City of London LAN Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Local Area Network (LAN) skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited LAN over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Local Area Network (LAN)
Location Aberdeen Ayrshire Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria 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 Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Godalming Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Prescot Reading Redditch Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Rotherham Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stockport Stourbridge Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	118	101
Rank change on same period last year	-17
Matching contract IT job ads	110	103
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.146 %	0.106 %
As % of the category below	11.40 %	12.09 %
Daily rates quoted	54	35
Average minimum daily rate	£390	£375
Average daily rate	£411	£401
% change on same period last year	+2.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£431	£428
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£315
% change on same period last year	+5.36 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.68	£21.14
Average hourly rate	£22.64	£22.43
% change on same period last year	+0.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.59	£23.71
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.77	£25.65
% change on same period last year	-22.93 %
Communications & Networking City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	965	852
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.281 %	0.874 %
Daily rates quoted	460	349
Average minimum daily rate	£378	£402
Average daily rate	£400	£423
% change on same period last year	-5.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£423	£443
UK excluding London average daily rate	£334	£343
% change on same period last year	-2.65 %
Hourly rates quoted	67	67
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.54	£20.11
Average hourly rate	£29.09	£21.29
% change on same period last year	+36.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.64	£22.48
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.96	£28.60
% change on same period last year	-9.22 %
LAN London

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.

LAN
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing LAN across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

LAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram

The 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 18 July 2008.

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

LAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

The 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 18 July 2008.

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, 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.

1 182 (76.79 %) WAN 2 113 (47.68 %) Cisco 3 83 (35.02 %) Firewall 4 81 (34.18 %) Windows 5 75 (31.65 %) Finance 6 70 (29.54 %) Cisco Certification 7 43 (18.14 %) TCP/IP 8 42 (17.72 %) Active Directory 8 42 (17.72 %) Banking 9 40 (16.88 %) CCNP 9 40 (16.88 %) Microsoft 9 40 (16.88 %) UNIX 10 37 (15.61 %) CheckPoint 11 35 (14.77 %) SAN 11 35 (14.77 %) CCIE

12 32 (13.50 %) VPN 12 32 (13.50 %) VMware 13 29 (12.24 %) DNS 14 28 (11.81 %) Linux 15 26 (10.97 %) Microsoft Certification 16 25 (10.55 %) MS Office 16 25 (10.55 %) ITIL 17 24 (10.13 %) Internet 17 24 (10.13 %) Telecoms 18 22 (9.283 %) Project Management 18 22 (9.283 %) Windows Server 2003 18 22 (9.283 %) PRINCE2 18 22 (9.283 %) SQL 18 22 (9.283 %) MS Exchange 18 22 (9.283 %) Network Security

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, 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 7 (2.954 %) XML 2 6 (2.532 %) HTML 3 4 (1.688 %) DCOM 4 3 (1.266 %) COM+ 4 3 (1.266 %) Middleware 5 2 (0.844 %) J2EE 6 1 (0.422 %) .NET 6 1 (0.422 %) CSS 6 1 (0.422 %) JSP 6 1 (0.422 %) ODBC 6 1 (0.422 %) WebSphere 6 1 (0.422 %) Software Packaging	Application Platforms 1 22 (9.283 %) MS Exchange 2 12 (5.063 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 12 (5.063 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 11 (4.641 %) Apache 4 6 (2.532 %) Tomcat 4 6 (2.532 %) IIS 4 6 (2.532 %) Lotus Notes 5 5 (2.110 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 6 3 (1.266 %) Lotus Domino 7 2 (0.844 %) SharePoint 8 1 (0.422 %) Documentum 8 1 (0.422 %) iPlanet 8 1 (0.422 %) Rendezvous 8 1 (0.422 %) WebLogic 8 1 (0.422 %) SharePoint Portal Server 8 1 (0.422 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 25 (10.55 %) MS Office 2 9 (3.797 %) MS Excel 3 3 (1.266 %) MS Visio 4 1 (0.422 %) Acrobat 4 1 (0.422 %) PageMaker 4 1 (0.422 %) Photoshop 4 1 (0.422 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 4 (1.688 %) MarketView 2 2 (0.844 %) Temenos Globus 3 1 (0.422 %) RMDS
Communications & Networking 1 182 (76.79 %) WAN 2 83 (35.02 %) Firewall 3 43 (18.14 %) TCP/IP 4 35 (14.77 %) SAN 5 32 (13.50 %) VPN 6 29 (12.24 %) DNS 7 24 (10.13 %) Internet 8 22 (9.283 %) Network Security 9 20 (8.439 %) BGP 10 17 (7.173 %) OSPF 10 17 (7.173 %) VoIP 11 15 (6.329 %) MPLS 12 13 (5.485 %) Cisco PIX 13 12 (5.063 %) WLAN 13 12 (5.063 %) Ethernet 14 10 (4.219 %) SMTP 14 10 (4.219 %) DHCP 14 10 (4.219 %) SNMP 14 10 (4.219 %) Cisco IPT 15 9 (3.797 %) IP Telephony	Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (3.797 %) MySQL 2 5 (2.110 %) SQL Server 3 3 (1.266 %) GIS 4 2 (0.844 %) SQL Server 2000 5 1 (0.422 %) Crystal Reports 5 1 (0.422 %) MS Access 5 1 (0.422 %) Datawarehouse 5 1 (0.422 %) RDBMS 5 1 (0.422 %) SQL Server 7
Development Applications 1 1 (0.422 %) Ant	General 1 75 (31.65 %) Finance 2 42 (17.72 %) Banking 3 24 (10.13 %) Telecoms 4 17 (7.173 %) Investment Banking 5 14 (5.907 %) Government 6 13 (5.485 %) Financial Institution 7 7 (2.954 %) Insurance 8 5 (2.110 %) Education 9 4 (1.688 %) Multimedia 9 4 (1.688 %) Back Office 9 4 (1.688 %) Health 10 3 (1.266 %) Front Office 10 3 (1.266 %) Billing 11 2 (0.844 %) Publishing 11 2 (0.844 %) Law 12 1 (0.422 %) Legal 12 1 (0.422 %) Police
Job Titles 1 50 (21.10 %) Network Engineer 2 42 (17.72 %) Analyst 3 27 (11.39 %) Project Manager 4 19 (8.017 %) Support Engineer 5 18 (7.595 %) Administrator 6 16 (6.751 %) Support Analyst 7 14 (5.907 %) Network Analyst 8 13 (5.485 %) Senior Network Engineer 9 11 (4.641 %) Desktop Support 10 10 (4.219 %) Architect 10 10 (4.219 %) Cisco Engineer 10 10 (4.219 %) Infrastructure Manager 11 9 (3.797 %) Technical Manager 11 9 (3.797 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 11 9 (3.797 %) Consultant 11 9 (3.797 %) Network Specialist 12 8 (3.376 %) Server Support 12 8 (3.376 %) Network Support 13 7 (2.954 %) Network Administrator 13 7 (2.954 %) Senior Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 9 (3.797 %) Clustering 1 9 (3.797 %) Video Conferencing 2 6 (2.532 %) SecurID 2 6 (2.532 %) Blackberry 3 5 (2.110 %) Spanish Language 4 4 (1.688 %) Fat Client 4 4 (1.688 %) French Language 4 4 (1.688 %) Italian Language 4 4 (1.688 %) Thin Client 5 3 (1.266 %) Asset Management 6 2 (0.844 %) CESG 6 2 (0.844 %) Equities 6 2 (0.844 %) IVR 6 2 (0.844 %) Firmware 6 2 (0.844 %) Mainframe 6 2 (0.844 %) Derivative 6 2 (0.844 %) Greek Language 7 1 (0.422 %) Management Information System 7 1 (0.422 %) Replication 7 1 (0.422 %) Fixed Income
Operating Systems 1 81 (34.18 %) Windows 2 40 (16.88 %) UNIX 3 28 (11.81 %) Linux 4 22 (9.283 %) Windows Server 2003 5 19 (8.017 %) Windows 2000 5 19 (8.017 %) Solaris 6 17 (7.173 %) Windows XP 7 7 (2.954 %) Windows NT 8 4 (1.688 %) Fedora 9 2 (0.844 %) NetWare 10 1 (0.422 %) VMS 10 1 (0.422 %) Windows Mobile	Processes & Methodologies 1 25 (10.55 %) ITIL 2 22 (9.283 %) PRINCE2 2 22 (9.283 %) Project Management 3 11 (4.641 %) Security Cleared 4 10 (4.219 %) Network Design 5 9 (3.797 %) Migration 6 8 (3.376 %) Service Management 6 8 (3.376 %) Service Delivery 7 7 (2.954 %) SC Cleared 8 5 (2.110 %) Change Management 8 5 (2.110 %) Data Security 9 4 (1.688 %) Disaster Recovery 9 4 (1.688 %) Data Migration 9 4 (1.688 %) Load Balancing 10 3 (1.266 %) Release Management 10 3 (1.266 %) DV Cleared 10 3 (1.266 %) Risk Management 10 3 (1.266 %) BCP 11 2 (0.844 %) Business Continuity 11 2 (0.844 %) Programme Management
Programming Languages 1 22 (9.283 %) SQL 2 16 (6.751 %) Perl 3 12 (5.063 %) Shell Script 4 9 (3.797 %) Java 5 8 (3.376 %) C	Qualifications 1 70 (29.54 %) Cisco Certification 2 40 (16.88 %) CCNP 3 35 (14.77 %) CCIE 4 26 (10.97 %) Microsoft Certification 5 19 (8.017 %) MCSE 6 18 (7.595 %) CCNA 7 14 (5.907 %) Degree 8 10 (4.219 %) CCSE 9 8 (3.376 %) CCSA 10 6 (2.532 %) MCSA 11 5 (2.110 %) CCDA 11 5 (2.110 %) CCDP 11 5 (2.110 %) CCIP 11 5 (2.110 %) ITIL Certification 12 4 (1.688 %) CISSP 12 4 (1.688 %) PRINCE2 Certification 13 3 (1.266 %) MBA 14 2 (0.844 %) PMP 14 2 (0.844 %) CCA 14 2 (0.844 %) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 13 (5.485 %) SLA 2 1 (0.422 %) QA 2 1 (0.422 %) DICOM 2 1 (0.422 %) JSP 440	System Software 1 42 (17.72 %) Active Directory 2 15 (6.329 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 12 (5.063 %) VMware ESX 4 4 (1.688 %) NetBackup 4 4 (1.688 %) Terminal Server 5 3 (1.266 %) Backup Exec 6 2 (0.844 %) Citrix Presentation Server 6 2 (0.844 %) ISA Server 7 1 (0.422 %) NDS 7 1 (0.422 %) VMware Server
Systems Management 1 12 (5.063 %) OpenView 2 7 (2.954 %) CiscoWorks 3 3 (1.266 %) BMC PATROL 4 2 (0.844 %) Nagios 5 1 (0.422 %) ARCserve 5 1 (0.422 %) NNM 5 1 (0.422 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 5 1 (0.422 %) Netcool	Vendors 1 113 (47.68 %) Cisco 2 40 (16.88 %) Microsoft 3 37 (15.61 %) CheckPoint 4 32 (13.50 %) VMware 5 21 (8.861 %) Nokia 5 21 (8.861 %) Citrix 6 15 (6.329 %) HP 7 13 (5.485 %) Oracle 8 11 (4.641 %) EMC 8 11 (4.641 %) Altiris 9 10 (4.219 %) Nortel 9 10 (4.219 %) Juniper 10 9 (3.797 %) Sun 11 8 (3.376 %) Remedy 12 7 (2.954 %) Red Hat 12 7 (2.954 %) Sybase 13 6 (2.532 %) Ericsson 13 6 (2.532 %) Lotus 13 6 (2.532 %) Reuters 13 6 (2.532 %) Bloomberg