The first table below looks at the demand for WAN 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 WAN over the 3 months to 19 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 56 59 58
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -1
Contract jobs citing WAN 27 23 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 2.109% 1.722% 1.822%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.79% 18.25% 16.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 10
Average daily rate £363 £200 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+81.25% -35.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £177 £183 £248
10% offered a daily rate of more than £546 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £304 £313 £325
% change year-on-year
-2.72% -3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 3
Average hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.00 £21.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year
-16.27% -2.27%
All Communications & Networking
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
171 126 161
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 13.36% 9.431% 10.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 48 54
Average daily rate £313 £250 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £233 £180 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £460 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
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 £25.00
WAN
England

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region over the 3 months to 19 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 0 10 £315 -33.68% 3
Northamptonshire +10 5 £210 -6.66% 9
Derbyshire +6 3 £363 - 2
Leicestershire -13 2 £615 +228.00%
Lincolnshire - - - - 7
WAN
England

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 43 (82.69%) LAN
2 23 (44.23%) Windows
3 21 (40.38%) Cisco
3 21 (40.38%) Microsoft
4 19 (36.54%) Active Directory
4 19 (36.54%) Firewall
5 16 (30.77%) VMware
6 14 (26.92%) Citrix
7 13 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (19.23%) MS Exchange
8 10 (19.23%) CCNP
8 10 (19.23%) TCP/IP
9 9 (17.31%) CCNA
9 9 (17.31%) Juniper
9 9 (17.31%) SAN
9 9 (17.31%) VMware Infrastructure
9 9 (17.31%) Windows Server 2008
9 9 (17.31%) Windows 7
10 8 (15.38%) SQL
10 8 (15.38%) Windows XP
11 7 (13.46%) ITIL
11 7 (13.46%) Nokia
11 7 (13.46%) SCCM
12 6 (11.54%) DMVPN
12 6 (11.54%) Cisco Nexus
12 6 (11.54%) Nortel
12 6 (11.54%) VPN
13 5 (9.615%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (9.615%) CheckPoint
13 5 (9.615%) MCSE

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 (1.923%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 10 (19.23%) MS Exchange
2 4 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2003
2 4 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (5.769%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (3.846%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (3.846%) SharePoint
4 2 (3.846%) Apache
4 2 (3.846%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.923%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (5.769%) MS Excel
2 2 (3.846%) MS Office
3 1 (1.923%) Google Apps
Business Applications
1 1 (1.923%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 43 (82.69%) LAN
2 19 (36.54%) Firewall
3 10 (19.23%) TCP/IP
4 9 (17.31%) SAN
5 6 (11.54%) DMVPN
5 6 (11.54%) Cisco Nexus
5 6 (11.54%) VPN
6 5 (9.615%) PBX
6 5 (9.615%) Wireless
6 5 (9.615%) MPLS
7 4 (7.692%) VLAN
7 4 (7.692%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (7.692%) Internet
8 3 (5.769%) VoIP
8 3 (5.769%) DNS
8 3 (5.769%) iSCSI
9 2 (3.846%) Cisco PIX
9 2 (3.846%) NetScaler
9 2 (3.846%) FWSM
9 2 (3.846%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.769%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.846%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (3.846%) MySQL
3 1 (1.923%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.923%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 4 (7.692%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 5 (9.615%) Finance
2 4 (7.692%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.923%) Danish Language
3 1 (1.923%) French Language
3 1 (1.923%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 8 (15.38%) Analyst
1 8 (15.38%) Network Engineer
2 7 (13.46%) Support Engineer
2 7 (13.46%) Network Analyst
2 7 (13.46%) Designer
3 5 (9.615%) Technical Designer
3 5 (9.615%) Architect
4 4 (7.692%) 2nd Line Support
5 3 (5.769%) Technical Architect
5 3 (5.769%) Desktop Support
5 3 (5.769%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (5.769%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (3.846%) Infrastructure Designer
6 2 (3.846%) Cisco Engineer
6 2 (3.846%) Technical Manager
6 2 (3.846%) Desktop Engineer
6 2 (3.846%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 2 (3.846%) Technical Support
6 2 (3.846%) Project Manager
6 2 (3.846%) Support Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.615%) PKI
2 3 (5.769%) Blackberry
2 3 (5.769%) IVR
3 2 (3.846%) Fat Client
3 2 (3.846%) SaaS
3 2 (3.846%) Open Source
3 2 (3.846%) IaaS
3 2 (3.846%) Clustering
3 2 (3.846%) Thin Client
4 1 (1.923%) NHS
4 1 (1.923%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 23 (44.23%) Windows
2 9 (17.31%) Windows Server 2008
2 9 (17.31%) Windows 7
3 8 (15.38%) Windows XP
4 5 (9.615%) Linux
5 4 (7.692%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (7.692%) Windows NT
6 2 (3.846%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (3.846%) UNIX
7 1 (1.923%) AIX
7 1 (1.923%) Windows 2000
7 1 (1.923%) SUSE
7 1 (1.923%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (13.46%) ITIL
2 3 (5.769%) Project Management
3 2 (3.846%) Performance Management
3 2 (3.846%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (3.846%) Network Management
3 2 (3.846%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (3.846%) Mobile Device Management
3 2 (3.846%) WAN Optimisation
3 2 (3.846%) Service Delivery
4 1 (1.923%) PRINCE2
4 1 (1.923%) CRM
4 1 (1.923%) Data Security
4 1 (1.923%) Business Analysis
4 1 (1.923%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (1.923%) Validation
4 1 (1.923%) Migration
4 1 (1.923%) Scrum
4 1 (1.923%) Agile Project Management
4 1 (1.923%) Software Deployment
4 1 (1.923%) Market Research
Programming Languages
1 8 (15.38%) SQL
2 1 (1.923%) Python
2 1 (1.923%) Java
2 1 (1.923%) Perl
2 1 (1.923%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 13 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (19.23%) CCNP
3 9 (17.31%) CCNA
4 5 (9.615%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (9.615%) MCSE
5 2 (3.846%) Degree
6 1 (1.923%) RHCE
6 1 (1.923%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.923%) CISSP
6 1 (1.923%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.923%) RHCA
6 1 (1.923%) VCP4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.846%) SLA
2 1 (1.923%) QA
System Software
1 19 (36.54%) Active Directory
2 9 (17.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.846%) XenApp
3 2 (3.846%) ISA Server
3 2 (3.846%) NFS
4 1 (1.923%) Terminal Services
4 1 (1.923%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (13.46%) SCCM
2 5 (9.615%) SCOM
3 2 (3.846%) WSUS
3 2 (3.846%) SolarWinds Orion
3 2 (3.846%) McAfee ePO
3 2 (3.846%) NetBackup
3 2 (3.846%) Backup Exec
3 2 (3.846%) Norton AntiVirus
4 1 (1.923%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (1.923%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (40.38%) Cisco
1 21 (40.38%) Microsoft
2 16 (30.77%) VMware
3 14 (26.92%) Citrix
4 9 (17.31%) Juniper
5 7 (13.46%) Nokia
6 6 (11.54%) Nortel
7 5 (9.615%) CheckPoint
8 3 (5.769%) NetApp
8 3 (5.769%) HP
9 2 (3.846%) Riverbed
9 2 (3.846%) SolarWinds
9 2 (3.846%) F5
9 2 (3.846%) MobileIron
9 2 (3.846%) Symantec
9 2 (3.846%) McAfee
9 2 (3.846%) Avaya
9 2 (3.846%) Veritas
9 2 (3.846%) Oracle
10 1 (1.923%) Red Hat
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