Hertfordshire Network Support Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Network Support 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 Support in their job title over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Corsham Coventry Crewe Cumbria Docklands, London Dudley East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely England Essex Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Hull Kent Leeds Liverpool London Luton Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Scotland Sevenoaks Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South West Stourbridge Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	69	94
Rank change on same period last year	+25
Matching contract IT job ads	2	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.217 %	0.063 %
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	£264	£280
% change on same period last year	-5.69 %
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	£23.55	£18.88
% change on same period last year	+24.75 %
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 %
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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 Support 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 Support across the Hertfordshire region.

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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 Support across the Hertfordshire region.

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Top 13 Related IT Skills

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

1 5 (71.43 %) Cisco 1 5 (71.43 %) CCNA 1 5 (71.43 %) Cisco Certification 2 3 (42.86 %) Linux 3 2 (28.57 %) Firewall 3 2 (28.57 %) VLAN 3 2 (28.57 %) Network Security 3 2 (28.57 %) IGRP 3 2 (28.57 %) Nortel 4 1 (14.29 %) LAN 4 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft 4 1 (14.29 %) Cisco PIX 4 1 (14.29 %) Telecoms

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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 Support 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 Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 2 (28.57 %) IGRP 1 2 (28.57 %) Firewall 1 2 (28.57 %) VLAN 1 2 (28.57 %) Network Security 2 1 (14.29 %) LAN 2 1 (14.29 %) Cisco PIX	General 1 1 (14.29 %) Telecoms
Operating Systems 1 3 (42.86 %) Linux	Qualifications 1 5 (71.43 %) CCNA 1 5 (71.43 %) Cisco Certification
Vendors 1 5 (71.43 %) Cisco 2 2 (28.57 %) Nortel 3 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft