The first table below looks at the demand for LAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hammersmith region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LAN over the 3 months to 24 May 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 Hammersmith 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Local Area Network (LAN)
Rank 7 10 5
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -5
Contract jobs citing LAN 2 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hammersmith 5.714% 5.000% 14.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.67% 20.00% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
Average daily rate £288 £235 £205
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+22.34% +14.63%
UK excluding London average daily rate £308 £313 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.60% -3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £21.34 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £21.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-23.80% -
All Communications & Networking
Hammersmith
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
12 10 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hammersmith 34.29% 25.00% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 3
Average daily rate £400 £250 £205
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+60.00% +21.95%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £21.34 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
LAN
London

LAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hammersmith LAN Jobs Demand Trend

LAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hammersmith LAN Daily Rate Trend

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hammersmith LAN Hourly Rate Trend

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hammersmith region citing LAN 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 LAN.

1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 2 (66.67%) SLA
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) SAN
3 1 (33.33%) 802.11
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) LDAP
3 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
3 1 (33.33%) VoIP
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) SMTP
3 1 (33.33%) DHCP
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) ProCurve
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) XenServer

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hammersmith region citing LAN 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 LAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) 802.11
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
1 1 (33.33%) VoIP
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) SMTP
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Services Delivery Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Service Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Manager
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) XenServer
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) HP
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix
1 1 (33.33%) ProCurve
1 1 (33.33%) VMware