The first table below looks at the demand for Network Design 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 Network Design 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 Processes & Methodologies 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
Network Design
Rank - 43 -
Contract jobs citing Network Design 0 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East - 1.046% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 1.656% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £475 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £388 £325
% change year-on-year
-9.67% +19.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.50 £27.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year
-3.63% -24.13%
All Processes & Methodologies
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
172 302 255
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 65.15% 63.18% 57.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 166 108
Average daily rate £341 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.71% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £250 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £499 £575 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 14 13
Average hourly rate £18.90 £23.50 £21.86
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-19.57% +7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.54 £12.00 £10.49
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £40.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Network Design
England

Network Design
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Network Design across the North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

North East Network Design Jobs Demand Trend

Network Design
Daily Rate Trend

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

North East Network Design Daily Rate Trend

Network Design
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North East Network Design Hourly Rate Trend

Network Design
Top 22 Related IT Skills

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

1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Application Packaging
1 1 (100.00%) TippingPoint
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) BC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) ProCurve
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi

Network Design
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) Application Packaging
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Architect
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) BC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) TippingPoint
1 1 (100.00%) ProCurve