North East LAN Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Local Area Network (LAN) skills within the North East 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	37	44
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	22	30
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.029 %	0.030 %
As % of the category below	24.44 %	20.27 %
Daily rates quoted	4	5
Average minimum daily rate	£288	£287
Average daily rate	£305	£287
% change on same period last year	+6.27 %
Average maximum daily rate	£323	£287
UK excluding London average daily rate	£334	£316
% change on same period last year	+5.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.67	£22.00
Average hourly rate	£19.17	£22.38
% change on same period last year	-14.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.67	£22.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.50	£25.68
% change on same period last year	-24.07 %
Communications & Networking North East
Matching contract IT job ads	90	148
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.120 %	0.150 %
Daily rates quoted	23	32
Average minimum daily rate	£282	£298
Average daily rate	£297	£300
% change on same period last year	-1.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£312	£302
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.18	£23.42
Average hourly rate	£24.43	£24.25
% change on same period last year	+0.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.68	£25.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
LAN England

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.

LAN
Demand Trend

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

LAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram

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

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

LAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

LAN
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the North East region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Tyne and Wear	-1	13	£323	+17.57 %
Durham	-6	1	-	-

LAN England

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 29 (80.56 %) WAN 2 16 (44.44 %) Windows 3 15 (41.67 %) TCP/IP 4 14 (38.89 %) Cisco 5 13 (36.11 %) MS Office 5 13 (36.11 %) Windows 2000 6 11 (30.56 %) VoIP 7 10 (27.78 %) Microsoft 7 10 (27.78 %) Firewall 8 8 (22.22 %) Cisco Certification 9 7 (19.44 %) VPN 9 7 (19.44 %) Linux 9 7 (19.44 %) Windows XP 9 7 (19.44 %) Nortel 10 6 (16.67 %) CCNA

10 6 (16.67 %) Active Directory 10 6 (16.67 %) CheckPoint 11 5 (13.89 %) Windows NT 11 5 (13.89 %) LDAP 12 4 (11.11 %) Network Design 12 4 (11.11 %) Telecoms 12 4 (11.11 %) Wi-Fi 12 4 (11.11 %) Documentum 12 4 (11.11 %) ADSL 12 4 (11.11 %) CCNP 12 4 (11.11 %) GSM 12 4 (11.11 %) AutoCAD 13 3 (8.333 %) MPLS 13 3 (8.333 %) IMAP4 13 3 (8.333 %) DHCP

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 Development 1 1 (2.778 %) WAP	Application Platforms 1 4 (11.11 %) Documentum 2 2 (5.556 %) GroupWise 2 2 (5.556 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (5.556 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (2.778 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 13 (36.11 %) MS Office 2 4 (11.11 %) AutoCAD 3 1 (2.778 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 29 (80.56 %) WAN 2 15 (41.67 %) TCP/IP 3 11 (30.56 %) VoIP 4 10 (27.78 %) Firewall 5 7 (19.44 %) VPN 6 5 (13.89 %) LDAP 7 4 (11.11 %) ADSL 7 4 (11.11 %) GSM 7 4 (11.11 %) Wi-Fi 8 3 (8.333 %) MPLS 8 3 (8.333 %) IPsec 8 3 (8.333 %) Network Security 8 3 (8.333 %) DNS 8 3 (8.333 %) IMAP4 8 3 (8.333 %) DHCP 8 3 (8.333 %) Ethernet 9 2 (5.556 %) RIP 9 2 (5.556 %) ISDN 9 2 (5.556 %) Internet 9 2 (5.556 %) DWDM
General 1 4 (11.11 %) Telecoms 2 2 (5.556 %) Finance 2 2 (5.556 %) Government 2 2 (5.556 %) Banking 2 2 (5.556 %) Investment Banking 3 1 (2.778 %) Billing	Job Titles 1 7 (19.44 %) Analyst 2 6 (16.67 %) Field Engineer 3 5 (13.89 %) Infrastructure Analyst 3 5 (13.89 %) 2nd Line Support 3 5 (13.89 %) Support Analyst 3 5 (13.89 %) Infrastructure Support Analyst 4 4 (11.11 %) 3rd Line Support 5 3 (8.333 %) Network Engineer 5 3 (8.333 %) Network Specialist 6 2 (5.556 %) Cisco Support 6 2 (5.556 %) Implementation Engineer 6 2 (5.556 %) Server Engineer 6 2 (5.556 %) Network Support 6 2 (5.556 %) Senior Technical Analyst 6 2 (5.556 %) Senior Analyst 6 2 (5.556 %) Technical Analyst 7 1 (2.778 %) Senior Network Engineer 7 1 (2.778 %) Project Engineer 7 1 (2.778 %) Cisco Engineer 7 1 (2.778 %) Helpdesk Support
Miscellaneous 1 2 (5.556 %) AS400 1 2 (5.556 %) German Language 1 2 (5.556 %) Norwegian Language 2 1 (2.778 %) IPTV 2 1 (2.778 %) Dutch Language	Operating Systems 1 16 (44.44 %) Windows 2 13 (36.11 %) Windows 2000 3 7 (19.44 %) Linux 3 7 (19.44 %) Windows XP 4 5 (13.89 %) Windows NT 5 2 (5.556 %) NetWare 6 1 (2.778 %) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (11.11 %) Network Design 2 2 (5.556 %) Problem Management 2 2 (5.556 %) Change Management 2 2 (5.556 %) Migration 3 1 (2.778 %) ITIL 3 1 (2.778 %) Business Intelligence 3 1 (2.778 %) Communications Security 3 1 (2.778 %) Data Migration	Programming Languages 1 1 (2.778 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 8 (22.22 %) Cisco Certification 2 6 (16.67 %) CCNA 3 4 (11.11 %) CCNP 4 2 (5.556 %) CCDA 4 2 (5.556 %) CCDP 4 2 (5.556 %) CCSE 4 2 (5.556 %) JNCIA 5 1 (2.778 %) Microsoft Certification 5 1 (2.778 %) MCSE 5 1 (2.778 %) CCIE	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.778 %) SLA
System Software 1 6 (16.67 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 1 (2.778 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 14 (38.89 %) Cisco 2 10 (27.78 %) Microsoft 3 7 (19.44 %) Nortel 4 6 (16.67 %) CheckPoint 5 2 (5.556 %) HP 5 2 (5.556 %) Juniper 5 2 (5.556 %) Nokia 5 2 (5.556 %) Novell 6 1 (2.778 %) BT 6 1 (2.778 %) 3Com