The first table below looks at the demand for Internet skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Internet over the 3 months to 23 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 Surrey 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Internet
Rank 50 74 46
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -28
Contract jobs citing Internet 30 24 60
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 2.609% 1.491% 3.207%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.54% 9.023% 19.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 10 37
Average daily rate £450 £343 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+31.38% -19.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £132 £152 £259
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £413 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
-3.07% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
Average hourly rate - £21.50 £14.13
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +52.21%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.50 £15.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year
-3.33% -18.91%
All Communications & Networking
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
193 266 305
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 16.78% 16.52% 16.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 116 149
Average daily rate £330 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £133 £150 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 35 20
Average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £15.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +129.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.75 £15.10 £13.55
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £42.95 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
Internet
South East

Internet
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey Internet Jobs Demand Trend

Internet
Daily Rate Trend

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

Surrey Internet Daily Rate Trend

Internet
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Internet across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Surrey Internet Daily Rate Histogram

Internet
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Surrey Internet Hourly Rate Trend

Internet
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Internet within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 23 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
Staines +5 5 - -
Guildford -7 5 £320 -
Camberley - 4 £456 -
Chertsey - 1 £95 -
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 £175 -
Woking - 1 £450 -
Internet
South East

Internet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing Internet 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 Internet.

1 21 (36.21%) Cisco
2 20 (34.48%) Solaris
3 19 (32.76%) Firewall
4 18 (31.03%) McAfee
4 18 (31.03%) Juniper
4 18 (31.03%) SMTP
4 18 (31.03%) Intrusion Detection
5 16 (27.59%) Finance
5 16 (27.59%) Network Load Balancing
6 14 (24.14%) SC Cleared
6 14 (24.14%) Security Cleared
6 14 (24.14%) Radware
7 13 (22.41%) CRM
7 13 (22.41%) HTML
7 13 (22.41%) NAS
8 12 (20.69%) Mobile App
8 12 (20.69%) SAN
9 10 (17.24%) Intranet
10 9 (15.52%) Oracle
10 9 (15.52%) CSS
10 9 (15.52%) MS PowerPoint
11 8 (13.79%) Marketing
11 8 (13.79%) Customer Engagement
11 8 (13.79%) OO
12 7 (12.07%) Telecoms
12 7 (12.07%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (12.07%) Adobe Illustrator
12 7 (12.07%) XML
12 7 (12.07%) Windows
12 7 (12.07%) Photoshop

Internet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing Internet 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 Internet. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (22.41%) HTML
2 9 (15.52%) CSS
3 7 (12.07%) XML
4 4 (6.897%) RichFaces
4 4 (6.897%) WebSphere
4 4 (6.897%) Spring
4 4 (6.897%) JSF
4 4 (6.897%) J2EE
4 4 (6.897%) Servlets
4 4 (6.897%) EJB
4 4 (6.897%) XSLT
4 4 (6.897%) Hibernate
5 3 (5.172%) ASP
5 3 (5.172%) .NET
5 3 (5.172%) HTML5
6 2 (3.448%) JPA
6 2 (3.448%) jQuery
6 2 (3.448%) Ajax
6 2 (3.448%) Symfony
7 1 (1.724%) ADO.NET
Application Platforms
1 4 (6.897%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (3.448%) EPiServer CMS
2 2 (3.448%) CMS
3 1 (1.724%) Apache
3 1 (1.724%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (15.52%) MS PowerPoint
2 7 (12.07%) Adobe Illustrator
2 7 (12.07%) Photoshop
3 4 (6.897%) MS Excel
4 3 (5.172%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.724%) Oracle CRM
1 1 (1.724%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (1.724%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 19 (32.76%) Firewall
2 18 (31.03%) SMTP
2 18 (31.03%) Intrusion Detection
3 13 (22.41%) NAS
4 12 (20.69%) SAN
5 10 (17.24%) Intranet
6 4 (6.897%) Network Security
6 4 (6.897%) LAN
6 4 (6.897%) WAN
6 4 (6.897%) TCP/IP
7 3 (5.172%) DNS
8 2 (3.448%) Ethernet
9 1 (1.724%) NetScreen
9 1 (1.724%) BGP
9 1 (1.724%) HTTP
9 1 (1.724%) VPN
9 1 (1.724%) DHCP
9 1 (1.724%) BIG-IP
9 1 (1.724%) Cisco PIX
9 1 (1.724%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.172%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.448%) Oracle 9i
2 2 (3.448%) TOAD
3 1 (1.724%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (12.07%) Dreamweaver
2 3 (5.172%) Visual Studio
2 3 (5.172%) Maven
3 2 (3.448%) PHPUnit
3 2 (3.448%) EasyMock
3 2 (3.448%) jMock
3 2 (3.448%) JUnit
3 2 (3.448%) InterDev
4 1 (1.724%) ClearCase
General
1 16 (27.59%) Finance
2 8 (13.79%) Marketing
3 7 (12.07%) Telecoms
4 5 (8.621%) Publishing
5 3 (5.172%) Legal
6 1 (1.724%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.724%) Law
Job Titles
1 19 (32.76%) Architect
2 17 (29.31%) Solutions Architect
3 14 (24.14%) Developer
4 12 (20.69%) Designer
5 8 (13.79%) Web Designer
6 4 (6.897%) Visual Designer
6 4 (6.897%) Java Developer
6 4 (6.897%) Analyst
7 3 (5.172%) 2nd Line Support
7 3 (5.172%) Help Desk Support
8 2 (3.448%) Content Editor
8 2 (3.448%) VB Developer
8 2 (3.448%) ASP Developer
8 2 (3.448%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (3.448%) PHP Developer
8 2 (3.448%) Service Analyst
8 2 (3.448%) .NET Developer
8 2 (3.448%) Administrator
8 2 (3.448%) Support Analyst
8 2 (3.448%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.69%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.448%) Open Source
2 2 (3.448%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.724%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.724%) Data Integration
3 1 (1.724%) Blog
3 1 (1.724%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 20 (34.48%) Solaris
2 7 (12.07%) Windows
3 4 (6.897%) Linux
4 3 (5.172%) Windows XP
5 2 (3.448%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (27.59%) Network Load Balancing
2 13 (22.41%) CRM
3 8 (13.79%) Customer Engagement
3 8 (13.79%) OO
4 7 (12.07%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (10.34%) TDD
6 5 (8.621%) User Experience Design
7 4 (6.897%) UML
8 2 (3.448%) Unit Testing
8 2 (3.448%) Agile Software Development
8 2 (3.448%) Incident Management
8 2 (3.448%) B2C
8 2 (3.448%) ITIL
8 2 (3.448%) MVC
8 2 (3.448%) Service Management
8 2 (3.448%) ITSM
9 1 (1.724%) Configuration Management
9 1 (1.724%) Project Management
9 1 (1.724%) Web Design
9 1 (1.724%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.07%) JavaScript
2 6 (10.34%) PL/SQL
3 5 (8.621%) Java
3 5 (8.621%) Python
4 4 (6.897%) PHP
4 4 (6.897%) SQL
5 3 (5.172%) XQuery
5 3 (5.172%) VB
6 2 (3.448%) C#
6 2 (3.448%) VB6
7 1 (1.724%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.724%) C++
7 1 (1.724%) C
7 1 (1.724%) Perl
7 1 (1.724%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.724%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (24.14%) SC Cleared
1 14 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.897%) Degree
3 1 (1.724%) CCIE
3 1 (1.724%) MCSE
3 1 (1.724%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.724%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.724%) A+ Certification
3 1 (1.724%) Sun Certification
System Software
1 2 (3.448%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.724%) NFS
2 1 (1.724%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 2 (3.448%) Unicenter
2 1 (1.724%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 21 (36.21%) Cisco
2 18 (31.03%) McAfee
2 18 (31.03%) Juniper
3 14 (24.14%) Radware
4 9 (15.52%) Oracle
5 6 (10.34%) Microsoft
6 5 (8.621%) Adobe
7 4 (6.897%) IBM
8 2 (3.448%) FrontRange
8 2 (3.448%) EPiServer
8 2 (3.448%) Sun
8 2 (3.448%) Royalblue
8 2 (3.448%) HP
8 2 (3.448%) CA
9 1 (1.724%) NetApp
9 1 (1.724%) Veritas
9 1 (1.724%) Blue Coat
9 1 (1.724%) Google
9 1 (1.724%) F5
9 1 (1.724%) Facebook