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

The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading 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 Reading 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 50 27 50
Rank change year-on-year
-23 +23
Contract jobs citing Firewall 23 58 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 2.687% 5.249% 2.913%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.86% 12.55% 14.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 17 8
Average daily rate £400 £350 £419
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -16.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £161 £141 £189
10% offered a daily rate of more than £490 £450 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £328 £325
% change year-on-year
-0.76% +0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.63 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-28.63% +30.95%
All Communications & Networking
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 194 462 206
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 22.66% 41.81% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 110 68
Average daily rate £275 £280 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.78% -25.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £133 £213 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £431 £400 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 15 5
Average hourly rate £17.00 £15.58 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.14% -11.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.30 £14.50 £12.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.50 £44.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
Firewall
Berkshire

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Firewall Hourly Rate Trend

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 19 (59.38%) Network Security
2 14 (43.75%) CheckPoint
3 13 (40.63%) Oracle
4 12 (37.50%) Windows
5 11 (34.38%) Cisco
6 10 (31.25%) CISSP
6 10 (31.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (31.25%) PCI DSS
6 10 (31.25%) Security Cleared
7 9 (28.13%) Information Security
7 9 (28.13%) CESG
7 9 (28.13%) TOGAF
7 9 (28.13%) Ethical Hacking
7 9 (28.13%) CA
7 9 (28.13%) Tivoli
8 8 (25.00%) SSL
8 8 (25.00%) SC Cleared
9 7 (21.88%) UNIX
9 7 (21.88%) TCP/IP
9 7 (21.88%) LAN
9 7 (21.88%) WAN
9 7 (21.88%) Internet
9 7 (21.88%) Intrusion Detection
9 7 (21.88%) Technical Architecture
10 6 (18.75%) Blue Coat
10 6 (18.75%) Service Delivery
10 6 (18.75%) CCSA
10 6 (18.75%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (15.63%) Change Control
11 5 (15.63%) VMware

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 2 (6.250%) .NET
1 2 (6.250%) Web Services
2 1 (3.125%) HTML
2 1 (3.125%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 2 (6.250%) IIS
1 2 (6.250%) Apache
1 2 (6.250%) Tomcat
1 2 (6.250%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (6.250%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 3 (9.375%) MS Excel
1 3 (9.375%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 19 (59.38%) Network Security
2 8 (25.00%) SSL
3 7 (21.88%) TCP/IP
3 7 (21.88%) LAN
3 7 (21.88%) WAN
3 7 (21.88%) Internet
3 7 (21.88%) Intrusion Detection
4 5 (15.63%) VPN
5 4 (12.50%) DHCP
5 4 (12.50%) IPsec
6 3 (9.375%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (9.375%) MPLS
6 3 (9.375%) OSPF
6 3 (9.375%) BGP
6 3 (9.375%) DNS
7 2 (6.250%) HTTP
7 2 (6.250%) SNMP
7 2 (6.250%) VoIP
7 2 (6.250%) SAN
7 2 (6.250%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Oracle 8/8i
1 4 (12.50%) Oracle 10g
1 4 (12.50%) Oracle 11g
General
1 5 (15.63%) Finance
2 3 (9.375%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.125%) Back Office
3 1 (3.125%) French Language
3 1 (3.125%) German Language
3 1 (3.125%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (15.63%) Support Engineer
1 5 (15.63%) Security Architect
1 5 (15.63%) Security Engineer
1 5 (15.63%) Architect
1 5 (15.63%) Analyst
2 4 (12.50%) Oracle DBA
2 4 (12.50%) DBA
2 4 (12.50%) Network Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Security Analyst
3 3 (9.375%) Security Support Engineer
3 3 (9.375%) Technical Analyst
3 3 (9.375%) Network Consultant
3 3 (9.375%) Consultant
3 3 (9.375%) Technical Security Analyst
4 2 (6.250%) Network Security Consultant
4 2 (6.250%) Security Consultant
4 2 (6.250%) IP Engineer
5 1 (3.125%) Lead Network Engineer
5 1 (3.125%) Information Security Architect
5 1 (3.125%) Help Desk Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) CESG
2 5 (15.63%) CESG CLAS
3 3 (9.375%) RMADS
4 2 (6.250%) Clustering
5 1 (3.125%) CLARiiON
5 1 (3.125%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.125%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 12 (37.50%) Windows
2 7 (21.88%) UNIX
3 6 (18.75%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (15.63%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (6.250%) Windows XP
6 1 (3.125%) Windows 7
6 1 (3.125%) VMS
6 1 (3.125%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (28.13%) Information Security
1 9 (28.13%) TOGAF
1 9 (28.13%) Ethical Hacking
2 7 (21.88%) Technical Architecture
3 6 (18.75%) Service Delivery
4 5 (15.63%) Change Control
5 4 (12.50%) ITIL
5 4 (12.50%) Incident Management
5 4 (12.50%) Security Testing
6 3 (9.375%) Security Architecture
6 3 (9.375%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (9.375%) Load Balancing
7 2 (6.250%) Network Design
8 1 (3.125%) Performance Management
8 1 (3.125%) WAN Optimisation
8 1 (3.125%) Network Management
8 1 (3.125%) Validation
8 1 (3.125%) Migration
8 1 (3.125%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.63%) SQL
2 4 (12.50%) PL/SQL
3 1 (3.125%) C#
3 1 (3.125%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (31.25%) CISSP
1 10 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 8 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (18.75%) CCSA
4 5 (15.63%) CISA
4 5 (15.63%) CISM
4 5 (15.63%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (12.50%) CCNP
6 3 (9.375%) CCSE
7 2 (6.250%) CCNA
7 2 (6.250%) OCP
7 2 (6.250%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (3.125%) ISTQB
8 1 (3.125%) JNCIS
8 1 (3.125%) Check Point Certification
8 1 (3.125%) ISEB
8 1 (3.125%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (3.125%) CCDP
8 1 (3.125%) CCIE
8 1 (3.125%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (31.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (31.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (15.63%) ProxySG
2 3 (9.375%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.250%) VMware ESX
3 2 (6.250%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (28.13%) Tivoli
2 2 (6.250%) MOM
2 2 (6.250%) HP SIM
3 1 (3.125%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (3.125%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (43.75%) CheckPoint
2 13 (40.63%) Oracle
3 11 (34.38%) Cisco
4 9 (28.13%) CA
5 6 (18.75%) Blue Coat
6 5 (15.63%) VMware
6 5 (15.63%) HP
7 4 (12.50%) Juniper
7 4 (12.50%) F5
8 3 (9.375%) Nokia
9 2 (6.250%) IBM
9 2 (6.250%) Microsoft
9 2 (6.250%) Sourcefire
9 2 (6.250%) SolarWinds
10 1 (3.125%) ProCurve
10 1 (3.125%) Riverbed
10 1 (3.125%) TippingPoint
10 1 (3.125%) SonicWALL
10 1 (3.125%) NetScout
10 1 (3.125%) Redback
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Reading, Berkshire
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Posted: 15 May 2013
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