The first table below looks at the demand for the 3rd Line Network Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 3rd Line Network Engineer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the London 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
Third Line Network Engineer
Rank - 401 429
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Network Engineer 0 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London - 0.015% 0.003%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.016% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Average daily rate - £300 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £240 £200 -
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
20317 24960 28380
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.22% 92.51% 92.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13701 16102 18232
Average daily rate £450 £445 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.12% -6.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 621 671
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
3rd Line Network Engineer
England

3rd Line Network Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 3rd Line Network Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

3rd Line Network Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

London 3rd Line Network Engineer Daily Rate Trend

3rd Line Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London 3rd Line Network Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

3rd Line Network Engineer
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited 3rd Line 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 3rd Line Network Engineer in their job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Blue Coat
2 1 (33.33%) ProxySG
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) ProCurve
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) Juniper
2 1 (33.33%) F5
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management

3rd Line Network Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited 3rd Line 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 3rd Line Network Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
1 1 (33.33%) Change Management
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) ProxySG
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Blue Coat
1 1 (33.33%) ProCurve
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) HP
1 1 (33.33%) Juniper
1 1 (33.33%) F5