The first table below looks at the demand for WAAS 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 WAAS over the 3 months to 24 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 of England 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)
Rank 113 131 -
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -
Contract jobs citing WAAS 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.047% 0.034% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.263% 0.188% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £133 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £240 - £275
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Communications & Networking
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
380 533 431
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 17.77% 18.04% 16.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 171 127
Average daily rate £325 £325 £298
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £217 £212 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £450 £476
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 52 85
Average hourly rate £19.00 £30.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-36.66% +9.09%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.05 £12.00 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £52.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
WAAS
England

WAAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England WAAS Jobs Demand Trend

WAAS
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England WAAS Daily Rate Trend

WAAS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAAS within the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 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
Suffolk - 1 £133 -
WAAS
England

WAAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing WAAS 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 WAAS.

1 13 (100.00%) Cisco
1 13 (100.00%) Firewall
2 12 (92.31%) LAN
2 12 (92.31%) VoIP
2 12 (92.31%) WAN
2 12 (92.31%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (76.92%) SAN
3 10 (76.92%) ITIL
3 10 (76.92%) NAS
4 9 (69.23%) Wireless
4 9 (69.23%) ITIL Certification
5 8 (61.54%) PRINCE
5 8 (61.54%) PRINCE2
5 8 (61.54%) Windows
5 8 (61.54%) CCNP
5 8 (61.54%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (53.85%) Brocade
7 5 (38.46%) VMware
7 5 (38.46%) CCIE
7 5 (38.46%) NHS
7 5 (38.46%) SLA
8 4 (30.77%) CCDP
8 4 (30.77%) CCIP
9 3 (23.08%) CISSP
9 3 (23.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
10 2 (15.38%) CCA
10 2 (15.38%) Citrix Certification
10 2 (15.38%) CCNA
10 2 (15.38%) SQL

WAAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing WAAS 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 WAAS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (7.692%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.692%) IIS
1 1 (7.692%) MS Exchange
1 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 13 (100.00%) Firewall
2 12 (92.31%) LAN
2 12 (92.31%) VoIP
2 12 (92.31%) WAN
3 10 (76.92%) SAN
3 10 (76.92%) NAS
4 9 (69.23%) Wireless
5 1 (7.692%) VPN
5 1 (7.692%) DNS
5 1 (7.692%) MPLS
5 1 (7.692%) IPsec
5 1 (7.692%) Network Security
5 1 (7.692%) FWSM
5 1 (7.692%) Cisco ASA
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Network Specialist
2 5 (38.46%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Cisco Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) NHS
2 1 (7.692%) Thin Client
2 1 (7.692%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) Windows
1 8 (61.54%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) ITIL
2 8 (61.54%) PRINCE
2 8 (61.54%) PRINCE2
3 1 (7.692%) Project Management
3 1 (7.692%) Programme Office Management
3 1 (7.692%) Service Delivery
3 1 (7.692%) Network Design
3 1 (7.692%) Load Balancing
3 1 (7.692%) Release Management
3 1 (7.692%) Security Architecture
3 1 (7.692%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (7.692%) Change Control
3 1 (7.692%) Build Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (92.31%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (69.23%) ITIL Certification
3 8 (61.54%) CCNP
4 5 (38.46%) CCIE
5 4 (30.77%) CCDP
5 4 (30.77%) CCIP
6 3 (23.08%) CISSP
6 3 (23.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (15.38%) CCA
7 2 (15.38%) Citrix Certification
7 2 (15.38%) CCNA
8 1 (7.692%) MCSE
8 1 (7.692%) CCSP
8 1 (7.692%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (7.692%) CCSA
8 1 (7.692%) CCSE
8 1 (7.692%) Degree
8 1 (7.692%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.692%) NFS
2 1 (7.692%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.692%) ProxySG
2 1 (7.692%) Snort
2 1 (7.692%) Forefront TMG
2 1 (7.692%) UAG
2 1 (7.692%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Cisco
2 7 (53.85%) Brocade
3 5 (38.46%) VMware
4 1 (7.692%) Oracle
4 1 (7.692%) SAP
4 1 (7.692%) CheckPoint
4 1 (7.692%) Juniper
4 1 (7.692%) Blue Coat
4 1 (7.692%) Sourcefire
4 1 (7.692%) Crossbeam
4 1 (7.692%) F5