The first part of the table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Juniper products and/or services in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Juniper 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Juniper Networks.

Juniper
Location
3 months to
16 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank235290332
Rank change year-on-year
Up+55Up+42
Matching contract IT job ads447341214
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.755 %0.556 %0.389 %
As % of the Vendors category1.630 %1.196 %0.883 %
Number of daily rates quoted22118494
Average daily rate£375£350£363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14 %-3.44 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£261£200
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£499£450£475
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£358£375
% change year-on-year
-2.09 %-4.66 %
Number of hourly rates quoted152619
Average hourly rate£31.00£29.50£16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.08 %+78.78 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£22.25£19.40£14.48
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£35.75£47.65£36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£31.00£34.00£18.25
% change year-on-year
-8.82 %+86.30 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryAll Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
274282850924236
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK46.34 %46.46 %44.02 %
Number of daily rates quoted140221424810950
Average daily rate£400£405£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.23 %+1.25 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£233£250£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£600£575
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£350£325
% change year-on-year
-+7.69 %
Number of hourly rates quoted129815981456
Average hourly rate£20.00£20.00£19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-+2.56 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.50£11.38£11.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£41.50£40.00£37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£19.00£20.00£19.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00 %+2.56 %

Juniper
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Juniper within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Juniper Demand Trend

Juniper
Daily Rate Trend

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

Juniper Daily Rate Trend

Juniper
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Juniper Daily Rate Histogram

Juniper
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Juniper Hourly Rate Trend

Juniper
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Juniper Hourly Rate Histogram

Juniper
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 Juniper 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+58427£375+7.14 %
LondonUp+64187£400+21.21 %
South EastUp+42141£360+2.85 %
BerkshireUp+2574£350+16.66 %
City of LondonUp+4052£444+16.46 %
South WestDown-340£375+13.63 %
ReadingUp+2833£175-32.69 %
North WestDown-831£328-14.37 %
WiltshireUp+323£275-13.38 %
HampshireUp+1222£403+15.00 %
SwindonNo change018£325-15.85 %
SurreyUp+417£360-20.44 %
ManchesterDown-316£300-
CheshireDown-314£334-15.50 %
BuckinghamshireUp+512£400-
West MidlandsDown-1012£263-38.23 %
WalesUp+610£250-
Milton KeynesUp+510£400-
FarnboroughUp+98£423-0.58 %
West SussexUp+18£325-
BristolDown-158£500-
South WalesUp+157£250-
WarwickshireUp+57£263-38.23 %
MiddlesexNew entry-7£400-
PortsmouthNew entry-7£263-
SloughUp+136£250-7.40 %
East MidlandsDown-46£278-14.61 %
North EastNew entry-6£350-
WarwickNew entry-6£263-
KnutsfordUp+85£318+7.62 %

Juniper
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Juniper 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 Juniper.

1662 (78.25 %)Cisco
2550 (65.01 %)Firewall
3356 (42.08 %)Cisco Certification
4320 (37.83 %)CheckPoint
5269 (31.80 %)WAN
6254 (30.02 %)LAN
7247 (29.20 %)VPN
8226 (26.71 %)OSPF
9218 (25.77 %)BGP
10210 (24.82 %)CCNP
11193 (22.81 %)MPLS
11193 (22.81 %)Network Security
12182 (21.51 %)Cisco ASA
13174 (20.57 %)TCP/IP
14139 (16.43 %)Telecoms
15135 (15.96 %)Windows
16132 (15.60 %)Security Cleared
17131 (15.48 %)F5
18130 (15.37 %)Load Balancing
19127 (15.01 %)Finance
20123 (14.54 %)VoIP
21121 (14.30 %)SSL
22119 (14.07 %)CCIE
23118 (13.95 %)CCNA
24112 (13.24 %)DNS
25106 (12.53 %)IPsec
26103 (12.17 %)Cisco PIX
2794 (11.11 %)SC Cleared
2887 (10.28 %)Microsoft
2985 (10.05 %)VMware

Juniper
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Juniper 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 Juniper. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
118 (2.128 %)CSS
212 (1.418 %)ASP
311 (1.300 %)DCOM
46 (0.709 %)WebSphere
55 (0.591 %)Middleware
63 (0.355 %).NET
63 (0.355 %)Regular Expression
72 (0.236 %)ADSI
72 (0.236 %)SOAP
81 (0.118 %)Application Packaging
81 (0.118 %)HTML
81 (0.118 %)Web Services
81 (0.118 %)COM
81 (0.118 %)OCX
81 (0.118 %)OLE
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
134 (4.019 %)MS Exchange
219 (2.246 %)Exchange Server 2010
318 (2.128 %)Apache
415 (1.773 %)IIS
513 (1.537 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
612 (1.418 %)Exchange Server 2003
711 (1.300 %)Exchange Server 2007
810 (1.182 %)Tomcat
98 (0.946 %)OpenCms
106 (0.709 %)SharePoint
113 (0.355 %)Lotus Notes
113 (0.355 %)Confluence
122 (0.236 %)SharePoint 2010
122 (0.236 %)Lync
122 (0.236 %)WebLogic
122 (0.236 %)Exchange Server 5.5
131 (0.118 %)Office Communications Server
131 (0.118 %)nginx
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
122 (2.600 %)MS Excel
218 (2.128 %)MS Office
314 (1.655 %)MS Visio
45 (0.591 %)MS PowerPoint
51 (0.118 %)Spreadsheet
51 (0.118 %)LightWave 3D
51 (0.118 %)Office 365
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
11 (0.118 %)SAP CCM
11 (0.118 %)BASE24
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1550 (65.01 %)Firewall
2269 (31.80 %)WAN
3254 (30.02 %)LAN
4247 (29.20 %)VPN
5226 (26.71 %)OSPF
6218 (25.77 %)BGP
7193 (22.81 %)MPLS
7193 (22.81 %)Network Security
8182 (21.51 %)Cisco ASA
9174 (20.57 %)TCP/IP
10123 (14.54 %)VoIP
11121 (14.30 %)SSL
12112 (13.24 %)DNS
13106 (12.53 %)IPsec
14103 (12.17 %)Cisco PIX
1581 (9.574 %)NetScreen
1675 (8.865 %)SNMP
1768 (8.038 %)Wireless
1864 (7.565 %)Cisco IOS
1864 (7.565 %)VLAN
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
124 (2.837 %)SQL Server
215 (1.773 %)MySQL
39 (1.064 %)SQL Server 2008
48 (0.946 %)SQL Server 2005
52 (0.236 %)GIS
61 (0.118 %)Oracle 9i
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
13 (0.355 %)JIRA
13 (0.355 %)MSI
21 (0.118 %)Subversion
21 (0.118 %)VSS/SourceSafe
21 (0.118 %)Git (software)
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1139 (16.43 %)Telecoms
2127 (15.01 %)Finance
374 (8.747 %)Banking
433 (3.901 %)Investment Banking
512 (1.418 %)Financial Institution
610 (1.182 %)Private Banking
76 (0.709 %)Publishing
85 (0.591 %)Retail
85 (0.591 %)Multimedia
94 (0.473 %)Law
103 (0.355 %)Back Office
103 (0.355 %)Manufacturing
112 (0.236 %)Advertising
112 (0.236 %)Legal
112 (0.236 %)Games
112 (0.236 %)German Language
121 (0.118 %)Portuguese Language
121 (0.118 %)Russian Language
121 (0.118 %)Arabic Language
121 (0.118 %)French Language
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1288 (34.04 %)Network Engineer
2107 (12.65 %)Security Engineer
389 (10.52 %)Analyst
485 (10.05 %)Consultant
580 (9.456 %)IP Engineer
664 (7.565 %)Network Security Engineer
754 (6.383 %)Design Engineer
754 (6.383 %)Senior Network Engineer
853 (6.265 %)Implementation Engineer
952 (6.147 %)Network Analyst
1051 (6.028 %)Architect
1142 (4.965 %)Security Consultant
1239 (4.610 %)Network Consultant
1336 (4.255 %)Cisco Engineer
1336 (4.255 %)Network Architect
1434 (4.019 %)Firewall Engineer
1531 (3.664 %)Designer
1629 (3.428 %)Network Specialist
1629 (3.428 %)Network Support
1629 (3.428 %)Administrator
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
133 (3.901 %)SecurID
219 (2.246 %)PKI
219 (2.246 %)Blackberry
317 (2.009 %)Clustering
415 (1.773 %)Management Information System
512 (1.418 %)Hedge funds
611 (1.300 %)Video Conferencing
710 (1.182 %)Replication
86 (0.709 %)Open Source
86 (0.709 %)CLARiiON
86 (0.709 %)Computer Science
95 (0.591 %)EFT
104 (0.473 %)EqualLogic
104 (0.473 %)Cloud Computing
104 (0.473 %)Thin Client
104 (0.473 %)Fat Client
113 (0.355 %)CMDB
113 (0.355 %)CESG
113 (0.355 %)Firmware
122 (0.236 %)DataPower
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1135 (15.96 %)Windows
279 (9.338 %)Linux
365 (7.683 %)UNIX
441 (4.846 %)Windows Server 2003
537 (4.374 %)Windows Server 2008
636 (4.255 %)Solaris
722 (2.600 %)Windows 7
818 (2.128 %)Windows 2000
913 (1.537 %)Windows NT
1012 (1.418 %)Windows XP
119 (1.064 %)CentOS
123 (0.355 %)Ubuntu
123 (0.355 %)Windows Vista
123 (0.355 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
132 (0.236 %)Windows 2000 Server
132 (0.236 %)Debian
132 (0.236 %)NetWare
141 (0.118 %)Android
141 (0.118 %)Mac OS X
141 (0.118 %)Windows CE
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1130 (15.37 %)Load Balancing
283 (9.811 %)Network Design
377 (9.102 %)ITIL
447 (5.556 %)Network Management
541 (4.846 %)Project Management
636 (4.255 %)Migration
729 (3.428 %)Risk Assessment
825 (2.955 %)Information Security
923 (2.719 %)Service Management
1022 (2.600 %)Service Delivery
1119 (2.246 %)Workflow
1119 (2.246 %)PRINCE2
1217 (2.009 %)Change Management
1315 (1.773 %)Configuration Management
1315 (1.773 %)Network Architecture
1413 (1.537 %)PRINCE
1512 (1.418 %)Security Architecture
1512 (1.418 %)Use Case
1611 (1.300 %)Business Analysis
1611 (1.300 %)Disaster Recovery
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
130 (3.546 %)SQL
216 (1.891 %)Perl
312 (1.418 %)C
410 (1.182 %)Java
56 (0.709 %)PHP
65 (0.591 %)Python
74 (0.473 %)Shell Script
74 (0.473 %)VBScript
74 (0.473 %)PowerShell
82 (0.236 %)C#
91 (0.118 %)C++
91 (0.118 %)Ada
91 (0.118 %)Tcl
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1356 (42.08 %)Cisco Certification
2210 (24.82 %)CCNP
3132 (15.60 %)Security Cleared
4119 (14.07 %)CCIE
5118 (13.95 %)CCNA
694 (11.11 %)SC Cleared
769 (8.156 %)CCSP
864 (7.565 %)CISSP
953 (6.265 %)CCDP
1050 (5.910 %)JNCIS
1146 (5.437 %)JNCIA
1243 (5.083 %)CCIP
1340 (4.728 %)JNCIE
1435 (4.137 %)Degree
1534 (4.019 %)JNCIP
1629 (3.428 %)DV Cleared
1725 (2.955 %)Check Point Certification
1725 (2.955 %)Microsoft Certification
1823 (2.719 %)CISM
1922 (2.600 %)CCSE
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
127 (3.191 %)SLA
225 (2.955 %)PCI DSS
310 (1.182 %)ISO/IEC 27001
49 (1.064 %)COBIT
58 (0.946 %)JSP 440
63 (0.355 %)COSO
71 (0.118 %)ISO 9001
71 (0.118 %)BS7799
71 (0.118 %)BS15000
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
159 (6.974 %)Active Directory
240 (4.728 %)VMware Infrastructure
314 (1.655 %)ISA Server
412 (1.418 %)vSphere
510 (1.182 %)VMware ESXi
68 (0.946 %)Hyper-V
76 (0.709 %)XenApp
85 (0.591 %)VMware ESX
94 (0.473 %)XenDesktop
103 (0.355 %)Citrix Presentation Server
103 (0.355 %)UAG
112 (0.236 %)DFS Replication
112 (0.236 %)Postfix
112 (0.236 %)Veritas Cluster Server
112 (0.236 %)NDS
112 (0.236 %)Snort
121 (0.118 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
121 (0.118 %)Squid
121 (0.118 %)ProxySG
121 (0.118 %)MetaFrame
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
121 (2.482 %)CiscoWorks
215 (1.773 %)Netcool
314 (1.655 %)OpenView
413 (1.537 %)McAfee ePO
413 (1.537 %)Cacti
512 (1.418 %)Tivoli
610 (1.182 %)MIMEsweeper
79 (1.064 %)SCCM
88 (0.946 %)Backup Exec
88 (0.946 %)WSUS
97 (0.827 %)HP NNM
97 (0.827 %)Nagios
105 (0.591 %)Zenoss
105 (0.591 %)HP SIM
114 (0.473 %)SCOM
123 (0.355 %)NetBackup
123 (0.355 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
123 (0.355 %)Norton AntiVirus
123 (0.355 %)vCenter
132 (0.236 %)Sysprep
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1662 (78.25 %)Cisco
2320 (37.83 %)CheckPoint
3131 (15.48 %)F5
487 (10.28 %)Microsoft
585 (10.05 %)VMware
683 (9.811 %)Blue Coat
782 (9.693 %)Redback
876 (8.983 %)HP
972 (8.511 %)Nokia
1057 (6.738 %)McAfee
1152 (6.147 %)Citrix
1251 (6.028 %)Nortel
1345 (5.319 %)Radware
1435 (4.137 %)Avaya
1531 (3.664 %)Remedy
1626 (3.073 %)Huawei
1725 (2.955 %)Websense
1821 (2.482 %)Brocade
1918 (2.128 %)Fortinet
2017 (2.009 %)Sun