The first table below looks at the demand for WLAN 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 WLAN over the 3 months to 17 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wireless LAN (WLAN)
Rank 81 84 74
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -10
Contract jobs citing WLAN 3 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.238% 0.147% 0.073%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.948% 1.198% 0.610%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £180 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -20.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £313 £300
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £33.75 £29.75
% change year-on-year
-42.22% +13.44%
All Communications & Networking
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
154 167 164
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 12.21% 12.23% 11.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 70 43
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 £235 £175 £153
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £464 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 24 18
Average hourly rate £16.00 £31.75 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-49.60% +58.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.25 £11.21 £9.74
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.00 £57.50 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
WLAN
England

WLAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands WLAN Jobs Demand Trend

WLAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

East Midlands WLAN Daily Rate Trend

WLAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East Midlands WLAN Hourly Rate Trend

WLAN
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WLAN within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 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
Derbyshire - 2 - -
Leicestershire -6 1 - -
WLAN
England

WLAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing WLAN 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 WLAN.

1 13 (100.00%) LAN
2 12 (92.31%) Firewall
2 12 (92.31%) Wireless
3 10 (76.92%) Cisco
4 7 (53.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (53.85%) VMware
5 5 (38.46%) Citrix
5 5 (38.46%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (38.46%) TCP/IP
6 4 (30.77%) VPN
6 4 (30.77%) WAN
6 4 (30.77%) CCNA
6 4 (30.77%) MPLS
6 4 (30.77%) SolarWinds
6 4 (30.77%) SolarWinds Orion
7 2 (15.38%) Open Source
7 2 (15.38%) HP SIM
7 2 (15.38%) NetApp
7 2 (15.38%) HP
7 2 (15.38%) Dell
8 1 (7.692%) CCNP
8 1 (7.692%) Juniper
8 1 (7.692%) SAN
8 1 (7.692%) SQL
8 1 (7.692%) Oracle
8 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
8 1 (7.692%) Windows
8 1 (7.692%) SharePoint
8 1 (7.692%) CheckPoint
8 1 (7.692%) Manufacturing

WLAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing WLAN 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 WLAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.692%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 13 (100.00%) LAN
2 12 (92.31%) Firewall
2 12 (92.31%) Wireless
3 5 (38.46%) TCP/IP
4 4 (30.77%) VPN
4 4 (30.77%) WAN
4 4 (30.77%) MPLS
5 1 (7.692%) SAN
5 1 (7.692%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (7.692%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (7.692%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Analyst
2 4 (30.77%) Network Analyst
3 1 (7.692%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (7.692%) Field Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Field Support Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Cisco Network Analyst
3 1 (7.692%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.692%) Windows
1 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2008
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.692%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (30.77%) CCNA
3 1 (7.692%) CCNP
3 1 (7.692%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.692%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) SolarWinds Orion
2 2 (15.38%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Cisco
2 7 (53.85%) VMware
3 5 (38.46%) Citrix
4 4 (30.77%) SolarWinds
5 2 (15.38%) NetApp
5 2 (15.38%) HP
5 2 (15.38%) Dell
6 1 (7.692%) Juniper
6 1 (7.692%) CheckPoint
6 1 (7.692%) Oracle