East of England WAN Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Wide Area Network (WAN) 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 job ads that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Gosport Greenford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hull Inverness Ipswich Kent King's Lynn Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Portsmouth Prescot Preston Prestwick Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rochester Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Snodland Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	78	68
Rank change on same period last year	-10
Matching contract IT job ads	75	76
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.099 %	0.081 %
As % of the category below	9.947 %	10.17 %
Daily rates quoted	19	17
Average minimum daily rate	£279	£361
Average daily rate	£296	£378
% change on same period last year	-21.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£313	£396
UK excluding London average daily rate	£316	£324
% change on same period last year	-2.44 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.13	£20.93
Average hourly rate	£17.76	£22.62
% change on same period last year	-21.45 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.39	£24.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.32	£25.30
% change on same period last year	-15.75 %
Communications & Networking East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	754	747
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.994 %	0.792 %
Daily rates quoted	253	203
Average minimum daily rate	£323	£334
Average daily rate	£350	£354
% change on same period last year	-1.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£377	£374
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£344
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	115	124
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.07	£26.92
Average hourly rate	£28.64	£29.15
% change on same period last year	-1.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.20	£31.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.58	£28.53
% change on same period last year	-10.35 %
WAN 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.

WAN
Demand Trend

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

WAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

WAN
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WAN across the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

WAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WAN across the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing WAN within the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 July 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
Cambridgeshire	+10	39	£303	-6.66 %
Essex	-3	11	£242	-36.76 %
Hertfordshire	-24	10	£382	-10.23 %
Bedfordshire	+11	6	-	-
Suffolk	+5	6	£294	+235.71 %
Norfolk	+8	5	£188	-42.30 %
East Anglia	-14	1	-	-

WAN England

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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.

1 128 (84.21 %) LAN 2 87 (57.24 %) Cisco 3 55 (36.18 %) Windows 4 45 (29.61 %) Firewall 5 40 (26.32 %) Microsoft 5 40 (26.32 %) Cisco Certification 6 39 (25.66 %) TCP/IP 7 35 (23.03 %) Active Directory 8 33 (21.71 %) CCNA 9 32 (21.05 %) VoIP 9 32 (21.05 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 31 (20.39 %) MS Exchange 11 29 (19.08 %) Telecoms 12 26 (17.11 %) Windows 2000 13 24 (15.79 %) MS Office

13 24 (15.79 %) HP 13 24 (15.79 %) MPLS 14 23 (15.13 %) VPN 15 22 (14.47 %) ADSL 16 21 (13.82 %) DNS 17 19 (12.50 %) Linux 17 19 (12.50 %) MCSE 17 19 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 17 19 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 18 17 (11.18 %) Windows NT 18 17 (11.18 %) OpenView 18 17 (11.18 %) Exchange Server 2007 19 15 (9.868 %) ITIL 19 15 (9.868 %) VMware 20 13 (8.553 %) Wireless

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 8 (5.263 %) XML 2 2 (1.316 %) XSLT 2 2 (1.316 %) SAP XI 2 2 (1.316 %) .NET Framework 2 2 (1.316 %) Application Packaging 2 2 (1.316 %) .NET 2 2 (1.316 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (0.658 %) COM	Application Platforms 1 32 (21.05 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 31 (20.39 %) MS Exchange 3 17 (11.18 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 11 (7.237 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 5 (3.289 %) SharePoint 6 2 (1.316 %) BizTalk Server 6 2 (1.316 %) IIS 7 1 (0.658 %) Lotus Notes 7 1 (0.658 %) Site Server
Applications 1 24 (15.79 %) MS Office 2 10 (6.579 %) MS Excel 3 4 (2.632 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 2 (1.316 %) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking 1 128 (84.21 %) LAN 2 45 (29.61 %) Firewall 3 39 (25.66 %) TCP/IP 4 32 (21.05 %) VoIP 5 24 (15.79 %) MPLS 6 23 (15.13 %) VPN 7 22 (14.47 %) ADSL 8 21 (13.82 %) DNS 9 13 (8.553 %) Wireless 10 12 (7.895 %) OSPF 10 12 (7.895 %) BGP 10 12 (7.895 %) ISDN 11 11 (7.237 %) TACACS 12 10 (6.579 %) SNMP 12 10 (6.579 %) Ethernet 13 8 (5.263 %) EIGRP 14 7 (4.605 %) WiMAX 14 7 (4.605 %) Intrusion Detection 15 6 (3.947 %) HSDPA 15 6 (3.947 %) Cisco IPT	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (2.632 %) SQL Server 2 3 (1.974 %) Data Mining 3 2 (1.316 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 1 (0.658 %) Datawarehouse 4 1 (0.658 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 2 (1.316 %) MSI 1 2 (1.316 %) AdminStudio	General 1 29 (19.08 %) Telecoms 2 7 (4.605 %) Finance 3 5 (3.289 %) Government 3 5 (3.289 %) Back Office 3 5 (3.289 %) Electronics 4 4 (2.632 %) Pharmaceutical 5 2 (1.316 %) Health 6 1 (0.658 %) Law 6 1 (0.658 %) Insurance 6 1 (0.658 %) Chemicals 6 1 (0.658 %) Education 6 1 (0.658 %) Electric
Job Titles 1 34 (22.37 %) Analyst 2 30 (19.74 %) Network Engineer 3 23 (15.13 %) Support Engineer 4 17 (11.18 %) Network Support 5 16 (10.53 %) 3rd Line Support 6 13 (8.553 %) Network Analyst 7 11 (7.237 %) 2nd Line Support 7 11 (7.237 %) Network Support Engineer 7 11 (7.237 %) Helpdesk Analyst 8 9 (5.921 %) Support Analyst 9 8 (5.263 %) Project Manager 10 6 (3.947 %) Helpdesk Support 10 6 (3.947 %) Cisco Engineer 11 5 (3.289 %) Cisco Specialist 11 5 (3.289 %) Technical Support 11 5 (3.289 %) Server Support 12 4 (2.632 %) Architect 12 4 (2.632 %) Network Specialist 12 4 (2.632 %) Cisco IPT Specialist 12 4 (2.632 %) Electronics Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (1.974 %) Client/Server 2 2 (1.316 %) N-Tier 3 1 (0.658 %) AS400 3 1 (0.658 %) Handset
Operating Systems 1 55 (36.18 %) Windows 2 26 (17.11 %) Windows 2000 3 19 (12.50 %) Linux 3 19 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 4 17 (11.18 %) Windows NT 5 10 (6.579 %) Unix 6 8 (5.263 %) Solaris 7 5 (3.289 %) Windows XP 8 2 (1.316 %) NetWare 9 1 (0.658 %) AIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (9.868 %) ITIL 2 9 (5.921 %) Project Management 2 9 (5.921 %) Security Cleared 3 6 (3.947 %) Computer Security 3 6 (3.947 %) Migration 4 5 (3.289 %) Network Design 4 5 (3.289 %) SC Cleared 5 4 (2.632 %) Problem Management 5 4 (2.632 %) Time Management 6 3 (1.974 %) Change Management 7 2 (1.316 %) PRINCE2 7 2 (1.316 %) OOP 7 2 (1.316 %) ERP 7 2 (1.316 %) PRINCE 7 2 (1.316 %) Project Planning 7 2 (1.316 %) Data Migration 8 1 (0.658 %) Configuration Management 8 1 (0.658 %) Data Analysis 8 1 (0.658 %) Business Analysis 8 1 (0.658 %) Cost-Benefit Analysis
Programming Languages 1 6 (3.947 %) Perl 1 6 (3.947 %) Shell Script 2 5 (3.289 %) SQL 3 2 (1.316 %) C#	Qualifications 1 40 (26.32 %) Cisco Certification 2 33 (21.71 %) CCNA 3 19 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 3 19 (12.50 %) MCSE 4 12 (7.895 %) CCNP 5 5 (3.289 %) CCVP 6 3 (1.974 %) Chartered Engineer 6 3 (1.974 %) MCP 6 3 (1.974 %) CCIE 7 2 (1.316 %) CNA 7 2 (1.316 %) Novell Certification 8 1 (0.658 %) CCSP 8 1 (0.658 %) Degree 8 1 (0.658 %) CCDA 8 1 (0.658 %) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.658 %) SLA 1 1 (0.658 %) PCI DSS	System Software 1 35 (23.03 %) Active Directory 2 7 (4.605 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 5 (3.289 %) VMware ESX 4 2 (1.316 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 17 (11.18 %) OpenView 2 8 (5.263 %) DameWare 3 6 (3.947 %) NNM 3 6 (3.947 %) CiscoWorks 3 6 (3.947 %) Tivoli 3 6 (3.947 %) Tivoli NetView 4 2 (1.316 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 4 2 (1.316 %) WSUS 4 2 (1.316 %) ZENworks 5 1 (0.658 %) OpenView Configuration Management	Vendors 1 87 (57.24 %) Cisco 2 40 (26.32 %) Microsoft 3 24 (15.79 %) HP 4 15 (9.868 %) VMware 5 9 (5.921 %) McAfee Security 5 9 (5.921 %) Dell 5 9 (5.921 %) Nortel 6 8 (5.263 %) Novell 6 8 (5.263 %) CheckPoint 6 8 (5.263 %) 3Com 7 7 (4.605 %) Juniper 8 5 (3.289 %) Citrix 8 5 (3.289 %) Oracle 8 5 (3.289 %) Nokia 9 4 (2.632 %) Cramer 9 4 (2.632 %) MetaSolv 9 4 (2.632 %) IBM 10 3 (1.974 %) SAP 10 3 (1.974 %) Symantec 10 3 (1.974 %) ProCurve