Slough Network Design Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Network Design skills within the Slough region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Network Design over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Network Design
Location Altrincham Aylesbury Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chalfont St Giles Cheltenham City of London Croydon Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire London Loughborough Lytham St Annes Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Paddington Pontefract Portsmouth Reading Redditch Rugby Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Stevenage Surrey Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Windsor Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	33	18
Rank change on same period last year	-15
Matching contract IT job ads	5	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	3.788 %	11.49 %
Daily rates quoted	3	12
Average minimum daily rate	£283	£366
Average daily rate	£300	£382
% change on same period last year	-21.42 %
Average maximum daily rate	£317	£397
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£361
% change on same period last year	-1.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.42	£38.33
% change on same period last year	-4.98 %
Processes & Methodologies Slough
Matching contract IT job ads	132	148
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.176 %	0.148 %
Daily rates quoted	35	72
Average minimum daily rate	£342	£346
Average daily rate	£355	£371
% change on same period last year	-4.09 %
Average maximum daily rate	£369	£395
UK excluding London average daily rate	£379	£376
% change on same period last year	+0.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	25	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.12	£36.63
Average hourly rate	£18.02	£37.19
% change on same period last year	-51.55 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.91	£37.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.35	£30.32
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
Network Design 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.

Network Design
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Network Design across the Slough region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Network Design
Daily Rate Trend

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

Network Design
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Network Design across the Slough region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

Network Design
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Slough region citing Network Design 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 Network Design.

1 6 (54.55 %) TETRA 2 5 (45.45 %) LAN 2 5 (45.45 %) WAN 3 4 (36.36 %) Cisco 3 4 (36.36 %) Firewall 3 4 (36.36 %) Network Security 4 3 (27.27 %) Police 4 3 (27.27 %) VPN 5 2 (18.18 %) TCP/IP 5 2 (18.18 %) CCIE 5 2 (18.18 %) SQL 5 2 (18.18 %) SSL 5 2 (18.18 %) GIS 5 2 (18.18 %) CISSP 5 2 (18.18 %) Cisco Certification

5 2 (18.18 %) Juniper 5 2 (18.18 %) Mapinfo 5 2 (18.18 %) Validation 5 2 (18.18 %) Telecoms 5 2 (18.18 %) Degree 5 2 (18.18 %) German Language 6 1 (9.091 %) Data Protection 6 1 (9.091 %) Legal 6 1 (9.091 %) CiscoWorks 6 1 (9.091 %) DNS

Network Design
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Slough region citing Network Design 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 Network Design. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 6 (54.55 %) TETRA 2 5 (45.45 %) LAN 2 5 (45.45 %) WAN 3 4 (36.36 %) Network Security 3 4 (36.36 %) Firewall 4 3 (27.27 %) VPN 5 2 (18.18 %) TCP/IP 5 2 (18.18 %) SSL 6 1 (9.091 %) DNS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (18.18 %) GIS
General 1 3 (27.27 %) Police 2 2 (18.18 %) Telecoms 3 1 (9.091 %) Legal	Job Titles 1 4 (36.36 %) Security Consultant 1 4 (36.36 %) Consultant 2 3 (27.27 %) Radio Engineer 3 2 (18.18 %) Network Consultant 3 2 (18.18 %) Network Engineer 3 2 (18.18 %) Network Security Consultant 3 2 (18.18 %) Security Specialist 3 2 (18.18 %) Network Specialist 4 1 (9.091 %) IP Network Engineer 4 1 (9.091 %) Infrastructure Designer 4 1 (9.091 %) Systems Designer 4 1 (9.091 %) Radio Network Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (18.18 %) German Language	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (18.18 %) Validation 2 1 (9.091 %) Data Protection
Programming Languages 1 2 (18.18 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 2 (18.18 %) CCIE 1 2 (18.18 %) CISSP 1 2 (18.18 %) Cisco Certification 1 2 (18.18 %) Degree
Systems Management 1 1 (9.091 %) CiscoWorks	Vendors 1 4 (36.36 %) Cisco 2 2 (18.18 %) Juniper 2 2 (18.18 %) Mapinfo