Firewall Contracts in Oxford
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Firewall over the 3 months to 21 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 Oxford 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 24 - 25
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Firewall 12 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 5.217% - 1.250%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.91% - 9.524%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
Average daily rate £270 - £348
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £328 £325
% change year-on-year
-0.76% +0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £17.71 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.63 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-28.63% +30.95%
All Communications & Networking
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 43 39 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 18.70% 11.40% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 4
Average daily rate £340 £338 £336
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.74% +0.37%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 8
Average hourly rate £13.75 £12.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -50.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.43 £11.30 £11.21
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.95 £14.70 £26.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
Firewall
Oxfordshire

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford 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 Oxford region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Oxford Firewall Hourly Rate Histogram

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 15 (65.22%) Cisco
2 13 (56.52%) Windows
3 11 (47.83%) TCP/IP
4 10 (43.48%) DHCP
5 9 (39.13%) DNS
5 9 (39.13%) CCNA
5 9 (39.13%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (34.78%) VMware
6 8 (34.78%) VPN
7 7 (30.43%) Windows 7
8 6 (26.09%) Windows Server 2008
8 6 (26.09%) Altiris
9 5 (21.74%) ITIL
9 5 (21.74%) UNIX
10 4 (17.39%) Web Services
10 4 (17.39%) Broadband
10 4 (17.39%) NetWare
10 4 (17.39%) Benchmarking
10 4 (17.39%) Wireshark
10 4 (17.39%) Test Scripting
11 3 (13.04%) Degree
11 3 (13.04%) Citrix
11 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2003
11 3 (13.04%) Apache
11 3 (13.04%) IIS
12 2 (8.696%) SQL
12 2 (8.696%) LAN
12 2 (8.696%) PBX
12 2 (8.696%) VoIP
12 2 (8.696%) WAN

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 4 (17.39%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 3 (13.04%) Apache
1 3 (13.04%) IIS
2 2 (8.696%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (8.696%) Amazon AWS
2 2 (8.696%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (4.348%) Jetty
3 1 (4.348%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (4.348%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (4.348%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (47.83%) TCP/IP
2 10 (43.48%) DHCP
3 9 (39.13%) DNS
4 8 (34.78%) VPN
5 4 (17.39%) Broadband
5 4 (17.39%) Wireshark
6 2 (8.696%) LAN
6 2 (8.696%) PBX
6 2 (8.696%) VoIP
6 2 (8.696%) WAN
6 2 (8.696%) SAN
6 2 (8.696%) MPLS
6 2 (8.696%) IP Telephony
6 2 (8.696%) Network Security
6 2 (8.696%) VLAN
7 1 (4.348%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (4.348%) Intranet
7 1 (4.348%) SNMP
7 1 (4.348%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.348%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (4.348%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (8.696%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Administrator
2 8 (34.78%) Network Engineer
2 8 (34.78%) Network Administrator
3 3 (13.04%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (8.696%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (8.696%) Developer
4 2 (8.696%) Telecoms Engineer
5 1 (4.348%) IT Support
5 1 (4.348%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (4.348%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (4.348%) Server Support Analyst
5 1 (4.348%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (4.348%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 1 (4.348%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (4.348%) Linux Administrator
5 1 (4.348%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (4.348%) Server Analyst
5 1 (4.348%) Senior Network Administrator
5 1 (4.348%) Analyst
5 1 (4.348%) Server Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.696%) Handset
1 2 (8.696%) Open Source
2 1 (4.348%) Computer Science
2 1 (4.348%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 13 (56.52%) Windows
2 7 (30.43%) Windows 7
3 6 (26.09%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (21.74%) UNIX
5 4 (17.39%) NetWare
6 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (8.696%) Windows XP
8 1 (4.348%) CentOS
8 1 (4.348%) Debian
8 1 (4.348%) Ubuntu
8 1 (4.348%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (21.74%) ITIL
2 4 (17.39%) Benchmarking
2 4 (17.39%) Test Scripting
3 1 (4.348%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (4.348%) Configuration Management
3 1 (4.348%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.696%) SQL
2 1 (4.348%) Bash shell
2 1 (4.348%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) CCNA
1 9 (39.13%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (13.04%) Degree
3 1 (4.348%) CCIE
3 1 (4.348%) CCNP
System Software
1 2 (8.696%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.348%) vSphere
2 1 (4.348%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 1 (4.348%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.348%) XenApp
2 1 (4.348%) VMware ESX
2 1 (4.348%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (4.348%) Foglight
Vendors
1 15 (65.22%) Cisco
2 8 (34.78%) VMware
3 6 (26.09%) Altiris
4 3 (13.04%) Citrix
5 2 (8.696%) Juniper
5 2 (8.696%) CheckPoint
5 2 (8.696%) Blue Coat
5 2 (8.696%) Riverbed
5 2 (8.696%) Fortinet
5 2 (8.696%) F5
6 1 (4.348%) Red Hat
Network Engineer - CCNA
Oxford, Oxfordshire
Essential skills: *Firewall configuration *Cisco Routing & Switching *CCNA qualification (Or working towards) Experience of dealing with customers directly Desirable Skills: *ICT Desktop *Performance Benchmarking *Experience of running test...
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Posted: 16 May 2013
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