The first table below looks at the demand for ADSL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ADSL over the 3 months to 22 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 Birmingham 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Assymetrical Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL)
Rank - - 41
Contract jobs citing ADSL 0 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham - - 0.596%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - - 4.545%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £210 £245 £405
% change year-on-year
-14.28% -39.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £14.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+10.71% -30.00%
All Communications & Networking
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
48 65 66
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 10.84% 10.28% 13.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 29 32
Average daily rate £388 £313 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+24.00% +20.19%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £201 £100 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £425 £363
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 8
Average hourly rate £13.00 £30.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-56.66% +100.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
ADSL
West Midlands

ADSL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham ADSL Jobs Demand Trend

ADSL
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham ADSL Daily Rate Trend

ADSL
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ADSL across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham ADSL Hourly Rate Trend

ADSL
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing ADSL 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 ADSL.

1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Broadband
1 1 (100.00%) ISDN
1 1 (100.00%) PSTN
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Ericsson
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy
1 1 (100.00%) DSLAM
1 1 (100.00%) DSL
1 1 (100.00%) BT
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Cramer
1 1 (100.00%) LLU
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) xDSL
1 1 (100.00%) Softswitch

ADSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing ADSL 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 ADSL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Broadband
1 1 (100.00%) ISDN
1 1 (100.00%) PSTN
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) DSLAM
1 1 (100.00%) DSL
1 1 (100.00%) LLU
1 1 (100.00%) xDSL
1 1 (100.00%) Softswitch
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Provisioning Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Ericsson
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy
1 1 (100.00%) BT
1 1 (100.00%) Cramer