The first table below looks at the demand for WAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Herefordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 23 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 Herefordshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 7 - 3
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing WAN 3 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Herefordshire 18.75% - 22.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.27% - 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £340 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £318 £303 £325
% change year-on-year
+4.95% -6.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £21.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-25.58% +2.38%
All Communications & Networking
Herefordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
11 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Herefordshire 68.75% 15.79% 44.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
Average daily rate £250 £220 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.63% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
Average hourly rate £27.50 £12.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+120.00% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
WAN
West Midlands

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Herefordshire 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 Herefordshire region.

Herefordshire WAN Daily Rate Trend

WAN
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WAN across the Herefordshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Herefordshire WAN Daily Rate Histogram

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing WAN across the Herefordshire region.

Herefordshire WAN Hourly Rate Trend

WAN
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 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Hereford - 3 £340 -
WAN
West Midlands

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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 4 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 3 (75.00%) UNIX
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Solaris
2 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (75.00%) X.500
2 3 (75.00%) Sun
2 3 (75.00%) Exchange Server 5.5
2 3 (75.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Windows 2000 Server
3 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2000
3 2 (50.00%) Samba
3 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) HPUX
3 2 (50.00%) Perl
3 2 (50.00%) LAN
3 2 (50.00%) HP
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) MS Office
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (25.00%) MCSE
4 1 (25.00%) MCSA
4 1 (25.00%) MCDST
4 1 (25.00%) Active Directory

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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.

Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 3 (75.00%) Exchange Server 5.5
2 3 (75.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2000
4 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) X.500
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) UNIX
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Solaris
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 2000 Server
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) HPUX
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Vista
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (50.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (25.00%) MCSE
2 1 (25.00%) MCSA
2 1 (25.00%) MCDST
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Samba
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Sun
2 2 (50.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft