WAN Contracts in the Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for WAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WAN 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 Midlands 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
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 22 31 35
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +4
Contract jobs citing WAN 2 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 1.176% 0.364% 0.288%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.33% 4.762% 3.125%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £306 £325
% change year-on-year
+2.85% -5.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £21.25 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-24.70% +1.19%
All Communications & Networking
Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 15 21 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 8.824% 7.636% 9.222%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 6
Average daily rate £300 £388 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.58% +19.23%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £343 £181
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £515 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 5
Average hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.76% +84.78%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
WAN
England

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Midlands WAN Hourly Rate Trend

WAN
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) IP Telephony
2 1 (33.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Symantec
2 1 (33.33%) MPLS
2 1 (33.33%) Remedy
2 1 (33.33%) MS Office
2 1 (33.33%) Windows

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 1 (33.33%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) MPLS
2 1 (33.33%) IP Telephony
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Support
2 1 (33.33%) Desktop Support
2 1 (33.33%) IT Manager
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (33.33%) ITSM
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Symantec
1 1 (33.33%) Remedy
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