The first table below looks at the demand for TACACS skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TACACS 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Terminal Access Controller Access Control System (TACACS)
Rank 528 567 566
Rank change year-on-year
+39 -1
Contract jobs citing TACACS 12 14 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.025% 0.024% 0.023%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.175% 0.153% 0.180%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 12
Average daily rate £324 £331 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.26% +47.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £263 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £338 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £387 £200 £210
% change year-on-year
+93.62% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £25.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -16.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
- -16.66%
All Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6868 9171 7760
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 14.55% 15.69% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3354 4160 3539
Average daily rate £350 £365 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.10% +4.28%
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 £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 546 614 779
Average hourly rate £22.00 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.50 £45.00 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%

TACACS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

TACACS Jobs Demand Trend

TACACS
Daily Rate Trend

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

TACACS Daily Rate Trend

TACACS
Daily Rate Histogram

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

TACACS Daily Rate Histogram

TACACS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

TACACS Hourly Rate Trend

TACACS
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TACACS 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 +39 8 £286 -13.58%
London +16 7 £286 -15.18%
Stirling - 3 £475 -
Hammersmith - 3 - -
Scotland - 3 £475 -
City of London +15 2 £348 -
Stirlingshire - 2 £475 -
West Midlands +13 1 - -
Coventry - 1 - -

TACACS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing TACACS 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 TACACS.

1 27 (87.10%) Cisco
2 22 (70.97%) Firewall
3 21 (67.74%) Cisco Certification
4 18 (58.06%) OSPF
5 17 (54.84%) BGP
5 17 (54.84%) CCNP
6 15 (48.39%) IPsec
7 14 (45.16%) MPLS
8 13 (41.94%) CCNA
9 12 (38.71%) SNMP
9 12 (38.71%) Cisco ASA
10 11 (35.48%) Cisco PIX
10 11 (35.48%) TCP/IP
10 11 (35.48%) Juniper
11 10 (32.26%) VPN
11 10 (32.26%) LAN
11 10 (32.26%) ITIL
12 9 (29.03%) WAN
12 9 (29.03%) Cisco Nexus
13 8 (25.81%) Network Management
13 8 (25.81%) DNS
13 8 (25.81%) EIGRP
13 8 (25.81%) Wireless
14 7 (22.58%) Load Balancing
14 7 (22.58%) Linux
15 6 (19.35%) E-Commerce
15 6 (19.35%) DHCP
15 6 (19.35%) CheckPoint
15 6 (19.35%) Degree
15 6 (19.35%) Scrum

TACACS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing TACACS 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 TACACS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (9.677%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (6.452%) CSS
2 2 (6.452%) WebSphere
3 1 (3.226%) WAP
3 1 (3.226%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 3 (9.677%) nginx
1 3 (9.677%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (12.90%) MS Office
2 2 (6.452%) MS Excel
3 1 (3.226%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 22 (70.97%) Firewall
2 18 (58.06%) OSPF
3 17 (54.84%) BGP
4 15 (48.39%) IPsec
5 14 (45.16%) MPLS
6 12 (38.71%) SNMP
6 12 (38.71%) Cisco ASA
7 11 (35.48%) Cisco PIX
7 11 (35.48%) TCP/IP
8 10 (32.26%) VPN
8 10 (32.26%) LAN
9 9 (29.03%) WAN
9 9 (29.03%) Cisco Nexus
10 8 (25.81%) DNS
10 8 (25.81%) EIGRP
10 8 (25.81%) Wireless
11 6 (19.35%) DHCP
11 6 (19.35%) NetScreen
11 6 (19.35%) HSRP
12 5 (16.13%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.677%) MySQL
2 2 (6.452%) NoSQL
General
1 5 (16.13%) Telecoms
2 4 (12.90%) Finance
2 4 (12.90%) Banking
3 3 (9.677%) Investment Banking
3 3 (9.677%) German Language
4 1 (3.226%) Retail
4 1 (3.226%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.226%) Games
Job Titles
1 18 (58.06%) Network Engineer
2 3 (9.677%) Network Implementation Engineer
2 3 (9.677%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (9.677%) Senior Network Engineer
2 3 (9.677%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (9.677%) Implementation Engineer
3 2 (6.452%) Deployment Engineer
3 2 (6.452%) Cisco Engineer
3 2 (6.452%) Network Consultant
3 2 (6.452%) Consultant
3 2 (6.452%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (6.452%) IP Engineer
4 1 (3.226%) Network Implementation Consultant
4 1 (3.226%) Market Data Engineer
4 1 (3.226%) Architect
4 1 (3.226%) Security Specialist
4 1 (3.226%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (3.226%) Network Architect
4 1 (3.226%) Team Leader
4 1 (3.226%) Implementation Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Management Information System
2 3 (9.677%) Computer Science
3 2 (6.452%) e-Health
4 1 (3.226%) Device Driver
4 1 (3.226%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 7 (22.58%) Linux
2 5 (16.13%) Windows
3 4 (12.90%) UNIX
4 1 (3.226%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) ITIL
2 8 (25.81%) Network Management
3 7 (22.58%) Load Balancing
4 6 (19.35%) E-Commerce
4 6 (19.35%) Scrum
5 5 (16.13%) Service Management
6 4 (12.90%) Kanban
6 4 (12.90%) Incident Management
7 3 (9.677%) Project Management
7 3 (9.677%) Network Design
7 3 (9.677%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (9.677%) Six Sigma
8 2 (6.452%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (6.452%) Network Load Balancing
8 2 (6.452%) Change Management
9 1 (3.226%) Root Cause Analysis
9 1 (3.226%) Capacity Management
9 1 (3.226%) Service Delivery
9 1 (3.226%) ITSM
9 1 (3.226%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.677%) PHP
1 3 (9.677%) Python
2 1 (3.226%) C
Qualifications
1 21 (67.74%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (54.84%) CCNP
3 13 (41.94%) CCNA
4 6 (19.35%) Degree
5 5 (16.13%) CCIE
6 3 (9.677%) GCSC
7 1 (3.226%) Security Cleared
7 1 (3.226%) Check Point Certification
7 1 (3.226%) CCDP
7 1 (3.226%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.226%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (9.677%) CiscoWorks
2 2 (6.452%) ZABBIX
2 2 (6.452%) Puppet
3 1 (3.226%) Cisco UCCX
3 1 (3.226%) SolarWinds Orion
3 1 (3.226%) WhatsUp Gold
3 1 (3.226%) HP NNM
Vendors
1 27 (87.10%) Cisco
2 11 (35.48%) Juniper
3 6 (19.35%) CheckPoint
4 5 (16.13%) F5
5 4 (12.90%) Citrix
5 4 (12.90%) Fortinet
6 3 (9.677%) SolarWinds
6 3 (9.677%) Blue Coat
6 3 (9.677%) Microsoft
7 2 (6.452%) HP
7 2 (6.452%) Remedy
7 2 (6.452%) BT
7 2 (6.452%) Infoblox
7 2 (6.452%) Tufin
8 1 (3.226%) Aruba
8 1 (3.226%) Sony
8 1 (3.226%) Polycom
8 1 (3.226%) Tandberg
8 1 (3.226%) Nokia
8 1 (3.226%) Novell
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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...
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Posted: 15 May 2013
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ITIL Service Management... Scrum and KanBan Methodology experience... MPLS, IPSEC VPN, Firewalls and TACACS authentication. Wireless, VOIP and Security technologies... Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)... Citrix Netscalers. Juniper...
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Posted: 20 May 2013