The first table below looks at the demand for VLAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Portsmouth region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VLAN over the 3 months to 17 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 Portsmouth 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual LAN (VLAN)
Rank 14 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing VLAN 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Portsmouth 2.439% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £293 £325 £275
% change year-on-year
-10.00% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £38.75 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% +85.00%
All Communications & Networking
Portsmouth
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
18 19 54
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Portsmouth 21.95% 17.76% 34.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 8
Average daily rate £348 £347 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.16% +30.91%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £218 £303 £241
10% offered a daily rate of more than £391 £359 £308
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 24
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% +71.05%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
VLAN
Hampshire

VLAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth region.

Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth region.

Portsmouth VLAN Hourly Rate Trend

VLAN
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth 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 4 (100.00%) VPN
2 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) SCOM
3 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) C
3 2 (50.00%) Ethernet
3 2 (50.00%) SNMP
3 2 (50.00%) Network Management
3 2 (50.00%) IPsec
3 2 (50.00%) SSL
3 2 (50.00%) IPv4
3 2 (50.00%) IPv6
3 2 (50.00%) Juniper
3 2 (50.00%) OSPF
3 2 (50.00%) BGP
4 1 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (25.00%) Network Design
4 1 (25.00%) Sourcefire
4 1 (25.00%) Requirements Management
4 1 (25.00%) ArcSight
4 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared

VLAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth 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.

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) VPN
2 3 (75.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) IPsec
3 2 (50.00%) Ethernet
3 2 (50.00%) SNMP
3 2 (50.00%) SSL
3 2 (50.00%) IPv4
3 2 (50.00%) IPv6
3 2 (50.00%) OSPF
3 2 (50.00%) BGP
4 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Network Management
2 1 (25.00%) Network Design
2 1 (25.00%) Requirements Management
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Sourcefire
2 1 (25.00%) ArcSight