Devon Ethernet Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Ethernet skills within the Devon region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Ethernet over the 3 months to 8 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Barry Basingstoke Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardigan Ceredigion Cheshire City of London Coventry Crawley Dartford Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Hampshire Hayes Ipswich Kent Leeds London Luton Manchester Mid Wales Midlands Milton Keynes North East North West Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Reading Redditch Runcorn Scotland Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West Southampton Staines Suffolk Surrey Swansea Thames Valley UK Vale of Glamorgan Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	29	35
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	3	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	5.000 %	13.68 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£312	£348
% change on same period last year	-10.24 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£13.58
Average hourly rate	£36.00	£14.04
% change on same period last year	+156.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.00	£14.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.31	£30.51
% change on same period last year	-3.91 %
Communications & Networking Devon
Matching contract IT job ads	60	95
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.084 %	0.097 %
Daily rates quoted	21	11
Average minimum daily rate	£347	£276
Average daily rate	£359	£290
% change on same period last year	+23.68 %
Average maximum daily rate	£371	£304
UK excluding London average daily rate	£351	£335
% change on same period last year	+4.56 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	46
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.83	£22.20
Average hourly rate	£22.17	£23.38
% change on same period last year	-5.16 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.51	£24.56
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.48	£28.80
% change on same period last year	-4.57 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Ethernet across the Devon region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Ethernet across the Devon region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Ethernet across the Devon region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ethernet within the Devon region over the 3 months to 8 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Exeter	+9	1	-	-

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Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Devon region citing Ethernet 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 Ethernet.

1 1 (33.33 %) Firewall 1 1 (33.33 %) Wireless 1 1 (33.33 %) VHDL 1 1 (33.33 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 1 1 (33.33 %) ISDN 1 1 (33.33 %) LAN 1 1 (33.33 %) WAN 1 1 (33.33 %) VPN 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 1 1 (33.33 %) CCNP 1 1 (33.33 %) CCNA 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco Certification 1 1 (33.33 %) CheckPoint

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Devon region citing Ethernet 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 Ethernet. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) ISDN 1 1 (33.33 %) LAN 1 1 (33.33 %) WAN 1 1 (33.33 %) VPN 1 1 (33.33 %) Firewall 1 1 (33.33 %) Wireless	Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Support Engineer 2 1 (33.33 %) Network Support Engineer 2 1 (33.33 %) Hardware Engineer 2 1 (33.33 %) Network Support 2 1 (33.33 %) Network Engineer 2 1 (33.33 %) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) VHDL 1 1 (33.33 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array	Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) CCNP 1 1 (33.33 %) CCNA 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco Certification
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 1 1 (33.33 %) CheckPoint