Surrey LAN Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Local Area Network (LAN) skills within the Surrey region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited LAN over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Local Area Network (LAN)
Location Aberdeen Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hull Huntingdon Ilford Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Redcar Redditch Romford Rugby Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	50	53
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	41	58
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.058 %	0.060 %
As % of the category below	16.33 %	13.81 %
Daily rates quoted	3	12
Average minimum daily rate	£283	£315
Average daily rate	£292	£320
% change on same period last year	-8.79 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£325
UK excluding London average daily rate	£342	£320
% change on same period last year	+7.04 %
Hourly rates quoted	19	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.59	£20.76
Average hourly rate	£18.25	£21.50
% change on same period last year	-15.10 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.91	£22.24
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.88	£21.80
% change on same period last year	+4.98 %
Communications & Networking Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	251	420
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.358 %	0.434 %
Daily rates quoted	38	106
Average minimum daily rate	£304	£334
Average daily rate	£326	£344
% change on same period last year	-5.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£347	£355
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£336
% change on same period last year	+5.75 %
Hourly rates quoted	58	88
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.80	£23.12
Average hourly rate	£24.73	£24.14
% change on same period last year	+2.44 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.65	£25.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.34	£28.77
% change on same period last year	-4.98 %
LAN South East

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.

LAN
Demand Trend

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

LAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LAN across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008.

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

LAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LAN across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008.

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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Guildford	+9	11	£213	-22.72 %
Camberley	+10	4	-	-
Chertsey	-	3	-	-

LAN South East

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 63 (62.38 %) WAN 2 47 (46.53 %) Windows 3 36 (35.64 %) Cisco 4 35 (34.65 %) TCP/IP 5 30 (29.70 %) Windows XP 6 27 (26.73 %) Firewall 6 27 (26.73 %) Finance 7 24 (23.76 %) MS Office 8 22 (21.78 %) Active Directory 8 22 (21.78 %) CheckPoint 9 20 (19.80 %) Microsoft 10 19 (18.81 %) DNS 10 19 (18.81 %) ADSL 11 18 (17.82 %) VPN 11 18 (17.82 %) DHCP

11 18 (17.82 %) Citrix 12 17 (16.83 %) Telecoms 13 15 (14.85 %) HP 13 15 (14.85 %) Microsoft Certification 13 15 (14.85 %) WLAN 14 12 (11.88 %) MPLS 14 12 (11.88 %) Lotus Notes 14 12 (11.88 %) MCSE 14 12 (11.88 %) Windows Server 2003 14 12 (11.88 %) Lotus 15 11 (10.89 %) Windows 2000 Server 16 10 (9.901 %) Network Planning 16 10 (9.901 %) Risk Management 16 10 (9.901 %) Configuration Management 16 10 (9.901 %) ITIL

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 Development 1 6 (5.941 %) J2EE 1 6 (5.941 %) WSH 1 6 (5.941 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 12 (11.88 %) Lotus Notes 2 9 (8.911 %) MS Exchange 3 6 (5.941 %) WebSphere MQ 3 6 (5.941 %) IIS 4 5 (4.950 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 2 (1.980 %) GroupWise 5 2 (1.980 %) Exchange Server 5.5
Applications 1 24 (23.76 %) MS Office 2 7 (6.931 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 63 (62.38 %) WAN 2 35 (34.65 %) TCP/IP 3 27 (26.73 %) Firewall 4 19 (18.81 %) ADSL 4 19 (18.81 %) DNS 5 18 (17.82 %) VPN 5 18 (17.82 %) DHCP 6 15 (14.85 %) WLAN 7 12 (11.88 %) MPLS 8 10 (9.901 %) VoIP 9 8 (7.921 %) Internet 10 7 (6.931 %) Network Security 11 6 (5.941 %) SSH 11 6 (5.941 %) SAN 11 6 (5.941 %) LDAP 12 5 (4.950 %) Wireless 13 4 (3.960 %) IPsec 13 4 (3.960 %) SSL 13 4 (3.960 %) 3G 14 3 (2.970 %) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (5.941 %) SQL Server	General 1 27 (26.73 %) Finance 2 17 (16.83 %) Telecoms 3 3 (2.970 %) Government 3 3 (2.970 %) Pharmaceutical 4 2 (1.980 %) Retail 4 2 (1.980 %) Insurance 4 2 (1.980 %) Pensions 5 1 (0.990 %) Auditing 5 1 (0.990 %) Financial Institution 5 1 (0.990 %) Back Office 5 1 (0.990 %) Education 5 1 (0.990 %) Health
Job Titles 1 22 (21.78 %) Network Support 2 21 (20.79 %) Analyst 3 18 (17.82 %) 2nd Line Support 4 14 (13.86 %) Support Analyst 4 14 (13.86 %) Desktop Support 5 11 (10.89 %) Support Engineer 5 11 (10.89 %) Administrator 6 10 (9.901 %) Network Consultant 6 10 (9.901 %) Consultant 6 10 (9.901 %) Network Engineer 6 10 (9.901 %) Cisco Consultant 7 9 (8.911 %) Support Technician 8 8 (7.921 %) Service Analyst 8 8 (7.921 %) Network Analyst 8 8 (7.921 %) Network Support Analyst 8 8 (7.921 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 8 8 (7.921 %) Service Desk Analyst 8 8 (7.921 %) IT Support Technician 9 6 (5.941 %) Desktop Engineer 9 6 (5.941 %) Desktop Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 6 (5.941 %) Clustering 2 4 (3.960 %) AS400 2 4 (3.960 %) Mainframe 3 3 (2.970 %) Firmware 3 3 (2.970 %) German Language 4 2 (1.980 %) PDA 5 1 (0.990 %) PKI 5 1 (0.990 %) EPoS 5 1 (0.990 %) Management Information System 5 1 (0.990 %) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems 1 47 (46.53 %) Windows 2 30 (29.70 %) Windows XP 3 12 (11.88 %) Windows Server 2003 4 11 (10.89 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 6 (5.941 %) Solaris 6 5 (4.950 %) Windows 2000 7 4 (3.960 %) Windows NT 8 3 (2.970 %) NetWare 9 2 (1.980 %) Windows Mobile 9 2 (1.980 %) UNIX 10 1 (0.990 %) HPUX	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (9.901 %) ITIL 1 10 (9.901 %) Configuration Management 1 10 (9.901 %) Risk Management 1 10 (9.901 %) Network Planning 2 4 (3.960 %) E-Commerce 3 3 (2.970 %) Security Cleared 3 3 (2.970 %) Incident Management 3 3 (2.970 %) Change Management 4 2 (1.980 %) Disaster Recovery 4 2 (1.980 %) Security Management 4 2 (1.980 %) Project Management 4 2 (1.980 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (0.990 %) Programme Management 5 1 (0.990 %) Asset Management 5 1 (0.990 %) Network Design 5 1 (0.990 %) SC Cleared
Programming Languages 1 6 (5.941 %) Java 1 6 (5.941 %) Perl 1 6 (5.941 %) VBScript 1 6 (5.941 %) VB 1 6 (5.941 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 15 (14.85 %) Microsoft Certification 2 12 (11.88 %) MCSE 3 8 (7.921 %) MCSA 4 5 (4.950 %) MCP 5 2 (1.980 %) Cisco Certification 5 2 (1.980 %) CNE 5 2 (1.980 %) Novell Certification 6 1 (0.990 %) CCSA 6 1 (0.990 %) Degree 6 1 (0.990 %) CCNP 6 1 (0.990 %) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (4.950 %) SLA	System Software 1 22 (21.78 %) Active Directory 2 6 (5.941 %) VMware ESX 3 2 (1.980 %) Novell eDirectory 4 1 (0.990 %) Terminal Server
Systems Management 1 6 (5.941 %) WSUS 2 1 (0.990 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 36 (35.64 %) Cisco 2 22 (21.78 %) CheckPoint 3 20 (19.80 %) Microsoft 4 18 (17.82 %) Citrix 5 15 (14.85 %) HP 6 12 (11.88 %) Lotus 7 6 (5.941 %) Nokia 7 6 (5.941 %) Sun 7 6 (5.941 %) IBM 7 6 (5.941 %) VMware 8 4 (3.960 %) Novell 9 3 (2.970 %) Juniper 9 3 (2.970 %) Compaq 9 3 (2.970 %) Nortel 10 2 (1.980 %) Intel 11 1 (0.990 %) Dell 11 1 (0.990 %) Symantec 11 1 (0.990 %) Toshiba 11 1 (0.990 %) Avaya 11 1 (0.990 %) Altiris