The first table below looks at the demand for WAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WAN 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 Brighton 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
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 26 35 -
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -
Contract jobs citing WAN 1 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 0.699% 1.550% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.333% 44.44% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £230 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £306 £325
% change year-on-year
+2.85% -5.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £23.00 £23.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £21.25 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-24.70% +1.19%
All Communications & Networking
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
12 9 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 8.392% 3.488% 7.692%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 0
Average daily rate £210 £370 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-43.24% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
Average hourly rate £23.00 £23.00 £11.10
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +107.20%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
WAN
East Sussex

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton WAN Jobs Demand Trend

WAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

Brighton WAN Daily Rate Trend

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Brighton WAN Hourly Rate Trend

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton region citing WAN 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 WAN.

1 6 (100.00%) LAN
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (100.00%) CCNA
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) EMC
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (66.67%) SAN
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (66.67%) NetScreen
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (66.67%) IIS
2 4 (66.67%) COM+
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) SharePoint
2 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 4 (66.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 4 (66.67%) MCTS
2 4 (66.67%) MCITP
2 4 (66.67%) EMC NetWorker
2 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (66.67%) Windows 7
2 4 (66.67%) vSphere
2 4 (66.67%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (33.33%) CCNP
3 2 (33.33%) Telecoms

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton region citing WAN 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 WAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (66.67%) COM+
Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) IIS
1 4 (66.67%) SharePoint
1 4 (66.67%) SharePoint 2010
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) LAN
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 4 (66.67%) SAN
2 4 (66.67%) NetScreen
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
1 4 (66.67%) Windows 7
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) CCNA
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (66.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 4 (66.67%) MCTS
2 4 (66.67%) MCITP
3 2 (33.33%) CCNP
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (66.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) EMC
2 4 (66.67%) VMware