The first table below looks at the demand for Ethernet skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ethernet 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 Berkshire 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
Ethernet
Rank 63 34 109
Rank change year-on-year
-29 +75
Contract jobs citing Ethernet 58 132 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 2.455% 4.124% 0.801%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.370% 12.02% 3.493%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 21 0
Average daily rate £210 £275 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.63% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £23.50 - £31.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £25.00 £31.75
% change year-on-year
+50.00% -21.25%
All Communications & Networking
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
619 1098 687
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 26.20% 34.30% 22.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 225 196
Average daily rate £285 £285 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -15.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £200 £173
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 46 67
Average hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.66% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £15.51 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.96%
Ethernet
South East

Ethernet
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Ethernet Jobs Demand Trend

Ethernet
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Ethernet Daily Rate Trend

Ethernet
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Berkshire Ethernet Daily Rate Histogram

Ethernet
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Ethernet Hourly Rate Trend

Ethernet
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ethernet within the Berkshire 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
Reading -16 32 £205 -22.64%
Newbury +1 1 £400 -
Slough -8 1 - -
Bracknell - - - - 2
Ethernet
South East

Ethernet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 84 (73.68%) Telecoms
2 71 (62.28%) ATM
3 64 (56.14%) SDH
4 61 (53.51%) MPLS
5 38 (33.33%) Ericsson
5 38 (33.33%) Nokia Siemens Networks
6 36 (31.58%) 3G
7 35 (30.70%) 2G
8 33 (28.95%) VPN
8 33 (28.95%) LTE
9 29 (25.44%) WAN
9 29 (25.44%) Project Management
10 28 (24.56%) LAN
11 27 (23.68%) TCP/IP
12 24 (21.05%) Internet
13 23 (20.18%) Radio Access Network
14 21 (18.42%) Capacity Planning
14 21 (18.42%) Huawei
14 21 (18.42%) BGP
15 20 (17.54%) OSPF
16 17 (14.91%) Active Directory
16 17 (14.91%) Windows
17 16 (14.04%) BT
17 16 (14.04%) VMware
17 16 (14.04%) ADSL
17 16 (14.04%) Citrix
18 15 (13.16%) Cisco
18 15 (13.16%) Microsoft
18 15 (13.16%) NEC
19 14 (12.28%) VMware Infrastructure

Ethernet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (0.877%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 3 (2.632%) Lotus Domino
2 2 (1.754%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (0.877%) IBM Notes
3 1 (0.877%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 13 (11.40%) MS Office
2 9 (7.895%) MS Excel
3 1 (0.877%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.754%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.877%) Minerva
Communications & Networking
1 71 (62.28%) ATM
2 64 (56.14%) SDH
3 61 (53.51%) MPLS
4 36 (31.58%) 3G
5 35 (30.70%) 2G
6 33 (28.95%) LTE
6 33 (28.95%) VPN
7 29 (25.44%) WAN
8 28 (24.56%) LAN
9 27 (23.68%) TCP/IP
10 24 (21.05%) Internet
11 23 (20.18%) Radio Access Network
12 21 (18.42%) BGP
13 20 (17.54%) OSPF
14 16 (14.04%) ADSL
15 11 (9.649%) DNS
15 11 (9.649%) VRRP
16 10 (8.772%) HSRP
17 9 (7.895%) RSVP
17 9 (7.895%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.877%) MS Access
General
1 84 (73.68%) Telecoms
2 10 (8.772%) Front Office
3 8 (7.018%) Finance
Job Titles
1 56 (49.12%) Transmission Engineer
2 55 (48.25%) Design Engineer
3 17 (14.91%) Network Engineer
4 11 (9.649%) Analyst
5 10 (8.772%) Network Design Engineer
6 8 (7.018%) Service Desk Analyst
6 8 (7.018%) Service Analyst
7 5 (4.386%) 3rd Line Support
7 5 (4.386%) Access Transmission Engineer
7 5 (4.386%) Test Engineer
8 3 (2.632%) Support Engineer
8 3 (2.632%) Architect
8 3 (2.632%) Project Manager
8 3 (2.632%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.632%) Support Analyst
9 2 (1.754%) Team Leader
9 2 (1.754%) IT Project Manager
9 2 (1.754%) Network Manager
9 2 (1.754%) Technical Leader
9 2 (1.754%) Network Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.018%) Blackberry
2 5 (4.386%) Clustering
3 1 (0.877%) Computer Science
3 1 (0.877%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 17 (14.91%) Windows
2 10 (8.772%) Windows XP
3 9 (7.895%) Windows 7
4 8 (7.018%) Mac OS X
5 5 (4.386%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (4.386%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (1.754%) Linux
7 1 (0.877%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (25.44%) Project Management
2 21 (18.42%) Capacity Planning
3 13 (11.40%) Network Design
4 9 (7.895%) Migration
4 9 (7.895%) Software Distribution
5 5 (4.386%) Project Planning
6 4 (3.509%) ITIL
6 4 (3.509%) PRINCE2
7 3 (2.632%) ITSM
7 3 (2.632%) Incident Management
8 2 (1.754%) PRINCE
8 2 (1.754%) Service Management
8 2 (1.754%) Network Planning
9 1 (0.877%) Asset Management
9 1 (0.877%) Network Management
9 1 (0.877%) Performance Improvement
9 1 (0.877%) Change Control
9 1 (0.877%) Root Cause Analysis
9 1 (0.877%) Capacity Management
9 1 (0.877%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.754%) C
1 2 (1.754%) SQL
2 1 (0.877%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (11.40%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (10.53%) CCNA
3 11 (9.649%) CCNP
4 10 (8.772%) SC Cleared
4 10 (8.772%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.632%) BC Cleared
6 2 (1.754%) Degree
6 2 (1.754%) CCIE
7 1 (0.877%) HNC
7 1 (0.877%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.877%) PMP
7 1 (0.877%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.263%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (14.91%) Active Directory
2 14 (12.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (7.895%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (1.754%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 9 (7.895%) Unicenter
1 9 (7.895%) SCCM
Vendors
1 38 (33.33%) Ericsson
1 38 (33.33%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 21 (18.42%) Huawei
3 16 (14.04%) VMware
3 16 (14.04%) BT
3 16 (14.04%) Citrix
4 15 (13.16%) Cisco
4 15 (13.16%) Microsoft
4 15 (13.16%) NEC
5 10 (8.772%) Remedy
6 9 (7.895%) CA
6 9 (7.895%) Royalblue
6 9 (7.895%) HP
6 9 (7.895%) Nokia
6 9 (7.895%) FrontRange
7 5 (4.386%) Lotus
8 4 (3.509%) Dell
9 3 (2.632%) Cramer
10 2 (1.754%) LANDesk
10 2 (1.754%) Avaya