The first table below looks at the demand for Gigabit Ethernet skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Gigabit Ethernet over the 3 months to 17 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Gigabit Ethernet (GbE)
Rank 372 396 435
Rank change year-on-year
+24 +39
Contract jobs citing Gigabit Ethernet 13 10 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.060% 0.037% 0.006%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.454% 0.273% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 0
Average daily rate £550 £371 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+48.14% -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £248 £300
% change year-on-year
- -17.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £27.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year
- -24.13%
All Communications & Networking
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
2861 3664 3392
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 13.25% 13.68% 10.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1759 2236 1957
Average daily rate £400 £400 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +3.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £243 £237
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 145 211
Average hourly rate £21.50 £22.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.44% +18.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.95 £15.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
Gigabit Ethernet
England

Gigabit Ethernet
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Gigabit Ethernet Jobs Demand Trend

Gigabit Ethernet
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Gigabit Ethernet Daily Rate Trend

Gigabit Ethernet
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Gigabit Ethernet across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London Gigabit Ethernet Daily Rate Histogram

Gigabit Ethernet
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Gigabit Ethernet Hourly Rate Trend

Gigabit Ethernet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Gigabit Ethernet 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 Gigabit Ethernet.

1 10 (76.92%) Ethernet
2 8 (61.54%) Linux
2 8 (61.54%) TCP/IP
2 8 (61.54%) Perl
2 8 (61.54%) Python
2 8 (61.54%) Veritas
2 8 (61.54%) Red Hat
2 8 (61.54%) Shell Script
2 8 (61.54%) EMC
2 8 (61.54%) SAN
2 8 (61.54%) Samba
2 8 (61.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (61.54%) NAS
2 8 (61.54%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 8 (61.54%) Bash shell
2 8 (61.54%) Puppet
2 8 (61.54%) Cobbler
3 5 (38.46%) Capacity Planning
3 5 (38.46%) SRDF
3 5 (38.46%) Incident Management
3 5 (38.46%) WebSphere
3 5 (38.46%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (38.46%) EMC NetWorker
3 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
3 5 (38.46%) HP APS
3 5 (38.46%) Clustering
3 5 (38.46%) Nokia
3 5 (38.46%) RHCE
3 5 (38.46%) Juniper

Gigabit Ethernet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Gigabit Ethernet 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 Gigabit Ethernet. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (38.46%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 5 (38.46%) Apache
1 5 (38.46%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 10 (76.92%) Ethernet
2 8 (61.54%) TCP/IP
2 8 (61.54%) NAS
2 8 (61.54%) SAN
3 5 (38.46%) MPLS
3 5 (38.46%) OSPF
3 5 (38.46%) BGP
3 5 (38.46%) DSL
3 5 (38.46%) RSVP
3 5 (38.46%) Firewall
3 5 (38.46%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (38.46%) Wireless
3 5 (38.46%) IPsec
3 5 (38.46%) VPN
3 5 (38.46%) SNMP
3 5 (38.46%) LAN
3 5 (38.46%) WAN
3 5 (38.46%) DHCP
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Banking
2 3 (23.08%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Linux Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Network Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Cisco Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Cisco Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) Linux
1 8 (61.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (38.46%) VMS
2 5 (38.46%) UNIX
2 5 (38.46%) AIX
2 5 (38.46%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) ITIL
1 5 (38.46%) Validation
1 5 (38.46%) Incident Management
1 5 (38.46%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Perl
1 8 (61.54%) Python
1 8 (61.54%) Shell Script
1 8 (61.54%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) RHCE
1 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
1 5 (38.46%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) Samba
1 8 (61.54%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 5 (38.46%) SRDF
2 5 (38.46%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Puppet
1 8 (61.54%) Cobbler
2 5 (38.46%) OpenView
2 5 (38.46%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) EMC
1 8 (61.54%) Veritas
1 8 (61.54%) Red Hat
2 5 (38.46%) 3Com
2 5 (38.46%) Juniper
2 5 (38.46%) Nokia
2 5 (38.46%) Oracle
2 5 (38.46%) Cisco
2 5 (38.46%) HP
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