The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Firewall over the 3 months to 19 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 South East 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 58 46 57
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +11
Contract jobs citing Firewall 235 328 286
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 2.935% 3.281% 2.698%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.24% 15.24% 14.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 126 111
Average daily rate £375 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £213 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 28 32
Average hourly rate £22.25 £28.50 £21.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.92% +31.03%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £19.63 £16.58
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £45.00 £46.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.25 £23.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year
-3.26% +6.97%
All Communications & Networking
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
1542 2152 1932
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 19.26% 21.53% 18.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 614 668
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £175 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £462 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 175 254
Average hourly rate £25.50 £32.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.53% +30.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.68 £14.58 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £47.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
Firewall
England

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

South East 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 South East region.

South East Firewall Hourly Rate Trend

Firewall
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Firewall across the South East region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

South East Firewall Hourly Rate Histogram

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 South East region over the 3 months to 19 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
Berkshire -24 74 £375 +7.14% 23
Hampshire -4 63 £369 +5.35% 22
Surrey +17 34 £450 +21.95% 18
West Sussex +16 21 £350 - 5
Oxfordshire +16 17 £270 - 9
Buckinghamshire -21 13 £425 +47.82% 5
Kent -5 5 £394 -1.56% 18
East Sussex -2 2 £365 +44.55% 2
Middlesex +1 1 - - 3
M4 Corridor - 1 - -
Home Counties - - - -
Sussex - - - -
Firewall
England

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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.

1 216 (50.70%) Cisco
2 184 (43.19%) Windows
3 127 (29.81%) VMware
4 115 (27.00%) Cisco Certification
5 106 (24.88%) Microsoft
6 96 (22.54%) VPN
7 94 (22.07%) LAN
8 92 (21.60%) TCP/IP
9 89 (20.89%) CheckPoint
9 89 (20.89%) WAN
9 89 (20.89%) Juniper
10 88 (20.66%) SAN
11 87 (20.42%) DNS
12 86 (20.19%) Active Directory
13 85 (19.95%) Security Cleared
14 78 (18.31%) Windows Server 2008
15 73 (17.14%) Citrix
15 73 (17.14%) ITIL
16 72 (16.90%) CCNA
17 69 (16.20%) Windows Server 2003
18 67 (15.73%) Network Security
19 64 (15.02%) SC Cleared
20 61 (14.32%) VMware Infrastructure
20 61 (14.32%) Cisco ASA
20 61 (14.32%) DHCP
21 57 (13.38%) HP
22 54 (12.68%) SQL
23 52 (12.21%) CCNP
23 52 (12.21%) Internet
24 49 (11.50%) Finance

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 11 (2.582%) WebSphere
2 8 (1.878%) Web Services
3 6 (1.408%) ADSI
4 5 (1.174%) COM+
5 4 (0.939%) .NET
6 3 (0.704%) WebSphere MQ
6 3 (0.704%) JMS
6 3 (0.704%) XML
6 3 (0.704%) SOAP
7 2 (0.469%) WAP
7 2 (0.469%) CSS
7 2 (0.469%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.469%) COM
7 2 (0.469%) LAMP
7 2 (0.469%) jQuery
7 2 (0.469%) Ajax
8 1 (0.235%) Memcached
8 1 (0.235%) Application Packaging
8 1 (0.235%) WF
8 1 (0.235%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 44 (10.33%) MS Exchange
2 25 (5.869%) SharePoint
3 24 (5.634%) Exchange Server 2010
4 22 (5.164%) Exchange Server 2007
5 20 (4.695%) IIS
6 16 (3.756%) Exchange Server 2003
7 14 (3.286%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 10 (2.347%) Apache
9 9 (2.113%) SharePoint 2010
10 7 (1.643%) Lync
11 4 (0.939%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (0.704%) Amazon AWS
12 3 (0.704%) lighttpd
13 2 (0.469%) Oracle HTTP Server
13 2 (0.469%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.469%) Amazon ELB
14 1 (0.235%) nginx
14 1 (0.235%) Amazon S3
14 1 (0.235%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 29 (6.808%) MS Excel
2 20 (4.695%) MS Office
3 4 (0.939%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.469%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (0.235%) Office 365
5 1 (0.235%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.235%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 96 (22.54%) VPN
2 94 (22.07%) LAN
3 92 (21.60%) TCP/IP
4 89 (20.89%) WAN
5 88 (20.66%) SAN
6 87 (20.42%) DNS
7 67 (15.73%) Network Security
8 61 (14.32%) Cisco ASA
8 61 (14.32%) DHCP
9 52 (12.21%) Internet
10 41 (9.624%) MPLS
11 40 (9.390%) VoIP
12 34 (7.981%) IPsec
13 32 (7.512%) Intrusion Detection
14 30 (7.042%) SMTP
15 28 (6.573%) Wireless
16 27 (6.338%) VLAN
17 26 (6.103%) SSL
17 26 (6.103%) BGP
18 25 (5.869%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (11.03%) SQL Server
2 18 (4.225%) SQL Server 2008
3 15 (3.521%) SQL Server 2005
4 9 (2.113%) Oracle 8/8i
5 6 (1.408%) Oracle 11g
6 4 (0.939%) MySQL
7 3 (0.704%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.469%) Oracle 10g
8 2 (0.469%) DB2
9 1 (0.235%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 1 (0.235%) WebLOAD
1 1 (0.235%) MSI
1 1 (0.235%) TestDirector
1 1 (0.235%) LoadRunner
General
1 49 (11.50%) Finance
2 43 (10.09%) Telecoms
3 7 (1.643%) Back Office
4 6 (1.408%) Legal
5 5 (1.174%) Billing
6 2 (0.469%) Manufacturing
6 2 (0.469%) Advertising
6 2 (0.469%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (0.469%) Local Government
6 2 (0.469%) French Language
6 2 (0.469%) Banking
6 2 (0.469%) Retail
7 1 (0.235%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.235%) German Language
7 1 (0.235%) Publishing
7 1 (0.235%) Military
Job Titles
1 92 (21.60%) Network Engineer
2 78 (18.31%) Architect
3 59 (13.85%) Analyst
4 27 (6.338%) Consultant
4 27 (6.338%) Security Engineer
5 25 (5.869%) Technical Architect
6 23 (5.399%) Administrator
7 22 (5.164%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 21 (4.930%) Security Analyst
8 21 (4.930%) Support Engineer
9 19 (4.460%) Project Manager
10 18 (4.225%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 18 (4.225%) Cisco Engineer
11 17 (3.991%) Security Architect
11 17 (3.991%) Solutions Architect
12 16 (3.756%) Network Administrator
13 15 (3.521%) Infrastructure Architect
14 14 (3.286%) Support Analyst
14 14 (3.286%) Network Analyst
14 14 (3.286%) IP Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.225%) Clustering
2 17 (3.991%) CESG
3 15 (3.521%) Cryptography
3 15 (3.521%) Blackberry
4 14 (3.286%) PKI
5 9 (2.113%) Management Information System
6 8 (1.878%) NHS
7 6 (1.408%) Computer Science
8 5 (1.174%) CESG CLAS
8 5 (1.174%) IVR
8 5 (1.174%) Replication
8 5 (1.174%) Client/Server
9 4 (0.939%) Open Source
10 3 (0.704%) RMADS
10 3 (0.704%) EFT
11 2 (0.469%) Handset
11 2 (0.469%) Thin Client
11 2 (0.469%) Fat Client
11 2 (0.469%) Mathematics
11 2 (0.469%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 184 (43.19%) Windows
2 78 (18.31%) Windows Server 2008
3 69 (16.20%) Windows Server 2003
4 48 (11.27%) UNIX
5 46 (10.80%) Linux
6 43 (10.09%) Windows 7
7 29 (6.808%) Solaris
8 15 (3.521%) Windows XP
9 12 (2.817%) Windows Server 2012
10 9 (2.113%) NetWare
11 8 (1.878%) Windows 8
12 7 (1.643%) AIX
13 6 (1.408%) Windows 2000 Server
13 6 (1.408%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 5 (1.174%) Oracle Linux
15 4 (0.939%) Windows NT
15 4 (0.939%) Windows 2000
15 4 (0.939%) CentOS
15 4 (0.939%) Windows Vista
16 3 (0.704%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (17.14%) ITIL
2 45 (10.56%) Migration
3 35 (8.216%) Project Management
4 34 (7.981%) Information Security
5 23 (5.399%) Load Balancing
5 23 (5.399%) Network Load Balancing
6 22 (5.164%) PRINCE2
7 19 (4.460%) Service Delivery
8 17 (3.991%) Network Design
9 14 (3.286%) Technical Architecture
10 13 (3.052%) Risk Management
10 13 (3.052%) Change Management
10 13 (3.052%) Configuration Management
10 13 (3.052%) CRM
11 12 (2.817%) Disaster Recovery
11 12 (2.817%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (2.817%) Ethical Hacking
11 12 (2.817%) TOGAF
12 11 (2.582%) Network Management
12 11 (2.582%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (12.68%) SQL
2 24 (5.634%) PowerShell
3 10 (2.347%) VBScript
4 8 (1.878%) C
5 7 (1.643%) Perl
6 5 (1.174%) Java
7 4 (0.939%) PHP
7 4 (0.939%) C#
7 4 (0.939%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.704%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.469%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.469%) C++
9 2 (0.469%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.469%) Python
9 2 (0.469%) Korn
9 2 (0.469%) Bash shell
10 1 (0.235%) R
10 1 (0.235%) VB
Qualifications
1 115 (27.00%) Cisco Certification
2 85 (19.95%) Security Cleared
3 72 (16.90%) CCNA
4 64 (15.02%) SC Cleared
5 52 (12.21%) CCNP
6 31 (7.277%) CISSP
7 29 (6.808%) Degree
8 27 (6.338%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (5.634%) DV Cleared
10 16 (3.756%) CCSP
11 15 (3.521%) CCIE
11 15 (3.521%) MCSE
12 13 (3.052%) MCITP
13 11 (2.582%) MCTS
14 10 (2.347%) CISM
14 10 (2.347%) CCSA
15 9 (2.113%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 7 (1.643%) ITIL Certification
17 6 (1.408%) MCSA
18 5 (1.174%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.460%) SLA
2 17 (3.991%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (3.286%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.174%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.704%) QA
5 3 (0.704%) JSP 440
6 2 (0.469%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 86 (20.19%) Active Directory
2 61 (14.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (5.164%) vSphere
4 20 (4.695%) Hyper-V
4 20 (4.695%) XenApp
5 12 (2.817%) ProxySG
6 11 (2.582%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (1.878%) VMware ESX
8 6 (1.408%) Terminal Services
8 6 (1.408%) NLBS
9 4 (0.939%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.939%) Xen
9 4 (0.939%) Snort
10 3 (0.704%) XenDesktop
10 3 (0.704%) UAG
10 3 (0.704%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.704%) ISA Server
10 3 (0.704%) Terminal Server
11 2 (0.469%) Squid
11 2 (0.469%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 19 (4.460%) SCOM
2 18 (4.225%) Backup Exec
3 15 (3.521%) Tivoli
4 12 (2.817%) HP SIM
5 9 (2.113%) WSUS
6 8 (1.878%) OpenView
6 8 (1.878%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 7 (1.643%) NetBackup
7 7 (1.643%) SCCM
8 5 (1.174%) EMC NetWorker
9 4 (0.939%) MOM
10 3 (0.704%) McAfee ePO
10 3 (0.704%) Norton AntiVirus
11 2 (0.469%) Cisco IPCC
11 2 (0.469%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 2 (0.469%) Puppet
12 1 (0.235%) HP Quality Center
12 1 (0.235%) WhatsUp Gold
12 1 (0.235%) SCVMM
12 1 (0.235%) ARCserve
Vendors
1 216 (50.70%) Cisco
2 127 (29.81%) VMware
3 106 (24.88%) Microsoft
4 89 (20.89%) CheckPoint
4 89 (20.89%) Juniper
5 73 (17.14%) Citrix
6 57 (13.38%) HP
7 41 (9.624%) Oracle
8 38 (8.920%) F5
9 32 (7.512%) McAfee
10 31 (7.277%) Blue Coat
11 16 (3.756%) Radware
11 16 (3.756%) NetApp
12 15 (3.521%) Nokia
13 14 (3.286%) Symantec
14 13 (3.052%) Nortel
14 13 (3.052%) Dell
15 12 (2.817%) Red Hat
15 12 (2.817%) Altiris
16 11 (2.582%) Mitel
Reading, Thames Valley
They will plan and deliver operational project work streams affecting the organisation.Key skills: MS Server, MS Exchange, MS SQL, Active Directory, Cisco VoIP, WAN, LAN, VPN, Firewall,...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £25000 - £27000 per annum + bens
Posted: 7 June 2013
Berkshire
Support, Junior, Graduate, IT, ICT, Windows, Server, Microsoft, Office, SQL, TCP/IP, OSI, 2nd Line, 3rd Line, Firewall, Database, Network, Contract, Berkshire) Roc Search are currently recruiting for...
Roc Search
Rate: £16 - £18 per hour
Posted: 18 June 2013
Southampton, Hampshire
This immediate requirement is to support maintenance of existing IT infrastructure, including the following key skills: Essential Skills: *MS ActiveDirectory, MS Exchange Server, MS Windows Server *MS SQL...
Connectus
Rate: £18 - £21.5 per hour
Posted: 13 June 2013
Hampshire
Experience in providing support for: * Microsoft server 2003 and 2008 * Microsoft Windows XP and Windows 7 * Network Printing * Microsoft Office applications * Local and Wide Area Networks Understanding in...
Experis IT
Rate: £180 - £220 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
Southampton, Hampshire
This immediate requirement is to support maintenance of existing IT infrastructure, including the following key skills: ** Note: Valid Security Clearance an immediate advantage but not essential Essential Skills: *...
Connectus
Rate: £22 - £26 per hour
Posted: 14 June 2013
Chatham, Kent
Lorien Resourcing
Posted: 18 June 2013
Portsmouth, Hampshire
Connectus
Rate: £25 - £30 per hour
Posted: 13 June 2013
Richmond upon Thames, South East
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £300 - £325 per day + £325 Max day rate offer
Posted: 17 June 2013
Richmond, Surrey
Capita Resourcing - IT Resourcing
Rate: £300 - £325 per day + £325 Max day rate offer
Posted: 17 June 2013
Hook, South East
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £250.00 - £330.00 per day
Posted: 7 June 2013
Basingstoke, Hampshire
People Source Consulting
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Hampshire, South East
IT Human Resources
Rate: £250 - £290 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
Hatfield, South East
Fulcrum Telecom
Rate: £350.00 - £400 per day
Posted: 31 May 2013
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