Watford LAN Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Local Area Network (LAN) skills within the Watford region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited LAN over the 3 months to 25 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 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 Crewe Croydon Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Prescot Reading Redditch Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Rotherham Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stockport Stourbridge Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	28	28
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	1	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	4.762 %	12.90 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£300
Average daily rate	£400	£313
% change on same period last year	+28.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£325
UK excluding London average daily rate	£334	£316
% change on same period last year	+5.54 %
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	£19.50	£25.68
% change on same period last year	-24.07 %
Communications & Networking Watford
Matching contract IT job ads	21	62
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.028 %	0.063 %
Daily rates quoted	6	26
Average minimum daily rate	£389	£284
Average daily rate	£404	£299
% change on same period last year	+35.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£419	£315
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.60	£13.50
Average hourly rate	£15.87	£13.50
% change on same period last year	+17.53 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.13	£13.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
LAN Hertfordshire

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 Watford 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 Watford region.

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

LAN
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Watford 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 3 (100.00 %) CCNA 1 3 (100.00 %) Cisco Certification 1 3 (100.00 %) WAN 2 2 (66.67 %) Cisco 2 2 (66.67 %) Telecoms 3 1 (33.33 %) Finance 3 1 (33.33 %) 3Com 3 1 (33.33 %) Network Security 3 1 (33.33 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (33.33 %) MPLS 3 1 (33.33 %) Firewall 3 1 (33.33 %) IPsec 3 1 (33.33 %) CCIE 3 1 (33.33 %) CCNP

3 1 (33.33 %) VPN 3 1 (33.33 %) SLA 3 1 (33.33 %) ITIL 3 1 (33.33 %) ATM 3 1 (33.33 %) VoIP

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Watford 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.

Communications & Networking 1 3 (100.00 %) WAN 2 1 (33.33 %) VPN 2 1 (33.33 %) MPLS 2 1 (33.33 %) Firewall 2 1 (33.33 %) IPsec 2 1 (33.33 %) Network Security 2 1 (33.33 %) ATM 2 1 (33.33 %) VoIP	General 1 2 (66.67 %) Telecoms 2 1 (33.33 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Network Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Technical Support 1 1 (33.33 %) Support Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) 2nd Line Support 1 1 (33.33 %) Project Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco Network Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco Specialist 1 1 (33.33 %) Network Specialist 1 1 (33.33 %) Implementation Specialist 1 1 (33.33 %) Implementation Engineer	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) ITIL 1 1 (33.33 %) SC Cleared 1 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared
Qualifications 1 3 (100.00 %) CCNA 1 3 (100.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (33.33 %) CCIE 2 1 (33.33 %) CCNP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (33.33 %) SLA
Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Cisco 2 1 (33.33 %) 3Com