Firewall Contracts in Oxfordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Firewall 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 Oxfordshire 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
Firewall
Rank 29 56 45
Rank change year-on-year
+27 -11
Contract jobs citing Firewall 21 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 4.656% 0.161% 0.647%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.86% 1.471% 3.488%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 2
Average daily rate £250 - £348
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £328 £325
% change year-on-year
-0.76% +0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
Average hourly rate £19.00 £15.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+26.66% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.63 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-28.63% +30.95%
All Communications & Networking
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 88 68 86
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 19.51% 10.93% 18.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 23 36
Average daily rate £305 £325 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.15% +62.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £160 £225 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £340 £400 £348
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 20 22
Average hourly rate £13.75 £16.50 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.43 £11.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.50 £17.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
Firewall
South East

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire Firewall Daily Rate Trend

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Firewall across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Oxfordshire Firewall Daily Rate Histogram

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Oxfordshire Firewall Hourly Rate Histogram

Firewall
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Oxford - 13 £260 -
Firewall
South East

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 22 (66.67%) Cisco
2 21 (63.64%) Windows
3 18 (54.55%) TCP/IP
4 15 (45.45%) DHCP
5 14 (42.42%) DNS
5 14 (42.42%) VMware
6 13 (39.39%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (39.39%) CCNA
7 11 (33.33%) VPN
7 11 (33.33%) UNIX
7 11 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
8 10 (30.30%) ITIL
9 9 (27.27%) NetWare
9 9 (27.27%) Altiris
10 8 (24.24%) Windows 7
11 7 (21.21%) Degree
12 5 (15.15%) Wireshark
13 4 (12.12%) Test Scripting
13 4 (12.12%) IIS
13 4 (12.12%) Web Services
13 4 (12.12%) Broadband
13 4 (12.12%) Benchmarking
14 3 (9.091%) CheckPoint
14 3 (9.091%) Windows Server 2003
14 3 (9.091%) CCNP
14 3 (9.091%) Telecoms
14 3 (9.091%) LAN
14 3 (9.091%) Apache
14 3 (9.091%) SQL
14 3 (9.091%) WAN

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 (12.12%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 4 (12.12%) IIS
2 3 (9.091%) Apache
3 2 (6.061%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (6.061%) Amazon AWS
3 2 (6.061%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (3.030%) Jetty
4 1 (3.030%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (3.030%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (3.030%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 18 (54.55%) TCP/IP
2 15 (45.45%) DHCP
3 14 (42.42%) DNS
4 11 (33.33%) VPN
5 5 (15.15%) Wireshark
6 4 (12.12%) Broadband
7 3 (9.091%) LAN
7 3 (9.091%) WAN
8 2 (6.061%) PBX
8 2 (6.061%) VoIP
8 2 (6.061%) MPLS
8 2 (6.061%) SAN
8 2 (6.061%) VLAN
8 2 (6.061%) Network Security
8 2 (6.061%) IP Telephony
8 2 (6.061%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (3.030%) Intranet
9 1 (3.030%) SMTP
9 1 (3.030%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.030%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (3.030%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (9.091%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.030%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (42.42%) Administrator
2 13 (39.39%) Network Administrator
3 10 (30.30%) Network Engineer
4 3 (9.091%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (9.091%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (6.061%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (6.061%) Developer
5 2 (6.061%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (6.061%) Telecoms Engineer
6 1 (3.030%) Server Analyst
6 1 (3.030%) Senior Network Administrator
6 1 (3.030%) Network Support Technician
6 1 (3.030%) Linux Administrator
6 1 (3.030%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 1 (3.030%) IT Support
6 1 (3.030%) Windows Systems Engineer
6 1 (3.030%) Analyst
6 1 (3.030%) Architect
6 1 (3.030%) Server Support
6 1 (3.030%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.061%) Handset
1 2 (6.061%) Open Source
1 2 (6.061%) Computer Science
2 1 (3.030%) Smartphone
2 1 (3.030%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 21 (63.64%) Windows
2 11 (33.33%) UNIX
2 11 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 9 (27.27%) NetWare
4 8 (24.24%) Windows 7
5 3 (9.091%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (6.061%) Windows XP
7 1 (3.030%) Ubuntu
7 1 (3.030%) CentOS
7 1 (3.030%) Debian
7 1 (3.030%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (30.30%) ITIL
2 4 (12.12%) Test Scripting
2 4 (12.12%) Benchmarking
3 1 (3.030%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (3.030%) Software Testing
3 1 (3.030%) Release Management
3 1 (3.030%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (3.030%) Time Management
3 1 (3.030%) Configuration Management
3 1 (3.030%) Change Management
3 1 (3.030%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.091%) SQL
2 1 (3.030%) Bash shell
2 1 (3.030%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (39.39%) Cisco Certification
1 13 (39.39%) CCNA
2 7 (21.21%) Degree
3 3 (9.091%) CCNP
4 2 (6.061%) CCIE
5 1 (3.030%) CISSP
System Software
1 3 (9.091%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.061%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.030%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (3.030%) vSphere
3 1 (3.030%) XenApp
3 1 (3.030%) VMware ESX
3 1 (3.030%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (3.030%) Foglight
Vendors
1 22 (66.67%) Cisco
2 14 (42.42%) VMware
3 9 (27.27%) Altiris
4 3 (9.091%) CheckPoint
4 3 (9.091%) Citrix
5 2 (6.061%) Juniper
5 2 (6.061%) Fortinet
5 2 (6.061%) Blue Coat
5 2 (6.061%) Riverbed
5 2 (6.061%) F5
6 1 (3.030%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.030%) Sophos
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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