The first table below looks at the demand for WAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 23 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 Cambridge 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 29 36 34
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -2
Contract jobs citing WAN 10 13 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 3.049% 3.081% 1.149%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.33% 17.81% 5.263%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 2
Average daily rate £275 £298 £331
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.56% -10.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £262 £275 £326
10% offered a daily rate of more than £316 £320 £336
UK excluding London average daily rate £318 £303 £325
% change year-on-year
+4.95% -6.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 0
Average hourly rate £19.00 £12.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+58.33% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £21.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-25.58% +2.38%
All Communications & Networking
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
75 73 57
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 22.87% 17.30% 21.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 31 20
Average daily rate £298 £313 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.80% +4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £213 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £333 £375 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 22 12
Average hourly rate £37.00 £41.25 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.30% +17.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.00 £10.75 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £56.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
WAN
Cambridgeshire

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge WAN Hourly Rate Trend

WAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WAN across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Cambridge WAN Hourly Rate Histogram

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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 25 (83.33%) LAN
2 19 (63.33%) Cisco
3 18 (60.00%) VPN
4 15 (50.00%) Windows
5 9 (30.00%) VoIP
5 9 (30.00%) MPLS
6 8 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (26.67%) VLAN
7 7 (23.33%) ITIL
7 7 (23.33%) Firewall
8 6 (20.00%) DNS
8 6 (20.00%) DHCP
8 6 (20.00%) TCP/IP
8 6 (20.00%) Nagios
9 5 (16.67%) Active Directory
9 5 (16.67%) Wireless
10 4 (13.33%) BT
10 4 (13.33%) DMZ
10 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
10 4 (13.33%) Cisco Nexus
11 3 (10.00%) HSRP
11 3 (10.00%) Cisco CUCM
11 3 (10.00%) Cacti
11 3 (10.00%) WhatsUp Gold
11 3 (10.00%) Windows 7
11 3 (10.00%) PCI DSS
11 3 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (10.00%) SNMP
11 3 (10.00%) CCNP

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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 Development
1 1 (3.333%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 3 (10.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (3.333%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (3.333%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 2 (6.667%) MS Excel
1 2 (6.667%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 25 (83.33%) LAN
2 18 (60.00%) VPN
3 9 (30.00%) VoIP
3 9 (30.00%) MPLS
4 8 (26.67%) VLAN
5 7 (23.33%) Firewall
6 6 (20.00%) DNS
6 6 (20.00%) DHCP
6 6 (20.00%) TCP/IP
7 5 (16.67%) Wireless
8 4 (13.33%) DMZ
8 4 (13.33%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (10.00%) HSRP
9 3 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (10.00%) SNMP
9 3 (10.00%) OSPF
9 3 (10.00%) IPsec
10 2 (6.667%) Cisco PIX
10 2 (6.667%) Network Security
10 2 (6.667%) BIG-IP
Development Applications
1 1 (3.333%) Subversion
1 1 (3.333%) Git (software)
1 1 (3.333%) MSI
General
1 1 (3.333%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (3.333%) Finance
1 1 (3.333%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Systems Administrator
1 8 (26.67%) Administrator
2 7 (23.33%) Network Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) Support Engineer
4 2 (6.667%) Network Consultant
4 2 (6.667%) Consultant
4 2 (6.667%) Field Engineer
4 2 (6.667%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (6.667%) Architect
4 2 (6.667%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (6.667%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (6.667%) Cisco Engineer
4 2 (6.667%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (6.667%) Desktop Analyst
4 2 (6.667%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (3.333%) Desktop Technician
5 1 (3.333%) Senior Linux Administrator
5 1 (3.333%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 1 (3.333%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.667%) Blackberry
1 2 (6.667%) Video Conferencing
1 2 (6.667%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 15 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (10.00%) Windows 7
2 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (10.00%) Windows XP
3 2 (6.667%) Linux
3 2 (6.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.333%) Windows 2000
4 1 (3.333%) UNIX
4 1 (3.333%) VMS
4 1 (3.333%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (3.333%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (23.33%) ITIL
2 2 (6.667%) Project Management
2 2 (6.667%) Load Balancing
2 2 (6.667%) Incident Management
3 1 (3.333%) WAN Optimisation
3 1 (3.333%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (3.333%) E-Commerce
3 1 (3.333%) Configuration Management
3 1 (3.333%) Service Management
3 1 (3.333%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.333%) Bash shell
1 1 (3.333%) Python
1 1 (3.333%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (10.00%) CCNP
2 3 (10.00%) CCNA
3 2 (6.667%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (6.667%) RHCE
3 2 (6.667%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.333%) MCDST
4 1 (3.333%) RHCA
4 1 (3.333%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.333%) CCIE
4 1 (3.333%) MCSE
4 1 (3.333%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.333%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.333%) GAMP
2 1 (3.333%) GxP
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.333%) Postfix
2 1 (3.333%) Sendmail
2 1 (3.333%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (20.00%) Nagios
2 3 (10.00%) Cisco CUCM
2 3 (10.00%) Cacti
2 3 (10.00%) WhatsUp Gold
3 1 (3.333%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (3.333%) Puppet
3 1 (3.333%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 19 (63.33%) Cisco
2 4 (13.33%) BT
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.667%) Red Hat
3 2 (6.667%) CheckPoint
3 2 (6.667%) Polycom
3 2 (6.667%) VMware
3 2 (6.667%) Riverbed
3 2 (6.667%) F5
4 1 (3.333%) NetApp
4 1 (3.333%) HP
4 1 (3.333%) EMC
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