WAN Contracts in Bristol
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for WAN 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 WAN 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 Communications & Networking 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
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 40 53 38
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -15
Contract jobs citing WAN 10 11 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 1.938% 1.316% 1.858%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.93% 9.565% 20.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 5
Average daily rate £355 £338 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.18% -10.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £303 £325
% change year-on-year
+5.37% -6.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Average hourly rate - £21.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £21.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-25.58% +2.38%
Search 8 WAN jobs in Bristol
All Communications & Networking
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 67 115 58
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 12.98% 13.76% 8.978%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 70 17
Average daily rate £300 £390 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.07% +6.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £238 £229
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £476 £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 9
Average hourly rate £27.00 £21.50 £38.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.58% -43.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.50 £16.50 £7.99
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.75 £42.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
WAN
South West

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol WAN Hourly Rate Trend

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 25 (92.59%) LAN
2 19 (70.37%) Windows
3 18 (66.67%) Microsoft
4 17 (62.96%) TCP/IP
5 16 (59.26%) Firewall
6 14 (51.85%) VPN
7 13 (48.15%) Active Directory
8 10 (37.04%) DNS
8 10 (37.04%) MS Excel
9 9 (33.33%) VMware
10 8 (29.63%) Cisco
11 7 (25.93%) DMZ
11 7 (25.93%) SolarWinds
11 7 (25.93%) Forefront TMG
12 6 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2010
12 6 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
12 6 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
12 6 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
12 6 (22.22%) Avaya
12 6 (22.22%) MPLS
12 6 (22.22%) BGP
12 6 (22.22%) BT
12 6 (22.22%) ISA Server
12 6 (22.22%) Siemens
12 6 (22.22%) MS Exchange
12 6 (22.22%) SQL Server
13 5 (18.52%) IIS
13 5 (18.52%) DHCP
13 5 (18.52%) MCSE
13 5 (18.52%) MCSA

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 1 (3.704%) COM
Application Platforms
1 6 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2010
1 6 (22.22%) MS Exchange
2 5 (18.52%) IIS
3 3 (11.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (3.704%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 10 (37.04%) MS Excel
2 3 (11.11%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 25 (92.59%) LAN
2 17 (62.96%) TCP/IP
3 16 (59.26%) Firewall
4 14 (51.85%) VPN
5 10 (37.04%) DNS
6 7 (25.93%) DMZ
7 6 (22.22%) MPLS
7 6 (22.22%) BGP
8 5 (18.52%) DHCP
9 3 (11.11%) Internet
9 3 (11.11%) Network Security
10 1 (3.704%) VoIP
10 1 (3.704%) Wireless
10 1 (3.704%) IP Telephony
10 1 (3.704%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (3.704%) Cisco PIX
10 1 (3.704%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
1 6 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.704%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 2 (7.407%) Telecoms
1 2 (7.407%) Legal
2 1 (3.704%) Finance
2 1 (3.704%) Law
Job Titles
1 16 (59.26%) Network Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Project Manager
2 5 (18.52%) Systems Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Network Specialist
4 2 (7.407%) Help Desk Assistant
4 2 (7.407%) IT Assistant
4 2 (7.407%) IT Project Manager
4 2 (7.407%) Analyst
4 2 (7.407%) Consultant
5 1 (3.704%) Deployment Manager
5 1 (3.704%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (3.704%) Technical Project Manager
5 1 (3.704%) Technical Support
5 1 (3.704%) Help Desk Analyst
5 1 (3.704%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (3.704%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (3.704%) Support Consultant
5 1 (3.704%) Technical Support Consultant
5 1 (3.704%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (3.704%) Infrastructure Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Blackberry
2 1 (3.704%) Thin Client
2 1 (3.704%) Fat Client
2 1 (3.704%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (70.37%) Windows
2 6 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
2 6 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (11.11%) Windows XP
4 1 (3.704%) AIX
4 1 (3.704%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (14.81%) ITIL
2 3 (11.11%) Project Management
2 3 (11.11%) Change Control
3 2 (7.407%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (7.407%) Matrix Management
3 2 (7.407%) PRINCE2
4 1 (3.704%) Migration
4 1 (3.704%) Quality Management
4 1 (3.704%) Service Delivery
4 1 (3.704%) WAN Optimisation
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) MCSE
1 5 (18.52%) MCSA
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (18.52%) MCTS
1 5 (18.52%) MCITP
2 1 (3.704%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.704%) CCNA
2 1 (3.704%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.704%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.407%) SLA
2 1 (3.704%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (48.15%) Active Directory
2 7 (25.93%) Forefront TMG
3 6 (22.22%) ISA Server
4 2 (7.407%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (3.704%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 2 (7.407%) DameWare
2 1 (3.704%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 18 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 9 (33.33%) VMware
3 8 (29.63%) Cisco
4 7 (25.93%) SolarWinds
5 6 (22.22%) Avaya
5 6 (22.22%) BT
5 6 (22.22%) Siemens
6 1 (3.704%) HP
6 1 (3.704%) Citrix
6 1 (3.704%) CheckPoint
6 1 (3.704%) Symantec
6 1 (3.704%) Alcatel-Lucent
6 1 (3.704%) ProCurve
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