Glasgow WAN Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for WAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Glasgow region.

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Location Aberdeen Aldershot Aylesbury Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London Colchester Corsham Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Livingston London Luton Maidstone Malmesbury Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Plymouth Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Rochdale Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Swansea Taunton Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Woking Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 19 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	49	40	47
Rank change year-on-year	-9 +7
Matching contract IT job ads	1	2	16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow	0.183 %	0.461 %	1.639 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category	3.030 %	2.667 %	16.00 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1	1
Average daily rate	-	£313	£300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	- +4.160 %
UK excluding London average daily rate	£320	£320	£325
% change year-on-year	- -1.530 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0	2
Average hourly rate	-	-	£17.79
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.50	£22.00	£20.50
% change year-on-year	-11.36 % +7.310 %
All Communications & Networking Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Communications & Networking category	33	75	100
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow	6.044 %	17.28 %	10.25 %
Daily rates quoted	14	21	29
Average daily rate	£210	£400	£300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	-47.50 % +33.33 %
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£338	£325
% change year-on-year	-3.700 % +3.840 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	21	8
Average hourly rate	£12.00	£40.50	£22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	-70.37 % +80.00 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.00	£24.00	£27.50
% change year-on-year	+4.160 % -12.72 %
WAN Scotland

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.

WAN
Demand Trend

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

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

WAN
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 3 (100.00 %) LAN 1 3 (100.00 %) Cisco 2 2 (66.67 %) Cisco Certification 2 2 (66.67 %) VoIP 2 2 (66.67 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (66.67 %) Firewall 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows 3 1 (33.33 %) Extranet 3 1 (33.33 %) Cisco IPCC 3 1 (33.33 %) VMware ESX 3 1 (33.33 %) CCVP 3 1 (33.33 %) .NET Framework 3 1 (33.33 %) VPN 3 1 (33.33 %) .NET

3 1 (33.33 %) IIS 3 1 (33.33 %) Web Services 3 1 (33.33 %) XML 3 1 (33.33 %) ITIL 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (33.33 %) CheckPoint 3 1 (33.33 %) DMZ 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 3 1 (33.33 %) CCNP 3 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 1 (33.33 %) .NET Framework 1 1 (33.33 %) .NET 1 1 (33.33 %) Web Services 1 1 (33.33 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) IIS
Communications & Networking 1 3 (100.00 %) LAN 2 2 (66.67 %) VoIP 2 2 (66.67 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (66.67 %) Firewall 3 1 (33.33 %) Extranet 3 1 (33.33 %) VPN 3 1 (33.33 %) DMZ	Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Systems Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Systems Support 1 1 (33.33 %) Support Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Field Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Infrastructure Specialist 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco Specialist 1 1 (33.33 %) Systems Support Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) VoIP Engineer
Operating Systems 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) ITIL
Qualifications 1 2 (66.67 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (33.33 %) CCVP 2 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (33.33 %) CCNP	System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) VMware ESX 1 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco IPCC	Vendors 1 3 (100.00 %) Cisco 2 1 (33.33 %) CheckPoint 2 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft