The first table below looks at the demand for Cisco PIX skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cisco PIX over the 3 months to 17 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.

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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco PIX
Rank 471 416 480
Rank change year-on-year
-55 +64
Contract jobs citing Cisco PIX 59 162 108
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.127% 0.278% 0.176%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.870% 1.780% 1.368%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 72 46
Average daily rate £300 £323 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.97% -7.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £196 £200 £296
10% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £425 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £350
% change year-on-year
- -14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 9
Average hourly rate £27.50 £25.25 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.91% -29.86%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £22.50 £21.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £29.00 £48.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £23.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year
- -47.22%
All Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6782 9103 7893
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 14.62% 15.62% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3331 4145 3588
Average daily rate £350 £368 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 542 606 785
Average hourly rate £21.34 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.66% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.90 £45.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%

Cisco PIX
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Cisco PIX within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Cisco PIX Jobs Demand Trend

Cisco PIX
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Cisco PIX within the UK.

Cisco PIX Daily Rate Trend

Cisco PIX
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco PIX within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cisco PIX Daily Rate Histogram

Cisco PIX
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Cisco PIX within the UK.

Cisco PIX Hourly Rate Trend

Cisco PIX
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco PIX within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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
England -46 58 £300 -6.97%
London -10 25 £324 -4.07%
City of London +8 9 £413 +17.85%
South East -36 8 - -
Yorkshire 0 7 £300 +18.22%
Berkshire -31 7 - -
East of England - 6 £325 -
West Midlands +5 5 £275 +57.14%
South West +20 4 £215 -21.81%
East Midlands +5 4 £316 +33.15%
West Yorkshire +1 4 - -
Halifax - 4 - -
Hertfordshire - 3 - -
North Yorkshire - 3 £300 -
Derbyshire - 3 £313 -
Devon +2 2 £158 -
Exeter -3 2 £158 -
Reading -13 2 - -
Hammersmith - 2 - -
Peterborough - 2 - -
Cambridgeshire - 2 - -
York - 2 - -
Uxbridge +2 1 - -
Nottinghamshire -1 1 £350 +47.36%
Coventry -4 1 - -
Nottingham -7 1 £350 +47.36%
Kent - 1 - -
Gloucestershire - 1 £265 -
Essex - 1 £325 -
Cheltenham - 1 £265 -

Cisco PIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Cisco PIX 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 Cisco PIX.

1 113 (100.00%) Cisco
2 101 (89.38%) Cisco ASA
3 88 (77.88%) Firewall
4 82 (72.57%) Cisco Certification
5 54 (47.79%) CCNP
6 53 (46.90%) CCNA
7 43 (38.05%) LAN
7 43 (38.05%) WAN
8 40 (35.40%) CheckPoint
9 35 (30.97%) VPN
10 33 (29.20%) Windows
11 31 (27.43%) Juniper
12 27 (23.89%) BGP
12 27 (23.89%) Network Security
13 26 (23.01%) Active Directory
14 25 (22.12%) OSPF
14 25 (22.12%) Citrix
14 25 (22.12%) VMware
14 25 (22.12%) FWSM
15 24 (21.24%) Windows Server 2008
15 24 (21.24%) VMware Infrastructure
15 24 (21.24%) DNS
16 23 (20.35%) Windows Server 2003
16 23 (20.35%) Internet
17 21 (18.58%) SAN
17 21 (18.58%) TCP/IP
17 21 (18.58%) Microsoft
18 19 (16.81%) MS Exchange
18 19 (16.81%) Exchange Server 2010
19 18 (15.93%) F5

Cisco PIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Cisco PIX 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 Cisco PIX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (2.655%) CSS
2 2 (1.770%) .NET
2 2 (1.770%) ASP
3 1 (0.885%) Windows SharePoint Services
3 1 (0.885%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 19 (16.81%) MS Exchange
1 19 (16.81%) Exchange Server 2010
2 10 (8.850%) Exchange Server 2007
3 9 (7.965%) Exchange Server 2003
4 7 (6.195%) IIS
5 5 (4.425%) SharePoint
6 3 (2.655%) Apache
7 2 (1.770%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.885%) Lotus Notes
8 1 (0.885%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.885%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 5 (4.425%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.885%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 101 (89.38%) Cisco ASA
2 88 (77.88%) Firewall
3 43 (38.05%) LAN
3 43 (38.05%) WAN
4 35 (30.97%) VPN
5 27 (23.89%) BGP
5 27 (23.89%) Network Security
6 25 (22.12%) FWSM
6 25 (22.12%) OSPF
7 24 (21.24%) DNS
8 23 (20.35%) Internet
9 21 (18.58%) SAN
9 21 (18.58%) TCP/IP
10 13 (11.50%) VoIP
10 13 (11.50%) Cisco IOS
10 13 (11.50%) Cisco Nexus
11 12 (10.62%) BIG-IP
11 12 (10.62%) DHCP
11 12 (10.62%) MPLS
12 11 (9.735%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.655%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.770%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (1.770%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (0.885%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.770%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 2 (1.770%) Subversion
1 2 (1.770%) TeamCity
1 2 (1.770%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (1.770%) WiX
1 2 (1.770%) MSBuild
1 2 (1.770%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.885%) Hudson
General
1 17 (15.04%) Finance
2 16 (14.16%) Telecoms
3 4 (3.540%) Banking
4 3 (2.655%) Retail
5 2 (1.770%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.885%) Back Office
6 1 (0.885%) Publishing
6 1 (0.885%) Games
Job Titles
1 43 (38.05%) Network Engineer
2 16 (14.16%) Support Engineer
3 15 (13.27%) Analyst
4 13 (11.50%) Cisco Engineer
5 12 (10.62%) Security Engineer
6 11 (9.735%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 11 (9.735%) 3rd Line Support
6 11 (9.735%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 10 (8.850%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 9 (7.965%) IT Support
8 9 (7.965%) IT Support Engineer
9 8 (7.080%) IP Engineer
10 5 (4.425%) Design Engineer
10 5 (4.425%) Network Analyst
10 5 (4.425%) Network Security Engineer
11 4 (3.540%) Consultant
11 4 (3.540%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.540%) Network Support Engineer
11 4 (3.540%) Senior Network Engineer
11 4 (3.540%) Network Support
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.310%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (1.770%) Fat Client
2 2 (1.770%) Client/Server
2 2 (1.770%) Thin Client
2 2 (1.770%) Device Driver
2 2 (1.770%) Handset
2 2 (1.770%) Clustering
2 2 (1.770%) e-Health
3 1 (0.885%) SecurID
3 1 (0.885%) CLARiiON
3 1 (0.885%) Management Information System
3 1 (0.885%) NHS
3 1 (0.885%) Online Games
3 1 (0.885%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 33 (29.20%) Windows
2 24 (21.24%) Windows Server 2008
3 23 (20.35%) Windows Server 2003
4 14 (12.39%) Linux
5 10 (8.850%) Mac OS X
6 6 (5.310%) Solaris
7 5 (4.425%) UNIX
8 1 (0.885%) AIX
8 1 (0.885%) Windows XP
8 1 (0.885%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.885%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.885%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (11.50%) Load Balancing
2 12 (10.62%) Change Management
3 11 (9.735%) ITIL
3 11 (9.735%) Network Design
3 11 (9.735%) Network Management
4 7 (6.195%) E-Commerce
5 5 (4.425%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (3.540%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (3.540%) Project Management
7 3 (2.655%) Service Management
7 3 (2.655%) Migration
7 3 (2.655%) Scrum
7 3 (2.655%) PRINCE2
7 3 (2.655%) Kanban
8 2 (1.770%) Network Architecture
8 2 (1.770%) Integration Testing
8 2 (1.770%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (1.770%) Configuration Management
8 2 (1.770%) Change Control
8 2 (1.770%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (9.735%) SQL
2 3 (2.655%) Java
3 2 (1.770%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.770%) C
3 2 (1.770%) Bash shell
4 1 (0.885%) Bourne shell
4 1 (0.885%) Perl
4 1 (0.885%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.885%) Korn
Qualifications
1 82 (72.57%) Cisco Certification
2 54 (47.79%) CCNP
3 53 (46.90%) CCNA
4 14 (12.39%) CCIE
5 11 (9.735%) CCSP
5 11 (9.735%) MCSE
5 11 (9.735%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (8.850%) CCA
6 10 (8.850%) Citrix Certification
6 10 (8.850%) CCEA
6 10 (8.850%) MCITP
7 9 (7.965%) SC Cleared
7 9 (7.965%) Security Cleared
8 8 (7.080%) CCDP
9 5 (4.425%) CCIP
10 4 (3.540%) CISSP
10 4 (3.540%) JNCIA
11 3 (2.655%) CCSA
12 2 (1.770%) CCSE
12 2 (1.770%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.195%) SLA
2 6 (5.310%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.885%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 26 (23.01%) Active Directory
2 24 (21.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (8.850%) XenApp
3 10 (8.850%) XenDesktop
4 9 (7.965%) vSphere
5 8 (7.080%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 2 (1.770%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.770%) ProxySG
6 2 (1.770%) Xen
7 1 (0.885%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.885%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.885%) VMware ESX
7 1 (0.885%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 1 (0.885%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 3 (2.655%) CiscoWorks
2 2 (1.770%) Cisco CUCM
2 2 (1.770%) SolarWinds Orion
3 1 (0.885%) Cisco UCCE
3 1 (0.885%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (0.885%) Cisco UCCX
3 1 (0.885%) OpenView
3 1 (0.885%) Backup Exec
3 1 (0.885%) Cacti
Vendors
1 113 (100.00%) Cisco
2 40 (35.40%) CheckPoint
3 31 (27.43%) Juniper
4 25 (22.12%) Citrix
4 25 (22.12%) VMware
5 21 (18.58%) Microsoft
6 18 (15.93%) F5
7 9 (7.965%) NetApp
8 8 (7.080%) Nokia
9 7 (6.195%) HP
10 5 (4.425%) IBM
10 5 (4.425%) Fortinet
10 5 (4.425%) Blue Coat
10 5 (4.425%) SolarWinds
11 4 (3.540%) McAfee
12 2 (1.770%) Redback
12 2 (1.770%) Clearswift
12 2 (1.770%) Infoblox
12 2 (1.770%) Tufin
12 2 (1.770%) Crossbeam
South West
The network engineer needs to be CCNA or ideally CCNP qualified and the key skills for the network engineer are Cisco Firewalls experience ASA / PIX Routers and Switches...
CPS Group UK
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
York, North Yorkshire
As an experienced Network Analyst you will have the following: - Extensive network security analysis, design experience - Cisco switching, routing - CCNA/CCNP qualified - Switching, routing and firewall experience - Checkpoint...
4it Recruitment Ltd
Rate: Market Rate
Posted: 13 May 2013
West Midlands
Senior Network Engineer (SC Cleared) - Birmingham - £400-450 per/day (12 Months) Senior Network Engineer - CCIE OR CCNP (Must have) - SC Clearance (Must have) - Routing & Switching, Lan & Wan,...
Lawrence Harvey IT & Change
Rate: £400 - £450 per annum
Posted: 13 May 2013
Essex
Network & Security Engineer - Cisco R&S / ASA Firewalls / VPN's... Core Responsibilities: *Support of Cisco / Checkpoint Products *Firewalls / ASA / PIX / *Cisco Core R&S - ISR - 6500's - MPLS /...
Stott & May
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013
West London
ITIL Service Management Experience and SLA Reporting experience... Citrix Netscalers. Juniper Netscreen, Cisco ASA Firewalls and PIX. Network Security products (firewall, IPS, DLP) Arista Switches. Fortinet Firewalls... Minimum...
Experis IT
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
West London
ITIL Service Management... Scrum and KanBan Methodology experience... MPLS, IPSEC VPN, Firewalls and TACACS authentication. Wireless, VOIP and Security technologies... Citrix Netscalers. Juniper Netscreen, Cisco ASA Firewalls and...
Experis IT
Rate: Market Rates
Posted: 15 May 2013
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Ideal candidate must have one or more of the Qualifications, and at least the items in the one or more key areas: Qualifications *CCNA *CCNP *CCIE KEY Areas...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £350 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013
North Yorkshire
We are seeking a CCNA qualified Network and Security specialist to work on my clients Checkpoint Firewall upgrade. Candidates must have the following experience: Proven track record of...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £280.00 - £320.00 per day
Posted: 4 May 2013