Manchester LAN Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Local Area Network (LAN) skills within the Manchester region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited LAN over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Local Area Network (LAN)
Location Aberdeen Ayrshire Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Crawley Croydon Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Prescot Reading Redditch Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Rotherham Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Snodland Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stourbridge Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	53	42
Rank change on same period last year	-11
Matching contract IT job ads	37	27
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.049 %	0.028 %
As % of the category below	17.79 %	16.27 %
Daily rates quoted	5	5
Average minimum daily rate	£360	£310
Average daily rate	£371	£330
% change on same period last year	+12.27 %
Average maximum daily rate	£381	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£317
% change on same period last year	+4.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.40	£18.25
Average hourly rate	£31.85	£20.38
% change on same period last year	+56.31 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.30	£22.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.58	£25.49
% change on same period last year	-23.18 %
Communications & Networking Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	208	166
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.274 %	0.174 %
Daily rates quoted	34	24
Average minimum daily rate	£442	£258
Average daily rate	£461	£277
% change on same period last year	+66.55 %
Average maximum daily rate	£480	£295
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£344
% change on same period last year	-0.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	25	26
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.07	£20.38
Average hourly rate	£31.48	£22.27
% change on same period last year	+41.36 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.90	£24.16
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.60	£28.49
% change on same period last year	-10.13 %
LAN North West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

LAN
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing LAN across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

LAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LAN across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

LAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LAN across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

LAN
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing LAN within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Salford	-	1	-	-

LAN North West

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, 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 51 (82.26 %) WAN 2 37 (59.68 %) Windows 3 27 (43.55 %) Cisco 4 22 (35.48 %) Citrix 5 21 (33.87 %) Active Directory 6 16 (25.81 %) Microsoft 6 16 (25.81 %) Microsoft Certification 6 16 (25.81 %) VPN 6 16 (25.81 %) VMware 7 15 (24.19 %) IIS 8 14 (22.58 %) SQL 9 13 (20.97 %) MCSE 9 13 (20.97 %) Cisco Certification 10 12 (19.35 %) TCP/IP 10 12 (19.35 %) Exchange Server 2003

11 11 (17.74 %) SAN 11 11 (17.74 %) CCNA 12 10 (16.13 %) Windows Server 2003 13 9 (14.52 %) MS Office 14 8 (12.90 %) Windows XP 14 8 (12.90 %) MS Exchange 14 8 (12.90 %) Firewall 14 8 (12.90 %) Finance 15 7 (11.29 %) Migration 15 7 (11.29 %) IP Telephony 15 7 (11.29 %) PRINCE2 16 6 (9.677 %) SQL Server 16 6 (9.677 %) VoIP 16 6 (9.677 %) MS Excel 16 6 (9.677 %) DNS

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, 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 5 (8.065 %) COM+ 1 5 (8.065 %) DCOM 2 1 (1.613 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 15 (24.19 %) IIS 2 12 (19.35 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 8 (12.90 %) MS Exchange 4 6 (9.677 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 4 (6.452 %) Lotus Notes 5 4 (6.452 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 9 (14.52 %) MS Office 2 6 (9.677 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 51 (82.26 %) WAN 2 16 (25.81 %) VPN 3 12 (19.35 %) TCP/IP 4 11 (17.74 %) SAN 5 8 (12.90 %) Firewall 6 7 (11.29 %) IP Telephony 7 6 (9.677 %) VoIP 7 6 (9.677 %) DNS 8 5 (8.065 %) POP3 8 5 (8.065 %) SMTP 8 5 (8.065 %) DHCP 9 4 (6.452 %) ADSL 10 3 (4.839 %) Network Security 10 3 (4.839 %) MPLS 10 3 (4.839 %) Ethernet 11 2 (3.226 %) ATM 11 2 (3.226 %) Broadband 11 2 (3.226 %) ISDN 12 1 (1.613 %) 802.11 12 1 (1.613 %) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (9.677 %) SQL Server 2 4 (6.452 %) SQL Server 7	General 1 8 (12.90 %) Finance 2 6 (9.677 %) Telecoms 3 4 (6.452 %) Construction 4 2 (3.226 %) Government 5 1 (1.613 %) Education 5 1 (1.613 %) Local Government 5 1 (1.613 %) Legal
Job Titles 1 10 (16.13 %) 2nd Line Support 2 7 (11.29 %) Support Engineer 2 7 (11.29 %) Infrastructure Specialist 3 6 (9.677 %) Server Specialist 3 6 (9.677 %) Network Engineer 4 5 (8.065 %) Development Specialist 4 5 (8.065 %) Support Specialist 4 5 (8.065 %) 3rd Line Support 4 5 (8.065 %) Project Leader 4 5 (8.065 %) Technical Project Leader 4 5 (8.065 %) Helpdesk Support 5 4 (6.452 %) IT Support Specialist 5 4 (6.452 %) Analyst 5 4 (6.452 %) Server Engineer 6 3 (4.839 %) Applications Packager 6 3 (4.839 %) Network Support 6 3 (4.839 %) Cisco Network Engineer 6 3 (4.839 %) Data Manager 6 3 (4.839 %) Cisco Engineer 7 2 (3.226 %) Network Manager	Miscellaneous 1 5 (8.065 %) Blackberry 2 4 (6.452 %) Thin Client 2 4 (6.452 %) Fat Client 3 3 (4.839 %) PDA 4 1 (1.613 %) Data Extraction 4 1 (1.613 %) Management Information System 4 1 (1.613 %) AS400
Operating Systems 1 37 (59.68 %) Windows 2 10 (16.13 %) Windows Server 2003 3 8 (12.90 %) Windows XP 4 4 (6.452 %) Linux 4 4 (6.452 %) Windows 2000 4 4 (6.452 %) Windows NT 5 2 (3.226 %) Windows Mobile	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (11.29 %) Migration 1 7 (11.29 %) PRINCE2 2 3 (4.839 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 2 (3.226 %) ITIL 3 2 (3.226 %) Network Design 4 1 (1.613 %) Resource Management 4 1 (1.613 %) Technical Architecture 4 1 (1.613 %) Incident Management 4 1 (1.613 %) Service Management 4 1 (1.613 %) Change Management 4 1 (1.613 %) Document Management 4 1 (1.613 %) PRINCE 4 1 (1.613 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 14 (22.58 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 16 (25.81 %) Microsoft Certification 2 13 (20.97 %) MCSE 2 13 (20.97 %) Cisco Certification 3 11 (17.74 %) CCNA 4 4 (6.452 %) CCIE 4 4 (6.452 %) CCA 4 4 (6.452 %) Citrix Certification 4 4 (6.452 %) CCEA 5 3 (4.839 %) CCNP 6 2 (3.226 %) MCSA 6 2 (3.226 %) Degree 7 1 (1.613 %) MCP 7 1 (1.613 %) PRINCE2 Certification 7 1 (1.613 %) ITIL Certification 7 1 (1.613 %) PMP 7 1 (1.613 %) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (3.226 %) SLA 2 1 (1.613 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 21 (33.87 %) Active Directory 2 5 (8.065 %) MetaFrame 3 4 (6.452 %) ISA Server 4 2 (3.226 %) Terminal Services 4 2 (3.226 %) Backup Exec 5 1 (1.613 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management 1 2 (3.226 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 1 (1.613 %) ARCserve	Vendors 1 27 (43.55 %) Cisco 2 22 (35.48 %) Citrix 3 16 (25.81 %) Microsoft 3 16 (25.81 %) VMware 4 4 (6.452 %) Lotus 5 3 (4.839 %) Altiris 6 2 (3.226 %) Intel 6 2 (3.226 %) CheckPoint 6 2 (3.226 %) Nokia 6 2 (3.226 %) Crossbeam 7 1 (1.613 %) LANDesk 7 1 (1.613 %) Mitel 7 1 (1.613 %) SAP 7 1 (1.613 %) Alcatel 7 1 (1.613 %) Dell 7 1 (1.613 %) Avaya