Stockport WAN Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Wide Area Network (WAN) skills within the Stockport region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 8 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Location Aberdeen Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Barking Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Colchester Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenford Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Prescot Prestwick Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	7	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	3	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	100.00 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£311
% change on same period last year	+8.59 %
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	£21.58	£24.96
% change on same period last year	-13.53 %
Communications & Networking Stockport
Matching contract IT job ads	3	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.003 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£347	£342
% change on same period last year	+1.36 %
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	£25.70	£28.46
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
WAN Manchester

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.

WAN
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing WAN across the Stockport region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

WAN
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Stockport 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 2 2 (66.67 %) DHCP 2 2 (66.67 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (66.67 %) DNS 2 2 (66.67 %) Cisco 2 2 (66.67 %) IP Telephony 3 1 (33.33 %) Wonderware 3 1 (33.33 %) CCTV 3 1 (33.33 %) SCADA 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 3 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (33.33 %) Smartcard

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Stockport 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 2 2 (66.67 %) DHCP 2 2 (66.67 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (66.67 %) DNS 2 2 (66.67 %) IP Telephony	Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Network Support 2 1 (33.33 %) Architect 2 1 (33.33 %) Systems Designer 2 1 (33.33 %) Systems Architect
Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) Smartcard 1 1 (33.33 %) CCTV 1 1 (33.33 %) SCADA	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003
System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Cisco 2 1 (33.33 %) Wonderware