Hampshire Ethernet Contracts

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

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Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardigan Ceredigion Cheshire Chippenham City of London Coventry Crawley Dartford Devon Dorking Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glasgow Greenford Hampshire Hayes Ipswich Kent Leeds London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Mansfield Mid Wales Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury North East North West Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Reading Redditch Runcorn Scotland Somerset South East South West Staines Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	83	100
Rank change on same period last year	+17
Matching contract IT job ads	15	25
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.025 %
As % of the category below	3.896 %	4.771 %
Daily rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£384
Average daily rate	£350	£384
% change on same period last year	-8.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£384
UK excluding London average daily rate	£270	£298
% change on same period last year	-9.56 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.50	£39.80
Average hourly rate	£14.50	£40.70
% change on same period last year	-64.37 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.50	£41.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.59	£30.90
% change on same period last year	-4.21 %
Communications & Networking Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	385	524
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.520 %	0.517 %
Daily rates quoted	77	93
Average minimum daily rate	£335	£294
Average daily rate	£353	£314
% change on same period last year	+12.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£371	£334
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£341
% change on same period last year	+1.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	97	124
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.00	£30.15
Average hourly rate	£28.30	£32.81
% change on same period last year	-13.73 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.60	£35.46
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.70	£28.54
% change on same period last year	-9.93 %
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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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Ethernet across the Hampshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Ethernet across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Ethernet across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ethernet within the Hampshire 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
Basingstoke	-	7	£350	-
Portsmouth	-1	3	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing Ethernet 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 Ethernet.

1 11 (61.11 %) MPLS 2 8 (44.44 %) VPN 3 7 (38.89 %) WAN 3 7 (38.89 %) ISDN 3 7 (38.89 %) LAN 3 7 (38.89 %) OSPF 3 7 (38.89 %) Cisco Certification 4 6 (33.33 %) Cisco 5 5 (27.78 %) CCNA 5 5 (27.78 %) TCP/IP 5 5 (27.78 %) DSL 5 5 (27.78 %) EIGRP 5 5 (27.78 %) Multimedia 6 4 (22.22 %) Finance 6 4 (22.22 %) BGP

6 4 (22.22 %) SDH 7 3 (16.67 %) Windows 7 3 (16.67 %) Windows 2000 7 3 (16.67 %) Windows NT 7 3 (16.67 %) ADSL 7 3 (16.67 %) ATM 7 3 (16.67 %) SSL 7 3 (16.67 %) SLA 7 3 (16.67 %) PPP 7 3 (16.67 %) DWDM 7 3 (16.67 %) CheckPoint 7 3 (16.67 %) CiscoWorks 7 3 (16.67 %) Citrix 7 3 (16.67 %) Frame Relay 7 3 (16.67 %) IPsec

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking 1 11 (61.11 %) MPLS 2 8 (44.44 %) VPN 3 7 (38.89 %) ISDN 3 7 (38.89 %) LAN 3 7 (38.89 %) WAN 3 7 (38.89 %) OSPF 4 5 (27.78 %) TCP/IP 4 5 (27.78 %) DSL 4 5 (27.78 %) EIGRP 5 4 (22.22 %) SDH 5 4 (22.22 %) BGP 6 3 (16.67 %) Frame Relay 6 3 (16.67 %) IPsec 6 3 (16.67 %) Fast Ethernet 6 3 (16.67 %) PPP 6 3 (16.67 %) ADSL 6 3 (16.67 %) ATM 6 3 (16.67 %) DWDM 6 3 (16.67 %) SSL 7 2 (11.11 %) Internet	General 1 5 (27.78 %) Multimedia 2 4 (22.22 %) Finance 3 1 (5.556 %) Billing 3 1 (5.556 %) Financial Institution 3 1 (5.556 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 4 (22.22 %) Analyst 1 4 (22.22 %) Network Engineer 2 2 (11.11 %) Quality Manager 3 1 (5.556 %) Network Analyst 3 1 (5.556 %) Security Engineer 3 1 (5.556 %) Telecoms Project Manager 3 1 (5.556 %) Systems Engineer 3 1 (5.556 %) Principle Engineer 3 1 (5.556 %) Network Security Engineer 3 1 (5.556 %) Project Manager	Miscellaneous 1 2 (11.11 %) PKI
Operating Systems 1 3 (16.67 %) Windows 1 3 (16.67 %) Windows 2000 1 3 (16.67 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (5.556 %) Configuration Management 1 1 (5.556 %) Risk Management 1 1 (5.556 %) Validation 1 1 (5.556 %) Information Management 1 1 (5.556 %) Requirements Management 1 1 (5.556 %) Use Case 1 1 (5.556 %) Financial Modelling
Programming Languages 1 1 (5.556 %) Perl 1 1 (5.556 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 7 (38.89 %) Cisco Certification 2 5 (27.78 %) CCNA 3 2 (11.11 %) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (16.67 %) SLA	Systems Management 1 3 (16.67 %) CiscoWorks 2 2 (11.11 %) Tivoli NetView
Vendors 1 6 (33.33 %) Cisco 2 3 (16.67 %) Citrix 2 3 (16.67 %) CheckPoint 3 1 (5.556 %) Nokia