West Sussex Network Support Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Network Support role in IT contracts within the West Sussex 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 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London Crewe Croydon Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Ely England Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Great Yarmouth Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire London Lowestoft Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Portsmouth Reading Rugby Sandbach Scotland Sevenoaks Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	43	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.426 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£238	£281
% change on same period last year	-15.34 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.50	-
Average hourly rate	£32.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.50	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.65	£21.41
% change on same period last year	-8.21 %
Job Titles West Sussex
Matching contract IT job ads	470	641
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.635 %	0.632 %
Daily rates quoted	161	224
Average minimum daily rate	£341	£334
Average daily rate	£360	£348
% change on same period last year	+3.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£380	£361
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	54	50
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.44	£19.69
Average hourly rate	£21.82	£21.00
% change on same period last year	+3.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.21	£22.32
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.85	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.14 %
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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 Sussex 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 Sussex region.

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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 Sussex 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 Sussex region over the 3 months to 5 September 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 Sussex region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Chichester	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 3 (100.00 %) Windows 1 3 (100.00 %) DNS 1 3 (100.00 %) Active Directory 2 2 (66.67 %) Citrix 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003 2 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft 2 2 (66.67 %) WAN 2 2 (66.67 %) VPN 2 2 (66.67 %) Firewall 3 1 (33.33 %) VMware 3 1 (33.33 %) Backup Exec 3 1 (33.33 %) Mitel 3 1 (33.33 %) Asset Management 3 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (33.33 %) WSUS

3 1 (33.33 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Office 3 1 (33.33 %) DHCP 3 1 (33.33 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (33.33 %) CCNA 3 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Excel 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows XP 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (33.33 %) Broadband 3 1 (33.33 %) LAN 3 1 (33.33 %) VoIP 3 1 (33.33 %) ISA Server 3 1 (33.33 %) Symantec

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Office 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 3 (100.00 %) DNS 2 2 (66.67 %) VPN 2 2 (66.67 %) Firewall 2 2 (66.67 %) WAN 3 1 (33.33 %) DHCP 3 1 (33.33 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (33.33 %) Broadband 3 1 (33.33 %) LAN 3 1 (33.33 %) VoIP 3 1 (33.33 %) SAN 3 1 (33.33 %) DSL	Operating Systems 1 3 (100.00 %) Windows 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Asset Management	Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) CCNA 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco Certification
System Software 1 3 (100.00 %) Active Directory 2 1 (33.33 %) ISA Server 2 1 (33.33 %) Backup Exec 2 1 (33.33 %) Citrix Presentation Server	Systems Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Norton AntiVirus 1 1 (33.33 %) WSUS
Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft 1 2 (66.67 %) Citrix 2 1 (33.33 %) VERITAS 2 1 (33.33 %) Apple 2 1 (33.33 %) Symantec 2 1 (33.33 %) VMware 2 1 (33.33 %) Mitel 2 1 (33.33 %) Dell 2 1 (33.33 %) EMC 2 1 (33.33 %) Intel 2 1 (33.33 %) Cisco