The first table below looks at the demand for VLAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VLAN over the 3 months to 17 June 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 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
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual LAN (VLAN)
Rank 392 350 432
Rank change year-on-year
-42 +82
Contract jobs citing VLAN 131 212 129
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.299% 0.400% 0.229%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.076% 2.551% 1.743%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 90 62
Average daily rate £330 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.71% +16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £528 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £298 £328 £300
% change year-on-year
-9.16% +9.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 10 6
Average hourly rate £37.50 £32.82 £20.35
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+14.25% +61.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £20.00 £20.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £47.50 £26.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+15.38% +62.50%
All Communications & Networking
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6310 8310 7401
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 14.41% 15.66% 13.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3257 3820 3437
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.07% +0.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £210 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £499 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-4.54% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 495 585 749
Average hourly rate £24.50 £24.38 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+0.51% +1.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.75 £13.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
VLAN
UK

VLAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England VLAN Jobs Demand Trend

VLAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

England VLAN Daily Rate Trend

VLAN
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VLAN across the England region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013.

England VLAN Daily Rate Histogram

VLAN
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VLAN across the England region.

England VLAN Hourly Rate Trend

VLAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VLAN across the England region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013.

England VLAN Hourly Rate Histogram

VLAN
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the England region over the 3 months to 17 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
London -27 45 £358 -1.37% 25
South East +6 33 £314 -10.35% 11
East of England +5 17 £286 +4.09% 3
Yorkshire +17 15 £375 - 6
West Midlands +18 7 £144 -58.85% 6
North West +11 7 - - 8
East Midlands -4 5 £325 +73.33% 3
South West +11 3 £240 -20.00% 2
North East -1 1 £350 - 1
VLAN
UK

VLAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing VLAN 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 VLAN.

1 160 (58.18%) Cisco
2 115 (41.82%) Firewall
3 110 (40.00%) Windows
4 108 (39.27%) LAN
5 104 (37.82%) WAN
6 86 (31.27%) Cisco Certification
7 82 (29.82%) VPN
8 73 (26.55%) TCP/IP
8 73 (26.55%) VMware
9 67 (24.36%) Microsoft
10 66 (24.00%) Windows Server 2008
11 62 (22.55%) MPLS
12 57 (20.73%) CCNA
13 56 (20.36%) Active Directory
14 52 (18.91%) OSPF
14 52 (18.91%) Windows Server 2003
14 52 (18.91%) DNS
14 52 (18.91%) DHCP
15 50 (18.18%) HP
16 49 (17.82%) BGP
17 43 (15.64%) Internet
17 43 (15.64%) CCNP
18 41 (14.91%) CheckPoint
19 40 (14.55%) SAN
20 39 (14.18%) Juniper
20 39 (14.18%) VoIP
20 39 (14.18%) Linux
21 36 (13.09%) Cisco ASA
22 35 (12.73%) VMware Infrastructure
22 35 (12.73%) Wireless

VLAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing VLAN 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 VLAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (2.182%) Regular Expression
2 5 (1.818%) CSS
3 4 (1.455%) SOAP
4 2 (0.727%) WAP
4 2 (0.727%) Middleware
5 1 (0.364%) Windows SharePoint Services
5 1 (0.364%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (0.364%) Memcached
5 1 (0.364%) MAPI
5 1 (0.364%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 31 (11.27%) MS Exchange
2 25 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2010
3 11 (4.000%) Exchange Server 2013
4 9 (3.273%) Lync
4 9 (3.273%) IIS
5 8 (2.909%) SharePoint
6 6 (2.182%) Exchange Server 2007
6 6 (2.182%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 5 (1.818%) Lotus Domino
8 4 (1.455%) SharePoint 2010
9 3 (1.091%) Apache
9 3 (1.091%) IBM Notes
10 2 (0.727%) CMS
10 2 (0.727%) Exchange Server 2003
10 2 (0.727%) Amazon AWS
11 1 (0.364%) Office Communications Server
11 1 (0.364%) nginx
11 1 (0.364%) Documentum
11 1 (0.364%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.364%) Rackspace Cloud
Applications
1 20 (7.273%) MS Excel
2 10 (3.636%) MS Visio
3 7 (2.545%) MS Office
4 4 (1.455%) S-PLUS
5 2 (0.727%) MS PowerPoint
6 1 (0.364%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 115 (41.82%) Firewall
2 108 (39.27%) LAN
3 104 (37.82%) WAN
4 82 (29.82%) VPN
5 73 (26.55%) TCP/IP
6 62 (22.55%) MPLS
7 52 (18.91%) OSPF
7 52 (18.91%) DNS
7 52 (18.91%) DHCP
8 49 (17.82%) BGP
9 43 (15.64%) Internet
10 40 (14.55%) SAN
11 39 (14.18%) VoIP
12 36 (13.09%) Cisco ASA
13 35 (12.73%) Wireless
14 32 (11.64%) Cisco Nexus
15 31 (11.27%) SNMP
16 26 (9.455%) IPsec
17 25 (9.091%) HSRP
18 23 (8.364%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.727%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.818%) SQL Server 2005
2 5 (1.818%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (1.091%) MySQL
4 1 (0.364%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (0.364%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 1 (0.364%) Ant
1 1 (0.364%) ClearCase
1 1 (0.364%) Subversion
General
1 29 (10.55%) Finance
2 24 (8.727%) Telecoms
3 9 (3.273%) Banking
4 7 (2.545%) Investment Banking
5 6 (2.182%) Retail
6 5 (1.818%) Military
7 4 (1.455%) Law
8 3 (1.091%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.727%) Publishing
9 2 (0.727%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.364%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.364%) Legal
10 1 (0.364%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 96 (34.91%) Network Engineer
2 38 (13.82%) Analyst
3 21 (7.636%) Cisco Engineer
4 20 (7.273%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 18 (6.545%) Network Analyst
5 18 (6.545%) Architect
6 17 (6.182%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 15 (5.455%) Support Analyst
8 13 (4.727%) Support Engineer
8 13 (4.727%) Administrator
8 13 (4.727%) Consultant
9 12 (4.364%) Technical Analyst
10 10 (3.636%) Network Architect
11 9 (3.273%) Server Engineer
11 9 (3.273%) Network Support
12 8 (2.909%) Network Administrator
12 8 (2.909%) Desktop Support
12 8 (2.909%) 3rd Line Support
12 8 (2.909%) Technical Support
13 7 (2.545%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.455%) EqualLogic
2 8 (2.909%) Open Source
3 6 (2.182%) Video Conferencing
3 6 (2.182%) Blackberry
3 6 (2.182%) Clustering
4 4 (1.455%) SecurID
4 4 (1.455%) Firmware
4 4 (1.455%) Data Integration
5 3 (1.091%) Device Driver
5 3 (1.091%) Cryptography
5 3 (1.091%) Computer Science
6 2 (0.727%) PKI
6 2 (0.727%) IVR
6 2 (0.727%) Handset
6 2 (0.727%) Replication
6 2 (0.727%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.727%) SaaS
7 1 (0.364%) iPhone
7 1 (0.364%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.364%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 110 (40.00%) Windows
2 66 (24.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 52 (18.91%) Windows Server 2003
4 39 (14.18%) Linux
5 25 (9.091%) Windows Server 2012
6 20 (7.273%) Windows XP
7 18 (6.545%) UNIX
8 17 (6.182%) Windows 7
9 13 (4.727%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 12 (4.364%) Windows 8
11 10 (3.636%) CentOS
12 8 (2.909%) VMS
13 6 (2.182%) Ubuntu
13 6 (2.182%) Debian
14 5 (1.818%) Solaris
15 3 (1.091%) Windows Vista
16 1 (0.364%) Android
16 1 (0.364%) FreeBSD
16 1 (0.364%) OpenBSD
16 1 (0.364%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (11.27%) ITIL
2 23 (8.364%) Load Balancing
3 20 (7.273%) Migration
4 14 (5.091%) Network Management
5 13 (4.727%) E-Commerce
6 12 (4.364%) Network Load Balancing
7 11 (4.000%) Capacity Management
8 9 (3.273%) Network Architecture
9 8 (2.909%) Network Design
9 8 (2.909%) Change Management
9 8 (2.909%) Disaster Recovery
10 7 (2.545%) Service Management
10 7 (2.545%) Change Control
11 6 (2.182%) Incident Management
11 6 (2.182%) Test Scripting
11 6 (2.182%) Configuration Management
11 6 (2.182%) Scrum
12 5 (1.818%) Business Continuity
12 5 (1.818%) PRINCE2
12 5 (1.818%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (6.545%) SQL
2 15 (5.455%) PowerShell
3 8 (2.909%) Python
3 8 (2.909%) Perl
3 8 (2.909%) C++
4 7 (2.545%) Bash shell
5 6 (2.182%) C
6 5 (1.818%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.091%) C#
8 2 (0.727%) PHP
9 1 (0.364%) VBScript
9 1 (0.364%) Java
9 1 (0.364%) Korn
9 1 (0.364%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 86 (31.27%) Cisco Certification
2 57 (20.73%) CCNA
3 43 (15.64%) CCNP
4 26 (9.455%) Security Cleared
5 20 (7.273%) SC Cleared
6 17 (6.182%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (4.000%) CCIE
8 9 (3.273%) MCSE
9 8 (2.909%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 7 (2.545%) Degree
11 6 (2.182%) MCITP
11 6 (2.182%) HP AIS
11 6 (2.182%) HP ASE
12 4 (1.455%) JNCIE
13 3 (1.091%) MCTS
13 3 (1.091%) VCP4
13 3 (1.091%) MCP
14 2 (0.727%) MCSA
14 2 (0.727%) ACSA
14 2 (0.727%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.545%) PCI DSS
2 12 (4.364%) QA
3 7 (2.545%) SLA
System Software
1 56 (20.36%) Active Directory
2 35 (12.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (9.091%) vSphere
4 23 (8.364%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (7.636%) Hyper-V
6 15 (5.455%) XenApp
7 10 (3.636%) XenServer
8 8 (2.909%) VMware ESX
9 7 (2.545%) NFS
10 4 (1.455%) Citrix Presentation Server
10 4 (1.455%) Terminal Services
10 4 (1.455%) ISA Server
11 3 (1.091%) Snort
11 3 (1.091%) XenDesktop
11 3 (1.091%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.727%) UAG
12 2 (0.727%) Squid
12 2 (0.727%) MetaFrame
13 1 (0.364%) Samba
13 1 (0.364%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 16 (5.818%) SCOM
2 14 (5.091%) WSUS
3 13 (4.727%) Backup Exec
4 12 (4.364%) SCVMM
4 12 (4.364%) Nagios
5 11 (4.000%) Cacti
6 9 (3.273%) FortiGate
7 8 (2.909%) Cisco CUCM
8 7 (2.545%) WhatsUp Gold
9 4 (1.455%) HP SiteScope
9 4 (1.455%) SCCM
10 3 (1.091%) Nessus
10 3 (1.091%) MOM
11 2 (0.727%) Puppet
12 1 (0.364%) Cisco UCCX
12 1 (0.364%) HP Quality Center
12 1 (0.364%) Plesk
12 1 (0.364%) McAfee ePO
12 1 (0.364%) HP SIM
12 1 (0.364%) Netcool
Vendors
1 160 (58.18%) Cisco
2 73 (26.55%) VMware
3 67 (24.36%) Microsoft
4 50 (18.18%) HP
5 41 (14.91%) CheckPoint
6 39 (14.18%) Juniper
7 31 (11.27%) Citrix
8 22 (8.000%) Dell
9 21 (7.636%) F5
10 18 (6.545%) Red Hat
11 17 (6.182%) NetApp
11 17 (6.182%) Sourcefire
12 14 (5.091%) Veeam
13 13 (4.727%) Avaya
13 13 (4.727%) Symantec
14 10 (3.636%) Broadcom
15 8 (2.909%) ArcSight
15 8 (2.909%) Fortinet
16 7 (2.545%) Nokia
17 6 (2.182%) EMC
Warrington, North West
Key skills and experience required: Experience with MS Windows 2008 R2 / 2012 ServerVirtualisation Technologies, Hyper-V. Networking - LAN, WAN, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, Firewalls (Sonic Wall), Vlans, Natting,...
Computer Futures
Posted: 12 June 2013
Walsall, West Midlands (County)
VMware/vSphere/Windows Server/SQL/Active Directory/VLANs. Roc searches client based in Walsall require a VMware Engineer to join their team on a 6 month initial contract.
Roc Search
Posted: 12 June 2013
Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Key skills: - VMware 4/5, VMware site recovery manager, Veeam backups - SAN (HP, MSA, EVA) installations and configuration - Cisco Routers and Switches, ASA - VLANS layers 2/3 - MPLS,...
Computer Futures
Posted: 22 May 2013
Bradford, Yorkshire
An opportunity has arisen with our Financial Services client to join their experienced Network Services department on a contract basis for 6 months. This is a fantastic opportunity...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £180.00 - £210.00 per day
Posted: 31 May 2013
London
This urgent contract role is working at a customer site in London as part of the Voice team, which is responsible for the management, administration and integrity of...
GSA Techsource
Rate: GBP300 - GBP340 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Chester, North West
Argyll Scott International
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Warrington, North West
Computer Futures
Posted: 7 June 2013
Walsall, West Midlands
Hudson
Rate: £140 - £148 per day
Posted: 5 June 2013
City of London
ITHR
Rate: £320 - £350 per day
Posted: 7 June 2013
Warrington, North West
Computer Futures
Posted: 10 June 2013
Southampton, South East
greywood
Rate: £25000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Halifax, Yorkshire
Rate: £480 per day
Posted: 5 June 2013
Halifax, Yorkshire
Rate: £400 - £490 per day
Posted: 3 June 2013
Brentwood, South East
Claremont Consulting
Rate: £300 - £335 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Brentwood, Essex
Claremont Consulting Ltd
Rate: £300 - £335 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
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