The first table below looks at the demand for WAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leicestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 22 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 Communications & Networking category for the Leicestershire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 33 13 31
Rank change year-on-year
-20 +18
Contract jobs citing WAN 2 12 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 0.943% 5.556% 0.435%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.38% 37.50% 3.125%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
Average daily rate £615 £188 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+228.00% -16.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £19.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £21.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-25.58% +2.38%
All Communications & Networking
Leicestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
13 32 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 6.132% 14.81% 13.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 6
Average daily rate £275 £200 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+37.50% -33.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £180 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £547 £343 £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 4
Average hourly rate £16.50 £18.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% -44.61%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
WAN
East Midlands

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire WAN Daily Rate Trend

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 22 May 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
Leicester -5 2 £615 +207.50%
WAN
East Midlands

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 5 (71.43%) LAN
2 2 (28.57%) PBX
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (28.57%) IVR
2 2 (28.57%) CCNP
2 2 (28.57%) CCNA
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Validation
3 1 (14.29%) SUSE
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (14.29%) HP
3 1 (14.29%) Dell
3 1 (14.29%) Nortel
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
3 1 (14.29%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Time Management
3 1 (14.29%) iSCSI
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (14.29%) VCP4
3 1 (14.29%) vSphere
3 1 (14.29%) F5
3 1 (14.29%) DMVPN
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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.

Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) LAN
2 2 (28.57%) PBX
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
3 1 (14.29%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (14.29%) iSCSI
3 1 (14.29%) DMVPN
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (14.29%) SAN
3 1 (14.29%) MPLS
3 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (14.29%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Network Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Integration Manager
2 1 (14.29%) IT Programme Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Head of Operations
2 1 (14.29%) Implementation Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Head of Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) Network Implementation Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Programme Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) SUSE
1 1 (14.29%) AIX
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) Validation
1 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
1 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (14.29%) Time Management
1 1 (14.29%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (28.57%) CCNP
1 2 (28.57%) CCNA
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (14.29%) VCP4
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
1 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) HP
2 1 (14.29%) Dell
2 1 (14.29%) Nortel
2 1 (14.29%) F5
2 1 (14.29%) Juniper
2 1 (14.29%) Nokia
2 1 (14.29%) Novell
2 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint