East of England EIGRP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited EIGRP over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP)
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Berkshire Bicester Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bromley Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London East of England East Sussex England Glasgow Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent London Middlesex North East North West Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Scotland South East South Wales South West Staffordshire Stevenage Sunderland Surrey Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	133	149
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching contract IT job ads	1	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	0.147 %	1.340 %
Daily rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum daily rate	-	£313
Average daily rate	-	£319
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£325
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£372
% change on same period last year	-13.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£23.33
Average hourly rate	-	£26.67
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.68	£30.68
% change on same period last year	+6.53 %
Communications & Networking East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	679	821
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.918 %	0.810 %
Daily rates quoted	204	200
Average minimum daily rate	£298	£321
Average daily rate	£321	£341
% change on same period last year	-5.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£343	£360
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£341
% change on same period last year	+1.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	104	154
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.07	£25.89
Average hourly rate	£26.28	£27.88
% change on same period last year	-5.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.49	£29.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.70	£28.54
% change on same period last year	-9.93 %
EIGRP 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.

EIGRP
Demand Trend

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

EIGRP
Daily Rate Trend

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

EIGRP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

EIGRP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing EIGRP within the East of England region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Hertfordshire	+13	1	-	-

EIGRP England

EIGRP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing EIGRP 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 EIGRP.

1 8 (100.00 %) WAN 1 8 (100.00 %) OSPF 2 6 (75.00 %) Cisco 3 5 (62.50 %) LAN 4 4 (50.00 %) BGP 4 4 (50.00 %) Firewall 5 3 (37.50 %) IP Telephony 5 3 (37.50 %) ProCurve 5 3 (37.50 %) Novell 5 3 (37.50 %) MPLS 5 3 (37.50 %) VoIP 5 3 (37.50 %) Windows 5 3 (37.50 %) Windows 2000 5 3 (37.50 %) CCNP 5 3 (37.50 %) HP

5 3 (37.50 %) Cisco Certification 5 3 (37.50 %) Juniper 6 2 (25.00 %) CCIE 6 2 (25.00 %) Client/Server 6 2 (25.00 %) Intranet 6 2 (25.00 %) Internet 6 2 (25.00 %) Extranet 6 2 (25.00 %) CCNA 7 1 (12.50 %) Network Design 7 1 (12.50 %) BT 7 1 (12.50 %) Project Planning 7 1 (12.50 %) Network Security 7 1 (12.50 %) Change Management 7 1 (12.50 %) IGRP 7 1 (12.50 %) VRRP

EIGRP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing EIGRP 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 EIGRP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 8 (100.00 %) WAN 1 8 (100.00 %) OSPF 2 5 (62.50 %) LAN 3 4 (50.00 %) BGP 3 4 (50.00 %) Firewall 4 3 (37.50 %) IP Telephony 4 3 (37.50 %) MPLS 4 3 (37.50 %) VoIP 5 2 (25.00 %) Intranet 5 2 (25.00 %) Internet 5 2 (25.00 %) Extranet 6 1 (12.50 %) Ethernet 6 1 (12.50 %) ADSL 6 1 (12.50 %) ATM 6 1 (12.50 %) Network Security 6 1 (12.50 %) IGRP 6 1 (12.50 %) VRRP	Job Titles 1 5 (62.50 %) Network Engineer 2 2 (25.00 %) Network Security Engineer 2 2 (25.00 %) Security Engineer 2 2 (25.00 %) Network Planner 3 1 (12.50 %) Network Design Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Network Architect 3 1 (12.50 %) Architect 3 1 (12.50 %) Network Consultant 3 1 (12.50 %) Consultant 3 1 (12.50 %) Support Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Design Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Network Support Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Network Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Network Support
Miscellaneous 1 2 (25.00 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 3 (37.50 %) Windows 1 3 (37.50 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 1 1 (12.50 %) Change Management 1 1 (12.50 %) Network Design 1 1 (12.50 %) Project Planning	Qualifications 1 3 (37.50 %) CCNP 1 3 (37.50 %) Cisco Certification 2 2 (25.00 %) CCNA 2 2 (25.00 %) CCIE 3 1 (12.50 %) CCSP 3 1 (12.50 %) CCIP 3 1 (12.50 %) CCDP
Vendors 1 6 (75.00 %) Cisco 2 3 (37.50 %) HP 2 3 (37.50 %) Juniper 2 3 (37.50 %) Novell 2 3 (37.50 %) ProCurve 3 1 (12.50 %) CheckPoint 3 1 (12.50 %) BT 3 1 (12.50 %) Nokia