The first table below looks at the demand for the Network Engineer role 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 Engineer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Engineer
Rank 63 69 56
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 15 4 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 1.894% 0.396% 0.884%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.027% 0.415% 0.938%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 2
Average daily rate £300 £329 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.74% -12.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £34.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £20.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+62.50% -31.03%
All Job Titles
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
740 963 640
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 93.43% 95.25% 94.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 562 307
Average daily rate £300 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £183 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £460 £489
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 46 60
Average hourly rate £15.50 £13.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+14.81% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.65 £10.00 £8.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £50.00 £29.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Network Engineer
West Yorkshire

Network Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Network Engineer across the Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Leeds Network Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leeds Network Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Leeds Network Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leeds Network Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Network Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region that cited Network Engineer in their job title 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 with Network Engineer in their job title.

1 20 (90.91%) Cisco
2 16 (72.73%) Cisco Certification
3 14 (63.64%) CCNP
4 10 (45.45%) Firewall
5 8 (36.36%) Cisco ASA
6 7 (31.82%) Cisco CUCM
6 7 (31.82%) BGP
6 7 (31.82%) LAN
6 7 (31.82%) WAN
7 6 (27.27%) VoIP
7 6 (27.27%) ITIL
7 6 (27.27%) EIGRP
7 6 (27.27%) CCSA
7 6 (27.27%) F5
8 5 (22.73%) Network Security
8 5 (22.73%) Incident Management
8 5 (22.73%) CheckPoint
9 4 (18.18%) TippingPoint
9 4 (18.18%) OPNET
9 4 (18.18%) WLAN
9 4 (18.18%) HP
9 4 (18.18%) BMC
9 4 (18.18%) Motorola
9 4 (18.18%) Lisp
9 4 (18.18%) DMVPN
9 4 (18.18%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (13.64%) Network Architecture
10 3 (13.64%) Cisco UCCE
10 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (13.64%) Cisco UCCX

Network Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region that cited Network Engineer in their job title 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 with Network Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (4.545%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.545%) Amazon AWS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (45.45%) Firewall
2 8 (36.36%) Cisco ASA
3 7 (31.82%) BGP
3 7 (31.82%) LAN
3 7 (31.82%) WAN
4 6 (27.27%) VoIP
4 6 (27.27%) EIGRP
5 5 (22.73%) Network Security
6 4 (18.18%) WLAN
6 4 (18.18%) DMVPN
6 4 (18.18%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (13.64%) VPN
7 3 (13.64%) MPLS
7 3 (13.64%) OSPF
7 3 (13.64%) SCCP
7 3 (13.64%) H.323
8 2 (9.091%) BIG-IP
8 2 (9.091%) PABX
8 2 (9.091%) FWSM
9 1 (4.545%) WAAS
Development Applications
1 2 (9.091%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 1 (4.545%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) IVR
2 2 (9.091%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.545%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (13.64%) Windows
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
2 2 (9.091%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (9.091%) CentOS
2 2 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) ITIL
2 5 (22.73%) Incident Management
3 3 (13.64%) Network Architecture
4 2 (9.091%) Configuration Management
4 2 (9.091%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (4.545%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) Lisp
2 1 (4.545%) Bash shell
2 1 (4.545%) C++
2 1 (4.545%) Python
2 1 (4.545%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (72.73%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (63.64%) CCNP
3 6 (27.27%) CCSA
4 3 (13.64%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (13.64%) CCNA
4 3 (13.64%) CCSE
4 3 (13.64%) CCVP
5 2 (9.091%) CCIE
6 1 (4.545%) SC Cleared
6 1 (4.545%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (4.545%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (31.82%) Cisco CUCM
2 3 (13.64%) Cisco UCCE
2 3 (13.64%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 20 (90.91%) Cisco
2 6 (27.27%) F5
3 5 (22.73%) CheckPoint
4 4 (18.18%) TippingPoint
4 4 (18.18%) OPNET
4 4 (18.18%) HP
4 4 (18.18%) BMC
4 4 (18.18%) Motorola
5 2 (9.091%) Perforce
5 2 (9.091%) Juniper
5 2 (9.091%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.545%) VMware
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