The first table below looks at the demand for Ethernet skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ethernet over the 3 months to 17 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 City of London 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ethernet
Rank 194 185 230
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +45
Contract jobs citing Ethernet 7 28 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.111% 0.360% 0.163%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.832% 2.764% 1.621%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 17 12
Average daily rate £375 £400 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -15.78%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £196 £350 £400
10% offered a daily rate of more than £563 £435 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £285 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
Average hourly rate - £20.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +17.14%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £29.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+17.64% -8.46%
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
841 1013 987
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 13.36% 13.02% 10.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 559 689 644
Average daily rate £393 £413 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.84% +6.45%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £275 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 42 69
Average hourly rate £54.00 £22.00 £20.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+145.45% +6.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.30 £17.75 £13.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £41.25 £41.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
Ethernet
London

Ethernet
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Ethernet Jobs Demand Trend

Ethernet
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Ethernet across the City of London region.

City of London Ethernet Daily Rate Trend

Ethernet
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Ethernet across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London Ethernet Daily Rate Histogram

Ethernet
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Ethernet across the City of London region.

City of London Ethernet Hourly Rate Trend

Ethernet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Ethernet 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 Ethernet.

1 18 (72.00%) Cisco
2 15 (60.00%) Firewall
2 15 (60.00%) Wireless
3 14 (56.00%) LAN
3 14 (56.00%) Juniper
3 14 (56.00%) BGP
4 13 (52.00%) OSPF
4 13 (52.00%) HP
4 13 (52.00%) WAN
5 12 (48.00%) MPLS
6 10 (40.00%) Finance
7 9 (36.00%) Migration
8 8 (32.00%) Network Management
9 7 (28.00%) F5
9 7 (28.00%) Telecoms
9 7 (28.00%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (28.00%) OpenView
9 7 (28.00%) SNMP
9 7 (28.00%) Cisco Nexus
10 6 (24.00%) FortiGate
10 6 (24.00%) VoIP
10 6 (24.00%) Active Directory
10 6 (24.00%) VMware
10 6 (24.00%) IP Telephony
10 6 (24.00%) Sourcefire
10 6 (24.00%) Junos
10 6 (24.00%) Network Architecture
10 6 (24.00%) VLAN
10 6 (24.00%) Fortinet
10 6 (24.00%) VMware Infrastructure

Ethernet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Ethernet 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 Ethernet. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (4.000%) .NET
1 1 (4.000%) XML
1 1 (4.000%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 5 (20.00%) CMS
1 5 (20.00%) Lync
Applications
1 2 (8.000%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.000%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (4.000%) MS Office
2 1 (4.000%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 15 (60.00%) Firewall
1 15 (60.00%) Wireless
2 14 (56.00%) BGP
2 14 (56.00%) LAN
3 13 (52.00%) WAN
3 13 (52.00%) OSPF
4 12 (48.00%) MPLS
5 7 (28.00%) SNMP
5 7 (28.00%) Cisco Nexus
6 6 (24.00%) Junos
6 6 (24.00%) VoIP
6 6 (24.00%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (24.00%) IP Telephony
6 6 (24.00%) VLAN
7 5 (20.00%) VPN
8 4 (16.00%) DNS
8 4 (16.00%) IPv6
8 4 (16.00%) WLAN
8 4 (16.00%) TCP/IP
8 4 (16.00%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.000%) SQL Server
1 1 (4.000%) KDB
Development Applications
1 1 (4.000%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (40.00%) Finance
2 7 (28.00%) Telecoms
3 5 (20.00%) Banking
4 2 (8.000%) Investment Banking
4 2 (8.000%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 13 (52.00%) Network Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Firewall Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Analyst
3 4 (16.00%) Voice Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Senior Voice Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Service Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (8.000%) Cisco Engineer
6 1 (4.000%) Network Support
6 1 (4.000%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (4.000%) Security Engineer
6 1 (4.000%) Build Manager
6 1 (4.000%) NOC Engineer
6 1 (4.000%) Cisco Support
6 1 (4.000%) VoIP Engineer
6 1 (4.000%) Senior VoIP Engineer
6 1 (4.000%) Network Support Engineer
6 1 (4.000%) IT Support Analyst
6 1 (4.000%) Configuration Manager
6 1 (4.000%) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) PKI
1 4 (16.00%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (4.000%) Open Source
2 1 (4.000%) CMDB
2 1 (4.000%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (4.000%) Firmware
2 1 (4.000%) Blackberry
2 1 (4.000%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Windows
2 3 (12.00%) Windows XP
3 2 (8.000%) Linux
4 1 (4.000%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (4.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Migration
2 8 (32.00%) Network Management
3 6 (24.00%) Network Architecture
4 4 (16.00%) Project Planning
5 3 (12.00%) Incident Management
5 3 (12.00%) ITIL
6 2 (8.000%) E-Commerce
6 2 (8.000%) Service Management
6 2 (8.000%) ITSM
7 1 (4.000%) Load Balancing
7 1 (4.000%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (4.000%) Change Control
7 1 (4.000%) Change Management
7 1 (4.000%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (4.000%) Network Design
7 1 (4.000%) Configuration Management
7 1 (4.000%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.000%) C#
1 1 (4.000%) C++
1 1 (4.000%) Java
1 1 (4.000%) SQL
1 1 (4.000%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (20.00%) CCIE
3 4 (16.00%) JNCIE
3 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (8.000%) CCNA
5 1 (4.000%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (24.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.000%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) OpenView
2 6 (24.00%) FortiGate
3 3 (12.00%) CiscoWorks
4 1 (4.000%) Nagios
4 1 (4.000%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (72.00%) Cisco
2 14 (56.00%) Juniper
3 13 (52.00%) HP
4 7 (28.00%) F5
5 6 (24.00%) VMware
5 6 (24.00%) Sourcefire
5 6 (24.00%) Fortinet
6 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 5 (20.00%) CheckPoint
6 5 (20.00%) Verint
6 5 (20.00%) Avaya
7 4 (16.00%) Infovista
7 4 (16.00%) Polycom
7 4 (16.00%) Aruba
7 4 (16.00%) Nokia
8 3 (12.00%) Mitel
8 3 (12.00%) Nortel
9 1 (4.000%) Citrix
9 1 (4.000%) McAfee
9 1 (4.000%) Perforce
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