VLAN Contracts in Reading
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for VLAN 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 VLAN 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 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual LAN (VLAN)
Rank 62 75 77
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +2
Contract jobs citing VLAN 3 4 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.358% 0.359% 0.469%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.508% 0.858% 2.336%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
Average daily rate £575 £350 £451
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+64.28% -22.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £555 £350 £286
10% offered a daily rate of more than £595 £350 £470
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £275
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year
-5.40% +78.31%
All Communications & Networking
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 199 466 214
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 23.72% 41.79% 20.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 110 73
Average daily rate £280 £285 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.75% -24.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £133 £213 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 16 7
Average hourly rate £17.00 £15.58 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.14% -2.65%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.30 £14.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.50 £44.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
VLAN
Berkshire

VLAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading VLAN Hourly Rate Trend

VLAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 6 (54.55%) Windows
1 6 (54.55%) Linux
1 6 (54.55%) Red Hat
1 6 (54.55%) VMware
1 6 (54.55%) Network Security
2 5 (45.45%) Test Scripting
2 5 (45.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (45.45%) vSphere
2 5 (45.45%) Bash shell
2 5 (45.45%) Python
2 5 (45.45%) Perl
2 5 (45.45%) Kerberos
2 5 (45.45%) TCP/IP
2 5 (45.45%) VPN
2 5 (45.45%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (36.36%) Cisco
4 3 (27.27%) Telecoms
4 3 (27.27%) OSPF
4 3 (27.27%) BGP
5 2 (18.18%) VRRP
5 2 (18.18%) DNS
5 2 (18.18%) LAN
5 2 (18.18%) WAN
5 2 (18.18%) DHCP
5 2 (18.18%) Network Design
5 2 (18.18%) MPLS
6 1 (9.091%) Symposium
6 1 (9.091%) Blue Coat
6 1 (9.091%) TippingPoint
6 1 (9.091%) ProCurve

VLAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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.

Application Development
1 1 (9.091%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) CMS
1 1 (9.091%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) Network Security
2 5 (45.45%) Kerberos
2 5 (45.45%) TCP/IP
2 5 (45.45%) VPN
3 3 (27.27%) OSPF
3 3 (27.27%) BGP
4 2 (18.18%) VRRP
4 2 (18.18%) DNS
4 2 (18.18%) LAN
4 2 (18.18%) WAN
4 2 (18.18%) DHCP
4 2 (18.18%) MPLS
5 1 (9.091%) Symposium
5 1 (9.091%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (9.091%) LTE
5 1 (9.091%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (9.091%) Firewall
5 1 (9.091%) Ethernet
5 1 (9.091%) HTTP
5 1 (9.091%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (27.27%) Telecoms
2 1 (9.091%) Finance
2 1 (9.091%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Architect
2 4 (36.36%) Technical Architect
2 4 (36.36%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Network Design Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Network Architect
4 1 (9.091%) Transmission Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Avaya Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Project Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Support Technician
4 1 (9.091%) Support Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Network Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Infrastructure Technician
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Windows
1 6 (54.55%) Linux
2 5 (45.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (9.091%) CentOS
3 1 (9.091%) Windows 7
3 1 (9.091%) VMS
3 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Test Scripting
2 2 (18.18%) Network Design
3 1 (9.091%) Network Management
3 1 (9.091%) Service Management
3 1 (9.091%) ITIL
3 1 (9.091%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Bash shell
1 5 (45.45%) Python
1 5 (45.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) ACSA
1 1 (9.091%) HNC
1 1 (9.091%) HND
1 1 (9.091%) MCSE
1 1 (9.091%) CCNP
1 1 (9.091%) CCNA
1 1 (9.091%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (9.091%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) vSphere
1 5 (45.45%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (9.091%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Red Hat
1 6 (54.55%) VMware
2 4 (36.36%) Cisco
3 1 (9.091%) Blue Coat
3 1 (9.091%) TippingPoint
3 1 (9.091%) ProCurve
3 1 (9.091%) Huawei
3 1 (9.091%) NetScout
3 1 (9.091%) CheckPoint
3 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.091%) HP
3 1 (9.091%) Nortel
3 1 (9.091%) Avaya
3 1 (9.091%) Nokia
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