The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT contracts advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Firewall 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 Staffordshire 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
Firewall
Rank 18 32 34
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +2
Contract jobs citing Firewall 2 1 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 2.353% 0.461% 2.283%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.38% 2.222% 12.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £115 £200 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-42.50% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £328 £325
% change year-on-year
-0.76% +0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £14.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.63 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-28.63% +30.95%
All Communications & Networking
Staffordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
13 45 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 15.29% 20.74% 17.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 19 17
Average daily rate £175 £175 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -50.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 5
Average hourly rate £17.00 £22.50 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.44% +55.17%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
Firewall
West Midlands

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire Firewall Daily Rate Trend

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Staffordshire Firewall Hourly Rate Trend

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) Citrix
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) CCNA
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) DHCP
2 2 (50.00%) XenServer
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (25.00%) NetScaler
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) MS Office
3 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
3 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (25.00%) ERP
3 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) CCNP
3 1 (25.00%) Avaya
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (25.00%) Symantec

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Office
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) LAN
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
1 2 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) NetScaler
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (25.00%) Support Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (25.00%) ERP
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (25.00%) CCNP
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) Citrix
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Avaya
2 1 (25.00%) Symantec
2 1 (25.00%) Nortel