Essex WAN Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Wide Area Network (WAN) skills within the Essex region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 1 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Carterton Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chichester Cirencester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Doncaster Durham Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Hull Huntingdon Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Redditch Romford Rugby Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Surbiton Surrey Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 1 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	39	49
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	19	26
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.030 %	0.028 %
As % of the category below	13.77 %	13.90 %
Daily rates quoted	13	6
Average minimum daily rate	£233	£307
Average daily rate	£242	£315
% change on same period last year	-23.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£251	£323
UK excluding London average daily rate	£339	£342
% change on same period last year	-0.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£33.70
Average hourly rate	£25.00	£34.15
% change on same period last year	-26.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	£34.61
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.28	£22.93
% change on same period last year	+14.62 %
Communications & Networking Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	138	187
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.219 %	0.199 %
Daily rates quoted	60	84
Average minimum daily rate	£273	£255
Average daily rate	£283	£266
% change on same period last year	+6.32 %
Average maximum daily rate	£293	£277
UK excluding London average daily rate	£347	£336
% change on same period last year	+3.00 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	33
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.96	£34.09
Average hourly rate	£24.63	£34.35
% change on same period last year	-28.29 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.31	£34.62
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.77	£28.62
% change on same period last year	-2.99 %
WAN 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.

WAN
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing WAN across the Essex 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 Essex region.

WAN
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WAN across the Essex region over the 3 months to 1 December 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 Essex region.

WAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WAN across the Essex region over the 3 months to 1 December 2008.

WAN
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Essex region over the 3 months to 1 December 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
Colchester	-	3	-	-
Basildon	+3	2	£300	-
Brentwood	-1	1	£590	+68.57 %

WAN East of England

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 18 (81.82 %) LAN 2 12 (54.55 %) Windows 3 11 (50.00 %) Cisco 3 11 (50.00 %) Windows Server 2003 4 10 (45.45 %) TCP/IP 5 9 (40.91 %) DNS 6 8 (36.36 %) DHCP 7 7 (31.82 %) Cisco PIX 7 7 (31.82 %) Firewall 7 7 (31.82 %) CheckPoint 8 6 (27.27 %) VoIP 8 6 (27.27 %) Windows 2000 Server 9 5 (22.73 %) Video Conferencing 9 5 (22.73 %) SNMP 9 5 (22.73 %) MS Excel

9 5 (22.73 %) VPN 9 5 (22.73 %) Microsoft 9 5 (22.73 %) BGP 9 5 (22.73 %) Wireless 9 5 (22.73 %) Education 10 4 (18.18 %) IBM 11 3 (13.64 %) CCNA 11 3 (13.64 %) HP 11 3 (13.64 %) Cisco Certification 11 3 (13.64 %) Microsoft Certification 11 3 (13.64 %) Avaya 11 3 (13.64 %) SharePoint 11 3 (13.64 %) MCSE 11 3 (13.64 %) VB 11 3 (13.64 %) IIS

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 Platforms 1 3 (13.64 %) IIS 1 3 (13.64 %) SharePoint 1 3 (13.64 %) MS Exchange 1 3 (13.64 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (4.545 %) Site Server	Applications 1 5 (22.73 %) MS Excel 2 2 (9.091 %) MS Visio 2 2 (9.091 %) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking 1 18 (81.82 %) LAN 2 10 (45.45 %) TCP/IP 3 9 (40.91 %) DNS 4 8 (36.36 %) DHCP 5 7 (31.82 %) Firewall 5 7 (31.82 %) Cisco PIX 6 6 (27.27 %) VoIP 7 5 (22.73 %) VPN 7 5 (22.73 %) BGP 7 5 (22.73 %) SNMP 7 5 (22.73 %) Wireless 8 3 (13.64 %) ISDN 9 2 (9.091 %) ATM 9 2 (9.091 %) SNA 9 2 (9.091 %) IPX 9 2 (9.091 %) X.25 9 2 (9.091 %) X.21 9 2 (9.091 %) NetScreen 9 2 (9.091 %) Internet 9 2 (9.091 %) MPLS	General 1 5 (22.73 %) Education 2 2 (9.091 %) Health 2 2 (9.091 %) Telecoms 3 1 (4.545 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 8 (36.36 %) Network Engineer 1 8 (36.36 %) Network Support 2 7 (31.82 %) Network Technician 3 5 (22.73 %) Support Technician 3 5 (22.73 %) Network Support Technician 4 4 (18.18 %) 3rd Line Support 5 3 (13.64 %) Helpdesk Support 5 3 (13.64 %) Technical Specialist 5 3 (13.64 %) Technical Engineer 6 2 (9.091 %) Server Engineer 6 2 (9.091 %) Architect 6 2 (9.091 %) Implementation Engineer 6 2 (9.091 %) Server Specialist 7 1 (4.545 %) 3rd Line Support Analyst 7 1 (4.545 %) Technical Advisor 7 1 (4.545 %) Telecoms Engineer 7 1 (4.545 %) Project Manager 7 1 (4.545 %) Analyst 7 1 (4.545 %) Network Consultant 7 1 (4.545 %) Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 5 (22.73 %) Video Conferencing 2 2 (9.091 %) e-Health 3 1 (4.545 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 12 (54.55 %) Windows 2 11 (50.00 %) Windows Server 2003 3 6 (27.27 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 1 (4.545 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (13.64 %) Migration 1 3 (13.64 %) Project Planning 2 2 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 2 2 (9.091 %) Project Management 2 2 (9.091 %) Disaster Recovery 3 1 (4.545 %) ITSM 3 1 (4.545 %) Business Analysis 3 1 (4.545 %) Cost-Benefit Analysis 3 1 (4.545 %) Incident Management
Programming Languages 1 3 (13.64 %) VB 1 3 (13.64 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 3 (13.64 %) MCSE 1 3 (13.64 %) CCNA 1 3 (13.64 %) Cisco Certification 1 3 (13.64 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (4.545 %) CCDP 2 1 (4.545 %) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (9.091 %) SLA	System Software 1 1 (4.545 %) Active Directory 1 1 (4.545 %) ISA Server
Systems Management 1 3 (13.64 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 2 (9.091 %) OpenView 3 1 (4.545 %) Tivoli	Vendors 1 11 (50.00 %) Cisco 2 7 (31.82 %) CheckPoint 3 5 (22.73 %) Microsoft 4 4 (18.18 %) IBM 5 3 (13.64 %) HP 5 3 (13.64 %) Avaya 6 2 (9.091 %) McAfee Security 6 2 (9.091 %) Websense 6 2 (9.091 %) CA 7 1 (4.545 %) Juniper 7 1 (4.545 %) Citrix