City of London Network Analyst Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Network Analyst role in IT contracts within the City of London region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Network Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Network Analyst
Location Basingstoke Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Coventry Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Hampshire Hertfordshire Horsham Ipswich Kent Leeds London Lowestoft Manchester Merseyside Milton Keynes North East North Lanarkshire North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Portsmouth Reading Sandbach Scotland Sheffield South East South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swindon UK Wakefield Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	185	171
Rank change on same period last year	-14
Matching contract IT job ads	21	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.030 %	0.022 %
As % of the category below	0.292 %	0.337 %
Daily rates quoted	11	11
Average minimum daily rate	£310	£355
Average daily rate	£319	£362
% change on same period last year	-11.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£329	£369
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£288
% change on same period last year	+10.43 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£22.50	£26.50
% change on same period last year	-15.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	£28.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.80	£32.03
% change on same period last year	-22.55 %
Job Titles City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	7198	6535
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	10.13 %	6.604 %
Daily rates quoted	3887	2676
Average minimum daily rate	£407	£444
Average daily rate	£443	£472
% change on same period last year	-6.13 %
Average maximum daily rate	£479	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	315	235
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.77	£22.97
Average hourly rate	£24.61	£24.27
% change on same period last year	+1.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.45	£25.57
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.76	£25.22
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
Network Analyst 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Network Analyst across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Network Analyst across the City of London region over the 3 months to 10 October 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 Network Analyst across the City of London region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Network Analyst in their job title 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 with Network Analyst in their job title.

1 27 (69.23 %) Firewall 2 25 (64.10 %) Cisco 3 18 (46.15 %) Cisco Certification 4 15 (38.46 %) LAN 5 14 (35.90 %) CheckPoint 6 13 (33.33 %) BGP 7 12 (30.77 %) Network Security 8 11 (28.21 %) OSPF 8 11 (28.21 %) Juniper 8 11 (28.21 %) WAN 8 11 (28.21 %) CCIE 9 10 (25.64 %) CCNP 9 10 (25.64 %) Banking 9 10 (25.64 %) NetScreen 10 8 (20.51 %) VoIP

10 8 (20.51 %) Windows 11 7 (17.95 %) Windows 2000 11 7 (17.95 %) CCNA 11 7 (17.95 %) Windows Server 2003 11 7 (17.95 %) Investment Banking 12 6 (15.38 %) VMware 12 6 (15.38 %) Finance 12 6 (15.38 %) Nokia 12 6 (15.38 %) VPN 13 4 (10.26 %) Ethernet 13 4 (10.26 %) Active Directory 13 4 (10.26 %) SQL Server 13 4 (10.26 %) MS Exchange 13 4 (10.26 %) Project Management 13 4 (10.26 %) CCSE

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Network Analyst in their job title 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 with Network Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 4 (10.26 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (2.564 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (2.564 %) IIS	Communications & Networking 1 27 (69.23 %) Firewall 2 15 (38.46 %) LAN 3 13 (33.33 %) BGP 4 12 (30.77 %) Network Security 5 11 (28.21 %) OSPF 5 11 (28.21 %) WAN 6 10 (25.64 %) NetScreen 7 8 (20.51 %) VoIP 8 6 (15.38 %) VPN 9 4 (10.26 %) Ethernet 9 4 (10.26 %) Cisco PIX 10 3 (7.692 %) Cisco IOS 10 3 (7.692 %) IP Telephony 10 3 (7.692 %) DHCP 10 3 (7.692 %) DNS 10 3 (7.692 %) SSL 10 3 (7.692 %) Internet 10 3 (7.692 %) EIGRP 11 2 (5.128 %) MPLS 11 2 (5.128 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (10.26 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 3 (7.692 %) MSI 2 1 (2.564 %) LoadRunner
General 1 10 (25.64 %) Banking 2 7 (17.95 %) Investment Banking 3 6 (15.38 %) Finance 4 3 (7.692 %) Financial Institution 4 3 (7.692 %) Telecoms 4 3 (7.692 %) Insurance 4 3 (7.692 %) Retail 5 1 (2.564 %) Billing 5 1 (2.564 %) Health	Miscellaneous 1 3 (7.692 %) Thin Client 1 3 (7.692 %) Fat Client 2 2 (5.128 %) Video Conferencing 3 1 (2.564 %) Firmware 3 1 (2.564 %) e-Health 3 1 (2.564 %) Derivative 3 1 (2.564 %) Statistics
Operating Systems 1 8 (20.51 %) Windows 2 7 (17.95 %) Windows 2000 2 7 (17.95 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (7.692 %) UNIX 3 3 (7.692 %) Windows XP 3 3 (7.692 %) VMS 4 1 (2.564 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (10.26 %) Project Management 1 4 (10.26 %) Network Design 2 3 (7.692 %) E-Commerce 3 2 (5.128 %) Problem Management 3 2 (5.128 %) ITIL 4 1 (2.564 %) PRINCE2 4 1 (2.564 %) Service Management 4 1 (2.564 %) Migration 4 1 (2.564 %) Test Scripting 4 1 (2.564 %) Electronic Trading 4 1 (2.564 %) Load Balancing
Programming Languages 1 1 (2.564 %) Java	Qualifications 1 18 (46.15 %) Cisco Certification 2 11 (28.21 %) CCIE 3 10 (25.64 %) CCNP 4 7 (17.95 %) CCNA 5 4 (10.26 %) CCSE 6 3 (7.692 %) CCSA 7 1 (2.564 %) Degree 7 1 (2.564 %) Check Point Certification 7 1 (2.564 %) CISA 7 1 (2.564 %) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (5.128 %) SLA	System Software 1 4 (10.26 %) Active Directory 2 3 (7.692 %) VMware ESX 2 3 (7.692 %) VMware Server 2 3 (7.692 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 3 (7.692 %) CiscoWorks 1 3 (7.692 %) Unicenter 1 3 (7.692 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 2 (5.128 %) OpenView 3 1 (2.564 %) BMC PATROL 3 1 (2.564 %) WSUS	Vendors 1 25 (64.10 %) Cisco 2 14 (35.90 %) CheckPoint 3 11 (28.21 %) Juniper 4 6 (15.38 %) VMware 4 6 (15.38 %) Nokia 5 3 (7.692 %) Blue Coat 5 3 (7.692 %) McAfee Security 5 3 (7.692 %) Sophos 5 3 (7.692 %) Avaya 5 3 (7.692 %) Microsoft 5 3 (7.692 %) HP 6 2 (5.128 %) CA 6 2 (5.128 %) OPNET 6 2 (5.128 %) NetScout 6 2 (5.128 %) Reuters 6 2 (5.128 %) Bloomberg 7 1 (2.564 %) Symantec 7 1 (2.564 %) Remedy 7 1 (2.564 %) Alcatel 7 1 (2.564 %) BMC