The first part of the table below looks at the demand for VLAN skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VLAN over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 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.

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.

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank354455452
Rank change year-on-year
Up+101Down-3
Matching contract IT job ads24112387
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.412 %0.204 %0.158 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category2.628 %1.585 %1.349 %
Number of daily rates quoted1005529
Average daily rate£338£300£380
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50 %-21.05 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£175£240
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£513£425£400
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£270£390
% change year-on-year
+20.37 %-30.76 %
Number of hourly rates quoted9813
Average hourly rate£37.00£20.00£25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+85.00 %-20.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£19.60£12.35£19.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£47.50£30.65£28.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£37.00£20.00£25.00
% change year-on-year
+85.00 %-20.00 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryAll Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
917177596451
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK15.69 %12.90 %11.69 %
Number of daily rates quoted416035392637
Average daily rate£365£350£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.28 %-
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£215£225£200
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£500£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£335£325£308
% change year-on-year
+3.07 %+5.69 %
Number of hourly rates quoted614779699
Average hourly rate£25.00£25.00£21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-+19.04 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£13.00£12.00£13.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£45.00£41.50£37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.75£27.50£22.50
% change year-on-year
-6.36 %+22.22 %

VLAN
Demand Trend

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

VLAN Demand Trend

VLAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

VLAN Daily Rate Trend

VLAN
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VLAN within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012.

VLAN Daily Rate Histogram

VLAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

VLAN Hourly Rate Trend

VLAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VLAN within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012.

VLAN Hourly Rate Histogram

VLAN
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 VLAN within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. 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
EnglandUp+99228£350+16.66 %
LondonUp+91102£368+5.00 %
South EastUp+1444£350+27.27 %
East of EnglandNew entry-29£275-
City of LondonUp+3626£413+10.00 %
North EastUp+1419£375+15.74 %
Tyne and WearUp+1217£350+8.02 %
SurreyNew entry-16£300-
HampshireUp+2114£423-0.58 %
ScotlandUp+1711£325-13.33 %
South WestDown-1211£283-
NorwichNew entry-10--
NorfolkNew entry-10--
East MidlandsDown-29£184-0.67 %
Newcastle upon TyneUp+48£425+31.17 %
BerkshireDown-88£350+33.33 %
North WestDown-98£235-11.32 %
GatesheadNew entry-8£319-
East AngliaNew entry-8--
ManchesterDown-97£213-29.16 %
FarnboroughUp+126£426-2.68 %
AberdeenNew entry-6£328-
BristolNew entry-6£269-
LeicestershireNew entry-6£188-
SuffolkNew entry-6£360-
ReadingDown-14£350+42.85 %
West MidlandsDown-254£251-18.53 %
GuildfordNew entry-4--
SouthamptonNew entry-3--
SloughUp+122--

VLAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing VLAN 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 VLAN.

1232 (57.14 %)Cisco
2203 (50.00 %)Firewall
3145 (35.71 %)Windows
4141 (34.73 %)LAN
4141 (34.73 %)VMware
5131 (32.27 %)TCP/IP
6118 (29.06 %)Cisco Certification
7111 (27.34 %)VPN
8105 (25.86 %)WAN
998 (24.14 %)SAN
998 (24.14 %)DNS
1097 (23.89 %)OSPF
1192 (22.66 %)HP
1287 (21.43 %)Microsoft
1385 (20.94 %)Linux
1483 (20.44 %)VMware Infrastructure
1582 (20.20 %)CCNP
1582 (20.20 %)BGP
1680 (19.70 %)DHCP
1774 (18.23 %)Active Directory
1867 (16.50 %)MPLS
1867 (16.50 %)Wireless
1966 (16.26 %)Juniper
1966 (16.26 %)UNIX
2065 (16.01 %)Citrix
2162 (15.27 %)CCNA
2162 (15.27 %)VoIP
2260 (14.78 %)Cisco ASA
2359 (14.53 %)Load Balancing
2456 (13.79 %)Windows Server 2008

VLAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing VLAN 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 VLAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
121 (5.172 %)Middleware
28 (1.970 %)Application Packaging
37 (1.724 %)SAX
46 (1.478 %)CSS
54 (0.985 %)XML
63 (0.739 %)Ruby on Rails
63 (0.739 %)WCF
63 (0.739 %)Spring
63 (0.739 %)HTML
63 (0.739 %).NET
63 (0.739 %)J2EE
72 (0.493 %)Web Services
72 (0.493 %)WebSphere
81 (0.246 %)REST
81 (0.246 %)Ajax
81 (0.246 %).NET Framework
81 (0.246 %)JSON
81 (0.246 %)Django
81 (0.246 %)XSLT
81 (0.246 %)ODBC
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
151 (12.56 %)MS Exchange
237 (9.113 %)Exchange Server 2003
336 (8.867 %)Exchange Server 2010
428 (6.897 %)IIS
522 (5.419 %)Exchange Server 2007
612 (2.956 %)Apache
711 (2.709 %)SharePoint
89 (2.217 %)CMS
96 (1.478 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
96 (1.478 %)Lync
103 (0.739 %)Tomcat
112 (0.493 %)WebSphere Application Server
112 (0.493 %)WebLogic
112 (0.493 %)IBM HTTP Server
112 (0.493 %)Exchange Server 5.5
112 (0.493 %)Moodle
121 (0.246 %)Progress Actional
121 (0.246 %)WebSphere Portal
121 (0.246 %)BizTalk Server
121 (0.246 %)WebSphere MQ
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
124 (5.911 %)MS Excel
211 (2.709 %)MS Office
39 (2.217 %)MS Visio
43 (0.739 %)Spreadsheet
52 (0.493 %)MS PowerPoint
52 (0.493 %)Office 365
61 (0.246 %)MS Project
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
12 (0.493 %)Dynamics CRM
21 (0.246 %)Visualfiles
21 (0.246 %)Bond Adapt
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1203 (50.00 %)Firewall
2141 (34.73 %)LAN
3131 (32.27 %)TCP/IP
4111 (27.34 %)VPN
5105 (25.86 %)WAN
698 (24.14 %)SAN
698 (24.14 %)DNS
797 (23.89 %)OSPF
882 (20.20 %)BGP
980 (19.70 %)DHCP
1067 (16.50 %)MPLS
1067 (16.50 %)Wireless
1162 (15.27 %)VoIP
1260 (14.78 %)Cisco ASA
1344 (10.84 %)Network Security
1442 (10.34 %)SSL
1541 (10.10 %)Ethernet
1639 (9.606 %)Cisco IOS
1736 (8.867 %)WLAN
1736 (8.867 %)NAS
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
115 (3.695 %)SQL Server
29 (2.217 %)Oracle 8/8i
38 (1.970 %)DB2
47 (1.724 %)RDBMS
55 (1.232 %)MySQL
64 (0.985 %)SQL Server 2005
72 (0.493 %)Oracle 11g
81 (0.246 %)SQLite
81 (0.246 %)GIS
81 (0.246 %)Data Warehouse
81 (0.246 %)Oracle Reports
81 (0.246 %)Data Mining
81 (0.246 %)Oracle 10g
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
18 (1.970 %)VSS/SourceSafe
27 (1.724 %)ClearCase
36 (1.478 %)Ant
42 (0.493 %)Git (software)
42 (0.493 %)Team Foundation Server
51 (0.246 %)StarTeam
51 (0.246 %)WinRunner
51 (0.246 %)TestDirector
51 (0.246 %)LoadRunner
51 (0.246 %)MSI
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
151 (12.56 %)Finance
232 (7.882 %)Telecoms
321 (5.172 %)Pharmaceutical
417 (4.187 %)Financial Institution
510 (2.463 %)Banking
69 (2.217 %)Manufacturing
78 (1.970 %)Publishing
85 (1.232 %)Law
94 (0.985 %)Back Office
102 (0.493 %)Investment Banking
102 (0.493 %)Legal
111 (0.246 %)Corporate Banking
111 (0.246 %)French Language
111 (0.246 %)German Language
111 (0.246 %)Italian Language
111 (0.246 %)Advertising
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1101 (24.88 %)Network Engineer
253 (13.05 %)Analyst
333 (8.128 %)Architect
432 (7.882 %)Administrator
530 (7.389 %)Systems Administrator
628 (6.897 %)Network Specialist
628 (6.897 %)Infrastructure Engineer
726 (6.404 %)Support Engineer
825 (6.158 %)Support Analyst
923 (5.665 %)Consultant
1021 (5.172 %)Cisco Engineer
1119 (4.680 %)Network Analyst
1119 (4.680 %)Cisco Network Engineer
1216 (3.941 %)Network Support
1216 (3.941 %)AIX Administrator
1315 (3.695 %)3rd Line Support
1315 (3.695 %)Project Manager
1413 (3.202 %)Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1512 (2.956 %)Network Architect
1512 (2.956 %)Network Support Engineer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
120 (4.926 %)Clustering
218 (4.433 %)Hedge funds
317 (4.187 %)Replication
410 (2.463 %)HACMP
59 (2.217 %)Computer Science
67 (1.724 %)Embedded Systems
67 (1.724 %)SWIFT
67 (1.724 %)Fat Client
67 (1.724 %)CMDB
67 (1.724 %)Thin Client
67 (1.724 %)Client/Server
76 (1.478 %)NHS
76 (1.478 %)Firmware
76 (1.478 %)Biotechnology
85 (1.232 %)Open Source
85 (1.232 %)Streaming Video
93 (0.739 %)CCTV
93 (0.739 %)Video Conferencing
93 (0.739 %)Handset
102 (0.493 %)N-Tier
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1145 (35.71 %)Windows
285 (20.94 %)Linux
366 (16.26 %)UNIX
456 (13.79 %)Windows Server 2008
551 (12.56 %)Windows Server 2003
631 (7.635 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
727 (6.650 %)AIX
818 (4.433 %)HPUX
916 (3.941 %)Solaris
1015 (3.695 %)Windows 7
1112 (2.956 %)Windows XP
125 (1.232 %)Windows Vista
134 (0.985 %)Windows 2000 Server
134 (0.985 %)CentOS
143 (0.739 %)Windows 2000
152 (0.493 %)Ubuntu
161 (0.246 %)Mac OS
161 (0.246 %)Debian
161 (0.246 %)SUSE
161 (0.246 %)zOS
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
159 (14.53 %)Load Balancing
256 (13.79 %)ITIL
334 (8.374 %)Network Design
425 (6.158 %)Change Management
523 (5.665 %)Migration
523 (5.665 %)Root Cause Analysis
619 (4.680 %)Network Management
718 (4.433 %)Disaster Recovery
814 (3.448 %)Network Load Balancing
814 (3.448 %)Validation
912 (2.956 %)Project Management
912 (2.956 %)Resource Management
912 (2.956 %)Problem Management
1011 (2.709 %)Network Architecture
1011 (2.709 %)Project Planning
1011 (2.709 %)TOGAF
1011 (2.709 %)Configuration Management
1011 (2.709 %)BCP
119 (2.217 %)Capacity Planning
119 (2.217 %)Incident Management
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
144 (10.84 %)SQL
235 (8.621 %)Shell Script
318 (4.433 %)Korn
49 (2.217 %)PowerShell
49 (2.217 %)C
58 (1.970 %)Java
58 (1.970 %)Perl
67 (1.724 %)VB
76 (1.478 %)Python
76 (1.478 %)PHP
85 (1.232 %)C#
94 (0.985 %)Embedded C
94 (0.985 %)Ruby
103 (0.739 %)C++
111 (0.246 %)Winbatch
111 (0.246 %)XPath
111 (0.246 %)Tcl
111 (0.246 %)VBScript
111 (0.246 %)JavaScript
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1118 (29.06 %)Cisco Certification
282 (20.20 %)CCNP
362 (15.27 %)CCNA
443 (10.59 %)Security Cleared
537 (9.113 %)SC Cleared
631 (7.635 %)CCIE
719 (4.680 %)Degree
815 (3.695 %)Microsoft Certification
914 (3.448 %)CCSP
1012 (2.956 %)MCSE
119 (2.217 %)MCITP
119 (2.217 %)ISEB
128 (1.970 %)ITIL Certification
128 (1.970 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
137 (1.724 %)CCDP
146 (1.478 %)HNC
146 (1.478 %)HND
154 (0.985 %)CCDA
163 (0.739 %)JNCIE
163 (0.739 %)CCSA
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
110 (2.463 %)GxP
29 (2.217 %)GMP
29 (2.217 %)SLA
38 (1.970 %)ISO/IEC 27001
46 (1.478 %)PCI DSS
53 (0.739 %)BS7799
62 (0.493 %)GAMP
62 (0.493 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
62 (0.493 %)COBIT
71 (0.246 %)QA
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
183 (20.44 %)VMware Infrastructure
274 (18.23 %)Active Directory
325 (6.158 %)VMware ESX
422 (5.419 %)XenApp
521 (5.172 %)Veritas Cluster Server
619 (4.680 %)Terminal Services
716 (3.941 %)vSphere
815 (3.695 %)VMware ESXi
98 (1.970 %)PowerHA
107 (1.724 %)DFS Replication
107 (1.724 %)XenDesktop
107 (1.724 %)Veritas Volume Manager
107 (1.724 %)Xen
107 (1.724 %)ISA Server
107 (1.724 %)Terminal Server
107 (1.724 %)NFS
113 (0.739 %)Hyper-V
113 (0.739 %)Citrix Presentation Server
113 (0.739 %)VMware Server
122 (0.493 %)Snort
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
124 (5.911 %)Tivoli
222 (5.419 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
321 (5.172 %)Tivoli Monitoring
420 (4.926 %)OpenView
512 (2.956 %)Nagios
512 (2.956 %)Netcool
611 (2.709 %)vCenter
710 (2.463 %)SCCM
87 (1.724 %)CiscoWorks
96 (1.478 %)WSUS
105 (1.232 %)Zenoss
105 (1.232 %)Cisco CUCM
105 (1.232 %)Backup Exec
114 (0.985 %)Cisco IPCC
114 (0.985 %)NetBackup
114 (0.985 %)Cisco UCCX
123 (0.739 %)OpenView Configuration Management
132 (0.493 %)MIMEsweeper
141 (0.246 %)Puppet
141 (0.246 %)SolarWinds Orion
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1232 (57.14 %)Cisco
2141 (34.73 %)VMware
392 (22.66 %)HP
487 (21.43 %)Microsoft
566 (16.26 %)Juniper
665 (16.01 %)Citrix
753 (13.05 %)CheckPoint
835 (8.621 %)IBM
934 (8.374 %)NetApp
1032 (7.882 %)EMC
1032 (7.882 %)F5
1131 (7.635 %)Red Hat
1228 (6.897 %)Veritas
1324 (5.911 %)Oracle
1421 (5.172 %)Nortel
1520 (4.926 %)Avaya
1619 (4.680 %)McAfee
1713 (3.202 %)Dell
1811 (2.709 %)Brocade
1811 (2.709 %)Sun