Tyne and Wear LAN Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Local Area Network (LAN) skills within the Tyne and Wear region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited LAN over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Local Area Network (LAN)
Location Aberdeen Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hull Huntingdon Ilford Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Redcar Redditch Romford Rugby Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	28
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	6	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	11.11 %	25.71 %
Daily rates quoted	2	4
Average minimum daily rate	£238	£248
Average daily rate	£245	£250
% change on same period last year	-1.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£253	£252
UK excluding London average daily rate	£342	£320
% change on same period last year	+7.04 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£20.00
Average hourly rate	-	£25.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.88	£21.80
% change on same period last year	+4.98 %
Communications & Networking Tyne and Wear
Matching contract IT job ads	54	70
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.077 %	0.072 %
Daily rates quoted	16	19
Average minimum daily rate	£270	£237
Average daily rate	£282	£243
% change on same period last year	+16.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£295	£248
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£336
% change on same period last year	+5.75 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.31	£19.63
Average hourly rate	£19.63	£22.13
% change on same period last year	-11.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.94	£24.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.34	£28.77
% change on same period last year	-4.98 %
LAN North 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.

LAN
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing LAN across the Tyne and Wear region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

LAN
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing LAN across the Tyne and Wear region.

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LAN across the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008.

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing LAN across the Tyne and Wear region.

LAN
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 15 October 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
Sunderland	+4	3	£245	-
Newcastle	0	2	-	-

LAN North East

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 17 (77.27 %) Cisco 2 14 (63.64 %) WAN 3 12 (54.55 %) Firewall 4 11 (50.00 %) VPN 5 8 (36.36 %) Cisco Certification 6 6 (27.27 %) VoIP 6 6 (27.27 %) TCP/IP 6 6 (27.27 %) Windows 7 5 (22.73 %) Nortel 7 5 (22.73 %) Change Management 7 5 (22.73 %) Wireless 8 4 (18.18 %) Telecoms 8 4 (18.18 %) SSL 8 4 (18.18 %) CheckPoint 8 4 (18.18 %) Windows Server 2003

8 4 (18.18 %) CCNP 8 4 (18.18 %) CCNA 8 4 (18.18 %) Load Balancing 8 4 (18.18 %) Windows 2000 Server 9 3 (13.64 %) Microsoft 9 3 (13.64 %) Internet 9 3 (13.64 %) Ethernet 9 3 (13.64 %) MPLS 9 3 (13.64 %) IPsec 10 2 (9.091 %) Frame Relay 10 2 (9.091 %) Finance 10 2 (9.091 %) Government 10 2 (9.091 %) OSPF 10 2 (9.091 %) BGP 10 2 (9.091 %) EIGRP

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 1 (4.545 %) WAP	Application Platforms 1 1 (4.545 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (4.545 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 1 (4.545 %) MS Office 1 1 (4.545 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 14 (63.64 %) WAN 2 12 (54.55 %) Firewall 3 11 (50.00 %) VPN 4 6 (27.27 %) VoIP 4 6 (27.27 %) TCP/IP 5 5 (22.73 %) Wireless 6 4 (18.18 %) SSL 7 3 (13.64 %) Internet 7 3 (13.64 %) IPsec 7 3 (13.64 %) MPLS 7 3 (13.64 %) Ethernet 8 2 (9.091 %) RIP 8 2 (9.091 %) ADSL 8 2 (9.091 %) GSM 8 2 (9.091 %) ISDN 8 2 (9.091 %) OSPF 8 2 (9.091 %) BGP 8 2 (9.091 %) EIGRP 8 2 (9.091 %) IGRP 8 2 (9.091 %) Frame Relay
General 1 4 (18.18 %) Telecoms 2 2 (9.091 %) Finance 2 2 (9.091 %) Government 2 2 (9.091 %) Banking 2 2 (9.091 %) Investment Banking 3 1 (4.545 %) Billing	Job Titles 1 6 (27.27 %) Cisco Support 2 5 (22.73 %) Network Support 3 4 (18.18 %) Support Engineer 3 4 (18.18 %) Network Engineer 3 4 (18.18 %) Field Engineer 4 3 (13.64 %) Cisco Engineer 4 3 (13.64 %) Network Specialist 5 2 (9.091 %) Project Engineer 5 2 (9.091 %) Implementation Engineer 5 2 (9.091 %) 3rd Line Support 5 2 (9.091 %) Senior Technical Analyst 5 2 (9.091 %) Cisco Network Engineer 5 2 (9.091 %) Senior Analyst 5 2 (9.091 %) Technical Analyst 5 2 (9.091 %) Analyst 6 1 (4.545 %) Project Manager 6 1 (4.545 %) Technical Project Manager 6 1 (4.545 %) Network Support Engineer 6 1 (4.545 %) Cisco Specialist 6 1 (4.545 %) Senior Support Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.545 %) IPTV	Operating Systems 1 6 (27.27 %) Windows 2 4 (18.18 %) Windows Server 2003 2 4 (18.18 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 1 (4.545 %) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (22.73 %) Change Management 2 4 (18.18 %) Load Balancing 3 2 (9.091 %) Problem Management 3 2 (9.091 %) Network Design 4 1 (4.545 %) Migration 4 1 (4.545 %) ITIL 4 1 (4.545 %) Business Intelligence	Qualifications 1 8 (36.36 %) Cisco Certification 2 4 (18.18 %) CCNP 2 4 (18.18 %) CCNA 3 2 (9.091 %) CCSE 3 2 (9.091 %) JNCIA 4 1 (4.545 %) Microsoft Certification 4 1 (4.545 %) MCSE 4 1 (4.545 %) CCIE
System Software 1 1 (4.545 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 1 (4.545 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 17 (77.27 %) Cisco 2 5 (22.73 %) Nortel 3 4 (18.18 %) CheckPoint 4 3 (13.64 %) Microsoft 5 2 (9.091 %) Juniper 5 2 (9.091 %) Nokia 6 1 (4.545 %) BT 6 1 (4.545 %) 3Com