Leeds WAN Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Wide Area Network (WAN) skills within the Leeds region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Gosport Greenford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hull Inverness Ipswich Kent King's Lynn Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Portsmouth Prescot Preston Prestwick Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rochester Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Snodland Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	45	46
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	34	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.045 %	0.023 %
As % of the category below	23.13 %	16.54 %
Daily rates quoted	18	7
Average minimum daily rate	£293	£326
Average daily rate	£313	£366
% change on same period last year	-14.60 %
Average maximum daily rate	£333	£407
UK excluding London average daily rate	£316	£324
% change on same period last year	-2.44 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.83	-
Average hourly rate	£21.83	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.83	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.32	£25.30
% change on same period last year	-15.75 %
Communications & Networking Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	147	133
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.194 %	0.141 %
Daily rates quoted	42	32
Average minimum daily rate	£288	£318
Average daily rate	£308	£328
% change on same period last year	-6.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£328	£338
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£344
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.24	£22.00
Average hourly rate	£21.14	£22.92
% change on same period last year	-7.74 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.04	£23.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.58	£28.53
% change on same period last year	-10.35 %
WAN West Yorkshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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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.

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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.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WAN across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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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.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WAN across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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.

1 37 (75.51 %) Windows 2 24 (48.98 %) LAN 3 23 (46.94 %) Firewall 4 21 (42.86 %) Microsoft 5 20 (40.82 %) Active Directory 6 19 (38.78 %) ITIL 7 18 (36.73 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 17 (34.69 %) VPN 9 14 (28.57 %) Windows 2000 10 13 (26.53 %) PRINCE2 10 13 (26.53 %) SQL Server 10 13 (26.53 %) Cisco 10 13 (26.53 %) MS Exchange 10 13 (26.53 %) SQL Server 2005 11 12 (24.49 %) TCP/IP

11 12 (24.49 %) SAN 11 12 (24.49 %) MPLS 12 11 (22.45 %) Internet 12 11 (22.45 %) SQL 13 10 (20.41 %) Unix 13 10 (20.41 %) Cisco Certification 13 10 (20.41 %) Finance 13 10 (20.41 %) VMware ESX 14 9 (18.37 %) Project Management 14 9 (18.37 %) Exchange Server 2000 14 9 (18.37 %) CCNA 14 9 (18.37 %) Windows Server 2003 15 8 (16.33 %) Linux 15 8 (16.33 %) Windows XP 16 7 (14.29 %) MS Excel

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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.

Application Development 1 4 (8.163 %) Middleware 1 4 (8.163 %) X-Windows 2 2 (4.082 %) WebSphere 2 2 (4.082 %) .NET Framework 2 2 (4.082 %) WCF 2 2 (4.082 %) .NET 2 2 (4.082 %) WebServices 3 1 (2.041 %) ODBC	Application Platforms 1 18 (36.73 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 13 (26.53 %) MS Exchange 3 9 (18.37 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 3 (6.122 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 2 (4.082 %) WebSphere MQ 6 1 (2.041 %) SharePoint 6 1 (2.041 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 7 (14.29 %) MS Excel 2 3 (6.122 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 24 (48.98 %) LAN 2 23 (46.94 %) Firewall 3 17 (34.69 %) VPN 4 12 (24.49 %) TCP/IP 4 12 (24.49 %) SAN 4 12 (24.49 %) MPLS 5 11 (22.45 %) Internet 6 4 (8.163 %) DNS 6 4 (8.163 %) SSL 7 2 (4.082 %) ATM 7 2 (4.082 %) VoIP 7 2 (4.082 %) FTP 7 2 (4.082 %) Kerberos 7 2 (4.082 %) RIP 7 2 (4.082 %) OSPF 7 2 (4.082 %) X.509 7 2 (4.082 %) Intranet 7 2 (4.082 %) Frame Relay 7 2 (4.082 %) VLAN 7 2 (4.082 %) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (26.53 %) SQL Server 1 13 (26.53 %) SQL Server 2005 2 7 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2000 3 2 (4.082 %) SQL Server 7	General 1 10 (20.41 %) Finance 2 6 (12.24 %) Law 2 6 (12.24 %) Banking 3 4 (8.163 %) Government 4 2 (4.082 %) Health 5 1 (2.041 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 10 (20.41 %) Network Engineer 2 6 (12.24 %) Analyst 2 6 (12.24 %) Project Engineer 3 5 (10.20 %) Administrator 3 5 (10.20 %) Consultant 4 4 (8.163 %) Systems Administrator 4 4 (8.163 %) Cisco Engineer 4 4 (8.163 %) Technical Consultant 4 4 (8.163 %) Cisco Network Engineer 5 3 (6.122 %) 2nd Line Support 5 3 (6.122 %) Architect 5 3 (6.122 %) Systems Engineer 5 3 (6.122 %) Desktop Support 5 3 (6.122 %) Support Engineer 6 2 (4.082 %) Senior Systems Engineer 6 2 (4.082 %) Support Analyst 6 2 (4.082 %) Project Manager 6 2 (4.082 %) Desktop Engineer 6 2 (4.082 %) Infrastructure Architect 6 2 (4.082 %) Network Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 4 (8.163 %) NHS 1 4 (8.163 %) Smartcard 1 4 (8.163 %) Clustering 2 2 (4.082 %) PKI 2 2 (4.082 %) Client/Server 3 1 (2.041 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 37 (75.51 %) Windows 2 14 (28.57 %) Windows 2000 3 10 (20.41 %) Unix 4 9 (18.37 %) Windows Server 2003 5 8 (16.33 %) Windows XP 5 8 (16.33 %) Linux 6 4 (8.163 %) Mac OS X 7 2 (4.082 %) Windows Vista 7 2 (4.082 %) NetWare 8 1 (2.041 %) Mac OS X Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 19 (38.78 %) ITIL 2 13 (26.53 %) PRINCE2 3 9 (18.37 %) Project Management 4 4 (8.163 %) Network Design 4 4 (8.163 %) Network Load Balancing 5 2 (4.082 %) SOA 6 1 (2.041 %) Change Management 6 1 (2.041 %) Time Management
Programming Languages 1 11 (22.45 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 10 (20.41 %) Cisco Certification 2 9 (18.37 %) CCNA 3 7 (14.29 %) Microsoft Certification 3 7 (14.29 %) MCSE 4 6 (12.24 %) PRINCE2 Certification 5 2 (4.082 %) MCDBA 5 2 (4.082 %) Degree 6 1 (2.041 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 6 1 (2.041 %) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.082 %) PCI DSS	System Software 1 20 (40.82 %) Active Directory 2 10 (20.41 %) VMware ESX 3 7 (14.29 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 2 (4.082 %) Terminal Services 5 1 (2.041 %) Backup Exec 5 1 (2.041 %) Novell eDirectory
Systems Management 1 2 (4.082 %) OpenView 1 2 (4.082 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 1 (2.041 %) OVIS 2 1 (2.041 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 1 (2.041 %) ARCserve	Vendors 1 21 (42.86 %) Microsoft 2 13 (26.53 %) Cisco 3 7 (14.29 %) VMware 4 5 (10.20 %) Citrix 5 3 (6.122 %) Apple 6 2 (4.082 %) Symantec 6 2 (4.082 %) IBM 6 2 (4.082 %) HP 7 1 (2.041 %) Dell 7 1 (2.041 %) Nortel 7 1 (2.041 %) CommVault 7 1 (2.041 %) VERITAS 7 1 (2.041 %) BT