Buckinghamshire LAN Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Local Area Network (LAN) skills within the Buckinghamshire region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited LAN over the 3 months to 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Local Area Network (LAN)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dundee Ealing East Ayrshire East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Hull Huntingdon Ilford Kent Kilmarnock Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Redcar Redditch Romford Rugby Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	34	48
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching contract IT job ads	46	38
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.075 %	0.041 %
As % of the category below	19.74 %	14.96 %
Daily rates quoted	24	3
Average minimum daily rate	£331	£330
Average daily rate	£339	£352
% change on same period last year	-3.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£347	£374
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£326
% change on same period last year	+1.37 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.00	£15.87
Average hourly rate	£13.49	£16.63
% change on same period last year	-18.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£13.99	£17.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.26	£21.27
% change on same period last year	+23.48 %
Communications & Networking Buckinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	233	254
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.378 %	0.277 %
Daily rates quoted	86	49
Average minimum daily rate	£318	£294
Average daily rate	£329	£308
% change on same period last year	+6.64 %
Average maximum daily rate	£339	£323
UK excluding London average daily rate	£344	£336
% change on same period last year	+2.28 %
Hourly rates quoted	28	70
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.16	£23.31
Average hourly rate	£22.85	£24.67
% change on same period last year	-7.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.53	£26.03
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.86	£28.32
% change on same period last year	-1.64 %
LAN South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

LAN
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing LAN across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

LAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LAN across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 4 December 2008.

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

LAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LAN across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 4 December 2008.

LAN
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 4 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Milton Keynes	+17	38	£336	-12.03 %
High Wycombe	-4	3	-	-
Aylesbury	-	1	-	-

LAN South East

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 73 (75.26 %) WAN 2 68 (70.10 %) Cisco 3 61 (62.89 %) Cisco Certification 4 58 (59.79 %) Security Cleared 5 46 (47.42 %) Firewall 6 44 (45.36 %) CCNP 7 40 (41.24 %) SC Cleared 8 33 (34.02 %) Network Design 9 28 (28.87 %) Internet 9 28 (28.87 %) Cisco PIX 10 25 (25.77 %) Intranet 11 21 (21.65 %) Intrusion Detection 12 20 (20.62 %) Government 12 20 (20.62 %) CCNA 13 17 (17.53 %) TCP/IP

14 16 (16.49 %) DV Cleared 14 16 (16.49 %) Windows 15 15 (15.46 %) SNMP 15 15 (15.46 %) Migration 15 15 (15.46 %) SSH 16 14 (14.43 %) OpenView 16 14 (14.43 %) ITIL 16 14 (14.43 %) VLAN 17 13 (13.40 %) NNM 17 13 (13.40 %) Symantec 18 12 (12.37 %) CiscoWorks 18 12 (12.37 %) Ethernet 19 10 (10.31 %) Microsoft 19 10 (10.31 %) MS Exchange 19 10 (10.31 %) Finance

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 Development 1 1 (1.031 %) COM	Application Platforms 1 10 (10.31 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (3.093 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (2.062 %) Exchange Server 5.5 3 2 (2.062 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 1 (1.031 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 2 (2.062 %) MS Office 1 2 (2.062 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.031 %) Spreadsheet 2 1 (1.031 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 73 (75.26 %) WAN 2 46 (47.42 %) Firewall 3 28 (28.87 %) Internet 3 28 (28.87 %) Cisco PIX 4 25 (25.77 %) Intranet 5 21 (21.65 %) Intrusion Detection 6 17 (17.53 %) TCP/IP 7 15 (15.46 %) SNMP 7 15 (15.46 %) SSH 8 14 (14.43 %) VLAN 9 12 (12.37 %) Ethernet 10 7 (7.216 %) Network Security 11 6 (6.186 %) Cisco ASA 12 4 (4.124 %) Wireless 12 4 (4.124 %) FDDI 13 3 (3.093 %) VPN 13 3 (3.093 %) DNS 14 2 (2.062 %) DHCP 14 2 (2.062 %) SMS 15 1 (1.031 %) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (1.031 %) SQL Server 1 1 (1.031 %) DB2 1 1 (1.031 %) SQL Server 2000	General 1 20 (20.62 %) Government 2 10 (10.31 %) Finance 3 2 (2.062 %) Back Office 3 2 (2.062 %) Telecoms 3 2 (2.062 %) Legal 3 2 (2.062 %) Manufacturing 4 1 (1.031 %) Military 4 1 (1.031 %) Local Government 4 1 (1.031 %) Pensions 4 1 (1.031 %) Education 4 1 (1.031 %) Electric
Job Titles 1 35 (36.08 %) Network Engineer 2 19 (19.59 %) Consultant 3 18 (18.56 %) Design Engineer 4 17 (17.53 %) Network Design Engineer 5 14 (14.43 %) Network Specialist 6 12 (12.37 %) Network Consultant 7 10 (10.31 %) Analyst 8 6 (6.186 %) Network Support 9 5 (5.155 %) Implementation Consultant 10 4 (4.124 %) Architect 10 4 (4.124 %) Helpdesk Analyst 10 4 (4.124 %) Support Engineer 10 4 (4.124 %) Network Analyst 11 3 (3.093 %) Cisco Consultant 11 3 (3.093 %) Support Analyst 11 3 (3.093 %) Network Designer 11 3 (3.093 %) Administrator 11 3 (3.093 %) Cisco Engineer 11 3 (3.093 %) Technical Consultant 12 2 (2.062 %) IT Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (2.062 %) Blackberry 1 2 (2.062 %) Management Information System 2 1 (1.031 %) Computer Science 2 1 (1.031 %) French Language 2 1 (1.031 %) German Language 2 1 (1.031 %) Italian Language 2 1 (1.031 %) Spanish Language 2 1 (1.031 %) CMDB 2 1 (1.031 %) Fat Client 2 1 (1.031 %) Thin Client
Operating Systems 1 16 (16.49 %) Windows 2 7 (7.216 %) Windows Server 2003 3 6 (6.186 %) Windows 2000 4 3 (3.093 %) UNIX 4 3 (3.093 %) Linux 4 3 (3.093 %) Windows Vista 5 2 (2.062 %) Windows XP 6 1 (1.031 %) OS/2 6 1 (1.031 %) Windows NT 6 1 (1.031 %) Solaris 6 1 (1.031 %) Windows Server 2008	Processes & Methodologies 1 58 (59.79 %) Security Cleared 2 40 (41.24 %) SC Cleared 3 33 (34.02 %) Network Design 4 16 (16.49 %) DV Cleared 5 15 (15.46 %) Migration 6 14 (14.43 %) ITIL 7 9 (9.278 %) ITSM 8 6 (6.186 %) Operations Management 9 2 (2.062 %) Time Management 9 2 (2.062 %) CRM 10 1 (1.031 %) ERP 10 1 (1.031 %) Configuration Management 10 1 (1.031 %) Project Management 10 1 (1.031 %) Service Management 10 1 (1.031 %) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages 1 4 (4.124 %) SQL 2 3 (3.093 %) C 3 1 (1.031 %) Clipper	Qualifications 1 61 (62.89 %) Cisco Certification 2 44 (45.36 %) CCNP 3 20 (20.62 %) CCNA 4 8 (8.247 %) CCIE 5 7 (7.216 %) CCDP 6 5 (5.155 %) Microsoft Certification 7 4 (4.124 %) MCSE 8 2 (2.062 %) MCSA 8 2 (2.062 %) MCP 8 2 (2.062 %) Degree 9 1 (1.031 %) CNE 9 1 (1.031 %) Novell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.062 %) SLA	System Software 1 7 (7.216 %) Active Directory 2 1 (1.031 %) Terminal Server 2 1 (1.031 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management 1 14 (14.43 %) OpenView 2 13 (13.40 %) NNM 3 12 (12.37 %) CiscoWorks 4 7 (7.216 %) OVOW 5 1 (1.031 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 5 1 (1.031 %) OVSD	Vendors 1 68 (70.10 %) Cisco 2 13 (13.40 %) Symantec 3 10 (10.31 %) Microsoft 4 4 (4.124 %) Citrix 4 4 (4.124 %) Remedy 5 3 (3.093 %) Sun 5 3 (3.093 %) HP 5 3 (3.093 %) Compaq 6 2 (2.062 %) Dell 6 2 (2.062 %) Oracle 6 2 (2.062 %) SAP 6 2 (2.062 %) Siebel 7 1 (1.031 %) Lotus