Shropshire Firewall Support Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Firewall Support role in IT contracts within the Shropshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Firewall Support in their job title over the 3 months to 7 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Firewall Support
Location England London Shropshire UK West Midlands	3 months to 7 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	22	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	1.408 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	-	£300
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Job Titles Shropshire
Matching contract IT job ads	142	164
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.283 %	0.205 %
Daily rates quoted	45	56
Average minimum daily rate	£405	£333
Average daily rate	£436	£355
% change on same period last year	+23.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£468	£377
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£357
% change on same period last year	-2.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.98	£20.18
Average hourly rate	£14.22	£21.78
% change on same period last year	-34.74 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.45	£23.39
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.14	£23.50
% change on same period last year	-1.52 %
Firewall Support West Midlands

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.

Firewall Support
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Firewall Support across the Shropshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Firewall Support
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Shropshire region that cited Firewall Support in their job title 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 with Firewall Support in their job title.

1 2 (100.00 %) LAN 1 2 (100.00 %) WAN 1 2 (100.00 %) Cisco 1 2 (100.00 %) OSPF 1 2 (100.00 %) BGP 1 2 (100.00 %) Firewall 1 2 (100.00 %) Government 1 2 (100.00 %) BIG-IP

Firewall Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Shropshire region that cited Firewall Support in their job title 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 with Firewall Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 2 (100.00 %) LAN 1 2 (100.00 %) WAN 1 2 (100.00 %) OSPF 1 2 (100.00 %) BGP 1 2 (100.00 %) Firewall 1 2 (100.00 %) BIG-IP	General 1 2 (100.00 %) Government
Vendors 1 2 (100.00 %) Cisco