The first table below looks at the demand for VLAN 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 VLAN 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual LAN (VLAN)
Rank 70 77 70
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -7
Contract jobs citing VLAN 3 7 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.328% 0.538% 0.096%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.857% 3.043% 0.862%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
Average daily rate - £213 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -29.16%
UK excluding London average daily rate £293 £325 £275
% change year-on-year
-10.00% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% +85.00%
All Communications & Networking
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
105 230 116
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 11.49% 17.68% 11.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 86 34
Average daily rate £299 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.41% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £131 £190 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £443 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
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 £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
VLAN
North West

VLAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester VLAN Jobs Demand Trend

VLAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester VLAN Daily Rate Trend

VLAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester VLAN Hourly Rate Trend

VLAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing VLAN 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 VLAN.

1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Avaya
3 2 (40.00%) Firewall
3 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco
3 2 (40.00%) Clustering
4 1 (20.00%) Windows XP
4 1 (20.00%) MS Exchange
4 1 (20.00%) LAN
4 1 (20.00%) WAN
4 1 (20.00%) DHCP
4 1 (20.00%) HTTP
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL
4 1 (20.00%) Linux
4 1 (20.00%) Nortel
4 1 (20.00%) Citrix
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (20.00%) VPN
4 1 (20.00%) DNS
4 1 (20.00%) CCIE
4 1 (20.00%) VMware ESX
4 1 (20.00%) CMS
4 1 (20.00%) Terminal Services
4 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (20.00%) MPLS

VLAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) Symposium
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco PIX
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) MPLS
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Avaya Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL
1 1 (20.00%) Project Management
1 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (20.00%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCIE
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (20.00%) ACSA
1 1 (20.00%) VCP5
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Terminal Services
2 1 (20.00%) VMware ESX
2 1 (20.00%) vSphere
2 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Avaya
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (20.00%) Nortel
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix
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