The first table below looks at the demand for the Network Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Newbury region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Network Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Job Titles advertised for the Newbury 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Engineer
Rank 18 15 12
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 1 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newbury 0.877% 2.500% 2.857%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.980% 2.752% 3.125%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 3
Average daily rate - £200 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -40.74%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £24.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £31.44
% change year-on-year
+22.22% -28.43%
All Job Titles
Newbury
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102 109 96
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newbury 89.47% 90.83% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 42 28
Average daily rate £375 £350 £329
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +6.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £110 £145
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 15
Average hourly rate £60.00 £23.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+155.31% +17.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £11.50 £14.34
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £72.50 £45.00 £56.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Network Engineer
Berkshire

Network Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Network Engineer across the Newbury region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Newbury Network Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Network Engineer across the Newbury region.

Newbury Network Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Network Engineer across the Newbury region.

Newbury Network Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Network Engineer
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newbury region that cited Network Engineer in their job title 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 with Network Engineer in their job title.

1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (50.00%) ADSL
1 1 (50.00%) ISDN
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) VoIP
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Juniper
1 1 (50.00%) Nokia
1 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (50.00%) MPLS
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy
1 1 (50.00%) Radware
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (50.00%) Blue Coat
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
1 1 (50.00%) Lync

Network Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newbury region that cited Network Engineer in their job title 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 with Network Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Lync
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) ADSL
1 1 (50.00%) ISDN
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) VoIP
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) MPLS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Juniper
1 1 (50.00%) Nokia
1 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy
1 1 (50.00%) Radware
1 1 (50.00%) Blue Coat
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