The first table below looks at the demand for WAN 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 WAN over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 67 48 58
Rank change year-on-year
-19 +10
Contract jobs citing WAN 8 34 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.834% 2.755% 1.246%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.767% 14.85% 10.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 4
Average daily rate £206 £235 £348
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.23% -32.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £171 £175 £335
10% offered a daily rate of more than £241 £500 £385
UK excluding London average daily rate £304 £313 £325
% change year-on-year
-2.72% -3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 4
Average hourly rate £15.00 £22.00 £16.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.81% +31.73%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.60 £19.60 £14.47
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.60 £46.50 £22.32
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.00 £21.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year
-16.27% -2.27%
All Communications & Networking
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
103 229 125
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 10.74% 18.56% 11.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 68 38
Average daily rate £263 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £163 £190 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £341 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 16
Average hourly rate £17.42 £22.00 £14.24
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.81% +54.49%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £12.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.75 £35.00 £24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
WAN
North West

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester WAN Jobs Demand Trend

WAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester WAN Daily Rate Trend

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester WAN Hourly Rate Trend

WAN
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Wigan +4 1 - -
Bolton - - - - 1
Cheadle - - - - 3
Oldham - - - -
Salford - - - - 2
Stockport - - - -
WAN
North West

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing WAN 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 WAN.

1 15 (68.18%) LAN
2 11 (50.00%) Windows
3 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
4 7 (31.82%) ITIL
5 6 (27.27%) MS Exchange
6 5 (22.73%) MS Office
6 5 (22.73%) TCP/IP
6 5 (22.73%) VPN
6 5 (22.73%) Service Delivery
7 4 (18.18%) Banking
7 4 (18.18%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (18.18%) Citrix
7 4 (18.18%) Windows XP
7 4 (18.18%) MS Excel
8 3 (13.64%) Cisco
8 3 (13.64%) DHCP
8 3 (13.64%) Ethernet
8 3 (13.64%) DNS
8 3 (13.64%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (13.64%) SAN
8 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (13.64%) Internet
8 3 (13.64%) Blackberry
8 3 (13.64%) Project Management
8 3 (13.64%) Investment Banking
9 2 (9.091%) Asset Management
9 2 (9.091%) Firewall
9 2 (9.091%) Wireless
9 2 (9.091%) Finance
9 2 (9.091%) VMware

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing WAN 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 WAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (9.091%) Application Packaging
2 1 (4.545%) COM
Application Platforms
1 6 (27.27%) MS Exchange
2 2 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (4.545%) IBM Notes
3 1 (4.545%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (4.545%) WorkSite
3 1 (4.545%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 5 (22.73%) MS Office
2 4 (18.18%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.545%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 15 (68.18%) LAN
2 5 (22.73%) TCP/IP
2 5 (22.73%) VPN
3 3 (13.64%) DHCP
3 3 (13.64%) Ethernet
3 3 (13.64%) DNS
3 3 (13.64%) SAN
3 3 (13.64%) Internet
4 2 (9.091%) Firewall
4 2 (9.091%) Wireless
4 2 (9.091%) Cisco PIX
4 2 (9.091%) MPLS
5 1 (4.545%) ADSL
5 1 (4.545%) VoIP
5 1 (4.545%) HTTP
5 1 (4.545%) OSPF
5 1 (4.545%) BGP
5 1 (4.545%) 3G
5 1 (4.545%) EIGRP
5 1 (4.545%) IGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.545%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (18.18%) Banking
2 3 (13.64%) Investment Banking
3 2 (9.091%) Finance
4 1 (4.545%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Analyst
2 5 (22.73%) Business Analyst
2 5 (22.73%) Desktop Support
3 4 (18.18%) Technical Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) Technical Business Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) Support Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) Desktop Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) Desktop Support Analyst
5 2 (9.091%) Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (9.091%) Support Engineer
5 2 (9.091%) Service Analyst
5 2 (9.091%) Network Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 1 (4.545%) Server Support
6 1 (4.545%) Systems Support
6 1 (4.545%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (4.545%) Architect
6 1 (4.545%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.545%) Consultant
6 1 (4.545%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Blackberry
2 1 (4.545%) Client/Server
2 1 (4.545%) NHS
2 1 (4.545%) Thin Client
2 1 (4.545%) Fat Client
2 1 (4.545%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (4.545%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 11 (50.00%) Windows
2 4 (18.18%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (18.18%) Windows XP
3 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (9.091%) Windows 7
4 2 (9.091%) UNIX
5 1 (4.545%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) ITIL
2 5 (22.73%) Service Delivery
3 3 (13.64%) Project Management
4 2 (9.091%) Asset Management
4 2 (9.091%) Business Analysis
4 2 (9.091%) Project Planning
4 2 (9.091%) BPR
5 1 (4.545%) Capacity Management
5 1 (4.545%) Load Balancing
5 1 (4.545%) Integration Testing
5 1 (4.545%) Validation
5 1 (4.545%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (4.545%) Practice Management
5 1 (4.545%) Change Management
5 1 (4.545%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.545%) VBScript
1 1 (4.545%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (9.091%) CCNP
3 1 (4.545%) MCSE
3 1 (4.545%) CCNA
3 1 (4.545%) CCDP
3 1 (4.545%) CCIE
3 1 (4.545%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.545%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.545%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (9.091%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.545%) Terminal Services
2 1 (4.545%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.545%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 1 (4.545%) SCCM
1 1 (4.545%) DameWare
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 4 (18.18%) Citrix
3 3 (13.64%) Cisco
4 2 (9.091%) VMware
4 2 (9.091%) CheckPoint
4 2 (9.091%) EMC
5 1 (4.545%) Intel
5 1 (4.545%) HP
5 1 (4.545%) Dell
5 1 (4.545%) NetApp
5 1 (4.545%) Lotus
5 1 (4.545%) Avaya
5 1 (4.545%) Juniper
5 1 (4.545%) Websense
5 1 (4.545%) Twitter
5 1 (4.545%) Brocade
5 1 (4.545%) SurfControl
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