The first part of the 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 16 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the 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.

Cisco PIX
Location
3 months to
16 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank419473414
Rank change year-on-year
Up+54Down-59
Matching contract IT job ads160108122
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.270 %0.176 %0.222 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category1.727 %1.375 %1.892 %
Number of daily rates quoted724652
Average daily rate£325£350£344
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14 %+1.81 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£200£296£200
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£425£398£450
UK excluding London average daily rate£288£350£375
% change year-on-year
-17.85 %-6.66 %
Number of hourly rates quoted6913
Average hourly rate£25.25£36.00£25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-29.86 %+44.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£22.50£21.00£16.65
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£29.00£48.00£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£23.75£45.00£25.00
% change year-on-year
-47.22 %+80.00 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryAll Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
926478566447
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK15.65 %12.80 %11.71 %
Number of daily rates quoted420935692640
Average daily rate£368£350£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.00 %-
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£215£220£200
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£500£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£330£325£310
% change year-on-year
+1.53 %+4.83 %
Number of hourly rates quoted611777700
Average hourly rate£25.00£24.00£21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.16 %+14.28 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£13.50£12.00£13.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£45.00£41.25£37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.75£27.50£22.50
% change year-on-year
-6.36 %+22.22 %

Cisco PIX
Demand Trend

The 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 Demand Trend

Cisco PIX
Daily Rate Trend

The 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

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco PIX within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

Cisco PIX Daily Rate Histogram

Cisco PIX
Hourly Rate Trend

The 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 16 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandUp+66150£325-6.47 %
South EastUp+3766£413+37.50 %
LondonUp+6157£344+4.40 %
BerkshireUp+2053£370+23.33 %
ReadingUp+2126£365+108.57 %
City of LondonUp+4214£375+11.94 %
West MidlandsDown-148£175-50.35 %
South WestDown-288£275-29.03 %
SurreyUp+56£413-
ScotlandDown-26£315-10.00 %
StaffordshireUp+95£175-
Stoke-on-TrentNo change05£175-
YorkshireDown-75£270-10.00 %
WiltshireDown-95£275-28.80 %
West YorkshireDown-145£270-10.00 %
SwindonDown-114£275-28.80 %
North WestDown-154£254-36.16 %
LeedsDown-184£285-5.00 %
CheshireDown-23£270-32.07 %
BuckinghamshireDown-33--
MiddlesexNew entry-3--
Milton KeynesNew entry-3--
EdinburghUp+72£350-3.44 %
WalesUp+22£340-32.00 %
UxbridgeDown-52£200-
WarringtonNew entry-2--
GlasgowNew entry-2£305-
NewburyNew entry-2£375-
Docklands, LondonUp+321£300-8.67 %
West WalesUp+101£405-

Cisco PIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, 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.

1325 (100.00 %)Cisco
2266 (81.85 %)Firewall
3264 (81.23 %)Cisco ASA
4230 (70.77 %)Cisco Certification
5178 (54.77 %)CheckPoint
6129 (39.69 %)OSPF
6129 (39.69 %)FWSM
7125 (38.46 %)CCNP
8122 (37.54 %)VPN
9104 (32.00 %)BGP
10103 (31.69 %)Juniper
1195 (29.23 %)CCIE
1291 (28.00 %)WAN
1382 (25.23 %)Load Balancing
1481 (24.92 %)Telecoms
1579 (24.31 %)LAN
1579 (24.31 %)F5
1675 (23.08 %)VoIP
1771 (21.85 %)TCP/IP
1771 (21.85 %)IPsec
1870 (21.54 %)CCNA
1966 (20.31 %)CCSP
2064 (19.69 %)SNMP
2162 (19.08 %)Nokia
2261 (18.77 %)DNS
2351 (15.69 %)MPLS
2446 (14.15 %)BIG-IP
2446 (14.15 %)Network Security
2545 (13.85 %)Blue Coat
2643 (13.23 %)SMTP

Cisco PIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
14 (1.231 %)CSS
23 (0.923 %)ASP
23 (0.923 %).NET
32 (0.615 %)DCOM
41 (0.308 %)COM
41 (0.308 %)HTML
41 (0.308 %)LAMP
41 (0.308 %)Forefront TMG
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
17 (2.154 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
25 (1.538 %)Apache
25 (1.538 %)SharePoint
34 (1.231 %)MS Exchange
34 (1.231 %)IIS
43 (0.923 %)Tomcat
43 (0.923 %)Exchange Server 2003
52 (0.615 %)Exchange Server 2007
52 (0.615 %)Exchange Server 2010
61 (0.308 %)WebLogic
61 (0.308 %)Lotus Notes
61 (0.308 %)CMS
61 (0.308 %)Oracle Application Server
61 (0.308 %)SharePoint Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
16 (1.846 %)Google Apps
16 (1.846 %)MS Office
25 (1.538 %)MS Excel
33 (0.923 %)MS Visio
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
12 (0.615 %)assyst
21 (0.308 %)Dynamics CRM
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1266 (81.85 %)Firewall
2264 (81.23 %)Cisco ASA
3129 (39.69 %)OSPF
3129 (39.69 %)FWSM
4122 (37.54 %)VPN
5104 (32.00 %)BGP
691 (28.00 %)WAN
779 (24.31 %)LAN
875 (23.08 %)VoIP
971 (21.85 %)TCP/IP
971 (21.85 %)IPsec
1064 (19.69 %)SNMP
1161 (18.77 %)DNS
1251 (15.69 %)MPLS
1346 (14.15 %)BIG-IP
1346 (14.15 %)Network Security
1443 (13.23 %)SMTP
1539 (12.00 %)Internet
1635 (10.77 %)Wireless
1635 (10.77 %)EIGRP
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
16 (1.846 %)PostgreSQL
24 (1.231 %)SQL Server
31 (0.308 %)SQL Server 2000
31 (0.308 %)MySQL
31 (0.308 %)SQL Server 2005
31 (0.308 %)SQL Server 2008
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
12 (0.615 %)VSS/SourceSafe
21 (0.308 %)Team Foundation Server
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
181 (24.92 %)Telecoms
221 (6.462 %)Finance
319 (5.846 %)Retail
415 (4.615 %)Billing
510 (3.077 %)Banking
68 (2.462 %)Back Office
72 (0.615 %)Financial Institution
72 (0.615 %)Games
81 (0.308 %)Advertising
81 (0.308 %)Investment Banking
81 (0.308 %)Marketing
81 (0.308 %)Arabic Language
81 (0.308 %)French Language
81 (0.308 %)Portuguese Language
81 (0.308 %)Russian Language
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1115 (35.38 %)Network Engineer
296 (29.54 %)Security Engineer
389 (27.38 %)IP Engineer
479 (24.31 %)Design Engineer
530 (9.231 %)Implementation Engineer
624 (7.385 %)Analyst
723 (7.077 %)Network Analyst
723 (7.077 %)Cisco Engineer
820 (6.154 %)Senior Network Engineer
916 (4.923 %)Network Support
1015 (4.615 %)Cisco Network Engineer
1113 (4.000 %)Firewall Engineer
1212 (3.692 %)Support Engineer
1311 (3.385 %)Network Security Engineer
1311 (3.385 %)Systems Engineer
1311 (3.385 %)Administrator
149 (2.769 %)Security Analyst
149 (2.769 %)Network Support Engineer
158 (2.462 %)Senior Systems Engineer
158 (2.462 %)Network Specialist
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
19 (2.769 %)SecurID
27 (2.154 %)Clustering
36 (1.846 %)Blackberry
44 (1.231 %)iSeries
44 (1.231 %)Management Information System
53 (0.923 %)Firmware
53 (0.923 %)Video Conferencing
62 (0.615 %)DataPower
62 (0.615 %)NHS
71 (0.308 %)Thin Client
71 (0.308 %)CLARiiON
71 (0.308 %)Hedge funds
71 (0.308 %)Computer Science
71 (0.308 %)Fat Client
71 (0.308 %)Celerra
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
126 (8.000 %)Windows
219 (5.846 %)Linux
312 (3.692 %)UNIX
48 (2.462 %)Windows Server 2003
57 (2.154 %)Windows XP
57 (2.154 %)Solaris
66 (1.846 %)Ubuntu
66 (1.846 %)Windows Server 2008
73 (0.923 %)Windows Vista
82 (0.615 %)Windows NT
82 (0.615 %)Windows 2000
91 (0.308 %)Mac OS X
91 (0.308 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
91 (0.308 %)Mac OS
91 (0.308 %)Windows 7
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
182 (25.23 %)Load Balancing
229 (8.923 %)Network Design
327 (8.308 %)Network Management
421 (6.462 %)E-Commerce
516 (4.923 %)CRM
516 (4.923 %)ITIL
516 (4.923 %)Risk Assessment
69 (2.769 %)Migration
69 (2.769 %)WAN Optimisation
78 (2.462 %)Security Architecture
78 (2.462 %)Project Management
87 (2.154 %)Penetration Testing
96 (1.846 %)Configuration Management
105 (1.538 %)Service Management
105 (1.538 %)Disaster Recovery
114 (1.231 %)ITSM
114 (1.231 %)Information Security
114 (1.231 %)PRINCE2
123 (0.923 %)ERP
123 (0.923 %)High Availability
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
17 (2.154 %)SQL
26 (1.846 %)Java
35 (1.538 %)Perl
43 (0.923 %)Shell Script
52 (0.615 %)C
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1230 (70.77 %)Cisco Certification
2125 (38.46 %)CCNP
395 (29.23 %)CCIE
470 (21.54 %)CCNA
566 (20.31 %)CCSP
633 (10.15 %)CISSP
725 (7.692 %)Security Cleared
824 (7.385 %)CCDP
921 (6.462 %)Check Point Certification
1020 (6.154 %)CCSE
1020 (6.154 %)SC Cleared
1115 (4.615 %)CCSA
129 (2.769 %)DV Cleared
138 (2.462 %)CCA
147 (2.154 %)CCIP
147 (2.154 %)Degree
156 (1.846 %)JNCIA
156 (1.846 %)Microsoft Certification
156 (1.846 %)MCSE
164 (1.231 %)CCDE
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
119 (5.846 %)PCI DSS
213 (4.000 %)SLA
31 (0.308 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
31 (0.308 %)ISO/IEC 27001
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
112 (3.692 %)Active Directory
211 (3.385 %)VMware Infrastructure
35 (1.538 %)XenApp
44 (1.231 %)vSphere
53 (0.923 %)Terminal Services
53 (0.923 %)Citrix Presentation Server
62 (0.615 %)XenServer
62 (0.615 %)Hyper-V
62 (0.615 %)Snort
62 (0.615 %)VMware ESX
62 (0.615 %)ISA Server
71 (0.308 %)VMware Workstation
71 (0.308 %)ProxySG
71 (0.308 %)XenDesktop
71 (0.308 %)VMware ESXi
71 (0.308 %)IAG
71 (0.308 %)UAG
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
119 (5.846 %)CiscoWorks
26 (1.846 %)Cacti
26 (1.846 %)OpenView
34 (1.231 %)Cisco IPCC
43 (0.923 %)SolarWinds Orion
43 (0.923 %)Cisco CUCM
43 (0.923 %)Cisco UCCX
52 (0.615 %)WSUS
52 (0.615 %)Backup Exec
52 (0.615 %)Tivoli
61 (0.308 %)SCCM
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1325 (100.00 %)Cisco
2178 (54.77 %)CheckPoint
3103 (31.69 %)Juniper
479 (24.31 %)F5
562 (19.08 %)Nokia
645 (13.85 %)Blue Coat
739 (12.00 %)Redback
824 (7.385 %)Nortel
922 (6.769 %)SolarWinds
1020 (6.154 %)Radware
1118 (5.538 %)Microsoft
1216 (4.923 %)TippingPoint
1314 (4.308 %)VMware
1412 (3.692 %)Citrix
1510 (3.077 %)Riverbed
1510 (3.077 %)HP
169 (2.769 %)Huawei
178 (2.462 %)Websense
178 (2.462 %)Oracle
186 (1.846 %)Brocade