The first table below looks at the demand for VLAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VLAN over the 3 months to 17 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 South Yorkshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual LAN (VLAN)
Rank - - 38
Contract jobs citing VLAN 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire - - 0.351%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - - 1.754%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £225
UK excluding London average daily rate £293 £325 £275
% change year-on-year
-10.00% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% +85.00%
All Communications & Networking
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
47 46 57
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 17.54% 18.04% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 28 25
Average daily rate £360 £325 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.76% +30.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £251 £214 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £525 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 10
Average hourly rate £15.00 £30.00 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-50.00% -17.80%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.00 £24.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.25 £35.50 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
VLAN
Yorkshire

VLAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire VLAN Daily Rate Trend

VLAN
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Nokia
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) VRRP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Blue Coat
1 1 (100.00%) SecurID
1 1 (100.00%) NetScout
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) TippingPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Network Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) HSRP
1 1 (100.00%) GLBP

VLAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 (100.00%) CSS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) VRRP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) HSRP
1 1 (100.00%) GLBP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Network Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Nokia
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Blue Coat
1 1 (100.00%) NetScout
1 1 (100.00%) TippingPoint