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This section looks at the demand for Firewall skills across the UK with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Firewall over the last 3 months to 12 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkFirewall
Location
3 months to 12 May 2008Same period last year
Rank9862
Rank change on same period last yearDown-36
Matching contract IT job ads12631946
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled1.587 %2.187 %
As % of the category below12.32 %15.45 %
Daily rates quoted378595
Average minimum daily rate£342£340
Average daily rate£365£358
% change on same period last year+1.90 %
Average maximum daily rate£387£376
UK excluding London average daily rate£343£323
% change on same period last year+6.26 %
Hourly rates quoted148209
Average minimum hourly rate£22.93£25.64
Average hourly rate£24.86£27.26
% change on same period last year-8.80 %
Average maximum hourly rate£26.78£28.87
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.49£27.52
% change on same period last year-11.01 %
Communications & Networking UKCommunications & Networking
UK
Matching contract IT job ads1025412596
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled12.88 %14.15 %
Daily rates quoted28042892
Average minimum daily rate£337£341
Average daily rate£357£360
% change on same period last year-0.88 %
Average maximum daily rate£378£379
UK excluding London average daily rate£343£334
% change on same period last year+2.76 %
Hourly rates quoted13421504
Average minimum hourly rate£24.74£25.41
Average hourly rate£26.71£26.96
% change on same period last year-0.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate£28.68£28.51
UK excluding London average hourly rate£26.71£27.55
% change on same period last year-3.01 %

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.

Firewall
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Firewall across the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Firewall Demand Trend

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Firewall across the UK.

Firewall Daily Rate Trend

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Firewall across the UK over the past 3 months.

Firewall Daily Rate Histogram

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Firewall across the UK.

Firewall Hourly Rate Trend

Firewall
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Firewall across the UK over the past 3 months.

Firewall Hourly Rate Histogram

Firewall
Top 30 Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the UK over the past 3 months.

RankLocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
1EnglandDown-321207£366+1.57 %
2LondonDown-23583£387+1.71 %
3South EastDown-31213£385+13.45 %
4City of LondonDown-13176£407+3.85 %
5East of EnglandUp+13116£313+2.73 %
6YorkshireDown-186£344+11.57 %
7West MidlandsDown-2669£277-14.65 %
8HampshireUp+1757£416+23.34 %
9BerkshireDown-1454£378+14.14 %
10HertfordshireDown-353£364+14.49 %
11South WestUp+1352£319-2.06 %
12West YorkshireUp+951£344+11.47 %
13North WestDown-1850£391+0.62 %
14ScotlandDown-4538£283+3.57 %
15LeedsUp+2337£345+14.09 %
16SurreyDown-3029£296-12.97 %
17CambridgeshireDown-1026£308+29.06 %
18CheshireDown-725£412-
18EssexUp+1325£229-36.93 %
19North YorkshireUp+1723£350+7.75 %
20BuckinghamshireDown-1222£425+21.18 %
21BristolUp+1520£282-
22BirminghamDown-1419£197-37.79 %
22ReadingDown-1419£398+40.52 %
23CambridgeUp+218£365+63.43 %
24North EastUp+417£321+21.06 %
25HarrogateNew entry-16£313-
25Milton KeynesDown-1916£538+53.35 %
26WarwickshireUp+215£408-
27MiddlesexUp+714£428+35.26 %

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the UK citing Firewall also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Firewall.

11363 (49.31 %)Cisco
2926 (33.50 %)Windows
3800 (28.94 %)CheckPoint
4785 (28.40 %)Cisco Certification
5694 (25.11 %)VPN
6658 (23.81 %)LAN
7650 (23.52 %)WAN
8589 (21.31 %)TCP/IP
9482 (17.44 %)CCNP
10452 (16.35 %)Active Directory
11440 (15.92 %)Unix
12418 (15.12 %)Microsoft
13408 (14.76 %)DNS
14358 (12.95 %)Linux
15356 (12.88 %)Network Security
16352 (12.74 %)CCNA
17336 (12.16 %)Finance
18334 (12.08 %)Nokia
19333 (12.05 %)Internet
20304 (11.00 %)MS Exchange
21268 (9.696 %)Cisco PIX
22250 (9.045 %)Exchange Server 2003
23245 (8.864 %)HP
24223 (8.068 %)VoIP
25220 (7.959 %)ITIL
26218 (7.887 %)Government
27215 (7.779 %)OSPF
27215 (7.779 %)Citrix
28214 (7.742 %)Windows 2000
29208 (7.525 %)Windows Server 2003

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the UK citing Firewall also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Firewall. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
178 (2.822 %)WebSphere
269 (2.496 %).NET
356 (2.026 %)WebServices
446 (1.664 %)Middleware
537 (1.339 %)J2EE
633 (1.194 %)XML
730 (1.085 %)HTML
825 (0.904 %)ASP
918 (0.651 %)COM+
1017 (0.615 %).NET Framework
1111 (0.398 %)XSLT
129 (0.326 %)LAMP
138 (0.289 %)SOAP
138 (0.289 %)ASP.NET
147 (0.253 %)EJB
147 (0.253 %)CSS
156 (0.217 %)JSP
156 (0.217 %)Servlets
164 (0.145 %)Software Packaging
173 (0.109 %)Adobe Flex
Application Platforms
1304 (11.00 %)MS Exchange
2250 (9.045 %)Exchange Server 2003
3147 (5.318 %)IIS
4122 (4.414 %)Exchange Server 2000
5106 (3.835 %)Apache
655 (1.990 %)Tomcat
743 (1.556 %)SharePoint
834 (1.230 %)Exchange Server 2007
933 (1.194 %)Exchange Server 5.5
1030 (1.085 %)WebSphere Application Server
1128 (1.013 %)WebLogic
1221 (0.760 %)JBoss
1221 (0.760 %)iPlanet
1317 (0.615 %)Oracle Application Server
1416 (0.579 %)SharePoint Server 2007
1416 (0.579 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1513 (0.470 %)JRun
1513 (0.470 %)Lotus Notes
1612 (0.434 %)BizTalk Server
1710 (0.362 %)Content Management Server
Applications
1121 (4.378 %)MS Office
2118 (4.269 %)MS Excel
325 (0.904 %)MS Visio
416 (0.579 %)MS PowerPoint
514 (0.507 %)MS Project
61 (0.036 %)S-PLUS
Business Applications
15 (0.181 %)RMDS
24 (0.145 %)Oracle Applications
33 (0.109 %)Line 50
42 (0.072 %)MarketView
42 (0.072 %)SoftGrid
42 (0.072 %)BPCS
42 (0.072 %)Fidessa
51 (0.036 %)Movex
51 (0.036 %)Summit
51 (0.036 %)SunGard Vivista
Communications & Networking
1694 (25.11 %)VPN
2658 (23.81 %)LAN
3650 (23.52 %)WAN
4589 (21.31 %)TCP/IP
5408 (14.76 %)DNS
6356 (12.88 %)Network Security
7333 (12.05 %)Internet
8268 (9.696 %)Cisco PIX
9223 (8.068 %)VoIP
10215 (7.779 %)OSPF
11208 (7.525 %)BGP
12205 (7.417 %)MPLS
13191 (6.910 %)SSL
14187 (6.766 %)SAN
15154 (5.572 %)VLAN
16151 (5.463 %)DHCP
17132 (4.776 %)NetScreen
18108 (3.907 %)Intrusion Detection
1996 (3.473 %)Ethernet
2090 (3.256 %)EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1153 (5.535 %)SQL Server
231 (1.122 %)MySQL
327 (0.977 %)SQL Server 2000
425 (0.904 %)SQL Server 2005
524 (0.868 %)RDBMS
615 (0.543 %)Oracle 10g
713 (0.470 %)SQL Server 7
811 (0.398 %)GIS
96 (0.217 %)DB2
105 (0.181 %)Oracle 9i
114 (0.145 %)Oracle 8/8i
114 (0.145 %)Datawarehouse
122 (0.072 %)BusinessObjects
131 (0.036 %)FileMaker
131 (0.036 %)Data Mining
131 (0.036 %)ETL
131 (0.036 %)OLTP
131 (0.036 %)MS Access
131 (0.036 %)OLAP
131 (0.036 %)Crystal Reports
Development Applications
116 (0.579 %)LoadRunner
27 (0.253 %)TestDirector
36 (0.217 %)FrontPage
44 (0.145 %)Subversion
53 (0.109 %)NUnit
53 (0.109 %)Flash
62 (0.072 %)QuickTest Pro
62 (0.072 %)Ant
62 (0.072 %)Visual Studio
62 (0.072 %)PVCS
62 (0.072 %)VSS/SourceSafe
62 (0.072 %)MSI
62 (0.072 %)Bugzilla
71 (0.036 %)CruiseControl
71 (0.036 %)Eclipse
71 (0.036 %)WinRunner
General
1336 (12.16 %)Finance
2218 (7.887 %)Government
3175 (6.331 %)Telecoms
4174 (6.295 %)Banking
578 (2.822 %)Investment Banking
637 (1.339 %)Financial Institution
637 (1.339 %)Health
731 (1.122 %)Legal
828 (1.013 %)Law
924 (0.868 %)Back Office
1022 (0.796 %)Auditing
1120 (0.724 %)Insurance
1218 (0.651 %)Retail
1312 (0.434 %)Education
1411 (0.398 %)Local Government
1510 (0.362 %)Publishing
168 (0.289 %)Multimedia
177 (0.253 %)Front Office
186 (0.217 %)Criminal Justice
186 (0.217 %)Marketing
Job Titles
1633 (22.90 %)Network Engineer
2386 (13.97 %)Analyst
3209 (7.562 %)Network Support
4205 (7.417 %)Cisco Engineer
5200 (7.236 %)Consultant
6198 (7.164 %)Administrator
7194 (7.019 %)Security Engineer
8189 (6.838 %)Support Engineer
9151 (5.463 %)Cisco Network Engineer
10143 (5.174 %)Network Analyst
11130 (4.703 %)Architect
12120 (4.342 %)Support Analyst
1394 (3.401 %)Network Security Engineer
1490 (3.256 %)Network Support Engineer
1588 (3.184 %)Project Manager
1687 (3.148 %)3rd Line Support
1783 (3.003 %)Security Analyst
1882 (2.967 %)Network Consultant
1978 (2.822 %)Network Specialist
2074 (2.677 %)Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1106 (3.835 %)PKI
269 (2.496 %)Clustering
353 (1.918 %)Blackberry
446 (1.664 %)SecurID
533 (1.194 %)Smartcard
533 (1.194 %)NHS
622 (0.796 %)Asset Management
721 (0.760 %)Video Conferencing
820 (0.724 %)Management Information System
918 (0.651 %)Cryptography
918 (0.651 %)French Language
1017 (0.615 %)Replication
1113 (0.470 %)IVR
1212 (0.434 %)Client/Server
1311 (0.398 %)Thin Client
1311 (0.398 %)CESG
1311 (0.398 %)Fat Client
1311 (0.398 %)Computer Science
148 (0.289 %)Mainframe
157 (0.253 %)AS400
Operating Systems
1926 (33.50 %)Windows
2440 (15.92 %)Unix
3358 (12.95 %)Linux
4214 (7.742 %)Windows 2000
5208 (7.525 %)Windows Server 2003
6181 (6.548 %)Solaris
7178 (6.440 %)Windows NT
8102 (3.690 %)Windows XP
980 (2.894 %)AIX
1025 (0.904 %)HPUX
1116 (0.579 %)SUSE
1215 (0.543 %)NetWare
1314 (0.507 %)Debian
1314 (0.507 %)VMS
148 (0.289 %)Fedora
148 (0.289 %)Mac OS X
154 (0.145 %)Windows Mobile
162 (0.072 %)Tru64
162 (0.072 %)Windows Vista
162 (0.072 %)OS/400
Processes & Methodologies
1220 (7.959 %)ITIL
2204 (7.381 %)Network Design
3179 (6.476 %)Load Balancing
4158 (5.716 %)Project Management
5127 (4.595 %)PRINCE2
6105 (3.799 %)Migration
774 (2.677 %)Disaster Recovery
861 (2.207 %)Information Security
957 (2.062 %)Service Delivery
1053 (1.918 %)Change Management
1131 (1.122 %)Service Management
1229 (1.049 %)E-Commerce
1327 (0.977 %)Incident Management
1426 (0.941 %)Configuration Management
1525 (0.904 %)Problem Management
1622 (0.796 %)Security Management
1718 (0.651 %)SOA
1718 (0.651 %)Business Continuity
1718 (0.651 %)Release Management
1817 (0.615 %)Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1148 (5.355 %)SQL
271 (2.569 %)Perl
370 (2.533 %)Java
449 (1.773 %)VBScript
540 (1.447 %)Shell Script
633 (1.194 %)C
724 (0.868 %)VB
820 (0.724 %)PHP
97 (0.253 %)C#
97 (0.253 %)JavaScript
97 (0.253 %)JCL
105 (0.181 %)C++
105 (0.181 %)Transact-SQL
114 (0.145 %)VB.NET
114 (0.145 %)Korn
123 (0.109 %)VBA
123 (0.109 %)Python
123 (0.109 %)VB6
132 (0.072 %)AWK
132 (0.072 %)XPath
Qualifications
1785 (28.40 %)Cisco Certification
2482 (17.44 %)CCNP
3352 (12.74 %)CCNA
4178 (6.440 %)Microsoft Certification
5161 (5.825 %)CCIE
6146 (5.282 %)MCSE
7114 (4.124 %)Degree
8108 (3.907 %)CCSE
9104 (3.763 %)CCSA
1097 (3.509 %)CCDP
1191 (3.292 %)CISSP
1247 (1.700 %)CCIP
1345 (1.628 %)CCDA
1444 (1.592 %)MCP
1541 (1.483 %)CCSP
1633 (1.194 %)CISM
1730 (1.085 %)CISA
1730 (1.085 %)MCSA
1828 (1.013 %)Check Point Certification
1919 (0.687 %)ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
140 (1.447 %)SLA
223 (0.832 %)BS7799
322 (0.796 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
419 (0.687 %)ISO27001
515 (0.543 %)ISO17799
515 (0.543 %)PCI DSS
64 (0.145 %)QA
72 (0.072 %)ISO/IEC 20000
72 (0.072 %)CESG Infosec
81 (0.036 %)JSP 440
81 (0.036 %)HMG Infosec
81 (0.036 %)ISO9000
81 (0.036 %)COBIT
System Software
1452 (16.35 %)Active Directory
274 (2.677 %)VMware ESX
358 (2.098 %)Backup Exec
445 (1.628 %)Terminal Services
539 (1.411 %)ISA Server
625 (0.904 %)NetBackup
724 (0.868 %)Citrix Presentation Server
813 (0.470 %)MetaFrame
911 (0.398 %)NFS
911 (0.398 %)VMware Workstation
1010 (0.362 %)Squid
119 (0.326 %)Terminal Server
128 (0.289 %)Xen
128 (0.289 %)Nmap
137 (0.253 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
146 (0.217 %)MailMarshal
146 (0.217 %)VMware GSX
154 (0.145 %)Samba
154 (0.145 %)Novell eDirectory
162 (0.072 %)NDS
Systems Management
1109 (3.944 %)OpenView
255 (1.990 %)CiscoWorks
347 (1.700 %)MOM
445 (1.628 %)Tivoli
537 (1.339 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
629 (1.049 %)Norton AntiVirus
721 (0.760 %)MAILsweeper
820 (0.724 %)WSUS
918 (0.651 %)CA SiteMinder
1014 (0.507 %)Tivoli Monitoring
1111 (0.398 %)ZENworks
1111 (0.398 %)Unicenter
1210 (0.362 %)Legato
1210 (0.362 %)Netcool
139 (0.326 %)OVOW
148 (0.289 %)BMC PATROL
156 (0.217 %)Netcool/OMNIbus
156 (0.217 %)BMC Performance Manager
156 (0.217 %)SCOM
165 (0.181 %)SCCM
Vendors
11363 (49.31 %)Cisco
2800 (28.94 %)CheckPoint
3418 (15.12 %)Microsoft
4334 (12.08 %)Nokia
5245 (8.864 %)HP
6215 (7.779 %)Citrix
7194 (7.019 %)VMware
8164 (5.933 %)Juniper
9130 (4.703 %)Oracle
10101 (3.654 %)VERITAS
10101 (3.654 %)Red Hat
1196 (3.473 %)Nortel
1288 (3.184 %)IBM
1372 (2.605 %)Sun
1469 (2.496 %)Blue Coat
1564 (2.315 %)McAfee Security
1662 (2.243 %)Symantec
1751 (1.845 %)EMC
1840 (1.447 %)Avaya
1840 (1.447 %)Crossbeam
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