Hampshire LAN Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Local Area Network (LAN) 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 LAN over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Local Area Network (LAN)
Location Aberdeen Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Reading Redditch Reigate Rotherham Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stourbridge Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	59	73
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching contract IT job ads	39	53
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.053 %	0.052 %
As % of the category below	10.13 %	10.11 %
Daily rates quoted	3	11
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£267
Average daily rate	£338	£278
% change on same period last year	+21.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£290
UK excluding London average daily rate	£345	£316
% change on same period last year	+9.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.70	£19.91
Average hourly rate	£19.52	£22.27
% change on same period last year	-12.37 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.33	£24.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.40	£24.37
% change on same period last year	-16.29 %
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 %
LAN South East

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.

LAN
Demand Trend

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

LAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram

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

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

LAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

LAN
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAN 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
Portsmouth	-8	11	-	-
Basingstoke	+8	6	£400	+33.33 %
Winchester	-	3	-	-
Southampton	0	2	-	-
Fareham	-	2	-	-
Eastleigh	-	2	-	-
Havant	0	1	-	-
Farnborough	+6	1	-	-

LAN South East

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 89 (89.90 %) WAN 2 37 (37.37 %) Cisco 2 37 (37.37 %) Windows 3 30 (30.30 %) Cisco Certification 4 27 (27.27 %) VPN 5 26 (26.26 %) Firewall 6 22 (22.22 %) Windows 2000 7 21 (21.21 %) MPLS 8 19 (19.19 %) Microsoft 9 18 (18.18 %) CCNP 9 18 (18.18 %) CCNA 9 18 (18.18 %) TCP/IP 9 18 (18.18 %) ATM 10 17 (17.17 %) Active Directory 10 17 (17.17 %) Windows Server 2003

10 17 (17.17 %) Frame Relay 11 16 (16.16 %) Windows XP 12 15 (15.15 %) VLAN 13 14 (14.14 %) Security Cleared 13 14 (14.14 %) Internet 13 14 (14.14 %) Broadband 14 13 (13.13 %) Network Design 15 12 (12.12 %) UNIX 15 12 (12.12 %) Citrix 15 12 (12.12 %) VoIP 16 11 (11.11 %) MS Office 17 10 (10.10 %) MCSE 17 10 (10.10 %) HP 17 10 (10.10 %) Microsoft Certification 18 9 (9.091 %) SSL

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 Development 1 1 (1.010 %) .NET 1 1 (1.010 %) MFC	Application Platforms 1 7 (7.071 %) MS Exchange 2 5 (5.051 %) IIS 3 4 (4.040 %) GroupWise 4 2 (2.020 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 2 (2.020 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 1 (1.010 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 1 (1.010 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 11 (11.11 %) MS Office 2 2 (2.020 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 89 (89.90 %) WAN 2 27 (27.27 %) VPN 3 26 (26.26 %) Firewall 4 21 (21.21 %) MPLS 5 18 (18.18 %) TCP/IP 5 18 (18.18 %) ATM 6 17 (17.17 %) Frame Relay 7 15 (15.15 %) VLAN 8 14 (14.14 %) Broadband 8 14 (14.14 %) Internet 9 12 (12.12 %) VoIP 10 9 (9.091 %) SSL 10 9 (9.091 %) OSPF 11 8 (8.081 %) BGP 11 8 (8.081 %) EIGRP 11 8 (8.081 %) ISDN 12 7 (7.071 %) WLAN 12 7 (7.071 %) Ethernet 12 7 (7.071 %) Cisco PIX 13 6 (6.061 %) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (2.020 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 1 (1.010 %) Visual Studio
General 1 7 (7.071 %) Telecoms 2 6 (6.061 %) Finance 3 4 (4.040 %) Government 4 2 (2.020 %) Health 5 1 (1.010 %) Legal 5 1 (1.010 %) Military 5 1 (1.010 %) Banking 5 1 (1.010 %) Financial Institution 5 1 (1.010 %) Back Office	Job Titles 1 15 (15.15 %) Consultant 1 15 (15.15 %) Analyst 2 14 (14.14 %) Network Consultant 2 14 (14.14 %) Support Engineer 3 12 (12.12 %) Network Engineer 4 8 (8.081 %) Architect 5 7 (7.071 %) 2nd Line Support 5 7 (7.071 %) Network Support 6 5 (5.051 %) Network Analyst 6 5 (5.051 %) Network Manager 6 5 (5.051 %) Support Analyst 7 4 (4.040 %) Server Support 7 4 (4.040 %) Network Support Engineer 7 4 (4.040 %) Administrator 7 4 (4.040 %) Security Architect 7 4 (4.040 %) Server Engineer 8 3 (3.030 %) Coordinator 8 3 (3.030 %) IT Architect 8 3 (3.030 %) Network Architect 8 3 (3.030 %) IT Security Architect
Miscellaneous 1 4 (4.040 %) AS400 2 3 (3.030 %) PKI 3 2 (2.020 %) Client/Server 3 2 (2.020 %) Blackberry 4 1 (1.010 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 37 (37.37 %) Windows 2 22 (22.22 %) Windows 2000 3 17 (17.17 %) Windows Server 2003 4 16 (16.16 %) Windows XP 5 12 (12.12 %) UNIX 6 7 (7.071 %) Linux 7 4 (4.040 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 4 (4.040 %) NetWare 7 4 (4.040 %) Windows NT 8 2 (2.020 %) Solaris 8 2 (2.020 %) Windows Vista 9 1 (1.010 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (14.14 %) Security Cleared 2 13 (13.13 %) Network Design 3 9 (9.091 %) Project Management 3 9 (9.091 %) ITIL 4 8 (8.081 %) SC Cleared 5 7 (7.071 %) Service Delivery 6 4 (4.040 %) Change Management 6 4 (4.040 %) Migration 6 4 (4.040 %) DV Cleared 6 4 (4.040 %) Incident Management 7 3 (3.030 %) Risk Management 8 2 (2.020 %) Technical Architecture 9 1 (1.010 %) Operations Management 9 1 (1.010 %) Load Balancing 9 1 (1.010 %) Performance Management 9 1 (1.010 %) Project Planning 9 1 (1.010 %) E-Commerce 9 1 (1.010 %) Data Security	Programming Languages 1 2 (2.020 %) C 1 2 (2.020 %) Perl 1 2 (2.020 %) SQL 2 1 (1.010 %) Shell Script 2 1 (1.010 %) C++
Qualifications 1 30 (30.30 %) Cisco Certification 2 18 (18.18 %) CCNP 2 18 (18.18 %) CCNA 3 10 (10.10 %) MCSE 3 10 (10.10 %) Microsoft Certification 4 7 (7.071 %) CCIE 5 6 (6.061 %) MCP 6 4 (4.040 %) MCSA 7 3 (3.030 %) CCDP 8 2 (2.020 %) CCA 8 2 (2.020 %) Citrix Certification 8 2 (2.020 %) CCDA 9 1 (1.010 %) Check Point Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (6.061 %) SLA 2 1 (1.010 %) ISO27001 2 1 (1.010 %) PCI DSS 2 1 (1.010 %) GLP
System Software 1 17 (17.17 %) Active Directory 2 2 (2.020 %) Backup Exec 3 1 (1.010 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 5 (5.051 %) CiscoWorks 2 4 (4.040 %) Tivoli 3 3 (3.030 %) OpenView 4 2 (2.020 %) Tivoli NetView 4 2 (2.020 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 5 1 (1.010 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 5 1 (1.010 %) Netcool 5 1 (1.010 %) ARCserve 5 1 (1.010 %) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors 1 37 (37.37 %) Cisco 2 19 (19.19 %) Microsoft 3 12 (12.12 %) Citrix 4 10 (10.10 %) HP 5 9 (9.091 %) CheckPoint 6 6 (6.061 %) Nokia 6 6 (6.061 %) Novell 7 4 (4.040 %) VERITAS 7 4 (4.040 %) Lotus 8 3 (3.030 %) Juniper 8 3 (3.030 %) Finjan 9 2 (2.020 %) Blue Coat 9 2 (2.020 %) Sophos 10 1 (1.010 %) OPNET 10 1 (1.010 %) VMware 10 1 (1.010 %) Remedy 10 1 (1.010 %) Alcatel 10 1 (1.010 %) Oracle 10 1 (1.010 %) Sun 10 1 (1.010 %) IBM