The first table below looks at the demand for WAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Staines region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WAN 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 Staines 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
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 20 21 36
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +15
Contract jobs citing WAN 3 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staines 2.190% 0.680% 0.412%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.65% 4.167% 5.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £306 £325
% change year-on-year
+2.85% -5.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £19.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £21.25 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-24.70% +1.19%
All Communications & Networking
Staines
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
17 24 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staines 12.41% 16.33% 8.230%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 7
Average daily rate £125 £369 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-66.12% -13.17%
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £23.75 £19.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
WAN
Surrey

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staines WAN Jobs Demand Trend

WAN
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WAN across the Staines region.

Staines WAN Daily Rate Trend

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Staines WAN Hourly Rate Trend

WAN
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staines region citing WAN 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 WAN.

1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) WLAN
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) Juniper
1 3 (100.00%) Project Management
1 3 (100.00%) Service Management
1 3 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 3 (100.00%) AppSense
1 3 (100.00%) Riverbed
1 3 (100.00%) WAN Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) XenApp

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staines region citing WAN 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 WAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) WLAN
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Project Manager
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Project Manager
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Network Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Network Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Project Management
1 3 (100.00%) Service Management
1 3 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) WAN Optimisation
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (66.67%) XenApp
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) Juniper
1 3 (100.00%) AppSense
1 3 (100.00%) Riverbed