The first table below looks at the demand for LAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hounslow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LAN over the 3 months to 17 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 Hounslow 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Local Area Network (LAN)
Rank 16 15 13
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -2
Contract jobs citing LAN 3 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 5.263% 2.564% 1.538%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.11% 11.76% 5.556%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
Average daily rate £344 £235 £205
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+46.27% +14.63%
UK excluding London average daily rate £308 £308 £320
% change year-on-year
- -3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £20.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.25 £20.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-18.75% -4.76%
All Communications & Networking
Hounslow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
27 17 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 47.37% 21.79% 27.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 11 14
Average daily rate £425 £330 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.78% +1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £328 £235 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £13.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
LAN
London

LAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hounslow 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 Hounslow region.

Hounslow LAN Daily Rate Trend

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LAN across the Hounslow region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Hounslow LAN Daily Rate Histogram

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hounslow LAN Hourly Rate Trend

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow 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 14 (82.35%) WAN
1 14 (82.35%) Telecoms
2 12 (70.59%) Windows
2 12 (70.59%) Active Directory
2 12 (70.59%) Windows 7
3 11 (64.71%) Software Deployment
3 11 (64.71%) Lotus Notes
3 11 (64.71%) Windows XP
3 11 (64.71%) Lotus
3 11 (64.71%) Aerospace
3 11 (64.71%) Blackberry
4 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (35.29%) MCP
4 6 (35.29%) MCDST
5 2 (11.76%) Network Design
5 2 (11.76%) VPN
5 2 (11.76%) SLA
5 2 (11.76%) Cisco
5 2 (11.76%) MPLS
5 2 (11.76%) OSPF
5 2 (11.76%) BGP
5 2 (11.76%) ITIL
5 2 (11.76%) Service Delivery
5 2 (11.76%) VLAN
6 1 (5.882%) Windows 8
6 1 (5.882%) Ubuntu
6 1 (5.882%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (5.882%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (5.882%) PRINCE2
6 1 (5.882%) Linux

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow 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 Platforms
1 11 (64.71%) Lotus Notes
Communications & Networking
1 14 (82.35%) WAN
2 2 (11.76%) VPN
2 2 (11.76%) MPLS
2 2 (11.76%) OSPF
2 2 (11.76%) BGP
2 2 (11.76%) VLAN
General
1 14 (82.35%) Telecoms
2 11 (64.71%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Desktop Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Team Leader
1 5 (29.41%) Desktop Team Leader
2 2 (11.76%) Services Delivery Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Service Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Network Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Network Design Architect
3 1 (5.882%) Project Manager
3 1 (5.882%) Desktop Support
3 1 (5.882%) Analyst
3 1 (5.882%) Consultant
3 1 (5.882%) Server Support
3 1 (5.882%) Support Analyst
3 1 (5.882%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (5.882%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (5.882%) Support Consultant
3 1 (5.882%) PRINCE2 Project Manager
3 1 (5.882%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 11 (64.71%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 12 (70.59%) Windows
1 12 (70.59%) Windows 7
2 11 (64.71%) Windows XP
3 1 (5.882%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (5.882%) Ubuntu
3 1 (5.882%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (5.882%) Windows 8
3 1 (5.882%) Linux
3 1 (5.882%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Software Deployment
2 2 (11.76%) ITIL
2 2 (11.76%) Service Delivery
2 2 (11.76%) Network Design
3 1 (5.882%) PRINCE2
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) MCP
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Certification
1 6 (35.29%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (70.59%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) Lotus
2 2 (11.76%) Cisco