The first table below looks at the demand for WAN 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 WAN over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 27 35 25
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -10
Contract jobs citing WAN 13 6 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 4.452% 1.644% 3.797%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.89% 8.824% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 4
Average daily rate £440 £438 £386
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.57% +13.26%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £21.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-25.58% +2.38%
All Communications & Networking
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
45 68 56
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 15.41% 18.63% 17.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 39 15
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 £350 £271 £294
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £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 £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
WAN
Wiltshire

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon WAN Jobs Demand Trend

WAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

Swindon WAN Daily Rate Trend

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Swindon WAN Hourly Rate Trend

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon region citing WAN 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.

1 21 (87.50%) LAN
2 20 (83.33%) VPN
3 18 (75.00%) Oracle
4 17 (70.83%) SAN
4 17 (70.83%) VMware
4 17 (70.83%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (66.67%) NAS
6 12 (50.00%) Information Assurance
7 11 (45.83%) ITIL
8 10 (41.67%) Linux
8 10 (41.67%) Oracle Linux
9 9 (37.50%) Oracle EBS R12
9 9 (37.50%) Oracle RAC
9 9 (37.50%) Oracle 11i
9 9 (37.50%) Oracle 10g
9 9 (37.50%) Oracle EBS
10 8 (33.33%) Middleware
10 8 (33.33%) Oracle 10gAS
10 8 (33.33%) Oracle BI EE
10 8 (33.33%) BPEL
10 8 (33.33%) Oracle Application Server
11 7 (29.17%) Informatica
11 7 (29.17%) Configuration Management
11 7 (29.17%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (29.17%) ETL
12 6 (25.00%) PRINCE2
12 6 (25.00%) Change Management
12 6 (25.00%) Security Cleared
12 6 (25.00%) Release Management
13 5 (20.83%) Management Information System

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon region citing WAN 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (33.33%) Middleware
2 4 (16.67%) WebCenter
Application Platforms
1 8 (33.33%) Oracle 10gAS
1 8 (33.33%) Oracle Application Server
Business Applications
1 9 (37.50%) Oracle EBS R12
1 9 (37.50%) Oracle 11i
1 9 (37.50%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (12.50%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 21 (87.50%) LAN
2 20 (83.33%) VPN
3 17 (70.83%) SAN
4 16 (66.67%) NAS
5 4 (16.67%) Firewall
6 3 (12.50%) ATM
7 2 (8.333%) Ethernet
7 2 (8.333%) IPv6
7 2 (8.333%) IPsec
7 2 (8.333%) MPLS
7 2 (8.333%) OSPF
7 2 (8.333%) BGP
8 1 (4.167%) Unified Communications
8 1 (4.167%) IPv4
8 1 (4.167%) TCP/IP
8 1 (4.167%) DNS
8 1 (4.167%) SSL
8 1 (4.167%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (37.50%) Oracle 10g
2 8 (33.33%) Oracle BI EE
3 7 (29.17%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (8.333%) Oracle 11g
General
1 4 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (58.33%) Infrastructure Team Leader
1 14 (58.33%) Team Leader
2 4 (16.67%) Information Assurance Leader
3 2 (8.333%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (8.333%) Network Designer
3 2 (8.333%) Test Manager
3 2 (8.333%) Designer
4 1 (4.167%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (4.167%) Oracle Team Leader
4 1 (4.167%) Voice Specialist
4 1 (4.167%) Consultant
4 1 (4.167%) Desktop Support
4 1 (4.167%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.167%) Technical Manager
4 1 (4.167%) UNIX Engineer
4 1 (4.167%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (4.167%) Implementation Consultant
4 1 (4.167%) Technical Team Leader
4 1 (4.167%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (4.167%) Desktop Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.333%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 10 (41.67%) Linux
1 10 (41.67%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (8.333%) UNIX
2 2 (8.333%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.167%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (4.167%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Information Assurance
2 11 (45.83%) ITIL
3 8 (33.33%) BPEL
4 7 (29.17%) Configuration Management
4 7 (29.17%) ETL
5 6 (25.00%) PRINCE2
5 6 (25.00%) Change Management
5 6 (25.00%) Release Management
6 5 (20.83%) ERP
7 2 (8.333%) Network Design
7 2 (8.333%) Data Analysis
7 2 (8.333%) Capacity Planning
8 1 (4.167%) Technical Architecture
8 1 (4.167%) Performance Management
8 1 (4.167%) Project Management
8 1 (4.167%) Scrum
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (16.67%) CCNP
3 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.333%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.333%) JNCIS
5 1 (4.167%) MCITP
5 1 (4.167%) Degree
5 1 (4.167%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.167%) CCDP
5 1 (4.167%) MCP
System Software
1 17 (70.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (37.50%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (4.167%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.167%) WSUS
1 1 (4.167%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 18 (75.00%) Oracle
2 17 (70.83%) VMware
3 7 (29.17%) Informatica
4 5 (20.83%) Siebel
4 5 (20.83%) Cisco
4 5 (20.83%) Hyperion
4 5 (20.83%) Juniper
5 2 (8.333%) Dell
5 2 (8.333%) Nokia
5 2 (8.333%) Red Hat
5 2 (8.333%) CheckPoint
6 1 (4.167%) NetApp
6 1 (4.167%) CosmoCom
6 1 (4.167%) HP
6 1 (4.167%) Microsoft
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Rate: Market Rates
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