Hertfordshire WAN Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Wide Area Network (WAN) 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 WAN over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Cirencester City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hertfordshire Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Romford Rugby Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	58	55
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	15	35
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.035 %
As % of the category below	5.639 %	13.11 %
Daily rates quoted	2	16
Average minimum daily rate	£388	£379
Average daily rate	£400	£387
% change on same period last year	+3.43 %
Average maximum daily rate	£413	£395
UK excluding London average daily rate	£343	£318
% change on same period last year	+8.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.50	£18.33
Average hourly rate	£17.75	£20.33
% change on same period last year	-12.70 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.00	£22.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.64	£23.08
% change on same period last year	+2.40 %
Communications & Networking Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	266	267
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.375 %	0.270 %
Daily rates quoted	102	93
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£335
Average daily rate	£342	£359
% change on same period last year	-4.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£363	£383
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+4.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	38
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.74	£22.43
Average hourly rate	£27.04	£25.28
% change on same period last year	+6.93 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.34	£28.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.43	£28.95
% change on same period last year	-5.27 %
WAN 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.

WAN
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing WAN across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

WAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

WAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WAN across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 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	+9	2	-	-

WAN East of England

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 17 (73.91 %) LAN 2 15 (65.22 %) Cisco 3 6 (26.09 %) Cisco Certification 3 6 (26.09 %) Windows 3 6 (26.09 %) Telecoms 4 5 (21.74 %) Firewall 4 5 (21.74 %) CCIE 4 5 (21.74 %) VPN 4 5 (21.74 %) Nortel 4 5 (21.74 %) MPLS 5 4 (17.39 %) Microsoft 5 4 (17.39 %) Active Directory 5 4 (17.39 %) TCP/IP 6 3 (13.04 %) Network Security 6 3 (13.04 %) HP

6 3 (13.04 %) CCNP 6 3 (13.04 %) VoIP 6 3 (13.04 %) Windows XP 6 3 (13.04 %) Windows Server 2003 6 3 (13.04 %) Microsoft Certification 6 3 (13.04 %) CheckPoint 7 2 (8.696 %) EIGRP 7 2 (8.696 %) Siemens 7 2 (8.696 %) OSPF 7 2 (8.696 %) BGP 7 2 (8.696 %) MS Exchange 7 2 (8.696 %) Solaris 7 2 (8.696 %) Linux 7 2 (8.696 %) MCSE 7 2 (8.696 %) ITIL

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 2 (8.696 %) MS Exchange 1 2 (8.696 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (4.348 %) SharePoint 2 1 (4.348 %) Exchange Server 2000	Applications 1 1 (4.348 %) MS Office 1 1 (4.348 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 17 (73.91 %) LAN 2 5 (21.74 %) VPN 2 5 (21.74 %) MPLS 2 5 (21.74 %) Firewall 3 4 (17.39 %) TCP/IP 4 3 (13.04 %) Network Security 4 3 (13.04 %) VoIP 5 2 (8.696 %) Wireless 5 2 (8.696 %) EIGRP 5 2 (8.696 %) OSPF 5 2 (8.696 %) BGP 5 2 (8.696 %) Cisco ASA 5 2 (8.696 %) Cisco PIX 5 2 (8.696 %) IP Telephony 6 1 (4.348 %) Cisco IPT 6 1 (4.348 %) DSL 6 1 (4.348 %) VRRP 6 1 (4.348 %) IPsec 6 1 (4.348 %) DHCP 6 1 (4.348 %) ADSL	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (4.348 %) SQL Server 1 1 (4.348 %) Datawarehouse 1 1 (4.348 %) RDBMS 1 1 (4.348 %) SQL Server 2000 1 1 (4.348 %) SQL Server 2005
General 1 6 (26.09 %) Telecoms 2 1 (4.348 %) Finance 2 1 (4.348 %) Construction 2 1 (4.348 %) Government 2 1 (4.348 %) Retail 2 1 (4.348 %) Pharmaceutical	Job Titles 1 7 (30.43 %) Network Engineer 2 4 (17.39 %) Cisco Engineer 3 3 (13.04 %) Architect 4 2 (8.696 %) Support Engineer 4 2 (8.696 %) Design Engineer 4 2 (8.696 %) Cisco Network Engineer 4 2 (8.696 %) Helpdesk Support 4 2 (8.696 %) Senior Network Engineer 4 2 (8.696 %) Network Architect 5 1 (4.348 %) Systems Support Engineer 5 1 (4.348 %) Network Specialist 5 1 (4.348 %) Microsoft Consultant 5 1 (4.348 %) Cisco Support 5 1 (4.348 %) Network Design Engineer 5 1 (4.348 %) Implementation Specialist 5 1 (4.348 %) Cisco IPT Engineer 5 1 (4.348 %) Implementation Engineer 5 1 (4.348 %) Voice Engineer 5 1 (4.348 %) Technical Specialist 5 1 (4.348 %) Project Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.348 %) EPoS 1 1 (4.348 %) CMDB 1 1 (4.348 %) Video Conferencing	Operating Systems 1 6 (26.09 %) Windows 2 3 (13.04 %) Windows XP 2 3 (13.04 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (8.696 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 2 (8.696 %) Solaris 3 2 (8.696 %) Linux 3 2 (8.696 %) UNIX 4 1 (4.348 %) AIX 4 1 (4.348 %) HPUX 4 1 (4.348 %) Red Hat Linux 4 1 (4.348 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (8.696 %) ITIL 1 2 (8.696 %) SC Cleared 1 2 (8.696 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (4.348 %) E-business 2 1 (4.348 %) Network Design 2 1 (4.348 %) Supplier Management 2 1 (4.348 %) Incident Management 2 1 (4.348 %) Project Planning	Programming Languages 1 2 (8.696 %) SQL 2 1 (4.348 %) VBScript 2 1 (4.348 %) VB
Qualifications 1 6 (26.09 %) Cisco Certification 2 5 (21.74 %) CCIE 3 3 (13.04 %) CCNP 3 3 (13.04 %) Microsoft Certification 4 2 (8.696 %) CCNA 4 2 (8.696 %) MCSE 5 1 (4.348 %) CCDP 5 1 (4.348 %) Citrix Certification 5 1 (4.348 %) CCIP 5 1 (4.348 %) CCSP	System Software 1 4 (17.39 %) Active Directory 2 1 (4.348 %) VMware ESX
Systems Management 1 1 (4.348 %) OpenView 1 1 (4.348 %) Tivoli 1 1 (4.348 %) Tivoli Storage Manager	Vendors 1 15 (65.22 %) Cisco 2 5 (21.74 %) Nortel 3 4 (17.39 %) Microsoft 4 3 (13.04 %) HP 4 3 (13.04 %) CheckPoint 5 2 (8.696 %) BT 5 2 (8.696 %) Oracle 5 2 (8.696 %) Siemens 6 1 (4.348 %) Red Hat 6 1 (4.348 %) Citrix 6 1 (4.348 %) Motorola 6 1 (4.348 %) Nokia 6 1 (4.348 %) 3Com 6 1 (4.348 %) VMware