The first table below looks at the demand for WAN Optimisation skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WAN Optimisation over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
WAN Optimization
Rank 529 557 563
Rank change year-on-year
+28 +6
Contract jobs citing WAN Optimisation 11 24 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.023% 0.041% 0.028%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.033% 0.061% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 9
Average daily rate £333 £338 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.48% -20.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £182 £303 £365
10% offered a daily rate of more than £351 £450 £466
UK excluding London average daily rate £220 £450 £425
% change year-on-year
-51.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £25.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £25.00 -
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
33459 39616 40749
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 70.87% 67.77% 67.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 19984 22785 23155
Average daily rate £413 £401 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.99% -8.45%
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 £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 998 1285 1448
Average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+26.00% -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 £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%

WAN Optimisation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

WAN Optimisation Jobs Demand Trend

WAN Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend

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

WAN Optimisation Daily Rate Trend

WAN Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WAN Optimisation within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

WAN Optimisation Daily Rate Histogram

WAN Optimisation
Hourly Rate Trend

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

WAN Optimisation Hourly Rate Trend

WAN Optimisation
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN Optimisation within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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 +32 11 £333 -1.48%
London +15 5 £351 +4.00%
South East +24 4 £125 -50.49%
Surrey +19 3 - -
Staines - 3 - -
Derbyshire - 2 £315 -
Derby - 2 £315 -
East Midlands - 2 £315 -
City of London +13 1 £352 -
Berkshire +8 1 £125 -
Reading - 1 £125 -

WAN Optimisation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing WAN Optimisation 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 WAN Optimisation.

1 16 (100.00%) WAN
1 16 (100.00%) Cisco
2 11 (68.75%) Citrix
2 11 (68.75%) Riverbed
3 9 (56.25%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (56.25%) LAN
4 8 (50.00%) TCP/IP
4 8 (50.00%) Firewall
5 7 (43.75%) MPLS
6 6 (37.50%) CCIE
7 5 (31.25%) SAN
7 5 (31.25%) Windows
7 5 (31.25%) Service Delivery
7 5 (31.25%) Wireless
7 5 (31.25%) VMware
7 5 (31.25%) XenApp
7 5 (31.25%) Polycom
7 5 (31.25%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (25.00%) Telecoms
8 4 (25.00%) Load Balancing
8 4 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
8 4 (25.00%) Cisco CUCM
8 4 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (25.00%) OSPF
8 4 (25.00%) BGP
8 4 (25.00%) SQL
8 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
8 4 (25.00%) VoIP
8 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
9 3 (18.75%) WLAN

WAN Optimisation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing WAN Optimisation 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 WAN Optimisation. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (6.250%) HTML
1 1 (6.250%) COM
Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (12.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (12.50%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (6.250%) MS Excel
1 1 (6.250%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 16 (100.00%) WAN
2 9 (56.25%) LAN
3 8 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 8 (50.00%) Firewall
4 7 (43.75%) MPLS
5 5 (31.25%) SAN
5 5 (31.25%) Wireless
6 4 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
6 4 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (25.00%) OSPF
6 4 (25.00%) BGP
6 4 (25.00%) VoIP
7 3 (18.75%) WLAN
7 3 (18.75%) Internet
7 3 (18.75%) NetScaler
8 2 (12.50%) Cisco IPT
8 2 (12.50%) iSCSI
8 2 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (12.50%) VPN
9 1 (6.250%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.250%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 4 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (6.250%) Back Office
2 1 (6.250%) French Language
2 1 (6.250%) German Language
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Network Consultant
1 4 (25.00%) Consultant
2 3 (18.75%) Project Manager
2 3 (18.75%) Network Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Technical Project Manager
2 3 (18.75%) Technical Manager
2 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.250%) Architect
3 1 (6.250%) Support Engineer
3 1 (6.250%) Support Consultant
3 1 (6.250%) Administrator
3 1 (6.250%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (6.250%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (6.250%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (6.250%) Help Desk Support Engineer
3 1 (6.250%) Help Desk Support
3 1 (6.250%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (6.250%) Network Manager
3 1 (6.250%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (6.250%) Infrastructure Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (12.50%) Clustering
2 2 (12.50%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (12.50%) Linux
3 1 (6.250%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (6.250%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Service Delivery
2 4 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 3 (18.75%) Project Management
3 3 (18.75%) Service Management
4 2 (12.50%) Mobile Device Management
5 1 (6.250%) ITIL
5 1 (6.250%) Network Management
5 1 (6.250%) Incident Management
5 1 (6.250%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (6.250%) C#
2 1 (6.250%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (37.50%) CCIE
3 3 (18.75%) CCNP
4 1 (6.250%) MCP
4 1 (6.250%) CCNA
4 1 (6.250%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.250%) GAMP
1 1 (6.250%) GxP
1 1 (6.250%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) XenApp
2 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (12.50%) ISA Server
4 2 (12.50%) NFS
5 1 (6.250%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Cisco CUCM
2 2 (12.50%) NetBackup
2 2 (12.50%) Backup Exec
2 2 (12.50%) WSUS
2 2 (12.50%) McAfee ePO
2 2 (12.50%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (6.250%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) Cisco
2 11 (68.75%) Citrix
2 11 (68.75%) Riverbed
3 5 (31.25%) VMware
3 5 (31.25%) Polycom
4 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (18.75%) NetApp
5 3 (18.75%) Juniper
5 3 (18.75%) CheckPoint
5 3 (18.75%) AppSense
6 2 (12.50%) Brocade
6 2 (12.50%) F5
6 2 (12.50%) MobileIron
6 2 (12.50%) McAfee
6 2 (12.50%) Symantec
6 2 (12.50%) Veritas
7 1 (6.250%) Oracle
7 1 (6.250%) Red Hat
7 1 (6.250%) Aruba