The first table below looks at the demand for LAN 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 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Local Area Network (LAN)
Rank 128 94 145
Rank change year-on-year
-34 +51
Contract jobs citing LAN 76 137 103
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 1.191% 1.742% 1.051%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.212% 13.59% 10.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 87 63
Average daily rate £393 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £214 £178 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £535 £570 £501
UK excluding London average daily rate £308 £313 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.60% -3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 17
Average hourly rate £135.00 £20.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+558.53% -41.42%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £21.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-23.80% -
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
825 1008 997
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 12.93% 12.82% 10.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 541 686 637
Average daily rate £400 £413 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.03% +3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £256 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 38 76
Average hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+98.86% +4.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £17.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
LAN
London

LAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London LAN Daily Rate Trend

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram

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

City of London LAN Daily Rate Histogram

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London LAN Hourly Rate Histogram

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

1 134 (82.21%) WAN
2 87 (53.37%) Cisco
3 64 (39.26%) Windows
4 55 (33.74%) Cisco Certification
5 50 (30.67%) Firewall
6 46 (28.22%) Finance
6 46 (28.22%) Active Directory
7 41 (25.15%) Project Management
8 34 (20.86%) Windows XP
9 33 (20.25%) Citrix
10 32 (19.63%) ITIL
10 32 (19.63%) Migration
11 31 (19.02%) Windows Server 2003
12 30 (18.40%) Cisco ASA
12 30 (18.40%) Windows Server 2008
13 29 (17.79%) Internet
13 29 (17.79%) Microsoft Certification
14 28 (17.18%) MS Exchange
14 28 (17.18%) VMware
15 27 (16.56%) Service Management
15 27 (16.56%) MCSE
15 27 (16.56%) CCNA
15 27 (16.56%) Windows 7
16 25 (15.34%) Juniper
17 23 (14.11%) SLA
17 23 (14.11%) CCNP
17 23 (14.11%) PRINCE2
17 23 (14.11%) Wireless
18 22 (13.50%) Microsoft
18 22 (13.50%) CheckPoint

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 20 (12.27%) HTML
2 4 (2.454%) .NET
2 4 (2.454%) Web Services
3 2 (1.227%) Middleware
3 2 (1.227%) XML
3 2 (1.227%) ASP.NET
3 2 (1.227%) CSS
3 2 (1.227%) SOAP
3 2 (1.227%) XHTML
3 2 (1.227%) Ajax
3 2 (1.227%) jQuery
3 2 (1.227%) K2 blackpearl
3 2 (1.227%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (0.613%) HTML5
4 1 (0.613%) CSS3
4 1 (0.613%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 28 (17.18%) MS Exchange
2 22 (13.50%) Exchange Server 2007
3 8 (4.908%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 8 (4.908%) Lync
4 7 (4.294%) Exchange Server 2003
5 6 (3.681%) SharePoint
6 5 (3.067%) Exchange Server 2010
6 5 (3.067%) CMS
7 3 (1.840%) IIS
8 2 (1.227%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (1.227%) Apache
8 2 (1.227%) SharePoint 2010
8 2 (1.227%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.613%) MSMQ
9 1 (0.613%) Lotus Notes
9 1 (0.613%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 21 (12.88%) MS Office
2 12 (7.362%) MS Excel
3 7 (4.294%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.840%) MS Project
5 2 (1.227%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.613%) Office 365
6 1 (0.613%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.227%) RMDS
1 2 (1.227%) ION MarketView
2 1 (0.613%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 134 (82.21%) WAN
2 50 (30.67%) Firewall
3 30 (18.40%) Cisco ASA
4 29 (17.79%) Internet
5 23 (14.11%) Wireless
6 21 (12.88%) MPLS
6 21 (12.88%) VoIP
7 20 (12.27%) TCP/IP
8 18 (11.04%) SAN
9 17 (10.43%) Intranet
10 16 (9.816%) OSPF
10 16 (9.816%) DNS
11 15 (9.202%) VPN
11 15 (9.202%) Ethernet
11 15 (9.202%) BGP
12 14 (8.589%) Network Security
13 10 (6.135%) WLAN
14 9 (5.521%) VLAN
14 9 (5.521%) Cisco Nexus
14 9 (5.521%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.067%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.613%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (0.613%) MS Access
2 1 (0.613%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.227%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (0.613%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 46 (28.22%) Finance
2 19 (11.66%) Banking
3 16 (9.816%) Telecoms
4 11 (6.748%) Law
5 9 (5.521%) Legal
6 7 (4.294%) Back Office
7 6 (3.681%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.454%) French Language
9 2 (1.227%) Multimedia
9 2 (1.227%) Retail
9 2 (1.227%) Front Office
9 2 (1.227%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.227%) Advertising
9 2 (1.227%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.613%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 37 (22.70%) Network Engineer
2 17 (10.43%) Analyst
3 14 (8.589%) Architect
3 14 (8.589%) Project Manager
4 13 (7.975%) Administrator
5 11 (6.748%) Systems Administrator
6 9 (5.521%) Support Engineer
6 9 (5.521%) Technical Manager
7 8 (4.908%) Infrastructure Manager
7 8 (4.908%) 2nd Line Support
7 8 (4.908%) Consultant
8 7 (4.294%) Technical Delivery Manager
8 7 (4.294%) Voice Engineer
8 7 (4.294%) Infrastructure Project Manager
8 7 (4.294%) Service Analyst
8 7 (4.294%) Delivery Manager
8 7 (4.294%) Infrastructure Architect
8 7 (4.294%) Service Desk Analyst
9 6 (3.681%) 3rd Line Support
9 6 (3.681%) Firewall Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.88%) Blackberry
2 12 (7.362%) Video Conferencing
3 8 (4.908%) PKI
4 4 (2.454%) Handset
4 4 (2.454%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.454%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (1.840%) Fat Client
5 3 (1.840%) Smartphone
5 3 (1.840%) Thin Client
6 2 (1.227%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.227%) Clustering
6 2 (1.227%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.227%) Replication
6 2 (1.227%) IVR
6 2 (1.227%) CCTV
6 2 (1.227%) Computer Science
6 2 (1.227%) iPad
6 2 (1.227%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.613%) iSeries
7 1 (0.613%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 64 (39.26%) Windows
2 34 (20.86%) Windows XP
3 31 (19.02%) Windows Server 2003
4 30 (18.40%) Windows Server 2008
5 27 (16.56%) Windows 7
6 12 (7.362%) Linux
7 9 (5.521%) UNIX
8 5 (3.067%) Windows Vista
9 4 (2.454%) Windows 2000
9 4 (2.454%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (1.840%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.613%) Android
11 1 (0.613%) NetWare
11 1 (0.613%) VMS
11 1 (0.613%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (25.15%) Project Management
2 32 (19.63%) ITIL
2 32 (19.63%) Migration
3 27 (16.56%) Service Management
4 23 (14.11%) PRINCE2
5 18 (11.04%) Business Analysis
6 13 (7.975%) Network Management
7 12 (7.362%) Service Delivery
7 12 (7.362%) Load Balancing
8 9 (5.521%) Change Management
9 8 (4.908%) Incident Management
10 7 (4.294%) Information Security
11 6 (3.681%) Network Design
11 6 (3.681%) Disaster Recovery
11 6 (3.681%) GAP Analysis
11 6 (3.681%) Performance Management
12 5 (3.067%) Network Architecture
12 5 (3.067%) Change Control
12 5 (3.067%) Enterprise Architecture
12 5 (3.067%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (5.521%) SQL
2 5 (3.067%) JavaScript
3 4 (2.454%) C
4 2 (1.227%) Shell Script
4 2 (1.227%) C#
4 2 (1.227%) C++
4 2 (1.227%) Java
4 2 (1.227%) PHP
4 2 (1.227%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.613%) VBA
Qualifications
1 55 (33.74%) Cisco Certification
2 29 (17.79%) Microsoft Certification
3 27 (16.56%) MCSE
3 27 (16.56%) CCNA
4 23 (14.11%) CCNP
5 17 (10.43%) CCIE
6 9 (5.521%) Security Cleared
7 8 (4.908%) Degree
8 7 (4.294%) CCDP
9 6 (3.681%) MCP
9 6 (3.681%) JNCIE
10 5 (3.067%) CCSA
10 5 (3.067%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 4 (2.454%) CISSP
12 3 (1.840%) SC Cleared
12 3 (1.840%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (1.227%) PMP
13 2 (1.227%) PMI Certification
13 2 (1.227%) CCDA
13 2 (1.227%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (14.11%) SLA
2 5 (3.067%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.454%) QA
4 3 (1.840%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.613%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 46 (28.22%) Active Directory
2 22 (13.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.454%) ProxySG
3 4 (2.454%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 4 (2.454%) UAG
3 4 (2.454%) Forefront TMG
4 3 (1.840%) XenApp
4 3 (1.840%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.840%) Terminal Services
5 2 (1.227%) vSphere
5 2 (1.227%) XenDesktop
5 2 (1.227%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.613%) VMware ESX
6 1 (0.613%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.613%) NDS
6 1 (0.613%) ISA Server
6 1 (0.613%) MetaFrame
Systems Management
1 7 (4.294%) SCCM
2 5 (3.067%) FortiGate
2 5 (3.067%) OpenView
3 4 (2.454%) WSUS
4 2 (1.227%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.613%) WhatsUp Gold
5 1 (0.613%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (0.613%) Cisco UCCX
5 1 (0.613%) SCOM
5 1 (0.613%) Backup Exec
5 1 (0.613%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.613%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 87 (53.37%) Cisco
2 33 (20.25%) Citrix
3 28 (17.18%) VMware
4 25 (15.34%) Juniper
5 22 (13.50%) Microsoft
5 22 (13.50%) CheckPoint
6 17 (10.43%) Avaya
7 16 (9.816%) HP
8 10 (6.135%) F5
9 9 (5.521%) Sourcefire
10 6 (3.681%) Oracle
10 6 (3.681%) Blue Coat
10 6 (3.681%) Aruba
10 6 (3.681%) Riverbed
11 5 (3.067%) Verint
11 5 (3.067%) Fortinet
12 4 (2.454%) Symantec
12 4 (2.454%) Infovista
12 4 (2.454%) Reuters
12 4 (2.454%) Bloomberg
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