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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for LAN skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LAN over the 3 months to 9 February 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category.

LinkLocal Area Network (LAN)
Location
3 months to
9 Feb 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank1208771
Rank change year-on-year
Down-33Down-16
Matching contract IT job ads5877821673
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK1.341 %1.700 %2.044 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category11.48 %11.66 %15.18 %
Daily rates quoted235201407
Average daily rate£325£325£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
--7.140 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£189£175£215
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£450£450£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£286£312£350
% change year-on-year
-8.120 %-10.98 %
Hourly rates quoted94139310
Average hourly rate£19.00£21.00£19.45
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.520 %+7.960 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.00£11.90£12.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£34.50£40.00£32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£18.75£19.25£18.50
% change year-on-year
-2.590 %+4.050 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryAll Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
5115670911021
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK11.68 %14.59 %13.46 %
Daily rates quoted187616232838
Average daily rate£350£340£365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.940 %-6.840 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£215£205£219
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£475£500£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£325£350
% change year-on-year
--7.140 %
Hourly rates quoted5008301498
Average hourly rate£21.00£23.25£25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.670 %-7.000 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.00£12.00£13.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£37.50£42.00£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£21.00£24.00£26.50
% change year-on-year
-12.50 %-9.430 %

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.

LAN
Demand Trend

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

LAN Demand Trend

LAN
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing LAN within the UK.

LAN Daily Rate Trend

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LAN within the UK over the 3 months to 9 February 2010.

LAN Daily Rate Histogram

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing LAN within the UK.

LAN Hourly Rate Trend

LAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LAN within the UK over the 3 months to 9 February 2010.

LAN Hourly Rate Histogram

LAN
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 9 February 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandDown-35558£325-
LondonDown-32267£375+7.14 %
South EastDown-3297£300-7.69 %
City of LondonDown-1783£375+15.38 %
South WestUp+1145£244-30.35 %
North WestUp+1538£263-
West MidlandsDown-132£358+27.67 %
YorkshireUp+1127£322-10.55 %
East of EnglandDown-2425£260-11.86 %
ManchesterUp+724£210-16.00 %
SurreyDown-324£300-7.69 %
BerkshireUp+1121£256+36.66 %
West YorkshireUp+1319£322-
LeedsUp+2317£322-
HertfordshireDown-617£150-49.15 %
HampshireDown-2116£313+4.16 %
KentDown-313£375+15.38 %
ReadingUp+911£450+80.00 %
DevonNo change011£238-47.22 %
East MidlandsDown-111£325-18.75 %
WiltshireUp+1110£369-4.83 %
GloucestershireUp+219£249-26.29 %
North EastUp+69£105-72.90 %
CheshireDown-29£263-
WorcestershireDown-29£375-
ScotlandDown-359£310+77.14 %
EdinburghDown-168£310-17.88 %
OxfordshireUp+127£263+22.09 %
ChesterUp+87£250-
BirminghamUp+37£500+88.67 %

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1837 (76.86 %)WAN
2441 (40.50 %)Cisco
3384 (35.26 %)Windows
4279 (25.62 %)Firewall
5248 (22.77 %)Cisco Certification
6205 (18.82 %)Active Directory
7204 (18.73 %)TCP/IP
8187 (17.17 %)Microsoft
9165 (15.15 %)Telecoms
10160 (14.69 %)VPN
11143 (13.13 %)Finance
12142 (13.04 %)Windows Server 2003
13140 (12.86 %)Security Cleared
14135 (12.40 %)CCNA
14135 (12.40 %)CCNP
15121 (11.11 %)MS Exchange
16118 (10.84 %)ITIL
17117 (10.74 %)VoIP
18115 (10.56 %)Wireless
19113 (10.38 %)Windows XP
20112 (10.28 %)DNS
21108 (9.917 %)UNIX
22107 (9.826 %)SAN
23106 (9.734 %)MS Office
24100 (9.183 %)CheckPoint
2594 (8.632 %)Banking
2692 (8.448 %)Citrix
2790 (8.264 %)Internet
2790 (8.264 %)Linux
2888 (8.081 %)Oracle

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
120 (1.837 %)XML
219 (1.745 %).NET
314 (1.286 %)Web Services
410 (0.918 %)HTML
58 (0.735 %)ASP.NET
58 (0.735 %)Middleware
66 (0.551 %)WebSphere
66 (0.551 %)ODBC
75 (0.459 %)AJAX
84 (0.367 %)Application Packaging
84 (0.367 %)CSS
84 (0.367 %)ASP
84 (0.367 %)SAP XI
93 (0.275 %)Flash
93 (0.275 %)Windows SharePoint Services
102 (0.184 %).NET Framework
102 (0.184 %)JSP
111 (0.092 %)XML Messaging
111 (0.092 %)ATL
111 (0.092 %)COM
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1121 (11.11 %)MS Exchange
255 (5.051 %)Exchange Server 2003
342 (3.857 %)SharePoint
438 (3.489 %)IIS
527 (2.479 %)Exchange Server 2007
625 (2.296 %)Lotus Notes
716 (1.469 %)Tomcat
815 (1.377 %)Apache
912 (1.102 %)Exchange Server 2000
108 (0.735 %)WebLogic
108 (0.735 %)Lotus Domino
108 (0.735 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
117 (0.643 %)GroupWise
125 (0.459 %)CMS
134 (0.367 %)SharePoint Server 2007
134 (0.367 %)Oracle Application Server
134 (0.367 %)WebSphere Application Server
143 (0.275 %)MQSeries
152 (0.184 %)BizTalk Server
152 (0.184 %)Commerce Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1106 (9.734 %)MS Office
264 (5.877 %)MS Excel
316 (1.469 %)MS Visio
411 (1.010 %)MS Project
59 (0.826 %)MS PowerPoint
62 (0.184 %)Photoshop
71 (0.092 %)ArcInfo
71 (0.092 %)Open Workbench
71 (0.092 %)CA Clarity
71 (0.092 %)Spreadsheet
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
17 (0.643 %)SAP SRM
24 (0.367 %)RMDS
33 (0.275 %)3000 Xtra
42 (0.184 %)Maximo
42 (0.184 %)SoftGrid
51 (0.092 %)Microsoft CRM
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1837 (76.86 %)WAN
2279 (25.62 %)Firewall
3204 (18.73 %)TCP/IP
4160 (14.69 %)VPN
5117 (10.74 %)VoIP
6115 (10.56 %)Wireless
7112 (10.28 %)DNS
8107 (9.826 %)SAN
990 (8.264 %)Internet
1087 (7.989 %)MPLS
1184 (7.713 %)DHCP
1271 (6.520 %)OSPF
1359 (5.418 %)BGP
1359 (5.418 %)VLAN
1445 (4.132 %)WLAN
1445 (4.132 %)IP Telephony
1445 (4.132 %)Cisco PIX
1544 (4.040 %)Cisco ASA
1640 (3.673 %)EIGRP
1737 (3.398 %)Network Security
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
169 (6.336 %)SQL Server
210 (0.918 %)SQL Server 2005
210 (0.918 %)MySQL
38 (0.735 %)Oracle 10g
38 (0.735 %)MS Access
47 (0.643 %)RDBMS
55 (0.459 %)Datawarehouse
64 (0.367 %)Oracle 8/8i
64 (0.367 %)BusinessObjects
73 (0.275 %)SQL Server 2000
73 (0.275 %)Crystal Reports
82 (0.184 %)SQL Server 2008
82 (0.184 %)SQL Server Integration Services
82 (0.184 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
91 (0.092 %)EDRMS
91 (0.092 %)MSDE
91 (0.092 %)SAP BW
91 (0.092 %)Oracle 9i
91 (0.092 %)Data Mining
91 (0.092 %)DTS
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
116 (1.469 %)ClearCase
22 (0.184 %)Atlassian Bamboo
22 (0.184 %)Visual Studio
31 (0.092 %)VSS/SourceSafe
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1165 (15.15 %)Telecoms
2143 (13.13 %)Finance
394 (8.632 %)Banking
488 (8.081 %)Government
550 (4.591 %)Investment Banking
620 (1.837 %)Education
719 (1.745 %)Retail
818 (1.653 %)Health
917 (1.561 %)Law
1014 (1.286 %)Financial Institution
1113 (1.194 %)Local Government
1212 (1.102 %)Insurance
1311 (1.010 %)Back Office
1410 (0.918 %)Military
159 (0.826 %)Legal
168 (0.735 %)Manufacturing
177 (0.643 %)Construction
186 (0.551 %)Home Office
195 (0.459 %)Police
204 (0.367 %)Front Office
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1192 (17.63 %)Analyst
2164 (15.06 %)Network Engineer
3110 (10.10 %)Architect
499 (9.091 %)Project Manager
581 (7.438 %)Consultant
678 (7.163 %)Support Engineer
754 (4.959 %)Network Analyst
850 (4.591 %)Support Analyst
947 (4.316 %)Network Support
1040 (3.673 %)Technical Architect
1139 (3.581 %)Administrator
1139 (3.581 %)Infrastructure Manager
1139 (3.581 %)Cisco Engineer
1234 (3.122 %)Infrastructure Architect
1234 (3.122 %)Network Architect
1332 (2.938 %)Infrastructure Analyst
1431 (2.847 %)Infrastructure Project Manager
1530 (2.755 %)Network Consultant
1628 (2.571 %)Systems Engineer
1727 (2.479 %)IT Support
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
129 (2.663 %)NHS
224 (2.204 %)Video Conferencing
323 (2.112 %)German Language
421 (1.928 %)Blackberry
518 (1.653 %)Clustering
616 (1.469 %)French Language
715 (1.377 %)PKI
812 (1.102 %)Statistics
812 (1.102 %)Danish Language
812 (1.102 %)Client/Server
911 (1.010 %)EMC Centera
911 (1.010 %)CLARiiON
1010 (0.918 %)Fat Client
1010 (0.918 %)Thin Client
119 (0.826 %)Firmware
119 (0.826 %)DTV
128 (0.735 %)Smart Meter
128 (0.735 %)Dutch Language
128 (0.735 %)Computer Science
137 (0.643 %)Replication
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1384 (35.26 %)Windows
2142 (13.04 %)Windows Server 2003
3113 (10.38 %)Windows XP
4108 (9.917 %)UNIX
590 (8.264 %)Linux
649 (4.500 %)Windows 2000
746 (4.224 %)Solaris
839 (3.581 %)Windows Server 2008
928 (2.571 %)Red Hat Linux
1027 (2.479 %)Windows 2000 Server
1027 (2.479 %)Windows Vista
1117 (1.561 %)AIX
1117 (1.561 %)HPUX
1212 (1.102 %)VMS
1310 (0.918 %)SUSE
148 (0.735 %)Windows NT
155 (0.459 %)Windows 7
164 (0.367 %)Mac OS X
173 (0.275 %)NetWare
181 (0.092 %)Windows CE
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1118 (10.84 %)ITIL
283 (7.622 %)Project Management
375 (6.887 %)Network Design
470 (6.428 %)PRINCE2
545 (4.132 %)Migration
631 (2.847 %)Service Delivery
729 (2.663 %)Change Management
827 (2.479 %)Network Architecture
924 (2.204 %)Service Management
924 (2.204 %)Disaster Recovery
1023 (2.112 %)Incident Management
1121 (1.928 %)Validation
1217 (1.561 %)UML
1217 (1.561 %)Load Balancing
1315 (1.377 %)CRM
1315 (1.377 %)Problem Management
1413 (1.194 %)Configuration Management
1413 (1.194 %)Technical Architecture
1512 (1.102 %)Stakeholder Management
1512 (1.102 %)Data Management
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
173 (6.703 %)SQL
250 (4.591 %)C
330 (2.755 %)Perl
418 (1.653 %)VB
512 (1.102 %)Python
611 (1.010 %)PHP
79 (0.826 %)Shell Script
79 (0.826 %)Java
88 (0.735 %)Bash shell
88 (0.735 %)C#
96 (0.551 %)AWK
104 (0.367 %)VBScript
113 (0.275 %)C++
113 (0.275 %)JavaScript
113 (0.275 %)Embedded C
122 (0.184 %)Korn
131 (0.092 %)VB6
131 (0.092 %)PL/SQL
131 (0.092 %)VB.NET
131 (0.092 %)VBA
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1248 (22.77 %)Cisco Certification
2140 (12.86 %)Security Cleared
3135 (12.40 %)CCNA
3135 (12.40 %)CCNP
483 (7.622 %)SC Cleared
569 (6.336 %)Microsoft Certification
653 (4.867 %)MCSE
748 (4.408 %)CCIE
844 (4.040 %)Degree
926 (2.388 %)DV Cleared
926 (2.388 %)MCP
1023 (2.112 %)CCDP
1118 (1.653 %)MCSA
1217 (1.561 %)CCVP
1313 (1.194 %)ITIL Certification
1411 (1.010 %)PRINCE2 Certification
158 (0.735 %)CCSA
158 (0.735 %)CCSE
167 (0.643 %)CCDA
167 (0.643 %)CCSP
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
146 (4.224 %)SLA
26 (0.551 %)QA
34 (0.367 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
42 (0.184 %)PCI DSS
51 (0.092 %)ISO9000
51 (0.092 %)GxP
51 (0.092 %)ISO27001
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1205 (18.82 %)Active Directory
237 (3.398 %)VMware Infrastructure
313 (1.194 %)VMware ESX
411 (1.010 %)Terminal Services
59 (0.826 %)Terminal Server
59 (0.826 %)Hyper-V
68 (0.735 %)ISA Server
68 (0.735 %)Backup Exec
76 (0.551 %)Citrix Presentation Server
76 (0.551 %)MetaFrame
85 (0.459 %)NetBackup
85 (0.459 %)Novell eDirectory
92 (0.184 %)XenApp
92 (0.184 %)Oracle RAC
92 (0.184 %)MSMQ
92 (0.184 %)VMware Workstation
101 (0.092 %)NetMail
101 (0.092 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
101 (0.092 %)Sendmail
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
128 (2.571 %)CiscoWorks
222 (2.020 %)OpenView
318 (1.653 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
412 (1.102 %)SCCM
412 (1.102 %)Cisco IPCC
59 (0.826 %)SCOM
67 (0.643 %)ZENworks
76 (0.551 %)ARCserve
85 (0.459 %)HP NNM
93 (0.275 %)Norton AntiVirus
93 (0.275 %)OpenView Configuration Management
93 (0.275 %)MOM
93 (0.275 %)Tivoli
93 (0.275 %)MSI
102 (0.184 %)McAfee ePO
102 (0.184 %)SolarWinds Orion
102 (0.184 %)WSUS
102 (0.184 %)ServiceCenter
102 (0.184 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
111 (0.092 %)DameWare
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1441 (40.50 %)Cisco
2187 (17.17 %)Microsoft
3100 (9.183 %)CheckPoint
492 (8.448 %)Citrix
588 (8.081 %)Oracle
588 (8.081 %)HP
678 (7.163 %)VMware
751 (4.683 %)Nokia
848 (4.408 %)Juniper
936 (3.306 %)SAP
1033 (3.030 %)Red Hat
1126 (2.388 %)Lotus
1222 (2.020 %)Blue Coat
1318 (1.653 %)ProCurve
1318 (1.653 %)Sybase
1318 (1.653 %)Dell
1416 (1.469 %)Remedy
1416 (1.469 %)Symantec
1515 (1.377 %)EMC
1515 (1.377 %)Avaya