Uxbridge LAN Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Local Area Network (LAN) skills within the Uxbridge region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited LAN over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Local Area Network (LAN)
Location Aberdeen Ayrshire Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Prescot Reading Redditch Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Rotherham Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Snodland Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stourbridge Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	27	8
Rank change on same period last year	-19
Matching contract IT job ads	6	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	17.14 %	56.00 %
Daily rates quoted	4	6
Average minimum daily rate	£375	£500
Average daily rate	£444	£500
% change on same period last year	-11.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£513	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£318
% change on same period last year	+3.45 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.46	£25.50
% change on same period last year	-23.66 %
Communications & Networking Uxbridge
Matching contract IT job ads	35	25
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.046 %	0.027 %
Daily rates quoted	17	12
Average minimum daily rate	£404	£402
Average daily rate	£451	£413
% change on same period last year	+9.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£498	£423
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£344
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£12.00
Average hourly rate	£25.00	£13.50
% change on same period last year	+85.18 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.58	£28.53
% change on same period last year	-10.35 %
LAN London

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.

LAN
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing LAN across the Uxbridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

LAN
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing LAN across the Uxbridge region.

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LAN across the Uxbridge region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing LAN across the Uxbridge region.

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Uxbridge region citing LAN 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 LAN.

1 4 (50.00 %) WAN 1 4 (50.00 %) Cisco 2 3 (37.50 %) Wireless 3 2 (25.00 %) Retail 3 2 (25.00 %) ITIL 3 2 (25.00 %) CCIE 3 2 (25.00 %) CCNP 3 2 (25.00 %) Cisco Certification 4 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (12.50 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 4 1 (12.50 %) CCNA 4 1 (12.50 %) CCDP 4 1 (12.50 %) Active Directory 4 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 4 1 (12.50 %) Windows

4 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (12.50 %) MS Exchange 4 1 (12.50 %) WLAN 4 1 (12.50 %) DHCP 4 1 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (12.50 %) VPN 4 1 (12.50 %) DNS 4 1 (12.50 %) SLA 4 1 (12.50 %) IP Telephony 4 1 (12.50 %) Network Design 4 1 (12.50 %) assyst 4 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 1 (12.50 %) Problem Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Service Management

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Uxbridge region citing LAN 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 LAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (12.50 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2003	Business Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) assyst
Communications & Networking 1 4 (50.00 %) WAN 2 3 (37.50 %) Wireless 3 1 (12.50 %) IP Telephony 3 1 (12.50 %) WLAN 3 1 (12.50 %) DHCP 3 1 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (12.50 %) VPN 3 1 (12.50 %) DNS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2000 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2005
General 1 2 (25.00 %) Retail 2 1 (12.50 %) Law	Job Titles 1 3 (37.50 %) Architect 1 3 (37.50 %) Technical Architect 2 2 (25.00 %) Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Coordinator 3 1 (12.50 %) Project Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Consultant 3 1 (12.50 %) Support Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Project Coordinator 3 1 (12.50 %) Problem Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Cisco Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) Management Information System 1 1 (12.50 %) Replication	Operating Systems 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (25.00 %) ITIL 2 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 2 1 (12.50 %) Service Management 2 1 (12.50 %) Network Design 2 1 (12.50 %) Problem Management	Qualifications 1 2 (25.00 %) CCIE 1 2 (25.00 %) CCNP 1 2 (25.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (12.50 %) CCNA 2 1 (12.50 %) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (12.50 %) SLA	System Software 1 1 (12.50 %) Active Directory 1 1 (12.50 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 1 (12.50 %) Tivoli Storage Manager	Vendors 1 4 (50.00 %) Cisco 2 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft 2 1 (12.50 %) Mitel