The first table below looks at the demand for WAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 22 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 Middlesex 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 27 28 37
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +9
Contract jobs citing WAN 1 5 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 0.476% 1.572% 0.595%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.222% 10.87% 5.714%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 1
Average daily rate - £375 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +25.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £21.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-25.58% +2.38%
All Communications & Networking
Middlesex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
45 46 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 21.43% 14.47% 10.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 19 9
Average daily rate £375 £375 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £308 £325 £297
10% offered a daily rate of more than £615 £493 £403
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 6
Average hourly rate £32.50 £27.25 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.26% -6.03%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.00 £12.50 £19.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £27.50 £40.97
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
WAN
South East

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex WAN Hourly Rate Trend

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) SAP
1 2 (66.67%) ERP
1 2 (66.67%) Epicor
1 2 (66.67%) Project Management
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (66.67%) Workflow
1 2 (66.67%) Practice Management
1 2 (66.67%) Aerospace
1 2 (66.67%) PDM
1 2 (66.67%) Windchill
1 2 (66.67%) CESG
1 2 (66.67%) Document Management
1 2 (66.67%) Strategic Planning
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Riverbed
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (33.33%) CCVP
2 1 (33.33%) IPsec
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) MPLS
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) VoIP
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) DNS

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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.

Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Windchill
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (33.33%) IPsec
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) MPLS
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) VoIP
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
General
1 2 (66.67%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Information Manager
1 2 (66.67%) ICT Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Information Systems Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Voice Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Voice Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Voice Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (66.67%) CESG
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ERP
1 2 (66.67%) Project Management
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) Workflow
1 2 (66.67%) Practice Management
1 2 (66.67%) PDM
1 2 (66.67%) Document Management
1 2 (66.67%) Strategic Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) CCVP
2 1 (33.33%) CCNP
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) SAP
1 2 (66.67%) Epicor
1 2 (66.67%) Riverbed
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco