The first table below looks at the demand for VLAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VLAN over the 3 months to 18 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 East Midlands 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual LAN (VLAN)
Rank 77 72 74
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +2
Contract jobs citing VLAN 5 4 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.387% 0.297% 0.740%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.907% 3.200% 6.707%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
Average daily rate £325 £188 £205
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+73.33% -8.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £188 £143
10% offered a daily rate of more than £365 £188 £348
UK excluding London average daily rate £299 £326 £300
% change year-on-year
-8.42% +8.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £11.50 - £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+23.07% +62.50%
All Communications & Networking
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
172 125 164
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 13.30% 9.273% 11.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 46 56
Average daily rate £313 £269 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.27% -10.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £131 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £435 £474 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 22 16
Average hourly rate £15.00 £18.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.75 £10.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.75 £57.50 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.96%
VLAN
England

VLAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands VLAN Jobs Demand Trend

VLAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

East Midlands VLAN Daily Rate Trend

VLAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East Midlands VLAN Hourly Rate Trend

VLAN
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Nottinghamshire - 3 £375 - 1
Lincolnshire - - - - 1
VLAN
England

VLAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing VLAN 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 VLAN.

1 12 (92.31%) Cisco
2 8 (61.54%) TCP/IP
2 8 (61.54%) Firewall
3 7 (53.85%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (46.15%) LAN
5 5 (38.46%) DHCP
5 5 (38.46%) ITIL
5 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
5 5 (38.46%) CCNP
5 5 (38.46%) MPLS
6 4 (30.77%) EIGRP
6 4 (30.77%) VMware
6 4 (30.77%) CheckPoint
6 4 (30.77%) WAN
7 3 (23.08%) VoIP
7 3 (23.08%) Windows
7 3 (23.08%) HP
7 3 (23.08%) CCNA
7 3 (23.08%) SLA
7 3 (23.08%) OSPF
7 3 (23.08%) BGP
7 3 (23.08%) Network Security
7 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (23.08%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (15.38%) Windows 7
8 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
8 2 (15.38%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (15.38%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (15.38%) Performance Management

VLAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing VLAN 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 VLAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.692%) Lotus Domino
1 1 (7.692%) Lync
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 8 (61.54%) TCP/IP
1 8 (61.54%) Firewall
2 6 (46.15%) LAN
3 5 (38.46%) DHCP
3 5 (38.46%) MPLS
4 4 (30.77%) WAN
4 4 (30.77%) EIGRP
5 3 (23.08%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (23.08%) Network Security
5 3 (23.08%) VoIP
5 3 (23.08%) OSPF
5 3 (23.08%) BGP
6 2 (15.38%) Internet
6 2 (15.38%) DNS
6 2 (15.38%) SNMP
6 2 (15.38%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (15.38%) Cisco IPT
6 2 (15.38%) Wireless
6 2 (15.38%) IP Telephony
7 1 (7.692%) BIG-IP
General
1 1 (7.692%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Network Analyst
1 4 (30.77%) Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Network Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Desktop Support
4 1 (7.692%) Junior
4 1 (7.692%) Support Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Architect
4 1 (7.692%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Security Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Network Architect
4 1 (7.692%) Network Specialist
4 1 (7.692%) Junior Cisco Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Network Security Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Network Design Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
1 2 (15.38%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
1 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (15.38%) Windows XP
2 2 (15.38%) Windows 7
3 1 (7.692%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (7.692%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) ITIL
2 2 (15.38%) PRINCE2
2 2 (15.38%) PRINCE
2 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (15.38%) Performance Management
2 2 (15.38%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (7.692%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (7.692%) Migration
3 1 (7.692%) Network Design
3 1 (7.692%) Data Analysis
3 1 (7.692%) Incident Management
3 1 (7.692%) Project Planning
3 1 (7.692%) Service Delivery
3 1 (7.692%) Change Management
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (38.46%) CCNP
3 3 (23.08%) CCNA
4 2 (15.38%) Degree
4 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
5 1 (7.692%) MCSE
5 1 (7.692%) SC Cleared
5 1 (7.692%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 12 (92.31%) Cisco
2 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
3 4 (30.77%) CheckPoint
3 4 (30.77%) VMware
4 3 (23.08%) HP
5 2 (15.38%) Nortel
6 1 (7.692%) Juniper
6 1 (7.692%) Nokia
6 1 (7.692%) Lotus
6 1 (7.692%) Red Hat
6 1 (7.692%) Veeam
6 1 (7.692%) F5
6 1 (7.692%) 3Com
6 1 (7.692%) SAP
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