The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT contracts advertised for the Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Firewall 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 Midlands 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
Firewall
Rank 24 25 29
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +4
Contract jobs citing Firewall 2 3 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 1.163% 1.128% 2.041%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.38% 14.29% 20.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-2.98% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.63 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-28.63% +30.95%
All Communications & Networking
Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
13 21 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 7.558% 7.895% 9.913%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 6
Average daily rate £325 £388 £263
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.12% +47.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £343 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £515 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 8
Average hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £23.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.76% +80.85%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
Firewall
England

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Midlands Firewall Hourly Rate Trend

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (75.00%) OSPF
2 3 (75.00%) BGP
2 3 (75.00%) Juniper
2 3 (75.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
3 2 (50.00%) OPNET
3 2 (50.00%) BIG-IP
3 2 (50.00%) BMC
3 2 (50.00%) Nokia
3 2 (50.00%) OpenView
3 2 (50.00%) HP
3 2 (50.00%) CSS
3 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (50.00%) Network Management
3 2 (50.00%) F5
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (25.00%) FWSM
4 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Network Security Management
4 1 (25.00%) Security Management
4 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (25.00%) SSL
4 1 (25.00%) Sourcefire
4 1 (25.00%) Blue Coat
4 1 (25.00%) ProxySG
4 1 (25.00%) Network Security

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 (50.00%) CSS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) OSPF
1 3 (75.00%) BGP
2 2 (50.00%) BIG-IP
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (25.00%) FWSM
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) SSL
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Specialist
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Voice Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Voice Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Implementation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Network Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Support
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Implementation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Voice Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Network Management
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security Management
2 1 (25.00%) Security Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) OpenView
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (75.00%) Juniper
2 3 (75.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (50.00%) OPNET
3 2 (50.00%) BMC
3 2 (50.00%) Nokia
3 2 (50.00%) HP
3 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (50.00%) F5
4 1 (25.00%) Sourcefire
4 1 (25.00%) Blue Coat