Shropshire Firewall Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills within the Shropshire 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 1 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Barry Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Ely England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Lewes Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Rickmansworth Romford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Witham Woking Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 1 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	19	29
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	10	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	28.57 %	14.81 %
Daily rates quoted	5	1
Average minimum daily rate	£460	£450
Average daily rate	£503	£450
% change on same period last year	+11.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£545	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£372	£334
% change on same period last year	+11.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£40.00
Average hourly rate	-	£45.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.83	£26.49
% change on same period last year	+12.58 %
Communications & Networking Shropshire
Matching contract IT job ads	35	27
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.055 %	0.029 %
Daily rates quoted	8	12
Average minimum daily rate	£428	£365
Average daily rate	£465	£415
% change on same period last year	+11.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£502	£465
UK excluding London average daily rate	£347	£336
% change on same period last year	+3.00 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	6
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£43.20
Average hourly rate	-	£48.20
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£53.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.77	£28.62
% change on same period last year	-2.99 %
Firewall 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.

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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 Shropshire 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 Shropshire 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 Shropshire region over the 3 months to 1 December 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 Shropshire region.

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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 Shropshire region over the 3 months to 1 December 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
Telford	+4	8	£503	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Shropshire 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 13 (59.09 %) Cisco 1 13 (59.09 %) Government 2 11 (50.00 %) CheckPoint 3 9 (40.91 %) Security Cleared 4 6 (27.27 %) Risk Assessment 4 6 (27.27 %) LAN 4 6 (27.27 %) WAN 4 6 (27.27 %) SQL 5 5 (22.73 %) Oracle 5 5 (22.73 %) VPN 5 5 (22.73 %) Remedy 5 5 (22.73 %) Network Security 5 5 (22.73 %) SC Cleared 6 4 (18.18 %) VLAN 6 4 (18.18 %) Windows

7 3 (13.64 %) UNIX 7 3 (13.64 %) BS7799 7 3 (13.64 %) CISSP 7 3 (13.64 %) ISO27001 7 3 (13.64 %) MS Visio 7 3 (13.64 %) Vulnerability Assessment 7 3 (13.64 %) Penetration Testing 7 3 (13.64 %) BIG-IP 7 3 (13.64 %) Information Security Management 7 3 (13.64 %) Security Management 7 3 (13.64 %) Information Security 8 2 (9.091 %) PKI 8 2 (9.091 %) Auditing 8 2 (9.091 %) SSL 8 2 (9.091 %) Internet

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Shropshire 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 (4.545 %) Advantage:Gen	Application Platforms 1 2 (9.091 %) WebLogic 2 1 (4.545 %) Tuxedo
Applications 1 3 (13.64 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 6 (27.27 %) LAN 1 6 (27.27 %) WAN 2 5 (22.73 %) VPN 2 5 (22.73 %) Network Security 3 4 (18.18 %) VLAN 4 3 (13.64 %) BIG-IP 5 2 (9.091 %) HTTP 5 2 (9.091 %) SSL 5 2 (9.091 %) Internet 5 2 (9.091 %) MPLS 6 1 (4.545 %) OSPF 6 1 (4.545 %) BGP 6 1 (4.545 %) Cisco PIX
General 1 13 (59.09 %) Government 2 2 (9.091 %) Auditing	Job Titles 1 6 (27.27 %) Network Engineer 1 6 (27.27 %) Support Engineer 1 6 (27.27 %) Network Support Engineer 1 6 (27.27 %) Network Support 2 5 (22.73 %) Architect 3 3 (13.64 %) Consultant 3 3 (13.64 %) Security Architect 3 3 (13.64 %) Firewall Engineer 3 3 (13.64 %) Auditor 3 3 (13.64 %) CLAS Consultant 3 3 (13.64 %) Security Specialist 4 1 (4.545 %) Firewall Support 4 1 (4.545 %) Security Engineer 4 1 (4.545 %) Applications Architect 4 1 (4.545 %) Technical Specialist 4 1 (4.545 %) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous 1 2 (9.091 %) PKI 2 1 (4.545 %) N-Tier 2 1 (4.545 %) Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 4 (18.18 %) Windows 2 3 (13.64 %) UNIX 3 2 (9.091 %) Solaris 4 1 (4.545 %) Linux 4 1 (4.545 %) Windows NT 4 1 (4.545 %) Windows XP 4 1 (4.545 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (4.545 %) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (40.91 %) Security Cleared 2 6 (27.27 %) Risk Assessment 3 5 (22.73 %) SC Cleared 4 3 (13.64 %) Information Security Management 4 3 (13.64 %) Security Management 4 3 (13.64 %) Information Security 4 3 (13.64 %) Vulnerability Assessment 4 3 (13.64 %) Penetration Testing 5 1 (4.545 %) Incident Management 5 1 (4.545 %) BC Cleared 5 1 (4.545 %) Service Delivery	Programming Languages 1 6 (27.27 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 3 (13.64 %) CISSP 2 1 (4.545 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (4.545 %) CCNP 2 1 (4.545 %) CCNA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (13.64 %) BS7799 1 3 (13.64 %) ISO27001 2 1 (4.545 %) SLA
Systems Management 1 1 (4.545 %) OpenView 1 1 (4.545 %) BMC PATROL	Vendors 1 13 (59.09 %) Cisco 2 11 (50.00 %) CheckPoint 3 5 (22.73 %) Remedy 3 5 (22.73 %) Oracle 4 1 (4.545 %) Sybase 4 1 (4.545 %) HP 4 1 (4.545 %) Juniper