The first table below looks at the demand for WAAS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wiltshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WAAS 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 Wiltshire 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
Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing WAAS 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire - - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £240 - £275
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Communications & Networking
Wiltshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
69 126 94
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 15.16% 20.29% 17.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 49 35
Average daily rate £424 £375 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.00% -2.59%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £185 £263 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 15
Average hourly rate £26.50 £28.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.35% -3.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.70 £22.50 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.30 £42.50 £33.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
WAAS
South West

WAAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wiltshire WAAS Jobs Demand Trend

WAAS
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire region citing WAAS 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 WAAS.

1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared

WAAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Design Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint