LAN Contracts in Staffordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for LAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LAN 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 Staffordshire 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
Local Area Network (LAN)
Rank 15 24 31
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +7
Contract jobs citing LAN 4 10 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 4.598% 4.566% 3.571%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 30.77% 22.22% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 0
Average daily rate £145 £175 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.14% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £308 £308 £320
% change year-on-year
- -3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £17.00 £22.50 £10.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.44% +125.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.25 £20.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-18.75% -4.76%
All Communications & Networking
Staffordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 13 45 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 14.94% 20.55% 17.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 19 17
Average daily rate £175 £175 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -50.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 6
Average hourly rate £17.00 £22.50 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.44% +55.17%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
LAN
West Midlands

LAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire LAN Daily Rate Trend

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Staffordshire LAN Hourly Rate Trend

LAN
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cannock - 1 £175 -
Stafford - 1 - -
LAN
West Midlands

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 12 (92.31%) WAN
2 9 (69.23%) Windows
3 6 (46.15%) Solaris
3 6 (46.15%) Linux
3 6 (46.15%) SQL
3 6 (46.15%) Oracle
3 6 (46.15%) EMC
3 6 (46.15%) Back Office
3 6 (46.15%) Migration
4 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
5 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
5 3 (23.08%) Citrix
5 3 (23.08%) MS Office
5 3 (23.08%) HTTP
5 3 (23.08%) Cisco
6 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
6 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
6 2 (15.38%) MS Excel
6 2 (15.38%) Windows XP
6 2 (15.38%) Project Management
6 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (15.38%) VMware
6 2 (15.38%) Firewall
7 1 (7.692%) Veeam
7 1 (7.692%) Windows 7
7 1 (7.692%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (7.692%) Network Management
7 1 (7.692%) Unified Communications

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 Platforms
1 1 (7.692%) Lotus Notes
1 1 (7.692%) Lotus Domino
1 1 (7.692%) SharePoint
1 1 (7.692%) MS Exchange
1 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (7.692%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) MS Office
2 2 (15.38%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.692%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 12 (92.31%) WAN
2 3 (23.08%) HTTP
3 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
3 2 (15.38%) Firewall
4 1 (7.692%) Network Security
4 1 (7.692%) Unified Communications
4 1 (7.692%) NetScaler
4 1 (7.692%) SAN
General
1 6 (46.15%) Back Office
2 1 (7.692%) Telecoms
2 1 (7.692%) Finance
2 1 (7.692%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (7.692%) Network Technician
3 1 (7.692%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (7.692%) Voice Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 1 (7.692%) Service Desk Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.692%) Analyst
3 1 (7.692%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (7.692%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.692%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 9 (69.23%) Windows
2 6 (46.15%) Solaris
2 6 (46.15%) Linux
3 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (15.38%) Windows XP
5 1 (7.692%) Windows CE
5 1 (7.692%) Windows Mobile
5 1 (7.692%) Windows Vista
5 1 (7.692%) Windows 2000
5 1 (7.692%) Windows 7
5 1 (7.692%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Migration
2 2 (15.38%) Project Management
3 1 (7.692%) Change Management
3 1 (7.692%) PRINCE2
3 1 (7.692%) ERP
3 1 (7.692%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.692%) CCNA
2 1 (7.692%) CCA
2 1 (7.692%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (7.692%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.692%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.692%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (7.692%) Norton AntiVirus
1 1 (7.692%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Oracle
1 6 (46.15%) EMC
2 3 (23.08%) Cisco
2 3 (23.08%) Citrix
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) VMware
4 1 (7.692%) Altiris
4 1 (7.692%) Brocade
4 1 (7.692%) Veeam
4 1 (7.692%) Nortel
4 1 (7.692%) HP
4 1 (7.692%) Avaya
4 1 (7.692%) Lotus
4 1 (7.692%) Symantec
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