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Firewall Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills
Browse 9 Firewall job vacancies in Scotland

The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Firewall 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 Scotland 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
Firewall
Rank 99 64 89
Rank change year-on-year
-35 +25
Contract jobs citing Firewall 24 47 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.951% 1.765% 0.805%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.266% 13.95% 7.958%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 23 8
Average daily rate £300 £328 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.39% -20.60%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £158 £203 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £424 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £334 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+2.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+45.45% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.88 £25.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year
-20.50% +13.63%
All Communications & Networking
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 259 337 289
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 10.27% 12.65% 10.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 131 79
Average daily rate £330 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.71% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £158 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £421 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 25 24
Average hourly rate £32.25 £31.00 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.03% +87.87%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.20 £19.65 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £45.00 £31.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.96%
Firewall
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Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Firewall Hourly Rate Trend

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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 18 June 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		 Find
Job
Vacancies
Aberdeen +7 11 £255 -21.53% 1
Edinburgh -18 4 £275 -26.66% 5
Glasgow -27 2 £338 +20.71% 2
Stirling - 2 - -
Renfrewshire - - - -
North Lanarkshire - - - -
Highlands - - - -
Dundee - - - -
Firewall
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Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 39 (53.42%) Cisco
2 27 (36.99%) Windows
3 17 (23.29%) LAN
3 17 (23.29%) WAN
4 16 (21.92%) TCP/IP
5 14 (19.18%) CheckPoint
5 14 (19.18%) ITIL
6 12 (16.44%) Internet
6 12 (16.44%) Information Security
6 12 (16.44%) Cisco ASA
6 12 (16.44%) Windows Server 2008
7 11 (15.07%) Intrusion Detection
7 11 (15.07%) Finance
7 11 (15.07%) VMware
7 11 (15.07%) Wireless
7 11 (15.07%) VPN
7 11 (15.07%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (13.70%) CISSP
8 10 (13.70%) Microsoft
8 10 (13.70%) Linux
8 10 (13.70%) Project Management
9 9 (12.33%) Nokia
9 9 (12.33%) UNIX
9 9 (12.33%) SAN
9 9 (12.33%) Active Directory
9 9 (12.33%) Incident Management
9 9 (12.33%) SIEM
10 8 (10.96%) Windows 7
10 8 (10.96%) Network Security
10 8 (10.96%) DNS

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 3 (4.110%) WebSphere
2 2 (2.740%) .NET
3 1 (1.370%) ASP
3 1 (1.370%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.370%) XML
3 1 (1.370%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 3 (4.110%) MS Exchange
2 2 (2.740%) IIS
3 1 (1.370%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.370%) CICS
3 1 (1.370%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (1.370%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (6.849%) MS Excel
2 3 (4.110%) MS Office
3 1 (1.370%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.740%) Maximo
2 1 (1.370%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 17 (23.29%) LAN
1 17 (23.29%) WAN
2 16 (21.92%) TCP/IP
3 12 (16.44%) Internet
3 12 (16.44%) Cisco ASA
4 11 (15.07%) Wireless
4 11 (15.07%) Intrusion Detection
4 11 (15.07%) VPN
5 9 (12.33%) SAN
6 8 (10.96%) DNS
6 8 (10.96%) Network Security
7 6 (8.219%) DHCP
7 6 (8.219%) NetScreen
8 5 (6.849%) VLAN
9 4 (5.479%) WLAN
10 3 (4.110%) ADSL
10 3 (4.110%) MPLS
10 3 (4.110%) BGP
10 3 (4.110%) EIGRP
10 3 (4.110%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.219%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.110%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (1.370%) DB2
3 1 (1.370%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.370%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (1.370%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (1.370%) MSI
1 1 (1.370%) InstallShield
General
1 11 (15.07%) Finance
2 7 (9.589%) Banking
3 6 (8.219%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.740%) Marketing
5 1 (1.370%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 15 (20.55%) Analyst
2 12 (16.44%) Network Engineer
3 8 (10.96%) Consultant
3 8 (10.96%) Security Engineer
4 6 (8.219%) Security Analyst
4 6 (8.219%) Security Consultant
4 6 (8.219%) Project Manager
4 6 (8.219%) IT Support
5 5 (6.849%) Technical Specialist
6 4 (5.479%) Architect
6 4 (5.479%) Support Analyst
7 3 (4.110%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 3 (4.110%) Support Technician
7 3 (4.110%) IT Support Analyst
7 3 (4.110%) Infrastructure Manager
7 3 (4.110%) Firewall Consultant
7 3 (4.110%) IT Support Technician
8 2 (2.740%) Information Analyst
8 2 (2.740%) Virtualisation Architect
8 2 (2.740%) Senior Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.849%) Video Conferencing
2 4 (5.479%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.110%) CMDB
4 2 (2.740%) PKI
4 2 (2.740%) CCTV
4 2 (2.740%) SCADA
4 2 (2.740%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.370%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.370%) Streaming Video
Operating Systems
1 27 (36.99%) Windows
2 12 (16.44%) Windows Server 2008
3 10 (13.70%) Linux
4 9 (12.33%) UNIX
5 8 (10.96%) Windows 7
5 8 (10.96%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (8.219%) Windows Vista
7 5 (6.849%) Mac OS X
8 3 (4.110%) Windows XP
8 3 (4.110%) Android
8 3 (4.110%) Windows Mobile
9 1 (1.370%) zOS
9 1 (1.370%) AIX
9 1 (1.370%) HPUX
9 1 (1.370%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (19.18%) ITIL
2 12 (16.44%) Information Security
3 10 (13.70%) Project Management
4 9 (12.33%) Incident Management
4 9 (12.33%) SIEM
5 5 (6.849%) Configuration Management
6 4 (5.479%) Workflow
6 4 (5.479%) Service Management
6 4 (5.479%) Vulnerability Management
6 4 (5.479%) Problem Management
6 4 (5.479%) Release Management
7 3 (4.110%) Risk Management
7 3 (4.110%) Supplier Management
8 2 (2.740%) Network Design
8 2 (2.740%) PRINCE2
8 2 (2.740%) E-Commerce
8 2 (2.740%) Digital Marketing
8 2 (2.740%) Network Management
8 2 (2.740%) Customer Insight
9 1 (1.370%) ITIL V3
Programming Languages
1 6 (8.219%) C
1 6 (8.219%) SQL
2 1 (1.370%) VB
2 1 (1.370%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.370%) COBOL
2 1 (1.370%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.370%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (15.07%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (13.70%) CISSP
3 5 (6.849%) CCSP
4 4 (5.479%) CCNA
5 3 (4.110%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (4.110%) Degree
6 2 (2.740%) GIAC
6 2 (2.740%) PMP
6 2 (2.740%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.370%) CISA
7 1 (1.370%) CISM
7 1 (1.370%) CCIE
7 1 (1.370%) CCNP
7 1 (1.370%) CCSE
7 1 (1.370%) JNCIA
7 1 (1.370%) JNCIE
7 1 (1.370%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.370%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.740%) SLA
2 1 (1.370%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.370%) ISO/IEC 17799
System Software
1 9 (12.33%) Active Directory
2 7 (9.589%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.370%) MetaFrame
3 1 (1.370%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 3 (4.110%) FortiGate
2 1 (1.370%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (1.370%) OpenView Configuration Management
2 1 (1.370%) SCCM
2 1 (1.370%) Splunk
Vendors
1 39 (53.42%) Cisco
2 14 (19.18%) CheckPoint
3 11 (15.07%) VMware
4 10 (13.70%) Microsoft
5 9 (12.33%) Nokia
6 8 (10.96%) Juniper
7 6 (8.219%) Avaya
7 6 (8.219%) HP
7 6 (8.219%) Nortel
7 6 (8.219%) ArcSight
8 3 (4.110%) Tandberg
8 3 (4.110%) Fortinet
8 3 (4.110%) SonicWALL
8 3 (4.110%) EMC
8 3 (4.110%) Apple
9 2 (2.740%) Oracle
9 2 (2.740%) Blue Coat
9 2 (2.740%) Websense
10 1 (1.370%) Imperva
10 1 (1.370%) Brocade
Network Engineer
Aberdeen, Scotland
Sound technical knowledge of large-scale LAN/WAN/WLAN design and implementation ** Good working knowledge Cisco Routers and Switches, ASA/PIX Firewalls, VPNs and other Network products such...
Cathcart Associates
Rate: £225 - £375 per day
Posted: 11 June 2013
IT Support Engineer
Fife
IT Support - Contract. My client is currently seeking an IT support Engineer initially on a contract basis. Essential Skills / Experience. Excellent communication skills. Desktop support and remote support...
Computer Futures
Posted: 10 June 2013
Senior Project Manager
Edinburgh, Midlothian
The right candidate must have experience of Networks, Security and Firewalls, both in a design and support environment. Comprehensive understanding of firewall hardware and its capabilities (e.g...
Lorien Resourcing
Rate: market day run
Posted: 14 June 2013
IT Support Analyst - Citrix Xenapp Essential
Glasgow, Scotland
Key Responsibilities: Provide first-line desktop support (phone, email and face-to-face) to 200+ users covering both software and hardware, ensuring that all queries are logged and...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £150.00 - £200.00 per annum
Posted: 10 June 2013
IT Support Analyst - Citrix (Xenapp)
Glasgow, Scotland
Key Responsibilities: Provide first-line desktop support (phone, email and face-to-face) to 200+ users covering both software and hardware, ensuring that all queries are logged and...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £200 - £220 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
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