The first table below looks at the demand for LAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LAN over the 3 months to 20 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 Hertfordshire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Local Area Network (LAN)
Rank 57 54 45
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -9
Contract jobs citing LAN 3 16 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.463% 1.667% 2.345%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.655% 8.421% 9.346%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 3
Average daily rate £250 £280 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.71% -3.44%
UK excluding London average daily rate £308 £308 £320
% change year-on-year
- -3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
Average hourly rate - £17.43 £33.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -47.97%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.13 £20.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-19.37% -4.76%
All Communications & Networking
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
113 190 214
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 17.44% 19.79% 25.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 48 64
Average daily rate £300 £325 £298
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +9.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £475 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 28
Average hourly rate £15.00 £19.47 £33.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-22.93% -41.01%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.10 £11.45 £10.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £34.10 £42.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
LAN
East of England

LAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire LAN Jobs Demand Trend

LAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire LAN Daily Rate Trend

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire LAN Hourly Rate Trend

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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Watford +8 2 - -
Stevenage +1 1 £250 -
LAN
East of England

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 9 (90.00%) Windows
2 7 (70.00%) WAN
2 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (40.00%) MS Office
4 4 (40.00%) Citrix
5 3 (30.00%) Lotus
5 3 (30.00%) VMware
5 3 (30.00%) SQL
5 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
5 3 (30.00%) Lotus Notes
5 3 (30.00%) DNS
5 3 (30.00%) MS Exchange
5 3 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
6 2 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
6 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
6 2 (20.00%) Linux
6 2 (20.00%) DHCP
6 2 (20.00%) SLA
6 2 (20.00%) .NET
6 2 (20.00%) Oracle
6 2 (20.00%) Firewall
6 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
6 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (10.00%) Internet
7 1 (10.00%) ClearQuest

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 2 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) ASP
2 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (10.00%) COM+
Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) Lotus Notes
1 3 (30.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (10.00%) Lync
3 1 (10.00%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) MS Office
2 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) WAN
2 3 (30.00%) DNS
3 2 (20.00%) DHCP
3 2 (20.00%) Firewall
4 1 (10.00%) Frame Relay
4 1 (10.00%) Network Security
4 1 (10.00%) NetScaler
4 1 (10.00%) ATM
4 1 (10.00%) Ethernet
4 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (10.00%) VPN
4 1 (10.00%) IPv6
4 1 (10.00%) SAN
4 1 (10.00%) Internet
4 1 (10.00%) MPLS
4 1 (10.00%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) ClearCase
1 1 (10.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (10.00%) ClearQuest
1 1 (10.00%) Subversion
1 1 (10.00%) Redmine
General
1 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Network Manager
1 2 (20.00%) Help Desk Support
2 1 (10.00%) Team Leader
2 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (10.00%) Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Team Leader
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Citrix Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Team Leader
2 1 (10.00%) Citrix Support
2 1 (10.00%) Test and Integration Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Assurance Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (10.00%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Windows
2 6 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (20.00%) Linux
4 1 (10.00%) Windows 2000
4 1 (10.00%) Windows XP
4 1 (10.00%) Solaris
4 1 (10.00%) UNIX
4 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (10.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (10.00%) Project Management
1 1 (10.00%) Integration Acceptance Testing
1 1 (10.00%) Migration
1 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (10.00%) Change Control
1 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) MetaFrame
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) XenApp
2 1 (10.00%) XenDesktop
2 1 (10.00%) Cygwin
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) Citrix
3 3 (30.00%) VMware
3 3 (30.00%) Lotus
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle
5 1 (10.00%) Cisco
5 1 (10.00%) IBM
5 1 (10.00%) HP
5 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
5 1 (10.00%) Wyse
5 1 (10.00%) Huawei
5 1 (10.00%) Crossbeam
5 1 (10.00%) Veeam
5 1 (10.00%) Juniper