North East WAN Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Wide Area Network (WAN) 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 WAN over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Location Aberdeen Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Cirencester City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rugby Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	47	30
Rank change on same period last year	-17
Matching contract IT job ads	5	30
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.030 %
As % of the category below	5.208 %	22.56 %
Daily rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum daily rate	£200	£303
Average daily rate	£250	£303
% change on same period last year	-17.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£303
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£317
% change on same period last year	+10.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.50	£23.33
Average hourly rate	£18.00	£26.67
% change on same period last year	-32.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.50	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.35	£22.77
% change on same period last year	+2.52 %
Communications & Networking North East
Matching contract IT job ads	96	133
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.134 %	0.134 %
Daily rates quoted	20	36
Average minimum daily rate	£261	£281
Average daily rate	£279	£286
% change on same period last year	-2.46 %
Average maximum daily rate	£297	£291
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£336
% change on same period last year	+5.14 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.92	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£20.21	£22.44
% change on same period last year	-9.91 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.50	£24.87
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.35	£28.52
% change on same period last year	-4.11 %
WAN 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.

WAN
Demand Trend

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

WAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the North East region over the 3 months to 6 October 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
Durham	-9	1	-	-
Tyne and Wear	-5	1	-	-

WAN England

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East region citing WAN 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 WAN.

1 28 (77.78 %) LAN 2 19 (52.78 %) Cisco 3 16 (44.44 %) Windows 4 13 (36.11 %) TCP/IP 5 12 (33.33 %) Cisco Certification 6 11 (30.56 %) VoIP 7 9 (25.00 %) CCNA 7 9 (25.00 %) Windows Server 2003 8 8 (22.22 %) Firewall 8 8 (22.22 %) Telecoms 9 7 (19.44 %) Nortel 9 7 (19.44 %) Microsoft 9 7 (19.44 %) MS Office 10 6 (16.67 %) Windows XP 10 6 (16.67 %) DNS

10 6 (16.67 %) CCNP 10 6 (16.67 %) Active Directory 10 6 (16.67 %) CheckPoint 10 6 (16.67 %) Government 10 6 (16.67 %) Windows 2000 Server 11 5 (13.89 %) VPN 12 4 (11.11 %) GSM 12 4 (11.11 %) Documentum 12 4 (11.11 %) ADSL 12 4 (11.11 %) AutoCAD 12 4 (11.11 %) Wi-Fi 13 3 (8.333 %) IP Telephony 13 3 (8.333 %) IPsec 13 3 (8.333 %) Cisco ASA 13 3 (8.333 %) Cisco PIX

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East region citing WAN 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 WAN. 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 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (2.778 %) GroupWise 3 1 (2.778 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 7 (19.44 %) MS Office 2 4 (11.11 %) AutoCAD 3 1 (2.778 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 28 (77.78 %) LAN 2 13 (36.11 %) TCP/IP 3 11 (30.56 %) VoIP 4 8 (22.22 %) Firewall 5 6 (16.67 %) DNS 6 5 (13.89 %) VPN 7 4 (11.11 %) ADSL 7 4 (11.11 %) GSM 7 4 (11.11 %) Wi-Fi 8 3 (8.333 %) ICMP 8 3 (8.333 %) IPsec 8 3 (8.333 %) IP Telephony 8 3 (8.333 %) VLAN 8 3 (8.333 %) Cisco PIX 8 3 (8.333 %) Network Security 8 3 (8.333 %) Cisco ASA 8 3 (8.333 %) IMAP4 8 3 (8.333 %) DHCP 8 3 (8.333 %) Ethernet 8 3 (8.333 %) MPLS
General 1 8 (22.22 %) Telecoms 2 6 (16.67 %) Government 3 2 (5.556 %) Banking 3 2 (5.556 %) Finance 3 2 (5.556 %) Investment Banking 4 1 (2.778 %) Billing	Job Titles 1 6 (16.67 %) Network Engineer 2 5 (13.89 %) Field Engineer 3 4 (11.11 %) 3rd Line Support 3 4 (11.11 %) Network Support 3 4 (11.11 %) Network Specialist 4 3 (8.333 %) Support Technician 5 2 (5.556 %) Desktop Support 5 2 (5.556 %) Analyst 5 2 (5.556 %) Senior Analyst 5 2 (5.556 %) Network Technician 5 2 (5.556 %) 2nd Line Support 5 2 (5.556 %) Technical Analyst 5 2 (5.556 %) Network Support Technician 5 2 (5.556 %) Senior Technical Analyst 5 2 (5.556 %) Cisco Network Engineer 5 2 (5.556 %) Cisco Engineer 5 2 (5.556 %) Implementation Engineer 6 1 (2.778 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 6 1 (2.778 %) Server Engineer 6 1 (2.778 %) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous 1 2 (5.556 %) German Language 1 2 (5.556 %) Norwegian Language 2 1 (2.778 %) AS400 2 1 (2.778 %) IPTV 2 1 (2.778 %) Dutch Language	Operating Systems 1 16 (44.44 %) Windows 2 9 (25.00 %) Windows Server 2003 3 6 (16.67 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 6 (16.67 %) Windows XP 4 2 (5.556 %) Linux 5 1 (2.778 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (2.778 %) NetWare 5 1 (2.778 %) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (5.556 %) Migration 1 2 (5.556 %) Network Design 1 2 (5.556 %) Problem Management 2 1 (2.778 %) Communications Security 2 1 (2.778 %) Data Migration 2 1 (2.778 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (2.778 %) ITIL 2 1 (2.778 %) Business Intelligence	Programming Languages 1 1 (2.778 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 12 (33.33 %) Cisco Certification 2 9 (25.00 %) CCNA 3 6 (16.67 %) 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 19 (52.78 %) Cisco 2 7 (19.44 %) Microsoft 2 7 (19.44 %) Nortel 3 6 (16.67 %) CheckPoint 4 2 (5.556 %) Juniper 4 2 (5.556 %) Nokia 5 1 (2.778 %) Novell 5 1 (2.778 %) BT 5 1 (2.778 %) 3Com 5 1 (2.778 %) HP