LAN Contracts in Manchester
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for LAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LAN 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 Manchester 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
Local Area Network (LAN)
Rank 63 66 68
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +2
Contract jobs citing LAN 10 23 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 1.059% 1.769% 0.595%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.434% 9.623% 5.405%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 3
Average daily rate £244 £438 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-44.28% +45.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £179 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £309 £520 £340
UK excluding London average daily rate £308 £313 £320
% change year-on-year
-1.60% -2.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 1
Average hourly rate £15.00 £21.00 £18.40
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.57% +14.13%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £20.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-20.00% -4.76%
All Communications & Networking
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 106 239 111
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 11.23% 18.38% 11.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 87 34
Average daily rate £298 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.83% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £133 £190 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £438 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 17 15
Average hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +60.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £14.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £32.50 £17.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
LAN
North West

LAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester LAN Jobs Demand Trend

LAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester LAN Daily Rate Trend

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LAN across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Manchester LAN Daily Rate Histogram

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester LAN Hourly Rate Trend

LAN
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 21 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
Wigan +4 2 - -
Oldham - 1 - -
LAN
North West

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 25 (89.29%) WAN
2 19 (67.86%) Windows
3 13 (46.43%) Cisco
4 12 (42.86%) Firewall
5 11 (39.29%) TCP/IP
6 10 (35.71%) Microsoft
6 10 (35.71%) ITIL
7 9 (32.14%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (28.57%) Windows XP
9 7 (25.00%) CCNA
9 7 (25.00%) Citrix
10 6 (21.43%) VMware
11 5 (17.86%) VMware Infrastructure
11 5 (17.86%) Internet
11 5 (17.86%) DNS
11 5 (17.86%) MS Exchange
12 4 (14.29%) MS Office
12 4 (14.29%) SLA
12 4 (14.29%) VPN
12 4 (14.29%) DHCP
12 4 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
12 4 (14.29%) MPLS
12 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (14.29%) Migration
12 4 (14.29%) Banking
13 3 (10.71%) Investment Banking
13 3 (10.71%) Service Delivery
13 3 (10.71%) Wireless
13 3 (10.71%) Windows 7
13 3 (10.71%) Dell

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (3.571%) WebSphere
1 1 (3.571%) Application Packaging
1 1 (3.571%) HTML
1 1 (3.571%) COM
1 1 (3.571%) Web Services
1 1 (3.571%) XML
Application Platforms
1 5 (17.86%) MS Exchange
2 1 (3.571%) WorkSite
2 1 (3.571%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (3.571%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (3.571%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (3.571%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 4 (14.29%) MS Office
2 3 (10.71%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.571%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 25 (89.29%) WAN
2 12 (42.86%) Firewall
3 11 (39.29%) TCP/IP
4 5 (17.86%) Internet
4 5 (17.86%) DNS
5 4 (14.29%) VPN
5 4 (14.29%) DHCP
5 4 (14.29%) MPLS
6 3 (10.71%) Wireless
6 3 (10.71%) Ethernet
6 3 (10.71%) VoIP
7 2 (7.143%) HTTP
7 2 (7.143%) SAN
7 2 (7.143%) Cisco PIX
8 1 (3.571%) IP Telephony
8 1 (3.571%) Frame Relay
8 1 (3.571%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (3.571%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (3.571%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (3.571%) VLAN
General
1 4 (14.29%) Banking
2 3 (10.71%) Investment Banking
3 1 (3.571%) Local Government
3 1 (3.571%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Desktop Support
1 8 (28.57%) Network Engineer
2 7 (25.00%) Analyst
3 4 (14.29%) Support Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (10.71%) Desktop Analyst
5 2 (7.143%) Architect
5 2 (7.143%) Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (7.143%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (7.143%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (7.143%) Service Analyst
5 2 (7.143%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (3.571%) Network Specialist
6 1 (3.571%) Senior Cisco Engineer
6 1 (3.571%) Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (3.571%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (3.571%) Desktop Engineer
6 1 (3.571%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 1 (3.571%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.143%) Blackberry
1 2 (7.143%) Thin Client
1 2 (7.143%) Fat Client
2 1 (3.571%) CLARiiON
2 1 (3.571%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (3.571%) NHS
2 1 (3.571%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 19 (67.86%) Windows
2 8 (28.57%) Windows XP
3 4 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (10.71%) Windows 7
4 3 (10.71%) UNIX
5 2 (7.143%) Linux
5 2 (7.143%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (3.571%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) ITIL
2 4 (14.29%) Migration
3 3 (10.71%) Service Delivery
3 3 (10.71%) Project Management
4 2 (7.143%) Project Planning
4 2 (7.143%) Load Balancing
4 2 (7.143%) Capacity Management
5 1 (3.571%) Asset Management
5 1 (3.571%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (3.571%) Scrum
5 1 (3.571%) Practice Management
5 1 (3.571%) Business Continuity
5 1 (3.571%) Change Management
5 1 (3.571%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (3.571%) ITSM
5 1 (3.571%) Service Management
5 1 (3.571%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (3.571%) Network Management
5 1 (3.571%) High Availability
5 1 (3.571%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.571%) JavaScript
1 1 (3.571%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (32.14%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (25.00%) CCNA
3 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (10.71%) Dell Certification
4 3 (10.71%) CCNP
4 3 (10.71%) MCP
4 3 (10.71%) MCSA
5 2 (7.143%) CCIE
6 1 (3.571%) MCITP
6 1 (3.571%) ISEB
6 1 (3.571%) CCDP
6 1 (3.571%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (7.143%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.571%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.571%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 1 (3.571%) DameWare
1 1 (3.571%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (3.571%) SCCM
1 1 (3.571%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 13 (46.43%) Cisco
2 10 (35.71%) Microsoft
3 7 (25.00%) Citrix
4 6 (21.43%) VMware
5 3 (10.71%) Dell
6 2 (7.143%) HP
6 2 (7.143%) Huawei
7 1 (3.571%) Infoblox
7 1 (3.571%) Twitter
7 1 (3.571%) F5
7 1 (3.571%) Brocade
7 1 (3.571%) Avaya
7 1 (3.571%) EMC
7 1 (3.571%) NetApp
7 1 (3.571%) Lotus
7 1 (3.571%) Apple
7 1 (3.571%) CheckPoint
7 1 (3.571%) Juniper
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