The first table below looks at the demand for Internet skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Internet over the 3 months to 24 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 Cambridgeshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Internet
Rank 41 46 28
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -18
Contract jobs citing Internet 9 16 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 1.645% 2.332% 4.348%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.627% 14.81% 25.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 8
Average daily rate £225 £280 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.64% -2.60%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
-3.07% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 5
Average hourly rate £48.25 £12.56 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+284.30% -10.32%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.65 £9.97 £11.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.85 £56.50 £18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.50 £15.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year
-3.33% -16.66%
All Communications & Networking
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
118 108 90
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 21.57% 15.74% 17.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 48 31
Average daily rate £285 £320 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.93% +11.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £425 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 22 26
Average hourly rate £20.00 £41.25 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-51.51% +122.97%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £10.75 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £56.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
Internet
East of England

Internet
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Internet Jobs Demand Trend

Internet
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Internet across the Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire Internet Daily Rate Trend

Internet
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Internet Hourly Rate Trend

Internet
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Internet within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Cambridge +2 5 £225 -18.18%
Peterborough - 4 - -
Internet
East of England

Internet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing Internet 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 Internet.

1 9 (56.25%) Windows
2 8 (50.00%) Cisco
3 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
3 7 (43.75%) SNMP
3 7 (43.75%) Firewall
3 7 (43.75%) Wireless
4 6 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (37.50%) MS Exchange
4 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
4 6 (37.50%) Python
4 6 (37.50%) UNIX
4 6 (37.50%) C#
4 6 (37.50%) VLAN
4 6 (37.50%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2010
5 5 (31.25%) Lync
5 5 (31.25%) Unified Communications
5 5 (31.25%) Exinda
5 5 (31.25%) SQL Server 2008
5 5 (31.25%) Hyper-V
5 5 (31.25%) Riverbed
5 5 (31.25%) Windows 7
5 5 (31.25%) Exchange Server 2003
5 5 (31.25%) Altiris
5 5 (31.25%) Cryptography
5 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
5 5 (31.25%) ITIL
5 5 (31.25%) HP
5 5 (31.25%) Intranet

Internet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing Internet 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 Internet. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (6.250%) WCF
2 1 (6.250%) WebSphere
2 1 (6.250%) .NET Framework
2 1 (6.250%) Web Services
2 1 (6.250%) XML
2 1 (6.250%) COM
2 1 (6.250%) HTML
2 1 (6.250%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 6 (37.50%) MS Exchange
1 6 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2010
2 5 (31.25%) Lync
2 5 (31.25%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (6.250%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (6.250%) SharePoint 2013
3 1 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (6.250%) SharePoint
3 1 (6.250%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (6.250%) MS Excel
1 1 (6.250%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) SNMP
1 7 (43.75%) Firewall
1 7 (43.75%) Wireless
2 6 (37.50%) VLAN
2 6 (37.50%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (31.25%) Unified Communications
3 5 (31.25%) Intranet
4 3 (18.75%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (18.75%) OSPF
4 3 (18.75%) BGP
5 2 (12.50%) LAN
5 2 (12.50%) WAN
5 2 (12.50%) RIP
5 2 (12.50%) NetScreen
5 2 (12.50%) VRRP
5 2 (12.50%) IPsec
5 2 (12.50%) Cisco PIX
5 2 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (12.50%) HSRP
5 2 (12.50%) FWSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server 2008
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (6.250%) JIRA
General
1 3 (18.75%) Telecoms
2 2 (12.50%) Investment Banking
2 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (6.250%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Test Engineer
1 3 (18.75%) Technical Analyst
1 3 (18.75%) Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Consultant
2 2 (12.50%) Support Specialist
2 2 (12.50%) Software Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Software Test Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 2 (12.50%) Test Consultant
2 2 (12.50%) Integration Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Integration Consultant
2 2 (12.50%) Software Integration Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Test and Integration Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
3 1 (6.250%) Development Engineer
3 1 (6.250%) Performance Test Engineer
3 1 (6.250%) Network Specialist
3 1 (6.250%) Network Security Specialist
3 1 (6.250%) SharePoint Developer
3 1 (6.250%) Performance Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Cryptography
2 2 (12.50%) Device Driver
3 1 (6.250%) Digital Media
3 1 (6.250%) Fat Client
3 1 (6.250%) Streaming Media
3 1 (6.250%) Clustering
3 1 (6.250%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Windows
2 6 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
2 6 (37.50%) UNIX
2 6 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (31.25%) Windows 7
4 1 (6.250%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) ITIL
1 5 (31.25%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (25.00%) Validation
2 4 (25.00%) Migration
2 4 (25.00%) Embedded Software Development
3 3 (18.75%) System Testing
4 2 (12.50%) E-Commerce
4 2 (12.50%) Network Management
5 1 (6.250%) Software Testing
5 1 (6.250%) Requirements Analysis
5 1 (6.250%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Python
1 6 (37.50%) C#
2 5 (31.25%) Shell Script
3 1 (6.250%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) CCNA
1 3 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (12.50%) CCNP
3 1 (6.250%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.250%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.250%) QA
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (31.25%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.250%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (6.250%) SCCM
1 1 (6.250%) SCOM
1 1 (6.250%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Cisco
2 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
3 5 (31.25%) Exinda
3 5 (31.25%) Riverbed
3 5 (31.25%) Altiris
3 5 (31.25%) HP
4 3 (18.75%) CheckPoint
5 2 (12.50%) Nokia
6 1 (6.250%) F5
6 1 (6.250%) Perforce
6 1 (6.250%) VMware
6 1 (6.250%) Symantec
6 1 (6.250%) Citrix
6 1 (6.250%) Juniper