The first table below looks at the demand for LAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LAN over the 3 months to 20 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 Reading 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Local Area Network (LAN)
Rank 47 60 63
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +3
Contract jobs citing LAN 24 20 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 2.840% 1.876% 1.644%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.44% 4.494% 8.293%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 7
Average daily rate £269 £235 £238
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.36% -1.05%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £235 £167
10% offered a daily rate of more than £407 £235 £308
UK excluding London average daily rate £308 £308 £320
% change year-on-year
- -3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £17.00 £15.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.13 £20.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-19.37% -4.76%
All Communications & Networking
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
193 445 205
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 22.84% 41.74% 19.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 104 69
Average daily rate £275 £280 £370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.78% -24.32%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £133 £160 £197
10% offered a daily rate of more than £434 £400 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 5
Average hourly rate £17.00 £16.04 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.00% -8.35%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.30 £14.50 £12.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.50 £44.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
LAN
Berkshire

LAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading LAN Jobs Demand Trend

LAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading LAN Daily Rate Trend

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LAN across the Reading region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Reading LAN Daily Rate Histogram

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading LAN Hourly Rate Trend

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, 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 38 (76.00%) Windows
2 30 (60.00%) WAN
3 25 (50.00%) Windows 7
4 24 (48.00%) Windows XP
4 24 (48.00%) Active Directory
5 19 (38.00%) TCP/IP
5 19 (38.00%) Telecoms
6 16 (32.00%) ITIL
7 14 (28.00%) HP
7 14 (28.00%) Lotus
7 14 (28.00%) Blackberry
7 14 (28.00%) Windows Server 2008
8 13 (26.00%) Windows Server 2003
8 13 (26.00%) VMware
8 13 (26.00%) VPN
8 13 (26.00%) SQL
8 13 (26.00%) Lotus Notes
9 11 (22.00%) Aerospace
9 11 (22.00%) VMware Infrastructure
9 11 (22.00%) Software Deployment
10 10 (20.00%) Oracle
10 10 (20.00%) MS Office
11 9 (18.00%) Cisco
11 9 (18.00%) Microsoft
11 9 (18.00%) SAN
12 8 (16.00%) IBM HTTP Server
12 8 (16.00%) Clustering
12 8 (16.00%) IBM
12 8 (16.00%) DNS
12 8 (16.00%) HTTP

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, 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 Development
1 8 (16.00%) Web Services
2 7 (14.00%) .NET
3 6 (12.00%) J2EE
4 4 (8.000%) WebSphere
5 2 (4.000%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 13 (26.00%) Lotus Notes
2 8 (16.00%) Apache
2 8 (16.00%) Tomcat
2 8 (16.00%) IBM HTTP Server
2 8 (16.00%) IIS
3 6 (12.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 4 (8.000%) MS Exchange
4 4 (8.000%) WebSphere Application Server
4 4 (8.000%) WebLogic
4 4 (8.000%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (4.000%) Exchange Server 2003
6 1 (2.000%) Lotus Domino
6 1 (2.000%) FileNet
6 1 (2.000%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 10 (20.00%) MS Office
2 4 (8.000%) MS Excel
3 1 (2.000%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (2.000%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 30 (60.00%) WAN
2 19 (38.00%) TCP/IP
3 13 (26.00%) VPN
4 9 (18.00%) SAN
5 8 (16.00%) DNS
5 8 (16.00%) HTTP
6 7 (14.00%) DHCP
6 7 (14.00%) Firewall
7 5 (10.00%) Ethernet
8 4 (8.000%) SSL
8 4 (8.000%) Internet
9 3 (6.000%) MPLS
9 3 (6.000%) OSPF
9 3 (6.000%) BGP
9 3 (6.000%) VoIP
10 2 (4.000%) VLAN
10 2 (4.000%) IPsec
10 2 (4.000%) Network Security
10 2 (4.000%) Junos
10 2 (4.000%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.000%) SQL Server
1 4 (8.000%) Oracle 8/8i
1 4 (8.000%) Oracle 10g
1 4 (8.000%) Oracle 11g
General
1 19 (38.00%) Telecoms
2 11 (22.00%) Aerospace
3 7 (14.00%) Finance
4 3 (6.000%) Banking
5 2 (4.000%) Retail
5 2 (4.000%) Back Office
6 1 (2.000%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 11 (22.00%) Analyst
2 6 (12.00%) DBA
2 6 (12.00%) Support Engineer
2 6 (12.00%) Oracle DBA
2 6 (12.00%) Desktop Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) Team Leader
3 5 (10.00%) Support Analyst
3 5 (10.00%) Consultant
3 5 (10.00%) Desktop Team Leader
4 4 (8.000%) Service Analyst
4 4 (8.000%) Service Desk Analyst
5 3 (6.000%) 2nd Line Support
5 3 (6.000%) Desktop Support
5 3 (6.000%) Support Technician
5 3 (6.000%) WebSphere Consultant
6 2 (4.000%) Network Security Consultant
6 2 (4.000%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (4.000%) Network Architect
6 2 (4.000%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (4.000%) IP Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (28.00%) Blackberry
2 8 (16.00%) Clustering
3 1 (2.000%) FMCG
3 1 (2.000%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 38 (76.00%) Windows
2 25 (50.00%) Windows 7
3 24 (48.00%) Windows XP
4 14 (28.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 13 (26.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (10.00%) UNIX
7 3 (6.000%) Mac OS X
8 2 (4.000%) Windows 2000
9 1 (2.000%) HPUX
9 1 (2.000%) Linux
9 1 (2.000%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (32.00%) ITIL
2 11 (22.00%) Software Deployment
3 7 (14.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (12.00%) Workflow
4 6 (12.00%) Content Management
5 4 (8.000%) Service Delivery
6 3 (6.000%) Software Distribution
7 2 (4.000%) Problem Management
7 2 (4.000%) Network Design
8 1 (2.000%) Incident Management
8 1 (2.000%) PRINCE2
8 1 (2.000%) Data Modelling
8 1 (2.000%) Service Management
8 1 (2.000%) Performance Management
8 1 (2.000%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 13 (26.00%) SQL
2 6 (12.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (16.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (12.00%) MCP
2 6 (12.00%) MCDST
3 2 (4.000%) CISSP
3 2 (4.000%) OCP
3 2 (4.000%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (4.000%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (4.000%) CCSA
4 1 (2.000%) HNC
4 1 (2.000%) CCNP
4 1 (2.000%) CCNA
4 1 (2.000%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.000%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.000%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) SLA
2 1 (2.000%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 24 (48.00%) Active Directory
2 11 (22.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (6.000%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (4.000%) ProxySG
5 2 (4.000%) VMware Server
5 2 (4.000%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 6 (12.00%) HP SIM
2 4 (8.000%) Foglight
3 3 (6.000%) SCCM
3 3 (6.000%) Unicenter
4 2 (4.000%) MOM
5 1 (2.000%) OpenView
5 1 (2.000%) CiscoWorks
5 1 (2.000%) HP NNM
5 1 (2.000%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (28.00%) HP
1 14 (28.00%) Lotus
2 13 (26.00%) VMware
3 10 (20.00%) Oracle
4 9 (18.00%) Cisco
4 9 (18.00%) Microsoft
5 8 (16.00%) IBM
6 6 (12.00%) Citrix
7 4 (8.000%) Juniper
7 4 (8.000%) JBoss
8 3 (6.000%) Dell
8 3 (6.000%) CA
8 3 (6.000%) Remedy
8 3 (6.000%) FrontRange
8 3 (6.000%) Royalblue
9 2 (4.000%) SolarWinds
9 2 (4.000%) F5
9 2 (4.000%) CheckPoint
9 2 (4.000%) Redback
9 2 (4.000%) Blue Coat
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