South West Network Security Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Network Security 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 Network Security over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Barking Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London County Antrim Cumbria Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Knutsford Leeds Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Poole Portsmouth Prescot Reading Rickmansworth Romford Scotland Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West Suffolk Surrey Swansea Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	119	130
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	19	34
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.034 %
As % of the category below	2.819 %	4.167 %
Daily rates quoted	2	15
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£313
Average daily rate	£350	£337
% change on same period last year	+3.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£361
UK excluding London average daily rate	£414	£342
% change on same period last year	+21.16 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£37.25	£27.00
Average hourly rate	£37.75	£30.50
% change on same period last year	+23.77 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.25	£34.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.59	£37.18
% change on same period last year	-20.42 %
Communications & Networking South West
Matching contract IT job ads	674	816
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.898 %	0.826 %
Daily rates quoted	200	168
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£328
Average daily rate	£339	£345
% change on same period last year	-1.77 %
Average maximum daily rate	£365	£362
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	106	131
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.71	£25.53
Average hourly rate	£26.55	£27.48
% change on same period last year	-3.37 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.39	£29.42
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 Network Security 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 Network Security 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 Network Security across the South West 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 Network Security across the South West 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 Network Security within the South West 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
Bristol	+20	11	£350	+75.00 %
Wiltshire	+11	3	-	-
Dorset	+7	3	-	-
Gloucestershire	-3	1	-	-
Somerset	-5	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Network Security 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 Network Security.

1 15 (55.56 %) Firewall 2 9 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 3 7 (25.93 %) Government 4 6 (22.22 %) SC Cleared 5 5 (18.52 %) Information Security 5 5 (18.52 %) Active Directory 5 5 (18.52 %) DNS 6 4 (14.81 %) ATM 6 4 (14.81 %) LAN 6 4 (14.81 %) Java 6 4 (14.81 %) UNIX 6 4 (14.81 %) CORBA 6 4 (14.81 %) WAN 6 4 (14.81 %) Frame Relay 6 4 (14.81 %) MPLS

6 4 (14.81 %) CheckPoint 6 4 (14.81 %) Load Balancing 7 3 (11.11 %) Crossbeam 7 3 (11.11 %) Local Government 7 3 (11.11 %) Project Management 7 3 (11.11 %) Telecoms 7 3 (11.11 %) Publishing 7 3 (11.11 %) SharePoint 7 3 (11.11 %) SAP 7 3 (11.11 %) ITIL 7 3 (11.11 %) VoIP 7 3 (11.11 %) Kerberos 7 3 (11.11 %) MS Exchange 8 2 (7.407 %) NHS 8 2 (7.407 %) CISSP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Network Security 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 Network Security. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 4 (14.81 %) CORBA	Application Platforms 1 3 (11.11 %) SharePoint 1 3 (11.11 %) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking 1 15 (55.56 %) Firewall 2 5 (18.52 %) DNS 3 4 (14.81 %) ATM 3 4 (14.81 %) LAN 3 4 (14.81 %) WAN 3 4 (14.81 %) Frame Relay 3 4 (14.81 %) MPLS 4 3 (11.11 %) VoIP 4 3 (11.11 %) Kerberos 5 2 (7.407 %) Internet 6 1 (3.704 %) LDAP 6 1 (3.704 %) TCP/IP 6 1 (3.704 %) VPN 6 1 (3.704 %) SAN 6 1 (3.704 %) DHCP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (3.704 %) SQL Server 1 1 (3.704 %) RDBMS
General 1 7 (25.93 %) Government 2 3 (11.11 %) Publishing 2 3 (11.11 %) Local Government 2 3 (11.11 %) Telecoms 3 1 (3.704 %) Finance 3 1 (3.704 %) Back Office	Job Titles 1 9 (33.33 %) Consultant 2 7 (25.93 %) Security Consultant 3 4 (14.81 %) Administrator 3 4 (14.81 %) Network Security Engineer 3 4 (14.81 %) Systems Administrator 3 4 (14.81 %) Network Engineer 3 4 (14.81 %) Security Engineer 4 3 (11.11 %) Network Design Engineer 4 3 (11.11 %) Architect 4 3 (11.11 %) Project Manager 4 3 (11.11 %) Design Engineer 5 2 (7.407 %) Technical Architect 5 2 (7.407 %) IT Consultant 5 2 (7.407 %) IT Security Consultant 6 1 (3.704 %) Project Engineer 6 1 (3.704 %) Security Specialist 6 1 (3.704 %) Network Support 6 1 (3.704 %) IT Architect 6 1 (3.704 %) Network Specialist 6 1 (3.704 %) Transition Manager
Miscellaneous 1 2 (7.407 %) NHS 1 2 (7.407 %) CESG 1 2 (7.407 %) CESG CLAS 2 1 (3.704 %) Freedom of Information 2 1 (3.704 %) Smartcard	Operating Systems 1 4 (14.81 %) UNIX 2 2 (7.407 %) Windows 3 1 (3.704 %) Linux 3 1 (3.704 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (3.704 %) Windows NT 3 1 (3.704 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 2 6 (22.22 %) SC Cleared 3 5 (18.52 %) Information Security 4 4 (14.81 %) Load Balancing 5 3 (11.11 %) ITIL 5 3 (11.11 %) Project Management 6 2 (7.407 %) Security Management 6 2 (7.407 %) Systems Analysis 7 1 (3.704 %) Data Security 7 1 (3.704 %) Data Management	Programming Languages 1 4 (14.81 %) Java
Qualifications 1 2 (7.407 %) CISSP 1 2 (7.407 %) ISSMP 2 1 (3.704 %) ITIL Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (7.407 %) ISO17799 1 2 (7.407 %) ISO9001 1 2 (7.407 %) ISO27001
System Software 1 5 (18.52 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 4 (14.81 %) CheckPoint 2 3 (11.11 %) Crossbeam 2 3 (11.11 %) SAP 3 2 (7.407 %) Cisco 4 1 (3.704 %) IBM 4 1 (3.704 %) Microsoft 4 1 (3.704 %) Sun 4 1 (3.704 %) Juniper 4 1 (3.704 %) Red Hat 4 1 (3.704 %) Oracle