Network Specialist Contracts in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Network Specialist role in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Network Specialist in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the West Midlands 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Specialist
Rank 85 106 92
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Network Specialist 11 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.654% 0.134% 0.107%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.708% 0.144% 0.116%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
Average daily rate £540 - £340
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £400 £313
% change year-on-year
+3.12% +28.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
Average hourly rate £28.00 £36.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-23.28% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.00 £36.50 -
% change year-on-year
-23.28% -
All Job Titles
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 1553 2082 1724
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 92.39% 92.66% 92.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 698 950 786
Average daily rate £325 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £218 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £463 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 170 142
Average hourly rate £20.00 £16.10 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+24.22% -10.55%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.00 £10.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £33.00 £35.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Network Specialist
England

Network Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Network Specialist across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

West Midlands Network Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Network Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Network Specialist across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Network Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Network Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Network Specialist across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

West Midlands Network Specialist Daily Rate Histogram

Network Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Network Specialist across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Network Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

Network Specialist
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Specialist within the West Midlands region 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
Shropshire - 7 £560 -
Warwickshire -3 3 - -
Birmingham - 1 £238 -
Network Specialist
England

Network Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited Network Specialist in their job title 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 with Network Specialist in their job title.

1 10 (76.92%) Cisco
2 6 (46.15%) ITIL
2 6 (46.15%) Firewall
3 5 (38.46%) OPNET
3 5 (38.46%) BMC
3 5 (38.46%) OpenView
3 5 (38.46%) HP
3 5 (38.46%) SolarWinds
3 5 (38.46%) Network Management
4 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (30.77%) Load Balancing
5 3 (23.08%) F5
5 3 (23.08%) Network Design
5 3 (23.08%) Fortinet
5 3 (23.08%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (23.08%) CSS
5 3 (23.08%) CCNA
5 3 (23.08%) Nokia
5 3 (23.08%) CheckPoint
5 3 (23.08%) OSPF
5 3 (23.08%) BGP
5 3 (23.08%) Wireless
5 3 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (23.08%) Juniper
6 2 (15.38%) Middleware
6 2 (15.38%) WAN
6 2 (15.38%) LAN
6 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
6 2 (15.38%) BIG-IP
7 1 (7.692%) Incident Management

Network Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited Network Specialist in their job title 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 with Network Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (23.08%) CSS
2 2 (15.38%) Middleware
Applications
1 1 (7.692%) MS Project
1 1 (7.692%) MS Office
1 1 (7.692%) MS Excel
1 1 (7.692%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) Firewall
2 3 (23.08%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (23.08%) OSPF
2 3 (23.08%) BGP
2 3 (23.08%) Wireless
3 2 (15.38%) WAN
3 2 (15.38%) LAN
3 2 (15.38%) BIG-IP
4 1 (7.692%) PSTN
4 1 (7.692%) ISDN
4 1 (7.692%) VPN
4 1 (7.692%) SAN
General
1 1 (7.692%) Retail
1 1 (7.692%) French Language
1 1 (7.692%) German Language
1 1 (7.692%) Italian Language
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.692%) Computer Science
1 1 (7.692%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) ITIL
2 5 (38.46%) Network Management
3 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (30.77%) Load Balancing
4 3 (23.08%) Network Design
5 1 (7.692%) Incident Management
5 1 (7.692%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (7.692%) Performance Management
5 1 (7.692%) Six Sigma
5 1 (7.692%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) CCNA
1 3 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.692%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.692%) SLA
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) OpenView
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Cisco
2 5 (38.46%) OPNET
2 5 (38.46%) BMC
2 5 (38.46%) HP
2 5 (38.46%) SolarWinds
3 3 (23.08%) F5
3 3 (23.08%) Fortinet
3 3 (23.08%) Nokia
3 3 (23.08%) CheckPoint
3 3 (23.08%) Juniper
4 1 (7.692%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.692%) EMC
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