South West Network Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Network Engineer role in IT contracts within the South West region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Network Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Bracknell Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Colchester Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	85	90
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	62	85
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.087 %	0.086 %
As % of the category below	1.446 %	1.456 %
Daily rates quoted	8	22
Average minimum daily rate	£290	£271
Average daily rate	£318	£295
% change on same period last year	+7.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£345	£319
UK excluding London average daily rate	£339	£310
% change on same period last year	+9.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.33	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£39.17	£27.50
% change on same period last year	+42.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£44.00	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.08	£24.58
% change on same period last year	+2.03 %
Job Titles South West
Matching contract IT job ads	4289	5836
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	6.039 %	5.898 %
Daily rates quoted	1223	1491
Average minimum daily rate	£348	£337
Average daily rate	£368	£355
% change on same period last year	+3.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£389	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	600	689
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.38	£25.25
Average hourly rate	£27.16	£26.88
% change on same period last year	+1.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.94	£28.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.76	£25.22
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
Network Engineer England

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Network Engineer across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Network Engineer across the South West region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Network Engineer across the South West region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Network Engineer across the South West region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Engineer within the South West region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Gloucestershire	+7	19	-	-
Wiltshire	-20	11	£318	+21.95 %
Bristol	+7	9	£288	-0.51 %
Somerset	+3	2	-	-
Devon	+14	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region that cited Network Engineer in their job title 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 with Network Engineer in their job title.

1 79 (69.30 %) Cisco 2 58 (50.88 %) Cisco Certification 3 50 (43.86 %) Firewall 4 38 (33.33 %) CCNA 5 32 (28.07 %) Security Cleared 6 30 (26.32 %) CCNP 7 25 (21.93 %) CheckPoint 7 25 (21.93 %) SC Cleared 8 19 (16.67 %) HP 9 18 (15.79 %) VPN 9 18 (15.79 %) Cisco ASA 10 17 (14.91 %) SAN 10 17 (14.91 %) Windows 10 17 (14.91 %) Government 11 16 (14.04 %) Windows Server 2003

11 16 (14.04 %) Sun 12 15 (13.16 %) MPLS 12 15 (13.16 %) Cisco PIX 13 14 (12.28 %) Telecoms 13 14 (12.28 %) VoIP 13 14 (12.28 %) WAN 14 12 (10.53 %) OSPF 14 12 (10.53 %) LAN 14 12 (10.53 %) Active Directory 15 11 (9.649 %) BGP 16 10 (8.772 %) Thin Client 16 10 (8.772 %) Fat Client 17 9 (7.895 %) Network Design 17 9 (7.895 %) 3G 18 7 (6.140 %) CCIE

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region that cited Network Engineer in their job title 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 with Network Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (0.877 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 6 (5.263 %) MS Exchange 1 6 (5.263 %) Exchange Server 2003 1 6 (5.263 %) Exchange Server 2007 2 3 (2.632 %) Lotus Notes 3 1 (0.877 %) WebLogic 3 1 (0.877 %) Office Communications Server
Applications 1 2 (1.754 %) MS Office 2 1 (0.877 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 50 (43.86 %) Firewall 2 18 (15.79 %) Cisco ASA 2 18 (15.79 %) VPN 3 17 (14.91 %) SAN 4 15 (13.16 %) MPLS 4 15 (13.16 %) Cisco PIX 5 14 (12.28 %) VoIP 5 14 (12.28 %) WAN 6 12 (10.53 %) LAN 6 12 (10.53 %) OSPF 7 11 (9.649 %) BGP 8 9 (7.895 %) 3G 9 7 (6.140 %) HTTPS 9 7 (6.140 %) TCP/IP 10 6 (5.263 %) VLAN 10 6 (5.263 %) Network Security 10 6 (5.263 %) 2G 11 4 (3.509 %) TCAP 11 4 (3.509 %) ISUP 11 4 (3.509 %) SCCP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (1.754 %) BusinessObjects	Development Applications 1 1 (0.877 %) StarTeam
General 1 17 (14.91 %) Government 2 14 (12.28 %) Telecoms 3 4 (3.509 %) Music 4 3 (2.632 %) Publishing 4 3 (2.632 %) Finance 5 2 (1.754 %) Legal 6 1 (0.877 %) Multimedia	Miscellaneous 1 10 (8.772 %) Thin Client 1 10 (8.772 %) Fat Client 2 4 (3.509 %) Computer Science 3 1 (0.877 %) NHS 3 1 (0.877 %) Management Information System 3 1 (0.877 %) CESG
Operating Systems 1 17 (14.91 %) Windows 2 16 (14.04 %) Windows Server 2003 3 5 (4.386 %) UNIX 4 1 (0.877 %) HPUX 4 1 (0.877 %) Solaris 4 1 (0.877 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (0.877 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 32 (28.07 %) Security Cleared 2 25 (21.93 %) SC Cleared 3 9 (7.895 %) Network Design 4 6 (5.263 %) Configuration Management 4 6 (5.263 %) DV Cleared 5 5 (4.386 %) Disaster Recovery 6 3 (2.632 %) Project Management 6 3 (2.632 %) ITIL 7 2 (1.754 %) Load Balancing 8 1 (0.877 %) Problem Management 8 1 (0.877 %) BC Cleared 8 1 (0.877 %) Change Management 8 1 (0.877 %) Risk Management 8 1 (0.877 %) Migration
Programming Languages 1 2 (1.754 %) C 2 1 (0.877 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 58 (50.88 %) Cisco Certification 2 38 (33.33 %) CCNA 3 30 (26.32 %) CCNP 4 7 (6.140 %) CCIE 5 4 (3.509 %) MCSE 5 4 (3.509 %) Microsoft Certification 5 4 (3.509 %) Degree 5 4 (3.509 %) CCDP 6 3 (2.632 %) CCSP 7 1 (0.877 %) MCSA 7 1 (0.877 %) CCSA 7 1 (0.877 %) CCSE
System Software 1 12 (10.53 %) Active Directory 2 2 (1.754 %) Terminal Services 2 2 (1.754 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 5 (4.386 %) OpenView 2 4 (3.509 %) CiscoWorks 3 2 (1.754 %) Netcool 4 1 (0.877 %) Netcool/Proviso
Vendors 1 79 (69.30 %) Cisco 2 25 (21.93 %) CheckPoint 3 19 (16.67 %) HP 4 16 (14.04 %) Sun 5 6 (5.263 %) IBM 5 6 (5.263 %) Juniper 6 5 (4.386 %) Alcatel 6 5 (4.386 %) Ericsson 7 4 (3.509 %) Avaya 7 4 (3.509 %) Redback 7 4 (3.509 %) Lucent 8 3 (2.632 %) Lotus 8 3 (2.632 %) Fujitsu 9 2 (1.754 %) VMware 9 2 (1.754 %) Agilent 9 2 (1.754 %) Nokia 9 2 (1.754 %) Nortel 9 2 (1.754 %) Microsoft 9 2 (1.754 %) Business Objects 10 1 (0.877 %) Citrix