North West Firewall Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills within the North West 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Barry Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Durham Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenwich Guildford Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Ipswich Kent Kettering Lancashire Leeds Lewes Lewisham Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Romford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	82	54
Rank change on same period last year	-28
Matching contract IT job ads	45	113
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.063 %	0.114 %
As % of the category below	9.804 %	18.52 %
Daily rates quoted	16	20
Average minimum daily rate	£374	£343
Average daily rate	£399	£360
% change on same period last year	+10.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£424	£377
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£346
% change on same period last year	+10.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.70	£17.77
Average hourly rate	£27.13	£18.32
% change on same period last year	+48.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.56	£18.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.60	£26.51
% change on same period last year	+4.10 %
Communications & Networking North West
Matching contract IT job ads	459	610
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.646 %	0.616 %
Daily rates quoted	101	113
Average minimum daily rate	£314	£325
Average daily rate	£327	£335
% change on same period last year	-2.47 %
Average maximum daily rate	£340	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+4.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	77	91
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.02	£23.32
Average hourly rate	£26.89	£24.38
% change on same period last year	+10.30 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.77	£25.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.43	£28.95
% change on same period last year	-5.27 %
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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 North West 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 North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 10 October 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 North West region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Firewall across the North West region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the North West region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Manchester	-16	14	£394	-12.40 %
Cheshire	-4	13	£429	-10.83 %
Merseyside	-11	7	£388	+42.34 %
Lancashire	0	4	-	-
Cumbria	-10	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 53 (46.90 %) Cisco 2 38 (33.63 %) LAN 3 37 (32.74 %) WAN 4 33 (29.20 %) Cisco Certification 5 32 (28.32 %) Windows 6 26 (23.01 %) VPN 7 20 (17.70 %) CCNA 8 19 (16.81 %) Active Directory 9 18 (15.93 %) CCNP 9 18 (15.93 %) UNIX 10 16 (14.16 %) Internet 10 16 (14.16 %) Cisco PIX 11 14 (12.39 %) Windows Server 2003 12 13 (11.50 %) Network Security 13 11 (9.735 %) Finance

13 11 (9.735 %) Load Balancing 13 11 (9.735 %) ITIL 13 11 (9.735 %) Microsoft 14 10 (8.850 %) DNS 14 10 (8.850 %) AIX 14 10 (8.850 %) CheckPoint 15 9 (7.965 %) PRINCE2 15 9 (7.965 %) Windows 2000 15 9 (7.965 %) Citrix 15 9 (7.965 %) VLAN 15 9 (7.965 %) WebSphere 15 9 (7.965 %) Cisco ASA 16 8 (7.080 %) Government 16 8 (7.080 %) HTTP 16 8 (7.080 %) VoIP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 9 (7.965 %) WebSphere 2 5 (4.425 %) HTML 2 5 (4.425 %) ASP 3 3 (2.655 %) WebServices 4 1 (0.885 %) Middleware 4 1 (0.885 %) WMI 4 1 (0.885 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 8 (7.080 %) IIS 2 6 (5.310 %) MS Exchange 2 6 (5.310 %) WebSphere MQ 2 6 (5.310 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 2 (1.770 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (1.770 %) MQSeries 3 2 (1.770 %) SharePoint 4 1 (0.885 %) Lotus Notes 4 1 (0.885 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 4 1 (0.885 %) CMS 4 1 (0.885 %) SharePoint Portal Server 4 1 (0.885 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 1 (0.885 %) MS Office 1 1 (0.885 %) AutoCAD 1 1 (0.885 %) 3ds Max	Business Applications 1 1 (0.885 %) assyst
Communications & Networking 1 38 (33.63 %) LAN 2 37 (32.74 %) WAN 3 26 (23.01 %) VPN 4 16 (14.16 %) Internet 4 16 (14.16 %) Cisco PIX 5 13 (11.50 %) Network Security 6 10 (8.850 %) DNS 7 9 (7.965 %) Cisco ASA 7 9 (7.965 %) VLAN 8 8 (7.080 %) HTTP 8 8 (7.080 %) VoIP 9 7 (6.195 %) SSL 9 7 (6.195 %) MPLS 10 6 (5.310 %) Intranet 11 5 (4.425 %) TCP/IP 11 5 (4.425 %) SAN 11 5 (4.425 %) WLAN 11 5 (4.425 %) Extranet 11 5 (4.425 %) Intrusion Detection 12 3 (2.655 %) DSL	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (1.770 %) SQL Server 2 1 (0.885 %) DB2 2 1 (0.885 %) RDBMS 2 1 (0.885 %) SQL Server 2005
General 1 11 (9.735 %) Finance 2 8 (7.080 %) Government 3 5 (4.425 %) Law 3 5 (4.425 %) Banking 3 5 (4.425 %) Telecoms 4 3 (2.655 %) Retail 5 2 (1.770 %) Local Government 6 1 (0.885 %) Pensions 6 1 (0.885 %) Retail Banking	Job Titles 1 23 (20.35 %) Network Engineer 2 13 (11.50 %) Analyst 2 13 (11.50 %) Cisco Engineer 3 12 (10.62 %) Network Support 4 10 (8.850 %) Consultant 5 9 (7.965 %) Project Manager 6 8 (7.080 %) Cisco Network Engineer 7 6 (5.310 %) WebSphere Specialist 7 6 (5.310 %) Network Analyst 8 5 (4.425 %) Support Analyst 8 5 (4.425 %) Support Engineer 8 5 (4.425 %) Technical Manager 9 4 (3.540 %) Network Specialist 9 4 (3.540 %) Support Specialist 9 4 (3.540 %) Security Consultant 9 4 (3.540 %) Network Support Engineer 10 3 (2.655 %) Senior Network Engineer 10 3 (2.655 %) Team Leader 10 3 (2.655 %) Technical Consultant 10 3 (2.655 %) Service Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 3 (2.655 %) NHS 1 3 (2.655 %) PKI 2 2 (1.770 %) IVR 3 1 (0.885 %) Cryptography 3 1 (0.885 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 32 (28.32 %) Windows 2 18 (15.93 %) UNIX 3 14 (12.39 %) Windows Server 2003 4 10 (8.850 %) AIX 5 9 (7.965 %) Windows 2000 6 6 (5.310 %) Linux 7 2 (1.770 %) Red Hat Linux 7 2 (1.770 %) Windows NT 7 2 (1.770 %) HPUX 7 2 (1.770 %) Solaris 8 1 (0.885 %) Windows XP 8 1 (0.885 %) NetWare 8 1 (0.885 %) Windows Vista 8 1 (0.885 %) Windows Server 2008 8 1 (0.885 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (9.735 %) ITIL 1 11 (9.735 %) Load Balancing 2 9 (7.965 %) PRINCE2 3 6 (5.310 %) Project Management 4 4 (3.540 %) Risk Management 4 4 (3.540 %) Migration 4 4 (3.540 %) Security Cleared 5 3 (2.655 %) SC Cleared 5 3 (2.655 %) DRM 5 3 (2.655 %) Computer Forensics 5 3 (2.655 %) Penetration Testing 5 3 (2.655 %) Disaster Recovery 5 3 (2.655 %) Identity Management 5 3 (2.655 %) Risk Assessment 5 3 (2.655 %) BCP 6 2 (1.770 %) Service Delivery 6 2 (1.770 %) Change Management 6 2 (1.770 %) Business Continuity 6 2 (1.770 %) Communications Security 7 1 (0.885 %) Logistics	Programming Languages 1 8 (7.080 %) Shell Script 2 7 (6.195 %) Perl 3 5 (4.425 %) SQL 4 2 (1.770 %) Java 5 1 (0.885 %) C 5 1 (0.885 %) VBScript 5 1 (0.885 %) PowerShell
Qualifications 1 33 (29.20 %) Cisco Certification 2 20 (17.70 %) CCNA 3 18 (15.93 %) CCNP 4 3 (2.655 %) ITIL Certification 5 2 (1.770 %) Degree 5 2 (1.770 %) Microsoft Certification 6 1 (0.885 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 1 (0.885 %) CISSP 6 1 (0.885 %) MCP 6 1 (0.885 %) MCSE 6 1 (0.885 %) CCIE 6 1 (0.885 %) CCSP 6 1 (0.885 %) CCSE	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.770 %) QA 1 2 (1.770 %) PCI DSS 2 1 (0.885 %) SLA
System Software 1 19 (16.81 %) Active Directory 2 6 (5.310 %) Novell eDirectory 3 3 (2.655 %) ISA Server 4 1 (0.885 %) VMware ESX 4 1 (0.885 %) Backup Exec 4 1 (0.885 %) Snort 4 1 (0.885 %) MailMarshal 4 1 (0.885 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 1 (0.885 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 8 (7.080 %) Tivoli 2 7 (6.195 %) Tivoli Monitoring 3 4 (3.540 %) OpenView 4 2 (1.770 %) SCOM 4 2 (1.770 %) MOM 4 2 (1.770 %) Norton AntiVirus 5 1 (0.885 %) Nessus 5 1 (0.885 %) CiscoWorks
Vendors 1 53 (46.90 %) Cisco 2 11 (9.735 %) Microsoft 3 10 (8.850 %) CheckPoint 4 9 (7.965 %) Citrix 5 7 (6.195 %) Juniper 5 7 (6.195 %) Novell 5 7 (6.195 %) IBM 6 6 (5.310 %) HP 7 3 (2.655 %) EMC 7 3 (2.655 %) Oracle 7 3 (2.655 %) Lucent 7 3 (2.655 %) Nokia 7 3 (2.655 %) Avaya 7 3 (2.655 %) Symantec 8 2 (1.770 %) VMware 8 2 (1.770 %) Red Hat 8 2 (1.770 %) Intel 8 2 (1.770 %) Nortel 9 1 (0.885 %) Sun 9 1 (0.885 %) VERITAS