Hampshire WAN Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Wide Area Network (WAN) skills within the Hampshire region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 7 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Gosport Greenford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hull Inverness Ipswich Kent King's Lynn Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Portsmouth Prescot Preston Prestwick Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rochester Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Snodland Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	49	97
Rank change on same period last year	+48
Matching contract IT job ads	58	29
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.076 %	0.031 %
As % of the category below	13.12 %	6.170 %
Daily rates quoted	11	9
Average minimum daily rate	£342	£283
Average daily rate	£362	£289
% change on same period last year	+25.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£383	£294
UK excluding London average daily rate	£318	£322
% change on same period last year	-1.13 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.80	£14.75
Average hourly rate	£27.63	£15.63
% change on same period last year	+76.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.47	£16.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.33	£25.73
% change on same period last year	-17.12 %
Communications & Networking Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	442	470
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.582 %	0.498 %
Daily rates quoted	72	96
Average minimum daily rate	£363	£337
Average daily rate	£381	£355
% change on same period last year	+7.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£398	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£343
% change on same period last year	-0.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	93	122
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.04	£31.26
Average hourly rate	£30.17	£33.09
% change on same period last year	-8.81 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.30	£34.91
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.55	£28.70
% change on same period last year	-10.97 %
WAN 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.

WAN
Demand Trend

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

WAN
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WAN 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 WAN across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 7 July 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 WAN 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 WAN across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 7 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing WAN within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 7 July 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	+25	10	£322	+0.52 %
Farnborough	+5	6	£350	+133.33 %
Portsmouth	-4	5	-	-
Winchester	-	4	-	-
Gosport	-	2	-	-
Fareham	-	2	-	-
Havant	-4	1	-	-
Southampton	+7	1	-	-

WAN South East

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 82 (86.32 %) LAN 2 48 (50.53 %) Cisco 3 41 (43.16 %) Cisco Certification 4 33 (34.74 %) VPN 5 29 (30.53 %) Firewall 6 23 (24.21 %) CCNA 6 23 (24.21 %) VoIP 7 22 (23.16 %) Windows 7 22 (23.16 %) VLAN 8 21 (22.11 %) CCNP 9 20 (21.05 %) ATM 10 19 (20.00 %) Frame Relay 10 19 (20.00 %) Network Design 10 19 (20.00 %) Security Cleared 11 18 (18.95 %) MPLS

12 16 (16.84 %) Telecoms 12 16 (16.84 %) TCP/IP 13 14 (14.74 %) Microsoft 14 13 (13.68 %) Active Directory 14 13 (13.68 %) Internet 14 13 (13.68 %) Broadband 15 11 (11.58 %) Windows Server 2003 15 11 (11.58 %) SC Cleared 16 10 (10.53 %) Windows 2000 16 10 (10.53 %) BGP 17 9 (9.474 %) OSPF 17 9 (9.474 %) SSL 18 7 (7.368 %) CheckPoint 18 7 (7.368 %) MS Office 19 6 (6.316 %) Software Testing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 Development 1 1 (1.053 %) .NET 1 1 (1.053 %) MFC	Application Platforms 1 4 (4.211 %) MS Exchange 1 4 (4.211 %) GroupWise 2 3 (3.158 %) IIS 3 2 (2.105 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 1 (1.053 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 7 (7.368 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 82 (86.32 %) LAN 2 33 (34.74 %) VPN 3 29 (30.53 %) Firewall 4 23 (24.21 %) VoIP 5 22 (23.16 %) VLAN 6 20 (21.05 %) ATM 7 19 (20.00 %) Frame Relay 8 18 (18.95 %) MPLS 9 16 (16.84 %) TCP/IP 10 13 (13.68 %) Broadband 10 13 (13.68 %) Internet 11 10 (10.53 %) BGP 12 9 (9.474 %) SSL 12 9 (9.474 %) OSPF 13 6 (6.316 %) DHCP 14 4 (4.211 %) Ethernet 14 4 (4.211 %) ISDN 14 4 (4.211 %) DNS 14 4 (4.211 %) IPsec 14 4 (4.211 %) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (2.105 %) SQL Server 2 1 (1.053 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 1 (1.053 %) Visual Studio
General 1 16 (16.84 %) Telecoms 2 6 (6.316 %) Government 3 3 (3.158 %) Finance 4 2 (2.105 %) Health 4 2 (2.105 %) Military 5 1 (1.053 %) Legal 5 1 (1.053 %) Financial Institution 5 1 (1.053 %) Back Office	Job Titles 1 18 (18.95 %) Network Engineer 2 17 (17.89 %) Analyst 3 15 (15.79 %) Consultant 4 14 (14.74 %) Network Consultant 5 9 (9.474 %) Network Analyst 6 8 (8.421 %) Design Engineer 6 8 (8.421 %) Support Engineer 6 8 (8.421 %) Architect 7 7 (7.368 %) Network Design Engineer 8 6 (6.316 %) Test Analyst 8 6 (6.316 %) Network Manager 9 5 (5.263 %) Network Support 10 4 (4.211 %) Security Architect 10 4 (4.211 %) Server Engineer 10 4 (4.211 %) 2nd Line Support 11 3 (3.158 %) 3rd Line Support 11 3 (3.158 %) Technical Engineer 11 3 (3.158 %) IT Architect 11 3 (3.158 %) Network Architect 11 3 (3.158 %) IT Security Architect
Miscellaneous 1 4 (4.211 %) AS400 2 3 (3.158 %) PKI 3 2 (2.105 %) Blackberry 3 2 (2.105 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 22 (23.16 %) Windows 2 11 (11.58 %) Windows Server 2003 3 10 (10.53 %) Windows 2000 4 5 (5.263 %) Windows XP 5 4 (4.211 %) Linux 6 2 (2.105 %) Windows NT 6 2 (2.105 %) NetWare 6 2 (2.105 %) Unix
Processes & Methodologies 1 19 (20.00 %) Network Design 1 19 (20.00 %) Security Cleared 2 11 (11.58 %) SC Cleared 3 6 (6.316 %) Software Testing 3 6 (6.316 %) Project Management 3 6 (6.316 %) Service Delivery 4 4 (4.211 %) Migration 5 3 (3.158 %) Business Development 5 3 (3.158 %) DV Cleared 6 2 (2.105 %) Technical Architecture 6 2 (2.105 %) Network Planning 6 2 (2.105 %) Document Management 6 2 (2.105 %) Disaster Recovery 6 2 (2.105 %) ITIL 7 1 (1.053 %) E-Commerce 7 1 (1.053 %) Change Management 7 1 (1.053 %) Data Security 7 1 (1.053 %) Project Planning 7 1 (1.053 %) Load Balancing 7 1 (1.053 %) Performance Management	Programming Languages 1 2 (2.105 %) SQL 2 1 (1.053 %) C 2 1 (1.053 %) C++ 2 1 (1.053 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 41 (43.16 %) Cisco Certification 2 23 (24.21 %) CCNA 3 21 (22.11 %) CCNP 4 6 (6.316 %) ISEB 4 6 (6.316 %) MCSE 4 6 (6.316 %) Microsoft Certification 5 5 (5.263 %) CCIE 6 2 (2.105 %) Degree 6 2 (2.105 %) MCSA 6 2 (2.105 %) MCP 6 2 (2.105 %) HND 6 2 (2.105 %) CCIP 7 1 (1.053 %) Check Point Certification 7 1 (1.053 %) CCVP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (3.158 %) SLA 2 1 (1.053 %) GLP
System Software 1 13 (13.68 %) Active Directory 2 2 (2.105 %) Backup Exec 2 2 (2.105 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 3 (3.158 %) CiscoWorks 1 3 (3.158 %) Tivoli 1 3 (3.158 %) Netcool 2 2 (2.105 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 2 (2.105 %) OpenView 3 1 (1.053 %) ARCserve 3 1 (1.053 %) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors 1 48 (50.53 %) Cisco 2 14 (14.74 %) Microsoft 3 7 (7.368 %) CheckPoint 4 6 (6.316 %) HP 4 6 (6.316 %) Citrix 5 4 (4.211 %) Nokia 5 4 (4.211 %) Novell 5 4 (4.211 %) Sophos 6 3 (3.158 %) VMware 6 3 (3.158 %) Finjan 6 3 (3.158 %) VERITAS 7 2 (2.105 %) Juniper 8 1 (1.053 %) Lucent 8 1 (1.053 %) Alcatel 8 1 (1.053 %) Remedy 8 1 (1.053 %) Oracle 8 1 (1.053 %) Blue Coat 8 1 (1.053 %) BT 8 1 (1.053 %) OPNET