Wiltshire LAN Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Local Area Network (LAN) skills within the Wiltshire 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 25 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 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 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	41	55
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching contract IT job ads	25	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.033 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	14.29 %	9.251 %
Daily rates quoted	2	4
Average minimum daily rate	£375	£314
Average daily rate	£400	£340
% change on same period last year	+17.64 %
Average maximum daily rate	£425	£366
UK excluding London average daily rate	£334	£316
% change on same period last year	+5.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.20	£16.40
Average hourly rate	£19.30	£17.69
% change on same period last year	+9.11 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.40	£18.97
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.50	£25.68
% change on same period last year	-24.07 %
Communications & Networking Wiltshire
Matching contract IT job ads	175	227
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.233 %	0.230 %
Daily rates quoted	51	33
Average minimum daily rate	£323	£309
Average daily rate	£352	£321
% change on same period last year	+9.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£382	£334
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	28	35
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.56	£26.91
Average hourly rate	£26.59	£29.17
% change on same period last year	-8.86 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.61	£31.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
LAN South West

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 Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

LAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LAN across the Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 25 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 Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 25 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
Swindon	+2	9	£550	+61.76 %
Salisbury	+3	5	-	-
Trowbridge	-	5	-	-
Chippenham	+3	5	-	-

LAN South West

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 43 (91.49 %) WAN 2 35 (74.47 %) Windows 3 22 (46.81 %) TCP/IP 3 22 (46.81 %) Citrix 4 19 (40.43 %) MS Office 4 19 (40.43 %) Oracle 5 18 (38.30 %) Cognos Impromptu 5 18 (38.30 %) Lotus Notes 5 18 (38.30 %) Lotus 5 18 (38.30 %) InterBase 6 10 (21.28 %) Active Directory 7 9 (19.15 %) Cisco 7 9 (19.15 %) SQL 8 8 (17.02 %) DNS 8 8 (17.02 %) Microsoft

9 7 (14.89 %) Firewall 10 6 (12.77 %) Security Cleared 10 6 (12.77 %) Windows NT 11 5 (10.64 %) Windows 2000 11 5 (10.64 %) MCSE 11 5 (10.64 %) Microsoft Certification 11 5 (10.64 %) Backup Exec 12 4 (8.511 %) Network Design 12 4 (8.511 %) SC Cleared 12 4 (8.511 %) Degree 12 4 (8.511 %) Ethernet 12 4 (8.511 %) Project Management 12 4 (8.511 %) Client/Server 12 4 (8.511 %) PBX 12 4 (8.511 %) PSTN

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 (4.255 %) HTML 1 2 (4.255 %) J2EE 1 2 (4.255 %) CSS 1 2 (4.255 %) XML 1 2 (4.255 %) AJAX 2 1 (2.128 %) JSP	Application Platforms 1 18 (38.30 %) Lotus Notes 2 3 (6.383 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 2 (4.255 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (4.255 %) WebLogic 3 2 (4.255 %) Apache 3 2 (4.255 %) Tomcat 3 2 (4.255 %) MS Exchange 3 2 (4.255 %) Documentum 3 2 (4.255 %) Exchange Server 5.5 3 2 (4.255 %) JBoss 4 1 (2.128 %) IIS
Applications 1 19 (40.43 %) MS Office 2 2 (4.255 %) MS Excel 2 2 (4.255 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 43 (91.49 %) WAN 2 22 (46.81 %) TCP/IP 3 8 (17.02 %) DNS 4 7 (14.89 %) Firewall 5 4 (8.511 %) Ethernet 5 4 (8.511 %) PBX 5 4 (8.511 %) PSTN 6 3 (6.383 %) SNMP 6 3 (6.383 %) Internet 7 2 (4.255 %) TELNET 7 2 (4.255 %) Cisco IOS 7 2 (4.255 %) VoIP 7 2 (4.255 %) DHCP 8 1 (2.128 %) VPN 8 1 (2.128 %) TACACS 8 1 (2.128 %) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence 1 18 (38.30 %) Cognos Impromptu 1 18 (38.30 %) InterBase 2 2 (4.255 %) RDBMS 2 2 (4.255 %) SQL Server 3 1 (2.128 %) Crystal Reports 3 1 (2.128 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 3 (6.383 %) PVCS
General 1 3 (6.383 %) Electric 1 3 (6.383 %) Telecoms 2 2 (4.255 %) Pharmaceutical 2 2 (4.255 %) Government 3 1 (2.128 %) Criminal Justice 3 1 (2.128 %) Home Office 3 1 (2.128 %) Education	Job Titles 1 17 (36.17 %) Analyst 2 8 (17.02 %) Helpdesk Analyst 3 5 (10.64 %) 1st Line Support 3 5 (10.64 %) Support Engineer 3 5 (10.64 %) Support Analyst 4 4 (8.511 %) Service Analyst 4 4 (8.511 %) Service Desk Analyst 5 3 (6.383 %) 2nd Line Support 5 3 (6.383 %) Network Engineer 5 3 (6.383 %) Network Specialist 5 3 (6.383 %) Network Support 6 2 (4.255 %) Java/J2EE Developer 6 2 (4.255 %) Network Consultant 6 2 (4.255 %) Developer 6 2 (4.255 %) Consultant 6 2 (4.255 %) Service Manager 6 2 (4.255 %) Java Developer 6 2 (4.255 %) Network Support Engineer 7 1 (2.128 %) Desktop Engineer 7 1 (2.128 %) Technical Support Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 4 (8.511 %) Client/Server 2 3 (6.383 %) Mathematics 2 3 (6.383 %) Applied Mathematics 3 2 (4.255 %) NHS 4 1 (2.128 %) Clustering 4 1 (2.128 %) PKI	Operating Systems 1 35 (74.47 %) Windows 2 6 (12.77 %) Windows NT 3 5 (10.64 %) Windows 2000 4 3 (6.383 %) Windows XP 4 3 (6.383 %) Windows Server 2003 4 3 (6.383 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (12.77 %) Security Cleared 2 4 (8.511 %) Project Management 2 4 (8.511 %) Network Design 2 4 (8.511 %) SC Cleared 3 3 (6.383 %) ITIL 4 2 (4.255 %) PRINCE2 4 2 (4.255 %) Data Modelling 4 2 (4.255 %) Migration 5 1 (2.128 %) Service Delivery 5 1 (2.128 %) Workflow 5 1 (2.128 %) DV Cleared 5 1 (2.128 %) System Testing 5 1 (2.128 %) Communications Security	Programming Languages 1 9 (19.15 %) SQL 2 2 (4.255 %) Java 2 2 (4.255 %) JavaScript
Qualifications 1 5 (10.64 %) MCSE 1 5 (10.64 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (8.511 %) Degree 3 2 (4.255 %) HNC 4 1 (2.128 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 4 1 (2.128 %) ITIL Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.255 %) SLA 2 1 (2.128 %) JSP 440
System Software 1 10 (21.28 %) Active Directory 2 5 (10.64 %) Backup Exec 3 3 (6.383 %) Citrix Presentation Server	Vendors 1 22 (46.81 %) Citrix 2 19 (40.43 %) Oracle 3 18 (38.30 %) Lotus 4 9 (19.15 %) Cisco 5 8 (17.02 %) Microsoft 6 3 (6.383 %) HP 7 2 (4.255 %) Ericsson 7 2 (4.255 %) BT 8 1 (2.128 %) Juniper 8 1 (2.128 %) IBM 8 1 (2.128 %) Red Hat 8 1 (2.128 %) CheckPoint 8 1 (2.128 %) McAfee Security