Essex Network Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Network Engineer role in IT contracts within the Essex region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Network Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Network Engineer
Location Aberdeen Aldershot Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely England Essex Exeter Farnborough Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Greenford Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hull Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Redditch Redhill Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	49	42
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	10	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	1.439 %	2.670 %
Daily rates quoted	5	4
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£285
Average daily rate	£324	£285
% change on same period last year	+13.68 %
Average maximum daily rate	£324	£285
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£317
% change on same period last year	+2.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£23.00
Average hourly rate	£21.50	£24.25
% change on same period last year	-11.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.00	£25.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.56	£25.88
% change on same period last year	-5.10 %
Job Titles Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	695	749
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.939 %	0.739 %
Daily rates quoted	249	225
Average minimum daily rate	£288	£300
Average daily rate	£306	£321
% change on same period last year	-4.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£324	£342
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	94	168
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.08	£28.13
Average hourly rate	£25.90	£28.90
% change on same period last year	-10.39 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.71	£29.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.85	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.14 %
Network Engineer East of 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 Network Engineer across the Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles 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 Network Engineer across the Essex region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Network Engineer across the Essex region over the 3 months to 5 September 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 Network Engineer across the Essex region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Engineer within the Essex region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Basildon	-3	3	-	-

Network Engineer East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region that cited Network Engineer in their job title 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 with Network Engineer in their job title.

1 35 (76.09 %) Cisco 2 29 (63.04 %) Windows 3 24 (52.17 %) Windows XP 4 23 (50.00 %) Firewall 5 21 (45.65 %) Windows Server 2003 6 17 (36.96 %) Cisco Certification 7 16 (34.78 %) TCP/IP 7 16 (34.78 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 13 (28.26 %) CCNA 9 11 (23.91 %) Windows 2000 10 9 (19.57 %) DNS 10 9 (19.57 %) DHCP 10 9 (19.57 %) Microsoft Certification 11 8 (17.39 %) Cisco IOS 11 8 (17.39 %) CiscoWorks

12 7 (15.22 %) Microsoft 12 7 (15.22 %) Wireless 12 7 (15.22 %) WAN 12 7 (15.22 %) LAN 12 7 (15.22 %) Solaris 12 7 (15.22 %) MS Office 13 6 (13.04 %) MCP 13 6 (13.04 %) OSPF 14 5 (10.87 %) CCNP 14 5 (10.87 %) Linux 14 5 (10.87 %) VPN 15 4 (8.696 %) Active Directory 15 4 (8.696 %) OpenView 15 4 (8.696 %) HP 15 4 (8.696 %) MS Exchange

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region that cited Network Engineer in their job title 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 with Network Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (6.522 %) XML 2 1 (2.174 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 4 (8.696 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (4.348 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (2.174 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 7 (15.22 %) MS Office 2 1 (2.174 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 23 (50.00 %) Firewall 2 16 (34.78 %) TCP/IP 3 9 (19.57 %) DNS 3 9 (19.57 %) DHCP 4 8 (17.39 %) Cisco IOS 5 7 (15.22 %) Wireless 5 7 (15.22 %) WAN 5 7 (15.22 %) LAN 6 6 (13.04 %) OSPF 7 5 (10.87 %) VPN 8 4 (8.696 %) Internet 9 3 (6.522 %) WLAN 9 3 (6.522 %) SNMP 9 3 (6.522 %) TACACS 10 2 (4.348 %) NetScreen 10 2 (4.348 %) EIGRP 10 2 (4.348 %) IP Telephony 11 1 (2.174 %) IPCC 11 1 (2.174 %) IGRP 11 1 (2.174 %) MGCP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.174 %) SQL Server	General 1 4 (8.696 %) Back Office 2 3 (6.522 %) Insurance 3 2 (4.348 %) Health
Miscellaneous 1 2 (4.348 %) NHS 2 1 (2.174 %) PDA 2 1 (2.174 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 29 (63.04 %) Windows 2 24 (52.17 %) Windows XP 3 21 (45.65 %) Windows Server 2003 4 16 (34.78 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 11 (23.91 %) Windows 2000 6 7 (15.22 %) Solaris 7 5 (10.87 %) Linux 8 4 (8.696 %) Windows NT 8 4 (8.696 %) UNIX 9 2 (4.348 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (6.522 %) Validation 1 3 (6.522 %) Network Design 2 1 (2.174 %) Change Management 2 1 (2.174 %) Disaster Recovery	Programming Languages 1 3 (6.522 %) Perl 1 3 (6.522 %) Shell Script
Qualifications 1 17 (36.96 %) Cisco Certification 2 13 (28.26 %) CCNA 3 9 (19.57 %) Microsoft Certification 4 6 (13.04 %) MCP 5 5 (10.87 %) CCNP 6 3 (6.522 %) MCSE 7 2 (4.348 %) MCDST 7 2 (4.348 %) Degree	System Software 1 4 (8.696 %) Active Directory 1 4 (8.696 %) Terminal Services 2 1 (2.174 %) ISA Server
Systems Management 1 8 (17.39 %) CiscoWorks 2 4 (8.696 %) OpenView 3 3 (6.522 %) NNM 3 3 (6.522 %) Tivoli 3 3 (6.522 %) Tivoli NetView 4 1 (2.174 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 35 (76.09 %) Cisco 2 7 (15.22 %) Microsoft 3 4 (8.696 %) HP 4 3 (6.522 %) Nortel 4 3 (6.522 %) Oracle 5 1 (2.174 %) Avaya 5 1 (2.174 %) Juniper 5 1 (2.174 %) Novell 5 1 (2.174 %) CheckPoint 5 1 (2.174 %) iSOFT 5 1 (2.174 %) McAfee Security