Bedfordshire LAN Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Local Area Network (LAN) skills within the Bedfordshire 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Local Area Network (LAN)
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Reading Redditch Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Rotherham Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stourbridge Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	15	31
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching contract IT job ads	4	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	23.53 %	24.00 %
Daily rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum daily rate	-	£230
Average daily rate	-	£230
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£230
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£311
% change on same period last year	+9.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.50	£14.00
Average hourly rate	£13.50	£14.50
% change on same period last year	-6.89 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.50	£15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.00	£24.71
% change on same period last year	-19.06 %
Communications & Networking Bedfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	17	25
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.022 %	0.025 %
Daily rates quoted	3	5
Average minimum daily rate	£163	£211
Average daily rate	£168	£212
% change on same period last year	-20.94 %
Average maximum daily rate	£173	£213
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£343
% change on same period last year	-0.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.50	£28.25
Average hourly rate	£15.50	£28.34
% change on same period last year	-45.30 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.50	£28.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.72	£28.70
% change on same period last year	-10.38 %
LAN East of England

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 Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

LAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LAN across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

LAN
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Bedford	+1	1	-	-

LAN East of England

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 13 (100.00 %) WAN 2 11 (84.62 %) TCP/IP 3 8 (61.54 %) Cisco 3 8 (61.54 %) CCNA 3 8 (61.54 %) Cisco Certification 4 4 (30.77 %) Wi-Fi 4 4 (30.77 %) Microsoft Certification 4 4 (30.77 %) MPLS 4 4 (30.77 %) Ethernet 4 4 (30.77 %) ADSL 4 4 (30.77 %) MCSE 5 3 (23.08 %) Windows 5 3 (23.08 %) ISDN 5 3 (23.08 %) RIP 5 3 (23.08 %) OSPF

5 3 (23.08 %) BGP 5 3 (23.08 %) Windows Server 2003 5 3 (23.08 %) NetScreen 5 3 (23.08 %) CCNP 5 3 (23.08 %) Firewall 6 2 (15.38 %) Telecoms 6 2 (15.38 %) Finance 6 2 (15.38 %) Health 6 2 (15.38 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 2 (15.38 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 2 (15.38 %) DNS 6 2 (15.38 %) Dell 6 2 (15.38 %) DHCP 6 2 (15.38 %) MS Exchange 6 2 (15.38 %) Windows XP

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 (7.692 %) COM	Application Platforms 1 2 (15.38 %) Exchange Server 2003 1 2 (15.38 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 1 (7.692 %) MS Visio 1 1 (7.692 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 13 (100.00 %) WAN 2 11 (84.62 %) TCP/IP 3 4 (30.77 %) Wi-Fi 3 4 (30.77 %) MPLS 3 4 (30.77 %) Ethernet 3 4 (30.77 %) ADSL 4 3 (23.08 %) ISDN 4 3 (23.08 %) RIP 4 3 (23.08 %) OSPF 4 3 (23.08 %) BGP 4 3 (23.08 %) NetScreen 4 3 (23.08 %) Firewall 5 2 (15.38 %) DNS 5 2 (15.38 %) DHCP 6 1 (7.692 %) VPN 6 1 (7.692 %) SAN 6 1 (7.692 %) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (7.692 %) SQL Server	General 1 2 (15.38 %) Telecoms 1 2 (15.38 %) Finance 1 2 (15.38 %) Health 2 1 (7.692 %) Government
Job Titles 1 6 (46.15 %) Analyst 2 5 (38.46 %) 2nd Line Support 2 5 (38.46 %) Helpdesk Support 3 4 (30.77 %) Network Analyst 4 2 (15.38 %) Helpdesk Analyst 5 1 (7.692 %) Implementation Manager 5 1 (7.692 %) Support Manager 5 1 (7.692 %) Server Support 5 1 (7.692 %) Systems Support	Operating Systems 1 3 (23.08 %) Windows 1 3 (23.08 %) Windows Server 2003 2 2 (15.38 %) Windows 2000 Server 2 2 (15.38 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (7.692 %) ITIL 1 1 (7.692 %) Project Management 1 1 (7.692 %) Data Migration 1 1 (7.692 %) SC Cleared 1 1 (7.692 %) Security Cleared 1 1 (7.692 %) Migration	Qualifications 1 8 (61.54 %) CCNA 1 8 (61.54 %) Cisco Certification 2 4 (30.77 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (30.77 %) MCSE 3 3 (23.08 %) CCNP
System Software 1 1 (7.692 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 8 (61.54 %) Cisco 2 2 (15.38 %) Dell 3 1 (7.692 %) Citrix 3 1 (7.692 %) Microsoft 3 1 (7.692 %) VMware