The first table below looks at the demand for WAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 24 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 Sussex 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 26 49 33
Rank change year-on-year
+23 -16
Contract jobs citing WAN 14 10 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 3.784% 1.520% 4.299%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.58% 16.67% 20.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 6
Average daily rate £416 £325 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.07% -18.75%
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £303 £325
% change year-on-year
+5.37% -6.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
Average hourly rate £17.50 - £20.50
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.70 - £20.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.30 - £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £21.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-25.58% +2.38%
All Communications & Networking
West Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
62 60 94
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 16.76% 9.119% 21.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 32 33
Average daily rate £350 £325 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -18.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £140 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £400 £441
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 13
Average hourly rate £32.50 £37.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +87.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
WAN
South East

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Sussex WAN Jobs Demand Trend

WAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Sussex WAN Daily Rate Trend

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Sussex WAN Hourly Rate Trend

WAN
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 24 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
Crawley +13 7 £416 +197.32%
Gatwick +9 1 - -
Chichester - 1 - -
WAN
South East

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex region citing WAN 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 WAN.

1 24 (92.31%) LAN
2 18 (69.23%) Windows
3 17 (65.38%) Firewall
4 16 (61.54%) VMware
4 16 (61.54%) SAN
4 16 (61.54%) Microsoft
5 14 (53.85%) Active Directory
6 13 (50.00%) Citrix
7 12 (46.15%) Wireless
8 11 (42.31%) Cisco
8 11 (42.31%) VPN
8 11 (42.31%) ITIL
8 11 (42.31%) XenApp
9 10 (38.46%) HP
10 9 (34.62%) Juniper
10 9 (34.62%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (30.77%) vSphere
11 8 (30.77%) DNS
11 8 (30.77%) DHCP
11 8 (30.77%) TCP/IP
11 8 (30.77%) Windows Server 2008
12 7 (26.92%) Cisco ASA
12 7 (26.92%) Wireless Security
12 7 (26.92%) VMware Infrastructure
12 7 (26.92%) PRINCE2
12 7 (26.92%) NetApp
12 7 (26.92%) Project Management
12 7 (26.92%) Windows 7
13 6 (23.08%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 6 (23.08%) Symantec

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex region citing WAN 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 WAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (7.692%) Web Services
1 2 (7.692%) .NET
2 1 (3.846%) COM
Application Platforms
1 6 (23.08%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 5 (19.23%) MS Exchange
3 4 (15.38%) IIS
4 2 (7.692%) Apache
4 2 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (7.692%) Zimbra
5 1 (3.846%) Lync
5 1 (3.846%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (23.08%) MS Office
2 3 (11.54%) MS Excel
3 1 (3.846%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 2 (7.692%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 24 (92.31%) LAN
2 17 (65.38%) Firewall
3 16 (61.54%) SAN
4 12 (46.15%) Wireless
5 11 (42.31%) VPN
6 8 (30.77%) DNS
6 8 (30.77%) DHCP
6 8 (30.77%) TCP/IP
7 7 (26.92%) Cisco ASA
7 7 (26.92%) Wireless Security
8 6 (23.08%) Network Security
9 5 (19.23%) SNMP
9 5 (19.23%) DMZ
9 5 (19.23%) NetScaler
10 4 (15.38%) SSL
10 4 (15.38%) VLAN
11 3 (11.54%) IP Telephony
11 3 (11.54%) Internet
12 2 (7.692%) BGP
12 2 (7.692%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.692%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (7.692%) MySQL
1 2 (7.692%) SQL Server
1 2 (7.692%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (7.692%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 4 (15.38%) Telecoms
2 2 (7.692%) Finance
2 2 (7.692%) Back Office
3 1 (3.846%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 17 (65.38%) Analyst
2 11 (42.31%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 6 (23.08%) Network Analyst
4 4 (15.38%) Consultant
4 4 (15.38%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
5 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 2 (7.692%) Project Manager
6 2 (7.692%) IT Manager
6 2 (7.692%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (7.692%) Service Desk Analyst
6 2 (7.692%) IT Support Analyst
6 2 (7.692%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 2 (7.692%) Support Analyst
6 2 (7.692%) Service Analyst
6 2 (7.692%) IT Support
7 1 (3.846%) Technical Consultant
7 1 (3.846%) 2nd Line Support
7 1 (3.846%) Administrator
7 1 (3.846%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.846%) Desktop Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Blackberry
2 2 (7.692%) Mainframe
2 2 (7.692%) SecurID
2 2 (7.692%) iSeries
2 2 (7.692%) IVR
2 2 (7.692%) Clustering
2 2 (7.692%) iPad
3 1 (3.846%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 18 (69.23%) Windows
2 8 (30.77%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (26.92%) Windows 7
4 5 (19.23%) Windows XP
5 4 (15.38%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (15.38%) Linux
6 3 (11.54%) Windows Vista
7 2 (7.692%) UNIX
8 1 (3.846%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) ITIL
2 7 (26.92%) PRINCE2
2 7 (26.92%) Project Management
3 6 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (19.23%) Network Load Balancing
5 4 (15.38%) Mobile Device Management
5 4 (15.38%) Technical Architecture
6 3 (11.54%) Service Delivery
6 3 (11.54%) Business Analysis
7 2 (7.692%) Configuration Management
7 2 (7.692%) Project Planning
7 2 (7.692%) Performance Management
7 2 (7.692%) Migration
7 2 (7.692%) Service Management
7 2 (7.692%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 1 (3.846%) Network Management
8 1 (3.846%) ERP
8 1 (3.846%) PRINCE
Programming Languages
1 5 (19.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.846%) VCP5
3 1 (3.846%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (3.846%) MCP
3 1 (3.846%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.846%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.846%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (53.85%) Active Directory
2 11 (42.31%) XenApp
3 9 (34.62%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (30.77%) vSphere
5 7 (26.92%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (19.23%) NLBS
7 4 (15.38%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 2 (7.692%) Hyper-V
8 2 (7.692%) Postfix
8 2 (7.692%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) NetBackup
1 5 (19.23%) SCOM
2 3 (11.54%) Backup Exec
3 2 (7.692%) WSUS
3 2 (7.692%) SCCM
3 2 (7.692%) Cisco IPCC
3 2 (7.692%) FortiGate
3 2 (7.692%) HP SIM
4 1 (3.846%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 16 (61.54%) VMware
1 16 (61.54%) Microsoft
2 13 (50.00%) Citrix
3 11 (42.31%) Cisco
4 10 (38.46%) HP
5 9 (34.62%) Juniper
6 7 (26.92%) NetApp
7 6 (23.08%) Symantec
8 5 (19.23%) LANDesk
8 5 (19.23%) SolarWinds
8 5 (19.23%) F5
9 4 (15.38%) Avaya
9 4 (15.38%) CheckPoint
10 3 (11.54%) Dell
11 2 (7.692%) Sophos
11 2 (7.692%) CA
11 2 (7.692%) CommVault
11 2 (7.692%) Nortel
11 2 (7.692%) SAP
11 2 (7.692%) PlateSpin
West Sussex
They are seeking an experienced Cisco Routing Engineer to work as part of a team responsible for the Design and implementation of WAN technical solutions, including the support...
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Rate: £200 - £350 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
West Sussex
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Rate: £31000 - 35000 Per Annum bonus & benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
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Rate: £380 - £400 per hour
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