Aberdeen LAN Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Local Area Network (LAN) skills within the Aberdeen region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited LAN over the 3 months to 19 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Local Area Network (LAN)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dundee Durham Ealing East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Hull Huntingdon Ilford Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Redcar Redditch Romford Rugby Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 19 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	10	6
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	20	38
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.031 %	0.041 %
As % of the category below	42.55 %	56.72 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£175	£300
Average daily rate	£175	£300
% change on same period last year	-41.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£175	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£324
% change on same period last year	+3.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£37.00	£13.73
Average hourly rate	£38.50	£14.50
% change on same period last year	+165.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£15.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.53	£21.91
% change on same period last year	+16.51 %
Communications & Networking Aberdeen
Matching contract IT job ads	47	67
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.073 %	0.073 %
Daily rates quoted	3	3
Average minimum daily rate	£155	£296
Average daily rate	£155	£296
% change on same period last year	-47.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£155	£296
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£332
% change on same period last year	+5.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.19	£15.28
Average hourly rate	£28.31	£15.85
% change on same period last year	+78.63 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.42	£16.41
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.95	£29.13
% change on same period last year	-4.03 %
LAN Scotland

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

LAN
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing LAN across the Aberdeen region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

LAN
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing LAN across the Aberdeen region.

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing LAN across the Aberdeen region.

LAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LAN across the Aberdeen region over the 3 months to 19 November 2008.

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing LAN 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 LAN.

1 17 (65.38 %) WAN 2 13 (50.00 %) Windows 2 13 (50.00 %) Cisco 3 12 (46.15 %) Cisco Certification 4 10 (38.46 %) Telecoms 4 10 (38.46 %) CCNP 5 8 (30.77 %) Windows 2000 5 8 (30.77 %) BGP 6 7 (26.92 %) MPLS 7 6 (23.08 %) Windows Server 2003 7 6 (23.08 %) Windows XP 7 6 (23.08 %) TCP/IP 8 5 (19.23 %) CCNA 8 5 (19.23 %) Active Directory 8 5 (19.23 %) OSPF

9 4 (15.38 %) Netcool 9 4 (15.38 %) Tivoli 9 4 (15.38 %) HP 9 4 (15.38 %) Microsoft 10 3 (11.54 %) Windows 2000 Server 10 3 (11.54 %) CCIE 10 3 (11.54 %) OpenView 10 3 (11.54 %) VPN 10 3 (11.54 %) DNS 10 3 (11.54 %) RIP 10 3 (11.54 %) Windows NT 10 3 (11.54 %) SLA 10 3 (11.54 %) DHCP 10 3 (11.54 %) MS Excel 10 3 (11.54 %) Education

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing LAN 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 LAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (3.846 %) ODBC	Application Platforms 1 1 (3.846 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 3 (11.54 %) MS Excel 2 2 (7.692 %) MS Office 3 1 (3.846 %) Spreadsheet	Communications & Networking 1 17 (65.38 %) WAN 2 8 (30.77 %) BGP 3 7 (26.92 %) MPLS 4 6 (23.08 %) TCP/IP 5 5 (19.23 %) OSPF 6 3 (11.54 %) RIP 6 3 (11.54 %) EIGRP 6 3 (11.54 %) VPN 6 3 (11.54 %) DNS 6 3 (11.54 %) DHCP 7 2 (7.692 %) Ethernet 7 2 (7.692 %) SSL 7 2 (7.692 %) TACACS 7 2 (7.692 %) SNMP 7 2 (7.692 %) FDDI 8 1 (3.846 %) Gigabit Ethernet 8 1 (3.846 %) VLAN 8 1 (3.846 %) Cisco PIX 8 1 (3.846 %) Network Security 8 1 (3.846 %) H.323
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (3.846 %) MS Access	General 1 10 (38.46 %) Telecoms 2 3 (11.54 %) Education
Job Titles 1 7 (26.92 %) Analyst 2 4 (15.38 %) Network Engineer 2 4 (15.38 %) Network Analyst 3 3 (11.54 %) Server Engineer 4 2 (7.692 %) Server Support 4 2 (7.692 %) Support Analyst 4 2 (7.692 %) Support Engineer 4 2 (7.692 %) Network Specialist 4 2 (7.692 %) Cisco Engineer 5 1 (3.846 %) Desktop Support 5 1 (3.846 %) Cisco Support 5 1 (3.846 %) Cisco Network Analyst 5 1 (3.846 %) Cisco Analyst 5 1 (3.846 %) Senior Cisco Engineer 5 1 (3.846 %) VoIP Engineer 5 1 (3.846 %) Server Analyst 5 1 (3.846 %) Server Specialist 5 1 (3.846 %) Senior Cisco Network Engineer 5 1 (3.846 %) 3rd Line Support 5 1 (3.846 %) 2nd Line Support	Miscellaneous 1 2 (7.692 %) e-Health 2 1 (3.846 %) Video Conferencing 2 1 (3.846 %) N-Tier 2 1 (3.846 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 13 (50.00 %) Windows 2 8 (30.77 %) Windows 2000 3 6 (23.08 %) Windows XP 3 6 (23.08 %) Windows Server 2003 4 3 (11.54 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 3 (11.54 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (7.692 %) Workflow 1 2 (7.692 %) Load Balancing 1 2 (7.692 %) Performance Management 2 1 (3.846 %) ITIL 2 1 (3.846 %) Security Management 2 1 (3.846 %) Migration 2 1 (3.846 %) Network Design 2 1 (3.846 %) Supplier Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (3.846 %) C 1 1 (3.846 %) VB	Qualifications 1 12 (46.15 %) Cisco Certification 2 10 (38.46 %) CCNP 3 5 (19.23 %) CCNA 4 3 (11.54 %) CCIE 5 2 (7.692 %) Degree 5 2 (7.692 %) CCDA 6 1 (3.846 %) Microsoft Certification 6 1 (3.846 %) CCVP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (11.54 %) SLA	System Software 1 5 (19.23 %) Active Directory 2 1 (3.846 %) MetaFrame
Systems Management 1 4 (15.38 %) Tivoli 1 4 (15.38 %) Netcool 2 3 (11.54 %) OpenView 3 2 (7.692 %) CiscoWorks 3 2 (7.692 %) Tivoli NetView 4 1 (3.846 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 13 (50.00 %) Cisco 2 4 (15.38 %) Microsoft 2 4 (15.38 %) HP 3 3 (11.54 %) Citrix 4 2 (7.692 %) CA 4 2 (7.692 %) SAP 5 1 (3.846 %) Oracle 5 1 (3.846 %) VMware