VLAN Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for VLAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VLAN over the 3 months to 24 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 West 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual LAN (VLAN)
Rank 113 123 115
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -8
Contract jobs citing VLAN 5 9 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.215% 0.289% 0.361%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.678% 1.599% 2.326%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 6
Average daily rate - £235 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -11.32%
UK excluding London average daily rate £299 £325 £275
% change year-on-year
-8.07% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year
-5.40% +72.09%
Search 4 VLAN jobs in the North West
All Communications & Networking
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 298 563 473
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 12.78% 18.10% 15.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 222 238
Average daily rate £313 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £175 £231
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £462 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 36 45
Average hourly rate £22.25 £22.00 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.13% -38.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.65 £14.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £30.00 £40.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
VLAN
England

VLAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West VLAN Jobs Demand Trend

VLAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West VLAN Daily Rate Trend

VLAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West VLAN Hourly Rate Trend

VLAN
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the North West region over the 3 months to 24 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
Manchester +2 2 - -
Merseyside - 2 - -
Cheshire - 1 - -
VLAN
England

VLAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing VLAN 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 VLAN.

1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 5 (62.50%) VMware
3 4 (50.00%) MS Exchange
3 4 (50.00%) Cisco
4 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
5 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
5 2 (25.00%) Firewall
5 2 (25.00%) Clustering
5 2 (25.00%) DNS
5 2 (25.00%) MS Excel
5 2 (25.00%) DHCP
5 2 (25.00%) HTTP
5 2 (25.00%) LAN
5 2 (25.00%) WAN
5 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (25.00%) Avaya
6 1 (12.50%) SAN
6 1 (12.50%) Terminal Services
6 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
6 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (12.50%) MPLS
6 1 (12.50%) Project Management
6 1 (12.50%) SQL
6 1 (12.50%) CCIE
6 1 (12.50%) Nortel
6 1 (12.50%) Citrix

VLAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing VLAN 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 VLAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (12.50%) CMS
2 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
2 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) DNS
2 2 (25.00%) DHCP
2 2 (25.00%) HTTP
2 2 (25.00%) LAN
2 2 (25.00%) WAN
3 1 (12.50%) SAN
3 1 (12.50%) MPLS
3 1 (12.50%) SMTP
3 1 (12.50%) SNMP
3 1 (12.50%) SSL
3 1 (12.50%) VPN
3 1 (12.50%) Symposium
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco PIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Desktop Support
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Avaya Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (12.50%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (12.50%) Project Management
1 1 (12.50%) ITIL
1 1 (12.50%) Network Management
1 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
1 1 (12.50%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CCIE
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (12.50%) VCP5
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (12.50%) ACSA
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (12.50%) Terminal Services
3 1 (12.50%) VMware ESX
3 1 (12.50%) vSphere
3 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (62.50%) VMware
3 4 (50.00%) Cisco
4 2 (25.00%) Avaya
5 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
5 1 (12.50%) Nortel
5 1 (12.50%) Citrix
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