The first table below looks at the demand for Network Architecture skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Network Architecture over the 3 months to 24 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 Processes & Methodologies category.

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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Architecture
Rank 474 463 506
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +43
Contract jobs citing Network Architecture 55 121 78
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.119% 0.207% 0.128%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.167% 0.306% 0.189%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 51 15
Average daily rate £401 £400 £410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.31% -2.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £285 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £508 £500 £565
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £380 £401
% change year-on-year
-11.18% -5.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 10
Average hourly rate £37.25 £55.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-32.27% +175.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.05 £46.00 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.45 £55.00 £36.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.25 £55.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-32.27% +175.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
32941 39581 41270
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 71.01% 67.87% 67.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 19678 22705 23413
Average daily rate £413 £403 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.48% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £580 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 976 1282 1475
Average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%

Network Architecture
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Network Architecture within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Network Architecture Jobs Demand Trend

Network Architecture
Daily Rate Trend

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

Network Architecture Daily Rate Trend

Network Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Network Architecture within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Network Architecture Daily Rate Histogram

Network Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Network Architecture Hourly Rate Trend

Network Architecture
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 Architecture within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank 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
England -20 48 £401 +0.31%
South East -9 18 £384 +2.33%
London +5 16 £475 +13.09%
Berkshire -6 10 £430 +33.33%
Hampshire -7 5 £525 -
East of England +17 4 £425 +6.25%
North West +11 4 - -
Yorkshire +5 4 £300 -17.80%
Wales +12 3 - -
Cardiff +8 3 - -
City of London +6 3 £435 -0.57%
West Yorkshire +5 3 £300 -17.80%
South Wales +4 3 - -
Leeds -5 3 £300 -17.80%
Cheshire - 3 - -
Hemel Hempstead +11 1 - -
Milton Keynes +6 1 - -
Hertfordshire +5 1 - -
Buckinghamshire +3 1 - -
Newbury -3 1 £430 -
Bracknell -13 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
Warwickshire - 1 £350 -
Surrey - 1 £338 -
North Yorkshire - 1 £300 -
Kent - 1 £338 -
Essex - 1 £325 -
Cambridgeshire - 1 £450 -
Bedfordshire - 1 £425 -
Winchester - 1 £525 -

Network Architecture
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Network Architecture 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 Network Architecture.

1 43 (34.13%) Cisco
2 41 (32.54%) Cisco Certification
3 35 (27.78%) Telecoms
4 32 (25.40%) Firewall
5 30 (23.81%) CCNP
5 30 (23.81%) WAN
6 26 (20.63%) LAN
7 25 (19.84%) Finance
8 24 (19.05%) Migration
9 23 (18.25%) Wireless
9 23 (18.25%) Windows
9 23 (18.25%) Microsoft
10 22 (17.46%) CCNA
10 22 (17.46%) Linux
10 22 (17.46%) F5
11 21 (16.67%) 3G
12 20 (15.87%) BGP
13 19 (15.08%) CCIE
13 19 (15.08%) Juniper
14 18 (14.29%) ITIL
14 18 (14.29%) DNS
15 17 (13.49%) TCP/IP
15 17 (13.49%) VMware
15 17 (13.49%) Cisco ASA
15 17 (13.49%) LTE
16 16 (12.70%) MPLS
16 16 (12.70%) OSPF
17 15 (11.90%) VPN
18 14 (11.11%) Junos
19 13 (10.32%) Cisco Nexus

Network Architecture
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Network Architecture 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 Network Architecture. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (4.762%) Web Services
2 4 (3.175%) Application Packaging
3 3 (2.381%) jQuery
3 3 (2.381%) HTML
3 3 (2.381%) .NET
3 3 (2.381%) XML
4 2 (1.587%) ASP.NET
4 2 (1.587%) CSS
4 2 (1.587%) Middleware
5 1 (0.794%) JSON
5 1 (0.794%) Spring MVC
5 1 (0.794%) WCF
5 1 (0.794%) Apache CXF
5 1 (0.794%) RESTful
5 1 (0.794%) OAuth
5 1 (0.794%) Gearman
5 1 (0.794%) JAX-RS
5 1 (0.794%) HTML5
5 1 (0.794%) Memcached
5 1 (0.794%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 5 (3.968%) Windows Azure
1 5 (3.968%) Amazon AWS
2 4 (3.175%) Apache
3 3 (2.381%) IIS
4 2 (1.587%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.587%) MS Exchange
4 2 (1.587%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (1.587%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 7 (5.556%) MS Excel
2 6 (4.762%) MS Office
3 3 (2.381%) MS Project
4 2 (1.587%) Photoshop
4 2 (1.587%) InfoPath
4 2 (1.587%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 32 (25.40%) Firewall
2 30 (23.81%) WAN
3 26 (20.63%) LAN
4 23 (18.25%) Wireless
5 21 (16.67%) 3G
6 20 (15.87%) BGP
7 18 (14.29%) DNS
8 17 (13.49%) TCP/IP
8 17 (13.49%) Cisco ASA
8 17 (13.49%) LTE
9 16 (12.70%) MPLS
9 16 (12.70%) OSPF
10 15 (11.90%) VPN
11 14 (11.11%) Junos
12 13 (10.32%) Cisco Nexus
12 13 (10.32%) IP Telephony
12 13 (10.32%) UMTS
13 11 (8.730%) Radio Access Network
13 11 (8.730%) VLAN
13 11 (8.730%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.587%) SQL Server
1 2 (1.587%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (0.794%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (2.381%) Subversion
2 1 (0.794%) JIRA
2 1 (0.794%) Selenium
2 1 (0.794%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (0.794%) Git (software)
2 1 (0.794%) Mockito
2 1 (0.794%) Maven
2 1 (0.794%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.794%) JUnit
General
1 35 (27.78%) Telecoms
2 25 (19.84%) Finance
3 4 (3.175%) Banking
3 4 (3.175%) Marketing
4 3 (2.381%) Financial Institution
5 2 (1.587%) Retail
5 2 (1.587%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.587%) Arabic Language
6 1 (0.794%) Dutch Language
6 1 (0.794%) Electronics
6 1 (0.794%) Back Office
6 1 (0.794%) Billing
Job Titles
1 36 (28.57%) Architect
2 23 (18.25%) Network Engineer
3 22 (17.46%) Network Architect
4 21 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
5 14 (11.11%) Firewall Engineer
6 9 (7.143%) Project Manager
7 7 (5.556%) Consultant
8 6 (4.762%) Technical Architect
9 5 (3.968%) Cisco Engineer
9 5 (3.968%) Infrastructure Specialist
9 5 (3.968%) Firewall Consultant
10 4 (3.175%) Support Engineer
10 4 (3.175%) Senior Architect
11 3 (2.381%) RAN Engineer
11 3 (2.381%) Wintel Engineer
11 3 (2.381%) Technical Design Architect
11 3 (2.381%) 2nd Line Support
11 3 (2.381%) Administrator
11 3 (2.381%) Coordinator
11 3 (2.381%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.762%) Client/Server
1 6 (4.762%) Video Conferencing
2 5 (3.968%) SaaS
3 4 (3.175%) IVR
4 3 (2.381%) AS400
4 3 (2.381%) Clustering
4 3 (2.381%) Blackberry
5 1 (0.794%) Computer Science
5 1 (0.794%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.794%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.794%) Open Source
5 1 (0.794%) Streaming Video
5 1 (0.794%) CESG
5 1 (0.794%) Statistics
5 1 (0.794%) PKI
5 1 (0.794%) DTV
5 1 (0.794%) MPEG
Operating Systems
1 23 (18.25%) Windows
2 22 (17.46%) Linux
3 7 (5.556%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (5.556%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (4.762%) UNIX
4 6 (4.762%) Windows XP
5 5 (3.968%) Windows 7
5 5 (3.968%) Solaris
6 4 (3.175%) HPUX
7 3 (2.381%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (2.381%) Debian
7 3 (2.381%) Ubuntu
7 3 (2.381%) Windows 2000
8 1 (0.794%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (19.05%) Migration
2 18 (14.29%) ITIL
3 12 (9.524%) Network Design
4 11 (8.730%) Project Management
5 10 (7.937%) Change Management
5 10 (7.937%) Network Management
6 8 (6.349%) Project Planning
6 8 (6.349%) Load Balancing
7 6 (4.762%) SOA
8 5 (3.968%) High Availability
8 5 (3.968%) Service Delivery
8 5 (3.968%) Incident Management
8 5 (3.968%) Asset Management
8 5 (3.968%) PRINCE2
9 4 (3.175%) Network Planning
9 4 (3.175%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (3.175%) Data Migration
9 4 (3.175%) Risk Analysis
9 4 (3.175%) Use Case
10 3 (2.381%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 11 (8.730%) SQL
2 6 (4.762%) C
3 4 (3.175%) Perl
3 4 (3.175%) Shell Script
4 3 (2.381%) Bash shell
4 3 (2.381%) Korn
4 3 (2.381%) C#
4 3 (2.381%) VBScript
4 3 (2.381%) VB
5 2 (1.587%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.794%) Tcl
6 1 (0.794%) Python
6 1 (0.794%) Java
Qualifications
1 41 (32.54%) Cisco Certification
2 30 (23.81%) CCNP
3 22 (17.46%) CCNA
4 19 (15.08%) CCIE
5 7 (5.556%) Degree
5 7 (5.556%) JNCIE
6 5 (3.968%) Security Cleared
6 5 (3.968%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (3.968%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 4 (3.175%) CCSA
8 3 (2.381%) JNCIP
8 3 (2.381%) JNCIA
8 3 (2.381%) MCP
9 2 (1.587%) CCDP
9 2 (1.587%) CCIP
9 2 (1.587%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.794%) HP APS
10 1 (0.794%) JNCIS
10 1 (0.794%) CCSE
10 1 (0.794%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.524%) PCI DSS
2 5 (3.968%) SLA
3 2 (1.587%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.794%) QA
4 1 (0.794%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.794%) GCP
System Software
1 9 (7.143%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (4.762%) XenServer
3 3 (2.381%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 3 (2.381%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.794%) Postfix
4 1 (0.794%) XenApp
4 1 (0.794%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.794%) XenDesktop
4 1 (0.794%) Veritas File System
4 1 (0.794%) Varnish
4 1 (0.794%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.794%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 9 (7.143%) FortiGate
2 2 (1.587%) OpenView
2 2 (1.587%) Cisco IPCC
2 2 (1.587%) SolarWinds Orion
2 2 (1.587%) Cacti
2 2 (1.587%) SCOM
3 1 (0.794%) Opalis
3 1 (0.794%) SCCM
3 1 (0.794%) Puppet
3 1 (0.794%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.794%) HP NNM
3 1 (0.794%) Nagios
Vendors
1 43 (34.13%) Cisco
2 23 (18.25%) Microsoft
3 22 (17.46%) F5
4 19 (15.08%) Juniper
5 17 (13.49%) VMware
6 12 (9.524%) Citrix
7 10 (7.937%) HP
7 10 (7.937%) Fortinet
8 9 (7.143%) Sourcefire
8 9 (7.143%) CheckPoint
9 8 (6.349%) Red Hat
9 8 (6.349%) Nokia
9 8 (6.349%) Blue Coat
10 7 (5.556%) TippingPoint
10 7 (5.556%) Ericsson
10 7 (5.556%) Oracle
11 5 (3.968%) Huawei
12 4 (3.175%) Intel
12 4 (3.175%) Nokia Siemens Networks
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