The first table below looks at the demand for LAN 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 LAN 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
Local Area Network (LAN)
Rank 32 46 49
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +3
Contract jobs citing LAN 18 16 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 3.291% 2.332% 0.378%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.25% 14.81% 2.222%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 1
Average daily rate £264 £320 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.57% -5.18%
UK excluding London average daily rate £308 £313 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.60% -3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 0
Average hourly rate £19.50 £12.15 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+60.49% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £21.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-23.80% -
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%
LAN
East of England

LAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire LAN Daily Rate Trend

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire LAN Hourly Rate Trend

LAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LAN across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cambridgeshire LAN Hourly Rate Histogram

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 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 +11 9 £270 -9.24%
Peterborough +3 3 - -
LAN
East of England

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 37 (92.50%) WAN
2 25 (62.50%) Cisco
3 23 (57.50%) Windows
4 21 (52.50%) VPN
5 14 (35.00%) VoIP
6 12 (30.00%) VLAN
7 11 (27.50%) Firewall
7 11 (27.50%) Microsoft
8 8 (20.00%) TCP/IP
8 8 (20.00%) DNS
8 8 (20.00%) Active Directory
8 8 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (20.00%) DHCP
8 8 (20.00%) Wireless
9 7 (17.50%) Nagios
9 7 (17.50%) ITIL
10 6 (15.00%) MS Excel
10 6 (15.00%) MPLS
10 6 (15.00%) OSPF
11 5 (12.50%) DMZ
11 5 (12.50%) SNMP
11 5 (12.50%) IPsec
11 5 (12.50%) PCI DSS
11 5 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (12.50%) Cacti
11 5 (12.50%) WhatsUp Gold
11 5 (12.50%) Windows 7
11 5 (12.50%) Cisco CUCM
11 5 (12.50%) HSRP
12 4 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 (2.500%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 4 (10.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (5.000%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (5.000%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (5.000%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (2.500%) Lync
Applications
1 6 (15.00%) MS Excel
2 4 (10.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 37 (92.50%) WAN
2 21 (52.50%) VPN
3 14 (35.00%) VoIP
4 12 (30.00%) VLAN
5 11 (27.50%) Firewall
6 8 (20.00%) TCP/IP
6 8 (20.00%) DNS
6 8 (20.00%) DHCP
6 8 (20.00%) Wireless
7 6 (15.00%) MPLS
7 6 (15.00%) OSPF
8 5 (12.50%) DMZ
8 5 (12.50%) SNMP
8 5 (12.50%) IPsec
8 5 (12.50%) HSRP
9 4 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (7.500%) Network Security
11 2 (5.000%) Cisco PIX
11 2 (5.000%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (5.000%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.500%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.500%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (2.500%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (5.000%) MSI
General
1 1 (2.500%) Telecoms
1 1 (2.500%) Finance
1 1 (2.500%) Publishing
1 1 (2.500%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (20.00%) Network Engineer
1 8 (20.00%) Analyst
2 6 (15.00%) Systems Administrator
2 6 (15.00%) Administrator
3 5 (12.50%) Desktop Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 3 (7.500%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.000%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (5.000%) Desktop Support Analyst
6 2 (5.000%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (5.000%) Field Engineer
6 2 (5.000%) 2nd Line Support
6 2 (5.000%) Desktop Support
6 2 (5.000%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (5.000%) Support Analyst
7 1 (2.500%) Coordinator
7 1 (2.500%) Architect
7 1 (2.500%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 1 (2.500%) Service Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.000%) iPad
1 2 (5.000%) Blackberry
2 1 (2.500%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 23 (57.50%) Windows
2 5 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (12.50%) Windows 7
3 4 (10.00%) Windows XP
4 2 (5.000%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (2.500%) Linux
5 1 (2.500%) Windows 2000
5 1 (2.500%) UNIX
5 1 (2.500%) Windows Vista
5 1 (2.500%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (17.50%) ITIL
2 2 (5.000%) Load Balancing
2 2 (5.000%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (5.000%) Project Management
3 1 (2.500%) Configuration Management
3 1 (2.500%) Service Management
3 1 (2.500%) CRM
3 1 (2.500%) E-Commerce
3 1 (2.500%) Migration
3 1 (2.500%) Technical Architecture
Qualifications
1 8 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (10.00%) CCNA
3 3 (7.500%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (5.000%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.000%) CCNP
4 2 (5.000%) MCP
4 2 (5.000%) MCSE
5 1 (2.500%) RHCE
5 1 (2.500%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.500%) CCSA
5 1 (2.500%) MCDST
5 1 (2.500%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.500%) SLA
2 1 (2.500%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.500%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (17.50%) Nagios
2 5 (12.50%) Cacti
2 5 (12.50%) WhatsUp Gold
2 5 (12.50%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (2.500%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (62.50%) Cisco
2 11 (27.50%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.00%) BT
3 4 (10.00%) CheckPoint
4 3 (7.500%) F5
5 2 (5.000%) VMware
5 2 (5.000%) HP
5 2 (5.000%) Juniper
6 1 (2.500%) NetApp
6 1 (2.500%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.500%) Siebel
6 1 (2.500%) EMC
6 1 (2.500%) Citrix
6 1 (2.500%) Altiris
6 1 (2.500%) Riverbed
6 1 (2.500%) Twitter
6 1 (2.500%) Exinda
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