The first table below looks at the demand for VLAN 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 VLAN over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual LAN (VLAN)
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing VLAN 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 0.699% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.651% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £295 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £293 £325 £270
% change year-on-year
-10.00% +20.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £37.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-12.16% +85.00%
All Communications & Networking
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
43 67 52
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 15.03% 18.56% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 39 14
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 £271 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £433
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
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 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
VLAN
Wiltshire

VLAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon VLAN Jobs Demand Trend

VLAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

Swindon VLAN Daily Rate Trend

VLAN
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VLAN across the Swindon region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Swindon VLAN Daily Rate Histogram

VLAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Swindon VLAN Hourly Rate Trend

VLAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon region citing VLAN 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 VLAN.

1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Dell
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) MS Office
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (50.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (25.00%) vSphere
3 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) ProCurve
3 1 (25.00%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) XenApp
3 1 (25.00%) XenDesktop
3 1 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Backup Exec
3 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
3 1 (25.00%) WLAN
3 1 (25.00%) NFS
3 1 (25.00%) Windows XP
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix

VLAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon region citing VLAN 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 VLAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Office
1 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (50.00%) MS Visio
1 2 (50.00%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (25.00%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) WLAN
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Author
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Author
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix Server Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Support Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Support
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (25.00%) Windows XP
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) vSphere
2 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) XenApp
2 1 (25.00%) XenDesktop
2 1 (25.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Dell
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) ProCurve
3 1 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) Symantec
3 1 (25.00%) HP
Swindon, South West
XenDesktop Infrastructure / Server Engineer / vSphere / Citrix Xenapp Swindon, £450 per dayA XenDesktop Infrastructure Engineer /vSphere / Citrix Xenapp Engineer is required on an initial 6-Month contract by a...
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Rate: GBP450 per day
Posted: 3 May 2013