The first table below looks at the demand for the Firewall Engineer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Firewall Engineer in their job title 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

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 Engineer
Rank 506 544 554
Rank change year-on-year
+38 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Firewall Engineer 34 37 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.072% 0.063% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.078% 0.068% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 27 11
Average daily rate £394 £375 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% +17.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £311 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £600 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £318 £270
% change year-on-year
-0.78% +17.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £25.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
43539 54119 55808
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.22% 92.58% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 24944 29835 30377
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2174 2589 2882
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Firewall Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Firewall Engineer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Firewall Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Firewall Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Firewall Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Firewall Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Firewall Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Firewall Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Firewall Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Firewall Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Firewall Engineer
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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 +42 32 £394 +5.00%
London +9 18 £475 +11.76%
South East +28 7 £315 -
North West +18 5 £300 -5.51%
Cheshire +5 5 £300 -5.51%
Knutsford -4 4 £300 -5.51%
City of London +6 3 £550 +29.41%
Dover - 2 £400 -
Hampshire - 2 £315 -
Kent - 2 £400 -
Hertfordshire +13 1 - -
East of England +11 1 - -
South West - 1 £388 -
West Sussex - 1 £250 -
Middlesex - 1 - -
Bristol - 1 £388 -

Firewall Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Firewall Engineer in their job title 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 with Firewall Engineer in their job title.

1 64 (100.00%) Firewall
2 38 (59.38%) Cisco
3 33 (51.56%) CheckPoint
4 31 (48.44%) F5
5 28 (43.75%) Juniper
6 25 (39.06%) Cisco Certification
7 21 (32.81%) Cisco ASA
8 17 (26.56%) BGP
8 17 (26.56%) CCIE
9 16 (25.00%) OSPF
10 15 (23.44%) Migration
10 15 (23.44%) BIG-IP
11 14 (21.88%) Network Architecture
11 14 (21.88%) Fortinet
11 14 (21.88%) Citrix
11 14 (21.88%) Cisco Nexus
12 13 (20.31%) TCP/IP
12 13 (20.31%) Network Security
12 13 (20.31%) Finance
13 12 (18.75%) VPN
14 11 (17.19%) WAN
14 11 (17.19%) UNIX
14 11 (17.19%) E-Commerce
14 11 (17.19%) Nokia
14 11 (17.19%) NetScreen
14 11 (17.19%) Junos
15 10 (15.63%) NetScaler
15 10 (15.63%) Red Hat
15 10 (15.63%) Windows XP
15 10 (15.63%) Windows

Firewall Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Firewall Engineer in their job title 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 with Firewall Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (15.63%) COM+
1 10 (15.63%) SOAP
1 10 (15.63%) Web Services
1 10 (15.63%) XML
1 10 (15.63%) XSLT
1 10 (15.63%) Java EE
1 10 (15.63%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 10 (15.63%) Apache
1 10 (15.63%) WebSphere Application Server
1 10 (15.63%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (100.00%) Firewall
2 21 (32.81%) Cisco ASA
3 17 (26.56%) BGP
4 16 (25.00%) OSPF
5 15 (23.44%) BIG-IP
6 14 (21.88%) Cisco Nexus
7 13 (20.31%) TCP/IP
7 13 (20.31%) Network Security
8 12 (18.75%) VPN
9 11 (17.19%) WAN
9 11 (17.19%) NetScreen
9 11 (17.19%) Junos
10 10 (15.63%) NetScaler
10 10 (15.63%) LDAP
11 9 (14.06%) Wireless
11 9 (14.06%) IP Telephony
11 9 (14.06%) DNS
11 9 (14.06%) LAN
12 8 (12.50%) DHCP
13 7 (10.94%) MPLS
General
1 13 (20.31%) Finance
2 7 (10.94%) Telecoms
3 3 (4.688%) Banking
3 3 (4.688%) Financial Institution
4 2 (3.125%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.563%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (1.563%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.63%) PKI
2 4 (6.250%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (3.125%) IVR
4 1 (1.563%) Equities
4 1 (1.563%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 11 (17.19%) UNIX
2 10 (15.63%) Windows XP
2 10 (15.63%) Windows
2 10 (15.63%) Linux
2 10 (15.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (23.44%) Migration
2 14 (21.88%) Network Architecture
3 11 (17.19%) E-Commerce
4 8 (12.50%) Network Management
5 7 (10.94%) Project Planning
6 6 (9.375%) Load Balancing
7 2 (3.125%) Service Delivery
8 1 (1.563%) Fund Management
8 1 (1.563%) Wealth Management
8 1 (1.563%) Problem Management
8 1 (1.563%) Validation
8 1 (1.563%) Software Engineering
8 1 (1.563%) Network Design
8 1 (1.563%) Project Management
8 1 (1.563%) Change Management
8 1 (1.563%) Security Management
8 1 (1.563%) ITIL
8 1 (1.563%) Business Transformation
Programming Languages
1 10 (15.63%) Java
1 10 (15.63%) Perl
Qualifications
1 25 (39.06%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (26.56%) CCIE
3 10 (15.63%) GIAC
3 10 (15.63%) GWAPT
3 10 (15.63%) GPEN
4 9 (14.06%) CCNP
5 7 (10.94%) JNCIE
5 7 (10.94%) Degree
5 7 (10.94%) CISSP
6 6 (9.375%) CCSE
7 5 (7.813%) CCSA
7 5 (7.813%) SC Cleared
7 5 (7.813%) Security Cleared
7 5 (7.813%) CCSP
8 3 (4.688%) JNCIP
8 3 (4.688%) CCNA
9 1 (1.563%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.94%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (9.375%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (14.06%) FortiGate
2 1 (1.563%) OpenView
Vendors
1 38 (59.38%) Cisco
2 33 (51.56%) CheckPoint
3 31 (48.44%) F5
4 28 (43.75%) Juniper
5 14 (21.88%) Fortinet
5 14 (21.88%) Citrix
6 11 (17.19%) Nokia
7 10 (15.63%) Red Hat
7 10 (15.63%) JBoss
7 10 (15.63%) Microsoft
7 10 (15.63%) Imperva
8 9 (14.06%) Sourcefire
9 8 (12.50%) Blue Coat
10 7 (10.94%) HP
11 6 (9.375%) VMware
12 4 (6.250%) Aruba
12 4 (6.250%) Polycom
13 3 (4.688%) TippingPoint
13 3 (4.688%) McAfee
14 2 (3.125%) Clearswift