Firewall Contracts in Tyne and Wear
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT contracts advertised for the Tyne and Wear region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Firewall 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 Tyne and Wear 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
Firewall
Rank 20 19 24
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +5
Contract jobs citing Firewall 9 22 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 5.085% 6.728% 3.435%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.13% 25.29% 24.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 5
Average daily rate £300 £250 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £203 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £405 £324
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-2.98% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.63 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-28.63% +30.95%
All Communications & Networking
Tyne and Wear
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 32 87 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 18.08% 26.61% 14.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 43 15
Average daily rate £300 £350 £324
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +8.02%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £220 £168
10% offered a daily rate of more than £301 £450 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
Average hourly rate £10.50 £19.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.73% -9.52%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
Firewall
North East

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear Firewall Hourly Rate Trend

Firewall
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Newcastle upon Tyne +4 8 £300 +33.33%
Sunderland - 1 - -
Firewall
North East

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 (69.23%) Red Hat
2 8 (61.54%) Linux
2 8 (61.54%) VPN
2 8 (61.54%) DNS
2 8 (61.54%) CentOS
3 7 (53.85%) Apache
3 7 (53.85%) DHCP
4 6 (46.15%) MySQL
5 5 (38.46%) LDAP
5 5 (38.46%) Cisco
5 5 (38.46%) Citrix
6 4 (30.77%) XenServer
6 4 (30.77%) HP
6 4 (30.77%) Nagios
7 3 (23.08%) OSPF
7 3 (23.08%) SAN
7 3 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (23.08%) Identity Management
8 2 (15.38%) Wireless
8 2 (15.38%) IPsec
8 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
8 2 (15.38%) Load Balancing
8 2 (15.38%) BGP
8 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (15.38%) CCNP
8 2 (15.38%) CCNA
8 2 (15.38%) LAN
8 2 (15.38%) MS Visio
8 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (15.38%) Cisco ASA

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 1 (7.692%) WebSphere
1 1 (7.692%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 7 (53.85%) Apache
2 1 (7.692%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (7.692%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 8 (61.54%) VPN
1 8 (61.54%) DNS
2 7 (53.85%) DHCP
3 5 (38.46%) LDAP
4 3 (23.08%) SAN
4 3 (23.08%) OSPF
5 2 (15.38%) BGP
5 2 (15.38%) Wireless
5 2 (15.38%) IPsec
5 2 (15.38%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (15.38%) LAN
6 1 (7.692%) WAN
6 1 (7.692%) Broadband
6 1 (7.692%) Internet
6 1 (7.692%) SSL
6 1 (7.692%) FWSM
6 1 (7.692%) HSRP
6 1 (7.692%) VLAN
6 1 (7.692%) Cisco PIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) MySQL
General
1 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Administrator
2 6 (46.15%) Systems Administrator
2 6 (46.15%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 6 (46.15%) Linux Administrator
3 5 (38.46%) Senior Linux Administrator
3 5 (38.46%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
3 5 (38.46%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 2 (15.38%) Network Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Senior Manager
5 1 (7.692%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Service Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Service Desk Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Network Administrator
5 1 (7.692%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (7.692%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Architect
5 1 (7.692%) Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Test Manager
5 1 (7.692%) Senior Network Administrator
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) Linux
1 8 (61.54%) CentOS
2 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (7.692%) Windows 7
3 1 (7.692%) Windows XP
3 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (7.692%) UNIX
3 1 (7.692%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (23.08%) Identity Management
2 2 (15.38%) Load Balancing
3 1 (7.692%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (7.692%) Risk Management
3 1 (7.692%) Validation
3 1 (7.692%) Network Design
3 1 (7.692%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.692%) Java
1 1 (7.692%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) CCNP
1 2 (15.38%) CCNA
1 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.692%) RHCE
2 1 (7.692%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.692%) BC Cleared
2 1 (7.692%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) XenServer
2 1 (7.692%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (7.692%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Nagios
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) Red Hat
2 5 (38.46%) Cisco
2 5 (38.46%) Citrix
3 4 (30.77%) HP
4 1 (7.692%) Oracle
4 1 (7.692%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.692%) VMware
4 1 (7.692%) TippingPoint
4 1 (7.692%) ProCurve
4 1 (7.692%) SolarWinds
4 1 (7.692%) Juniper
4 1 (7.692%) Nokia
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