The first table below looks at the demand for Internet skills in IT contracts advertised for the North East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Internet 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 North East 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
Internet
Rank 32 42 44
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +2
Contract jobs citing Internet 2 6 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 0.758% 1.255% 0.448%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.878% 5.660% 3.922%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Average daily rate - £363 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £311 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
-4.23% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £15.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -25.00%
All Communications & Networking
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
41 106 51
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 15.53% 22.18% 11.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 48 19
Average daily rate £300 £338 £324
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% +4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £218 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £301 £450 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 4
Average hourly rate £10.50 £16.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-36.36% -21.42%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
Internet
England

Internet
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East Internet Jobs Demand Trend

Internet
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Internet across the North East region.

North East Internet Daily Rate Trend

Internet
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Internet across the North East region.

North East Internet Hourly Rate Trend

Internet
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Internet within the North East region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Tyne and Wear +9 2 - -
Internet
England

Internet
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East region citing Internet 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 Internet.

1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (50.00%) CentOS
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) LDAP
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL

Internet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East region citing Internet 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 Internet. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
1 2 (100.00%) Administrator
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 1 (50.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Linux Administrator
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat