Berkshire Lucent Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Lucent products and/or services in IT contracts within the Berkshire region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Lucent over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Berkshire Bristol Cheshire City of London Crawley Docklands, London England Hampshire Isle of Man Leeds London Manchester Newbury North West Paddington South East South West Swindon Thames Valley UK West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	130	162
Rank change on same period last year	+32
Matching contract IT job ads	1	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	0.058 %	0.252 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£363
Average daily rate	-	£394
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£425
UK excluding London average daily rate	£517	£378
% change on same period last year	+36.63 %
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	£19.75	-
% change on same period last year	-
Vendors Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1733	2382
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.287 %	2.372 %
Daily rates quoted	369	789
Average minimum daily rate	£356	£359
Average daily rate	£376	£380
% change on same period last year	-0.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£397	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£358
% change on same period last year	+0.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	161	270
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.03	£26.95
Average hourly rate	£24.62	£28.51
% change on same period last year	-13.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.20	£30.07
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.70	£24.82
% change on same period last year	-4.50 %
Lucent South East

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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Lucent Technologies, Inc.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Lucent across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lucent within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Newbury	+20	1	-	-

Lucent South East

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Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Lucent 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 Lucent.

1 4 (100.00 %) VoIP 1 4 (100.00 %) B2B 1 4 (100.00 %) Cisco 1 4 (100.00 %) Nortel 1 4 (100.00 %) DSL 1 4 (100.00 %) Telecoms 1 4 (100.00 %) BSS 1 4 (100.00 %) Nortel Meridian

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Lucent 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 Lucent. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 4 (100.00 %) VoIP 1 4 (100.00 %) DSL 1 4 (100.00 %) BSS 1 4 (100.00 %) Nortel Meridian	General 1 4 (100.00 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 2 (50.00 %) Network Manager 1 2 (50.00 %) Product Manager 2 1 (25.00 %) Network Architect 2 1 (25.00 %) Team Leader 2 1 (25.00 %) Architect	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (100.00 %) B2B
Vendors 1 4 (100.00 %) Cisco 1 4 (100.00 %) Nortel