The first table below looks at the demand for Network Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Network Management over the 3 months to 17 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the Yorkshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Management
Rank 107 104 98
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -6
Contract jobs citing Network Management 6 8 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.316% 0.349% 0.165%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.457% 0.490% 0.262%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 1
Average daily rate £126 £245 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-48.57% +8.88%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £320 £295
% change year-on-year
-14.06% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £105.00 £41.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+154.54% +17.85%
All Processes & Methodologies
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1312 1633 1145
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 69.13% 71.25% 63.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 717 903 538
Average daily rate £325 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.79% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £459 £453 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 34 55
Average hourly rate £25.00 £17.86 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+39.97% -20.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.45 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £110.00 £32.50 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Network Management
England

Network Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Network Management across the Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Yorkshire Network Management Jobs Demand Trend

Network Management
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Network Management across the Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Network Management Daily Rate Trend

Network Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Network Management across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Yorkshire Network Management Daily Rate Histogram

Network Management
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Network Management across the Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Network Management Hourly Rate Trend

Network Management
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Management within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
East Yorkshire - 3 £120 -
West Yorkshire -3 2 - -
South Yorkshire - 1 £300 -
Network Management
England

Network Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Network Management 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 Network Management.

1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Windows XP
2 3 (37.50%) CSS
2 3 (37.50%) SNMP
2 3 (37.50%) CCNP
2 3 (37.50%) CCNA
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (37.50%) Nokia
2 3 (37.50%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) Wireless
2 3 (37.50%) SLA
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco
2 3 (37.50%) CheckPoint
2 3 (37.50%) OSPF
2 3 (37.50%) BGP
2 3 (37.50%) VRRP
2 3 (37.50%) Telecoms
2 3 (37.50%) VLAN
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (37.50%) Windows 7
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (37.50%) HSRP
3 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (25.00%) FWSM
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco PIX
3 2 (25.00%) Time Management
3 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (25.00%) Banking

Network Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Network Management 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 Network Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (37.50%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) SNMP
1 3 (37.50%) OSPF
1 3 (37.50%) BGP
1 3 (37.50%) VRRP
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
1 3 (37.50%) Wireless
1 3 (37.50%) VLAN
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (37.50%) HSRP
2 2 (25.00%) FWSM
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco PIX
2 2 (25.00%) IPsec
2 2 (25.00%) RIP
2 2 (25.00%) Internet
2 2 (25.00%) NetScreen
3 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (12.50%) VPN
3 1 (12.50%) Broadband
General
1 3 (37.50%) Telecoms
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Support Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Technical Support
2 3 (37.50%) Technical Support Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Technical Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (25.00%) Customer Support Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Customer Support
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
3 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Customer Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Support Specialist
4 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (12.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Desktop Support
4 1 (12.50%) Network Monitoring Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) NOC Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Network Support
4 1 (12.50%) Network Support Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Device Driver
2 1 (12.50%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Windows XP
2 3 (37.50%) Windows 7
3 1 (12.50%) VMS
3 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (25.00%) Time Management
2 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) CCNP
1 3 (37.50%) CCNA
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco
1 3 (37.50%) Nokia
1 3 (37.50%) CheckPoint
2 1 (12.50%) Blue Coat
2 1 (12.50%) NetScout
2 1 (12.50%) TippingPoint
2 1 (12.50%) Lotus
2 1 (12.50%) Apple
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft