Cambridge LAN Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Local Area Network (LAN) skills within the Cambridge 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 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Local Area Network (LAN)
Location Aberdeen Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Reading Redditch Reigate Renfrewshire Rotherham Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stourbridge Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	23	54
Rank change on same period last year	+31
Matching contract IT job ads	21	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.028 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	18.58 %	2.703 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£180	-
Average daily rate	£180	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£180	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£343	£313
% change on same period last year	+9.69 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.50	£15.00
Average hourly rate	£18.14	£15.00
% change on same period last year	+20.90 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.77	£15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.19	£24.71
% change on same period last year	-18.29 %
Communications & Networking Cambridge
Matching contract IT job ads	113	185
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.151 %	0.185 %
Daily rates quoted	13	15
Average minimum daily rate	£207	£290
Average daily rate	£232	£298
% change on same period last year	-22.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£256	£306
UK excluding London average daily rate	£343	£343
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	33	36
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.16	£31.23
Average hourly rate	£27.51	£33.82
% change on same period last year	-18.64 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.86	£36.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.58	£28.76
% change on same period last year	-11.03 %
LAN Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

LAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LAN across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 46 (95.83 %) WAN 2 38 (79.17 %) Windows 3 26 (54.17 %) MS Exchange 4 23 (47.92 %) Cisco 4 23 (47.92 %) Windows Server 2003 5 22 (45.83 %) Microsoft 6 21 (43.75 %) Firewall 7 19 (39.58 %) VoIP 7 19 (39.58 %) Active Directory 8 17 (35.42 %) Microsoft Certification 8 17 (35.42 %) MCSE 9 16 (33.33 %) DNS 10 15 (31.25 %) Exchange Server 2003 11 14 (29.17 %) Windows 2000 12 12 (25.00 %) Exchange Server 2007

12 12 (25.00 %) VMware 13 10 (20.83 %) Telecoms 13 10 (20.83 %) Linux 14 9 (18.75 %) TCP/IP 15 8 (16.67 %) MS Excel 15 8 (16.67 %) MS Office 15 8 (16.67 %) ITIL 15 8 (16.67 %) MPLS 16 7 (14.58 %) HP 17 6 (12.50 %) CCNA 17 6 (12.50 %) Cisco Certification 17 6 (12.50 %) Windows NT 17 6 (12.50 %) Windows XP 18 5 (10.42 %) Intrusion Detection 18 5 (10.42 %) Exchange Server 2000

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 Platforms 1 26 (54.17 %) MS Exchange 2 15 (31.25 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 12 (25.00 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 5 (10.42 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 4 (8.333 %) SharePoint 6 1 (2.083 %) IIS	Applications 1 8 (16.67 %) MS Office 1 8 (16.67 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 46 (95.83 %) WAN 2 21 (43.75 %) Firewall 3 19 (39.58 %) VoIP 4 16 (33.33 %) DNS 5 9 (18.75 %) TCP/IP 6 8 (16.67 %) MPLS 7 5 (10.42 %) Intrusion Detection 7 5 (10.42 %) ADSL 7 5 (10.42 %) ISDN 8 2 (4.167 %) VPN 8 2 (4.167 %) Intranet 8 2 (4.167 %) OSPF 8 2 (4.167 %) EIGRP 8 2 (4.167 %) IP Telephony 9 1 (2.083 %) Network Security 9 1 (2.083 %) DHCP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.083 %) SQL Server 1 1 (2.083 %) Oracle Reports
Development Applications 1 1 (2.083 %) Oracle Forms 1 1 (2.083 %) ProC	General 1 10 (20.83 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 15 (31.25 %) 3rd Line Support 2 13 (27.08 %) Support Engineer 2 13 (27.08 %) Analyst 3 8 (16.67 %) Network Engineer 4 7 (14.58 %) Support Analyst 5 6 (12.50 %) Network Support Engineer 5 6 (12.50 %) Network Support 6 4 (8.333 %) Server Engineer 6 4 (8.333 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 6 4 (8.333 %) Coordinator 6 4 (8.333 %) Desktop Support 6 4 (8.333 %) 2nd Line Support 7 3 (6.250 %) Desktop Support Analyst 7 3 (6.250 %) Technical Support 7 3 (6.250 %) Server Support 7 3 (6.250 %) Desktop Analyst 8 2 (4.167 %) Security Engineer 8 2 (4.167 %) Windows Server Engineer 8 2 (4.167 %) 3rd Line Support Analyst 8 2 (4.167 %) Implementation Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 4 (8.333 %) Data Protection Act 2 1 (2.083 %) Mathematics
Operating Systems 1 38 (79.17 %) Windows 2 23 (47.92 %) Windows Server 2003 3 14 (29.17 %) Windows 2000 4 10 (20.83 %) Linux 5 6 (12.50 %) Windows NT 5 6 (12.50 %) Windows XP 6 3 (6.250 %) UNIX 7 1 (2.083 %) Solaris 7 1 (2.083 %) Windows Vista 7 1 (2.083 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (16.67 %) ITIL 2 4 (8.333 %) Data Protection 3 3 (6.250 %) Change Management 4 2 (4.167 %) Configuration Management 5 1 (2.083 %) Project Management 5 1 (2.083 %) E-Commerce
Programming Languages 1 2 (4.167 %) SQL 2 1 (2.083 %) Shell Script 2 1 (2.083 %) C	Qualifications 1 17 (35.42 %) MCSE 1 17 (35.42 %) Microsoft Certification 2 6 (12.50 %) CCNA 2 6 (12.50 %) Cisco Certification 3 3 (6.250 %) MCP 4 2 (4.167 %) MCSA 4 2 (4.167 %) Network+ Certification 4 2 (4.167 %) CCVP 5 1 (2.083 %) A+ Certification 5 1 (2.083 %) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.167 %) SLA	System Software 1 19 (39.58 %) Active Directory 2 5 (10.42 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 4 (8.333 %) VMware ESX
Systems Management 1 5 (10.42 %) OpenView 2 2 (4.167 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 23 (47.92 %) Cisco 2 22 (45.83 %) Microsoft 3 12 (25.00 %) VMware 4 7 (14.58 %) HP 5 5 (10.42 %) Dell 5 5 (10.42 %) McAfee Security 5 5 (10.42 %) 3Com 6 2 (4.167 %) Citrix 6 2 (4.167 %) Juniper 6 2 (4.167 %) Novell 6 2 (4.167 %) Oracle 6 2 (4.167 %) ProCurve 7 1 (2.083 %) LANDesk 7 1 (2.083 %) Sun