Gloucestershire Network Design Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Network Design skills within the Gloucestershire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Network Design over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Network Design
Location Altrincham Aylesbury Basingstoke Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chalfont St Giles Cheltenham City of London Croydon Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Gloucestershire Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire London Loughborough Lytham St Annes Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Oxfordshire Paddington Pontefract Reading Redditch Rugby Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Stevenage Surrey Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Windsor Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	52	56
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	6	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	1.357 %	0.262 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£362
% change on same period last year	-1.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.70	£39.69
% change on same period last year	-7.51 %
Processes & Methodologies Gloucestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	442	381
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.597 %	0.376 %
Daily rates quoted	133	143
Average minimum daily rate	£378	£387
Average daily rate	£388	£399
% change on same period last year	-2.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£398	£412
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£375
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	31	43
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.05	£29.39
Average hourly rate	£30.28	£30.07
% change on same period last year	+0.69 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.51	£30.76
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.41	£30.41
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
Network Design South West

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.

Network Design
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Network Design across the Gloucestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Network Design
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Network Design across the Gloucestershire region.

Network Design
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Design within the Gloucestershire 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
Cheltenham	-	6	-	-

Network Design South West

Network Design
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing Network Design 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 Network Design.

1 6 (100.00 %) Cisco 2 3 (50.00 %) Finance 2 3 (50.00 %) Legal 2 3 (50.00 %) Security Cleared 3 2 (33.33 %) DV Cleared 3 2 (33.33 %) CESG 3 2 (33.33 %) ATM 3 2 (33.33 %) WAN 4 1 (16.67 %) Government

Network Design
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing Network Design 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 Network Design. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 2 (33.33 %) ATM 1 2 (33.33 %) WAN	General 1 3 (50.00 %) Finance 1 3 (50.00 %) Legal 2 1 (16.67 %) Government
Job Titles 1 6 (100.00 %) Consultant 2 5 (83.33 %) Network Consultant 3 3 (50.00 %) Cisco Consultant 4 1 (16.67 %) Network Engineer 4 1 (16.67 %) Network Designer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (33.33 %) CESG
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (50.00 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (33.33 %) DV Cleared	Vendors 1 6 (100.00 %) Cisco