The first table below looks at the demand for SONET skills in IT contracts advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SONET 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 Basingstoke 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
Synchronous Optical Network (SONET)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing SONET 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke - - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £27.50 -
All Communications & Networking
Basingstoke
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
39 50 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 18.22% 27.17% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 12 12
Average daily rate £375 £420 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.71% +18.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £142 £260 £226
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 6
Average hourly rate - £36.50 £34.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +5.79%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
SONET
Hampshire

SONET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basingstoke SONET Jobs Demand Trend

SONET
Daily Rate Trend

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

Basingstoke SONET Daily Rate Trend

SONET
Top 22 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (100.00%) SDH
1 2 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) IPv6
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) RSVP
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) VPLS
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) HSRP
2 1 (50.00%) HND
2 1 (50.00%) JNCIA
2 1 (50.00%) CCNP
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification

SONET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) SDH
1 2 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) IPv6
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) RSVP
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) VPLS
1 2 (100.00%) HSRP
General
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) IP Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) HND
1 1 (50.00%) JNCIA
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper