The first table below looks at the demand for WAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Croydon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 21 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 Croydon 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 4 23 34
Rank change year-on-year
+19 +11
Contract jobs citing WAN 10 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Croydon 20.00% 0.746% 1.531%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 52.63% 4.762% 7.895%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 3
Average daily rate £353 £600 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-41.25% +42.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £600 £412
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £600 £424
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £310 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.61% -4.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £21.25 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-24.70% +1.19%
All Communications & Networking
Croydon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
19 21 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Croydon 38.00% 15.67% 19.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 23
Average daily rate £325 £538 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-39.53% +27.97%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £225 £349
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £625 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £15.00 - £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
WAN
London

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Croydon 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 Croydon region.

Croydon 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 Croydon region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Croydon 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 Croydon region.

Croydon WAN Hourly Rate Trend

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Croydon 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 16 (100.00%) LAN
2 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 10 (62.50%) Active Directory
3 8 (50.00%) SQL
4 7 (43.75%) VPN
4 7 (43.75%) Network Design
5 6 (37.50%) TCP/IP
6 5 (31.25%) Perl
6 5 (31.25%) DNS
6 5 (31.25%) DHCP
6 5 (31.25%) VBScript
6 5 (31.25%) VB
6 5 (31.25%) LDAP
6 5 (31.25%) MS Excel
6 5 (31.25%) Client/Server
6 5 (31.25%) CISSP
6 5 (31.25%) McAfee
6 5 (31.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (31.25%) SecurID
6 5 (31.25%) McAfee ePO
6 5 (31.25%) Security Management
6 5 (31.25%) Management Information System
6 5 (31.25%) Security+ Certification
6 5 (31.25%) SIEM
7 4 (25.00%) Finance
7 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (25.00%) MS Exchange
7 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
7 4 (25.00%) Windows
8 3 (18.75%) Cisco

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Croydon 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 4 (25.00%) MS Exchange
2 3 (18.75%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (18.75%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (12.50%) Lync
Applications
1 5 (31.25%) MS Excel
2 3 (18.75%) Photoshop
2 3 (18.75%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 16 (100.00%) LAN
2 7 (43.75%) VPN
3 6 (37.50%) TCP/IP
4 5 (31.25%) DNS
4 5 (31.25%) DHCP
4 5 (31.25%) LDAP
5 3 (18.75%) VLAN
6 1 (6.250%) MPLS
6 1 (6.250%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (18.75%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Administrator
1 7 (43.75%) IT Administrator
1 7 (43.75%) Security Administrator
1 7 (43.75%) IT Security Administrator
2 3 (18.75%) Network Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Network Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Support Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (6.250%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Support Consultant
4 1 (6.250%) Consultant
4 1 (6.250%) Architect
4 1 (6.250%) Wintel Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Network Supervisor
4 1 (6.250%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Network Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Client/Server
1 5 (31.25%) SecurID
1 5 (31.25%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Windows 7
3 1 (6.250%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (6.250%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Network Design
2 5 (31.25%) Security Management
2 5 (31.25%) SIEM
3 3 (18.75%) ITIL
4 2 (12.50%) Capacity Management
5 1 (6.250%) Problem Management
5 1 (6.250%) Incident Management
5 1 (6.250%) Migration
5 1 (6.250%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (6.250%) Service Delivery
5 1 (6.250%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (31.25%) Perl
2 5 (31.25%) VBScript
2 5 (31.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) CISSP
1 5 (31.25%) Security+ Certification
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (12.50%) HP AIS
3 2 (12.50%) HP ASE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (18.75%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) McAfee
3 3 (18.75%) Cisco
3 3 (18.75%) Adobe
3 3 (18.75%) VMware
4 2 (12.50%) HP
5 1 (6.250%) Citrix
5 1 (6.250%) CheckPoint
5 1 (6.250%) Riverbed
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