The first table below looks at the demand for WAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 23 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 Nottinghamshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 30 35 33
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -2
Contract jobs citing WAN 11 4 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 3.385% 1.413% 0.990%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.92% 14.29% 5.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £235 £475 £210
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-50.52% +126.19%
UK excluding London average daily rate £318 £303 £325
% change year-on-year
+4.95% -6.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £14.00 - £14.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £21.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-25.58% +2.38%
All Communications & Networking
Nottinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
65 28 60
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 20.00% 9.894% 19.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 13 15
Average daily rate £325 £238 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+36.84% -13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £165 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £385 £396 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 4
Average hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% +46.34%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.85 £30.00 £13.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £30.00 £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
WAN
East Midlands

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region.

Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region.

Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Nottingham -4 9 £235 -50.52%
WAN
East Midlands

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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 18 (90.00%) LAN
2 13 (65.00%) Cisco
3 12 (60.00%) Firewall
4 11 (55.00%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (45.00%) Citrix
6 8 (40.00%) CCNA
6 8 (40.00%) TCP/IP
6 8 (40.00%) VPN
6 8 (40.00%) Windows
7 7 (35.00%) Windows XP
7 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
8 6 (30.00%) Active Directory
8 6 (30.00%) Juniper
8 6 (30.00%) Wireless
9 5 (25.00%) Nokia
9 5 (25.00%) CCNP
9 5 (25.00%) SolarWinds
9 5 (25.00%) SolarWinds Orion
9 5 (25.00%) DMVPN
10 4 (20.00%) Windows 7
10 4 (20.00%) WLAN
10 4 (20.00%) MPLS
10 4 (20.00%) Nortel
10 4 (20.00%) VMware
10 4 (20.00%) Finance
11 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (15.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
11 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2003
11 3 (15.00%) MCSE

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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 Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (10.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (5.000%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (10.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 18 (90.00%) LAN
2 12 (60.00%) Firewall
3 8 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 8 (40.00%) VPN
4 6 (30.00%) Wireless
5 5 (25.00%) DMVPN
6 4 (20.00%) WLAN
6 4 (20.00%) MPLS
7 3 (15.00%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (10.00%) NetScaler
8 2 (10.00%) DNS
8 2 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (5.000%) Cisco PIX
9 1 (5.000%) BIG-IP
9 1 (5.000%) SMTP
9 1 (5.000%) HTTP
9 1 (5.000%) PBX
9 1 (5.000%) Internet
9 1 (5.000%) 3G
9 1 (5.000%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.000%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (5.000%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 4 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Network Analyst
3 4 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (15.00%) Desktop Support
4 3 (15.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Desktop Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) Consultant
6 1 (5.000%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (5.000%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (5.000%) Technical Support
6 1 (5.000%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) Cisco Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) Security Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) Cisco Network Analyst
6 1 (5.000%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.000%) Fat Client
1 1 (5.000%) Thin Client
1 1 (5.000%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Windows
2 7 (35.00%) Windows XP
3 4 (20.00%) Windows 7
4 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (15.00%) Windows NT
5 1 (5.000%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (10.00%) Network Management
2 1 (5.000%) Migration
Qualifications
1 11 (55.00%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (40.00%) CCNA
3 5 (25.00%) CCNP
4 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (15.00%) MCSE
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (5.000%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (65.00%) Cisco
2 9 (45.00%) Citrix
3 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
4 6 (30.00%) Juniper
5 5 (25.00%) Nokia
5 5 (25.00%) SolarWinds
6 4 (20.00%) Nortel
6 4 (20.00%) VMware
7 2 (10.00%) CheckPoint
8 1 (5.000%) F5