WAN Contracts in Cheshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for WAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WAN 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 Cheshire 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
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 43 46 42
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -4
Contract jobs citing WAN 20 17 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 2.762% 2.128% 3.199%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.00% 10.56% 15.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 28
Average daily rate £515 £363 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+42.06% +11.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £194 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £608 £425 £352
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £303 £325
% change year-on-year
+5.37% -6.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £25.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £21.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-25.58% +2.38%
Search 1 WAN jobs in Cheshire
All Communications & Networking
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 125 161 196
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 17.27% 20.15% 20.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 83 125
Average daily rate £325 £338 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.70% +3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £188 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £528 £488 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 4
Average hourly rate £40.00 £25.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+60.00% -16.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
WAN
North West

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire WAN Daily Rate Trend

WAN
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Cheshire WAN Daily Rate Histogram

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cheshire WAN Hourly Rate Trend

WAN
Contract Locations

The table below 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 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
Warrington +4 8 £498 -
Chester -5 5 - -
Knutsford - 1 - -
WAN
North West

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 31 (79.49%) LAN
2 14 (35.90%) Project Management
3 11 (28.21%) PRINCE2
3 11 (28.21%) Windows
4 9 (23.08%) Tivoli
4 9 (23.08%) Migration
5 8 (20.51%) Microsoft
6 7 (17.95%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 7 (17.95%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 6 (15.38%) ITIL
7 6 (15.38%) MS Exchange
7 6 (15.38%) NetBackup
7 6 (15.38%) Exchange Server 2010
8 5 (12.82%) Firewall
8 5 (12.82%) Telecoms
8 5 (12.82%) Finance
8 5 (12.82%) Banking
8 5 (12.82%) EMC
9 4 (10.26%) Cisco
9 4 (10.26%) SAN
9 4 (10.26%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (10.26%) Solaris
9 4 (10.26%) UNIX
9 4 (10.26%) Oracle
9 4 (10.26%) Active Directory
9 4 (10.26%) Verint
9 4 (10.26%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (7.692%) Local Government
10 3 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2003
10 3 (7.692%) SAP Basis

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 3 (7.692%) SAP Basis
Application Platforms
1 6 (15.38%) MS Exchange
1 6 (15.38%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (7.692%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 3 (7.692%) MS Project
1 3 (7.692%) MS Visio
2 2 (5.128%) MS Excel
2 2 (5.128%) Office 365
3 1 (2.564%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 31 (79.49%) LAN
2 5 (12.82%) Firewall
3 4 (10.26%) SAN
4 3 (7.692%) TCP/IP
4 3 (7.692%) BGP
4 3 (7.692%) OSPF
5 2 (5.128%) EIGRP
5 2 (5.128%) IGRP
5 2 (5.128%) SSL
5 2 (5.128%) PBX
5 2 (5.128%) VoIP
6 1 (2.564%) VLAN
6 1 (2.564%) IPsec
6 1 (2.564%) Wireless
6 1 (2.564%) WLAN
6 1 (2.564%) SMTP
6 1 (2.564%) DHCP
6 1 (2.564%) HTTP
6 1 (2.564%) SNMP
6 1 (2.564%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.564%) SAP HANA
General
1 5 (12.82%) Telecoms
1 5 (12.82%) Finance
1 5 (12.82%) Banking
2 3 (7.692%) Local Government
3 1 (2.564%) German Language
3 1 (2.564%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 13 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 8 (20.51%) Architect
3 5 (12.82%) Storage Architect
4 4 (10.26%) Telephony Project Manager
5 3 (7.692%) PRINCE2 Project Manager
5 3 (7.692%) SAP Manager
5 3 (7.692%) Technical Manager
5 3 (7.692%) Technical Project Manager
6 2 (5.128%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.128%) Senior Manager
6 2 (5.128%) Release Manager
6 2 (5.128%) Senior Project Manager
6 2 (5.128%) Firewall Engineer
6 2 (5.128%) SAP Release Manager
6 2 (5.128%) 2nd Line Support
7 1 (2.564%) IT Infrastructure Manager
7 1 (2.564%) IT Support
7 1 (2.564%) Network Specialist
7 1 (2.564%) NetWeaver Consultant
7 1 (2.564%) SAP Basis Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.692%) Client/Server
2 2 (5.128%) IVR
3 1 (2.564%) Fat Client
3 1 (2.564%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.564%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 11 (28.21%) Windows
2 4 (10.26%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (10.26%) Solaris
2 4 (10.26%) UNIX
2 4 (10.26%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (5.128%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.90%) Project Management
2 11 (28.21%) PRINCE2
3 9 (23.08%) Migration
4 6 (15.38%) ITIL
5 3 (7.692%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (7.692%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (7.692%) CRM
5 3 (7.692%) Service Delivery
6 2 (5.128%) Change Management
6 2 (5.128%) TOGAF
6 2 (5.128%) Supplier Management
6 2 (5.128%) Network Architecture
7 1 (2.564%) Network Management
7 1 (2.564%) Infrastructure Management
7 1 (2.564%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (2.564%) Enterprise Architecture
7 1 (2.564%) Problem Management
7 1 (2.564%) Release Management
7 1 (2.564%) Network Design
7 1 (2.564%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.692%) Java
1 3 (7.692%) SQL
1 3 (7.692%) ABAP
2 1 (2.564%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (17.95%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (2.564%) Degree
2 1 (2.564%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (2.564%) JNCIA
2 1 (2.564%) CCNP
2 1 (2.564%) CCNA
2 1 (2.564%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (2.564%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.128%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.564%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.564%) XenApp
3 1 (2.564%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 9 (23.08%) Tivoli
2 7 (17.95%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 6 (15.38%) NetBackup
4 1 (2.564%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (20.51%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.82%) EMC
3 4 (10.26%) Cisco
3 4 (10.26%) Oracle
3 4 (10.26%) Verint
4 3 (7.692%) BT
4 3 (7.692%) VMware
4 3 (7.692%) SAP
5 2 (5.128%) Remedy
5 2 (5.128%) Juniper
5 2 (5.128%) HP
6 1 (2.564%) F5
6 1 (2.564%) Blue Coat
6 1 (2.564%) Nortel
6 1 (2.564%) Citrix
6 1 (2.564%) CheckPoint
2nd / 3rd Line Infra Anaylst - Cheshire - Contract
Cheshire, North West
Essential Experience - Microsoft IIS Experience - Windows Server 2003/2008 - Exchange 2003/2007 - Active Directory - Network maintenance, switches, firewalls, routers, lan and wan - Internet, Wi-fi, systems integrity/security...
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Posted: 16 May 2013
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