The first table below looks at the demand for WAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Uxbridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 24 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 Communications & Networking category for the Uxbridge region.

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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 14 23 -
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -
Contract jobs citing WAN 4 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Uxbridge 4.082% 0.741% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.22% 7.692% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £250 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £303 £325
% change year-on-year
+5.37% -6.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £21.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-25.58% +2.38%
All Communications & Networking
Uxbridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
18 13 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Uxbridge 18.37% 9.630% 9.434%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 2
Average daily rate £250 £275 £488
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% -43.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £238 £438
10% offered a daily rate of more than £558 £600 £538
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
Average hourly rate £16.00 £13.00 £10.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% +20.93%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
WAN
London

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Uxbridge WAN Jobs Demand Trend

WAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

Uxbridge WAN Daily Rate Trend

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Uxbridge WAN Hourly Rate Trend

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Uxbridge region citing WAN 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.

1 5 (100.00%) LAN
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (60.00%) CCNA
3 3 (60.00%) IP Telephony
4 2 (40.00%) VPN
5 1 (20.00%) SLA
5 1 (20.00%) CCNP
5 1 (20.00%) HTTP
5 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (20.00%) Windows
5 1 (20.00%) Windows XP
5 1 (20.00%) MS Exchange
5 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
5 1 (20.00%) Firewall
5 1 (20.00%) Wireless
5 1 (20.00%) Cisco IPT
5 1 (20.00%) Windows Vista
5 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
5 1 (20.00%) Life Science
5 1 (20.00%) LANDesk
5 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (20.00%) Cisco PIX
5 1 (20.00%) Network Security
5 1 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (20.00%) Windows 2000 Server
5 1 (20.00%) F5
5 1 (20.00%) FWSM
5 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
5 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Uxbridge region citing WAN 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) LAN
2 3 (60.00%) IP Telephony
3 2 (40.00%) VPN
4 1 (20.00%) HTTP
4 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (20.00%) Firewall
4 1 (20.00%) Wireless
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco PIX
4 1 (20.00%) Network Security
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (20.00%) FWSM
4 1 (20.00%) Internet
4 1 (20.00%) MPLS
4 1 (20.00%) OSPF
4 1 (20.00%) BGP
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Vista
1 1 (20.00%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (60.00%) CCNA
3 1 (20.00%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) LANDesk
2 1 (20.00%) F5
2 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint