The first table below looks at the demand for WAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hayes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 21 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 Hayes 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 4 5 -
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -
Contract jobs citing WAN 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hayes 16.67% 6.667% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 50.00% 10.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £200 £235 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.89% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £310 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.61% -4.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £21.25 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-24.70% +1.19%
All Communications & Networking
Hayes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
2 10 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hayes 33.33% 66.67% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £200 £235 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.89% -37.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
WAN
London

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hayes 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 Hayes region.

Hayes 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 Hayes region.

Hayes WAN Hourly Rate Trend

WAN
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hayes 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%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Lotus Notes
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Lotus
1 1 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 1 (100.00%) Software Deployment

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hayes 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%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Field Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Deployment
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Lotus