VLAN Contracts in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for VLAN skills 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 VLAN 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 of the Communications & Networking category 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
Virtual LAN (VLAN)
Rank 93 105 81
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -24
Contract jobs citing VLAN 3 4 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.178% 0.178% 0.699%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.255% 1.418% 4.745%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
Average daily rate £125 £251 £308
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-50.09% -18.53%
UK excluding London average daily rate £293 £325 £270
% change year-on-year
-10.00% +20.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £34.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £37.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-12.16% +85.00%
All Communications & Networking
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 239 282 274
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 14.22% 12.55% 14.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 103 115
Average daily rate £283 £275 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.72% -12.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £146 £150 £155
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £423 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 38 43
Average hourly rate £19.50 £22.50 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +2.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.70 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £29.80 £35.00 £35.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
VLAN
England

VLAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands VLAN Jobs Demand Trend

VLAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Midlands VLAN Daily Rate Trend

VLAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Midlands VLAN Hourly Rate Trend

VLAN
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN 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
Birmingham +5 2 - -
Wolverhampton - 1 £125 -
VLAN
England

VLAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing VLAN 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 VLAN.

1 5 (71.43%) Windows
1 5 (71.43%) LAN
1 5 (71.43%) WAN
1 5 (71.43%) Cisco
1 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2003
1 5 (71.43%) VMware
2 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (42.86%) EqualLogic
3 3 (42.86%) CCNP
3 3 (42.86%) CCNA
3 3 (42.86%) HP
3 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (42.86%) SAN
3 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
4 2 (28.57%) VPN
4 2 (28.57%) NetApp
4 2 (28.57%) Dell
4 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
4 2 (28.57%) MPLS
4 2 (28.57%) Veeam
4 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (28.57%) Citrix
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (28.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (28.57%) SonicWALL
4 2 (28.57%) iSCSI
4 2 (28.57%) S-PLUS
4 2 (28.57%) Firewall
4 2 (28.57%) Wireless

VLAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing VLAN 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 VLAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) S-PLUS
2 1 (14.29%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) LAN
1 5 (71.43%) WAN
2 3 (42.86%) SAN
3 2 (28.57%) VPN
3 2 (28.57%) MPLS
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (28.57%) iSCSI
3 2 (28.57%) Firewall
3 2 (28.57%) Wireless
4 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (14.29%) Junos
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (14.29%) BGP
4 1 (14.29%) X.25
4 1 (14.29%) DNS
4 1 (14.29%) DHCP
4 1 (14.29%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Network Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Network Support
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Technical Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) EqualLogic
2 1 (14.29%) Clustering
2 1 (14.29%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
1 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (14.29%) Debian
4 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
4 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
4 1 (14.29%) Linux
4 1 (14.29%) Windows XP
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) CCNP
1 3 (42.86%) CCNA
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (14.29%) VCP4
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (14.29%) CCIE
3 1 (14.29%) MCSE
3 1 (14.29%) MCP
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (14.29%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Cisco
1 5 (71.43%) VMware
2 3 (42.86%) HP
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 2 (28.57%) NetApp
3 2 (28.57%) Dell
3 2 (28.57%) Veeam
3 2 (28.57%) Citrix
3 2 (28.57%) SonicWALL
4 1 (14.29%) WatchGuard
4 1 (14.29%) EMC
4 1 (14.29%) Juniper
VMware Engineer - 3+ months
West Midlands
Key skills: - VMware 4/5, VMware site recovery manager, Veeam backups - SAN (HP, MSA, EVA) installations and configuration - Cisco Routers and Switches, ASA - VLANS layers 2/3 - MPLS,...
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Posted: 15 May 2013
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