The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT contracts advertised for the Staines 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 Staines 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 13 16 26
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +10
Contract jobs citing Firewall 9 6 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staines 6.569% 4.478% 2.609%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 50.00% 31.58% 30.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
Average daily rate - £369 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +34.18%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £328 £325
% change year-on-year
-0.76% +0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £19.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.63 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-28.63% +30.95%
All Communications & Networking
Staines
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
18 19 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staines 13.14% 14.18% 8.696%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 7
Average daily rate £125 £369 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-66.12% -13.17%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £23.75 £19.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
Firewall
Surrey

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staines 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 Staines region.

Staines 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 Staines region.

Staines Firewall Hourly Rate Trend

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staines 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 9 (75.00%) VPN
2 6 (50.00%) Cisco
2 6 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (41.67%) Migration
3 5 (41.67%) SSH
3 5 (41.67%) SSL
3 5 (41.67%) FTP
3 5 (41.67%) MS Office
4 4 (33.33%) Windows
4 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (25.00%) Riverbed
5 3 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (25.00%) Crossbeam
5 3 (25.00%) WAN Optimisation
5 3 (25.00%) Blue Coat
5 3 (25.00%) ProxySG
5 3 (25.00%) 3Com
5 3 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (25.00%) AppSense
5 3 (25.00%) MS Excel
5 3 (25.00%) LAN
5 3 (25.00%) WLAN
5 3 (25.00%) WAN
5 3 (25.00%) CSS
5 3 (25.00%) ITIL
5 3 (25.00%) UNIX
5 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
5 3 (25.00%) SQL
5 3 (25.00%) Service Management
5 3 (25.00%) Service Delivery

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staines 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 3 (25.00%) CSS
Applications
1 5 (41.67%) MS Office
2 3 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (75.00%) VPN
2 5 (41.67%) SSH
2 5 (41.67%) SSL
2 5 (41.67%) FTP
3 3 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (25.00%) LAN
3 3 (25.00%) WLAN
3 3 (25.00%) WAN
3 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (8.333%) Reverse Proxy
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Applications Support Analyst
1 5 (41.67%) Analyst
1 5 (41.67%) Support Analyst
1 5 (41.67%) Applications Support
2 3 (25.00%) Technical Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Technical Project Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Network Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Security Specialist
3 1 (8.333%) Network Project Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Infrastructure Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) EFT
2 1 (8.333%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
1 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (25.00%) UNIX
3 1 (8.333%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (8.333%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Migration
2 3 (25.00%) WAN Optimisation
2 3 (25.00%) ITIL
2 3 (25.00%) Service Management
2 3 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (25.00%) ITSM
2 3 (25.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (8.333%) VBScript
3 1 (8.333%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (25.00%) CCNA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) ProxySG
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (16.67%) XenApp
3 1 (8.333%) UAG
3 1 (8.333%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (8.333%) SCCM
1 1 (8.333%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Cisco
2 3 (25.00%) Riverbed
2 3 (25.00%) Crossbeam
2 3 (25.00%) Blue Coat
2 3 (25.00%) 3Com
2 3 (25.00%) AppSense
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle
2 3 (25.00%) Citrix
2 3 (25.00%) Juniper
2 3 (25.00%) Nokia
2 3 (25.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (8.333%) Microsoft