The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wiltshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Firewall 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 Wiltshire 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
Firewall
Rank 34 22 28
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +6
Contract jobs citing Firewall 18 35 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 3.495% 6.024% 3.993%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.18% 26.52% 20.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 15 10
Average daily rate £440 £300 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+46.66% -22.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £213 £348
10% offered a daily rate of more than £508 £425 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £334 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+2.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 1
Average hourly rate - £23.44 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +17.18%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.88 £25.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year
-20.50% +13.63%
All Communications & Networking
Wiltshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
85 132 117
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 16.50% 22.72% 19.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 44 43
Average daily rate £425 £387 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.96% +0.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £277 £213 £291
10% offered a daily rate of more than £451 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 18
Average hourly rate £35.00 £22.50 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+55.55% -22.41%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.40 £22.50 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.00 £41.50 £33.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.96%
Firewall
South West

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wiltshire Firewall Jobs Demand Trend

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend

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

Wiltshire Firewall Daily Rate Trend

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Firewall across the Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Wiltshire Firewall Daily Rate Histogram

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Wiltshire Firewall Hourly Rate Trend

Firewall
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Wiltshire 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Swindon -10 17 £440 +46.66%
Chippenham - - - - 1
Salisbury - - - -
Firewall
South West

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire region citing Firewall 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 Firewall.

1 18 (69.23%) Cisco
2 16 (61.54%) Security Cleared
3 14 (53.85%) Juniper
4 11 (42.31%) SC Cleared
5 9 (34.62%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (30.77%) CCNP
7 7 (26.92%) Telecoms
8 6 (23.08%) WAN
9 5 (19.23%) MPLS
9 5 (19.23%) ATM
9 5 (19.23%) LAN
9 5 (19.23%) JNCIS
10 4 (15.38%) DV Cleared
10 4 (15.38%) Network Security
10 4 (15.38%) Finance
10 4 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (15.38%) Oracle
10 4 (15.38%) Solaris
10 4 (15.38%) Ethernet
11 3 (11.54%) VPN
11 3 (11.54%) X.21
11 3 (11.54%) F5
11 3 (11.54%) Frame Relay
11 3 (11.54%) Network Design
11 3 (11.54%) Sourcefire
11 3 (11.54%) VLAN
12 2 (7.692%) Load Balancing
12 2 (7.692%) Technical Architecture
12 2 (7.692%) Data Analysis
12 2 (7.692%) Migration

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire region citing Firewall 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 Firewall. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (3.846%) CSS
1 1 (3.846%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.846%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (7.692%) MS Office
1 2 (7.692%) MS Excel
1 2 (7.692%) MS Visio
1 2 (7.692%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (3.846%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (23.08%) WAN
2 5 (19.23%) ATM
2 5 (19.23%) LAN
2 5 (19.23%) MPLS
3 4 (15.38%) Ethernet
3 4 (15.38%) Network Security
4 3 (11.54%) VLAN
4 3 (11.54%) VPN
4 3 (11.54%) X.21
4 3 (11.54%) Frame Relay
5 2 (7.692%) IPsec
5 2 (7.692%) NetScreen
5 2 (7.692%) OSPF
5 2 (7.692%) BGP
5 2 (7.692%) IPv6
5 2 (7.692%) DNS
5 2 (7.692%) DHCP
5 2 (7.692%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (7.692%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (3.846%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.692%) RDBMS
2 1 (3.846%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.846%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 7 (26.92%) Telecoms
2 4 (15.38%) Finance
3 1 (3.846%) Billing
3 1 (3.846%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Designer
2 10 (38.46%) Network Designer
3 6 (23.08%) Architect
4 3 (11.54%) Author
4 3 (11.54%) Technical Author
4 3 (11.54%) Network Architect
5 2 (7.692%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.692%) Analyst
6 1 (3.846%) Test Manager
6 1 (3.846%) Technical Architect
6 1 (3.846%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (3.846%) Consultant
6 1 (3.846%) Network Engineer
6 1 (3.846%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (3.846%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (3.846%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 1 (3.846%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (3.846%) Network Analyst
6 1 (3.846%) Design Engineer
6 1 (3.846%) Network Technician
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (7.692%) Cryptography
3 1 (3.846%) e-Health
3 1 (3.846%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Solaris
2 2 (7.692%) Windows
3 1 (3.846%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (11.54%) Network Design
2 2 (7.692%) Data Analysis
2 2 (7.692%) Network Management
2 2 (7.692%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (7.692%) Load Balancing
2 2 (7.692%) Migration
2 2 (7.692%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (3.846%) Information Security
3 1 (3.846%) Asset Management
3 1 (3.846%) CRM
3 1 (3.846%) Configuration Management
3 1 (3.846%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (3.846%) Risk Management
3 1 (3.846%) Validation
3 1 (3.846%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (3.846%) Integration Testing
3 1 (3.846%) Data Protection
3 1 (3.846%) Data Validation
3 1 (3.846%) Test Strategy
3 1 (3.846%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.846%) C
1 1 (3.846%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 11 (42.31%) SC Cleared
3 9 (34.62%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (30.77%) CCNP
5 5 (19.23%) JNCIS
6 4 (15.38%) DV Cleared
7 2 (7.692%) CCNA
8 1 (3.846%) CCDP
8 1 (3.846%) CISSP
8 1 (3.846%) Degree
8 1 (3.846%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.846%) QA
1 1 (3.846%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (7.692%) Sendmail
2 1 (3.846%) vSphere
2 1 (3.846%) ProxySG
2 1 (3.846%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (7.692%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (3.846%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 18 (69.23%) Cisco
2 14 (53.85%) Juniper
3 4 (15.38%) Oracle
4 3 (11.54%) Sourcefire
4 3 (11.54%) F5
5 2 (7.692%) VMware
5 2 (7.692%) NetApp
5 2 (7.692%) Sun
5 2 (7.692%) Dell
6 1 (3.846%) Nortel
6 1 (3.846%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.846%) CheckPoint
6 1 (3.846%) McAfee
6 1 (3.846%) BT
6 1 (3.846%) 3Com
6 1 (3.846%) Blue Coat