Nottinghamshire WAN Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Wide Area Network (WAN) skills within the Nottinghamshire 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 28 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Location Aberdeen Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Barking Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenford Hampshire Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Prescot Prestwick Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 28 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	37	26
Rank change on same period last year	-11
Matching contract IT job ads	5	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	10.00 %	13.95 %
Daily rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum daily rate	-	£265
Average daily rate	-	£265
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£265
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£306
% change on same period last year	+9.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.00	£12.67
Average hourly rate	£19.00	£14.83
% change on same period last year	+28.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	£17.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.39	£25.43
% change on same period last year	-15.89 %
Communications & Networking Nottinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	50	86
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.067 %	0.086 %
Daily rates quoted	6	21
Average minimum daily rate	£309	£312
Average daily rate	£340	£315
% change on same period last year	+8.04 %
Average maximum daily rate	£371	£318
UK excluding London average daily rate	£342	£342
% change on same period last year	-0.13 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.22	£14.02
Average hourly rate	£21.56	£15.24
% change on same period last year	+41.41 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.89	£16.46
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.72	£28.75
% change on same period last year	-10.55 %
WAN East Midlands

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Nottinghamshire region over the 3 months to 28 August 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
Nottingham	-15	4	-	-

WAN East Midlands

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 28 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 16 (69.57 %) LAN 2 13 (56.52 %) Windows 3 9 (39.13 %) Citrix 3 9 (39.13 %) Windows Server 2003 4 6 (26.09 %) Cisco 4 6 (26.09 %) VoIP 4 6 (26.09 %) TCP/IP 5 5 (21.74 %) Microsoft 5 5 (21.74 %) Active Directory 5 5 (21.74 %) .NET 5 5 (21.74 %) MS Excel 6 4 (17.39 %) Windows XP 6 4 (17.39 %) Microsoft Certification 6 4 (17.39 %) MCSE 6 4 (17.39 %) Terminal Services

6 4 (17.39 %) Security Cleared 7 3 (13.04 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 3 (13.04 %) Data Migration 7 3 (13.04 %) SC Cleared 7 3 (13.04 %) Commerce Server 7 3 (13.04 %) Firewall 7 3 (13.04 %) Migration 7 3 (13.04 %) MS Exchange 7 3 (13.04 %) CRM 7 3 (13.04 %) HTML 7 3 (13.04 %) Perl 7 3 (13.04 %) SQL Server 7 3 (13.04 %) Crystal Reports 7 3 (13.04 %) MS Office 7 3 (13.04 %) Linux

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 28 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 5 (21.74 %) .NET 2 3 (13.04 %) HTML 3 1 (4.348 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 3 (13.04 %) MS Exchange 1 3 (13.04 %) Commerce Server 2 1 (4.348 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (4.348 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 5 (21.74 %) MS Excel 2 3 (13.04 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 2 (8.696 %) Navision
Communications & Networking 1 16 (69.57 %) LAN 2 6 (26.09 %) VoIP 2 6 (26.09 %) TCP/IP 3 3 (13.04 %) Firewall 4 2 (8.696 %) VPN 4 2 (8.696 %) PSTN 4 2 (8.696 %) CTI 4 2 (8.696 %) Intranet 4 2 (8.696 %) Internet 5 1 (4.348 %) NetScreen 5 1 (4.348 %) DHCP 5 1 (4.348 %) DNS 5 1 (4.348 %) IP Telephony	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (13.04 %) SQL Server 1 3 (13.04 %) Crystal Reports
General 1 1 (4.348 %) Back Office 1 1 (4.348 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 7 (30.43 %) Analyst 2 4 (17.39 %) Support Analyst 3 3 (13.04 %) IT Manager 3 3 (13.04 %) Project Manager 3 3 (13.04 %) Applications Support 3 3 (13.04 %) 2nd Line Support 3 3 (13.04 %) Applications Support Analyst 3 3 (13.04 %) Network Manager 3 3 (13.04 %) Support Manager 3 3 (13.04 %) Support Technician 4 2 (8.696 %) Network Team Leader 4 2 (8.696 %) Implementation Manager 4 2 (8.696 %) Team Leader 4 2 (8.696 %) IT Support Technician 5 1 (4.348 %) Desktop Support Engineer 5 1 (4.348 %) IT Support Analyst 5 1 (4.348 %) Desktop Engineer 5 1 (4.348 %) Desktop Support 5 1 (4.348 %) Network Engineer 5 1 (4.348 %) Technical Support
Operating Systems 1 13 (56.52 %) Windows 2 9 (39.13 %) Windows Server 2003 3 4 (17.39 %) Windows XP 4 3 (13.04 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 3 (13.04 %) Linux 5 1 (4.348 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (4.348 %) Windows NT 5 1 (4.348 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (17.39 %) Security Cleared 2 3 (13.04 %) Data Migration 2 3 (13.04 %) SC Cleared 2 3 (13.04 %) CRM 2 3 (13.04 %) Migration 3 2 (8.696 %) Incident Management 3 2 (8.696 %) ISMS 3 2 (8.696 %) ITIL 3 2 (8.696 %) E-Commerce 3 2 (8.696 %) ERP 3 2 (8.696 %) Project Management 3 2 (8.696 %) Change Management 3 2 (8.696 %) Disaster Recovery 4 1 (4.348 %) PRINCE2
Programming Languages 1 3 (13.04 %) Perl 2 2 (8.696 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 4 (17.39 %) MCSE 1 4 (17.39 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (4.348 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (8.696 %) SLA	System Software 1 5 (21.74 %) Active Directory 2 4 (17.39 %) Terminal Services 3 1 (4.348 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management 1 2 (8.696 %) OpenView Configuration Management	Vendors 1 9 (39.13 %) Citrix 2 6 (26.09 %) Cisco 3 5 (21.74 %) Microsoft 4 2 (8.696 %) Avaya 5 1 (4.348 %) Juniper 5 1 (4.348 %) Alcatel 5 1 (4.348 %) Lotus 5 1 (4.348 %) Ensim