Cheshire WAN Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Wide Area Network (WAN) skills within the Cheshire 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	54	32
Rank change on same period last year	-22
Matching contract IT job ads	16	29
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.029 %
As % of the category below	6.987 %	21.80 %
Daily rates quoted	5	9
Average minimum daily rate	£369	£281
Average daily rate	£389	£283
% change on same period last year	+37.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£409	£284
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£320
% change on same period last year	+1.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£21.67
Average hourly rate	£31.25	£23.25
% change on same period last year	+34.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.50	£24.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.24	£26.14
% change on same period last year	-18.76 %
Communications & Networking Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	229	133
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.305 %	0.135 %
Daily rates quoted	64	38
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£277
Average daily rate	£350	£283
% change on same period last year	+23.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£376	£288
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	22	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.93	£20.36
Average hourly rate	£21.94	£21.80
% change on same period last year	+0.63 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.95	£23.24
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
WAN North West

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 Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

WAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

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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 Cheshire 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
Chester	-12	4	-	-
Crewe	-	2	-	-

WAN North West

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 44 (100.00 %) LAN 2 18 (40.91 %) SAN 3 17 (38.64 %) SQL 3 17 (38.64 %) Citrix 4 16 (36.36 %) Windows 5 15 (34.09 %) IIS 6 14 (31.82 %) PRINCE2 6 14 (31.82 %) VMware 7 12 (27.27 %) Cisco Certification 7 12 (27.27 %) Active Directory 8 11 (25.00 %) Cisco 9 9 (20.45 %) Microsoft Certification 9 9 (20.45 %) Government 9 9 (20.45 %) CCNP 9 9 (20.45 %) MCSE

9 9 (20.45 %) Migration 9 9 (20.45 %) Local Government 10 8 (18.18 %) Altiris 10 8 (18.18 %) Windows Server 2003 11 7 (15.91 %) EIGRP 11 7 (15.91 %) Firewall 11 7 (15.91 %) POP3 11 7 (15.91 %) SMTP 11 7 (15.91 %) COM+ 11 7 (15.91 %) DCOM 11 7 (15.91 %) User Acceptance Testing 12 6 (13.64 %) ITIL 12 6 (13.64 %) CCNA 12 6 (13.64 %) Finance 13 4 (9.091 %) IP Telephony

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 7 (15.91 %) COM+ 1 7 (15.91 %) DCOM	Application Platforms 1 15 (34.09 %) IIS 2 3 (6.818 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 3 (6.818 %) MS Office 2 1 (2.273 %) Acrobat	Business Applications 1 1 (2.273 %) assyst
Communications & Networking 1 44 (100.00 %) LAN 2 18 (40.91 %) SAN 3 7 (15.91 %) EIGRP 3 7 (15.91 %) Firewall 3 7 (15.91 %) POP3 3 7 (15.91 %) SMTP 4 4 (9.091 %) TCP/IP 4 4 (9.091 %) IP Telephony 5 3 (6.818 %) BGP 6 2 (4.545 %) Internet 6 2 (4.545 %) OSPF 6 2 (4.545 %) VLAN 6 2 (4.545 %) SSL 6 2 (4.545 %) Broadband 6 2 (4.545 %) Ethernet 7 1 (2.273 %) ADSL	General 1 9 (20.45 %) Government 1 9 (20.45 %) Local Government 2 6 (13.64 %) Finance 3 2 (4.545 %) Education 3 2 (4.545 %) Health 3 2 (4.545 %) Banking 4 1 (2.273 %) Retail 4 1 (2.273 %) Financial Institution
Job Titles 1 11 (25.00 %) Technical Manager 2 10 (22.73 %) Project Manager 3 9 (20.45 %) Technical Project Manager 4 7 (15.91 %) Applications Packager 4 7 (15.91 %) Network Engineer 4 7 (15.91 %) Cisco Engineer 5 5 (11.36 %) Server Specialist 5 5 (11.36 %) Infrastructure Specialist 6 4 (9.091 %) Cisco Network Engineer 6 4 (9.091 %) Server Engineer 6 4 (9.091 %) Development Specialist 7 3 (6.818 %) 2nd Line Support 7 3 (6.818 %) Design Engineer 7 3 (6.818 %) Service Manager 8 2 (4.545 %) Support Engineer 8 2 (4.545 %) Technical Services Manager 9 1 (2.273 %) Network Specialist 9 1 (2.273 %) Network Support 9 1 (2.273 %) Operations Analyst 9 1 (2.273 %) Senior Infrastructure Specialist	Miscellaneous 1 2 (4.545 %) Statistics
Operating Systems 1 16 (36.36 %) Windows 2 8 (18.18 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (4.545 %) Windows NT 3 2 (4.545 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (31.82 %) PRINCE2 2 9 (20.45 %) Migration 3 7 (15.91 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 6 (13.64 %) ITIL 5 1 (2.273 %) Performance Management 5 1 (2.273 %) Incident Management 5 1 (2.273 %) Configuration Management 5 1 (2.273 %) Project Management 5 1 (2.273 %) Service Delivery
Programming Languages 1 17 (38.64 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 12 (27.27 %) Cisco Certification 2 9 (20.45 %) Microsoft Certification 2 9 (20.45 %) MCSE 2 9 (20.45 %) CCNP 3 6 (13.64 %) CCNA 4 3 (6.818 %) CCDP 5 2 (4.545 %) MCP 6 1 (2.273 %) CCA 6 1 (2.273 %) Citrix Certification 6 1 (2.273 %) CCIP 6 1 (2.273 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.545 %) SLA	System Software 1 12 (27.27 %) Active Directory 2 2 (4.545 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 3 (6.818 %) OpenView 1 3 (6.818 %) CiscoWorks	Vendors 1 17 (38.64 %) Citrix 2 14 (31.82 %) VMware 3 11 (25.00 %) Cisco 4 8 (18.18 %) Altiris 5 3 (6.818 %) HP 5 3 (6.818 %) Lotus 6 2 (4.545 %) Dell 6 2 (4.545 %) Microsoft 6 2 (4.545 %) Avaya 7 1 (2.273 %) Adobe 7 1 (2.273 %) CheckPoint 7 1 (2.273 %) Symantec 7 1 (2.273 %) Websense