LAN Contracts in Kent
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for LAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LAN over the 3 months to 22 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 Kent 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Local Area Network (LAN)
Rank 34 30 28
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -2
Contract jobs citing LAN 4 7 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 1.342% 2.612% 4.967%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.00% 26.92% 15.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 12
Average daily rate £240 £320 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +11.30%
UK excluding London average daily rate £309 £308 £320
% change year-on-year
+0.40% -3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £16.00 - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £20.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-20.00% -4.76%
All Communications & Networking
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 40 26 96
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 13.42% 9.701% 31.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 16 66
Average daily rate £240 £308 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.95% +2.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 8
Average hourly rate £16.00 £67.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-76.29% +68.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
LAN
South East

LAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent LAN Daily Rate Trend

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Kent LAN Hourly Rate Trend

LAN
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the Kent region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Maidstone -1 1 £240 -25.58%
Dover - 1 - -
LAN
South East

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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%) Windows
2 13 (76.47%) WAN
3 12 (70.59%) Windows Server 2003
3 12 (70.59%) VMware
4 11 (64.71%) SharePoint
5 10 (58.82%) Active Directory
5 10 (58.82%) Citrix
5 10 (58.82%) Windows 2000 Server
6 9 (52.94%) Firewall
7 8 (47.06%) IPsec
7 8 (47.06%) HP
7 8 (47.06%) Dell
7 8 (47.06%) Juniper
7 8 (47.06%) WLAN
7 8 (47.06%) DHCP
7 8 (47.06%) TCP/IP
7 8 (47.06%) VPN
7 8 (47.06%) DNS
7 8 (47.06%) Windows Server 2008
8 7 (41.18%) ITIL
8 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
9 6 (35.29%) Release Management
10 5 (29.41%) SCOM
10 5 (29.41%) PKI
10 5 (29.41%) IPv6
10 5 (29.41%) EMC
10 5 (29.41%) Terminal Services
10 5 (29.41%) VBScript
10 5 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
10 5 (29.41%) PowerShell

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 Development
1 1 (5.882%) COM
Application Platforms
1 11 (64.71%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.882%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) MS Office
1 3 (17.65%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (76.47%) WAN
2 9 (52.94%) Firewall
3 8 (47.06%) IPsec
3 8 (47.06%) WLAN
3 8 (47.06%) DHCP
3 8 (47.06%) TCP/IP
3 8 (47.06%) VPN
3 8 (47.06%) DNS
4 5 (29.41%) IPv6
5 2 (11.76%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (11.76%) Network Security
5 2 (11.76%) Internet
5 2 (11.76%) Broadband
6 1 (5.882%) SAN
General
1 2 (11.76%) Finance
1 2 (11.76%) Advertising
2 1 (5.882%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Desktop Engineer
1 8 (47.06%) Server Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Support Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Desktop Support
3 3 (17.65%) Server Support
3 3 (17.65%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Server Support Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Project Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) IT Support
4 2 (11.76%) Transition Manager
4 2 (11.76%) IT Support Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Support Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (5.882%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (5.882%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Technical Support
5 1 (5.882%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Infrastructure Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) PKI
2 2 (11.76%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (11.76%) NHS
2 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.882%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 14 (82.35%) Windows
2 12 (70.59%) Windows Server 2003
3 10 (58.82%) Windows 2000 Server
4 8 (47.06%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (5.882%) Windows XP
5 1 (5.882%) Windows NT
5 1 (5.882%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) ITIL
2 6 (35.29%) Release Management
3 3 (17.65%) Network Management
4 2 (11.76%) Data Protection
4 2 (11.76%) Project Management
4 2 (11.76%) PRINCE2
5 1 (5.882%) Service Delivery
5 1 (5.882%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (5.882%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) VBScript
1 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.882%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) MCSA
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (11.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (5.882%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.882%) QA
System Software
1 10 (58.82%) Active Directory
2 5 (29.41%) Terminal Services
2 5 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (17.65%) Terminal Server
4 2 (11.76%) vSphere
4 2 (11.76%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) SCOM
Vendors
1 12 (70.59%) VMware
2 10 (58.82%) Citrix
3 8 (47.06%) HP
3 8 (47.06%) Dell
3 8 (47.06%) Juniper
4 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
5 5 (29.41%) EMC
6 2 (11.76%) Cisco
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