East of England WLAN Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Wireless LAN (WLAN) 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 WLAN over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
Location Berkshire Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London Dorset East of England England Essex Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Kent London Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Slough South East South West Surrey Thames Valley UK Uxbridge West Midlands West Sussex	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	134	140
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	17	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.022 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	2.255 %	0.535 %
Daily rates quoted	5	2
Average minimum daily rate	£273	£283
Average daily rate	£284	£300
% change on same period last year	-5.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£294	£317
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£357
% change on same period last year	-4.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.25	£11.00
Average hourly rate	£16.25	£11.00
% change on same period last year	+47.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.25	£11.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.81	£33.67
% change on same period last year	-17.40 %
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 %
WLAN 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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WLAN 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 WLAN 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	-	-
Essex	-	5	£200	-
Hertfordshire	-6	2	£409	+2.18 %

WLAN England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 26 (76.47 %) LAN 2 17 (50.00 %) HP 3 14 (41.18 %) VPN 3 14 (41.18 %) Windows 2000 4 13 (38.24 %) Unix 5 12 (35.29 %) Windows 5 12 (35.29 %) Dell 6 11 (32.35 %) Wireless 7 10 (29.41 %) Linux 8 9 (26.47 %) Cisco 9 8 (23.53 %) SMS 9 8 (23.53 %) GSM 9 8 (23.53 %) Windows NT 9 8 (23.53 %) Solaris 9 8 (23.53 %) Cisco Certification

10 7 (20.59 %) OpenView 10 7 (20.59 %) TACACS 10 7 (20.59 %) Tivoli 10 7 (20.59 %) Tivoli NetView 10 7 (20.59 %) Shell Script 10 7 (20.59 %) CiscoWorks 10 7 (20.59 %) Compaq 10 7 (20.59 %) XML 10 7 (20.59 %) Perl 10 7 (20.59 %) GPRS 10 7 (20.59 %) UMTS 10 7 (20.59 %) Telecoms 10 7 (20.59 %) NNM 10 7 (20.59 %) Exchange Server 5.5 11 6 (17.65 %) UWB

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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 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 Development 1 7 (20.59 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 7 (20.59 %) Exchange Server 5.5 2 4 (11.76 %) MS Exchange 2 4 (11.76 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (5.882 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 4 (11.76 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 26 (76.47 %) LAN 2 14 (41.18 %) VPN 3 11 (32.35 %) Wireless 4 8 (23.53 %) SMS 4 8 (23.53 %) GSM 5 7 (20.59 %) GPRS 5 7 (20.59 %) UMTS 5 7 (20.59 %) TACACS 6 6 (17.65 %) SNMP 6 6 (17.65 %) UWB 6 6 (17.65 %) WAN 6 6 (17.65 %) DNS 7 5 (14.71 %) C7 7 5 (14.71 %) TCP/IP 7 5 (14.71 %) INAP 8 2 (5.882 %) Firewall 8 2 (5.882 %) IPv6 8 2 (5.882 %) MPLS 8 2 (5.882 %) OSPF 8 2 (5.882 %) BGP
General 1 7 (20.59 %) Telecoms 2 1 (2.941 %) Multimedia 2 1 (2.941 %) Electronics	Job Titles 1 8 (23.53 %) Desktop Support 2 7 (20.59 %) Desktop Engineer 3 5 (14.71 %) Desktop Analyst 3 5 (14.71 %) Desktop Support Analyst 3 5 (14.71 %) Developer 3 5 (14.71 %) Analyst 3 5 (14.71 %) Network Engineer 3 5 (14.71 %) Support Analyst 3 5 (14.71 %) Software Developer 4 3 (8.824 %) Support Engineer 4 3 (8.824 %) Network Specialist 4 3 (8.824 %) Desktop Support Engineer 5 1 (2.941 %) Test Engineer 5 1 (2.941 %) Senior Network Engineer 5 1 (2.941 %) Network Administrator 5 1 (2.941 %) Software Team Leader 5 1 (2.941 %) Team Leader 5 1 (2.941 %) Senior Test Engineer 5 1 (2.941 %) Administrator 5 1 (2.941 %) Design Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 6 (17.65 %) Blackberry 2 5 (14.71 %) PDA 3 3 (8.824 %) Firmware 4 1 (2.941 %) Mathematics 4 1 (2.941 %) Physics 4 1 (2.941 %) DTV 4 1 (2.941 %) STB 4 1 (2.941 %) IPTV	Operating Systems 1 14 (41.18 %) Windows 2000 2 13 (38.24 %) Unix 3 12 (35.29 %) Windows 4 10 (29.41 %) Linux 5 8 (23.53 %) Solaris 5 8 (23.53 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (5.882 %) UML 1 2 (5.882 %) Load Balancing 2 1 (2.941 %) DRM	Programming Languages 1 7 (20.59 %) Perl 1 7 (20.59 %) Shell Script 2 4 (11.76 %) C 3 3 (8.824 %) C++ 4 1 (2.941 %) Embedded C
Qualifications 1 8 (23.53 %) Cisco Certification 2 6 (17.65 %) CCNA 3 4 (11.76 %) Microsoft Certification 3 4 (11.76 %) MCP 4 2 (5.882 %) CCNP 4 2 (5.882 %) CCIP 5 1 (2.941 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.941 %) SLA
System Software 1 4 (11.76 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 7 (20.59 %) OpenView 1 7 (20.59 %) CiscoWorks 1 7 (20.59 %) Tivoli 1 7 (20.59 %) Tivoli NetView 1 7 (20.59 %) NNM 2 4 (11.76 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 17 (50.00 %) HP 2 12 (35.29 %) Dell 3 9 (26.47 %) Cisco 4 7 (20.59 %) Compaq 5 6 (17.65 %) Nortel 6 5 (14.71 %) Oracle 7 4 (11.76 %) IBM 8 2 (5.882 %) Sun 8 2 (5.882 %) Citrix 8 2 (5.882 %) CheckPoint 8 2 (5.882 %) Crossbeam 9 1 (2.941 %) Siemens