West Midlands Network Support Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Network Support role in IT contracts within the West Midlands region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Network Support in their job title over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Crewe Devon Docklands, London Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Leeds Leicestershire London Lowestoft Luton Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Sandbach Scotland Sevenoaks Shropshire Somerset South East South West Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	88	117
Rank change on same period last year	+29
Matching contract IT job ads	25	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.035 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	0.875 %	0.314 %
Daily rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum daily rate	£177	£150
Average daily rate	£197	£170
% change on same period last year	+15.68 %
Average maximum daily rate	£217	£190
UK excluding London average daily rate	£245	£288
% change on same period last year	-14.96 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.00	£22.67
Average hourly rate	£24.71	£23.00
% change on same period last year	+7.45 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.43	£23.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.03	£21.32
% change on same period last year	-1.36 %
Job Titles West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	2857	3503
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.991 %	3.519 %
Daily rates quoted	747	804
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£324
Average daily rate	£342	£348
% change on same period last year	-1.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£363	£371
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£353
% change on same period last year	+0.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	322	515
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.96	£20.22
Average hourly rate	£21.29	£21.95
% change on same period last year	-2.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.62	£23.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.74	£25.24
% change on same period last year	-5.93 %
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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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Network Support across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Network Support across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Network Support across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Support within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Birmingham	+20	7	£245	-
Shropshire	-	4	-	-
Warwickshire	+17	4	-	-
Sutton Coldfield	-	1	-	-
Staffordshire	-	1	£100	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited Network Support 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 Support in their job title.

1 25 (86.21 %) Cisco 2 20 (68.97 %) Firewall 3 11 (37.93 %) Juniper 4 9 (31.03 %) CheckPoint 4 9 (31.03 %) WAN 4 9 (31.03 %) Blue Coat 5 8 (27.59 %) Windows 6 7 (24.14 %) LAN 6 7 (24.14 %) Cisco Certification 7 6 (20.69 %) CCNA 7 6 (20.69 %) Remedy 7 6 (20.69 %) Government 8 4 (13.79 %) BT 8 4 (13.79 %) Windows Server 2003 8 4 (13.79 %) UNIX

8 4 (13.79 %) VPN 9 3 (10.34 %) TCP/IP 9 3 (10.34 %) MS Exchange 9 3 (10.34 %) CCNP 9 3 (10.34 %) VoIP 9 3 (10.34 %) Active Directory 9 3 (10.34 %) Cisco PIX 10 2 (6.897 %) Cisco ASA 10 2 (6.897 %) CiscoWorks 10 2 (6.897 %) Tivoli 10 2 (6.897 %) Tivoli NetView 10 2 (6.897 %) BGP 10 2 (6.897 %) Microsoft 10 2 (6.897 %) DNS 10 2 (6.897 %) Nokia

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited Network Support 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 Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 3 (10.34 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (3.448 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (3.448 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 1 (3.448 %) Exchange Server 2007 2 1 (3.448 %) SharePoint	Communications & Networking 1 20 (68.97 %) Firewall 2 9 (31.03 %) WAN 3 7 (24.14 %) LAN 4 4 (13.79 %) VPN 5 3 (10.34 %) Cisco PIX 5 3 (10.34 %) VoIP 5 3 (10.34 %) TCP/IP 6 2 (6.897 %) OSPF 6 2 (6.897 %) BGP 6 2 (6.897 %) Cisco ASA 6 2 (6.897 %) DNS 7 1 (3.448 %) SAN 7 1 (3.448 %) DSL 7 1 (3.448 %) NetScreen
General 1 6 (20.69 %) Government 2 1 (3.448 %) Telecoms	Operating Systems 1 8 (27.59 %) Windows 2 4 (13.79 %) UNIX 2 4 (13.79 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (3.448 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (6.897 %) Network Design 1 2 (6.897 %) Supplier Management 2 1 (3.448 %) Incident Management 2 1 (3.448 %) Technical Architecture	Qualifications 1 7 (24.14 %) Cisco Certification 2 6 (20.69 %) CCNA 3 3 (10.34 %) CCNP 4 1 (3.448 %) MCP 4 1 (3.448 %) MCSE 4 1 (3.448 %) MCSA 4 1 (3.448 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.448 %) SLA	System Software 1 3 (10.34 %) Active Directory 2 1 (3.448 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 2 (6.897 %) CiscoWorks 1 2 (6.897 %) Tivoli 1 2 (6.897 %) Tivoli NetView 2 1 (3.448 %) MOM	Vendors 1 25 (86.21 %) Cisco 2 11 (37.93 %) Juniper 3 9 (31.03 %) CheckPoint 3 9 (31.03 %) Blue Coat 4 6 (20.69 %) Remedy 5 4 (13.79 %) BT 6 2 (6.897 %) Nokia 6 2 (6.897 %) Microsoft 7 1 (3.448 %) Compuware 7 1 (3.448 %) Citrix