The first table below looks at the demand for WAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 20 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 Guildford 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank - 20 25
Contract jobs citing WAN 0 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford - 1.613% 1.399%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 5.882% 5.714%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £301 £313 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.84% -3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.00 £21.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year
-16.27% -2.27%
All Communications & Networking
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
42 34 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 20.90% 27.42% 24.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 9
Average daily rate £300 £235 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+27.65% -27.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £235 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £335 £340
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.07% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 5
Average hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
- -5.66%
WAN
Surrey

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford WAN Jobs Demand Trend

WAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

Guildford WAN Daily Rate Trend

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Guildford WAN Hourly Rate Trend

WAN
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) IP Telephony

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) IP Telephony
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware