The first table below looks at the demand for Ethernet skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ethernet over the 3 months to 17 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 Birmingham 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ethernet
Rank 42 52 -
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -
Contract jobs citing Ethernet 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.228% 0.163% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.381% 1.695% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £400 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £285 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £29.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+17.64% -8.46%
All Communications & Networking
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
42 59 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 9.589% 9.625% 14.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 31 35
Average daily rate £400 £325 £255
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% +27.45%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £100 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £430 £363
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 11
Average hourly rate £13.00 £30.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-56.66% +122.22%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
Ethernet
West Midlands

Ethernet
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham Ethernet Daily Rate Trend

Ethernet
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham Ethernet Hourly Rate Trend

Ethernet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) ADSL
2 1 (50.00%) Broadband
2 1 (50.00%) ISDN
2 1 (50.00%) PSTN
2 1 (50.00%) VoIP
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) FTP
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) Ericsson
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) Remedy

Ethernet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (50.00%) DSLAM
2 1 (50.00%) DSL
2 1 (50.00%) NetScreen
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) IPsec
2 1 (50.00%) LLU
2 1 (50.00%) xDSL
2 1 (50.00%) Softswitch
2 1 (50.00%) ADSL
2 1 (50.00%) Broadband
2 1 (50.00%) ISDN
2 1 (50.00%) PSTN
2 1 (50.00%) VoIP
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) FTP
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Provisioning Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (50.00%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) XenServer
1 1 (50.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) Ericsson
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Remedy
2 1 (50.00%) BT
2 1 (50.00%) Cramer
2 1 (50.00%) VMware