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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for LAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LAN over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the East of England region.

 Local Area Network (LAN)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank563761
Rank change year-on-year
Down-19Up+24
Matching contract IT job ads3782115
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England2.225 %3.796 %2.621 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category10.95 %15.21 %15.56 %
Daily rates quoted102222
Average daily rate£275£325£306
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38 %+6.120 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£218£155£167
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£405£400£375
UK excluding London average daily rate£278£325£350
% change year-on-year
-14.61 %-7.140 %
Hourly rates quoted121029
Average hourly rate£15.30£23.75£15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.57 %+58.33 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£9.54£13.50£12.80
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£35.00£32.60£36.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate£19.00£22.00£20.50
% change year-on-year
-13.63 %+7.310 %
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryAll Communications & Networking
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
338539739
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England20.32 %24.95 %16.85 %
Daily rates quoted86122222
Average daily rate£313£340£325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.080 %+4.610 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£209£240£160
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£413£450£450
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£338£325
% change year-on-year
-3.700 %+3.840 %
Hourly rates quoted7865153
Average hourly rate£34.50£30.00£22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.00 %+33.33 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£15.00£15.00£12.80
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£37.00£45.00£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.00£24.00£27.50
% change year-on-year
+4.160 %-12.72 %
LAN EnglandLAN
England

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.

LAN
Demand Trend

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

East of England LAN Demand Trend

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 of England region.

East of England LAN Daily Rate Trend

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LAN across the East of England region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

East of England LAN Daily Rate Histogram

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 of England region.

East of England LAN Hourly Rate Trend

LAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LAN across the East of England region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

East of England LAN Hourly Rate Histogram

LAN
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the East of England region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
HertfordshireDown-321£150-45.45 %
CambridgeshireUp+27£265+10.41 %
EssexDown-94£350-12.50 %
BedfordshireDown-13£400+28.00 %
NorfolkUp+31£275-
SuffolkDown-101--
LAN EnglandLAN
England

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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.

144 (78.57 %)WAN
215 (26.79 %)Cisco
314 (25.00 %)Telecoms
314 (25.00 %)Wireless
413 (23.21 %)Cisco Certification
413 (23.21 %)Windows
512 (21.43 %)VoIP
512 (21.43 %)Active Directory
611 (19.64 %)CCNA
710 (17.86 %)Firewall
89 (16.07 %)Ethernet
89 (16.07 %)ITIL
98 (14.29 %)TCP/IP
98 (14.29 %)ADSL
98 (14.29 %)Microsoft
98 (14.29 %)Project Management
98 (14.29 %)German Language
98 (14.29 %)Security Cleared
107 (12.50 %)DHCP
116 (10.71 %)ATM
116 (10.71 %)ISDN
116 (10.71 %)Oracle
116 (10.71 %)SC Cleared
125 (8.929 %)Windows Server 2008
125 (8.929 %)Fat Client
125 (8.929 %)Gigabit Ethernet
125 (8.929 %)Frame Relay
125 (8.929 %)WEP
125 (8.929 %)WPA
125 (8.929 %)Finance

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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.

East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
13 (5.357 %)XML
21 (1.786 %)ODBC
21 (1.786 %)CSS
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
12 (3.571 %)MS Exchange
12 (3.571 %)Lotus Notes
12 (3.571 %)Lotus Domino
12 (3.571 %)Exchange Server 2003
21 (1.786 %)SharePoint
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
14 (7.143 %)MS Office
21 (1.786 %)MS Excel
21 (1.786 %)MS Visio
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
144 (78.57 %)WAN
214 (25.00 %)Wireless
312 (21.43 %)VoIP
410 (17.86 %)Firewall
59 (16.07 %)Ethernet
68 (14.29 %)TCP/IP
68 (14.29 %)ADSL
77 (12.50 %)DHCP
86 (10.71 %)ATM
86 (10.71 %)ISDN
95 (8.929 %)Gigabit Ethernet
95 (8.929 %)Frame Relay
95 (8.929 %)WEP
95 (8.929 %)WPA
95 (8.929 %)802.11
95 (8.929 %)WLAN
104 (7.143 %)VPN
104 (7.143 %)DNS
104 (7.143 %)OSPF
104 (7.143 %)BGP
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
12 (3.571 %)Oracle 10g
12 (3.571 %)SQL Server
21 (1.786 %)Oracle 9i
21 (1.786 %)MS Access
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
114 (25.00 %)Telecoms
25 (8.929 %)Finance
33 (5.357 %)Education
33 (5.357 %)Pharmaceutical
42 (3.571 %)Government
42 (3.571 %)Legal
42 (3.571 %)Publishing
51 (1.786 %)Marketing
51 (1.786 %)Banking
51 (1.786 %)Retail
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
116 (28.57 %)Analyst
212 (21.43 %)Support Analyst
36 (10.71 %)Network Support
45 (8.929 %)Project Manager
45 (8.929 %)Administrator
45 (8.929 %)Support Engineer
45 (8.929 %)Network Engineer
54 (7.143 %)2nd Line Support
54 (7.143 %)Desktop Support
54 (7.143 %)Network Analyst
63 (5.357 %)RAN Engineer
63 (5.357 %)2nd Line Support Analyst
63 (5.357 %)Configuration Engineer
63 (5.357 %)RAN Configuration Engineer
63 (5.357 %)Network Administrator
72 (3.571 %)Systems Administrator
72 (3.571 %)Architect
72 (3.571 %)Field Engineer
72 (3.571 %)Technical Project Manager
72 (3.571 %)Infrastructure Engineer
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
18 (14.29 %)German Language
25 (8.929 %)Fat Client
25 (8.929 %)Thin Client
34 (7.143 %)French Language
34 (7.143 %)Russian Language
43 (5.357 %)Statistics
43 (5.357 %)NHS
52 (3.571 %)Italian Language
61 (1.786 %)Spanish Language
61 (1.786 %)Video Conferencing
61 (1.786 %)Blackberry
61 (1.786 %)Client/Server
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
113 (23.21 %)Windows
25 (8.929 %)Windows Server 2008
25 (8.929 %)Windows Server 2003
34 (7.143 %)UNIX
43 (5.357 %)Windows XP
52 (3.571 %)Windows Vista
61 (1.786 %)Windows 7
61 (1.786 %)Linux
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
19 (16.07 %)ITIL
28 (14.29 %)Project Management
35 (8.929 %)PRINCE2
44 (7.143 %)Service Management
44 (7.143 %)Asset Management
44 (7.143 %)Network Design
53 (5.357 %)Load Balancing
62 (3.571 %)Disaster Recovery
62 (3.571 %)ITSM
62 (3.571 %)Database Tuning
62 (3.571 %)Incident Management
71 (1.786 %)Supplier Management
71 (1.786 %)TOGAF
71 (1.786 %)Change Management
71 (1.786 %)PRINCE
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
13 (5.357 %)C
21 (1.786 %)SQL
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
113 (23.21 %)Cisco Certification
211 (19.64 %)CCNA
38 (14.29 %)Security Cleared
46 (10.71 %)SC Cleared
52 (3.571 %)CCNP
61 (1.786 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
61 (1.786 %)MCP
61 (1.786 %)Microsoft Certification
61 (1.786 %)A+ Certification
61 (1.786 %)ITIL Certification
61 (1.786 %)PMP
61 (1.786 %)PMI Certification
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (1.786 %)SLA
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
112 (21.43 %)Active Directory
22 (3.571 %)MetaFrame
22 (3.571 %)VMware Infrastructure
22 (3.571 %)Citrix Presentation Server
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
13 (5.357 %)OpenView Configuration Management
22 (3.571 %)CiscoWorks
22 (3.571 %)SCCM
31 (1.786 %)SolarWinds Orion
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
115 (26.79 %)Cisco
28 (14.29 %)Microsoft
36 (10.71 %)Oracle
45 (8.929 %)HP
54 (7.143 %)Citrix
63 (5.357 %)SAP
63 (5.357 %)Nokia
72 (3.571 %)Lotus
72 (3.571 %)IBM
72 (3.571 %)Sun
72 (3.571 %)Dell
72 (3.571 %)Intel
72 (3.571 %)VMware
72 (3.571 %)BT
81 (1.786 %)IronPort
81 (1.786 %)Tandberg
81 (1.786 %)Siemens
81 (1.786 %)Juniper