The first table below looks at the demand for WAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 21 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 Milton Keynes 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 47 48 36
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -12
Contract jobs citing WAN 8 14 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 1.527% 1.950% 3.193%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.38% 11.76% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 17
Average daily rate £475 £340 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+39.70% -9.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £310 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.61% -4.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £14.96 - £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £21.25 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-24.70% +1.19%
All Communications & Networking
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
52 119 95
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 9.924% 16.57% 15.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 29 45
Average daily rate £425 £365 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.43% +4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £180 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £454 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 14 10
Average hourly rate £14.96 £13.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.81% -35.71%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
WAN
Buckinghamshire

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes WAN Daily Rate Trend

WAN
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WAN across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Milton Keynes WAN Daily Rate Histogram

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Milton Keynes WAN Hourly Rate Trend

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 16 (88.89%) LAN
2 14 (77.78%) VMware
2 14 (77.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (66.67%) Windows
4 11 (61.11%) MS Exchange
5 10 (55.56%) Windows Server 2003
5 10 (55.56%) Firewall
5 10 (55.56%) Windows Server 2008
5 10 (55.56%) Exchange Server 2010
5 10 (55.56%) Exchange Server 2003
6 9 (50.00%) Hyper-V
6 9 (50.00%) Active Directory
6 9 (50.00%) HP
7 8 (44.44%) TCP/IP
7 8 (44.44%) VoIP
7 8 (44.44%) SAN
7 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
8 7 (38.89%) DV Cleared
8 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
9 6 (33.33%) Citrix
9 6 (33.33%) ITIL
9 6 (33.33%) SQL
9 6 (33.33%) SQL Server
9 6 (33.33%) CCNA
9 6 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (33.33%) Wireless
9 6 (33.33%) Windows Vista
10 5 (27.78%) Compatibility Testing
10 5 (27.78%) SQL Server 2005
10 5 (27.78%) Information Security

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 (5.556%) CGI
Application Platforms
1 11 (61.11%) MS Exchange
2 10 (55.56%) Exchange Server 2010
2 10 (55.56%) Exchange Server 2003
3 5 (27.78%) Exchange Server 2007
4 4 (22.22%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 5 (27.78%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.556%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.556%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 16 (88.89%) LAN
2 10 (55.56%) Firewall
3 8 (44.44%) TCP/IP
3 8 (44.44%) VoIP
3 8 (44.44%) SAN
4 6 (33.33%) Wireless
5 5 (27.78%) WLAN
6 4 (22.22%) VPN
6 4 (22.22%) DNS
6 4 (22.22%) DHCP
6 4 (22.22%) IPsec
6 4 (22.22%) Network Security
7 1 (5.556%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (5.556%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (5.556%) NAS
7 1 (5.556%) Ethernet
7 1 (5.556%) ADSL
7 1 (5.556%) SMTP
7 1 (5.556%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (5.556%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (27.78%) SQL Server 2005
2 5 (27.78%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (5.556%) Oracle 8/8i
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Consultant
1 4 (22.22%) Integration Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Network Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (5.556%) Technical Support Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Network Administrator
4 1 (5.556%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.556%) Security Specialist
4 1 (5.556%) Network Support
4 1 (5.556%) Information Security Specialist
4 1 (5.556%) Voice Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) Information Security Consultant
4 1 (5.556%) Security Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Information Specialist
4 1 (5.556%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Blackberry
2 2 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (5.556%) Cryptography
3 1 (5.556%) e-Health
3 1 (5.556%) IVR
3 1 (5.556%) CESG
3 1 (5.556%) PKI
3 1 (5.556%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 12 (66.67%) Windows
2 10 (55.56%) Windows Server 2003
2 10 (55.56%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (33.33%) Windows Vista
4 5 (27.78%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (22.22%) Windows 7
6 1 (5.556%) Windows XP
6 1 (5.556%) UNIX
6 1 (5.556%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) ITIL
2 5 (27.78%) Compatibility Testing
2 5 (27.78%) Information Security
2 5 (27.78%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (22.22%) Validation
3 4 (22.22%) Configuration Management
3 4 (22.22%) Integration Testing
3 4 (22.22%) Test Scripting
4 3 (16.67%) Network Management
5 2 (11.11%) Service Management
5 2 (11.11%) Load Balancing
6 1 (5.556%) Penetration Testing
6 1 (5.556%) Incident Management
6 1 (5.556%) Data Migration
6 1 (5.556%) Information Assurance
6 1 (5.556%) SIEM
6 1 (5.556%) PRINCE2
6 1 (5.556%) Migration
6 1 (5.556%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 7 (38.89%) DV Cleared
3 6 (33.33%) CCNA
3 6 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
5 1 (5.556%) MCTS
5 1 (5.556%) MCITP
5 1 (5.556%) CISSP
5 1 (5.556%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) ISO 9001
2 2 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (77.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 9 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (16.67%) XenApp
3 3 (16.67%) XenDesktop
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) OpenView
2 1 (5.556%) OVSD
Vendors
1 14 (77.78%) VMware
2 9 (50.00%) HP
3 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
4 6 (33.33%) Citrix
5 5 (27.78%) F5
5 5 (27.78%) Cisco
6 4 (22.22%) Juniper
7 1 (5.556%) Mitel
7 1 (5.556%) AppSense
7 1 (5.556%) Oracle
7 1 (5.556%) Genesys
7 1 (5.556%) Avaya