Hertfordshire VLAN Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Virtual LAN (VLAN) skills within the Hertfordshire region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VLAN over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Berkshire Blackburn Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Croydon Cumbria Devon East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Exeter Glasgow Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds London Lytham St Annes Manchester Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Plymouth Reading Salisbury Scotland Shropshire South East South Wales South West St Albans Staffordshire Sunderland Surrey Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	76	91
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	6	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	2.048 %	2.439 %
Daily rates quoted	2	7
Average minimum daily rate	£200	£400
Average daily rate	£300	£400
% change on same period last year	-25.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£342	£365
% change on same period last year	-6.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	-
Average hourly rate	£17.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.32	£29.85
% change on same period last year	-21.88 %
Communications & Networking Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	293	287
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.391 %	0.286 %
Daily rates quoted	130	115
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£340
Average daily rate	£341	£364
% change on same period last year	-6.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£362	£387
UK excluding London average daily rate	£343	£343
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	37
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.84	£18.52
Average hourly rate	£26.14	£21.14
% change on same period last year	+23.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.44	£23.76
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.58	£28.76
% change on same period last year	-11.03 %
VLAN 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 VLAN across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking 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 VLAN 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 VLAN across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 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 VLAN across the Hertfordshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VLAN across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
St Albans	-	2	£300	-
Watford	-	2	-	-

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Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing VLAN 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 VLAN.

1 6 (100.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 4 (66.67 %) CCIE 3 2 (33.33 %) Cisco 3 2 (33.33 %) CCNA 3 2 (33.33 %) IGRP 3 2 (33.33 %) Network Design 4 1 (16.67 %) Auditing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing VLAN 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 VLAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 2 (33.33 %) IGRP	General 1 1 (16.67 %) Auditing
Job Titles 1 4 (66.67 %) Network Engineer 2 2 (33.33 %) Server Support 2 2 (33.33 %) Cisco Engineer 2 2 (33.33 %) Network Support 2 2 (33.33 %) Cisco Network Engineer 3 1 (16.67 %) Network Design Engineer 3 1 (16.67 %) Implementation Engineer 3 1 (16.67 %) Design Engineer	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (33.33 %) Network Design
Qualifications 1 6 (100.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 4 (66.67 %) CCIE 3 2 (33.33 %) CCNA	Vendors 1 2 (33.33 %) Cisco