The first table below looks at the demand for FWSM skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited FWSM over the 3 months to 20 May 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 Yorkshire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Firewall Services Module (FWSM)
Rank - - 37
Contract jobs citing FWSM 0 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire - - 0.717%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - - 3.704%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £425 £325
% change year-on-year
-26.47% +30.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £30.25
All Communications & Networking
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
45 46 54
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 17.05% 17.76% 19.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 28 23
Average daily rate £360 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.76% +18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £251 £220 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £525 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 9
Average hourly rate £15.00 £30.00 £48.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-50.00% -37.82%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £12.00 £33.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.10 £35.50 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
FWSM
Yorkshire

FWSM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire FWSM Jobs Demand Trend

FWSM
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing FWSM across the South Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire FWSM Daily Rate Trend

FWSM
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing FWSM across the South Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire FWSM Hourly Rate Trend

FWSM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing FWSM 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 FWSM.

1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) CCIE
2 1 (50.00%) CCSP
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) IPsec
2 1 (50.00%) Blue Coat
2 1 (50.00%) ProxySG
2 1 (50.00%) BIG-IP
2 1 (50.00%) Nortel Alteon
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco PIX
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) TACACS
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) CCDA
2 1 (50.00%) Intel
2 1 (50.00%) Nortel
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP

FWSM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing FWSM 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 FWSM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) IPsec
2 1 (50.00%) BIG-IP
2 1 (50.00%) Nortel Alteon
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco PIX
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) TACACS
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Network Load Balancing
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) CCDA
2 1 (50.00%) CCIE
2 1 (50.00%) CCSP
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) ProxySG
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (50.00%) Blue Coat
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Intel
2 1 (50.00%) Nortel