Milton Keynes LAN Contracts

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

Local Area Network (LAN)
Location Aberdeen Ayrshire Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria 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 Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Prescot Reading Redditch Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Rotherham Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stockport Stourbridge Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	26	45
Rank change on same period last year	+19
Matching contract IT job ads	55	23
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.073 %	0.023 %
As % of the category below	28.80 %	12.04 %
Daily rates quoted	21	1
Average minimum daily rate	£296	£100
Average daily rate	£321	£110
% change on same period last year	+191.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£346	£120
UK excluding London average daily rate	£334	£316
% change on same period last year	+5.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.60	£18.10
Average hourly rate	£12.80	£19.78
% change on same period last year	-35.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£13.00	£21.46
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.50	£25.68
% change on same period last year	-24.07 %
Communications & Networking Milton Keynes
Matching contract IT job ads	191	191
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.255 %	0.193 %
Daily rates quoted	56	32
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£305
Average daily rate	£340	£338
% change on same period last year	+0.51 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	33	22
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.99	£22.13
Average hourly rate	£26.35	£23.61
% change on same period last year	+11.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.70	£25.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
LAN Buckinghamshire

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LAN across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing LAN 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 LAN.

1 64 (83.12 %) WAN 2 48 (62.34 %) Security Cleared 3 42 (54.55 %) Cisco Certification 4 41 (53.25 %) Cisco 5 38 (49.35 %) CCNP 6 35 (45.45 %) SC Cleared 7 30 (38.96 %) Intranet 8 29 (37.66 %) Internet 9 27 (35.06 %) Windows 9 27 (35.06 %) Network Design 10 25 (32.47 %) Government 10 25 (32.47 %) Migration 11 22 (28.57 %) Firewall 12 16 (20.78 %) Active Directory 13 14 (18.18 %) Windows Server 2003

14 12 (15.58 %) Microsoft Certification 14 12 (15.58 %) MCSE 15 10 (12.99 %) DHCP 15 10 (12.99 %) Microsoft 15 10 (12.99 %) DNS 16 9 (11.69 %) Windows Vista 16 9 (11.69 %) HP 17 7 (9.091 %) DV Cleared 17 7 (9.091 %) Intrusion Detection 17 7 (9.091 %) Compaq 17 7 (9.091 %) Windows NT 18 6 (7.792 %) Windows XP 18 6 (7.792 %) MS Office 18 6 (7.792 %) VLAN 19 5 (6.494 %) SSH

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing LAN 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 LAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 4 (5.195 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 2 (2.597 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 2 (2.597 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (1.299 %) CMS	Applications 1 6 (7.792 %) MS Office 2 3 (3.896 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 64 (83.12 %) WAN 2 30 (38.96 %) Intranet 3 29 (37.66 %) Internet 4 22 (28.57 %) Firewall 5 10 (12.99 %) DHCP 5 10 (12.99 %) DNS 6 7 (9.091 %) Intrusion Detection 7 6 (7.792 %) VLAN 8 5 (6.494 %) Network Security 8 5 (6.494 %) Wireless 8 5 (6.494 %) SNMP 8 5 (6.494 %) SSH 9 4 (5.195 %) Ethernet 10 3 (3.896 %) GPRS 10 3 (3.896 %) TCP/IP 11 2 (2.597 %) VPN 11 2 (2.597 %) VoIP 12 1 (1.299 %) SMS 12 1 (1.299 %) FDDI 12 1 (1.299 %) OSPF	General 1 25 (32.47 %) Government 2 5 (6.494 %) Telecoms 2 5 (6.494 %) Finance 3 2 (2.597 %) Back Office
Job Titles 1 30 (38.96 %) Consultant 2 15 (19.48 %) Analyst 3 13 (16.88 %) Network Consultant 4 10 (12.99 %) Architect 4 10 (12.99 %) Network Architect 5 9 (11.69 %) Network Engineer 6 8 (10.39 %) Cisco Consultant 7 7 (9.091 %) Network Design Engineer 7 7 (9.091 %) Technical Consultant 7 7 (9.091 %) Network Analyst 7 7 (9.091 %) Design Engineer 8 5 (6.494 %) Infrastructure Architect 8 5 (6.494 %) Helpdesk Analyst 8 5 (6.494 %) Security Architect 9 4 (5.195 %) Network Designer 10 3 (3.896 %) Support Analyst 10 3 (3.896 %) Technical Architect 10 3 (3.896 %) Service Analyst 10 3 (3.896 %) Service Desk Analyst 11 2 (2.597 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst	Operating Systems 1 27 (35.06 %) Windows 2 14 (18.18 %) Windows Server 2003 3 9 (11.69 %) Windows Vista 4 7 (9.091 %) Windows NT 5 6 (7.792 %) Windows XP 6 4 (5.195 %) Windows 2000 7 2 (2.597 %) UNIX 8 1 (1.299 %) Linux 8 1 (1.299 %) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies 1 48 (62.34 %) Security Cleared 2 35 (45.45 %) SC Cleared 3 27 (35.06 %) Network Design 4 25 (32.47 %) Migration 5 7 (9.091 %) DV Cleared 6 4 (5.195 %) ITIL 7 3 (3.896 %) ITSM 7 3 (3.896 %) Operations Management 8 2 (2.597 %) Load Balancing 9 1 (1.299 %) Time Management	Programming Languages 1 2 (2.597 %) SQL 2 1 (1.299 %) C
Qualifications 1 42 (54.55 %) Cisco Certification 2 38 (49.35 %) CCNP 3 12 (15.58 %) Microsoft Certification 3 12 (15.58 %) MCSE 4 4 (5.195 %) CCNA 5 3 (3.896 %) CCIE 5 3 (3.896 %) A+ Certification 5 3 (3.896 %) MCDST 6 1 (1.299 %) CCDP 6 1 (1.299 %) CISSP 6 1 (1.299 %) CNE 6 1 (1.299 %) Novell Certification	System Software 1 16 (20.78 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 3 (3.896 %) OpenView 1 3 (3.896 %) CiscoWorks 1 3 (3.896 %) OpenView Configuration Management 1 3 (3.896 %) NNM 1 3 (3.896 %) OVOW	Vendors 1 41 (53.25 %) Cisco 2 10 (12.99 %) Microsoft 3 9 (11.69 %) HP 4 7 (9.091 %) Compaq 5 5 (6.494 %) Symantec 6 2 (2.597 %) Citrix 7 1 (1.299 %) Avaya 7 1 (1.299 %) Nokia 7 1 (1.299 %) Novell 7 1 (1.299 %) Nortel 7 1 (1.299 %) Sun