Aberdeen VoIP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Voice Over IP (VoIP) skills within the Aberdeen region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VoIP over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Voice Over IP (VoIP)
Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bracknell Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chichester City of London Clapham County Antrim Crawley Croydon Docklands, London Dorchester Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Inverness Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Oxfordshire Peterborough Pontefract Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Witham Woking Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	28	22
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	2	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	5.405 %	9.677 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£300	-
Average daily rate	£350	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£400	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£319	£357
% change on same period last year	-10.51 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.48	£26.82
% change on same period last year	+13.65 %
Communications & Networking Aberdeen
Matching contract IT job ads	37	62
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.049 %	0.062 %
Daily rates quoted	8	9
Average minimum daily rate	£224	£462
Average daily rate	£237	£466
% change on same period last year	-49.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£251	£471
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£343
% change on same period last year	-1.02 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.07	£13.50
Average hourly rate	£30.00	£14.58
% change on same period last year	+105.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.93	£15.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.88	£28.72
% change on same period last year	-9.87 %
VoIP Scotland

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.

VoIP
Demand Trend

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

VoIP
Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing VoIP 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 VoIP.

1 9 (100.00 %) Cisco 2 8 (88.89 %) CCNA 2 8 (88.89 %) Cisco Certification 3 5 (55.56 %) CCNP 3 5 (55.56 %) MPLS 3 5 (55.56 %) Telecoms 3 5 (55.56 %) CCVP 4 3 (33.33 %) Government 4 3 (33.33 %) IPCC 4 3 (33.33 %) MGCP 4 3 (33.33 %) H.323 4 3 (33.33 %) Broadband 4 3 (33.33 %) Siemens 5 1 (11.11 %) MS Exchange 5 1 (11.11 %) Avaya

5 1 (11.11 %) PBX

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing VoIP 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 VoIP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (11.11 %) MS Exchange	Communications & Networking 1 5 (55.56 %) MPLS 2 3 (33.33 %) IPCC 2 3 (33.33 %) MGCP 2 3 (33.33 %) H.323 2 3 (33.33 %) Broadband 3 1 (11.11 %) PBX
General 1 5 (55.56 %) Telecoms 2 3 (33.33 %) Government	Job Titles 1 3 (33.33 %) Network Analyst 1 3 (33.33 %) Analyst 2 1 (11.11 %) Consultant
Qualifications 1 8 (88.89 %) CCNA 1 8 (88.89 %) Cisco Certification 2 5 (55.56 %) CCNP 2 5 (55.56 %) CCVP	Vendors 1 9 (100.00 %) Cisco 2 3 (33.33 %) Siemens 3 1 (11.11 %) Avaya