Hertfordshire Network Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Network Engineer role in IT contracts within the Hertfordshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Network Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Network Engineer
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Bracknell Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Cobham Colchester Coleraine County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Ely Enfield England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Rugby Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southwark Stafford Staffordshire Stourbridge Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Witham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	52	76
Rank change on same period last year	+24
Matching contract IT job ads	19	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.031 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	2.063 %	1.188 %
Daily rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum daily rate	£342	£375
Average daily rate	£350	£394
% change on same period last year	-11.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£413
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£309
% change on same period last year	+8.46 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.57	£25.83
% change on same period last year	+2.84 %
Job Titles Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	921	1599
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.480 %	1.717 %
Daily rates quoted	284	619
Average minimum daily rate	£337	£324
Average daily rate	£357	£344
% change on same period last year	+3.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£378	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	112	194
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.57	£23.77
Average hourly rate	£27.67	£24.98
% change on same period last year	+10.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.76	£26.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.10	£24.04
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
Network Engineer East of England

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Network Engineer across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Network Engineer across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 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 Network Engineer across the Hertfordshire region.

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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 Network Engineer within the Hertfordshire 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
Watford	+17	1	-	-

Network Engineer East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited Network Engineer in their job title 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 with Network Engineer in their job title.

1 19 (44.19 %) Telecoms 2 18 (41.86 %) Cisco 2 18 (41.86 %) Cisco Certification 3 10 (23.26 %) MGW 4 7 (16.28 %) Cisco PIX 4 7 (16.28 %) Migration 4 7 (16.28 %) Network Design 4 7 (16.28 %) Ericsson 4 7 (16.28 %) CCNA 4 7 (16.28 %) CCIE 4 7 (16.28 %) CCNP 5 6 (13.95 %) WAN 5 6 (13.95 %) Nortel 6 5 (11.63 %) LAN 6 5 (11.63 %) 3G

6 5 (11.63 %) Network Security 7 4 (9.302 %) ITIL 7 4 (9.302 %) Firewall 7 4 (9.302 %) Finance 7 4 (9.302 %) VLAN 8 3 (6.977 %) MPLS 9 2 (4.651 %) Performance Management 9 2 (4.651 %) OSPF 9 2 (4.651 %) BGP 9 2 (4.651 %) EIGRP 9 2 (4.651 %) CCIP 9 2 (4.651 %) Nokia 9 2 (4.651 %) ATM 9 2 (4.651 %) GSM 9 2 (4.651 %) VoIP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited Network Engineer in their job title 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 with Network Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (2.326 %) HTML	Communications & Networking 1 10 (23.26 %) MGW 2 7 (16.28 %) Cisco PIX 3 6 (13.95 %) WAN 4 5 (11.63 %) LAN 4 5 (11.63 %) 3G 4 5 (11.63 %) Network Security 5 4 (9.302 %) VLAN 5 4 (9.302 %) Firewall 6 3 (6.977 %) MPLS 7 2 (4.651 %) OSPF 7 2 (4.651 %) BGP 7 2 (4.651 %) EIGRP 7 2 (4.651 %) ATM 7 2 (4.651 %) Cisco ASA 7 2 (4.651 %) GSM 7 2 (4.651 %) VoIP 8 1 (2.326 %) GPRS 8 1 (2.326 %) SDH 8 1 (2.326 %) SNMP 8 1 (2.326 %) TCP/IP
General 1 19 (44.19 %) Telecoms 2 4 (9.302 %) Finance 3 1 (2.326 %) Government 3 1 (2.326 %) Banking 3 1 (2.326 %) Auditing	Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.326 %) Computer Science 1 1 (2.326 %) CMDB
Operating Systems 1 1 (2.326 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (16.28 %) Migration 1 7 (16.28 %) Network Design 2 4 (9.302 %) ITIL 3 2 (4.651 %) Performance Management 3 2 (4.651 %) SC Cleared 3 2 (4.651 %) Security Cleared 4 1 (2.326 %) Statistical Analysis 4 1 (2.326 %) Fault Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (2.326 %) SQL 1 1 (2.326 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 18 (41.86 %) Cisco Certification 2 7 (16.28 %) CCIE 2 7 (16.28 %) CCNP 2 7 (16.28 %) CCNA 3 2 (4.651 %) CCIP 4 1 (2.326 %) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.326 %) SLA	Systems Management 1 1 (2.326 %) OpenView 1 1 (2.326 %) Tivoli 1 1 (2.326 %) Netcool
Vendors 1 18 (41.86 %) Cisco 2 7 (16.28 %) Ericsson 3 6 (13.95 %) Nortel 4 2 (4.651 %) Nokia 5 1 (2.326 %) Siemens 5 1 (2.326 %) CheckPoint 5 1 (2.326 %) OPNET 5 1 (2.326 %) Microsoft 5 1 (2.326 %) HP