Herefordshire WAN Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Wide Area Network (WAN) skills within the Herefordshire region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Carterton Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chichester Cirencester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Doncaster Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Hull Huntingdon Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Redditch Romford Rugby Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	14	16
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	2	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	20.00 %	21.43 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£345
% change on same period last year	-2.46 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	-
Average hourly rate	£37.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.73	£22.85
% change on same period last year	+16.98 %
Communications & Networking Herefordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	10	28
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.030 %
Daily rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum daily rate	£373	£387
Average daily rate	£407	£387
% change on same period last year	+5.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£440	£387
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£337
% change on same period last year	+2.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.86	£14.50
Average hourly rate	£36.07	£17.06
% change on same period last year	+111.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.29	£19.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.82	£28.43
% change on same period last year	-2.12 %
WAN West Midlands

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 Herefordshire 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 Herefordshire region.

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing WAN across the Herefordshire 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 Herefordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 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 WAN within the Herefordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 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
Hemel Hempstead	+2	2	-	-

WAN West Midlands

WAN
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Herefordshire 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 3 (100.00 %) LAN 2 2 (66.67 %) Cisco 2 2 (66.67 %) UNIX 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows 2 2 (66.67 %) Government 2 2 (66.67 %) Military 2 2 (66.67 %) TETRA 2 2 (66.67 %) Network Design 3 1 (33.33 %) Telecoms 3 1 (33.33 %) MPLS

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Herefordshire 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.

Communications & Networking 1 3 (100.00 %) LAN 2 2 (66.67 %) TETRA 3 1 (33.33 %) MPLS	General 1 2 (66.67 %) Government 1 2 (66.67 %) Military 2 1 (33.33 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Network Engineer 1 2 (66.67 %) IP Network Engineer 2 1 (33.33 %) Contracts Manager	Operating Systems 1 2 (66.67 %) UNIX 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Network Design	Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Cisco