Berkshire VoIP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Voice Over IP (VoIP) skills within the Berkshire region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VoIP over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Voice Over IP (VoIP)
Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Bicester Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chichester City of London Crawley Docklands, London Dorchester Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hayes Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Inverness Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Oxfordshire Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Witham Woking Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	96	125
Rank change on same period last year	+29
Matching contract IT job ads	32	38
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.043 %	0.038 %
As % of the category below	4.092 %	3.191 %
Daily rates quoted	6	14
Average minimum daily rate	£333	£411
Average daily rate	£364	£442
% change on same period last year	-17.60 %
Average maximum daily rate	£395	£473
UK excluding London average daily rate	£312	£353
% change on same period last year	-11.66 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£38.67
Average hourly rate	-	£39.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£40.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.89	£26.86
% change on same period last year	+7.59 %
Communications & Networking Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	782	1191
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.042 %	1.205 %
Daily rates quoted	118	329
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£358
Average daily rate	£363	£377
% change on same period last year	-3.74 %
Average maximum daily rate	£388	£396
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	60	160
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.89	£27.06
Average hourly rate	£22.24	£28.48
% change on same period last year	-21.89 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.59	£29.89
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
VoIP 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing VoIP across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking 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 VoIP across the Berkshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VoIP across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VoIP 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 VoIP within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Reading	+2	12	£384	-11.44 %
Newbury	-	6	-	-
Bracknell	+21	3	-	-
Maidenhead	+18	3	-	-
Wokingham	-	1	-	-

VoIP South East

VoIP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing VoIP 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 VoIP.

1 38 (63.33 %) Telecoms 2 22 (36.67 %) Cisco 3 18 (30.00 %) MPLS 4 14 (23.33 %) Cisco Certification 4 14 (23.33 %) VPN 5 13 (21.67 %) Firewall 6 12 (20.00 %) Project Management 7 10 (16.67 %) Nortel 7 10 (16.67 %) OSPF 8 9 (15.00 %) BGP 8 9 (15.00 %) Linux 9 8 (13.33 %) LAN 9 8 (13.33 %) Windows 10 7 (11.67 %) TCP/IP 10 7 (11.67 %) CCNP

10 7 (11.67 %) Marketing 11 6 (10.00 %) Nortel Meridian 11 6 (10.00 %) IVR 11 6 (10.00 %) IP Telephony 11 6 (10.00 %) BSS 11 6 (10.00 %) CCNA 11 6 (10.00 %) DSL 11 6 (10.00 %) SNMP 12 5 (8.333 %) WAN 12 5 (8.333 %) CCSP 12 5 (8.333 %) Load Balancing 13 4 (6.667 %) Network Security 13 4 (6.667 %) IPsec 13 4 (6.667 %) Network Design 13 4 (6.667 %) Microsoft

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing VoIP 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 VoIP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (3.333 %) VXML 2 1 (1.667 %) .NET 2 1 (1.667 %) CSS 2 1 (1.667 %) POSIX	Application Platforms 1 4 (6.667 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (1.667 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (1.667 %) Office Communications Server
Communications & Networking 1 18 (30.00 %) MPLS 2 14 (23.33 %) VPN 3 13 (21.67 %) Firewall 4 10 (16.67 %) OSPF 5 9 (15.00 %) BGP 6 8 (13.33 %) LAN 7 7 (11.67 %) TCP/IP 8 6 (10.00 %) SNMP 8 6 (10.00 %) DSL 8 6 (10.00 %) IP Telephony 8 6 (10.00 %) BSS 8 6 (10.00 %) Nortel Meridian 9 5 (8.333 %) WAN 10 4 (6.667 %) DNS 10 4 (6.667 %) WLAN 10 4 (6.667 %) ATM 10 4 (6.667 %) IPsec 10 4 (6.667 %) Network Security 11 3 (5.000 %) Cisco IPT 11 3 (5.000 %) EIGRP	General 1 38 (63.33 %) Telecoms 2 7 (11.67 %) Marketing 3 2 (3.333 %) Electronics 4 1 (1.667 %) Financial Institution 4 1 (1.667 %) Finance 4 1 (1.667 %) Government 4 1 (1.667 %) Publishing 4 1 (1.667 %) Billing
Job Titles 1 10 (16.67 %) Network Engineer 2 7 (11.67 %) Design Engineer 3 5 (8.333 %) Architect 3 5 (8.333 %) Project Manager 3 5 (8.333 %) Consultant 3 5 (8.333 %) Security Engineer 4 4 (6.667 %) Technical Architect 4 4 (6.667 %) Support Engineer 5 3 (5.000 %) Infrastructure Architect 5 3 (5.000 %) Product Manager 5 3 (5.000 %) Technical Lead 6 2 (3.333 %) Integration Manager 6 2 (3.333 %) Network Manager 6 2 (3.333 %) Technical Designer 6 2 (3.333 %) Test Manager 6 2 (3.333 %) Service Manager 7 1 (1.667 %) Senior Project Manager 7 1 (1.667 %) Embedded Software Engineer 7 1 (1.667 %) Desktop Support Engineer 7 1 (1.667 %) Network Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 6 (10.00 %) IVR 2 3 (5.000 %) IPTV 2 3 (5.000 %) Management Information System 2 3 (5.000 %) Clustering 3 1 (1.667 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 9 (15.00 %) Linux 2 8 (13.33 %) Windows 3 3 (5.000 %) Windows Mobile 4 1 (1.667 %) Embedded Linux 4 1 (1.667 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (20.00 %) Project Management 2 5 (8.333 %) Load Balancing 3 4 (6.667 %) Network Design 3 4 (6.667 %) ITIL 3 4 (6.667 %) B2B 4 3 (5.000 %) Change Management 4 3 (5.000 %) Validation 4 3 (5.000 %) Strategic Planning 5 2 (3.333 %) Incident Management 5 2 (3.333 %) WFM 5 2 (3.333 %) Migration 5 2 (3.333 %) eTOM 5 2 (3.333 %) ITSM 5 2 (3.333 %) Service Management 5 2 (3.333 %) BCP 5 2 (3.333 %) Test Management 5 2 (3.333 %) CRM 5 2 (3.333 %) Security Cleared 6 1 (1.667 %) Product Marketing 6 1 (1.667 %) SC Cleared
Programming Languages 1 4 (6.667 %) C 2 2 (3.333 %) C++ 3 1 (1.667 %) C#	Qualifications 1 14 (23.33 %) Cisco Certification 2 7 (11.67 %) CCNP 3 6 (10.00 %) CCNA 4 5 (8.333 %) CCSP 5 2 (3.333 %) Degree 5 2 (3.333 %) ITIL Certification 5 2 (3.333 %) CCDP 6 1 (1.667 %) CCA 6 1 (1.667 %) Citrix Certification 6 1 (1.667 %) Microsoft Certification 6 1 (1.667 %) HNC 6 1 (1.667 %) MCSE 6 1 (1.667 %) CCIE 6 1 (1.667 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.667 %) SLA 1 1 (1.667 %) QA	System Software 1 1 (1.667 %) ISA Server 1 1 (1.667 %) VMware ESX
Systems Management 1 1 (1.667 %) MOM 1 1 (1.667 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 22 (36.67 %) Cisco 2 10 (16.67 %) Nortel 3 4 (6.667 %) Microsoft 3 4 (6.667 %) Lucent 4 3 (5.000 %) CheckPoint 5 2 (3.333 %) Siebel 5 2 (3.333 %) VMware 5 2 (3.333 %) IBM 6 1 (1.667 %) HP 6 1 (1.667 %) Dell 6 1 (1.667 %) Citrix 6 1 (1.667 %) Avaya 6 1 (1.667 %) Juniper 6 1 (1.667 %) Remedy 6 1 (1.667 %) Nokia 6 1 (1.667 %) Novell