The first table below looks at the demand for Network Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Network Management over the 3 months to 24 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the Bristol 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Management
Rank 47 62 -
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -
Contract jobs citing Network Management 3 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.581% 0.239% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.984% 0.352% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £300 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £325 £298
% change year-on-year
-15.38% +9.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £105.00 £41.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+154.54% +17.85%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
305 568 435
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 59.11% 67.94% 67.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 379 249
Average daily rate £325 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £230 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 22 22
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -4.10%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.70 £16.00 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £55.25 £37.50 £43.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Network Management
South West

Network Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Network Management across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Bristol Network Management Jobs Demand Trend

Network Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bristol Network Management Daily Rate Trend

Network Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bristol Network Management Hourly Rate Trend

Network Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Network Management 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 Network Management.

1 6 (100.00%) VPN
1 6 (100.00%) Wireless
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco
2 5 (83.33%) HP
3 4 (66.67%) CiscoWorks
3 4 (66.67%) IBM
3 4 (66.67%) Firewall
3 4 (66.67%) CA
3 4 (66.67%) Nokia
3 4 (66.67%) CheckPoint
3 4 (66.67%) MPLS
3 4 (66.67%) OSPF
3 4 (66.67%) BGP
3 4 (66.67%) IP Telephony
3 4 (66.67%) Cisco IPT
3 4 (66.67%) IronPort
3 4 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (66.67%) SolarWinds
3 4 (66.67%) Unified Communications
3 4 (66.67%) FWSM
3 4 (66.67%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (50.00%) Network Load Balancing
4 3 (50.00%) Blue Coat
4 3 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (33.33%) Internet
5 2 (33.33%) Finance
5 2 (33.33%) Handset
5 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (33.33%) Blackberry
5 2 (33.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server

Network Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Network Management 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 Network Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) VPN
1 6 (100.00%) Wireless
2 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) MPLS
2 4 (66.67%) OSPF
2 4 (66.67%) BGP
2 4 (66.67%) IP Telephony
2 4 (66.67%) Cisco IPT
2 4 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (66.67%) Unified Communications
2 4 (66.67%) FWSM
2 4 (66.67%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (33.33%) Internet
4 2 (33.33%) LAN
5 1 (16.67%) VoIP
5 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Analyst
1 4 (66.67%) Senior Analyst
1 4 (66.67%) Network Analyst
1 4 (66.67%) Senior Network Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Handset
1 2 (33.33%) Blackberry
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows XP
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows 7
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Network Load Balancing
2 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Information Management
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) MCDST
1 1 (16.67%) MCSE
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco
1 5 (83.33%) HP
2 4 (66.67%) IBM
2 4 (66.67%) CA
2 4 (66.67%) Nokia
2 4 (66.67%) CheckPoint
2 4 (66.67%) IronPort
2 4 (66.67%) SolarWinds
3 3 (50.00%) Blue Coat
4 2 (33.33%) Citrix
5 1 (16.67%) Avaya
5 1 (16.67%) Microsoft