The first table below looks at the demand for Wireless 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 Wireless over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wireless
Rank 181 191 228
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +37
Contract jobs citing Wireless 29 21 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.428% 0.271% 0.230%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.444% 2.239% 2.197%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 12 16
Average daily rate £338 £315 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -18.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £138 £193 £295
10% offered a daily rate of more than £481 £479 £750
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £315 £310
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +1.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 6
Average hourly rate £23.75 - £17.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £24.38 £26.25
% change year-on-year
+33.33% -7.14%
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
842 938 1047
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 12.42% 12.12% 10.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 552 633 671
Average daily rate £375 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 29 86
Average hourly rate £25.00 £23.50 £21.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.38% +10.58%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £18.10 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £103.80 £41.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
Wireless
London

Wireless
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Wireless Jobs Demand Trend

Wireless
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Wireless Daily Rate Trend

Wireless
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Wireless across the City of London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

City of London Wireless Daily Rate Histogram

Wireless
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Wireless Hourly Rate Trend

Wireless
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Wireless 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 Wireless.

1 39 (63.93%) Cisco
2 30 (49.18%) LAN
3 26 (42.62%) Firewall
4 25 (40.98%) WAN
5 21 (34.43%) OSPF
5 21 (34.43%) Cisco Certification
6 20 (32.79%) VPN
7 19 (31.15%) MPLS
8 18 (29.51%) Juniper
9 15 (24.59%) Ethernet
9 15 (24.59%) Finance
9 15 (24.59%) Cisco ASA
10 14 (22.95%) BGP
10 14 (22.95%) HP
11 13 (21.31%) Active Directory
12 12 (19.67%) Windows
12 12 (19.67%) VMware
13 11 (18.03%) Migration
13 11 (18.03%) Microsoft
14 10 (16.39%) MS Office
14 10 (16.39%) VoIP
14 10 (16.39%) VLAN
15 9 (14.75%) Video Conferencing
15 9 (14.75%) VMware Infrastructure
15 9 (14.75%) Aruba
15 9 (14.75%) DHCP
15 9 (14.75%) MS Exchange
15 9 (14.75%) SNMP
15 9 (14.75%) DNS
16 8 (13.11%) CCIE

Wireless
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Wireless 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 Wireless. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (1.639%) HTML5
1 1 (1.639%) CSS3
1 1 (1.639%) CSS
1 1 (1.639%) OpenGL
Application Platforms
1 9 (14.75%) MS Exchange
2 7 (11.48%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 3 (4.918%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (4.918%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (3.279%) CMS
4 2 (3.279%) Lync
4 2 (3.279%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (1.639%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (1.639%) IIS
Applications
1 10 (16.39%) MS Office
2 8 (13.11%) MS Excel
3 5 (8.197%) MS Visio
4 3 (4.918%) MS Project
5 1 (1.639%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (1.639%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 30 (49.18%) LAN
2 26 (42.62%) Firewall
3 25 (40.98%) WAN
4 21 (34.43%) OSPF
5 20 (32.79%) VPN
6 19 (31.15%) MPLS
7 15 (24.59%) Ethernet
7 15 (24.59%) Cisco ASA
8 14 (22.95%) BGP
9 10 (16.39%) VoIP
9 10 (16.39%) VLAN
10 9 (14.75%) DHCP
10 9 (14.75%) SNMP
10 9 (14.75%) DNS
11 8 (13.11%) WLAN
12 7 (11.48%) Junos
12 7 (11.48%) Cisco Nexus
12 7 (11.48%) Cisco IOS
12 7 (11.48%) IPsec
12 7 (11.48%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.639%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 1 (1.639%) Subversion
1 1 (1.639%) JIRA
1 1 (1.639%) Git (software)
General
1 15 (24.59%) Finance
2 8 (13.11%) Telecoms
3 5 (8.197%) Banking
4 4 (6.557%) Legal
5 3 (4.918%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.279%) Law
7 1 (1.639%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.639%) Games
7 1 (1.639%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 23 (37.70%) Network Engineer
2 7 (11.48%) Analyst
3 6 (9.836%) Project Manager
3 6 (9.836%) Cisco Engineer
3 6 (9.836%) Firewall Engineer
4 4 (6.557%) Support Engineer
5 3 (4.918%) Security Architect
5 3 (4.918%) Architect
5 3 (4.918%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (4.918%) Support Analyst
6 2 (3.279%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 2 (3.279%) 2nd Line Support
6 2 (3.279%) Network Consultant
6 2 (3.279%) Consultant
6 2 (3.279%) Developer
6 2 (3.279%) Technical Project Manager
6 2 (3.279%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
6 2 (3.279%) Voice Engineer
6 2 (3.279%) Senior Voice Engineer
6 2 (3.279%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.75%) Video Conferencing
2 5 (8.197%) PKI
2 5 (8.197%) Blackberry
3 2 (3.279%) Mathematics
3 2 (3.279%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.639%) Physics
4 1 (1.639%) CCTV
4 1 (1.639%) iPhone
4 1 (1.639%) iPad
4 1 (1.639%) Device Driver
4 1 (1.639%) Handset
4 1 (1.639%) Replication
4 1 (1.639%) Clustering
4 1 (1.639%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 12 (19.67%) Windows
2 7 (11.48%) Windows 7
3 3 (4.918%) Windows Vista
3 3 (4.918%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (4.918%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (4.918%) Mac OS X
4 2 (3.279%) Windows XP
5 1 (1.639%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.639%) Linux
5 1 (1.639%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (18.03%) Migration
2 8 (13.11%) Network Management
3 6 (9.836%) Load Balancing
3 6 (9.836%) Project Planning
3 6 (9.836%) Network Architecture
4 4 (6.557%) Project Management
4 4 (6.557%) Incident Management
5 3 (4.918%) Information Security
5 3 (4.918%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (4.918%) Configuration Management
5 3 (4.918%) Identity Management
6 2 (3.279%) Change Management
6 2 (3.279%) GAP Analysis
6 2 (3.279%) WAN Optimisation
6 2 (3.279%) Security Architecture
6 2 (3.279%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 1 (1.639%) Automated Testing
7 1 (1.639%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (1.639%) Problem Management
7 1 (1.639%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.279%) C
1 2 (3.279%) C#
1 2 (3.279%) C++
1 2 (3.279%) Java
1 2 (3.279%) SQL
2 1 (1.639%) Ruby
2 1 (1.639%) PHP5
2 1 (1.639%) MATLAB
2 1 (1.639%) Objective-C
2 1 (1.639%) VBA
2 1 (1.639%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.639%) PHP
Qualifications
1 21 (34.43%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (13.11%) CCIE
3 7 (11.48%) Security Cleared
3 7 (11.48%) CCNP
3 7 (11.48%) CCNA
4 6 (9.836%) JNCIE
4 6 (9.836%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.918%) Degree
6 2 (3.279%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.279%) CCDP
6 2 (3.279%) MCSE
7 1 (1.639%) MCDST
7 1 (1.639%) MCTS
7 1 (1.639%) MCITP
7 1 (1.639%) GCIA
7 1 (1.639%) GCIH
7 1 (1.639%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.639%) GIAC
7 1 (1.639%) CISA
7 1 (1.639%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.197%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.279%) SLA
2 2 (3.279%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.639%) QA
3 1 (1.639%) COBIT
3 1 (1.639%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.639%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (21.31%) Active Directory
2 9 (14.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.918%) Forefront TMG
3 3 (4.918%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (4.918%) UAG
3 3 (4.918%) Terminal Services
4 2 (3.279%) ISA Server
5 1 (1.639%) Nmap
5 1 (1.639%) Snort
5 1 (1.639%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (9.836%) FortiGate
2 5 (8.197%) OpenView
3 4 (6.557%) CiscoWorks
4 3 (4.918%) WSUS
4 3 (4.918%) Cisco CUCM
5 2 (3.279%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (1.639%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 39 (63.93%) Cisco
2 18 (29.51%) Juniper
3 14 (22.95%) HP
4 12 (19.67%) VMware
5 11 (18.03%) Microsoft
6 9 (14.75%) Aruba
7 8 (13.11%) Citrix
7 8 (13.11%) F5
8 7 (11.48%) CheckPoint
9 6 (9.836%) Sourcefire
9 6 (9.836%) Fortinet
9 6 (9.836%) Polycom
10 5 (8.197%) Riverbed
10 5 (8.197%) SolarWinds
11 4 (6.557%) Nokia
11 4 (6.557%) Mitel
12 3 (4.918%) Symantec
13 2 (3.279%) Avaya
13 2 (3.279%) Apple
13 2 (3.279%) Nortel
City of London
Exposure to wireless and VoIP environments also advantageous. Excellent knowledge of switching, routing, firewall and load balancing technologies, including Cisco IOS at CLI level... Knowledge of WAN technologies.
ITHR
Rate: £320 - £350 per day
Posted: 7 June 2013
City, London
Excellent knowledge of desktop operating systems (XP, Vista and Windows 7) and Microsoft Office. *Server 2003/ 2008 *Good knowledge of VMware and ESXi... Network Printers, ADSL Routers, Wireless...
Just IT Recruitment
Rate: £120 - £130 per day + Temp - Perm
Posted: 12 June 2013