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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for WAN 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 WAN over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Leeds region.

 Wide Area Network (WAN)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank415052
Rank change year-on-year
Up+9Up+2
Matching contract IT job ads11818
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds1.964 %1.351 %1.644 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category21.57 %19.05 %13.85 %
Daily rates quoted902
Average daily rate£340-£423
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£300-£421
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£368-£425
UK excluding London average daily rate£320£320£325
% change year-on-year
--1.530 %
Hourly rates quoted014
Average hourly rate-£26.00£17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-+52.94 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£19.50£22.00£20.50
% change year-on-year
-11.36 %+7.310 %
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryAll Communications & Networking
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
5142130
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds9.107 %7.095 %11.87 %
Daily rates quoted25428
Average daily rate£325£300£385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.330 %-22.07 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£288£194£150
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£380£473£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£338£325
% change year-on-year
-3.700 %+3.840 %
Hourly rates quoted5222
Average hourly rate£9.00£39.00£17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-76.92 %+129.41 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.00£24.00£27.50
% change year-on-year
+4.160 %-12.72 %
WAN West YorkshireWAN
West Yorkshire

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.

WAN
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing WAN across the Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Leeds WAN Demand Trend

WAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leeds WAN Daily Rate Trend

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leeds WAN Hourly Rate Trend

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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.

127 (96.43 %)LAN
225 (89.29 %)TCP/IP
225 (89.29 %)Active Directory
225 (89.29 %)Windows
324 (85.71 %)Windows Server 2003
421 (75.00 %)Windows XP
518 (64.29 %)MS Exchange
617 (60.71 %)Microsoft
617 (60.71 %)VMware
617 (60.71 %)VMware Infrastructure
716 (57.14 %)Exchange Server 2007
716 (57.14 %)DNS
716 (57.14 %)SharePoint
811 (39.29 %)NetApp
910 (35.71 %)ZENworks
910 (35.71 %)SQL
109 (32.14 %)MS Office
118 (28.57 %)Oracle
118 (28.57 %)SAN
118 (28.57 %)NHS
118 (28.57 %)Firewall
127 (25.00 %)Windows Vista
127 (25.00 %)NAS
136 (21.43 %)ITIL
145 (17.86 %)Degree
154 (14.29 %)Windows Server 2008
162 (7.143 %)Exchange Server 2003
162 (7.143 %)MCP
162 (7.143 %)IIS
162 (7.143 %)CRM

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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.

Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11 (3.571 %)Middleware
11 (3.571 %)XML Messaging
11 (3.571 %).NET
11 (3.571 %)Web Services
11 (3.571 %)XML
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
118 (64.29 %)MS Exchange
216 (57.14 %)Exchange Server 2007
216 (57.14 %)SharePoint
32 (7.143 %)Exchange Server 2003
32 (7.143 %)IIS
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
19 (32.14 %)MS Office
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
12 (7.143 %)Microsoft CRM
21 (3.571 %)SoftGrid
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
127 (96.43 %)LAN
225 (89.29 %)TCP/IP
316 (57.14 %)DNS
48 (28.57 %)SAN
48 (28.57 %)Firewall
57 (25.00 %)NAS
61 (3.571 %)MPLS
61 (3.571 %)OSPF
61 (3.571 %)BGP
61 (3.571 %)EIGRP
61 (3.571 %)VPN
61 (3.571 %)DHCP
61 (3.571 %)LDAP
61 (3.571 %)VLAN
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
12 (7.143 %)Oracle 8/8i
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12 (7.143 %)Government
12 (7.143 %)Health
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
18 (28.57 %)Support Engineer
18 (28.57 %)3rd Line Support
27 (25.00 %)Technical Support
27 (25.00 %)Desktop Support
36 (21.43 %)Senior Technical Support Engineer
36 (21.43 %)Infrastructure Manager
36 (21.43 %)Senior Support Engineer
36 (21.43 %)Senior Technical Support
36 (21.43 %)Server Support
36 (21.43 %)Technical Engineer
36 (21.43 %)Technical Support Engineer
42 (7.143 %)Infrastructure Architect
42 (7.143 %)Systems Architect
42 (7.143 %)Architect
42 (7.143 %)Systems Engineer
51 (3.571 %)Support Analyst
51 (3.571 %)Analyst
51 (3.571 %)Network Engineer
51 (3.571 %)Infrastructure Engineer
51 (3.571 %)Systems Manager
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
18 (28.57 %)NHS
21 (3.571 %)Smartcard
21 (3.571 %)PKI
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
125 (89.29 %)Windows
224 (85.71 %)Windows Server 2003
321 (75.00 %)Windows XP
47 (25.00 %)Windows Vista
54 (14.29 %)Windows Server 2008
62 (7.143 %)Linux
71 (3.571 %)Windows 2000
71 (3.571 %)UNIX
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
16 (21.43 %)ITIL
22 (7.143 %)CRM
31 (3.571 %)Benchmarking
31 (3.571 %)Project Management
31 (3.571 %)V-Model
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
110 (35.71 %)SQL
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
15 (17.86 %)Degree
22 (7.143 %)MCP
22 (7.143 %)MCSE
22 (7.143 %)Cisco Certification
22 (7.143 %)Microsoft Certification
31 (3.571 %)CCNP
31 (3.571 %)CCIP
31 (3.571 %)CCNA
31 (3.571 %)MCSA
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
125 (89.29 %)Active Directory
217 (60.71 %)VMware Infrastructure
32 (7.143 %)ISA Server
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
110 (35.71 %)ZENworks
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
117 (60.71 %)Microsoft
117 (60.71 %)VMware
211 (39.29 %)NetApp
38 (28.57 %)Oracle
41 (3.571 %)Citrix