The first table below looks at the demand for Network Design 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 Network Design 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 Processes & Methodologies 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
Network Design
Rank 333 345 364
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +19
Contract jobs citing Network Design 52 61 73
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.241% 0.228% 0.234%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.323% 0.317% 0.328%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 29 47
Average daily rate £376 £413 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.78% -2.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £348 £278
10% offered a daily rate of more than £473 £613 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £388 £325
% change year-on-year
-9.67% +19.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
Average hourly rate £40.88 £32.75 £40.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+24.80% -18.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.78 £26.95 £39.68
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.98 £38.55 £41.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.50 £27.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year
-3.63% -24.13%
All Processes & Methodologies
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
16095 19235 22284
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 74.54% 71.82% 71.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11073 12624 14702
Average daily rate £450 £450 £480
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £303
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 334 354
Average hourly rate £30.00 £29.00 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% +3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.00 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Network Design
England

Network Design
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Network Design across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

London Network Design Jobs Demand Trend

Network Design
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Network Design Daily Rate Trend

Network Design
Daily Rate Histogram

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

London Network Design Daily Rate Histogram

Network Design
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Network Design Hourly Rate Trend

Network Design
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Design within the London region over the 3 months to 17 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
City of London +12 14 £400 -8.57%
Croydon - 3 £325 -
Isleworth - 1 - -
Ealing - 1 £225 -
Network Design
England

Network Design
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 53 (57.61%) Cisco
2 39 (42.39%) Cisco Certification
3 30 (32.61%) LAN
4 29 (31.52%) WAN
5 24 (26.09%) VPN
6 22 (23.91%) Firewall
6 22 (23.91%) Cisco ASA
7 16 (17.39%) Finance
8 15 (16.30%) MPLS
8 15 (16.30%) F5
9 14 (15.22%) CCIE
10 13 (14.13%) BGP
10 13 (14.13%) Telecoms
11 12 (13.04%) CCNP
11 12 (13.04%) Network Security
12 11 (11.96%) Active Directory
12 11 (11.96%) Juniper
13 10 (10.87%) OSPF
13 10 (10.87%) Wireless
14 9 (9.783%) CISSP
14 9 (9.783%) Project Management
14 9 (9.783%) CCDP
14 9 (9.783%) Security Cleared
15 8 (8.696%) SAN
15 8 (8.696%) Windows
16 7 (7.609%) Stakeholder Management
16 7 (7.609%) VMware
16 7 (7.609%) LDAP
16 7 (7.609%) MS Excel
16 7 (7.609%) Client/Server

Network Design
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (4.348%) Middleware
2 1 (1.087%) Velocity
2 1 (1.087%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.087%) HTML
2 1 (1.087%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 3 (3.261%) GroupWise
2 1 (1.087%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (1.087%) Elgg
2 1 (1.087%) Lync
2 1 (1.087%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (1.087%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.087%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 7 (7.609%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.087%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.087%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (32.61%) LAN
2 29 (31.52%) WAN
3 24 (26.09%) VPN
4 22 (23.91%) Firewall
4 22 (23.91%) Cisco ASA
5 15 (16.30%) MPLS
6 13 (14.13%) BGP
7 12 (13.04%) Network Security
8 10 (10.87%) Wireless
8 10 (10.87%) OSPF
9 8 (8.696%) SAN
10 7 (7.609%) LDAP
11 6 (6.522%) IP Telephony
11 6 (6.522%) EIGRP
11 6 (6.522%) Cisco Nexus
12 5 (5.435%) NAS
12 5 (5.435%) Junos
12 5 (5.435%) FWSM
12 5 (5.435%) DWDM
12 5 (5.435%) Cisco PIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.087%) MySQL
1 1 (1.087%) EDRMS
1 1 (1.087%) Essbase
General
1 16 (17.39%) Finance
2 13 (14.13%) Telecoms
3 6 (6.522%) Banking
4 5 (5.435%) Retail
4 5 (5.435%) French Language
5 3 (3.261%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.174%) Law
6 2 (2.174%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.174%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.087%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.087%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.087%) Advertising
7 1 (1.087%) Military
7 1 (1.087%) Front Office
7 1 (1.087%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 27 (29.35%) Network Engineer
2 14 (15.22%) Architect
3 13 (14.13%) Design Engineer
4 12 (13.04%) Network Design Engineer
5 8 (8.696%) Network Specialist
5 8 (8.696%) Administrator
6 7 (7.609%) Consultant
6 7 (7.609%) IT Administrator
6 7 (7.609%) Security Administrator
6 7 (7.609%) IT Security Administrator
7 6 (6.522%) Network Architect
8 5 (5.435%) Project Manager
9 4 (4.348%) Network Consultant
9 4 (4.348%) Security Consultant
9 4 (4.348%) Core Network Engineer
10 3 (3.261%) Designer
10 3 (3.261%) PRINCE2 Project Manager
10 3 (3.261%) Network Design Architect
10 3 (3.261%) Deployment Engineer
10 3 (3.261%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.609%) Client/Server
2 6 (6.522%) Management Information System
3 5 (5.435%) SecurID
4 3 (3.261%) Blackberry
4 3 (3.261%) Hedge funds
5 2 (2.174%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.087%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.087%) Cryptography
6 1 (1.087%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.087%) DTV
6 1 (1.087%) EMV
6 1 (1.087%) CCTV
6 1 (1.087%) Computer Science
6 1 (1.087%) Social Network
6 1 (1.087%) Statistical Arbitrage
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.696%) Windows
2 6 (6.522%) Linux
3 5 (5.435%) UNIX
4 4 (4.348%) Solaris
4 4 (4.348%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (3.261%) Windows 2000
5 3 (3.261%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (3.261%) Windows 2000 Server
6 2 (2.174%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.174%) AIX
7 1 (1.087%) Mac OS X
7 1 (1.087%) Android
7 1 (1.087%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.087%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.087%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (9.783%) Project Management
2 7 (7.609%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (6.522%) Migration
4 5 (5.435%) Security Management
4 5 (5.435%) SIEM
5 4 (4.348%) PRINCE2
5 4 (4.348%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (3.261%) ITIL
6 3 (3.261%) Configuration Management
6 3 (3.261%) Network Management
6 3 (3.261%) Network Architecture
7 2 (2.174%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (2.174%) Kanban
7 2 (2.174%) High Availability
7 2 (2.174%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (2.174%) Network Planning
7 2 (2.174%) Technical Architecture
7 2 (2.174%) Load Balancing
7 2 (2.174%) Release Management
7 2 (2.174%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.435%) Perl
1 5 (5.435%) SQL
1 5 (5.435%) VBScript
1 5 (5.435%) VB
2 3 (3.261%) Java
3 2 (2.174%) C
4 1 (1.087%) C++
4 1 (1.087%) Objective-C
4 1 (1.087%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 39 (42.39%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (15.22%) CCIE
3 12 (13.04%) CCNP
4 9 (9.783%) CCDP
4 9 (9.783%) CISSP
4 9 (9.783%) Security Cleared
5 5 (5.435%) Security+ Certification
5 5 (5.435%) CCIP
5 5 (5.435%) CCNA
6 4 (4.348%) JNCIA
6 4 (4.348%) SC Cleared
7 3 (3.261%) Degree
8 1 (1.087%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (1.087%) CCDE
8 1 (1.087%) CCSA
8 1 (1.087%) CEH
8 1 (1.087%) CCSP
8 1 (1.087%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.087%) CISA
8 1 (1.087%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.435%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (11.96%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.522%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.174%) XenDesktop
4 1 (1.087%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (5.435%) McAfee ePO
2 2 (2.174%) Cisco IPCC
3 1 (1.087%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 53 (57.61%) Cisco
2 15 (16.30%) F5
3 11 (11.96%) Juniper
4 7 (7.609%) Microsoft
4 7 (7.609%) VMware
5 6 (6.522%) CheckPoint
6 5 (5.435%) McAfee
6 5 (5.435%) Oracle
7 4 (4.348%) IBM
8 3 (3.261%) HP
8 3 (3.261%) Citrix
8 3 (3.261%) Novell
8 3 (3.261%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.174%) Sun
9 2 (2.174%) Veritas
9 2 (2.174%) JBoss
9 2 (2.174%) Huawei
9 2 (2.174%) Brocade
9 2 (2.174%) Riverbed
10 1 (1.087%) Aruba
London
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Rate: £270 - £280 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
Microsoft / Microsoft Lync / IPT / UCC / Voice / VoIP / IP Telephony / Voice over IP / Cisco / Avaya / Network Engineer / Network / Design / Pre-sales / Contract / London... Essential Skills: -Understanding of Cisco, Avaya...
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Posted: 11 May 2013
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Rate: £550 - £650 per day
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Rate: £750 per day
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