The first table below looks at the demand for IPsec skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IPsec over the 3 months to 23 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 for the West Midlands region.

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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
Rank 95 104 96
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -8
Contract jobs citing IPsec 2 1 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.123% 0.044% 0.209%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.833% 0.348% 1.418%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £400 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £375 £325
% change year-on-year
-12.00% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £33.75 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+3.70% -10.00%
All Communications & Networking
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
240 287 282
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 14.71% 12.76% 14.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 104 117
Average daily rate £283 £275 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.72% -11.29%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £143 £150 £155
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £422 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 38 44
Average hourly rate £19.50 £22.50 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% -6.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £29.50 £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
IPsec
England

IPsec
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing IPsec across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

West Midlands IPsec Jobs Demand Trend

IPsec
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing IPsec across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands IPsec Daily Rate Trend

IPsec
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing IPsec across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands IPsec Hourly Rate Trend

IPsec
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IPsec within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 23 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
Birmingham - 1 £400 -
Coventry - 1 - -
IPsec
England

IPsec
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing IPsec 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 IPsec.

1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) MPLS
2 1 (50.00%) TACACS
2 1 (50.00%) NetScreen
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Replication
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) WSUS
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco PIX
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) XenServer
2 1 (50.00%) XenDesktop
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) Bash shell
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) CCNP
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix

IPsec
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing IPsec 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 IPsec. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) MPLS
2 1 (50.00%) TACACS
2 1 (50.00%) NetScreen
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco PIX
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (50.00%) FTP
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (50.00%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) XenServer
1 1 (50.00%) XenDesktop
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix