VLAN Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for VLAN skills 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 VLAN over the 3 months to 22 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 of the Communications & Networking category 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual LAN (VLAN)
Rank 201 188 228
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +40
Contract jobs citing VLAN 4 27 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.062% 0.338% 0.135%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.476% 2.632% 1.328%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 15 10
Average daily rate £475 £400 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.75% +3.22%
UK excluding London average daily rate £298 £325 £275
% change year-on-year
-8.46% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £20.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% +85.00%
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 841 1026 979
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 13.08% 12.86% 10.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 554 697 629
Average daily rate £391 £413 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.15% +3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £270 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 39 75
Average hourly rate £50.25 £22.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+128.40% +4.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £17.55 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
VLAN
London

VLAN
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VLAN across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

City of London VLAN Jobs Demand Trend

VLAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London VLAN Daily Rate Trend

VLAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London VLAN Hourly Rate Trend

VLAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing VLAN 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 VLAN.

1 12 (66.67%) VMware
1 12 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (61.11%) Cisco
3 9 (50.00%) Windows
3 9 (50.00%) Firewall
4 8 (44.44%) LAN
4 8 (44.44%) WAN
4 8 (44.44%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (38.89%) F5
5 7 (38.89%) Active Directory
5 7 (38.89%) HP
5 7 (38.89%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (38.89%) OSPF
5 7 (38.89%) BGP
5 7 (38.89%) Wireless
6 6 (33.33%) Finance
6 6 (33.33%) IP Telephony
6 6 (33.33%) Juniper
6 6 (33.33%) MPLS
6 6 (33.33%) TCP/IP
6 6 (33.33%) DNS
6 6 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (33.33%) DHCP
6 6 (33.33%) Ethernet
6 6 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
6 6 (33.33%) Junos
6 6 (33.33%) FortiGate
6 6 (33.33%) Network Architecture
6 6 (33.33%) Hyper-V
6 6 (33.33%) Cisco ASA

VLAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing VLAN 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 VLAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 5 (27.78%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (11.11%) MS Exchange
2 2 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (5.556%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (5.556%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.556%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) Firewall
2 8 (44.44%) LAN
2 8 (44.44%) WAN
3 7 (38.89%) OSPF
3 7 (38.89%) BGP
3 7 (38.89%) Wireless
4 6 (33.33%) IP Telephony
4 6 (33.33%) MPLS
4 6 (33.33%) TCP/IP
4 6 (33.33%) DNS
4 6 (33.33%) DHCP
4 6 (33.33%) Ethernet
4 6 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
4 6 (33.33%) Junos
4 6 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (22.22%) SNMP
6 2 (11.11%) SAN
7 1 (5.556%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (5.556%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (5.556%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (5.556%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.556%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (5.556%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Firewall Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Support Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) 3rd Line Support
3 4 (22.22%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Network Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (5.556%) Virtualisation Architect
4 1 (5.556%) Architect
4 1 (5.556%) Administrator
4 1 (5.556%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Cabling Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Project Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (5.556%) Network Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Blackberry
2 4 (22.22%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (5.556%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Windows
2 8 (44.44%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (38.89%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (16.67%) Windows 7
5 2 (11.11%) Windows XP
6 1 (5.556%) Windows Vista
6 1 (5.556%) Android
6 1 (5.556%) Windows 8
6 1 (5.556%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Network Architecture
1 6 (33.33%) Migration
2 5 (27.78%) Network Management
3 4 (22.22%) ITIL
3 4 (22.22%) Project Planning
4 1 (5.556%) Load Balancing
4 1 (5.556%) Network Load Balancing
4 1 (5.556%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (5.556%) Service Management
4 1 (5.556%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.556%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (22.22%) CCIE
2 4 (22.22%) JNCIE
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (11.11%) Degree
4 1 (5.556%) MCTS
4 1 (5.556%) MCITP
4 1 (5.556%) CCNP
4 1 (5.556%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.556%) QA
System Software
1 12 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (38.89%) Active Directory
3 6 (33.33%) Hyper-V
4 5 (27.78%) VMware ESX
5 4 (22.22%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (22.22%) vSphere
5 4 (22.22%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 4 (22.22%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) FortiGate
2 2 (11.11%) SCVMM
3 1 (5.556%) WSUS
3 1 (5.556%) SCOM
3 1 (5.556%) WhatsUp Gold
3 1 (5.556%) Backup Exec
3 1 (5.556%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) VMware
2 11 (61.11%) Cisco
3 7 (38.89%) F5
3 7 (38.89%) HP
4 6 (33.33%) Juniper
4 6 (33.33%) Fortinet
4 6 (33.33%) Sourcefire
5 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
6 4 (22.22%) Citrix
6 4 (22.22%) Aruba
6 4 (22.22%) Polycom
7 1 (5.556%) WatchGuard
7 1 (5.556%) ProCurve
7 1 (5.556%) Riverbed
7 1 (5.556%) Broadcom
7 1 (5.556%) Apple
7 1 (5.556%) Sophos
7 1 (5.556%) Blue Coat
7 1 (5.556%) Symantec
7 1 (5.556%) Dell
Implementation Engineer LAN, WAN, IOS, VLAN, CCNA, CCENT
City, London
Specifically, the Implementation Engineer must have the following essential attributes to lead implementation activities into the agreed sites: *Applied experience working on technical IT projects *Experience of IT...
Reed Technology
Rate: £250 - £400 per day + Dependant on Experience
Posted: 21 May 2013
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