Surrey Network Security Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Network Security skills within the Surrey 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Network Security
Location Abingdon Argyll and Bute Aylesbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Croydon Cumbria Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Ipswich Kent Leeds Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wirral York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	79	112
Rank change on same period last year	+33
Matching contract IT job ads	11	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	4.331 %	1.453 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£295
Average daily rate	£400	£314
% change on same period last year	+27.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£333
UK excluding London average daily rate	£390	£392
% change on same period last year	-0.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£20.00
Average hourly rate	-	£25.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.67	£29.91
% change on same period last year	-7.49 %
Communications & Networking Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	254	413
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.358 %	0.417 %
Daily rates quoted	38	110
Average minimum daily rate	£304	£326
Average daily rate	£326	£335
% change on same period last year	-2.91 %
Average maximum daily rate	£347	£345
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+4.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	58	82
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.72	£23.49
Average hourly rate	£24.57	£24.49
% change on same period last year	+0.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.41	£25.49
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.43	£28.95
% change on same period last year	-5.27 %
Network Security South East

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 Surrey 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 Surrey region.

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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 Surrey region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 12 (57.14 %) WAN 2 11 (52.38 %) CCNA 2 11 (52.38 %) Cisco Certification 3 10 (47.62 %) Firewall 3 10 (47.62 %) E-Commerce 4 9 (42.86 %) VLAN 5 7 (33.33 %) CCIP 5 7 (33.33 %) LAN 5 7 (33.33 %) VoIP 5 7 (33.33 %) Internet 5 7 (33.33 %) Microsoft 6 6 (28.57 %) Cisco 7 5 (23.81 %) Active Directory 7 5 (23.81 %) TCP/IP 8 4 (19.05 %) VPN

8 4 (19.05 %) CheckPoint 8 4 (19.05 %) IPsec 9 3 (14.29 %) Security Management 9 3 (14.29 %) Wireless 9 3 (14.29 %) NetScreen 9 3 (14.29 %) Intrusion Detection 9 3 (14.29 %) Cisco PIX 9 3 (14.29 %) Microsoft Certification 9 3 (14.29 %) Juniper 9 3 (14.29 %) Nokia 9 3 (14.29 %) Firmware 9 3 (14.29 %) Nortel 9 3 (14.29 %) SSL 9 3 (14.29 %) WLAN 9 3 (14.29 %) PBX

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 Platforms 1 3 (14.29 %) MS Exchange	Communications & Networking 1 12 (57.14 %) WAN 2 10 (47.62 %) Firewall 3 9 (42.86 %) VLAN 4 7 (33.33 %) Internet 4 7 (33.33 %) LAN 4 7 (33.33 %) VoIP 5 5 (23.81 %) TCP/IP 6 4 (19.05 %) VPN 6 4 (19.05 %) IPsec 7 3 (14.29 %) Intrusion Detection 7 3 (14.29 %) Wireless 7 3 (14.29 %) NetScreen 7 3 (14.29 %) SSL 7 3 (14.29 %) WLAN 7 3 (14.29 %) PBX 7 3 (14.29 %) Cisco PIX 8 2 (9.524 %) DNS 8 2 (9.524 %) DHCP 9 1 (4.762 %) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (9.524 %) SQL Server	General 1 1 (4.762 %) Government 1 1 (4.762 %) Health 1 1 (4.762 %) Auditing
Job Titles 1 11 (52.38 %) Network Engineer 2 8 (38.10 %) Administrator 2 8 (38.10 %) Network Administrator 3 3 (14.29 %) Security Engineer 3 3 (14.29 %) Network Security Engineer 4 2 (9.524 %) Team Leader 4 2 (9.524 %) Senior Network Engineer 5 1 (4.762 %) Security Administrator 5 1 (4.762 %) Field Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (14.29 %) Firmware
Operating Systems 1 3 (14.29 %) Windows 2 1 (4.762 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (47.62 %) E-Commerce 2 3 (14.29 %) Security Management 2 3 (14.29 %) ITIL 3 2 (9.524 %) SC Cleared 3 2 (9.524 %) Security Cleared 3 2 (9.524 %) Change Management 3 2 (9.524 %) Disaster Recovery 4 1 (4.762 %) Network Design
Qualifications 1 11 (52.38 %) CCNA 1 11 (52.38 %) Cisco Certification 2 7 (33.33 %) CCIP 3 3 (14.29 %) Microsoft Certification 4 2 (9.524 %) MCSE 5 1 (4.762 %) CCNP 5 1 (4.762 %) MCP 5 1 (4.762 %) CCSA 5 1 (4.762 %) CCDP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (9.524 %) SLA
System Software 1 5 (23.81 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 7 (33.33 %) Microsoft 2 6 (28.57 %) Cisco 3 4 (19.05 %) CheckPoint 4 3 (14.29 %) Nortel 4 3 (14.29 %) Juniper 4 3 (14.29 %) Nokia 5 1 (4.762 %) Symantec 5 1 (4.762 %) Altiris