Network Specialist Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Network Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cheshire Chester City of London Crawley Crewe Durham East Midlands England Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Horsham Kent Leeds Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes North East North West Oxfordshire Portsmouth Scotland Somerset South East South West UK West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wirral Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	457	544
Rank change on same period last year	+87
Matching contract IT job ads	114	129
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.159 %	0.130 %
As % of the category below	0.180 %	0.142 %
Daily rates quoted	38	37
Average minimum daily rate	£368	£387
Average daily rate	£382	£413
% change on same period last year	-7.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£395	£439
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£423
% change on same period last year	-23.44 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.42	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£37.08	£32.50
% change on same period last year	+14.10 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.75	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.50	£32.50
% change on same period last year	+15.38 %
Job Titles UK
Matching contract IT job ads	63500	91029
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	88.71 %	91.46 %
Daily rates quoted	20586	27389
Average minimum daily rate	£373	£388
Average daily rate	£398	£413
% change on same period last year	-3.46 %
Average maximum daily rate	£424	£437
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£353
% change on same period last year	+0.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	5664	7945
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.67	£23.82
Average hourly rate	£24.20	£25.38
% change on same period last year	-4.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.74	£26.94
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.74	£25.24
% change on same period last year	-5.93 %

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 Specialist 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 Specialist 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 Specialist within the UK over the 3 months to 6 October 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 Specialist 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 Specialist within the UK over the 3 months to 6 October 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 Specialist within the UK over the 3 months to 6 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
England	+76	111	£388	-6.70 %
London	+51	45	£422	+3.81 %
South East	+42	32	£358	-3.42 %
City of London	0	23	£430	+21.69 %
West Yorkshire	-	12	-	-
Yorkshire	+25	12	-	-
Hampshire	+39	12	-	-
Buckinghamshire	-	9	£302	-
Leeds	-	9	-	-
Milton Keynes	-	9	£302	-
Portsmouth	+2	8	-	-
Lincolnshire	-	5	-	-
East Midlands	+16	5	-	-
South West	+23	5	£233	-64.07 %
West Midlands	+16	5	-	-
Oxfordshire	-	5	-	-
North West	+6	4	-	-
Bristol	+8	4	£233	-67.79 %
Herefordshire	-6	3	-	-
Aberdeen	-	3	£268	-
Hemel Hempstead	+3	3	-	-
Bicester	-	3	-	-
Scotland	+17	3	£268	-
Cheshire	+2	2	-	-
Merseyside	+3	2	-	-
Kent	-	2	£375	-
Midlands	-	2	-	-
Birmingham	-	2	-	-
Berkshire	+29	2	£500	+37.11 %
West Sussex	+10	1	£475	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Network Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title.

1 132 (68.75 %) Cisco 2 117 (60.94 %) Firewall 3 87 (45.31 %) Cisco Certification 4 67 (34.90 %) LAN 5 57 (29.69 %) CCNP 6 52 (27.08 %) CCNA 6 52 (27.08 %) WAN 7 51 (26.56 %) CheckPoint 8 48 (25.00 %) VPN 9 40 (20.83 %) Network Security 10 36 (18.75 %) OSPF 11 35 (18.23 %) Juniper 11 35 (18.23 %) VoIP 12 33 (17.19 %) BGP 12 33 (17.19 %) Cisco PIX

13 32 (16.67 %) Windows 14 29 (15.10 %) TCP/IP 15 27 (14.06 %) CCIE 15 27 (14.06 %) Security Cleared 15 27 (14.06 %) Network Design 16 25 (13.02 %) Nokia 17 24 (12.50 %) ITIL 17 24 (12.50 %) Finance 18 23 (11.98 %) Microsoft 18 23 (11.98 %) DNS 19 22 (11.46 %) CCSE 20 20 (10.42 %) SC Cleared 20 20 (10.42 %) CiscoWorks 21 19 (9.896 %) Cisco IOS 22 18 (9.375 %) Government

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 2 (1.042 %) WebServices 1 2 (1.042 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 5 (2.604 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (0.521 %) SAS 2 1 (0.521 %) SAP Web AS 2 1 (0.521 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (0.521 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 1 (0.521 %) IIS 2 1 (0.521 %) Apache
Applications 1 3 (1.563 %) MS Excel 2 2 (1.042 %) MS Office 3 1 (0.521 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (0.521 %) SAP Oil and Gas 1 1 (0.521 %) assyst
Communications & Networking 1 117 (60.94 %) Firewall 2 67 (34.90 %) LAN 3 52 (27.08 %) WAN 4 48 (25.00 %) VPN 5 40 (20.83 %) Network Security 6 36 (18.75 %) OSPF 7 35 (18.23 %) VoIP 8 33 (17.19 %) BGP 8 33 (17.19 %) Cisco PIX 9 29 (15.10 %) TCP/IP 10 23 (11.98 %) DNS 11 19 (9.896 %) Cisco IOS 12 18 (9.375 %) MPLS 13 13 (6.771 %) SSL 13 13 (6.771 %) DHCP 14 11 (5.729 %) SNMP 15 10 (5.208 %) RIP 16 9 (4.688 %) Ethernet 16 9 (4.688 %) NetScreen 17 8 (4.167 %) Wireless	Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (4.688 %) SQL Server 2 8 (4.167 %) SQL Server 2000 2 8 (4.167 %) SQL Server 2005 3 3 (1.563 %) DB2
General 1 24 (12.50 %) Finance 2 18 (9.375 %) Government 3 13 (6.771 %) Banking 3 13 (6.771 %) Telecoms 4 10 (5.208 %) Insurance 5 8 (4.167 %) Health 6 7 (3.646 %) Investment Banking 7 3 (1.563 %) Multimedia 8 2 (1.042 %) Pensions 9 1 (0.521 %) Auditing 9 1 (0.521 %) Financial Institution 9 1 (0.521 %) Back Office 9 1 (0.521 %) Legal	Miscellaneous 1 11 (5.729 %) Thin Client 1 11 (5.729 %) Fat Client 2 9 (4.688 %) Video Conferencing 3 5 (2.604 %) Derivative 3 5 (2.604 %) Fixed Income 4 4 (2.083 %) PKI 4 4 (2.083 %) Firmware 5 3 (1.563 %) Statistics 5 3 (1.563 %) CESG 6 2 (1.042 %) NHS 6 2 (1.042 %) Smartcard 6 2 (1.042 %) Management Information System 7 1 (0.521 %) IPTV 7 1 (0.521 %) Clustering 7 1 (0.521 %) IVR
Operating Systems 1 32 (16.67 %) Windows 2 18 (9.375 %) UNIX 3 14 (7.292 %) Windows Server 2003 4 9 (4.688 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 9 (4.688 %) Linux 5 8 (4.167 %) Solaris 6 4 (2.083 %) AIX 7 3 (1.563 %) VMS 8 2 (1.042 %) Red Hat Linux 8 2 (1.042 %) Windows 2000 8 2 (1.042 %) FreeBSD 8 2 (1.042 %) Windows XP 9 1 (0.521 %) NetWare 9 1 (0.521 %) SUSE 9 1 (0.521 %) Windows Vista 9 1 (0.521 %) Windows Server 2008	Processes & Methodologies 1 27 (14.06 %) Network Design 1 27 (14.06 %) Security Cleared 2 24 (12.50 %) ITIL 3 20 (10.42 %) SC Cleared 4 9 (4.688 %) Load Balancing 5 5 (2.604 %) Security Management 5 5 (2.604 %) Network Security Management 6 4 (2.083 %) ITSM 6 4 (2.083 %) Service Management 6 4 (2.083 %) Electronic Trading 6 4 (2.083 %) Operations Management 7 3 (1.563 %) OSSTMM 7 3 (1.563 %) Incident Management 7 3 (1.563 %) Risk Management 7 3 (1.563 %) Migration 8 2 (1.042 %) Identity Management 8 2 (1.042 %) Change Management 8 2 (1.042 %) E-Commerce 8 2 (1.042 %) Project Management 8 2 (1.042 %) Online Security
Programming Languages 1 8 (4.167 %) SQL 2 5 (2.604 %) Perl 3 2 (1.042 %) Shell Script 4 1 (0.521 %) C	Qualifications 1 87 (45.31 %) Cisco Certification 2 57 (29.69 %) CCNP 3 52 (27.08 %) CCNA 4 27 (14.06 %) CCIE 5 22 (11.46 %) CCSE 6 17 (8.854 %) CCSA 7 12 (6.250 %) Microsoft Certification 7 12 (6.250 %) MCSE 8 8 (4.167 %) MCSA 9 6 (3.125 %) Check Point Certification 9 6 (3.125 %) CISSP 10 5 (2.604 %) JNCIA 11 2 (1.042 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 11 2 (1.042 %) CCA 11 2 (1.042 %) Citrix Certification 11 2 (1.042 %) CCEA 11 2 (1.042 %) MCP 12 1 (0.521 %) CCDA 12 1 (0.521 %) CCDP 12 1 (0.521 %) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 8 (4.167 %) SLA 2 7 (3.646 %) ISO27001 3 5 (2.604 %) COBIT 4 2 (1.042 %) ISO17799 5 1 (0.521 %) BS7799 5 1 (0.521 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 7 (3.646 %) Active Directory 2 2 (1.042 %) ISA Server 2 2 (1.042 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (0.521 %) Backup Exec 3 1 (0.521 %) MailMarshal
Systems Management 1 20 (10.42 %) CiscoWorks 2 13 (6.771 %) NNM 2 13 (6.771 %) OpenView 3 4 (2.083 %) OVOW 3 4 (2.083 %) BMC PATROL 3 4 (2.083 %) Tivoli 4 2 (1.042 %) Tivoli NetView 5 1 (0.521 %) Netcool 5 1 (0.521 %) ARCserve 5 1 (0.521 %) Norton AntiVirus	Vendors 1 132 (68.75 %) Cisco 2 51 (26.56 %) CheckPoint 3 35 (18.23 %) Juniper 4 25 (13.02 %) Nokia 5 23 (11.98 %) Microsoft 6 16 (8.333 %) Blue Coat 7 15 (7.813 %) HP 8 11 (5.729 %) Citrix 9 9 (4.688 %) VMware 9 9 (4.688 %) Lucent 10 8 (4.167 %) Alcatel 10 8 (4.167 %) Novell 10 8 (4.167 %) Nortel 11 6 (3.125 %) Crossbeam 12 5 (2.604 %) BT 12 5 (2.604 %) Siemens 13 4 (2.083 %) BMC 13 4 (2.083 %) Sun 13 4 (2.083 %) Tandberg 14 3 (1.563 %) IBM