %) Security Management 3 1 (4.545 %) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages 1 4 (18.18 %) SQL 2 2 (9.091 %) Java 2 2 (9.091 %) PL/SQL 3 1 (4.545 %) C	Qualifications 1 6 (27.27 %) Cisco Certification 2 4 (18.18 %) CCNA 3 3 (13.64 %) Degree 4 1 (4.545 %) CCSP 4 1 (4.545 %) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (13.64 %) SLA 2 2 (9.091 %) BS7799 2 2 (9.091 %) ISO27001 2 2 (9.091 %) CESG Infosec 2 2 (9.091 %) ISO17799	System Software 1 2 (9.091 %) Oracle RAC
Vendors 1 12 (54.55 %) Cisco 2 8 (36.36 %) CheckPoint 3 3 (13.64 %) Remedy 3 3 (13.64 %) Nokia 4 2 (9.091 %) Oracle 4 2 (9.091 %) IBM 4 2 (9.091 %) Sun 5 1 (4.545 %) Nortel 5 1 (4.545 %) Microsoft 5 1 (4.545 %) Blue Coat