Scotland Firewall Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Firewall skills within the Scotland region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Firewall over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chichester Chippenham City of London Cobham Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Denbighshire Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dunstable Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh Ely England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Greenford Greenwich Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Huddersfield Ipswich Kent Kettering Knottingley Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rickmansworth Romford Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	69	64
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	31	66
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.041 %	0.067 %
As % of the category below	10.33 %	14.25 %
Daily rates quoted	2	7
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£294
Average daily rate	£344	£298
% change on same period last year	+15.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£363	£303
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£346
% change on same period last year	-3.00 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.00	£14.80
Average hourly rate	£24.25	£15.90
% change on same period last year	+52.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.50	£17.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.12	£28.38
% change on same period last year	-11.49 %
Communications & Networking Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	300	463
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.400 %	0.468 %
Daily rates quoted	60	85
Average minimum daily rate	£281	£348
Average daily rate	£308	£358
% change on same period last year	-14.13 %
Average maximum daily rate	£334	£369
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	31
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.32	£18.73
Average hourly rate	£26.37	£19.84
% change on same period last year	+32.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.43	£20.96
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Firewall across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Firewall across the Scotland region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Firewall across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section 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 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Glasgow	+8	17	£344	+20.87 %
Edinburgh	+7	12	-	-
Aberdeen	-9	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 49 (77.78 %) Cisco 2 26 (41.27 %) Cisco Certification 3 21 (33.33 %) CCNP 4 20 (31.75 %) CheckPoint 5 19 (30.16 %) WAN 6 16 (25.40 %) LAN 7 11 (17.46 %) Nokia 8 10 (15.87 %) VPN 9 9 (14.29 %) VoIP 9 9 (14.29 %) Cisco PIX 9 9 (14.29 %) Network Security 10 8 (12.70 %) SSL 10 8 (12.70 %) CiscoWorks 10 8 (12.70 %) Internet 11 7 (11.11 %) MPLS

11 7 (11.11 %) BGP 12 6 (9.524 %) IPsec 12 6 (9.524 %) Blue Coat 12 6 (9.524 %) Active Directory 12 6 (9.524 %) TCP/IP 13 5 (7.937 %) Microsoft 13 5 (7.937 %) CCDP 13 5 (7.937 %) EIGRP 13 5 (7.937 %) IPCC 14 4 (6.349 %) Finance 14 4 (6.349 %) Network Design 14 4 (6.349 %) Microsoft Certification 14 4 (6.349 %) CCIE 14 4 (6.349 %) CCNA 15 3 (4.762 %) CCDA

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 1 (1.587 %) WebServices 1 1 (1.587 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 2 (3.175 %) IIS 1 2 (3.175 %) CMS 2 1 (1.587 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (1.587 %) Exchange Server 2007 2 1 (1.587 %) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking 1 19 (30.16 %) WAN 2 16 (25.40 %) LAN 3 10 (15.87 %) VPN 4 9 (14.29 %) VoIP 4 9 (14.29 %) Cisco PIX 4 9 (14.29 %) Network Security 5 8 (12.70 %) SSL 5 8 (12.70 %) Internet 6 7 (11.11 %) MPLS 6 7 (11.11 %) BGP 7 6 (9.524 %) TCP/IP 7 6 (9.524 %) IPsec 8 5 (7.937 %) IPCC 8 5 (7.937 %) EIGRP 9 3 (4.762 %) LDAP 10 2 (3.175 %) Wireless 10 2 (3.175 %) OSPF 11 1 (1.587 %) SAN 11 1 (1.587 %) Intranet 11 1 (1.587 %) DNS	General 1 4 (6.349 %) Finance 2 3 (4.762 %) Telecoms 3 2 (3.175 %) Banking 4 1 (1.587 %) Retail 4 1 (1.587 %) Retail Banking 4 1 (1.587 %) Auditing 4 1 (1.587 %) Government
Job Titles 1 12 (19.05 %) Analyst 1 12 (19.05 %) Network Engineer 2 8 (12.70 %) Consultant 3 7 (11.11 %) Network Consultant 3 7 (11.11 %) Cisco Engineer 4 5 (7.937 %) Network Technician 5 4 (6.349 %) Support Analyst 5 4 (6.349 %) Implementation Engineer 6 3 (4.762 %) Network Design Engineer 6 3 (4.762 %) Network Security Consultant 6 3 (4.762 %) Firewall Analyst 6 3 (4.762 %) Security Consultant 6 3 (4.762 %) Administrator 6 3 (4.762 %) Network Analyst 6 3 (4.762 %) Design Engineer 6 3 (4.762 %) Cisco Network Engineer 6 3 (4.762 %) Cisco Specialist 6 3 (4.762 %) Cisco Support 7 2 (3.175 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 7 2 (3.175 %) UNIX Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 3 (4.762 %) PKI
Operating Systems 1 3 (4.762 %) UNIX 1 3 (4.762 %) Windows 2 2 (3.175 %) Solaris 3 1 (1.587 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (1.587 %) Windows NT 3 1 (1.587 %) VMS 3 1 (1.587 %) OpenVMS 3 1 (1.587 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (6.349 %) Network Design 2 3 (4.762 %) Migration 3 2 (3.175 %) Load Balancing 4 1 (1.587 %) Problem Management 4 1 (1.587 %) Time Management 4 1 (1.587 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (1.587 %) Security Cleared 4 1 (1.587 %) Information Security 4 1 (1.587 %) Technical Architecture 4 1 (1.587 %) ITIL 4 1 (1.587 %) ERP 4 1 (1.587 %) Change Management 4 1 (1.587 %) Disaster Recovery 4 1 (1.587 %) Identity Management
Programming Languages 1 3 (4.762 %) Java	Qualifications 1 26 (41.27 %) Cisco Certification 2 21 (33.33 %) CCNP 3 5 (7.937 %) CCDP 4 4 (6.349 %) Microsoft Certification 4 4 (6.349 %) CCNA 4 4 (6.349 %) CCIE 5 3 (4.762 %) CCSP 5 3 (4.762 %) CCDA 5 3 (4.762 %) CCIP 5 3 (4.762 %) CCSA 5 3 (4.762 %) CCVP 5 3 (4.762 %) CCSE 6 1 (1.587 %) Degree 6 1 (1.587 %) Check Point Certification 6 1 (1.587 %) CISSP 6 1 (1.587 %) HNC 6 1 (1.587 %) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.587 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 1 1 (1.587 %) ISO27001	System Software 1 6 (9.524 %) Active Directory 2 1 (1.587 %) VMware ESX
Systems Management 1 8 (12.70 %) CiscoWorks 2 3 (4.762 %) Tivoli 3 1 (1.587 %) BMC PATROL	Vendors 1 49 (77.78 %) Cisco 2 20 (31.75 %) CheckPoint 3 11 (17.46 %) Nokia 4 6 (9.524 %) Blue Coat 5 5 (7.937 %) Microsoft 6 3 (4.762 %) Citrix 7 2 (3.175 %) Juniper 7 2 (3.175 %) Sun 7 2 (3.175 %) IBM 8 1 (1.587 %) Nortel 8 1 (1.587 %) BMC 8 1 (1.587 %) CommVault 8 1 (1.587 %) Symantec 8 1 (1.587 %) McAfee Security 8 1 (1.587 %) VMware 8 1 (1.587 %) Mitel