The first table below looks at the demand for IPv4 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IPv4 over the 3 months to 24 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 Berkshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)
Rank 117 133 126
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -7
Contract jobs citing IPv4 3 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.125% 0.064% 0.101%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.482% 0.185% 0.437%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £165
UK excluding London average daily rate £265 £325 £275
% change year-on-year
-18.46% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £22.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.25 £52.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year
-30.95% +87.50%
All Communications & Networking
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
622 1083 687
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 25.97% 34.44% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 217 195
Average daily rate £285 £300 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £430 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 47 57
Average hourly rate £20.00 £30.00 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-33.33% -6.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £14.50 £15.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £148.70 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
IPv4
South East

IPv4
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing IPv4 across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Berkshire IPv4 Jobs Demand Trend

IPv4
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing IPv4 across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire IPv4 Daily Rate Trend

IPv4
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IPv4 within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Reading - 2 - -
IPv4
South East

IPv4
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing IPv4 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 IPv4.

1 16 (100.00%) 3G
2 15 (93.75%) 2G
3 14 (87.50%) Telecoms
4 11 (68.75%) Citrix
4 11 (68.75%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (68.75%) Windows
5 10 (62.50%) ATM
5 10 (62.50%) LTE
5 10 (62.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (62.50%) Radio Access Network
6 9 (56.25%) Fault Management
7 8 (50.00%) eTOM
7 8 (50.00%) Big Data
7 8 (50.00%) Network Management
7 8 (50.00%) NoSQL
7 8 (50.00%) ASP.NET
7 8 (50.00%) ITIL
7 8 (50.00%) C
7 8 (50.00%) Java
7 8 (50.00%) Perl
7 8 (50.00%) SQL
7 8 (50.00%) .NET
8 7 (43.75%) SLA
9 6 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (37.50%) Greenplum
9 6 (37.50%) Oracle
9 6 (37.50%) Business Objects
9 6 (37.50%) Linux
10 5 (31.25%) UNIX
10 5 (31.25%) Sun

IPv4
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing IPv4 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 IPv4. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 8 (50.00%) .NET
Communications & Networking
1 16 (100.00%) 3G
2 15 (93.75%) 2G
3 10 (62.50%) ATM
3 10 (62.50%) LTE
3 10 (62.50%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (6.250%) LLU
4 1 (6.250%) HSRP
4 1 (6.250%) IPv6
4 1 (6.250%) DHCP
4 1 (6.250%) Ethernet
4 1 (6.250%) SNMP
4 1 (6.250%) DNS
4 1 (6.250%) SSL
4 1 (6.250%) IPsec
4 1 (6.250%) Firewall
4 1 (6.250%) MPLS
4 1 (6.250%) OSPF
4 1 (6.250%) BGP
4 1 (6.250%) DSL
4 1 (6.250%) L2TP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) Big Data
1 8 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 6 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
General
1 14 (87.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Technical Leader
2 4 (25.00%) Architect
2 4 (25.00%) OSS Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Implementation Manager
3 3 (18.75%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Team Leader
5 1 (6.250%) Perl Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (6.250%) Network Team Leader
5 1 (6.250%) Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Network Consultant
5 1 (6.250%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 11 (68.75%) Windows
2 6 (37.50%) Linux
3 5 (31.25%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Disaster Recovery
2 10 (62.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (56.25%) Fault Management
4 8 (50.00%) eTOM
4 8 (50.00%) Network Management
4 8 (50.00%) ITIL
5 4 (25.00%) Resource Management
6 3 (18.75%) Incident Management
6 3 (18.75%) ETL
7 1 (6.250%) Network Design
7 1 (6.250%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) C
1 8 (50.00%) Java
1 8 (50.00%) Perl
1 8 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (43.75%) SLA
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) Citrix
2 6 (37.50%) Greenplum
2 6 (37.50%) Oracle
2 6 (37.50%) Business Objects
3 5 (31.25%) Sun
3 5 (31.25%) HP
4 4 (25.00%) Ericsson
4 4 (25.00%) NEC
4 4 (25.00%) Huawei
4 4 (25.00%) Nokia Siemens Networks
5 1 (6.250%) Cisco