The first table below looks at the demand for FWSM 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 FWSM over the 3 months to 18 June 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Firewall Services Module (FWSM)
Rank 65 66 -
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -
Contract jobs citing FWSM 6 17 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.686% 1.477% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.791% 3.512% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £400 £365 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.58% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £345 £295
% change year-on-year
-5.79% +16.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £29.00
All Communications & Networking
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
215 484 203
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 24.57% 42.05% 20.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 121 72
Average daily rate £273 £280 £370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.67% -24.32%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £132 £215 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £497
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 12
Average hourly rate £23.50 £16.50 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+42.42% -25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.40 £14.56 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £44.00 £22.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.96%
FWSM
Berkshire

FWSM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading FWSM Jobs Demand Trend

FWSM
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading FWSM Daily Rate Trend

FWSM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing FWSM 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 FWSM.

1 6 (100.00%) CheckPoint
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco
2 5 (83.33%) Telecoms
2 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco PIX
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (83.33%) F5
3 4 (66.67%) Blue Coat
3 4 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (50.00%) CCNP
4 3 (50.00%) SMTP
4 3 (50.00%) DHCP
4 3 (50.00%) SNMP
4 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (50.00%) DNS
4 3 (50.00%) BIG-IP
5 2 (33.33%) Network Security
5 2 (33.33%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (33.33%) 3G
5 2 (33.33%) ProxySG
6 1 (16.67%) Network Design
6 1 (16.67%) Back Office
6 1 (16.67%) IPsec
6 1 (16.67%) Retail
6 1 (16.67%) Redback
6 1 (16.67%) Billing
6 1 (16.67%) Check Point Certification
6 1 (16.67%) Validation
6 1 (16.67%) Migration
6 1 (16.67%) OSPF

FWSM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing FWSM 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 FWSM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco PIX
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (50.00%) SMTP
2 3 (50.00%) DHCP
2 3 (50.00%) SNMP
2 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (50.00%) DNS
2 3 (50.00%) BIG-IP
3 2 (33.33%) 3G
3 2 (33.33%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (33.33%) Network Security
4 1 (16.67%) IPsec
4 1 (16.67%) Broadband
4 1 (16.67%) VoIP
4 1 (16.67%) OSPF
4 1 (16.67%) BGP
General
1 5 (83.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Billing
2 1 (16.67%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Security Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) IP Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Security Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Design Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Network Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) CRM
1 1 (16.67%) Validation
1 1 (16.67%) Migration
1 1 (16.67%) Network Design
1 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
1 1 (16.67%) Change Control
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (50.00%) CCNP
3 1 (16.67%) CCDP
3 1 (16.67%) CCIE
3 1 (16.67%) CCSP
3 1 (16.67%) Check Point Certification
3 1 (16.67%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
1 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) ProxySG
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) CheckPoint
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco
2 5 (83.33%) F5
3 4 (66.67%) Blue Coat
4 1 (16.67%) Redback