The first table below looks at the demand for VLAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Newcastle upon Tyne region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VLAN 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 of the Communications & Networking category for the Newcastle upon Tyne 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
Virtual LAN (VLAN)
Rank 23 26 27
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +1
Contract jobs citing VLAN 3 8 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.961% 3.008% 1.000%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.11% 13.11% 7.692%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 2
Average daily rate £300 £425 £324
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-29.35% +31.17%
UK excluding London average daily rate £299 £325 £275
% change year-on-year
-8.07% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year
-5.40% +72.09%
All Communications & Networking
Newcastle upon Tyne
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
27 61 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 17.65% 22.93% 13.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 35 10
Average daily rate £300 £330 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% +10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £195 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £301 £550 £324
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £10.63 £13.50 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.29% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
VLAN
Tyne and Wear

VLAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newcastle upon Tyne VLAN Jobs Demand Trend

VLAN
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VLAN across the Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne VLAN Daily Rate Trend

VLAN
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne region citing VLAN 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 VLAN.

1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) OSPF
1 3 (100.00%) IPsec
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (100.00%) HSRP
2 1 (33.33%) CentOS
2 1 (33.33%) XenServer
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Apache
2 1 (33.33%) LDAP
2 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (33.33%) DNS

VLAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne region citing VLAN 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 VLAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) OSPF
1 3 (100.00%) IPsec
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (100.00%) HSRP
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) LDAP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Administrator
1 3 (100.00%) Network Administrator
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Network Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Cisco Administrator
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) CentOS
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Validation
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) XenServer
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat