The first table below looks at the demand for LAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LAN over the 3 months to 20 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 Buckinghamshire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Local Area Network (LAN)
Rank 55 53 49
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -4
Contract jobs citing LAN 13 22 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 1.627% 2.180% 2.751%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.13% 14.10% 18.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 19
Average daily rate £394 £359 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.75% -4.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £233 £303 £190
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £308 £308 £320
% change year-on-year
- -3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
Average hourly rate - - £18.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.13 £20.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-19.37% -4.76%
All Communications & Networking
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
99 156 160
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 12.39% 15.46% 15.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 38 59
Average daily rate £425 £368 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.64% +5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £241 £250 £190
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £473 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 20 18
Average hourly rate £14.96 £13.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.81% -35.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.00 £10.06 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £38.75 £90.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
LAN
South East

LAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire LAN Daily Rate Trend

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LAN across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Buckinghamshire LAN Daily Rate Histogram

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire LAN Hourly Rate Trend

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 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Milton Keynes 0 8 £475 +29.25%
High Wycombe - 2 £135 -
Beaconsfield - 1 £275 -
LAN
South East

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, 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 34 (97.14%) WAN
2 21 (60.00%) VMware
3 20 (57.14%) Windows
4 18 (51.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (37.14%) Windows Server 2008
5 13 (37.14%) Windows Server 2003
5 13 (37.14%) Firewall
6 12 (34.29%) ITIL
6 12 (34.29%) MS Exchange
6 12 (34.29%) Microsoft
7 11 (31.43%) Cisco
7 11 (31.43%) TCP/IP
7 11 (31.43%) SAN
7 11 (31.43%) Active Directory
7 11 (31.43%) Citrix
7 11 (31.43%) Exchange Server 2010
8 10 (28.57%) VoIP
8 10 (28.57%) SQL
8 10 (28.57%) Security Cleared
8 10 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2003
9 9 (25.71%) Hyper-V
9 9 (25.71%) VPN
9 9 (25.71%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (25.71%) HP
10 8 (22.86%) SQL Server
10 8 (22.86%) DV Cleared
11 7 (20.00%) CCNA
12 6 (17.14%) Wireless
12 6 (17.14%) DNS
12 6 (17.14%) DHCP

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, 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 (2.857%) CGI
Application Platforms
1 12 (34.29%) MS Exchange
2 11 (31.43%) Exchange Server 2010
3 10 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2003
4 6 (17.14%) Exchange Server 2007
5 4 (11.43%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 2 (5.714%) SharePoint
7 1 (2.857%) Lync
Applications
1 5 (14.29%) MS Excel
2 3 (8.571%) MS Office
3 1 (2.857%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 34 (97.14%) WAN
2 13 (37.14%) Firewall
3 11 (31.43%) SAN
3 11 (31.43%) TCP/IP
4 10 (28.57%) VoIP
5 9 (25.71%) VPN
6 6 (17.14%) DNS
6 6 (17.14%) DHCP
6 6 (17.14%) Wireless
7 5 (14.29%) IPsec
7 5 (14.29%) Network Security
7 5 (14.29%) WLAN
8 2 (5.714%) NAS
8 2 (5.714%) ICMP
9 1 (2.857%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (2.857%) SMTP
9 1 (2.857%) SNMP
9 1 (2.857%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (2.857%) Internet
9 1 (2.857%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.86%) SQL Server
2 5 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
2 5 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (2.857%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 5 (14.29%) Telecoms
2 1 (2.857%) Finance
2 1 (2.857%) Billing
Job Titles
1 5 (14.29%) Coordinator
1 5 (14.29%) Project Coordinator
1 5 (14.29%) Consultant
1 5 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 4 (11.43%) Integration Engineer
2 4 (11.43%) Support Engineer
3 3 (8.571%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (5.714%) Architect
4 2 (5.714%) Analyst
4 2 (5.714%) Network Consultant
4 2 (5.714%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 2 (5.714%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (5.714%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
5 1 (2.857%) IT Support
5 1 (2.857%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (2.857%) Operations Team Leader
5 1 (2.857%) Information Specialist
5 1 (2.857%) NOC Engineer
5 1 (2.857%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (2.857%) Information Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Blackberry
2 2 (5.714%) CESG
2 2 (5.714%) Cryptography
2 2 (5.714%) PKI
2 2 (5.714%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (2.857%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 20 (57.14%) Windows
2 13 (37.14%) Windows Server 2003
2 13 (37.14%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (17.14%) Windows 7
3 6 (17.14%) Windows Vista
4 5 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (5.714%) UNIX
5 2 (5.714%) Linux
5 2 (5.714%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (34.29%) ITIL
2 6 (17.14%) Information Security
3 5 (14.29%) Service Delivery
3 5 (14.29%) Load Balancing
3 5 (14.29%) Compatibility Testing
3 5 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (11.43%) Network Management
4 4 (11.43%) Integration Testing
4 4 (11.43%) Test Scripting
4 4 (11.43%) Validation
4 4 (11.43%) Configuration Management
5 2 (5.714%) Project Management
5 2 (5.714%) Service Management
5 2 (5.714%) Time Management
5 2 (5.714%) Information Assurance
5 2 (5.714%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (5.714%) Incident Management
6 1 (2.857%) SIEM
6 1 (2.857%) PRINCE2
6 1 (2.857%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 10 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 9 (25.71%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (22.86%) DV Cleared
4 7 (20.00%) CCNA
5 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
6 2 (5.714%) MCITP
6 2 (5.714%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (5.714%) MCSE
6 2 (5.714%) MCSA
6 2 (5.714%) CCNP
7 1 (2.857%) MCP
7 1 (2.857%) CCSP
7 1 (2.857%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (2.857%) CCVP
7 1 (2.857%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (2.857%) MCDST
7 1 (2.857%) MCTS
7 1 (2.857%) CISSP
7 1 (2.857%) VCP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) ISO 9001
2 3 (8.571%) SLA
3 1 (2.857%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (51.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (31.43%) Active Directory
3 9 (25.71%) Hyper-V
4 3 (8.571%) XenApp
4 3 (8.571%) XenDesktop
5 2 (5.714%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (2.857%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (8.571%) SCCM
2 2 (5.714%) OpenView
3 1 (2.857%) OVSD
Vendors
1 21 (60.00%) VMware
2 12 (34.29%) Microsoft
3 11 (31.43%) Citrix
3 11 (31.43%) Cisco
4 9 (25.71%) HP
5 5 (14.29%) Juniper
6 4 (11.43%) F5
7 3 (8.571%) Websense
8 2 (5.714%) BT
8 2 (5.714%) Oracle
9 1 (2.857%) AppSense
9 1 (2.857%) Mitel
9 1 (2.857%) 3Com
9 1 (2.857%) Dell
9 1 (2.857%) Nortel