Middlesex WAN Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Wide Area Network (WAN) skills within the Middlesex region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenford Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hull Inverness Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Portsmouth Prescot Preston Prestwick Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rochester Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	41	28
Rank change on same period last year	-13
Matching contract IT job ads	6	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	7.407 %	17.50 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£200
Average daily rate	£350	£200
% change on same period last year	+75.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£200
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£320
% change on same period last year	+1.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.50	£21.50
Average hourly rate	£24.50	£21.50
% change on same period last year	+13.95 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.50	£21.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.24	£26.14
% change on same period last year	-18.76 %
Communications & Networking Middlesex
Matching contract IT job ads	81	120
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.108 %	0.121 %
Daily rates quoted	20	47
Average minimum daily rate	£314	£281
Average daily rate	£344	£292
% change on same period last year	+17.54 %
Average maximum daily rate	£374	£304
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.85	£21.36
Average hourly rate	£29.48	£21.58
% change on same period last year	+36.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.11	£21.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
WAN South East

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.

WAN
Demand Trend

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

WAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

WAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WAN across the Middlesex region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 9 (69.23 %) LAN 2 7 (53.85 %) Cisco 3 5 (38.46 %) Windows 3 5 (38.46 %) Cisco Certification 4 4 (30.77 %) Telecoms 5 3 (23.08 %) CCNP 5 3 (23.08 %) OSPF 5 3 (23.08 %) BGP 6 2 (15.38 %) CCNA 6 2 (15.38 %) Firewall 6 2 (15.38 %) Disaster Recovery 6 2 (15.38 %) Active Directory 6 2 (15.38 %) Windows Server 2003 6 2 (15.38 %) MPLS 6 2 (15.38 %) Windows NT

6 2 (15.38 %) SQL 6 2 (15.38 %) Oracle 6 2 (15.38 %) SQL Server 6 2 (15.38 %) Microsoft 6 2 (15.38 %) VPN 6 2 (15.38 %) UNIX 6 2 (15.38 %) FTP 6 2 (15.38 %) Resource Management 7 1 (7.692 %) Business Continuity 7 1 (7.692 %) Exchange Server 2007 7 1 (7.692 %) BusinessObjects XI 7 1 (7.692 %) Network Security 7 1 (7.692 %) QMS 7 1 (7.692 %) Video Conferencing 7 1 (7.692 %) SC Cleared

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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.

Application Development 1 1 (7.692 %) SOAP 1 1 (7.692 %) XML 1 1 (7.692 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 1 (7.692 %) WebSphere Application Server 1 1 (7.692 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (7.692 %) Exchange Server 2000 1 1 (7.692 %) Exchange Server 2003 1 1 (7.692 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 1 (7.692 %) MS Excel 1 1 (7.692 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 9 (69.23 %) LAN 2 3 (23.08 %) OSPF 2 3 (23.08 %) BGP 3 2 (15.38 %) Firewall 3 2 (15.38 %) FTP 3 2 (15.38 %) VPN 3 2 (15.38 %) MPLS 4 1 (7.692 %) ATM 4 1 (7.692 %) DNS 4 1 (7.692 %) HTTPS 4 1 (7.692 %) SSL 4 1 (7.692 %) DMZ 4 1 (7.692 %) HTTP 4 1 (7.692 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (7.692 %) VoIP 4 1 (7.692 %) Ethernet 4 1 (7.692 %) Frame Relay 4 1 (7.692 %) IP Telephony 4 1 (7.692 %) Network Security 4 1 (7.692 %) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (15.38 %) SQL Server 2 1 (7.692 %) Crystal Reports 2 1 (7.692 %) Datawarehouse 2 1 (7.692 %) Data Mining 2 1 (7.692 %) RDBMS 2 1 (7.692 %) Oracle 10g 2 1 (7.692 %) BusinessObjects 2 1 (7.692 %) BusinessObjects XI	General 1 4 (30.77 %) Telecoms 2 1 (7.692 %) Government 2 1 (7.692 %) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles 1 5 (38.46 %) Analyst 2 2 (15.38 %) Systems Analyst 2 2 (15.38 %) Consultant 2 2 (15.38 %) Technical Analyst 2 2 (15.38 %) Network Analyst 3 1 (7.692 %) Infrastructure Engineer 3 1 (7.692 %) Team Leader 3 1 (7.692 %) Senior Technical Architect 3 1 (7.692 %) Network Support 3 1 (7.692 %) Network Specialist 3 1 (7.692 %) Cisco Network Analyst 3 1 (7.692 %) Cisco Analyst 3 1 (7.692 %) Network Support Specialist 3 1 (7.692 %) Network Engineer 3 1 (7.692 %) Support Specialist 3 1 (7.692 %) Security Consultant 3 1 (7.692 %) Operations Manager 3 1 (7.692 %) Technical Architect 3 1 (7.692 %) Architect 3 1 (7.692 %) Author	Miscellaneous 1 1 (7.692 %) N-Tier 1 1 (7.692 %) Mainframe 1 1 (7.692 %) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems 1 5 (38.46 %) Windows 2 2 (15.38 %) Windows NT 2 2 (15.38 %) Windows Server 2003 2 2 (15.38 %) UNIX 3 1 (7.692 %) Solaris 3 1 (7.692 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (15.38 %) Disaster Recovery 1 2 (15.38 %) Resource Management 2 1 (7.692 %) QMS 2 1 (7.692 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (7.692 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (7.692 %) Validation 2 1 (7.692 %) Business Continuity 2 1 (7.692 %) UML 2 1 (7.692 %) Service Management 2 1 (7.692 %) Quality Management
Programming Languages 1 2 (15.38 %) SQL 2 1 (7.692 %) Java	Qualifications 1 5 (38.46 %) Cisco Certification 2 3 (23.08 %) CCNP 3 2 (15.38 %) CCNA 4 1 (7.692 %) CCDP 4 1 (7.692 %) CCIP 4 1 (7.692 %) Microsoft Certification 4 1 (7.692 %) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (7.692 %) GLP 1 1 (7.692 %) GxP	System Software 1 2 (15.38 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 7 (53.85 %) Cisco 2 2 (15.38 %) Microsoft 2 2 (15.38 %) Oracle 3 1 (7.692 %) Business Objects 3 1 (7.692 %) Sun 3 1 (7.692 %) Citrix 3 1 (7.692 %) CheckPoint