The first table below looks at the demand for Cisco ASA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cisco ASA over the 3 months to 23 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 Nottingham 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA)
Rank 36 28 28
Rank change year-on-year
-8 0
Contract jobs citing Cisco ASA 2 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 0.712% 0.444% 0.415%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.774% 4.167% 2.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £320 £238 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+34.73% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £310 £315
% change year-on-year
+1.61% -1.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.63 £25.00 £23.36
% change year-on-year
-21.50% +7.02%
All Communications & Networking
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
53 24 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 18.86% 10.67% 20.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 11 14
Average daily rate £345 £238 £263
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+45.26% -9.60%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £205 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £385 £423 £378
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 4
Average hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% +46.34%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £30.00 £13.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £30.00 £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
Cisco ASA
Nottinghamshire

Cisco ASA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham Cisco ASA Jobs Demand Trend

Cisco ASA
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Cisco ASA across the Nottingham region.

Nottingham Cisco ASA Daily Rate Trend

Cisco ASA
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Cisco ASA across the Nottingham region.

Nottingham Cisco ASA Hourly Rate Trend

Cisco ASA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham region citing Cisco ASA 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 Cisco ASA.

1 9 (100.00%) Cisco
2 8 (88.89%) Firewall
3 6 (66.67%) Juniper
4 5 (55.56%) Internet
4 5 (55.56%) CCNP
4 5 (55.56%) DNS
4 5 (55.56%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (55.56%) TCP/IP
4 5 (55.56%) Cisco PIX
5 4 (44.44%) F5
5 4 (44.44%) FWSM
5 4 (44.44%) HTTP
5 4 (44.44%) SMTP
5 4 (44.44%) BGP
5 4 (44.44%) CheckPoint
6 3 (33.33%) CCNA
6 3 (33.33%) Network Security
6 3 (33.33%) Wireless
6 3 (33.33%) BIG-IP
7 2 (22.22%) Nortel
7 2 (22.22%) NetScreen
7 2 (22.22%) LAN
7 2 (22.22%) PBX
7 2 (22.22%) WAN
8 1 (11.11%) VPN
8 1 (11.11%) IBM
8 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
8 1 (11.11%) CCIE
8 1 (11.11%) VoIP
8 1 (11.11%) WLAN

Cisco ASA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham region citing Cisco ASA 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 Cisco ASA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) MS Exchange
1 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Office
1 1 (11.11%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) Firewall
2 5 (55.56%) Internet
2 5 (55.56%) DNS
2 5 (55.56%) TCP/IP
2 5 (55.56%) Cisco PIX
3 4 (44.44%) FWSM
3 4 (44.44%) HTTP
3 4 (44.44%) SMTP
3 4 (44.44%) BGP
4 3 (33.33%) Network Security
4 3 (33.33%) Wireless
4 3 (33.33%) BIG-IP
5 2 (22.22%) NetScreen
5 2 (22.22%) LAN
5 2 (22.22%) PBX
5 2 (22.22%) WAN
6 1 (11.11%) VPN
6 1 (11.11%) VoIP
6 1 (11.11%) WLAN
6 1 (11.11%) DHCP
General
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Security Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Security Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Network Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Network Security Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Network Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Handset
1 1 (11.11%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (11.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (11.11%) Network Management
1 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
1 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) CCNP
1 5 (55.56%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (33.33%) CCNA
3 1 (11.11%) CCIE
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds Orion
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Cisco
2 6 (66.67%) Juniper
3 4 (44.44%) F5
3 4 (44.44%) CheckPoint
4 2 (22.22%) Nortel
5 1 (11.11%) IBM
5 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
5 1 (11.11%) Websense
5 1 (11.11%) Hitachi
5 1 (11.11%) Avaya
5 1 (11.11%) HP
5 1 (11.11%) Dell
5 1 (11.11%) Veeam
5 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds
5 1 (11.11%) Sourcefire
5 1 (11.11%) VMware