Reading LAN Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Local Area Network (LAN) skills within the Reading region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited LAN over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Local Area Network (LAN)
Location Aberdeen Ayrshire Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Prescot Reading Redditch Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Rotherham Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stockport Stourbridge Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	56	49
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	16	24
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.024 %
As % of the category below	8.333 %	12.31 %
Daily rates quoted	5	2
Average minimum daily rate	£385	£425
Average daily rate	£423	£425
% change on same period last year	-0.58 %
Average maximum daily rate	£460	£425
UK excluding London average daily rate	£334	£316
% change on same period last year	+5.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£31.36
Average hourly rate	£27.50	£32.93
% change on same period last year	-16.48 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£34.49
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.50	£25.68
% change on same period last year	-24.07 %
Communications & Networking Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	192	195
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.256 %	0.197 %
Daily rates quoted	40	68
Average minimum daily rate	£352	£318
Average daily rate	£380	£345
% change on same period last year	+10.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£408	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	40
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.96	£28.09
Average hourly rate	£21.54	£29.93
% change on same period last year	-28.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.13	£31.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
LAN Berkshire

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.

LAN
Demand Trend

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

LAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LAN across the Reading region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing LAN 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 LAN.

1 27 (87.10 %) WAN 2 12 (38.71 %) Cisco 3 10 (32.26 %) Firewall 4 9 (29.03 %) DNS 4 9 (29.03 %) Cisco Certification 5 8 (25.81 %) DHCP 5 8 (25.81 %) Active Directory 6 7 (22.58 %) Windows 6 7 (22.58 %) ITIL 6 7 (22.58 %) Citrix 6 7 (22.58 %) ISA Server 6 7 (22.58 %) MPLS 7 6 (19.35 %) CheckPoint 7 6 (19.35 %) CCNA 8 5 (16.13 %) Ethernet

8 5 (16.13 %) TCP/IP 8 5 (16.13 %) VPN 8 5 (16.13 %) VLAN 9 4 (12.90 %) IP Telephony 9 4 (12.90 %) Wireless 9 4 (12.90 %) Government 9 4 (12.90 %) CiscoWorks 9 4 (12.90 %) VoIP 10 3 (9.677 %) Microsoft 10 3 (9.677 %) CCNP 10 3 (9.677 %) Ericsson 10 3 (9.677 %) Microsoft Certification 10 3 (9.677 %) Juniper 10 3 (9.677 %) Project Management 10 3 (9.677 %) VMware

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing LAN 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 LAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 2 (6.452 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (3.226 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 1 (3.226 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 1 (3.226 %) MS Excel
Business Applications 1 1 (3.226 %) Oracle Applications	Communications & Networking 1 27 (87.10 %) WAN 2 10 (32.26 %) Firewall 3 9 (29.03 %) DNS 4 8 (25.81 %) DHCP 5 7 (22.58 %) MPLS 6 5 (16.13 %) TCP/IP 6 5 (16.13 %) VPN 6 5 (16.13 %) Ethernet 6 5 (16.13 %) VLAN 7 4 (12.90 %) Wireless 7 4 (12.90 %) IP Telephony 7 4 (12.90 %) VoIP 8 3 (9.677 %) BIG-IP 9 2 (6.452 %) RIP 9 2 (6.452 %) OSPF 10 1 (3.226 %) BGP 10 1 (3.226 %) EIGRP 10 1 (3.226 %) SAN 10 1 (3.226 %) DMZ 10 1 (3.226 %) WLAN
General 1 4 (12.90 %) Government 2 2 (6.452 %) Law 2 2 (6.452 %) Telecoms 3 1 (3.226 %) Finance 3 1 (3.226 %) Pharmaceutical 3 1 (3.226 %) Financial Institution 3 1 (3.226 %) Billing	Job Titles 1 15 (48.39 %) Analyst 2 7 (22.58 %) Systems Analyst 3 5 (16.13 %) Systems Support 3 5 (16.13 %) Support Analyst 4 4 (12.90 %) 3rd Line Support 4 4 (12.90 %) Administrator 4 4 (12.90 %) Systems Administrator 4 4 (12.90 %) Project Manager 4 4 (12.90 %) Network Analyst 4 4 (12.90 %) Systems Support Analyst 5 3 (9.677 %) Consultant 5 3 (9.677 %) Network Engineer 6 2 (6.452 %) Architect 6 2 (6.452 %) Network Consultant 6 2 (6.452 %) Senior Analyst 6 2 (6.452 %) Support Technician 6 2 (6.452 %) Systems Engineer 6 2 (6.452 %) Network Specialist 6 2 (6.452 %) Senior Systems Analyst 6 2 (6.452 %) IT Support Technician
Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.226 %) Mathematics 1 1 (3.226 %) Applied Mathematics	Operating Systems 1 7 (22.58 %) Windows 2 2 (6.452 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (3.226 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (22.58 %) ITIL 2 3 (9.677 %) Project Management 2 3 (9.677 %) Load Balancing 3 2 (6.452 %) Migration 3 2 (6.452 %) Security Cleared 3 2 (6.452 %) Service Delivery 3 2 (6.452 %) PRINCE2 4 1 (3.226 %) UML 4 1 (3.226 %) SSADM 4 1 (3.226 %) DSDM 4 1 (3.226 %) ERP 4 1 (3.226 %) PRINCE 4 1 (3.226 %) Disaster Recovery 4 1 (3.226 %) E-business 4 1 (3.226 %) Technical Architecture 4 1 (3.226 %) BC Cleared 4 1 (3.226 %) DV Cleared	Programming Languages 1 1 (3.226 %) VB
Qualifications 1 9 (29.03 %) Cisco Certification 2 6 (19.35 %) CCNA 3 3 (9.677 %) Microsoft Certification 3 3 (9.677 %) CCNP 4 2 (6.452 %) CCIP 4 2 (6.452 %) MCP 4 2 (6.452 %) MOS 4 2 (6.452 %) CCDP 4 2 (6.452 %) CCIE 5 1 (3.226 %) Degree 5 1 (3.226 %) MCSE	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (6.452 %) SLA
System Software 1 8 (25.81 %) Active Directory 2 7 (22.58 %) ISA Server 3 3 (9.677 %) VMware ESX 4 1 (3.226 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 4 (12.90 %) CiscoWorks 2 2 (6.452 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 2 (6.452 %) SCCM
Vendors 1 12 (38.71 %) Cisco 2 7 (22.58 %) Citrix 3 6 (19.35 %) CheckPoint 4 3 (9.677 %) VMware 4 3 (9.677 %) Microsoft 4 3 (9.677 %) Juniper 4 3 (9.677 %) Ericsson 5 1 (3.226 %) VERITAS 5 1 (3.226 %) HP 5 1 (3.226 %) Oracle