The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall 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 Firewall over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 25 29 27
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -2
Contract jobs citing Firewall 13 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 4.561% 0.901% 0.847%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 24.53% 8.333% 4.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £295 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £326 £325
% change year-on-year
-0.38% +0.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
Average hourly rate £12.50 - £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.63 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-28.63% +30.95%
All Communications & Networking
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
53 24 50
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 18.60% 10.81% 21.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 11 13
Average daily rate £350 £238 £251
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+47.36% -5.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £205 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £385 £423 £376
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
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 £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
Firewall
Nottinghamshire

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham Firewall Hourly Rate Trend

Firewall
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Firewall across the Nottingham region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Nottingham Firewall Hourly Rate Histogram

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 20 (80.00%) Cisco
2 13 (52.00%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (44.00%) CCNP
3 11 (44.00%) CheckPoint
4 10 (40.00%) Juniper
4 10 (40.00%) VPN
5 8 (32.00%) Windows
5 8 (32.00%) Cisco ASA
6 7 (28.00%) LAN
7 6 (24.00%) WAN
7 6 (24.00%) DNS
7 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
7 6 (24.00%) TCP/IP
7 6 (24.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (24.00%) Finance
8 5 (20.00%) Wireless
8 5 (20.00%) Cisco PIX
8 5 (20.00%) F5
8 5 (20.00%) Citrix
8 5 (20.00%) Active Directory
8 5 (20.00%) Internet
8 5 (20.00%) ITIL
9 4 (16.00%) Windows XP
9 4 (16.00%) IBM
9 4 (16.00%) SMTP
9 4 (16.00%) HTTP
9 4 (16.00%) BGP
9 4 (16.00%) CCNA
9 4 (16.00%) Nokia
9 4 (16.00%) FWSM

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 1 (4.000%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.000%) MS Exchange
1 2 (8.000%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (4.000%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (4.000%) IIS
2 1 (4.000%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (8.000%) Office 365
2 1 (4.000%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 10 (40.00%) VPN
2 8 (32.00%) Cisco ASA
3 7 (28.00%) LAN
4 6 (24.00%) WAN
4 6 (24.00%) TCP/IP
4 6 (24.00%) DNS
5 5 (20.00%) Internet
5 5 (20.00%) Wireless
5 5 (20.00%) Cisco PIX
6 4 (16.00%) BGP
6 4 (16.00%) FWSM
6 4 (16.00%) DMVPN
6 4 (16.00%) IPsec
6 4 (16.00%) BIG-IP
6 4 (16.00%) HTTP
6 4 (16.00%) SMTP
7 3 (12.00%) Network Security
7 3 (12.00%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (8.000%) NetScreen
8 2 (8.000%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.000%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.000%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (8.000%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 6 (24.00%) Finance
2 3 (12.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Support Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) IT Support
4 2 (8.000%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.000%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.000%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (8.000%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.000%) Network Specialist
5 1 (4.000%) Network Security Specialist
5 1 (4.000%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (4.000%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (4.000%) Security Specialist
5 1 (4.000%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (4.000%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (4.000%) Administrator
5 1 (4.000%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.000%) Network Security Engineer
5 1 (4.000%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.000%) Mainframe
2 1 (4.000%) Handset
2 1 (4.000%) Clustering
2 1 (4.000%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 8 (32.00%) Windows
2 4 (16.00%) Windows XP
3 3 (12.00%) Windows 2000
4 2 (8.000%) UNIX
4 2 (8.000%) Linux
4 2 (8.000%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (8.000%) Windows 7
5 1 (4.000%) Windows 2000 Server
5 1 (4.000%) zOS
5 1 (4.000%) MVS
5 1 (4.000%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (24.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (20.00%) ITIL
3 4 (16.00%) Service Management
4 3 (12.00%) Network Management
5 1 (4.000%) PRINCE2
5 1 (4.000%) Validation
5 1 (4.000%) Business Analysis
5 1 (4.000%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.000%) Perl
1 1 (4.000%) ActionScript
1 1 (4.000%) Python
1 1 (4.000%) REXX
1 1 (4.000%) JCL
1 1 (4.000%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 13 (52.00%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (44.00%) CCNP
3 4 (16.00%) CCNA
4 1 (4.000%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.000%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.000%) MetaFrame
Systems Management
1 2 (8.000%) SCCM
2 1 (4.000%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (4.000%) Tivoli
2 1 (4.000%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 20 (80.00%) Cisco
2 11 (44.00%) CheckPoint
3 10 (40.00%) Juniper
4 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
5 5 (20.00%) Citrix
5 5 (20.00%) F5
6 4 (16.00%) Nokia
6 4 (16.00%) IBM
7 3 (12.00%) Nortel
7 3 (12.00%) VMware
8 2 (8.000%) HP
9 1 (4.000%) Dell
9 1 (4.000%) Oracle
9 1 (4.000%) Avaya
9 1 (4.000%) Sourcefire
9 1 (4.000%) Veeam
9 1 (4.000%) SolarWinds
9 1 (4.000%) Hitachi
9 1 (4.000%) McAfee
9 1 (4.000%) Websense
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Ideal candidate must have one or more of the Qualifications, and at least the items in the one or more key areas: Qualifications *CCNA *CCNP *CCIE KEY Areas...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £350 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013