The first table below looks at the demand for the Network Specialist 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 Specialist 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 Specialist
Rank 200 194 237
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +43
Contract jobs requiring a Network Specialist 3 24 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.047% 0.305% 0.082%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.334% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 4
Average daily rate £425 £410 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.65% +28.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £281 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £445 £524 £384
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £400 £313
% change year-on-year
+3.12% +28.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.00 £36.50 -
% change year-on-year
-23.28% -
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 Specialist
London

Network Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Network Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Network Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Network Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Network Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Network Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

Network Specialist
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 Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) Network Design
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) WSUS
2 1 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) SCOM
2 1 (33.33%) SCVMM
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (33.33%) EqualLogic
2 1 (33.33%) Network Management
2 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 8
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (33.33%) Broadcom
2 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2013
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) CCNP
2 1 (33.33%) CCDP
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) OpenView
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) Dell
2 1 (33.33%) CiscoWorks

Network Specialist
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 Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2013
1 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) IPsec
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) VoIP
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) SMTP
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) Kerberos
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) EqualLogic
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 8
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Network Design
2 1 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Network Management
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) CCDP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) WSUS
1 1 (33.33%) SCOM
1 1 (33.33%) SCVMM
1 1 (33.33%) OpenView
1 1 (33.33%) CiscoWorks
1 1 (33.33%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Broadcom
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) Dell
2 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 1 (33.33%) Symantec
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