West Yorkshire LAN Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Local Area Network (LAN) skills within the West Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited LAN over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Local Area Network (LAN)
Location Aberdeen Ayrshire Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Prescot Reading Redditch Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Rotherham Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stockport Stourbridge Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	74	31
Rank change on same period last year	-43
Matching contract IT job ads	18	69
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.070 %
As % of the category below	8.654 %	25.00 %
Daily rates quoted	7	11
Average minimum daily rate	£305	£360
Average daily rate	£319	£383
% change on same period last year	-16.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£333	£405
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£316
% change on same period last year	+4.98 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.33	£21.05
Average hourly rate	£17.83	£21.83
% change on same period last year	-18.31 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.33	£22.61
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.50	£25.62
% change on same period last year	-23.87 %
Communications & Networking West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	208	276
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.277 %	0.280 %
Daily rates quoted	50	47
Average minimum daily rate	£283	£327
Average daily rate	£297	£333
% change on same period last year	-11.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£311	£340
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	32
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.31	£26.69
Average hourly rate	£24.57	£28.29
% change on same period last year	-13.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.84	£29.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.60
% change on same period last year	-9.75 %
LAN Yorkshire

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.

LAN
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing LAN across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

LAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LAN across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

LAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LAN across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

LAN
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 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
Leeds	-21	15	£328	-15.04 %
Bradford	+4	2	£185	-

LAN Yorkshire

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing LAN 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 LAN.

1 28 (68.29 %) WAN 2 27 (65.85 %) Windows 3 18 (43.90 %) Cisco 4 13 (31.71 %) Microsoft 4 13 (31.71 %) Active Directory 5 11 (26.83 %) Windows 2000 6 10 (24.39 %) Firewall 7 8 (19.51 %) Windows XP 7 8 (19.51 %) Citrix 8 7 (17.07 %) MS Office 8 7 (17.07 %) Linux 8 7 (17.07 %) Finance 9 5 (12.20 %) ITIL 9 5 (12.20 %) UNIX 9 5 (12.20 %) Lotus Notes

9 5 (12.20 %) TCP/IP 9 5 (12.20 %) VPN 9 5 (12.20 %) DNS 9 5 (12.20 %) HP 9 5 (12.20 %) Lotus 9 5 (12.20 %) Windows Server 2003 10 4 (9.756 %) Internet 10 4 (9.756 %) Remedy 10 4 (9.756 %) Cisco Certification 10 4 (9.756 %) IBM 10 4 (9.756 %) NetWare 10 4 (9.756 %) MS Excel 11 3 (7.317 %) Network Design 11 3 (7.317 %) Client/Server 11 3 (7.317 %) PRINCE2

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing LAN 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 LAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (4.878 %) WebSphere 2 1 (2.439 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 5 (12.20 %) Lotus Notes 2 3 (7.317 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (7.317 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 3 (7.317 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (4.878 %) WebSphere MQ 4 1 (2.439 %) Apache 4 1 (2.439 %) Tomcat 4 1 (2.439 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 7 (17.07 %) MS Office 2 4 (9.756 %) MS Excel 3 1 (2.439 %) AutoCAD	Communications & Networking 1 28 (68.29 %) WAN 2 10 (24.39 %) Firewall 3 5 (12.20 %) TCP/IP 3 5 (12.20 %) VPN 3 5 (12.20 %) DNS 4 4 (9.756 %) Internet 5 3 (7.317 %) SAN 5 3 (7.317 %) ATM 5 3 (7.317 %) RIP 6 2 (4.878 %) iSCSI 6 2 (4.878 %) VLAN 6 2 (4.878 %) Wireless 6 2 (4.878 %) Frame Relay 6 2 (4.878 %) SSL 6 2 (4.878 %) Intranet 6 2 (4.878 %) DHCP 6 2 (4.878 %) FTP 6 2 (4.878 %) OSPF 7 1 (2.439 %) BGP 7 1 (2.439 %) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (4.878 %) SQL Server 2 1 (2.439 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 1 (2.439 %) Oracle 9i 2 1 (2.439 %) Oracle 10g 2 1 (2.439 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (2.439 %) SQL Server 2005	General 1 7 (17.07 %) Finance 2 2 (4.878 %) Government 3 1 (2.439 %) Health 3 1 (2.439 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 8 (19.51 %) Network Engineer 2 7 (17.07 %) Cisco Engineer 3 6 (14.63 %) 2nd Line Support 3 6 (14.63 %) Analyst 3 6 (14.63 %) Support Engineer 4 5 (12.20 %) Desktop Support 4 5 (12.20 %) Cisco Network Engineer 5 4 (9.756 %) 3rd Line Support 5 4 (9.756 %) Support Analyst 6 3 (7.317 %) Network Analyst 6 3 (7.317 %) Network Support 7 2 (4.878 %) Desktop Engineer 7 2 (4.878 %) Infrastructure Architect 7 2 (4.878 %) Desktop Support Engineer 7 2 (4.878 %) Helpdesk Support 7 2 (4.878 %) Technical Support 7 2 (4.878 %) Support Technician 7 2 (4.878 %) Architect 7 2 (4.878 %) Cisco Support 7 2 (4.878 %) Infrastructure Designer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (7.317 %) Client/Server 1 3 (7.317 %) PDA 2 2 (4.878 %) NHS 3 1 (2.439 %) Smartcard 3 1 (2.439 %) Blackberry 3 1 (2.439 %) Management Information System 3 1 (2.439 %) PKI 3 1 (2.439 %) N-Tier
Operating Systems 1 27 (65.85 %) Windows 2 11 (26.83 %) Windows 2000 3 8 (19.51 %) Windows XP 4 7 (17.07 %) Linux 5 5 (12.20 %) UNIX 5 5 (12.20 %) Windows Server 2003 6 4 (9.756 %) NetWare 7 2 (4.878 %) Windows Mobile 7 2 (4.878 %) Windows Vista 8 1 (2.439 %) SUSE 8 1 (2.439 %) HPUX 8 1 (2.439 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (12.20 %) ITIL 2 3 (7.317 %) PRINCE2 2 3 (7.317 %) Network Design 3 2 (4.878 %) Migration 3 2 (4.878 %) SOA 3 2 (4.878 %) Project Management 4 1 (2.439 %) Change Management 4 1 (2.439 %) Disaster Recovery 4 1 (2.439 %) Web Development
Programming Languages 1 2 (4.878 %) SQL 2 1 (2.439 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 4 (9.756 %) Cisco Certification 2 3 (7.317 %) CCNP 3 2 (4.878 %) CCNA 3 2 (4.878 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 1 (2.439 %) MCDST 4 1 (2.439 %) Degree 4 1 (2.439 %) MCSE 4 1 (2.439 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.878 %) PCI DSS	System Software 1 13 (31.71 %) Active Directory 2 2 (4.878 %) Terminal Services 2 2 (4.878 %) Backup Exec 3 1 (2.439 %) Oracle RAC 3 1 (2.439 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 2 (4.878 %) ARCserve 2 1 (2.439 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 1 (2.439 %) OpenView 2 1 (2.439 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 18 (43.90 %) Cisco 2 13 (31.71 %) Microsoft 3 8 (19.51 %) Citrix 4 5 (12.20 %) HP 4 5 (12.20 %) Lotus 5 4 (9.756 %) Remedy 5 4 (9.756 %) IBM 6 3 (7.317 %) Novell 7 2 (4.878 %) Oracle 7 2 (4.878 %) CommVault 7 2 (4.878 %) Symantec 7 2 (4.878 %) Intel 8 1 (2.439 %) Nortel 8 1 (2.439 %) Avaya 8 1 (2.439 %) BEA 8 1 (2.439 %) ESRI 8 1 (2.439 %) VMware 8 1 (2.439 %) Siemens