Cambridgeshire WAN Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Wide Area Network (WAN) skills within the Cambridgeshire 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenford Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hull Inverness Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Portsmouth Prescot Preston Prestwick Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rochester Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	38	46
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	25	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.033 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	15.06 %	7.469 %
Daily rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£300
Average daily rate	£303	£325
% change on same period last year	-6.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£307	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£320
% change on same period last year	+1.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.83	£26.86
Average hourly rate	£17.08	£28.21
% change on same period last year	-39.45 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.33	£29.57
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.24	£26.14
% change on same period last year	-18.76 %
Communications & Networking Cambridgeshire
Matching contract IT job ads	166	241
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.221 %	0.244 %
Daily rates quoted	17	24
Average minimum daily rate	£267	£270
Average daily rate	£302	£290
% change on same period last year	+4.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£337	£310
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	41	61
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.48	£31.69
Average hourly rate	£28.88	£33.58
% change on same period last year	-14.01 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.27	£35.48
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
WAN East of England

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 Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

WAN
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WAN across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

WAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WAN across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

WAN
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cambridge	+23	23	£303	-6.66 %

WAN East of England

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 42 (82.35 %) LAN 2 34 (66.67 %) Windows 3 31 (60.78 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 30 (58.82 %) Cisco 5 28 (54.90 %) Microsoft 5 28 (54.90 %) Active Directory 6 25 (49.02 %) VoIP 7 23 (45.10 %) MS Exchange 7 23 (45.10 %) Firewall 8 19 (37.25 %) MS Office 9 17 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 9 17 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 10 16 (31.37 %) ADSL 10 16 (31.37 %) Windows NT 10 16 (31.37 %) Exchange Server 2007

11 15 (29.41 %) DNS 12 13 (25.49 %) VMware 12 13 (25.49 %) Microsoft Certification 12 13 (25.49 %) MCSE 13 12 (23.53 %) HP 14 11 (21.57 %) TCP/IP 14 11 (21.57 %) Linux 15 10 (19.61 %) Telecoms 16 9 (17.65 %) MPLS 16 9 (17.65 %) ITIL 16 9 (17.65 %) Exchange Server 2000 17 8 (15.69 %) Intrusion Detection 17 8 (15.69 %) ISDN 17 8 (15.69 %) Dell 17 8 (15.69 %) OpenView

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 31 (60.78 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 23 (45.10 %) MS Exchange 3 16 (31.37 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 9 (17.65 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 4 (7.843 %) SharePoint 6 1 (1.961 %) IIS	Applications 1 19 (37.25 %) MS Office 2 6 (11.76 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 42 (82.35 %) LAN 2 25 (49.02 %) VoIP 3 23 (45.10 %) Firewall 4 16 (31.37 %) ADSL 5 15 (29.41 %) DNS 6 11 (21.57 %) TCP/IP 7 9 (17.65 %) MPLS 8 8 (15.69 %) ISDN 8 8 (15.69 %) Intrusion Detection 9 4 (7.843 %) IP Telephony 10 3 (5.882 %) EIGRP 10 3 (5.882 %) OSPF 11 2 (3.922 %) VPN 12 1 (1.961 %) DSL 12 1 (1.961 %) Cisco IPT 12 1 (1.961 %) Network Security	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (1.961 %) SQL Server
General 1 10 (19.61 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 16 (31.37 %) Support Engineer 2 15 (29.41 %) 3rd Line Support 3 14 (27.45 %) Analyst 4 12 (23.53 %) Network Engineer 5 9 (17.65 %) Network Support Engineer 5 9 (17.65 %) Network Support 5 9 (17.65 %) Helpdesk Analyst 6 4 (7.843 %) Server Engineer 6 4 (7.843 %) Support Analyst 6 4 (7.843 %) 2nd Line Support 7 3 (5.882 %) Technical Support 7 3 (5.882 %) Server Support 8 2 (3.922 %) Network Security Engineer 8 2 (3.922 %) Support Specialist 8 2 (3.922 %) Service Manager 8 2 (3.922 %) Helpdesk Support 8 2 (3.922 %) Network Manager 8 2 (3.922 %) Server Support Engineer 8 2 (3.922 %) Security Engineer 8 2 (3.922 %) Windows Server Engineer
Operating Systems 1 34 (66.67 %) Windows 2 17 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 2 17 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 3 16 (31.37 %) Windows NT 4 11 (21.57 %) Linux 5 2 (3.922 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (17.65 %) ITIL 2 1 (1.961 %) PRINCE2 2 1 (1.961 %) E-Commerce 2 1 (1.961 %) Change Management 2 1 (1.961 %) Migration 2 1 (1.961 %) Project Planning 2 1 (1.961 %) Data Migration 2 1 (1.961 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 2 (3.922 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 13 (25.49 %) MCSE 1 13 (25.49 %) Microsoft Certification 2 5 (9.804 %) CCNA 2 5 (9.804 %) Cisco Certification 3 2 (3.922 %) CCVP 3 2 (3.922 %) MCP 4 1 (1.961 %) CCNP
System Software 1 28 (54.90 %) Active Directory 2 6 (11.76 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 5 (9.804 %) VMware ESX	Systems Management 1 8 (15.69 %) OpenView 1 8 (15.69 %) DameWare
Vendors 1 30 (58.82 %) Cisco 2 28 (54.90 %) Microsoft 3 13 (25.49 %) VMware 4 12 (23.53 %) HP 5 8 (15.69 %) Dell 5 8 (15.69 %) McAfee Security 5 8 (15.69 %) 3Com 6 4 (7.843 %) Juniper 6 4 (7.843 %) Novell 7 3 (5.882 %) ProCurve 8 2 (3.922 %) Citrix 9 1 (1.961 %) Oracle