Berkshire Telecoms Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Telecoms' in contract IT jobs within the Berkshire region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Telecoms over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Telecommunications (Telecomms)
Location Aberdeen Altrincham Amersham Avon Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Kent King's Lynn Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Pontefract Portsmouth Preston Prestwick Reading Redditch Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Sale Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Witney Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	1	1
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	783	904
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.033 %	0.900 %
As % of the category below	44.69 %	42.46 %
Daily rates quoted	137	298
Average minimum daily rate	£368	£385
Average daily rate	£386	£402
% change on same period last year	-3.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£405	£419
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£368
% change on same period last year	-7.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	40
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.76	£19.90
Average hourly rate	£12.67	£20.92
% change on same period last year	-39.43 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.59	£21.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.81	£24.43
% change on same period last year	-2.54 %
General Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1752	2129
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.312 %	2.120 %
Daily rates quoted	426	695
Average minimum daily rate	£362	£367
Average daily rate	£382	£387
% change on same period last year	-1.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£401	£407
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£381
% change on same period last year	+0.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	86	137
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.25	£25.25
Average hourly rate	£23.19	£26.87
% change on same period last year	-13.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.13	£28.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.94	£27.04
% change on same period last year	+3.32 %
Telecoms 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.

Telecoms
Demand Trend

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

Telecoms
Daily Rate Trend

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

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Telecoms across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Telecoms across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

Telecoms
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms 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	0	88	£342	-18.18 %
Reading	0	78	£381	+0.42 %
Maidenhead	0	56	£436	+6.88 %
Slough	-1	41	£335	-20.04 %
Bracknell	+1	37	£421	+11.85 %

Telecoms South East

Telecoms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 159 (10.89 %) Marketing 2 155 (10.62 %) 3G 3 141 (9.658 %) Project Management 4 117 (8.014 %) Finance 5 111 (7.603 %) Business Intelligence 6 109 (7.466 %) Datawarehouse 7 99 (6.781 %) SQL 8 98 (6.712 %) Billing 9 91 (6.233 %) Oracle 10 80 (5.479 %) Business Objects 10 80 (5.479 %) BusinessObjects 11 77 (5.274 %) UNIX 12 73 (5.000 %) PRINCE2 13 68 (4.658 %) Nokia 14 66 (4.521 %) Data Modelling

15 59 (4.041 %) SLA 16 58 (3.973 %) Migration 17 56 (3.836 %) Cisco 18 55 (3.767 %) Ericsson 19 53 (3.630 %) MS Visio 20 51 (3.493 %) SAP 21 50 (3.425 %) Cramer 22 48 (3.288 %) MS Excel 23 45 (3.082 %) MS PowerPoint 24 43 (2.945 %) RNC 24 43 (2.945 %) Microsoft 24 43 (2.945 %) 2G 25 42 (2.877 %) Network Planning 26 41 (2.808 %) CRM 27 40 (2.740 %) Security Cleared

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 27 (1.849 %) XML 2 21 (1.438 %) J2EE 3 20 (1.370 %) HTML 3 20 (1.370 %) CSS 4 16 (1.096 %) .NET 5 13 (0.890 %) WAP 6 12 (0.822 %) XHTML 7 10 (0.685 %) JSP 8 8 (0.548 %) ASP.NET 9 7 (0.479 %) WebServices 9 7 (0.479 %) Middleware 10 5 (0.342 %) AJAX 10 5 (0.342 %) Spring 10 5 (0.342 %) Hibernate 11 4 (0.274 %) Struts 11 4 (0.274 %) J2SE 12 3 (0.205 %) XSD 12 3 (0.205 %) XSL 12 3 (0.205 %) ASP 13 2 (0.137 %) MHP	Application Platforms 1 32 (2.192 %) SAS 2 18 (1.233 %) MS Exchange 3 16 (1.096 %) WebLogic 4 8 (0.548 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 5 5 (0.342 %) Apache 6 4 (0.274 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 3 (0.205 %) Exchange Server 2007 8 2 (0.137 %) LiveLink 8 2 (0.137 %) CMS 8 2 (0.137 %) BizTalk Server 8 2 (0.137 %) Tomcat 8 2 (0.137 %) Movable Type 8 2 (0.137 %) Mambo 8 2 (0.137 %) Oracle 10gAS 9 1 (0.068 %) Office Communications Server 9 1 (0.068 %) TIBCO EMS 9 1 (0.068 %) Exchange Server 2000 9 1 (0.068 %) SharePoint 9 1 (0.068 %) IIS 9 1 (0.068 %) WebLogic Portal
Applications 1 53 (3.630 %) MS Visio 2 48 (3.288 %) MS Excel 3 45 (3.082 %) MS PowerPoint 4 28 (1.918 %) MS Office 5 27 (1.849 %) MS Project 6 15 (1.027 %) Spreadsheet 7 10 (0.685 %) Photoshop 8 4 (0.274 %) AutoCAD 9 1 (0.068 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 5 (0.342 %) SAP FI 2 4 (0.274 %) Oracle EBS 2 4 (0.274 %) Singl.eView 3 3 (0.205 %) Google Analytics 3 3 (0.205 %) SAP FI-AR 3 3 (0.205 %) WebTrends 4 2 (0.137 %) SAP HR 5 1 (0.068 %) SAP ERP 5 1 (0.068 %) Dynamics CRM 5 1 (0.068 %) Oracle 11i 5 1 (0.068 %) BusinessWorks 5 1 (0.068 %) Oracle CRM 5 1 (0.068 %) SAP FI/CO 5 1 (0.068 %) SAP CO
Communications & Networking 1 155 (10.62 %) 3G 2 43 (2.945 %) RNC 2 43 (2.945 %) 2G 3 37 (2.534 %) TCP/IP 4 34 (2.329 %) BSS 5 32 (2.192 %) SGSN 6 31 (2.123 %) VoIP 7 30 (2.055 %) GSM 7 30 (2.055 %) ATM 8 29 (1.986 %) Internet 9 28 (1.918 %) Extranet 10 25 (1.712 %) SDH 10 25 (1.712 %) 3GPP 10 25 (1.712 %) GGSN 11 23 (1.575 %) UMTS 12 22 (1.507 %) MPLS 13 20 (1.370 %) GPRS 14 19 (1.301 %) Broadband 14 19 (1.301 %) Firewall 15 18 (1.233 %) SS7	Database & Business Intelligence 1 109 (7.466 %) Datawarehouse 2 80 (5.479 %) BusinessObjects 3 33 (2.260 %) Oracle 10g 4 31 (2.123 %) SQL Server 5 29 (1.986 %) MS Access 6 26 (1.781 %) Oracle 9i 7 17 (1.164 %) ETL 8 13 (0.890 %) Data Mart 9 12 (0.822 %) DataStage 10 11 (0.753 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 11 (0.753 %) DTS 10 11 (0.753 %) MySQL 11 10 (0.685 %) SAP BW 12 7 (0.479 %) SQL Server Integration Services 13 6 (0.411 %) SQL Server 2000 13 6 (0.411 %) Oracle Reports 13 6 (0.411 %) SQL Server 2005 14 5 (0.342 %) SQLPlus 14 5 (0.342 %) TOAD 14 5 (0.342 %) GIS
Development Applications 1 15 (1.027 %) TestDirector 1 15 (1.027 %) ERwin 2 7 (0.479 %) StarTeam 2 7 (0.479 %) Eclipse 2 7 (0.479 %) Flash 3 5 (0.342 %) Visual Studio 3 5 (0.342 %) Ant 4 2 (0.137 %) JUnit 4 2 (0.137 %) Subversion 4 2 (0.137 %) Oracle APEX 5 1 (0.068 %) ClearCase 5 1 (0.068 %) Rational Rose 5 1 (0.068 %) Oracle Forms 5 1 (0.068 %) InstallShield 5 1 (0.068 %) MSI	General 1 159 (10.89 %) Marketing 2 117 (8.014 %) Finance 3 98 (6.712 %) Billing 4 27 (1.849 %) Retail 5 17 (1.164 %) Legal 6 12 (0.822 %) Government 6 12 (0.822 %) Health 6 12 (0.822 %) Auditing 7 11 (0.753 %) Electric 8 10 (0.685 %) Front Office 9 9 (0.616 %) Construction 10 7 (0.479 %) Multimedia 11 6 (0.411 %) Electronics 11 6 (0.411 %) Law 12 4 (0.274 %) Advertising 12 4 (0.274 %) Publishing 13 3 (0.205 %) Education 13 3 (0.205 %) Military 14 2 (0.137 %) Banking 14 2 (0.137 %) Home Office
Job Titles 1 204 (13.97 %) Analyst 2 162 (11.10 %) Project Manager 3 97 (6.644 %) Consultant 4 63 (4.315 %) Architect 5 51 (3.493 %) Developer 6 45 (3.082 %) Business Analyst 7 43 (2.945 %) Radio Access Network Engineer 8 34 (2.329 %) Marketing Manager 9 31 (2.123 %) Support Analyst 10 30 (2.055 %) Support Engineer 10 30 (2.055 %) Technical Lead 11 29 (1.986 %) Product Manager 12 28 (1.918 %) Report Analyst 13 27 (1.849 %) Design Engineer 14 26 (1.781 %) Network Engineer 14 26 (1.781 %) DBA 15 25 (1.712 %) Programme Manager 15 25 (1.712 %) Administrator 16 24 (1.644 %) Solutions Designer 16 24 (1.644 %) Test Manager	Miscellaneous 1 29 (1.986 %) Handset 2 26 (1.781 %) French Language 3 24 (1.644 %) DTV 4 17 (1.164 %) PMI 5 15 (1.027 %) IVR 6 14 (0.959 %) German Language 7 13 (0.890 %) Italian Language 7 13 (0.890 %) Spanish Language 8 12 (0.822 %) Blackberry 9 11 (0.753 %) STB 10 9 (0.616 %) Clustering 11 7 (0.479 %) Management Information System 12 6 (0.411 %) Statistics 13 5 (0.342 %) CMDB 13 5 (0.342 %) Web 2.0 13 5 (0.342 %) IPTV 13 5 (0.342 %) N-Tier 13 5 (0.342 %) Replication 14 4 (0.274 %) Data Extraction 15 3 (0.205 %) Mathematics
Operating Systems 1 77 (5.274 %) UNIX 2 39 (2.671 %) Windows 3 38 (2.603 %) Linux 4 33 (2.260 %) Solaris 5 18 (1.233 %) Windows XP 6 16 (1.096 %) Windows Server 2003 7 10 (0.685 %) Windows 2000 8 4 (0.274 %) Windows Mobile 9 3 (0.205 %) Windows Vista 9 3 (0.205 %) VMS 9 3 (0.205 %) HPUX 9 3 (0.205 %) Tru64 10 2 (0.137 %) AIX 10 2 (0.137 %) OpenVMS 10 2 (0.137 %) Windows NT 10 2 (0.137 %) Red Hat Linux 11 1 (0.068 %) Windows Server 2008	Processes & Methodologies 1 141 (9.658 %) Project Management 2 111 (7.603 %) Business Intelligence 3 73 (5.000 %) PRINCE2 4 66 (4.521 %) Data Modelling 5 58 (3.973 %) Migration 6 42 (2.877 %) Network Planning 7 41 (2.808 %) CRM 8 40 (2.740 %) Security Cleared 9 38 (2.603 %) Enterprise Architecture 10 37 (2.534 %) Product Marketing 10 37 (2.534 %) Data Architecture 10 37 (2.534 %) Risk Assessment 11 34 (2.329 %) ITIL 12 33 (2.260 %) Change Management 13 29 (1.986 %) SC Cleared 14 28 (1.918 %) Configuration Management 15 27 (1.849 %) User Acceptance Testing 16 26 (1.781 %) Network Design 17 22 (1.507 %) Performance Management 17 22 (1.507 %) Data Management
Programming Languages 1 99 (6.781 %) SQL 2 31 (2.123 %) Java 3 30 (2.055 %) C 4 17 (1.164 %) Perl 5 15 (1.027 %) C# 6 11 (0.753 %) PL/SQL 6 11 (0.753 %) Shell Script 7 10 (0.685 %) VB 7 10 (0.685 %) VBA 7 10 (0.685 %) JavaScript 8 9 (0.616 %) C++ 9 8 (0.548 %) VBScript 10 7 (0.479 %) Korn 10 7 (0.479 %) Python 10 7 (0.479 %) VB.NET 11 5 (0.342 %) Transact-SQL 12 2 (0.137 %) Delphi 12 2 (0.137 %) PHP 12 2 (0.137 %) Ruby 12 2 (0.137 %) XPath	Qualifications 1 36 (2.466 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 19 (1.301 %) Degree 3 17 (1.164 %) ACCA 4 16 (1.096 %) CIMA 4 16 (1.096 %) ISEB 5 11 (0.753 %) Cisco Certification 6 10 (0.685 %) ITIL Certification 7 9 (0.616 %) CIPD 8 6 (0.411 %) CCSP 9 5 (0.342 %) HNC 9 5 (0.342 %) PMP 9 5 (0.342 %) PMI Certification 10 4 (0.274 %) CCNA 10 4 (0.274 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 11 3 (0.205 %) ISEB Practitioner 11 3 (0.205 %) CCNP 12 2 (0.137 %) Microsoft Certification 12 2 (0.137 %) A+ Certification 12 2 (0.137 %) MAPM 13 1 (0.068 %) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 59 (4.041 %) SLA 2 20 (1.370 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 7 (0.479 %) ISO27001 4 5 (0.342 %) QA 5 2 (0.137 %) GCP 5 2 (0.137 %) BS25999 6 1 (0.068 %) HMG Infosec 6 1 (0.068 %) JSP 440 6 1 (0.068 %) ISO17799 6 1 (0.068 %) BS7799	System Software 1 8 (0.548 %) Oracle RAC 2 7 (0.479 %) Active Directory 2 7 (0.479 %) Oracle RMAN 3 1 (0.068 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 1 (0.068 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (0.068 %) AquaLogic 3 1 (0.068 %) NDS 3 1 (0.068 %) NetBackup
Systems Management 1 8 (0.548 %) OpenView 1 8 (0.548 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 8 (0.548 %) Netcool 2 7 (0.479 %) Netcool/Proviso 2 7 (0.479 %) OpenView Configuration Management 3 5 (0.342 %) MIIS 4 4 (0.274 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 5 3 (0.205 %) MOM 6 1 (0.068 %) ServiceCenter 6 1 (0.068 %) Tivoli	Vendors 1 91 (6.233 %) Oracle 2 80 (5.479 %) Business Objects 3 68 (4.658 %) Nokia 4 56 (3.836 %) Cisco 5 55 (3.767 %) Ericsson 6 51 (3.493 %) SAP 7 50 (3.425 %) Cramer 8 43 (2.945 %) Microsoft 9 22 (1.507 %) HP 10 20 (1.370 %) Mapinfo 11 18 (1.233 %) Siemens 11 18 (1.233 %) Nortel 12 14 (0.959 %) Progress 13 13 (0.890 %) Remedy 13 13 (0.890 %) IBM 13 13 (0.890 %) Ab Initio 14 12 (0.822 %) NEC 15 10 (0.685 %) PeopleSoft 16 9 (0.616 %) Google 16 9 (0.616 %) BEA