The first table below looks at the demand for WAN 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 WAN over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 31 32 39
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +7
Contract jobs citing WAN 4 16 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 1.329% 2.904% 1.532%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.11% 13.79% 9.859%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 2
Average daily rate £313 £375 £188
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +100.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £283 £184 £178
10% offered a daily rate of more than £343 £650 £198
UK excluding London average daily rate £304 £313 £325
% change year-on-year
-2.72% -3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Average hourly rate - £16.50 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -25.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.00 £21.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year
-16.27% -2.27%
All Communications & Networking
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
36 116 71
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 11.96% 21.05% 15.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 52 25
Average daily rate £350 £350 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.37%
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 6
Average hourly rate £32.50 £16.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+96.96% -2.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.58 £13.38 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.10 £26.25 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
WAN
England

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East WAN Jobs Demand Trend

WAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

North East WAN Daily Rate Trend

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North East WAN Hourly Rate Trend

WAN
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 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Tyne and Wear +7 3 £350 -6.66% 3
WAN
England

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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 6 (100.00%) LAN
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco IPT
3 2 (33.33%) Firewall
3 2 (33.33%) IP Telephony
3 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (33.33%) VoIP
3 2 (33.33%) VPN
3 2 (33.33%) DNS
3 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) VMware
4 1 (16.67%) VMware ESX
4 1 (16.67%) MCSE
4 1 (16.67%) Windows XP
4 1 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
4 1 (16.67%) DHCP
4 1 (16.67%) CCNP
4 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
4 1 (16.67%) HP
4 1 (16.67%) Citrix
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (16.67%) Juniper
4 1 (16.67%) SAN
4 1 (16.67%) Thin Client

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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 (16.67%) Application Packaging
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) LAN
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) IP Telephony
2 2 (33.33%) VoIP
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) DHCP
3 1 (16.67%) SAN
3 1 (16.67%) Internet
3 1 (16.67%) MPLS
3 1 (16.67%) Wireless
3 1 (16.67%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco IPT Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Deployment Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Network Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Network Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Deployment Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Thin Client
1 1 (16.67%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows XP
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (16.67%) Software Deployment
2 1 (16.67%) Network Design
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) MCSE
2 1 (16.67%) CCNP
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (16.67%) BC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) VMware ESX
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) HP
3 1 (16.67%) Citrix
3 1 (16.67%) Juniper
3 1 (16.67%) ProCurve
3 1 (16.67%) TippingPoint
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