The first table below looks at the demand for the Network Consultant role 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 Network Consultant in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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
Network Consultant
Rank 200 213 234
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Network Consultant 3 5 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.047% 0.064% 0.112%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.070% 0.122%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 4
Average daily rate £439 £388 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.16% +15.67%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £369 £336 £289
10% offered a daily rate of more than £508 £421 £385
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £400 £365
% change year-on-year
- +9.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.75 £36.00 £48.00
% change year-on-year
-9.02% -25.00%
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5894 7192 8993
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.40% 91.44% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4333 5169 6545
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 186 197
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £133.00 £41.28 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Network Consultant
London

Network Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Network Consultant across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Network Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Network Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Network Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Network Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

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

City of London Network Consultant Daily Rate Histogram

Network Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Network Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Network Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Network Consultant 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 Consultant in their job title.

1 6 (85.71%) Cisco
2 5 (71.43%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (57.14%) Network Security
4 3 (42.86%) CheckPoint
4 3 (42.86%) CCSA
4 3 (42.86%) Firewall
4 3 (42.86%) LAN
4 3 (42.86%) Juniper
4 3 (42.86%) CCNA
4 3 (42.86%) WAN
5 2 (28.57%) UNIX
5 2 (28.57%) Linux
5 2 (28.57%) CCDA
5 2 (28.57%) CCIE
5 2 (28.57%) CCSP
5 2 (28.57%) MPLS
5 2 (28.57%) BGP
5 2 (28.57%) Blue Coat
5 2 (28.57%) CCSE
6 1 (14.29%) Network Design
6 1 (14.29%) Sourcefire
6 1 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (14.29%) ProxySG
6 1 (14.29%) NetScreen
6 1 (14.29%) OSPF
6 1 (14.29%) Internet
6 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
6 1 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
6 1 (14.29%) Information Security
6 1 (14.29%) Brocade

Network Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Network Consultant 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 Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Network Security
2 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) LAN
2 3 (42.86%) WAN
3 2 (28.57%) MPLS
3 2 (28.57%) BGP
4 1 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (14.29%) NetScreen
4 1 (14.29%) OSPF
4 1 (14.29%) Internet
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (14.29%) Junos
4 1 (14.29%) NetScaler
4 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
4 1 (14.29%) VPN
4 1 (14.29%) SSL
4 1 (14.29%) SAN
4 1 (14.29%) VoIP
4 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) UNIX
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) Network Design
1 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
1 1 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (14.29%) Information Security
1 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
1 1 (14.29%) Security Architecture
1 1 (14.29%) WAN Optimisation
1 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (42.86%) CCSA
2 3 (42.86%) CCNA
3 2 (28.57%) CCDA
3 2 (28.57%) CCIE
3 2 (28.57%) CCSP
3 2 (28.57%) CCSE
4 1 (14.29%) CCNP
4 1 (14.29%) CCDP
4 1 (14.29%) CISSP
4 1 (14.29%) Check Point Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Cisco
2 3 (42.86%) CheckPoint
2 3 (42.86%) Juniper
3 2 (28.57%) Blue Coat
4 1 (14.29%) Sourcefire
4 1 (14.29%) Brocade
4 1 (14.29%) Polycom
4 1 (14.29%) Riverbed
4 1 (14.29%) Aruba
4 1 (14.29%) F5
4 1 (14.29%) Sonus
4 1 (14.29%) Nortel
4 1 (14.29%) Citrix
4 1 (14.29%) Alcatel-Lucent
4 1 (14.29%) Nokia