LAN Contracts in Birmingham
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for LAN 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 LAN 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
Local Area Network (LAN)
Rank 39 43 30
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -13
Contract jobs citing LAN 4 10 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.913% 1.631% 3.000%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.524% 16.95% 20.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 3
Average daily rate £469 £244 £180
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+92.30% +35.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £464 £100 £136
10% offered a daily rate of more than £474 £448 £308
UK excluding London average daily rate £308 £308 £320
% change year-on-year
- -3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £13.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.25 £20.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-18.75% -4.76%
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%
LAN
West Midlands

LAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham LAN Jobs Demand Trend

LAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham LAN Daily Rate Trend

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham LAN Hourly Rate Trend

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 (86.67%) WAN
2 9 (60.00%) Cisco
3 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (40.00%) Windows
4 5 (33.33%) MPLS
4 5 (33.33%) VMware
5 4 (26.67%) Telecoms
5 4 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (26.67%) VPN
5 4 (26.67%) CCNP
5 4 (26.67%) VLAN
6 3 (20.00%) SonicWALL
6 3 (20.00%) Wireless
6 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (20.00%) CCNA
6 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
6 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (20.00%) MS Visio
6 3 (20.00%) MS Project
6 3 (20.00%) MS Office
6 3 (20.00%) Project Management
6 3 (20.00%) Firewall
7 2 (13.33%) GAP Analysis
7 2 (13.33%) S-PLUS
7 2 (13.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (13.33%) SQL
7 2 (13.33%) IPv6
7 2 (13.33%) Internet
7 2 (13.33%) Extranet

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 Platforms
1 1 (6.667%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) MS Project
1 3 (20.00%) MS Office
1 3 (20.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (13.33%) S-PLUS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (86.67%) WAN
2 5 (33.33%) MPLS
3 4 (26.67%) VPN
3 4 (26.67%) VLAN
4 3 (20.00%) Firewall
4 3 (20.00%) Wireless
4 3 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (13.33%) WLAN
5 2 (13.33%) iSCSI
5 2 (13.33%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (13.33%) IPv6
5 2 (13.33%) SAN
5 2 (13.33%) Internet
5 2 (13.33%) Extranet
6 1 (6.667%) BGP
6 1 (6.667%) X.25
6 1 (6.667%) PBX
6 1 (6.667%) VoIP
6 1 (6.667%) Junos
6 1 (6.667%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.667%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (26.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (6.667%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Consultant
2 2 (13.33%) Network Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Coordinator
2 2 (13.33%) Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Project Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Desktop Support
2 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 2 (13.33%) Network Project Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Project Coordinator
2 2 (13.33%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) VMware Technical Consultant
3 1 (6.667%) Junior Project Manager
3 1 (6.667%) Interactive Developer
3 1 (6.667%) Chief Technical Architect
3 1 (6.667%) VMware Consultant
3 1 (6.667%) Junior
3 1 (6.667%) Developer
3 1 (6.667%) Analyst
3 1 (6.667%) Technical Architect
3 1 (6.667%) Cisco Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) EqualLogic
2 1 (6.667%) NHS
2 1 (6.667%) Clustering
2 1 (6.667%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (6.667%) Windows 7
4 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (6.667%) Debian
4 1 (6.667%) Ubuntu
4 1 (6.667%) Linux
4 1 (6.667%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) Project Management
2 2 (13.33%) GAP Analysis
2 2 (13.33%) OpenUP
3 1 (6.667%) TOGAF
3 1 (6.667%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (6.667%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (6.667%) ITIL
3 1 (6.667%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) CCNP
1 4 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (20.00%) CCNA
3 2 (13.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (6.667%) VCP4
4 1 (6.667%) CCIE
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (6.667%) XenServer
2 1 (6.667%) vSphere
2 1 (6.667%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (6.667%) Data Guard
1 1 (6.667%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Cisco
2 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (33.33%) VMware
4 3 (20.00%) SonicWALL
5 2 (13.33%) Veeam
5 2 (13.33%) Citrix
5 2 (13.33%) HP
5 2 (13.33%) Dell
6 1 (6.667%) EMC
6 1 (6.667%) NetApp
6 1 (6.667%) WatchGuard
6 1 (6.667%) Oracle
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