The first table below looks at the demand for Unified Communications 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 Unified Communications over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unified Communications
Rank 32 27 -
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -
Contract jobs citing Unified Communications 4 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 2.010% 1.587% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.00% 4.762% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £425 £550 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.72% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £394 £363
% change year-on-year
+4.76% +8.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 - £35.00
All Communications & Networking
Basingstoke
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
40 63 45
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 20.10% 33.33% 16.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 16 16
Average daily rate £375 £420 £318
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.71% +32.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £142 £320 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £408
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 7
Average hourly rate - £36.50 £34.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +5.79%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
Unified Communications
Hampshire

Unified Communications
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basingstoke Unified Communications Jobs Demand Trend

Unified Communications
Daily Rate Trend

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

Basingstoke Unified Communications Daily Rate Trend

Unified Communications
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Unified Communications 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 Unified Communications.

1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Citrix
1 4 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (100.00%) Change Management
1 4 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Server
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) SUSE
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (50.00%) ATM
3 1 (25.00%) UNIX

Unified Communications
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Unified Communications 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 Unified Communications. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) ATM
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Designer
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Designer
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) SUSE
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (100.00%) Change Management
1 4 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Server
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Citrix
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat