The first table below looks at the demand for Internet skills in IT contracts advertised for the Liverpool region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Internet 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 Communications & Networking category for the Liverpool 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
Internet
Rank - 25 22
Contract jobs citing Internet 0 6 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool - 3.279% 0.637%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 21.43% 4.348%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £288 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £311 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
-4.23% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.75 £15.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-1.66% -25.00%
All Communications & Networking
Liverpool
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
7 28 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 4.605% 15.30% 14.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 13
Average daily rate £400 £263 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+52.38% -25.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 1
Average hourly rate - £29.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +43.90%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
Internet
Merseyside

Internet
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool Internet Jobs Demand Trend

Internet
Daily Rate Trend

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

Liverpool Internet Daily Rate Trend

Internet
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Liverpool Internet Hourly Rate Trend

Internet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool region citing Internet 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 Internet.

1 2 (50.00%) MS Office
1 2 (50.00%) MCP
1 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (50.00%) LAN
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Android
1 2 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (25.00%) Service Desk Management
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 2000 Server
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) XenApp
2 1 (25.00%) XenDesktop
2 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (25.00%) Fat Client
2 1 (25.00%) NETGEAR
2 1 (25.00%) IP Telephony
2 1 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (25.00%) Smartphone
2 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery

Internet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) LAN
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) IP Telephony
2 1 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) MPLS
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Android Developer
1 2 (50.00%) iOS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Fat Client
1 1 (25.00%) Smartphone
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) Clustering
1 1 (25.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (25.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Android
1 2 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 2000 Server
2 1 (25.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) Service Desk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Security Management
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) MCP
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) A+ Certification
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) XenApp
2 1 (25.00%) XenDesktop
2 1 (25.00%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) NETGEAR
2 1 (25.00%) Wyse
2 1 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Symantec
2 1 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) Dell