The first table below looks at the demand for WAN Optimisation 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 WAN Optimisation 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 Processes & Methodologies 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
WAN Optimization
Rank 74 99 -
Rank change year-on-year
+25 -
Contract jobs citing WAN Optimisation 3 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 0.263% 0.061% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.365% 0.089% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £253 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £220 £450 £425
% change year-on-year
-51.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £25.00 -
All Processes & Methodologies
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
823 1121 1357
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 72.26% 68.10% 72.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 628 694
Average daily rate £415 £350 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.57% -15.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £525 £515
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 52 36
Average hourly rate £37.50 £31.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.04% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £16.50 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £55.12 £40.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
WAN Optimisation
South East

WAN Optimisation
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing WAN Optimisation across the Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Surrey WAN Optimisation Jobs Demand Trend

WAN Optimisation
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Surrey WAN Optimisation Hourly Rate Trend

WAN Optimisation
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN Optimisation within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 17 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 - 3 - -
WAN Optimisation
South East

WAN Optimisation
Top 15 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) WLAN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
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
2 2 (66.67%) XenApp

WAN Optimisation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) WLAN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
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
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