The first table below looks at the demand for Cisco ASA skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cisco ASA over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Sussex 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA)
Rank 35 52 -
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -
Contract jobs citing Cisco ASA 8 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 2.116% 0.316% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.11% 3.175% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £325 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £345 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.79% +6.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £30.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-18.69% +23.00%
All Communications & Networking
West Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
61 63 84
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 16.14% 9.968% 18.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 30 33
Average daily rate £350 £325 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -18.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £140 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £400 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 11
Average hourly rate £32.50 £37.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +87.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.96%
Cisco ASA
South East

Cisco ASA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Sussex Cisco ASA Jobs Demand Trend

Cisco ASA
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Sussex Cisco ASA Daily Rate Trend

Cisco ASA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco ASA within the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Crawley +8 3 £325 -
Gatwick +6 1 - -
Horsham - - - -
Cisco ASA
South East

Cisco ASA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex region citing Cisco ASA 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 Cisco ASA.

1 10 (100.00%) Cisco
1 10 (100.00%) Firewall
2 9 (90.00%) VMware
2 9 (90.00%) Windows
3 7 (70.00%) LAN
3 7 (70.00%) ITIL
3 7 (70.00%) WAN
3 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
3 7 (70.00%) vSphere
4 5 (50.00%) XenApp
4 5 (50.00%) SolarWinds
4 5 (50.00%) Windows 7
4 5 (50.00%) PowerShell
4 5 (50.00%) LANDesk
4 5 (50.00%) SCOM
4 5 (50.00%) NetBackup
4 5 (50.00%) HP
4 5 (50.00%) Citrix
4 5 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (50.00%) SAN
4 5 (50.00%) NetApp
4 5 (50.00%) Symantec
4 5 (50.00%) SNMP
4 5 (50.00%) PRINCE2
4 5 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (50.00%) Junos
4 5 (50.00%) NetScaler
5 4 (40.00%) Linux
5 4 (40.00%) ISDN

Cisco ASA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex region citing Cisco ASA 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 Cisco ASA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (10.00%) COM
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) Firewall
2 7 (70.00%) LAN
2 7 (70.00%) WAN
3 5 (50.00%) SNMP
3 5 (50.00%) SAN
3 5 (50.00%) Junos
3 5 (50.00%) NetScaler
4 4 (40.00%) BGP
4 4 (40.00%) DNS
4 4 (40.00%) ISDN
5 3 (30.00%) Wireless
6 2 (20.00%) IPsec
6 2 (20.00%) VLAN
6 2 (20.00%) VPLS
6 2 (20.00%) Wireless Security
6 2 (20.00%) tcpdump
6 2 (20.00%) WLAN
6 2 (20.00%) SMTP
6 2 (20.00%) DHCP
6 2 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Analyst
2 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) Network Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Network Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) IVR
2 2 (20.00%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Windows
2 5 (50.00%) Windows 7
3 4 (40.00%) Linux
3 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (20.00%) Debian
4 2 (20.00%) Ubuntu
4 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) ITIL
2 5 (50.00%) PRINCE2
3 4 (40.00%) Project Management
4 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Management
4 2 (20.00%) Network Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
5 1 (10.00%) PRINCE
5 1 (10.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (30.00%) CCNP
2 3 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (10.00%) JNCIS
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
1 7 (70.00%) vSphere
2 5 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (50.00%) XenApp
3 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) NetBackup
1 5 (50.00%) SCOM
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco IPCC
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Cisco
2 9 (90.00%) VMware
3 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (50.00%) HP
4 5 (50.00%) Citrix
4 5 (50.00%) LANDesk
4 5 (50.00%) SolarWinds
4 5 (50.00%) NetApp
4 5 (50.00%) Symantec
5 3 (30.00%) Juniper
6 2 (20.00%) CA
6 2 (20.00%) Avaya
6 2 (20.00%) Nortel
6 2 (20.00%) Verint
6 2 (20.00%) CheckPoint
7 1 (10.00%) F5