The first table below looks at the demand for NetScreen skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NetScreen 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 North West 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
Juniper Networks NetScreen
Rank 113 127 124
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -3
Contract jobs citing NetScreen 5 5 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.215% 0.161% 0.066%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.678% 0.888% 0.423%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 2
Average daily rate £313 £318 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.57% +19.81%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £375 £325
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - -
All Communications & Networking
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
298 563 473
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 12.78% 18.10% 15.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 222 238
Average daily rate £313 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £175 £231
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £462 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 36 45
Average hourly rate £22.25 £22.00 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.13% -38.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.65 £14.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £30.00 £40.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
NetScreen
England

NetScreen
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West NetScreen Jobs Demand Trend

NetScreen
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West NetScreen Daily Rate Trend

NetScreen
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West NetScreen Hourly Rate Trend

NetScreen
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NetScreen within the North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cheshire +1 5 £313 -1.57%
NetScreen
England

NetScreen
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing NetScreen 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 NetScreen.

1 7 (63.64%) Juniper
1 7 (63.64%) Firewall
2 4 (36.36%) Change Management
2 4 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (36.36%) Release Management
2 4 (36.36%) SCCM
2 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (36.36%) XenServer
2 4 (36.36%) Veritas
2 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
2 4 (36.36%) Internet
2 4 (36.36%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 4 (36.36%) Symantec
2 4 (36.36%) Windows
2 4 (36.36%) SharePoint
2 4 (36.36%) MS Exchange
2 4 (36.36%) VMS
2 4 (36.36%) VPN
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 4 (36.36%) Citrix
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (27.27%) Cisco
3 3 (27.27%) Norton AntiVirus
3 3 (27.27%) Kaspersky
3 3 (27.27%) F5
4 2 (18.18%) Software Packaging
4 2 (18.18%) Migration
4 2 (18.18%) Asset Management

NetScreen
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing NetScreen 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 NetScreen. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (18.18%) Software Packaging
2 1 (9.091%) COM
Application Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) SharePoint
1 4 (36.36%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) Firewall
2 4 (36.36%) Internet
2 4 (36.36%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Firewall Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) SCCM Specialist
2 2 (18.18%) Server Specialist
3 1 (9.091%) SCCM Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Server Technician
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2008
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
1 4 (36.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Change Management
1 4 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (36.36%) Release Management
2 2 (18.18%) Migration
2 2 (18.18%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) XenServer
1 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) SCCM
1 4 (36.36%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 3 (27.27%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Juniper
2 4 (36.36%) Veritas
2 4 (36.36%) Symantec
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) Citrix
3 3 (27.27%) Cisco
3 3 (27.27%) Kaspersky
3 3 (27.27%) F5