City of London Network Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Network Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Network Engineer
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Bracknell Brentwood Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Cobham Colchester Coleraine County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England Edinburgh Ely Enfield England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Rugby Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southwark Stafford Staffordshire Stourbridge Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Witham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	140	85
Rank change on same period last year	-55
Matching contract IT job ads	47	104
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.076 %	0.114 %
As % of the category below	0.855 %	1.837 %
Daily rates quoted	23	26
Average minimum daily rate	£373	£376
Average daily rate	£384	£386
% change on same period last year	-0.57 %
Average maximum daily rate	£395	£397
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£308
% change on same period last year	+7.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.50	£30.62
Average hourly rate	£27.50	£32.29
% change on same period last year	-14.83 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.50	£33.96
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.75	£25.83
% change on same period last year	+3.53 %
Job Titles City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	5500	5660
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	8.925 %	6.178 %
Daily rates quoted	2840	2351
Average minimum daily rate	£397	£449
Average daily rate	£431	£474
% change on same period last year	-9.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£465	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	242	234
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.73	£22.84
Average hourly rate	£24.61	£24.02
% change on same period last year	+2.44 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.49	£25.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.15	£23.97
% change on same period last year	-3.43 %
Network Engineer 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 Engineer 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 Engineer 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 Engineer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 4 December 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 Engineer across the City of London region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Network Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 87 (68.50 %) Cisco 2 73 (57.48 %) Firewall 3 70 (55.12 %) Cisco Certification 4 45 (35.43 %) OSPF 5 44 (34.65 %) WAN 6 43 (33.86 %) Banking 7 38 (29.92 %) CCNP 7 38 (29.92 %) BGP 8 37 (29.13 %) Finance 9 36 (28.35 %) LAN 10 27 (21.26 %) CCIE 10 27 (21.26 %) Investment Banking 11 26 (20.47 %) VPN 12 25 (19.69 %) CheckPoint 13 23 (18.11 %) CCNA

14 19 (14.96 %) NetScreen 14 19 (14.96 %) MPLS 15 18 (14.17 %) Nokia 16 17 (13.39 %) Juniper 16 17 (13.39 %) Network Security 17 13 (10.24 %) Cisco PIX 17 13 (10.24 %) Cisco ASA 18 12 (9.449 %) DNS 18 12 (9.449 %) RIP 18 12 (9.449 %) Windows 18 12 (9.449 %) Linux 19 11 (8.661 %) Ethernet 20 10 (7.874 %) TCP/IP 20 10 (7.874 %) UNIX 20 10 (7.874 %) VoIP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Network Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (0.787 %) HTML 1 1 (0.787 %) CSS 1 1 (0.787 %) EDI	Application Platforms 1 3 (2.362 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (0.787 %) GroupWise 2 1 (0.787 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 2 (1.575 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 73 (57.48 %) Firewall 2 45 (35.43 %) OSPF 3 44 (34.65 %) WAN 4 38 (29.92 %) BGP 5 36 (28.35 %) LAN 6 26 (20.47 %) VPN 7 19 (14.96 %) MPLS 7 19 (14.96 %) NetScreen 8 17 (13.39 %) Network Security 9 13 (10.24 %) Cisco ASA 9 13 (10.24 %) Cisco PIX 10 12 (9.449 %) DNS 10 12 (9.449 %) RIP 11 11 (8.661 %) Ethernet 12 10 (7.874 %) VoIP 12 10 (7.874 %) TCP/IP 13 9 (7.087 %) BIG-IP 14 8 (6.299 %) EIGRP 14 8 (6.299 %) Internet 15 7 (5.512 %) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (1.575 %) SQL Server	General 1 43 (33.86 %) Banking 2 37 (29.13 %) Finance 3 27 (21.26 %) Investment Banking 4 5 (3.937 %) Telecoms 5 4 (3.150 %) Financial Institution 6 2 (1.575 %) Legal 6 2 (1.575 %) Government 7 1 (0.787 %) Health 7 1 (0.787 %) Law 7 1 (0.787 %) Back Office 7 1 (0.787 %) Online Gambling 7 1 (0.787 %) Retail 7 1 (0.787 %) Billing
Miscellaneous 1 7 (5.512 %) Equities 2 3 (2.362 %) Mainframe 3 1 (0.787 %) SecurID 3 1 (0.787 %) Russian Language 3 1 (0.787 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 3 1 (0.787 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 12 (9.449 %) Windows 1 12 (9.449 %) Linux 2 10 (7.874 %) UNIX 3 7 (5.512 %) Windows Server 2003 4 4 (3.150 %) Solaris 5 3 (2.362 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 3 (2.362 %) Windows XP 6 2 (1.575 %) Windows 2000 7 1 (0.787 %) NetWare 7 1 (0.787 %) Red Hat Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (7.874 %) Network Design 2 7 (5.512 %) Migration 3 6 (4.724 %) Problem Management 4 5 (3.937 %) ITIL 4 5 (3.937 %) E-Commerce 5 4 (3.150 %) B2B 5 4 (3.150 %) Change Management 5 4 (3.150 %) Incident Management 5 4 (3.150 %) Security Cleared 6 3 (2.362 %) SC Cleared 6 3 (2.362 %) Disaster Recovery 7 2 (1.575 %) Business Continuity 7 2 (1.575 %) Service Delivery 7 2 (1.575 %) Load Balancing 8 1 (0.787 %) Network Planning 8 1 (0.787 %) Penetration Testing 8 1 (0.787 %) Performance Testing 8 1 (0.787 %) Asset Management 8 1 (0.787 %) Configuration Management	Programming Languages 1 8 (6.299 %) Perl 2 1 (0.787 %) SQL 2 1 (0.787 %) Shell Script
Qualifications 1 70 (55.12 %) Cisco Certification 2 38 (29.92 %) CCNP 3 27 (21.26 %) CCIE 4 23 (18.11 %) CCNA 5 6 (4.724 %) CCDP 5 6 (4.724 %) CCSE 6 4 (3.150 %) CCSA 7 3 (2.362 %) CISSP 8 2 (1.575 %) CCDA 8 2 (1.575 %) CCIP 8 2 (1.575 %) CCVP 8 2 (1.575 %) CNE 8 2 (1.575 %) Novell Certification 9 1 (0.787 %) Check Point Certification 9 1 (0.787 %) Microsoft Certification 9 1 (0.787 %) MCSE 9 1 (0.787 %) CCSP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (2.362 %) QA 2 1 (0.787 %) SLA
System Software 1 3 (2.362 %) Active Directory 2 1 (0.787 %) Backup Exec	Systems Management 1 4 (3.150 %) CiscoWorks 2 2 (1.575 %) Tivoli 3 1 (0.787 %) ZENworks 3 1 (0.787 %) NNM 3 1 (0.787 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 87 (68.50 %) Cisco 2 25 (19.69 %) CheckPoint 3 18 (14.17 %) Nokia 4 17 (13.39 %) Juniper 5 6 (4.724 %) Nortel 6 4 (3.150 %) Microsoft 6 4 (3.150 %) Mitel 6 4 (3.150 %) Blue Coat 7 3 (2.362 %) IBM 7 3 (2.362 %) Citrix 7 3 (2.362 %) Novell 8 2 (1.575 %) HP 8 2 (1.575 %) Oracle 8 2 (1.575 %) Sybase 8 2 (1.575 %) SAP 8 2 (1.575 %) Siebel 8 2 (1.575 %) Websense 8 2 (1.575 %) BT 8 2 (1.575 %) McAfee Security 9 1 (0.787 %) Sophos