The first table below looks at the demand for WAN 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 WAN over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 30 34 23
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -11
Contract jobs citing WAN 8 3 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 3.175% 1.195% 4.854%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.22% 11.54% 15.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 12
Average daily rate £325 £203 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+60.49% -26.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £203 £252
10% offered a daily rate of more than £368 £203 £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £304 £313 £325
% change year-on-year
-2.72% -3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
Average hourly rate £16.00 - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.00 £21.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year
-16.27% -2.27%
All Communications & Networking
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
36 26 95
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 14.29% 10.36% 30.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 13 69
Average daily rate £300 £203 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+48.14% -32.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £125 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £387 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 9
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 £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
WAN
South East

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent WAN Jobs Demand Trend

WAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

Kent WAN Daily Rate Trend

WAN
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WAN across the Kent region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Kent WAN Daily Rate Histogram

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Kent WAN Hourly Rate Trend

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 Kent region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Maidstone - 1 £240 -
Sevenoaks - 1 £300 -
Tunbridge Wells - - - -
West Malling - - - - 1
Chatham - - - - 2
Dartford - - - -
WAN
South East

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 12 (92.31%) Windows
1 12 (92.31%) LAN
2 11 (84.62%) VMware
3 9 (69.23%) Citrix
4 8 (61.54%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (53.85%) Windows 2000 Server
6 6 (46.15%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (46.15%) Firewall
6 6 (46.15%) VPN
6 6 (46.15%) DNS
6 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
6 6 (46.15%) DHCP
6 6 (46.15%) SharePoint
7 5 (38.46%) TCP/IP
7 5 (38.46%) WLAN
7 5 (38.46%) HP
7 5 (38.46%) Dell
7 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
7 5 (38.46%) Juniper
7 5 (38.46%) IPsec
8 4 (30.77%) SAN
8 4 (30.77%) ITIL
8 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (30.77%) Finance
8 4 (30.77%) Release Management
9 3 (23.08%) SCOM
9 3 (23.08%) Advertising
9 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (23.08%) MCSA
9 3 (23.08%) Terminal Server

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 6 (46.15%) SharePoint
2 2 (15.38%) MS Exchange
3 1 (7.692%) IBM Notes
3 1 (7.692%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) MS Excel
1 2 (15.38%) MS Office
2 1 (7.692%) AutoCAD
2 1 (7.692%) Pro/ENGINEER
2 1 (7.692%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 12 (92.31%) LAN
2 6 (46.15%) Firewall
2 6 (46.15%) VPN
2 6 (46.15%) DNS
2 6 (46.15%) DHCP
3 5 (38.46%) TCP/IP
3 5 (38.46%) WLAN
3 5 (38.46%) IPsec
4 4 (30.77%) SAN
5 2 (15.38%) IPv6
5 2 (15.38%) Network Security
5 2 (15.38%) NAS
6 1 (7.692%) Internet
6 1 (7.692%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) TOAD
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Advertising
3 1 (7.692%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Desktop Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) Server Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Support Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) 3rd Line Support
3 2 (15.38%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) IT Support
4 1 (7.692%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Wintel Server Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Wintel Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Server Support
4 1 (7.692%) Systems Support
4 1 (7.692%) Support Technician
4 1 (7.692%) Technical Support
4 1 (7.692%) Desktop Support
4 1 (7.692%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Network Support Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) IT Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Clustering
2 2 (15.38%) PKI
3 1 (7.692%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 12 (92.31%) Windows
2 8 (61.54%) Windows Server 2003
3 7 (53.85%) Windows 2000 Server
4 6 (46.15%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (7.692%) Windows 7
6 1 (7.692%) Windows XP
6 1 (7.692%) Windows NT
6 1 (7.692%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) ITIL
1 4 (30.77%) Release Management
2 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
2 2 (15.38%) PRINCE2
2 2 (15.38%) Capacity Management
3 1 (7.692%) Incident Management
3 1 (7.692%) ITIL V3
3 1 (7.692%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) VBScript
1 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.692%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (23.08%) MCSA
3 1 (7.692%) CCNA
3 1 (7.692%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
2 3 (23.08%) Terminal Server
3 2 (15.38%) Terminal Services
3 2 (15.38%) vSphere
3 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (15.38%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) SCOM
2 1 (7.692%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) VMware
2 9 (69.23%) Citrix
3 5 (38.46%) HP
3 5 (38.46%) Dell
3 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
3 5 (38.46%) Juniper
4 2 (15.38%) EMC
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco
5 1 (7.692%) SolarWinds
5 1 (7.692%) Lotus
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