The first table below looks at the demand for Internet skills in IT contracts advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Internet over the 3 months to 22 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 Basingstoke 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Internet
Rank 35 26 26
Rank change year-on-year
-9 0
Contract jobs citing Internet 5 2 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 2.463% 1.081% 2.419%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.82% 4.082% 17.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £311 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
-4.23% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £16.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.75 £15.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year
-1.66% -23.07%
All Communications & Networking
Basingstoke
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
39 49 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 19.21% 26.49% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 12 12
Average daily rate £375 £420 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.71% +18.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £142 £223 £226
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 7
Average hourly rate - £36.50 £34.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +5.79%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
Internet
Hampshire

Internet
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basingstoke Internet Jobs Demand Trend

Internet
Daily Rate Trend

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

Basingstoke Internet Daily Rate Trend

Internet
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Basingstoke Internet Hourly Rate Trend

Internet
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Internet 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 Internet.

1 7 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco
1 7 (100.00%) IPv6
1 7 (100.00%) MPLS
1 7 (100.00%) OSPF
1 7 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 7 (100.00%) VLAN
1 7 (100.00%) VPLS
1 7 (100.00%) HSRP
2 6 (85.71%) CCNP
2 6 (85.71%) CCNA
2 6 (85.71%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
3 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) SDH
3 2 (28.57%) Ethernet
3 2 (28.57%) BGP
3 2 (28.57%) RSVP
3 2 (28.57%) Juniper
3 2 (28.57%) SONET
4 1 (14.29%) HND
4 1 (14.29%) JNCIA

Internet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Internet 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 Internet. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 7 (100.00%) IPv6
1 7 (100.00%) MPLS
1 7 (100.00%) OSPF
1 7 (100.00%) VLAN
1 7 (100.00%) VPLS
1 7 (100.00%) HSRP
2 2 (28.57%) SDH
2 2 (28.57%) Ethernet
2 2 (28.57%) BGP
2 2 (28.57%) RSVP
2 2 (28.57%) SONET
General
1 7 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) IP Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) Network Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) Cisco Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) IP Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
1 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) CCNP
1 6 (85.71%) CCNA
1 6 (85.71%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) HND
2 1 (14.29%) JNCIA
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) Juniper