Cambridge WAN Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Wide Area Network (WAN) 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 WAN over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Location Aberdeen Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Cirencester City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Hertfordshire Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Romford Rugby Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	28	46
Rank change on same period last year	+18
Matching contract IT job ads	13	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	13.83 %	5.670 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£250	-
Average daily rate	£315	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£380	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£345	£318
% change on same period last year	+8.70 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.75	£12.00
Average hourly rate	£18.45	£13.50
% change on same period last year	+36.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.15	£15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.49	£22.95
% change on same period last year	+2.37 %
Communications & Networking Cambridge
Matching contract IT job ads	94	194
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.134 %	0.196 %
Daily rates quoted	11	23
Average minimum daily rate	£230	£285
Average daily rate	£256	£311
% change on same period last year	-17.54 %
Average maximum daily rate	£282	£336
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£336
% change on same period last year	+4.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	39	37
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.61	£31.77
Average hourly rate	£27.92	£34.31
% change on same period last year	-18.63 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.23	£36.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.56	£28.73
% change on same period last year	-4.06 %
WAN 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.

WAN
Demand Trend

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

WAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

WAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WAN across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 40 (81.63 %) LAN 2 30 (61.22 %) Windows 3 27 (55.10 %) Microsoft 4 24 (48.98 %) Active Directory 5 23 (46.94 %) MS Exchange 6 20 (40.82 %) Windows Server 2003 7 18 (36.73 %) Cisco 8 17 (34.69 %) Firewall 9 16 (32.65 %) Microsoft Certification 9 16 (32.65 %) DNS 9 16 (32.65 %) MCSE 10 14 (28.57 %) VoIP 11 12 (24.49 %) MS Office 11 12 (24.49 %) VMware 11 12 (24.49 %) Exchange Server 2003

11 12 (24.49 %) Exchange Server 2007 12 10 (20.41 %) Telecoms 12 10 (20.41 %) Linux 12 10 (20.41 %) ADSL 13 9 (18.37 %) MPLS 14 8 (16.33 %) DameWare 14 8 (16.33 %) MS Excel 14 8 (16.33 %) ITIL 15 7 (14.29 %) Windows 2000 15 7 (14.29 %) Cisco Certification 16 6 (12.24 %) CCNA 16 6 (12.24 %) Windows XP 17 5 (10.20 %) TCP/IP 17 5 (10.20 %) VMware Infrastructure 18 4 (8.163 %) Data Protection

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 Platforms 1 23 (46.94 %) MS Exchange 2 12 (24.49 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 12 (24.49 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 4 (8.163 %) SharePoint 4 2 (4.082 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 1 (2.041 %) IIS	Applications 1 12 (24.49 %) MS Office 2 8 (16.33 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 40 (81.63 %) LAN 2 17 (34.69 %) Firewall 3 16 (32.65 %) DNS 4 14 (28.57 %) VoIP 5 10 (20.41 %) ADSL 6 9 (18.37 %) MPLS 7 5 (10.20 %) TCP/IP 8 2 (4.082 %) Intrusion Detection 8 2 (4.082 %) VPN 8 2 (4.082 %) ISDN 8 2 (4.082 %) Intranet 9 1 (2.041 %) DHCP 9 1 (2.041 %) Ethernet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.041 %) SQL Server 1 1 (2.041 %) Oracle Reports
Development Applications 1 1 (2.041 %) ProC 1 1 (2.041 %) Oracle Forms	General 1 10 (20.41 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 19 (38.78 %) Analyst 2 15 (30.61 %) 3rd Line Support 3 10 (20.41 %) Support Engineer 4 9 (18.37 %) Helpdesk Analyst 5 7 (14.29 %) Support Analyst 6 4 (8.163 %) Server Engineer 6 4 (8.163 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 6 4 (8.163 %) Coordinator 6 4 (8.163 %) Desktop Support 7 3 (6.122 %) Server Support 7 3 (6.122 %) Network Engineer 7 3 (6.122 %) 2nd Line Support 7 3 (6.122 %) Desktop Support Analyst 7 3 (6.122 %) Network Support Engineer 7 3 (6.122 %) Network Support 7 3 (6.122 %) Desktop Analyst 8 2 (4.082 %) Windows Server Engineer 8 2 (4.082 %) Server Support Engineer 8 2 (4.082 %) Helpdesk Support 8 2 (4.082 %) Service Manager	Miscellaneous 1 4 (8.163 %) Data Protection Act 2 1 (2.041 %) Mathematics
Operating Systems 1 30 (61.22 %) Windows 2 20 (40.82 %) Windows Server 2003 3 10 (20.41 %) Linux 4 7 (14.29 %) Windows 2000 5 6 (12.24 %) Windows XP 6 3 (6.122 %) UNIX 6 3 (6.122 %) Windows NT 7 1 (2.041 %) Solaris 7 1 (2.041 %) Windows Vista 7 1 (2.041 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (16.33 %) ITIL 2 4 (8.163 %) Data Protection 3 3 (6.122 %) Change Management 4 2 (4.082 %) Configuration Management 5 1 (2.041 %) Project Management 5 1 (2.041 %) E-Commerce
Programming Languages 1 1 (2.041 %) Shell Script 1 1 (2.041 %) C 1 1 (2.041 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 16 (32.65 %) Microsoft Certification 1 16 (32.65 %) MCSE 2 7 (14.29 %) Cisco Certification 3 6 (12.24 %) CCNA 4 2 (4.082 %) Network+ Certification 4 2 (4.082 %) CCVP 4 2 (4.082 %) MCSA 4 2 (4.082 %) MCP 5 1 (2.041 %) A+ Certification 5 1 (2.041 %) CCIE 5 1 (2.041 %) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.082 %) SLA	System Software 1 24 (48.98 %) Active Directory 2 5 (10.20 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 4 (8.163 %) VMware ESX
Systems Management 1 8 (16.33 %) DameWare 2 2 (4.082 %) OpenView 2 2 (4.082 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 27 (55.10 %) Microsoft 2 18 (36.73 %) Cisco 3 12 (24.49 %) VMware 4 2 (4.082 %) 3Com 4 2 (4.082 %) Oracle 4 2 (4.082 %) HP 4 2 (4.082 %) Dell 4 2 (4.082 %) McAfee Security 5 1 (2.041 %) Citrix 5 1 (2.041 %) Sun 5 1 (2.041 %) LANDesk