East Midlands LAN Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Local Area Network (LAN) skills within the East Midlands region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited LAN over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Local Area Network (LAN)
Location Aberdeen Ayrshire Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Prescot Reading Redditch Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Rotherham Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Snodland Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stourbridge Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	62	38
Rank change on same period last year	-24
Matching contract IT job ads	29	51
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.038 %	0.054 %
As % of the category below	13.62 %	19.62 %
Daily rates quoted	4	12
Average minimum daily rate	£330	£313
Average daily rate	£354	£335
% change on same period last year	+5.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£378	£357
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£318
% change on same period last year	+3.45 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.40	£25.83
Average hourly rate	£17.10	£27.33
% change on same period last year	-37.43 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.80	£28.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.46	£25.50
% change on same period last year	-23.66 %
Communications & Networking East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	213	260
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.281 %	0.276 %
Daily rates quoted	47	54
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£282
Average daily rate	£338	£295
% change on same period last year	+14.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£353	£308
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£344
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	25	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.70	£23.44
Average hourly rate	£16.53	£24.35
% change on same period last year	-32.10 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.36	£25.26
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.58	£28.53
% change on same period last year	-10.35 %
LAN England

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.

LAN
Demand Trend

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

LAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LAN across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

LAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LAN across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

LAN
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing LAN within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 4 July 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
Leicestershire	+12	13	£450	-
Nottinghamshire	-15	7	£290	-29.69 %
Northamptonshire	-9	5	-	-
Derbyshire	+9	1	-	-

LAN England

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing LAN 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 LAN.

1 51 (83.61 %) WAN 2 32 (52.46 %) Windows 3 24 (39.34 %) Cisco 4 20 (32.79 %) Active Directory 5 15 (24.59 %) Citrix 5 15 (24.59 %) Microsoft 6 14 (22.95 %) TCP/IP 6 14 (22.95 %) Firewall 7 11 (18.03 %) Windows Server 2003 7 11 (18.03 %) Windows 2000 8 10 (16.39 %) Windows XP 9 9 (14.75 %) Lotus 9 9 (14.75 %) MS Exchange 9 9 (14.75 %) Lotus Notes 9 9 (14.75 %) DNS

9 9 (14.75 %) VoIP 9 9 (14.75 %) Cisco Certification 10 8 (13.11 %) CCNA 10 8 (13.11 %) SLA 10 8 (13.11 %) MS Excel 10 8 (13.11 %) CheckPoint 10 8 (13.11 %) Exchange Server 2003 11 7 (11.48 %) Security Cleared 12 6 (9.836 %) MS Office 12 6 (9.836 %) VPN 12 6 (9.836 %) IBM 13 5 (8.197 %) Avaya 13 5 (8.197 %) SAN 13 5 (8.197 %) Microsoft Certification 13 5 (8.197 %) SQL Server

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing LAN 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 LAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 5 (8.197 %) .NET 2 3 (4.918 %) HTML 3 2 (3.279 %) WebServices 4 1 (1.639 %) XML 4 1 (1.639 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 9 (14.75 %) Lotus Notes 1 9 (14.75 %) MS Exchange 2 8 (13.11 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 3 (4.918 %) Commerce Server 4 2 (3.279 %) Lotus Domino 4 2 (3.279 %) IIS 5 1 (1.639 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 8 (13.11 %) MS Excel 2 6 (9.836 %) MS Office 3 2 (3.279 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 2 (3.279 %) BPCS 1 2 (3.279 %) Navision
Communications & Networking 1 51 (83.61 %) WAN 2 14 (22.95 %) TCP/IP 2 14 (22.95 %) Firewall 3 9 (14.75 %) DNS 3 9 (14.75 %) VoIP 4 6 (9.836 %) VPN 5 5 (8.197 %) SAN 6 4 (6.557 %) CTI 7 3 (4.918 %) Wireless 7 3 (4.918 %) DHCP 7 3 (4.918 %) PSTN 7 3 (4.918 %) VLAN 7 3 (4.918 %) Network Security 8 2 (3.279 %) WINS 8 2 (3.279 %) MPLS 9 1 (1.639 %) NetScreen 9 1 (1.639 %) Symposium 9 1 (1.639 %) IP Telephony 9 1 (1.639 %) Nortel Meridian 9 1 (1.639 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (8.197 %) SQL Server 2 3 (4.918 %) Crystal Reports 3 2 (3.279 %) SQL Server 7
General 1 5 (8.197 %) Telecoms 2 2 (3.279 %) Health 2 2 (3.279 %) Manufacturing 3 1 (1.639 %) Retail 3 1 (1.639 %) Back Office 3 1 (1.639 %) Finance 3 1 (1.639 %) Electric 3 1 (1.639 %) Government	Job Titles 1 16 (26.23 %) Analyst 2 10 (16.39 %) 2nd Line Support 3 8 (13.11 %) Infrastructure Manager 4 6 (9.836 %) Architect 4 6 (9.836 %) Support Analyst 5 5 (8.197 %) Support Engineer 5 5 (8.197 %) Network Support 6 4 (6.557 %) Support Manager 6 4 (6.557 %) 3rd Line Support 6 4 (6.557 %) Network Engineer 7 3 (4.918 %) Solutions Architect 7 3 (4.918 %) Service Analyst 7 3 (4.918 %) Applications Support 7 3 (4.918 %) Service Desk Analyst 7 3 (4.918 %) Applications Support Analyst 7 3 (4.918 %) Infrastructure Architect 7 3 (4.918 %) Security Architect 7 3 (4.918 %) Network Architect 8 2 (3.279 %) Cisco Engineer 8 2 (3.279 %) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 4 (6.557 %) AS400 2 3 (4.918 %) NHS 2 3 (4.918 %) Thin Client 2 3 (4.918 %) Fat Client 3 1 (1.639 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 32 (52.46 %) Windows 2 11 (18.03 %) Windows 2000 2 11 (18.03 %) Windows Server 2003 3 10 (16.39 %) Windows XP 4 5 (8.197 %) Windows NT 5 4 (6.557 %) Unix 6 3 (4.918 %) Linux 7 2 (3.279 %) AIX 7 2 (3.279 %) HPUX 7 2 (3.279 %) OS/400 8 1 (1.639 %) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (11.48 %) Security Cleared 2 5 (8.197 %) Change Management 2 5 (8.197 %) ITIL 3 4 (6.557 %) PRINCE2 3 4 (6.557 %) Project Management 3 4 (6.557 %) Network Design 3 4 (6.557 %) SC Cleared 4 3 (4.918 %) Migration 4 3 (4.918 %) Data Migration 4 3 (4.918 %) Incident Management 4 3 (4.918 %) Disaster Recovery 4 3 (4.918 %) Service Management 5 2 (3.279 %) E-Commerce 5 2 (3.279 %) ERP 5 2 (3.279 %) UML 5 2 (3.279 %) RAD 5 2 (3.279 %) SSADM 5 2 (3.279 %) Yourdon 5 2 (3.279 %) ISMS 6 1 (1.639 %) CRM	Programming Languages 1 4 (6.557 %) Perl 2 2 (3.279 %) PL/SQL 2 2 (3.279 %) SQL 2 2 (3.279 %) Java 3 1 (1.639 %) VB
Qualifications 1 9 (14.75 %) Cisco Certification 2 8 (13.11 %) CCNA 3 5 (8.197 %) Microsoft Certification 4 4 (6.557 %) MCSE 5 2 (3.279 %) MCSA 5 2 (3.279 %) CCNP 5 2 (3.279 %) ITIL Certification 6 1 (1.639 %) CNE 6 1 (1.639 %) Novell Certification 6 1 (1.639 %) PRINCE2 Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 8 (13.11 %) SLA
System Software 1 20 (32.79 %) Active Directory 2 3 (4.918 %) ISA Server 3 2 (3.279 %) Oracle RAC 3 2 (3.279 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 1 (1.639 %) Backup Exec 4 1 (1.639 %) NDS	Systems Management 1 2 (3.279 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 2 (3.279 %) OpenView Configuration Management 1 2 (3.279 %) BMC PATROL 1 2 (3.279 %) ARCserve 2 1 (1.639 %) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors 1 24 (39.34 %) Cisco 2 15 (24.59 %) Microsoft 2 15 (24.59 %) Citrix 3 9 (14.75 %) Lotus 4 8 (13.11 %) CheckPoint 5 6 (9.836 %) IBM 6 5 (8.197 %) Avaya 7 3 (4.918 %) Oracle 7 3 (4.918 %) CA 8 2 (3.279 %) BMC 8 2 (3.279 %) Symantec 8 2 (3.279 %) Sun 9 1 (1.639 %) Nortel 9 1 (1.639 %) Juniper 9 1 (1.639 %) Alcatel 9 1 (1.639 %) Remedy 9 1 (1.639 %) Ensim 9 1 (1.639 %) Novell 9 1 (1.639 %) VERITAS