Surrey Network Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Network Engineer role in IT contracts within the Surrey region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Network Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 8 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Network Engineer
Location Aberdeen Aldershot Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely England Essex Exeter Farnborough Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Greenford Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hull Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Redditch Redhill Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	75	50
Rank change on same period last year	-25
Matching contract IT job ads	19	62
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.026 %	0.061 %
As % of the category below	1.108 %	2.749 %
Daily rates quoted	3	27
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£345
Average daily rate	£308	£355
% change on same period last year	-13.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£317	£365
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£317
% change on same period last year	+3.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.50	£19.50
Average hourly rate	£31.00	£20.83
% change on same period last year	+48.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.50	£22.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.62	£25.97
% change on same period last year	-5.21 %
Job Titles Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	1715	2255
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.325 %	2.233 %
Daily rates quoted	461	639
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£331
Average daily rate	£335	£352
% change on same period last year	-4.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£355	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£356
% change on same period last year	-0.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	231	346
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.85	£18.40
Average hourly rate	£22.27	£19.68
% change on same period last year	+13.18 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.69	£20.96
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.78	£25.65
% change on same period last year	-7.28 %
Network Engineer 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Network Engineer across the Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Network Engineer across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 8 September 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Engineer within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 8 September 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	+15	3	£313	-
Leatherhead	-5	1	-	-
Weybridge	-	1	£300	-
Redhill	+14	1	-	-

Network Engineer South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region that cited Network Engineer in their job title 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 with Network Engineer in their job title.

1 18 (29.03 %) Cisco 2 16 (25.81 %) Firewall 3 14 (22.58 %) Telecoms 3 14 (22.58 %) Windows 4 13 (20.97 %) WAN 4 13 (20.97 %) Active Directory 5 12 (19.35 %) Cisco Certification 6 11 (17.74 %) CCNA 6 11 (17.74 %) Microsoft 6 11 (17.74 %) LAN 6 11 (17.74 %) Windows Server 2003 7 10 (16.13 %) SMS 8 9 (14.52 %) MS Exchange 8 9 (14.52 %) Network Security 9 7 (11.29 %) VLAN

9 7 (11.29 %) VoIP 9 7 (11.29 %) Citrix 10 6 (9.677 %) VPN 10 6 (9.677 %) Windows 2000 Server 10 6 (9.677 %) Ericsson 10 6 (9.677 %) Migration 11 5 (8.065 %) Cisco PIX 11 5 (8.065 %) CCNP 11 5 (8.065 %) E-Commerce 12 4 (6.452 %) Windows 2000 12 4 (6.452 %) CCIP 12 4 (6.452 %) DNS 12 4 (6.452 %) GGSN 12 4 (6.452 %) SGSN 12 4 (6.452 %) SS7

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region that cited Network Engineer in their job title 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 with Network Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 9 (14.52 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (4.839 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (3.226 %) Exchange Server 2007	Communications & Networking 1 16 (25.81 %) Firewall 2 13 (20.97 %) WAN 3 11 (17.74 %) LAN 4 10 (16.13 %) SMS 5 9 (14.52 %) Network Security 6 7 (11.29 %) VLAN 6 7 (11.29 %) VoIP 7 6 (9.677 %) VPN 8 5 (8.065 %) Cisco PIX 9 4 (6.452 %) GGSN 9 4 (6.452 %) SGSN 9 4 (6.452 %) DNS 9 4 (6.452 %) SS7 10 3 (4.839 %) TCP/IP 10 3 (4.839 %) Internet 10 3 (4.839 %) DHCP 10 3 (4.839 %) Cisco ASA 10 3 (4.839 %) Wireless 11 2 (3.226 %) WLAN 12 1 (1.613 %) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (1.613 %) SQL Server 1 1 (1.613 %) SQL Server 2005	General 1 14 (22.58 %) Telecoms 2 3 (4.839 %) Health 3 1 (1.613 %) Banking 3 1 (1.613 %) Investment Banking 3 1 (1.613 %) Finance
Miscellaneous 1 2 (3.226 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 14 (22.58 %) Windows 2 11 (17.74 %) Windows Server 2003 3 6 (9.677 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 4 (6.452 %) Windows 2000 5 3 (4.839 %) Windows NT 5 3 (4.839 %) Windows XP 6 1 (1.613 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (9.677 %) Migration 2 5 (8.065 %) E-Commerce 3 3 (4.839 %) Service Delivery 3 3 (4.839 %) Security Management 4 2 (3.226 %) Network Design 5 1 (1.613 %) Problem Management 5 1 (1.613 %) Time Management 5 1 (1.613 %) Change Management	Programming Languages 1 1 (1.613 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 12 (19.35 %) Cisco Certification 2 11 (17.74 %) CCNA 3 5 (8.065 %) CCNP 4 4 (6.452 %) CCIP 5 2 (3.226 %) MCSE 5 2 (3.226 %) Microsoft Certification 5 2 (3.226 %) CCSA 6 1 (1.613 %) CNA 6 1 (1.613 %) CNE 6 1 (1.613 %) Novell Certification 6 1 (1.613 %) MCSA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (3.226 %) SLA
System Software 1 13 (20.97 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 1 (1.613 %) CiscoWorks
Vendors 1 18 (29.03 %) Cisco 2 11 (17.74 %) Microsoft 3 7 (11.29 %) Citrix 4 6 (9.677 %) Ericsson 5 3 (4.839 %) Novell 5 3 (4.839 %) CheckPoint 6 1 (1.613 %) VMware 6 1 (1.613 %) Juniper 6 1 (1.613 %) Intel