The first table below looks at the demand for WAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Dorset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 24 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 Dorset 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 30 31 41
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +10
Contract jobs citing WAN 3 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset 1.415% 1.103% 0.625%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.895% 7.692% 4.651%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £373 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £303 £325
% change year-on-year
+5.37% -6.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £27.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £21.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-25.58% +2.38%
All Communications & Networking
Dorset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
38 39 43
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset 17.92% 14.34% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 27 19
Average daily rate £240 £375 £382
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-36.00% -1.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £198 £360 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £478 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 5
Average hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £40.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% -32.09%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.24 £21.00 £24.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £27.50 £42.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
WAN
South West

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dorset 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 Dorset region.

Dorset 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 Dorset region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Dorset 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 Dorset region.

Dorset WAN Hourly Rate Trend

WAN
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Dorset region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Bournemouth +1 2 £240 -
WAN
South West

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 4 (57.14%) LAN
2 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco
3 2 (28.57%) Replication
3 2 (28.57%) Office 365
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle
3 2 (28.57%) IaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Web Application Development
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (14.29%) VMware
4 1 (14.29%) Clustering
4 1 (14.29%) SAP Basis
4 1 (14.29%) VLAN
4 1 (14.29%) ESB
4 1 (14.29%) AWD
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Management
4 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (14.29%) NAS
4 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) C
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) DHCP
4 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
4 1 (14.29%) DNS
4 1 (14.29%) OLTP

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 Development
1 1 (14.29%) SAP Basis
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) ESB
1 1 (14.29%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) AWD
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) LAN
2 1 (14.29%) VLAN
2 1 (14.29%) NAS
2 1 (14.29%) DHCP
2 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) LDAP
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) SAN
2 1 (14.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) OLTP
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Development Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Network Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Wintel Support
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Basis Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Desktop Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Wintel Systems Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Development Manager
2 1 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Replication
1 2 (28.57%) IaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) Web Application Development
1 1 (14.29%) Performance Management
1 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
1 1 (14.29%) ITIL
1 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
1 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
1 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (14.29%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) JBoss
2 1 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) EMC
2 1 (14.29%) TIBCO