The first table below looks at the demand for WAAS skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WAAS over the 3 months to 18 June 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 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.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)
Rank 537 568 580
Rank change year-on-year
+31 +12
Contract jobs citing WAAS 17 21 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.035% 0.036% 0.011%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.244% 0.231% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 5
Average daily rate £230 £350 £270
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-34.28% +29.62%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £133 £260 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £278 £400 £290
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £250 £256
% change year-on-year
-10.00% -2.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £31.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £31.50 -
All Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6968 9083 8091
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 14.31% 15.64% 13.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3510 4049 3664
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £208 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £490 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 513 620 810
Average hourly rate £23.75 £25.00 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% +4.16%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.75 £13.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.96%

WAAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

WAAS Jobs Demand Trend

WAAS
Daily Rate Trend

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

WAAS Daily Rate Trend

WAAS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WAAS within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

WAAS Daily Rate Histogram

WAAS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

WAAS Hourly Rate Trend

WAAS
Top 18 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAAS within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +10 17 £230 -34.28% 4
London +9 2 £390 +7.58% 1
South East +13 1 £240 -4.00%
City of London +2 1 - - 1
Leeds - 1 £300 -
West Yorkshire - 1 £300 -
Yorkshire - 1 £300 -
North West - 1 £125 -
Basingstoke - - - -
Midlands - - - -
West Midlands - - - -
Northwich - - - -
Stratford-upon-Avon - - - -
Cheshire - - - -
Hampshire - - - -
Lancashire - - - -
Staffordshire - - - -
Warwickshire - - - -

WAAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing WAAS 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 WAAS.

1 30 (100.00%) Cisco
2 27 (90.00%) Cisco Certification
3 26 (86.67%) WAN
3 26 (86.67%) LAN
3 26 (86.67%) VoIP
3 26 (86.67%) Firewall
4 21 (70.00%) CCNP
4 21 (70.00%) NAS
5 20 (66.67%) SAN
6 17 (56.67%) ITIL
7 16 (53.33%) ITIL Certification
7 16 (53.33%) Wireless
8 14 (46.67%) Windows Server 2008
8 14 (46.67%) PRINCE2
8 14 (46.67%) Windows
9 12 (40.00%) CCIP
10 11 (36.67%) CCDP
10 11 (36.67%) NHS
10 11 (36.67%) PRINCE
10 11 (36.67%) VMware
11 10 (33.33%) Brocade
12 8 (26.67%) SLA
13 7 (23.33%) VMware Infrastructure
14 6 (20.00%) CCNA
14 6 (20.00%) CCIE
15 5 (16.67%) Project Management
15 5 (16.67%) Degree
16 3 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
16 3 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 3 (10.00%) Polycom

WAAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing WAAS 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 WAAS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.667%) Lync
2 1 (3.333%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (3.333%) IIS
2 1 (3.333%) MS Exchange
2 1 (3.333%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 26 (86.67%) WAN
1 26 (86.67%) LAN
1 26 (86.67%) VoIP
1 26 (86.67%) Firewall
2 21 (70.00%) NAS
3 20 (66.67%) SAN
4 16 (53.33%) Wireless
5 3 (10.00%) MPLS
5 3 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (6.667%) BGP
6 2 (6.667%) EIGRP
7 1 (3.333%) Unified Communications
7 1 (3.333%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (3.333%) IPsec
7 1 (3.333%) IP Telephony
7 1 (3.333%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (3.333%) BIG-IP
7 1 (3.333%) Network Security
7 1 (3.333%) OSPF
7 1 (3.333%) WLAN
Job Titles
1 14 (46.67%) Network Engineer
2 11 (36.67%) Network Specialist
3 1 (3.333%) Data Centre Engineer
3 1 (3.333%) Network Consultant
3 1 (3.333%) IT Consultant
3 1 (3.333%) Consultant
3 1 (3.333%) Support Engineer
3 1 (3.333%) Network Support Engineer
3 1 (3.333%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (3.333%) Network Support
3 1 (3.333%) Cisco Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (36.67%) NHS
2 3 (10.00%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (3.333%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.333%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 14 (46.67%) Windows
1 14 (46.67%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (56.67%) ITIL
2 14 (46.67%) PRINCE2
3 11 (36.67%) PRINCE
4 5 (16.67%) Project Management
5 1 (3.333%) Service Delivery
5 1 (3.333%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (3.333%) Migration
5 1 (3.333%) Business Continuity
5 1 (3.333%) Information Security
5 1 (3.333%) Data Protection
5 1 (3.333%) Information Governance
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.333%) SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (90.00%) Cisco Certification
2 21 (70.00%) CCNP
3 16 (53.33%) ITIL Certification
4 12 (40.00%) CCIP
5 11 (36.67%) CCDP
6 6 (20.00%) CCNA
6 6 (20.00%) CCIE
7 5 (16.67%) Degree
8 3 (10.00%) CISSP
8 3 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (6.667%) CCA
9 2 (6.667%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (26.67%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (23.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.333%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.333%) Forefront TMG
2 1 (3.333%) UAG
2 1 (3.333%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 30 (100.00%) Cisco
2 11 (36.67%) VMware
3 10 (33.33%) Brocade
4 3 (10.00%) Polycom
5 2 (6.667%) Riverbed
5 2 (6.667%) Juniper
6 1 (3.333%) Avaya
6 1 (3.333%) F5
Suffolk, East Anglia
The ideal candidate will have 5 or more years experience of multi-service LAN & WAN design, configuration, administration, security and maintenance of Cisco technologies such as Firewalls, Routers,...
Computer Futures
Posted: 28 May 2013
Beccles, East Anglia
These multi-service networks will include but are not limited to LAN, WAN, VoIP, Wireless and Fabric networks and utilising technologies such as Cisco Routers, Firewalls, Switches, WAAS,...
Hudson
Rate: £200 - £240 per day
Posted: 28 May 2013
Norfolk, East Anglia
These multi-service networks will include but are not limited to LAN, WAN, VoIP, Wireless and Fabric networks and utilising technologies such as Cisco Routers, Firewalls, Switches, WAAS,...
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Rate: £200 - £230 per day
Posted: 28 May 2013
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