South West Firewall Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills within the South West 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 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Barry Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenwich Guildford Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Ipswich Kent Kettering Lancashire Leeds Lewes Lewisham Lincoln Lincolnshire 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 Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Romford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	71	91
Rank change on same period last year	+20
Matching contract IT job ads	80	82
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.114 %	0.085 %
As % of the category below	12.03 %	8.668 %
Daily rates quoted	33	16
Average minimum daily rate	£318	£297
Average daily rate	£340	£313
% change on same period last year	+8.37 %
Average maximum daily rate	£361	£330
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£342
% change on same period last year	+12.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.57	£26.61
Average hourly rate	£36.79	£27.44
% change on same period last year	+34.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£28.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.44	£26.21
% change on same period last year	+4.69 %
Communications & Networking South West
Matching contract IT job ads	665	946
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.948 %	0.978 %
Daily rates quoted	138	192
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£307
Average daily rate	£336	£326
% change on same period last year	+3.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£353	£345
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£336
% change on same period last year	+5.75 %
Hourly rates quoted	119	156
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.09	£26.21
Average hourly rate	£28.97	£27.99
% change on same period last year	+3.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.85	£29.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.34	£28.77
% change on same period last year	-4.98 %
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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 South West 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 South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 15 October 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 South West region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Firewall across the South West region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008.

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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 South West region over the 3 months to 15 October 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
Wiltshire	+4	25	£368	-
Bristol	+4	16	£252	-20.47 %
Devon	+18	13	£395	+55.79 %
Gloucestershire	-7	7	-	-
Somerset	+6	5	£306	-
Dorset	+1	3	£268	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 88 (51.76 %) Cisco 2 50 (29.41 %) Cisco Certification 3 49 (28.82 %) Windows 4 48 (28.24 %) Security Cleared 5 45 (26.47 %) CheckPoint 6 40 (23.53 %) DNS 7 39 (22.94 %) VPN 8 36 (21.18 %) CCNA 9 34 (20.00 %) SC Cleared 10 32 (18.82 %) LAN 11 31 (18.24 %) WAN 12 30 (17.65 %) TCP/IP 13 29 (17.06 %) Cisco PIX 13 29 (17.06 %) Government 14 28 (16.47 %) SAN

15 27 (15.88 %) Windows Server 2003 16 26 (15.29 %) Active Directory 17 24 (14.12 %) CCNP 17 24 (14.12 %) VLAN 18 20 (11.76 %) Windows 2000 19 19 (11.18 %) Microsoft 19 19 (11.18 %) HP 19 19 (11.18 %) Cisco ASA 20 18 (10.59 %) Juniper 20 18 (10.59 %) Sun 20 18 (10.59 %) DHCP 20 18 (10.59 %) MS Exchange 21 16 (9.412 %) IBM 22 14 (8.235 %) UNIX 23 13 (7.647 %) Linux

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 7 (4.118 %) HTML 2 5 (2.941 %) ASP 2 5 (2.941 %) CORBA 3 3 (1.765 %) Windows SharePoint Services 3 3 (1.765 %) SOAP 3 3 (1.765 %) WebServices 3 3 (1.765 %) COM+ 3 3 (1.765 %) .NET 4 2 (1.176 %) .NET Framework 5 1 (0.588 %) JSP	Application Platforms 1 18 (10.59 %) MS Exchange 2 11 (6.471 %) SharePoint 3 8 (4.706 %) IIS 3 8 (4.706 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 7 (4.118 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 2 (1.176 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 2 (1.176 %) SharePoint Portal Server 5 2 (1.176 %) Documentum 6 1 (0.588 %) Oracle 9iAS 6 1 (0.588 %) Apache
Applications 1 6 (3.529 %) MS Office 2 3 (1.765 %) MS Visio 3 2 (1.176 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 40 (23.53 %) DNS 2 39 (22.94 %) VPN 3 32 (18.82 %) LAN 4 31 (18.24 %) WAN 5 30 (17.65 %) TCP/IP 6 29 (17.06 %) Cisco PIX 7 28 (16.47 %) SAN 8 24 (14.12 %) VLAN 9 19 (11.18 %) Cisco ASA 10 18 (10.59 %) DHCP 11 13 (7.647 %) Extranet 11 13 (7.647 %) MPLS 11 13 (7.647 %) Network Security 12 10 (5.882 %) Internet 13 8 (4.706 %) Wireless 13 8 (4.706 %) FTP 14 7 (4.118 %) VoIP 14 7 (4.118 %) NetScreen 14 7 (4.118 %) HTTPS 14 7 (4.118 %) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (4.118 %) SQL Server 2 3 (1.765 %) SQL Server 2000 2 3 (1.765 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 5 (2.941 %) ClearCase 1 5 (2.941 %) ClearQuest 2 3 (1.765 %) FrontPage 2 3 (1.765 %) PVCS
General 1 29 (17.06 %) Government 2 10 (5.882 %) Telecoms 3 6 (3.529 %) Finance 3 6 (3.529 %) Law 4 5 (2.941 %) Legal 5 3 (1.765 %) Publishing 5 3 (1.765 %) Health 6 2 (1.176 %) Electric 6 2 (1.176 %) Home Office 7 1 (0.588 %) Insurance 7 1 (0.588 %) Pensions	Job Titles 1 49 (28.82 %) Network Engineer 2 18 (10.59 %) Analyst 2 18 (10.59 %) Consultant 2 18 (10.59 %) Administrator 3 15 (8.824 %) Cisco Engineer 3 15 (8.824 %) Cisco Network Engineer 4 12 (7.059 %) Security Administrator 4 12 (7.059 %) Security Consultant 5 9 (5.294 %) Network Specialist 5 9 (5.294 %) Network Support 6 8 (4.706 %) Systems Administrator 6 8 (4.706 %) Support Engineer 7 7 (4.118 %) Software Engineer 8 6 (3.529 %) Project Engineer 8 6 (3.529 %) Security Engineer 9 5 (2.941 %) Network Design Engineer 9 5 (2.941 %) 3rd Line Support 9 5 (2.941 %) Design Engineer 9 5 (2.941 %) Security Analyst 10 4 (2.353 %) Architect
Miscellaneous 1 11 (6.471 %) SecurID 2 10 (5.882 %) Fat Client 2 10 (5.882 %) Thin Client 3 7 (4.118 %) Clustering 4 5 (2.941 %) PKI 4 5 (2.941 %) Device Driver 5 4 (2.353 %) Client/Server 6 3 (1.765 %) Management Information System 6 3 (1.765 %) CESG 7 2 (1.176 %) Tandem 7 2 (1.176 %) IBM Mainframe 7 2 (1.176 %) AS400 7 2 (1.176 %) Mainframe 8 1 (0.588 %) NHS 8 1 (0.588 %) Smartcard 8 1 (0.588 %) Data Protection Act	Operating Systems 1 49 (28.82 %) Windows 2 27 (15.88 %) Windows Server 2003 3 20 (11.76 %) Windows 2000 4 14 (8.235 %) UNIX 5 13 (7.647 %) Linux 6 10 (5.882 %) Windows XP 7 9 (5.294 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 7 (4.118 %) Red Hat Linux 9 5 (2.941 %) Embedded Linux 10 4 (2.353 %) Solaris 11 3 (1.765 %) Windows NT 12 2 (1.176 %) AIX 12 2 (1.176 %) HPUX 13 1 (0.588 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 48 (28.24 %) Security Cleared 2 34 (20.00 %) SC Cleared 3 12 (7.059 %) Disaster Recovery 4 11 (6.471 %) Configuration Management 5 10 (5.882 %) Load Balancing 6 9 (5.294 %) ITIL 7 8 (4.706 %) Project Management 8 7 (4.118 %) Information Security 9 6 (3.529 %) Network Design 10 5 (2.941 %) Software Engineering 10 5 (2.941 %) Technical Architecture 11 4 (2.353 %) Change Management 12 3 (1.765 %) Risk Assessment 12 3 (1.765 %) Penetration Testing 13 2 (1.176 %) Content Management 13 2 (1.176 %) Requirements Analysis 13 2 (1.176 %) Security Management 13 2 (1.176 %) Risk Management 14 1 (0.588 %) Data Security 14 1 (0.588 %) Service Management	Programming Languages 1 11 (6.471 %) SQL 2 8 (4.706 %) C 3 5 (2.941 %) C++ 3 5 (2.941 %) Java 3 5 (2.941 %) Embedded C 3 5 (2.941 %) Embedded C++ 4 1 (0.588 %) VBScript 4 1 (0.588 %) VB
Qualifications 1 50 (29.41 %) Cisco Certification 2 36 (21.18 %) CCNA 3 24 (14.12 %) CCNP 4 6 (3.529 %) Microsoft Certification 4 6 (3.529 %) MCSE 5 4 (2.353 %) CCIE 6 3 (1.765 %) MCTS 7 2 (1.176 %) CISSP 7 2 (1.176 %) CCSP 7 2 (1.176 %) MCSA 7 2 (1.176 %) HNC 8 1 (0.588 %) HND 8 1 (0.588 %) CCDA 8 1 (0.588 %) Citrix Certification 8 1 (0.588 %) RHCE 8 1 (0.588 %) CCSE	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.176 %) ISO17799 1 2 (1.176 %) SLA 2 1 (0.588 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 1 (0.588 %) ISO27001 2 1 (0.588 %) JSP 440 2 1 (0.588 %) PCI DSS
System Software 1 26 (15.29 %) Active Directory 2 12 (7.059 %) ISA Server 3 7 (4.118 %) Backup Exec 4 5 (2.941 %) MailMarshal 5 3 (1.765 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 3 (1.765 %) NetBackup 6 1 (0.588 %) VMware ESX 6 1 (0.588 %) Terminal Services	Systems Management 1 5 (2.941 %) OpenView 1 5 (2.941 %) MOM 2 4 (2.353 %) CiscoWorks 2 4 (2.353 %) SCCM 2 4 (2.353 %) SCOM 3 3 (1.765 %) ServiceCenter 3 3 (1.765 %) Tivoli 3 3 (1.765 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 4 2 (1.176 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 4 2 (1.176 %) OpenView Configuration Management 4 2 (1.176 %) MIMEsweeper 4 2 (1.176 %) BMC Performance Manager 5 1 (0.588 %) ARCserve 5 1 (0.588 %) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors 1 88 (51.76 %) Cisco 2 45 (26.47 %) CheckPoint 3 19 (11.18 %) Microsoft 3 19 (11.18 %) HP 4 18 (10.59 %) Sun 4 18 (10.59 %) Juniper 5 16 (9.412 %) IBM 6 9 (5.294 %) Citrix 7 8 (4.706 %) Nokia 8 7 (4.118 %) Red Hat 9 5 (2.941 %) Symantec 10 4 (2.353 %) VERITAS 10 4 (2.353 %) VMware 10 4 (2.353 %) Crossbeam 10 4 (2.353 %) Altiris 10 4 (2.353 %) Intel 11 3 (1.765 %) Peregrine 11 3 (1.765 %) CommVault 12 2 (1.176 %) McAfee Security 12 2 (1.176 %) Sophos