Network Analyst Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Network Analyst role in IT contracts across the UK compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Network Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Bromley Cardiff Cheltenham City of London Coventry Docklands, London East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Gloucestershire Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Hull Ipswich Kent Leeds London Manchester North East North West Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swindon UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	383	426
Rank change on same period last year	+43
Matching contract IT job ads	157	231
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.252 %	0.248 %
As % of the category below	0.286 %	0.272 %
Daily rates quoted	64	70
Average minimum daily rate	£333	£330
Average daily rate	£349	£340
% change on same period last year	+2.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£351
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£281
% change on same period last year	+15.17 %
Hourly rates quoted	32	54
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.05	£29.46
Average hourly rate	£26.84	£31.82
% change on same period last year	-15.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.63	£34.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.21	£31.13
% change on same period last year	-9.39 %
Job Titles UK
Matching contract IT job ads	54924	84848
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	88.25 %	91.12 %
Daily rates quoted	17215	25391
Average minimum daily rate	£363	£386
Average daily rate	£388	£410
% change on same period last year	-5.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£414	£434
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	5300	7586
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.03	£23.19
Average hourly rate	£23.48	£24.74
% change on same period last year	-5.10 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.92	£26.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.10	£24.04
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Network Analyst within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Network Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Network Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

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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 Network Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 2 December 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
England	+31	146	£353	+2.32 %
London	+68	81	£361	+0.02 %
City of London	+21	28	£334	-1.20 %
South East	+37	18	£395	+30.93 %
West Midlands	+15	18	£364	-
Yorkshire	+41	16	£322	+16.66 %
Hampshire	+25	11	£475	-
Scotland	+33	9	£313	+18.48 %
Warwick	0	8	£394	-
West Yorkshire	+9	8	£350	+26.69 %
Warwickshire	+8	8	£394	-
South Yorkshire	-	6	£315	-
South West	+29	6	£293	-
East of England	+32	6	£150	-14.28 %
Sheffield	-	5	£316	-
Aberdeen	+2	5	-	-
Birmingham	-	5	£290	-
Edinburgh	-	4	£313	-
Hertfordshire	+26	4	-	-
Stevenage	-	3	-	-
Coventry	+5	3	-	-
Leeds	-1	3	-	-
Southampton	+9	2	-	-
Manchester	-1	2	-	-
Portsmouth	-	2	-	-
Hull	-	2	-	-
Bristol	-	2	£300	-
Bromley	-	2	-	-
Cardiff	-	2	£215	-
Cheltenham	-	2	£290	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Network Analyst in their job title 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 with Network Analyst in their job title.

1 211 (62.43 %) Cisco 2 173 (51.18 %) Firewall 3 123 (36.39 %) Cisco Certification 4 116 (34.32 %) LAN 5 103 (30.47 %) WAN 6 97 (28.70 %) CheckPoint 7 86 (25.44 %) CCNA 8 77 (22.78 %) Windows 9 75 (22.19 %) TCP/IP 10 64 (18.93 %) CCNP 11 61 (18.05 %) BGP 12 57 (16.86 %) Microsoft 13 54 (15.98 %) VPN 14 51 (15.09 %) Active Directory 15 49 (14.50 %) OSPF

16 45 (13.31 %) Banking 16 45 (13.31 %) Cisco PIX 17 43 (12.72 %) Juniper 18 41 (12.13 %) Windows Server 2003 19 40 (11.83 %) Network Security 20 39 (11.54 %) DNS 21 36 (10.65 %) MPLS 22 34 (10.06 %) Finance 23 33 (9.763 %) Nokia 23 33 (9.763 %) VoIP 24 32 (9.467 %) DHCP 25 31 (9.172 %) CCIE 25 31 (9.172 %) EIGRP 26 29 (8.580 %) HP 27 27 (7.988 %) OpenView

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Network Analyst in their job title 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 with Network Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (0.888 %) CSS 2 1 (0.296 %) WAP 2 1 (0.296 %) LAMP 2 1 (0.296 %) SAP Basis 2 1 (0.296 %) .NET 2 1 (0.296 %) ASP 2 1 (0.296 %) COM	Application Platforms 1 25 (7.396 %) MS Exchange 2 13 (3.846 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 7 (2.071 %) IIS 4 3 (0.888 %) SharePoint 4 3 (0.888 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 2 (0.592 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 1 (0.296 %) SharePoint Server 2007 6 1 (0.296 %) JBoss 6 1 (0.296 %) Apache 6 1 (0.296 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 6 1 (0.296 %) CMS 6 1 (0.296 %) Exchange Server 5.5
Applications 1 10 (2.959 %) MS Office 2 5 (1.479 %) MS Excel 3 2 (0.592 %) MS Visio 3 2 (0.592 %) Spreadsheet 4 1 (0.296 %) MS Project 4 1 (0.296 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 1 (0.296 %) Line 50
Communications & Networking 1 173 (51.18 %) Firewall 2 116 (34.32 %) LAN 3 103 (30.47 %) WAN 4 75 (22.19 %) TCP/IP 5 61 (18.05 %) BGP 6 54 (15.98 %) VPN 7 49 (14.50 %) OSPF 8 45 (13.31 %) Cisco PIX 9 40 (11.83 %) Network Security 10 39 (11.54 %) DNS 11 36 (10.65 %) MPLS 12 33 (9.763 %) VoIP 13 32 (9.467 %) DHCP 14 31 (9.172 %) EIGRP 15 27 (7.988 %) VLAN 16 19 (5.621 %) Ethernet 17 16 (4.734 %) Internet 18 13 (3.846 %) SSL 19 12 (3.550 %) RIP 19 12 (3.550 %) ATM	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (2.959 %) SQL Server 2 2 (0.592 %) PostgreSQL 3 1 (0.296 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (0.296 %) DB2 3 1 (0.296 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 1 (0.296 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 3 (0.888 %) MSI	General 1 45 (13.31 %) Banking 2 34 (10.06 %) Finance 3 26 (7.692 %) Investment Banking 4 19 (5.621 %) Telecoms 5 9 (2.663 %) Government 6 7 (2.071 %) Law 7 5 (1.479 %) Education 7 5 (1.479 %) Retail 8 4 (1.183 %) Billing 8 4 (1.183 %) Insurance 8 4 (1.183 %) Financial Institution 8 4 (1.183 %) Legal 8 4 (1.183 %) Health 9 2 (0.592 %) Retail Banking 10 1 (0.296 %) Auditing 10 1 (0.296 %) Local Government 10 1 (0.296 %) Advertising
Miscellaneous 1 17 (5.030 %) Video Conferencing 2 9 (2.663 %) NHS 3 6 (1.775 %) Fat Client 3 6 (1.775 %) Thin Client 4 4 (1.183 %) e-Health 5 3 (0.888 %) Statistics 6 2 (0.592 %) Informatics 6 2 (0.592 %) Blackberry 7 1 (0.296 %) Management Information System 7 1 (0.296 %) Clustering 7 1 (0.296 %) IVR 7 1 (0.296 %) Tandem 7 1 (0.296 %) Cryptography 7 1 (0.296 %) SecurID 7 1 (0.296 %) PKI 7 1 (0.296 %) PDA 7 1 (0.296 %) Derivative 7 1 (0.296 %) CMDB 7 1 (0.296 %) Firmware 7 1 (0.296 %) Data Extraction	Operating Systems 1 77 (22.78 %) Windows 2 41 (12.13 %) Windows Server 2003 3 25 (7.396 %) Linux 4 22 (6.509 %) Windows XP 5 21 (6.213 %) UNIX 6 18 (5.325 %) Windows 2000 7 12 (3.550 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 5 (1.479 %) Windows NT 9 3 (0.888 %) VMS 9 3 (0.888 %) HPUX 9 3 (0.888 %) Solaris 9 3 (0.888 %) Windows Vista 10 1 (0.296 %) AIX 10 1 (0.296 %) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies 1 20 (5.917 %) Network Design 2 18 (5.325 %) ITIL 3 17 (5.030 %) Security Cleared 4 15 (4.438 %) SC Cleared 5 13 (3.846 %) Load Balancing 5 13 (3.846 %) Project Management 6 12 (3.550 %) E-Commerce 7 10 (2.959 %) Migration 8 5 (1.479 %) PRINCE2 9 4 (1.183 %) Change Management 9 4 (1.183 %) Disaster Recovery 9 4 (1.183 %) Incident Management 10 3 (0.888 %) Supplier Management 10 3 (0.888 %) ITSM 10 3 (0.888 %) Service Delivery 11 2 (0.592 %) Security Management 11 2 (0.592 %) Risk Management 11 2 (0.592 %) Data Analysis 11 2 (0.592 %) Operations Management 11 2 (0.592 %) Time Management	Programming Languages 1 8 (2.367 %) SQL 2 6 (1.775 %) C 3 3 (0.888 %) Perl 4 2 (0.592 %) VB 5 1 (0.296 %) VBA 5 1 (0.296 %) Pascal 5 1 (0.296 %) C# 5 1 (0.296 %) C++ 5 1 (0.296 %) Java 5 1 (0.296 %) PHP
Qualifications 1 123 (36.39 %) Cisco Certification 2 86 (25.44 %) CCNA 3 64 (18.93 %) CCNP 4 31 (9.172 %) CCIE 5 19 (5.621 %) Microsoft Certification 6 15 (4.438 %) MCSE 7 10 (2.959 %) CCSE 7 10 (2.959 %) Degree 8 8 (2.367 %) CCDP 9 7 (2.071 %) MCP 9 7 (2.071 %) CCSA 10 6 (1.775 %) CISSP 11 4 (1.183 %) CCIP 11 4 (1.183 %) CCDA 12 3 (0.888 %) CCA 12 3 (0.888 %) Citrix Certification 13 2 (0.592 %) CCEA 13 2 (0.592 %) CCSP 13 2 (0.592 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 13 2 (0.592 %) Novell Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (1.183 %) SLA 2 2 (0.592 %) BS7799 3 1 (0.296 %) ISO27001 3 1 (0.296 %) COBIT 3 1 (0.296 %) ISO17799
System Software 1 51 (15.09 %) Active Directory 2 11 (3.254 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 6 (1.775 %) VMware ESX 4 5 (1.479 %) ISA Server 4 5 (1.479 %) Novell eDirectory 5 3 (0.888 %) NetBackup 6 2 (0.592 %) VMware Server 6 2 (0.592 %) Terminal Services 6 2 (0.592 %) Samba 7 1 (0.296 %) Snort 7 1 (0.296 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 7 1 (0.296 %) BorderManager 7 1 (0.296 %) Terminal Server	Systems Management 1 27 (7.988 %) OpenView 2 11 (3.254 %) CiscoWorks 3 9 (2.663 %) Tivoli 4 6 (1.775 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 5 5 (1.479 %) Tivoli NetView 6 4 (1.183 %) Netcool 7 3 (0.888 %) Unicenter 7 3 (0.888 %) NNM 8 2 (0.592 %) OVOW 8 2 (0.592 %) Nagios 8 2 (0.592 %) ARCserve 8 2 (0.592 %) OVSD 8 2 (0.592 %) Legato 8 2 (0.592 %) MOM 9 1 (0.296 %) BMC PATROL 9 1 (0.296 %) WSUS 9 1 (0.296 %) OVPA
Vendors 1 211 (62.43 %) Cisco 2 97 (28.70 %) CheckPoint 3 57 (16.86 %) Microsoft 4 43 (12.72 %) Juniper 5 33 (9.763 %) Nokia 6 29 (8.580 %) HP 7 21 (6.213 %) Citrix 8 20 (5.917 %) OPNET 9 19 (5.621 %) VMware 10 16 (4.734 %) NetScout 11 15 (4.438 %) Novell 12 14 (4.142 %) Blue Coat 13 10 (2.959 %) Nortel 14 7 (2.071 %) BT 15 6 (1.775 %) Avaya 16 5 (1.479 %) CA 16 5 (1.479 %) McAfee Security 16 5 (1.479 %) Lucent 16 5 (1.479 %) Alcatel 17 4 (1.183 %) EMC