The first table below looks at the demand for the Data 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 Data Network Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Network Engineer
Rank 380 400 430
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +30
Contract jobs requiring a Data Network Engineer 1 2 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.005% 0.007% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% 0.008% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 2
Average daily rate - £475 £463
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +2.70%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £250 £350
% change year-on-year
+40.00% -28.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
20013 24845 28392
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.25% 92.53% 92.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 13506 16024 18238
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 449 607 669
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £41.25 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Data Network Engineer
England

Data Network Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Data Network Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Data Network Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Data Network Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Data Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Data Network Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Data Network Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Data 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 Data Network Engineer in their job title.

1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) IPsec
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) VRRP
2 2 (50.00%) OSPF
2 2 (50.00%) HSRP
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Wireless
3 1 (25.00%) BT
3 1 (25.00%) BGP
3 1 (25.00%) DPNSS
3 1 (25.00%) DSL
3 1 (25.00%) EIGRP
3 1 (25.00%) TACACS
3 1 (25.00%) Q.931
3 1 (25.00%) SLA
3 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (25.00%) OPNET
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) CCTV
3 1 (25.00%) DMS-100
3 1 (25.00%) VPLS
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) LLU

Data Network Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) VRRP
2 2 (50.00%) HSRP
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) OSPF
2 2 (50.00%) IPsec
3 1 (25.00%) DMS-100
3 1 (25.00%) VPLS
3 1 (25.00%) LLU
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (25.00%) MRTG
3 1 (25.00%) PABX
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (25.00%) BGP
3 1 (25.00%) DPNSS
3 1 (25.00%) DSL
3 1 (25.00%) EIGRP
3 1 (25.00%) TACACS
General
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) CCTV
1 1 (25.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) OS/2
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL
1 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (25.00%) Change Management
1 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (25.00%) Network Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCIE
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) Nortel
2 1 (25.00%) Avaya
2 1 (25.00%) BT
2 1 (25.00%) OPNET
2 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds