The first table below looks at the demand for IPsec 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 IPsec over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing IPsec 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire - - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £375 £300
% change year-on-year
-12.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £33.75 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+3.70% -10.00%
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 16.79% 17.56% 19.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 28 24
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 £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
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%
IPsec
Yorkshire

IPsec
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire IPsec Jobs Demand Trend

IPsec
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing IPsec 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 IPsec.

1 3 (100.00%) Wireless
2 2 (66.67%) ERP
2 2 (66.67%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) SSL
2 2 (66.67%) CCIE
2 2 (66.67%) CCSP
2 2 (66.67%) CCNP
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) Service Management
3 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (33.33%) Internet
3 1 (33.33%) MPLS
3 1 (33.33%) H.323
3 1 (33.33%) CCDA
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) Intel
3 1 (33.33%) Nortel
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) PSTN
3 1 (33.33%) VoIP
3 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Legal
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco IPCC
3 1 (33.33%) Blue Coat

IPsec
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing IPsec 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 IPsec. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Wireless
2 2 (66.67%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) SSL
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) Internet
3 1 (33.33%) MPLS
3 1 (33.33%) H.323
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) PSTN
3 1 (33.33%) VoIP
3 1 (33.33%) BIG-IP
3 1 (33.33%) Nortel Alteon
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (33.33%) FWSM
General
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Network Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Business Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Network Specialist
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ERP
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CCIE
1 2 (66.67%) CCSP
1 2 (66.67%) CCNP
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CCDA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco IPCC
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
1 1 (33.33%) Intel
1 1 (33.33%) Nortel
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Blue Coat
1 1 (33.33%) F5