North West IPsec Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) 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 IPsec over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Bracknell Brighton Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London East of England East Sussex England Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent London M4 Corridor Manchester North West Reading South East South West Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey UK Watford	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	125	146
Rank change on same period last year	+21
Matching contract IT job ads	2	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.436 %	0.164 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£397	£291
% change on same period last year	+36.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£40.54	£40.00
% change on same period last year	+1.35 %
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 %
IPsec England

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.

IPsec
Demand Trend

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

IPsec
Daily Rate Trend

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

IPsec
Hourly Rate Trend

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

IPsec
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IPsec 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
Cheshire	-	1	-	-
Manchester	-3	1	-	-

IPsec England

IPsec
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing IPsec 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 IPsec.

1 3 (100.00 %) Firewall 1 3 (100.00 %) VPN 2 2 (66.67 %) SSL 3 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (33.33 %) Tivoli 3 1 (33.33 %) MOM 3 1 (33.33 %) MPLS 3 1 (33.33 %) BGP 3 1 (33.33 %) PPTP 3 1 (33.33 %) C 3 1 (33.33 %) Java 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL 3 1 (33.33 %) VBScript

3 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 3 1 (33.33 %) Linux 3 1 (33.33 %) ATM 3 1 (33.33 %) WLAN 3 1 (33.33 %) PPP 3 1 (33.33 %) Frame Relay 3 1 (33.33 %) Cryptography 3 1 (33.33 %) Nessus 3 1 (33.33 %) SSH 3 1 (33.33 %) Snort 3 1 (33.33 %) Intrusion Detection 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (33.33 %) WMI 3 1 (33.33 %) Operations Management

IPsec
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing IPsec 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 IPsec. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (33.33 %) WMI	Communications & Networking 1 3 (100.00 %) VPN 1 3 (100.00 %) Firewall 2 2 (66.67 %) SSL 3 1 (33.33 %) MPLS 3 1 (33.33 %) BGP 3 1 (33.33 %) PPTP 3 1 (33.33 %) DNS 3 1 (33.33 %) ATM 3 1 (33.33 %) WLAN 3 1 (33.33 %) PPP 3 1 (33.33 %) Frame Relay 3 1 (33.33 %) SSH 3 1 (33.33 %) Intrusion Detection 3 1 (33.33 %) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005	Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Network Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Support Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Network Support Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Network Support 1 1 (33.33 %) Security Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) Cryptography	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 1 1 (33.33 %) Linux 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Operations Management	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) C 1 1 (33.33 %) Java 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL 1 1 (33.33 %) VBScript 1 1 (33.33 %) PowerShell
Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) Degree	System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) Snort
Systems Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Tivoli 1 1 (33.33 %) MOM 1 1 (33.33 %) Nessus 1 1 (33.33 %) SCOM	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft