The first table below looks at the demand for LAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LAN 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 Swindon 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
Local Area Network (LAN)
Rank 26 34 23
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -11
Contract jobs citing LAN 13 4 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 4.452% 1.105% 4.348%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.89% 5.970% 24.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 5
Average daily rate £440 £425 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.52% +10.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £405 £314
10% offered a daily rate of more than £442 £445 £415
UK excluding London average daily rate £308 £310 £325
% change year-on-year
-0.80% -4.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £33.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £20.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-20.00% -4.76%
All Communications & Networking
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
45 67 58
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 15.41% 18.51% 18.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 38 16
Average daily rate £440 £400 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +3.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £269 £297
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £450 £433
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 7
Average hourly rate £26.50 £32.50 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.46% +12.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.70 £32.50 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.30 £32.50 £35.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
LAN
Wiltshire

LAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon LAN Jobs Demand Trend

LAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

Swindon LAN Daily Rate Trend

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Swindon LAN Hourly Rate Trend

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 21 (84.00%) WAN
2 18 (72.00%) VPN
3 17 (68.00%) Oracle
4 16 (64.00%) SAN
4 16 (64.00%) VMware
4 16 (64.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (60.00%) NAS
6 11 (44.00%) ITIL
6 11 (44.00%) Linux
6 11 (44.00%) Information Assurance
7 10 (40.00%) Oracle Linux
8 9 (36.00%) Oracle EBS R12
8 9 (36.00%) Oracle RAC
8 9 (36.00%) Oracle 11i
8 9 (36.00%) Oracle 10g
8 9 (36.00%) Oracle EBS
9 8 (32.00%) Middleware
9 8 (32.00%) Oracle 10gAS
9 8 (32.00%) BPEL
9 8 (32.00%) Oracle BI EE
9 8 (32.00%) Oracle Application Server
10 7 (28.00%) Informatica
10 7 (28.00%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (28.00%) ETL
11 6 (24.00%) PRINCE2
11 6 (24.00%) Configuration Management
11 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
12 5 (20.00%) Release Management
12 5 (20.00%) Change Management
12 5 (20.00%) ERP

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 8 (32.00%) Middleware
2 4 (16.00%) WebCenter
Application Platforms
1 8 (32.00%) Oracle 10gAS
1 8 (32.00%) Oracle Application Server
Business Applications
1 9 (36.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 9 (36.00%) Oracle 11i
1 9 (36.00%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (12.00%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 21 (84.00%) WAN
2 18 (72.00%) VPN
3 16 (64.00%) SAN
4 15 (60.00%) NAS
5 4 (16.00%) Firewall
6 1 (4.000%) Network Security
6 1 (4.000%) Unified Communications
6 1 (4.000%) WAAS
6 1 (4.000%) ATM
6 1 (4.000%) DNS
6 1 (4.000%) SSL
6 1 (4.000%) DHCP
6 1 (4.000%) Ethernet
6 1 (4.000%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (36.00%) Oracle 10g
2 8 (32.00%) Oracle BI EE
3 7 (28.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (8.000%) Oracle 11g
General
1 4 (16.00%) Finance
2 1 (4.000%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (56.00%) Team Leader
1 14 (56.00%) Infrastructure Team Leader
2 3 (12.00%) Information Assurance Leader
3 2 (8.000%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (8.000%) Test Manager
4 1 (4.000%) Voice Specialist
4 1 (4.000%) Designer
4 1 (4.000%) Consultant
4 1 (4.000%) Network Engineer
4 1 (4.000%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (4.000%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.000%) Programme Manager
4 1 (4.000%) Desktop Support
4 1 (4.000%) Technical Manager
4 1 (4.000%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.000%) UNIX Engineer
4 1 (4.000%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (4.000%) Oracle Team Leader
4 1 (4.000%) Network Design Engineer
4 1 (4.000%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (44.00%) Linux
2 10 (40.00%) Oracle Linux
3 3 (12.00%) UNIX
4 2 (8.000%) Windows
4 2 (8.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (4.000%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) ITIL
1 11 (44.00%) Information Assurance
2 8 (32.00%) BPEL
3 7 (28.00%) ETL
4 6 (24.00%) PRINCE2
4 6 (24.00%) Configuration Management
5 5 (20.00%) Release Management
5 5 (20.00%) Change Management
5 5 (20.00%) ERP
6 2 (8.000%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (8.000%) Performance Management
6 2 (8.000%) Technical Architecture
7 1 (4.000%) Load Balancing
7 1 (4.000%) Network Design
7 1 (4.000%) Service Management
7 1 (4.000%) Service Delivery
7 1 (4.000%) Project Management
7 1 (4.000%) Scrum
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (8.000%) CCNP
5 1 (4.000%) Degree
5 1 (4.000%) MCITP
5 1 (4.000%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.000%) MCP
System Software
1 16 (64.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (36.00%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (4.000%) ProxySG
3 1 (4.000%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.000%) WSUS
1 1 (4.000%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 17 (68.00%) Oracle
2 16 (64.00%) VMware
3 7 (28.00%) Informatica
4 5 (20.00%) Siebel
4 5 (20.00%) Hyperion
4 5 (20.00%) Cisco
5 4 (16.00%) CheckPoint
6 3 (12.00%) Juniper
7 2 (8.000%) Nokia
7 2 (8.000%) Red Hat
7 2 (8.000%) Dell
8 1 (4.000%) 3Com
8 1 (4.000%) Blue Coat
8 1 (4.000%) HP
8 1 (4.000%) Microsoft
8 1 (4.000%) NetApp
8 1 (4.000%) CosmoCom
Swindon, Wiltshire
A good understanding of WAN technologies including Ethernet. * Previous experience in IP networking and routing including OSPF, ISIS and BGP. * Previous experience of VPNs using MPLS and IPSec. *...
Experis IT
Rate: Market Rates
Posted: 21 May 2013