The first table below looks at the demand for Network Design skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Network Design over the 3 months to 21 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the Leeds 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Design
Rank 70 65 53
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -12
Contract jobs citing Network Design 2 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.264% 0.112% 0.328%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.360% 0.157% 0.488%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
Average daily rate £263 - £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £394 £338
% change year-on-year
-11.11% +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.50 £27.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year
-3.63% -24.13%
All Processes & Methodologies
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
556 637 410
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 73.45% 71.57% 67.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 374 205
Average daily rate £310 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.14% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £242 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £452 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 19
Average hourly rate £33.50 £19.25 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+74.02% +10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.70 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Network Design
West Yorkshire

Network Design
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Network Design across the Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Leeds Network Design Jobs Demand Trend

Network Design
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leeds Network Design Daily Rate Trend

Network Design
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leeds Network Design Hourly Rate Trend

Network Design
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Network Design 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 Network Design.

1 2 (50.00%) C++
1 2 (50.00%) PHP
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) ASP
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Apache
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (50.00%) POSIX
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
1 2 (50.00%) HTTP
1 2 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
1 2 (50.00%) TDD
1 2 (50.00%) Ruby
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (50.00%) Kanban
1 2 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (50.00%) nginx
1 2 (50.00%) SimpleDB
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Puppet

Network Design
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Network Design 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 Network Design. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (50.00%) ASP
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
1 2 (50.00%) POSIX
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Apache
1 2 (50.00%) nginx
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
1 2 (50.00%) HTTP
1 2 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (25.00%) SSH
2 1 (25.00%) SSL
2 1 (25.00%) Internet
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
1 2 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (50.00%) SimpleDB
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Redis
1 2 (50.00%) Couchbase
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Network Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (25.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (50.00%) TDD
1 2 (50.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (50.00%) Kanban
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C++
1 2 (50.00%) PHP
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) Ruby
1 2 (50.00%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Riverbed
2 1 (25.00%) Fujitsu