The first table below looks at the demand for WAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Crawley region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WAN 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 Crawley 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
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 19 28 22
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -6
Contract jobs citing WAN 10 6 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 6.061% 2.239% 2.740%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 31.25% 30.00% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 0
Average daily rate £395 £140 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+182.14% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £304 £313 £325
% change year-on-year
-2.72% -3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
Average hourly rate £20.00 - £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.00 £21.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year
-16.27% -2.27%
All Communications & Networking
Crawley
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
32 20 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 19.39% 7.463% 17.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 5
Average daily rate £390 £140 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+178.57% -66.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £130 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £400 £485
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 5
Average hourly rate £31.25 - £35.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.50 - £21.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 - £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
WAN
West Sussex

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Crawley WAN Jobs Demand Trend

WAN
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WAN across the Crawley region.

Crawley WAN Daily Rate Trend

WAN
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Crawley WAN Daily Rate Histogram

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing WAN across the Crawley region.

Crawley WAN Hourly Rate Trend

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley region citing WAN 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 WAN.

1 11 (84.62%) LAN
2 8 (61.54%) Wireless
3 7 (53.85%) Firewall
3 7 (53.85%) Windows
3 7 (53.85%) Wireless Security
4 5 (38.46%) Technical Architecture
4 5 (38.46%) NLBS
4 5 (38.46%) Network Load Balancing
4 5 (38.46%) Network Security
4 5 (38.46%) F5
4 5 (38.46%) ITIL
4 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
4 5 (38.46%) SAN
4 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (38.46%) DMZ
5 4 (30.77%) VMware
5 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
5 4 (30.77%) VPN
5 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (30.77%) Business Analysis
6 3 (23.08%) Citrix
6 3 (23.08%) MS Exchange
6 3 (23.08%) Cisco
6 3 (23.08%) EIGRP
7 2 (15.38%) Project Management
7 2 (15.38%) Mainframe
7 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (15.38%) OSPF
7 2 (15.38%) BGP
7 2 (15.38%) Cisco IPCC

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley region citing WAN 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 WAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (23.08%) MS Exchange
2 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (7.692%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) MS Office
1 2 (15.38%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.692%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 11 (84.62%) LAN
2 8 (61.54%) Wireless
3 7 (53.85%) Firewall
3 7 (53.85%) Wireless Security
4 5 (38.46%) Network Security
4 5 (38.46%) SAN
4 5 (38.46%) DMZ
5 4 (30.77%) VPN
6 3 (23.08%) EIGRP
7 2 (15.38%) OSPF
7 2 (15.38%) BGP
7 2 (15.38%) IPsec
7 2 (15.38%) ISDN
7 2 (15.38%) WLAN
7 2 (15.38%) SMTP
7 2 (15.38%) DHCP
7 2 (15.38%) HTTP
7 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
7 2 (15.38%) DNS
7 2 (15.38%) SSL
General
1 2 (15.38%) Back Office
1 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Analyst
2 7 (53.85%) Network Analyst
3 5 (38.46%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
3 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Project Manager
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (7.692%) Security Support Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Service Desk Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Security Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (7.692%) Support Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Service Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Desktop Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Mainframe
1 2 (15.38%) SecurID
1 2 (15.38%) IVR
1 2 (15.38%) iSeries
2 1 (7.692%) iPad
2 1 (7.692%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (15.38%) UNIX
3 2 (15.38%) Linux
3 2 (15.38%) Windows XP
3 2 (15.38%) Windows 7
4 1 (7.692%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Technical Architecture
1 5 (38.46%) Network Load Balancing
1 5 (38.46%) ITIL
1 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (30.77%) Business Analysis
3 2 (15.38%) Project Management
3 2 (15.38%) Service Management
3 2 (15.38%) Service Delivery
3 2 (15.38%) PRINCE2
3 2 (15.38%) Project Planning
3 2 (15.38%) Mobile Device Management
3 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (15.38%) Performance Management
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.692%) DV Cleared
1 1 (7.692%) Security Cleared
1 1 (7.692%) CCNP
1 1 (7.692%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (7.692%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (7.692%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.692%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) NLBS
2 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
3 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
3 2 (15.38%) XenApp
3 2 (15.38%) vSphere
3 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Cisco IPCC
1 2 (15.38%) SCCM
2 1 (7.692%) Backup Exec
2 1 (7.692%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) F5
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) VMware
3 3 (23.08%) Citrix
3 3 (23.08%) Cisco
4 2 (15.38%) Nortel
4 2 (15.38%) CA
4 2 (15.38%) CheckPoint
4 2 (15.38%) Avaya
4 2 (15.38%) Juniper
4 2 (15.38%) Verint
5 1 (7.692%) SAP
5 1 (7.692%) McAfee
5 1 (7.692%) Symantec